Base Class - Hexblade

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Hexblade base class
A re-envisioning of the original Hexblade with enhanced curses and improved spellcasting.

Alignment: Any nongood

Hit Die: d10

Level	Base Attack Bonus	Fort Save	Ref Save	Will Save	Special	Spells Per Day
						0	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th
1	+1	+2	+0	+2	Hexblade's Curse, Curse of Misfortune -2, Curse of Stupor, Martial Spellcaster	2	--	--	--	--	--	--
2	+2	+3	+0	+3	Arcane Resistance	3	0	--	--	--	--	--
3	+3	+3	+1	+3	Cursed Opportunity, Mettle	3	1	--	--	--	--	--
4	+4	+4	+1	+4	Siphon Misfortune +1, Summon Familiar	3	2	0	--	--	--	--
5	+5	+4	+1	+4	Chaotic Commands, Ill Tidings	3	3	1	--	--	--	--
6	+6/+1	+5	+2	+5	Black Cloud 20 ft.	3	3	2	--	--	--	--
7	+7/+2	+5	+2	+5	Curse of Misfortune -3	3	3	2	0	--	--	--
8	+8/+3	+6	+2	+6	Chains of Adversity	3	3	3	1	--	--	--
9	+9/+4	+6	+3	+6	Black Cloud 30 ft., Silver Lining	3	3	3	2	--	--	--
10	+10/+5	+7	+3	+7	Double Hexblade's Curse	3	3	3	2	0	--	--
11	+11/+6/+1	+7	+3	+7	Mystic Contrariness	3	3	3	3	1	--	--
12	+12/+7/+2	+8	+4	+8	Black Cloud 40 ft., Siphon Misfortune +2	3	3	3	3	2	--	--
13	+13/+8/+3	+8	+4	+8	Curse of Misfortune -4, Fortune's Foe	3	3	3	3	2	0	--
14	+14/+9/+4	+9	+4	+9	Dark Companion	4	3	3	3	3	1	--
15	+15/+10/+5	+9	+5	+9	Black Cloud 50 ft.	4	4	3	3	3	2	--
16	+16/+11/+6/+1	+10	+5	+10	Aura of Unluck	4	4	4	3	3	2	0
17	+17/+12/+7/+2	+10	+5	+10	The Same Doubled	4	4	4	4	3	3	1
18	+18/+13/+8/+3	+11	+6	+11	Black Cloud 60 ft.	4	4	4	4	4	3	2
19	+19/+14/+9/+4	+11	+6	+11	Curse of Misfortune -5	4	4	4	4	4	4	3
20	+20/+15/+10/+5	+12	+6	+12	Karmic Imbalance, Siphon Misfortune +3, Triple Hexblade's Curse	4	4	4	4	4	4	4

Class skills (4 + Int modifier per level): Bluff, Concentration, Craft, Diplomacy, Disguise, Forgery, Gather Information, Intimidate, Jump, Knowledge (arcana), Knowledge (history), Knowledge (religion), Knowledge (the planes), Profession, Ride, Sense Motive, and Spellcraft.

Weapon and Armor Proficiency: As a Hexblade, you are proficient with all simple and martial weapons, with light armor, and with shields (except tower shields).

Hexblade's Curse (Su): Hexblades are known for their ability to curse their foes, stealing skill and fortune with a glance. You can attempt to curse any target within 60 feet. Unless otherwise stated, curses take a swift action to use and last 5 minutes unless removed earlier (you can dismiss any of your curses as a free action). If a curse allows a saving throw, the DC is equal to 10 + 1/2 your Hexblade level + your Charisma modifier. You can use your curses a total number of times per day equal to your Hexblade level plus your Charisma modifier (minimum 1/day). Some curses, particularly stronger ones, require multiple daily uses to effect.

Most curses normally only affect one or a few targets. However, beginning at 6th level, you gain the ability to bring your curses into effect as a black cloud of misfortune. Each curse that can be used this way indicates its effects when effected as a black cloud. Curses that do not indicate their black cloud effects cannot be used as a black cloud. The radius of your black cloud is 20 feet at 6th level, and increases by 10 feet every 3 levels thereafter, to a maximum of 60 feet at level 18. You can dismiss your curses from each subject of a black cloud individually, without affecting the other subjects or the cloud itself. A curse effected as a black cloud appears as a thin black mist that does not impede vision.

A given subject can only be affected by a single one of your Hexblade's Curses at once. Any creature only has a finite amount of luck to steal away. To apply new curses, you must first dismiss your older ones (a free action). As you gain levels, you learn to steal even more dregs of fortune from your victims. Starting at 10th level, you can affect your subjects with 2 curses at once, Increasing to 3 curses at level 20. This limit applies only to your own Hexblade's Curses. Hexblade's Curses from other Hexblades and curses from other sources and abilities (even your own) are not subject to this limit.

Subjects of your Hexblade's Curse are automatically aware that they are cursed and the effects of the curse.

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• Curse of Misfortune: The simplest of all curses, the curse of misfortune steals a bit of the subject's luck away, impeding its abilities in a general, unfocused manner. Curse of misfortune targets a single creature. If the subject fails a Will save, it suffers a -2 luck penalty on all attack rolls, weapon damage rolls, saving throws, skill checks, and ability checks while the curse remains. This improves to a -3 penalty at level 7, a -4 penalty at level 13, and a -5 penalty at level 19.
  
  Black Cloud: As a black cloud, curse of misfortune becomes an emanation centered on a point in space. All opponents within the area must save against the normal curse of misfortune when the cloud comes into effect or when they first enter it. Subjects are affected by the curse only while they remain within the cloud, but are subject to the curse again if they enter once more.
  
  
• Curse of Stupor: Another simple curse, the curse of stupor addles the mind and prevents the subject from focusing on the task at hand. Effecting curse of stupor is a standard action, and it targets a single creature. If the subject fails a Will save, it is dazed for 1 round and fascinated for the remainder of the curse's duration. As normal for the fascinated condition, any obvious threats allow the subject a new saving throw and can even break the effect entirely. The subject does not realize that it is cursed unless it breaks free of the fascination within the first 1 minute of the curse's duration. Curse of stupor is a mind-affecting ability.
  
  Black Cloud: As a black cloud, curse of stupor becomes a spread centered on a point in space. All opponents within the area must save against the curse or be fascinated for the curse's duration, although they are not dazed. As with the normal version of curse of stupor, subjects do not realize that they are cursed unless they break free of the fascination within the first minute.
  
  
• Chaotic Commands: Beginning at 5th level, you learn to curse the order and cohesion of fighting groups. Chaotic commands targets a single creature. The subject becomes unaffected by morale bonuses caused by creatures other than itself. It can neither use nor benefit from aid another attempts. It cannot voluntarily allow creatures to pass through its space, nor can it voluntarily give up its saving throw against effects caused by creatures other than itself. The subject always treats creatures other than itself as opponents, never as allies. This does not force the subject to attack its former allies, but this does influence how its abilities affect others. Creatures with hive minds can act normally with respect to other creatures that are part of their hive mind and the effects that they produce. A swarm or mob without a hive mind affected by this curse must make a Will save every round or be dazed and immobilized and be unable to use its swarm or mob up attack for that round. Chaotic commands can target and affect a swarm or mob as though it was a single creature.
  
  Black Cloud: Chaotic commands cannot be used as a black cloud.
  
  
• Ill Tidings: Beginning at 5th level, you learn to block the second sight that diviners rely on. Ill tidings targets a single creature. When you effect this curse, make a dispel check (1d20 + your Hexblade level) against each ongoing Divination spell or Clairsentience power affecting the subject (DC 11 + the effect's caster or manifester level). On a success that effect is dispelled. In addition, for 5 minutes, the subject must succeed on a Will save to successfully cast or manifest each Divination spell or Clairsentience power it attempts, and for 24 hours any such effects that have a percentage chance of giving meaningful or accurate results have a 50% chance of providing the least useful answer.
  
  Black Cloud: As a black cloud, ill tidings becomes an emanation centered on a point in space. Divination spells and Clairsentience powers reveal no information about the area inside the cloud unless their users succeed on a caster or manifester level check opposed by your dispel check.
  
  
• Chains of Adversity: Beginning at 8th level, you learn to link the misfortune of two creatures together. Chains of adversity targets two creatures. While the curse remains, if either creature fails a saving throw (except for a voluntarily failed saving throw) against a non-harmless effect, both creatures are subject to the full effects of a failed save against the effect, even if the other creature succeeded on the saving throw or wasn't targeted at all. If both creatures would otherwise be affected by the effect (if both were targeted or in the area of effect, for example), each one is still only affected once. Likewise, if both fail their saving throws, they are each affected only once, not twice. If the curse ends for one subject, it is also ended for the other. Effecting chains of adversity costs 2 daily uses of Hexblade's Curse.
  
  Black Cloud: As a black cloud, chains of adversity becomes a spread centered on a point in space. All opponents within the area that fail a Will save are linked as per the normal version of this curse. If the curse ends for all but one subject, it is also ended for the last one. Effecting chains of adversity as a black cloud costs 5 daily uses of Hexblade's Curse.
  
  
• Mystic Contrariness: Starting at 11th level, you can curse the mystic connections between enchanted items and their wielders. Mystic contrariness targets a single creature. On a failed Will save, the subject becomes unable to use magic items effectively. The normal magical properties of any weapons, armor, and shields the subject uses are suppressed and replaced with a -2 enhancement penalty (similar to a cursed magic item). In addition, whenever the subject attempts to activate a magic item, there is a 75% chance that she fails to do so and wastes the action; wands spark and fizzle, potion refuse to flow from their vials, scrolls seem to be only unreadable gibberish, and so forth. Charges or other limited uses of such items are not lost, nor are consumable items destroyed. Intelligent magic items are allowed a Will save each round to maintain their functionality while wielded by a victim of this curse. Afflicted items return to normal if the subject ceases to use them (sheathing a weapon, removing armor, etc.), but any new items used by the subject similarly cease to function. Mystic contrariness does not affect nonmagical items, artifacts, and magic items whose caster level exceed your Hexblade level by more than 5.
  
  Black Cloud: As a black cloud, mystic contrariness becomes a spread centered on a point in space. All unattended magic items (including magical traps) and one random magic item attended by each opponent in the area (select which one as if the opponent failed a saving throw on a natural 1) have their magical properties suppressed if they fail a Will save. Unlike the normal form of this curse, affected objects do not apply further penalties when used. A used item's curse counts against the limit of curses on the user. Like the normal version of this curse, mystic contrariness does not affect nonmagical items, artifacts, and magic items whose caster level exceed your Hexblade level by more than 5. Effecting mystic contrariness as a black cloud costs 2 daily uses of Hexblade's Curse.
  
  
• Dark Companion: Starting at 14th level, you can call on a capricious or vengeful spirit to haunt your enemies. Dark companion targets a single creature or object. The subject suffers a -2 penalty on all saving throws and you can always pinpoint its location while the curse remains. Further, you can channel your spells and curses through the spirit into the subject. While the curse remains, you always treat yourself as having line of sight and line of effect to the subject and the space it occupies (although not other creatures or objects in that space) for the purpose of spells and curses, and you can target the subject or the space it occupies with any spell or curse regardless of range. This only applies to spells and curses with a range of touch or greater and a casting or activation time of 1 round or less. Effecting dark companion costs only 1 daily uses of Hexblade's Curse, as normal, but each additional curse you effect or spell you cast through the dark companion's link costs an extra daily use.
  
  Black Cloud: As a black cloud, dark companion becomes an emanation centered on a point in space. All creatures other than yourself and objects other than those in your possession within the cloud are considered subject to the normal effects of the dark companion curse while they remain there. Effecting dark companion as a black cloud costs 3 daily uses of Hexblade's Curse.
  
  
• The Same Doubled: You learn to turn the pain others can inflict back on them at 17th level. The same doubled targets a single creature. Whenever the subject deals damage to a creature other than itself, it must make a Will save or deal twice that much damage to itself. This retributive damage is considered to be from the same attack as the original damage, but is untyped damage that cannot be prevented by resistances or immunities, rather than the original damage type. Effecting the same doubled costs 2 daily uses of Hexblade's Curse.
  
  Black Cloud: As a black cloud, the same doubled becomes a spread centered on a point in space, affecting every opponent within it. Whenever a subject deals damage to a creature other than itself, it must make a Will save or deal half as much damage to itself. This retributive damage is considered to be from the same attack as the original damage, but is untyped damage that cannot be prevented by resistances or immunities, rather than the original damage type. Effecting the same doubled as a black cloud costs 3 daily uses of Hexblade's Curse.
  
  
• Karmic Imbalance: Beginning at 20th level, you can use the ultimate curse to infuses a foe with lethal amounts bad luck. Karmic imbalance targets a single creature. Whenever the subject would make a d20 roll, it instead rolls twice and takes the lower result. Whenever the subject rolls a natural 1, it must make a Will save, rolling only once (not twice), or die immediately after resolving the action the roll was involved in. Karmic imbalance is a death effect. Effecting karmic imbalance costs 5 daily uses of Hexblade's Curse.
  
  Black Cloud: Karmic imbalance cannot be used as a black cloud.
  

Martial Spellcaster: Hexblades train both sword and sorcery together and learn variations on standard spells with simpler somatic components. Shields and light armor do not impose their normal chance of arcane spell failure on your Hexblade spells. Additionally, wielding a weapon does not impede your ability to fulfill the components of your Hexblade spells, such as performing the motions of somatic components or drawing and manipulating material components.

Spells: As a Hexblade, you gain the ability to spontaneously cast a small number of arcane spells the way a Sorcerer does, which are drawn from the Hexblade spell list. You can cast any spell you know without preparing it ahead of time.

To learn or cast a spell, you must have a Charisma score equal to at least 10 + the spell level. The Difficulty Class for a saving throw against your spell is 10 + the spell level + your Charisma modifier.

Like other spellcasters, you can cast only a certain number of spells of each spell level per day. Your base daily spell allotment is given on the table above. In addition, you receive bonus spells per day if you have a high Charisma score. When the table above indicates that you get 0 spells per day of a given spell level, you gain only the bonus spells you would be entitled to based on your Charisma score for that spell level.

A Hexblade's selection of spells is extremely limited. You begin play knowing four 0-level spells of your choice. At most new Hexblade levels, you gain one or more new spells, as indicated on the table below. (Unlike spells per day, the number of spells you know is not affected by your Charisma score; the numbers on the table below are fixed.)

Upon reaching 5th level, and at every third Hexblade level after that (8th, 11th, and so on), you can choose to learn a new spell in place of one you already know. In effect, you "lose" the old spell in exchange for the new one. The new spell’s level must be the same as that of the spell being exchanged, and it must be at least two levels lower than the highest-level Hexblade spell you can cast. You may swap only a single spell at any given level, and must choose whether or not to swap the spell at the same time that you gain new spells known for the level.

As noted above, you need not prepare your spells in advance. You can cast any spell you know at any time, assuming you have not yet used up your allotment of spells per day for the spell’s level.

Level	Spells Known
	0	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th
1	4	--	--	--	--	--	--
2	5	21	--	--	--	--	--
3	6	3	--	--	--	--	--
4	6	3	21	--	--	--	--
5	6	4	3	--	--	--	--
6	6	4	3	--	--	--	--
7	6	4	4	21	--	--	--
8	6	4	4	3	--	--	--
9	6	4	4	3	--	--	--
10	6	4	4	4	21	--	--
11	6	4	4	4	3	--	--
12	6	4	4	4	3	--	--
13	6	4	4	4	4	21	--
14	6	4	4	4	4	3	--
15	6	4	4	4	4	3	--
16	6	5	4	4	4	4	21
17	6	5	5	4	4	4	3
18	6	5	5	5	4	4	3
19	6	5	5	5	5	4	4
20	6	5	5	5	5	5	4
1. Provided you have a high enough Charisma score to have a bonus spell of this level.

Arcane Resistance (Su): Beginning at 2nd level, you gain a bonus equal to your Charisma bonus (if any) on all saving throws against spells, spell-like abilities, and supernatural abilities.

Cursed Opportunity (Ex): Starting at 3rd level, you no longer provoke attacks of opportunity from opponents afflicted by your Hexblade's Curses for casting Hexblade spells.

Mettle (Ex): Starting at 3rd level, fortune smiles upon you, whether it wishes to or not. Whenever you make a successful Fortitude or Will saving throw against an effect that would normally have a lesser effect on a successful save, you may choose to instead completely negate the effect.

Summon Familiar: Starting at 4th level, you can obtain a familiar in exactly the same manner as a Sorcerer can.

Siphon Misfortune (Su): When you steal away the luck of others, it need not go to waste. Starting at 4th level, you gain a +1 luck bonus on all attack rolls, weapon damage rolls, saving throws, skill checks, and ability checks for 1 round after effecting a curse. This improves to +2 at level 12 and +3 at level 20.

Silver Lining (Su): Beginning at 9th level, you can share some of the luck you steal from others. Your Siphon Misfortune ability also applies to all allies within the area of a curse you effect as a black cloud at the time you effect it.

Fortune's Foe (Su): Starting at 13th level, any luck bonuses your opponents have to attack rolls, damage rolls, Armor Class, saving throws, opposed checks, caster level, caster level checks, and save DCs are reduced to 0 with respect to you. This ability has no effect on luck penalties, luck bonuses to other statistics, nor any other types of bonuses.

Aura of Unluck (Su): Even when you aren't actively willing it, luck just isn't with your enemies. Beginning at 16th level, all melee and ranged attacks directed against you, except those that you specifically allow through, have a 20% chance of missing entirely. This stacks with (and is checked separately from) other miss chances, such as those from concealment and incorporeality.

Ex-Hexblades: A Hexblade becomes good in alignment cannot progress in levels as a Hexblade, though he retains all his Hexblade abilities.

Hexblade Spell List

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Hexblades choose their spells from the following list:

0-Level (Cantrips): Arcane mark, dancing lights, daze, detect magic, flare, ghost sound, light, open/close, prestidigitation, read magic, and touch of fatigue.

1st Level: As the normal Hexblade spell list, plus the following spells: obscuring mist and ray of enfeeblement.
   In addition, the following spells have been reduced in level compared to the normal Hexblade spell list: arcane mark, detect magic, light, prestidigitation, and read magic (0th).

2nd Level: As the normal Hexblade spell list, plus the following spells: fog cloud and scare.

3rd Level: As the normal Hexblade spell list, plus the following spells: bestow curse, ray of exhaustion, and remove curse.

4th Level: As the normal Hexblade spell list, plus the following spells: crushing despair.
   In addition, the following spells have been increased in level compared to the normal Hexblade spell list: contact other plane and dominate person (5th).

5th Level: Cloudkill, contact other plane, death ward, dominate person, feeblemind, greater dispel magic, magic jar, mass suggestion, mind fog, mislead, nightmare, seeming, shadow walk, spell resistance, symbol of pain, symbol of sleep, teleport, and waves of fatigue.

6th Level: Acid fog, analyze dweomer, eyebite, greater scrying, mass bull's strength, mass eagle's splendor, mislead, power word blind, repulsion, symbol of fear, symbol of persuasion, and veil.

In addition, there are a large number of new spells presented in this supplement designed for use by Hexblades. See the section detailing new spells for more information.

Note: The spell list provided here only covers spells found in the core D&D rules (ie: spells printed in the Player's Handbook). For spells printed in other sourcebooks, the following guidelines are suggested. As always, use your own discretion.

• New spells added only to the normal Hexblade spell list can usually be added to the Hexblade spell list at the same level. Particularly potent spells that exist as 3rd- or 4th-level spells on the normal Hexblade spell list can be increased by one or two levels to account for the wider range of spell levels available in this version of the Hexblade.
• New spells added to the normal Hexblade spell list at the same level as they are added to the list of a primary spellcasting class (Wizard, Cleric, Druid, etc.) can be added to the Hexblade spell list at the same level.
• Any normal Hexblade spell found on the Bard or Sorcerer spell lists at a lower level, such as most cantrips, should be considered a Hexblade spell at that spell level.
• New spells added to the normal Hexblade spell list at one levels lower than they are added to the list of a primary spellcasting class (Wizard, Cleric, Druid, etc.) should be added to the Hexblade spell list at either the indicated level or one level higher than indicated.
• New spells added to the normal Hexblade spell list at two levels lower than they are added to the list of a primary spellcasting class (Wizard, Cleric, Druid, etc.) should be added to the Hexblade spell list at one level higher than indicated.
• New spells added to the normal Hexblade spell list at three levels lower than they are added to the list of a primary spellcasting class (Wizard, Cleric, Druid, etc.) should be added to the Hexblade spell list at one or two levels higher than indicated.
• New spells added to the normal Hexblade spell list at four or more levels lower than they are added to the list of a primary spellcasting class (Wizard, Cleric, Druid, etc.) should be added to the Hexblade spell list at two levels higher than indicated.
• For new spells added to the normal Hexblade spell list and the spell lists of the Sorcerer and other primary spellcasting classes, use the Sorcerer level to determine how the new level should be determined.
• Some 5th-, 6th-, and 7th-level Bard or Sorcerer spells may also be suitable as 5th- or 6th-level Hexblade spells, particularly those that curse, impede, or debilitate enemies.

Change Log

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24/6/2017: Mystic Contrariness no longer affects artifacts and magic items with sufficiently high caster level. Added the following spells to the Hexblade spell list: 1st - obscuring mist, ray of enfeeblement; 2nd - fog cloud; 3rd - ray of exhaustion; 4th - crushing despair.
22/6/2017: Reduced the scaling on Curse of Misfortune. Now goes from -2 at 1st level to -5 at 19th level, rather than -8 at 19th level. The high scaling seemed a bit too strong for a swift action, no save effect, especially as a combo starter to kill saving throws.
21/6/2017: Reposted to Min Max Forum.
11/12/2015: Typo fixes and rewording in Dark Companion. Dark Companion is now limited to spells with a cast time of 1 round or less.
3/12/2015: Added the Cursed Opportunity and Fortune's Foe class features. Hexblade's Curse gives knowledge of the curse. Curse of Stupor prevents knowledge of the curse if fascination is not broken. Chaotic Commands has an added effect against swarms and mobs. Chains of Adversity no longer triggers on voluntarily failed saves and states that an effect only affects each subject once. Rewrote Mystic Contrariness. Cleared up wording in Dark Companion. Rewrote Karmic Imbalance. Fixed the 1st-level spell list, which was accidentally copied from another class. Added seeming and teleport at 5th level. Added greater scrying, mislead, and veil at 6th level.
2/12/2015: First posted.

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New Feats
This section contains a number of new feats. While most of them are designed primarily for use with the classes presented here, characters of other classes can frequently benefit from them, too.

General Feats	Prerequisites	Benefit
Barbed Curses	--	Deal +1d6 damage/curse to cursed foes
Black Fog	Black cloud, hexblade's curse	Black cloud curses also creating obscuring fog
Black Miasma	Black Fog, black cloud, hexblade's curse	Black fog also sickens creatures within it
Curse of Malfeasance	Hexblade's curse, curse of misfortune	Curse of misfortune applies penalties to other statistics
Dark Alliance	Diplomacy 18 ranks, hexblade's curse, dark companion	Allies can target dark-companion victims through you
Distant Hexblade's Curse	Hexblade's curse	Hexblade's Curse range is 250 feet
Extra Hexblade's Curse	Hexblade's curse	Gain +4 uses/day of Hexblade's Curse
Malign Commands	Intimidate 12 ranks, Combat Reflexes, hexblade's curse, chaotic commands	Chaotic commands forces subject to make AoOs
Mystic Opposition	Hexblade's curse, mystic contrariness	Mystic contrariness also interferes with beneficial spells
Persistent Hexblade's Curse	Hexblade's curse, double hexblade's curse	Spend +2 uses of Hexblade's Curse to curse foes for 24 hours
Shackles of Adversity	Hexblade's curse, chains of adversity	Enemies linked by chains of adversity become entangled when not adjacent to one another
Suggestible Stupor	Bluff 9 ranks, hexblade's curse, curse of stupor	Make a suggestion to foes fascinated by curse of stupor

Barbed Curses [General]
Benefit: You deal additional damage whenever you hit an opponent under the effects of a curse you placed on them. The extra damage is 1d6 per each of your curses on the target. Like all bonus damage dice, this is not multiplied if you score a critical hit.


Black Fog [General]
Prerequisite: Black cloud, hexblade's curse.
Benefit: Whenever you effect a curse as a black cloud, you can elect to thicken the cloud into a momentary sight-obscuring fog. If you do, for 1 round, the area of the black cloud is obscured and filled with fog as per a fog cloud spell, except that you can see normally through this fog.


Black Miasma [General]
Prerequisite: Black Fog, black cloud, hexblade's curse.
Benefit: When you use Black Fog, the fog also sickens creatures while they remain within it and for 1 round thereafter.


Curse of Malfeasance [General]
Prerequisite: Hexblade's curse, curse of misfortune.
Benefit: Your curse of misfortune also applies a luck penalty to the victim's level checks, Armor Class, and spell resistance (if it has any).
Normal: Curse of misfortune applies a luck penalty to all attack rolls, weapon damage rolls, saving throws, skill checks, and ability checks.


Dark Alliance [General]
Prerequisite: Diplomacy 18 ranks, hexblade's curse, dark companion.
Benefit: Your allies can target and affect the victims of your dark companion through you. They can cast spells and effect curses against the victim or the space it occupies just like you can by targeting you or your space. Each spell cast or curse effected by your allies through you costs a use of your Hexblade's Curse, just like when you do so yourself. If you do not spend the use of Hexblade's Curse, the spell or curse has no effect.


Distant Hexblade's Curse [General]
Prerequisite: Hexblade's curse.
Benefit: The range of your Hexblade's Curse is 250 feet.
Normal: The range of Hexblade's Curse is 60 feet.


Extra Hexblade's Curse [General]
Prerequisite: Hexblade's curse.
Benefit: You gain 4 additional daily uses of your Hexblade's Curse ability.
Special: You can select this feat multiple times. Its effect stacks.


Malign Commands [General]
Prerequisite: Intimidate 12 ranks, Combat Reflexes, hexblade's curse, chaotic commands.
Benefit: You chaotic commands also forces the subject to attempt every attack of opportunity provoked from it, even from creatures it would otherwise see as allies. The subject uses its strongest available weapon, and cannot voluntarily miss with the attack.


Mystic Opposition [General]
Prerequisite: Hexblade's curse, mystic contrariness.
Benefit: Your mystic contrariness also grants the subject SR 15 + your effective Hexblade level. This spell resistance only applies against harmless spells, but it cannot be voluntarily lowered and also applies against the subject's own spells.


Persistent Hexblade's Curse [General]
Prerequisite: Hexblade's curse, double hexblade's curse.
Benefit: Whenever you effect a Hexblade's Curse, you can spend 2 additional uses of your Hexblade's Curse. If you do, the curse's duration increases to 24 hours. You can only use this feat with a curse that lasts for the normal Hexblade's Curse duration.
Normal: Hexblade's Curse lasts for 5 minutes.


Shackles of Adversity [General]
Prerequisite: Hexblade's curse, chains of adversity.
Benefit: Victims linked by your chains of adversity are also entangled whenever they are not adjacent to at each other. If more than two creatures are linked together (for example, if the curse is effected as a black cloud), each need be adjacent to only a single creature with which they are linked to avoid being entangled.


Suggestible Stupor [General]
Prerequisite: Bluff 9 ranks, hexblade's curse, curse of stupor.
Benefit: You gain an additional use for your Hexblade's Curse ability. As a standard action, you can make a suggestion (as the spell) to a creature that is fascinated by your curse of stupor. Using this ability does not allow the subject a second saving throw against the fascinate effect. Making a suggestion doesn’t count against your daily limit on curses. A Will saving throw negates the effect. This ability affects only a single creature. If you have 21 or more tanks in the Bluff skill, you can instead make a suggestion to any number of fascinated creatures at once (the same suggestion applies to all these creatures). Subjects of this effect will act on your suggestion for as long as they remain fascinated by your curse of stupor.


Change Log

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22/6/2017: With curse of misfortune's reduced scaling, increased Curse of Malfeasance to the full value of the penalty, rather than half.
21/6/2017: Reposted to Min Max Forum.
13/12/2015: Added Mystic Opposition.
11/12/2015: First posted.

[Garryl]

New Spells
This section primarily contains new spells designed for use with this version of the Hexblade class.


New Cleric Spells

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0-Level Cleric Spells (Orisons)

1st-Level Cleric Spells

2nd-Level Cleric Spells

• Bestow Curse, Lesser: As bestow curse, but lesser penalties and only lasts 1 day.
  
• Curse of the Black Pearl^M: Subject is animated as a skeleton if it dies.
  

3rd-Level Cleric Spells

4th-Level Cleric Spells

5th-Level Cleric Spells

6th-Level Cleric Spells

• Curse of Vulnerability: Subject takes +50% damage from physical attacks.
  

7th-Level Cleric Spells

8th-Level Cleric Spells

9th-Level Cleric Spells

New Hexblade Spells

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0-Level Hexblade Spells (Cantrips)

• Detect Curses: Detects curses and cursed items within 60 ft.
  

1st-Level Hexblade Spells

• Curse of the Black Pearl^M: Subject is animated as a skeleton if it dies.
  

2nd-Level Hexblade Spells

• Bestow Curse, Lesser: As bestow curse, but lesser penalties and only lasts 1 day.
  
• Corpse Puppet: Animate a corpse like as a zombie-like puppet.
  

3rd-Level Hexblade Spells

• Accursed Glyph^M: As glyph of warding, but stores curses instead of spells.
  

4th-Level Hexblade Spells

• Puppeteer's Curse: Take rudimentary control of your foe’s limbs.
  

5th-Level Hexblade Spells

• Contagious Curse: Touched creature's curses spread to others.
  
• Curse of Energies: Subject takes +50% damage from energy attacks.
  
• Curse of Vulnerability: Subject takes +50% damage from physical attacks.
  
• Extract Curse^M: Remove a curse and store it for later release.
  
• Mass Corpse Puppet: As corpse puppet, but control multiple bodies.
  

6th-Level Hexblade Spells

• Azure Bonds^M: Your arcane mark binds subject to you, allowing you assume direct control at any time.
  
• Karrius Infusion: Cursed victim dies after 1 week.
  

New Sorcerer/Wizard Spells

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0-Level Sorcerer/Wizard Spells (Cantrips)

1st-Level Sorcerer/Wizard Spells

2nd-Level Sorcerer/Wizard Spells

• Corpse Puppet: Animate a corpse like as a zombie-like puppet.
  

3rd-Level Sorcerer/Wizard Spells

• Bestow Curse, Lesser: As bestow curse, but lesser penalties and only lasts 1 day.
  

4th-Level Sorcerer/Wizard Spells

5th-Level Sorcerer/Wizard Spells

• Mass Corpse Puppet: As corpse puppet, but control multiple bodies.
  

6th-Level Sorcerer/Wizard Spells

• Curse of Energies: Subject takes +50% damage from energy attacks.
  

7th-Level Sorcerer/Wizard Spells

8th-Level Sorcerer/Wizard Spells

• Azure Bonds^M: Your arcane mark binds subject to you, allowing you assume direct control at any time.
  

9th-Level Sorcerer/Wizard Spells

New Spell Descriptions

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Accursed Glyph
Level: Hexblade 3

This spell functions like glyph of warding except that it can only be used as a blast glyph or a curse glyph.

Blast Glyph
As the blast glyph option of glyph of warding.

Curse Glyph
You can store any curse that you produce (such as with your Hexblade's Curse ability or from a spell you cast). All level-dependent features of the curse are based on your level at the time of casting the glyph. If the curse has a target, it targets the intruder. If the curse has an area or an amorphous effect the area or effect is centered on the intruder. If the curse summons creatures, they appear as close as possible to the intruder and attack. Saving throws and spell resistance operate as normal for the curse.


Azure Bonds
Necromancy
Level: Hexblade 6, Sor/Wiz 8
Components: V, S, M
Casting Time: 10 minutes
Range: Touch
Target: Creature touched
Duration: Permanent (D)
Saving Throw: None
Spell Resistance: Yes

This spell allows you to transform your arcane mark into a magical binding. Once in place, you can take control of the subject's actions with a thought.

First, you must place your arcane mark on the subject. Then you cast this spell, which infuses the mark, making it visible to the naked eye (if it was invisible) and preventing it from being dispelled, from fading from normal wear, or otherwise being removed while the curse remains. Even if the body part upon which the mark is inscribed is removed, the mark simply reappears elsewhere on the subject's body.

While you concentrate (a standard action, as though with a spell with a duration of concentration), you can take direct control of the subject, giving you access to its senses and forcing it to act as you desire. You do not gain access to the subject's knowledge or memories, so you cannot force it to use abilities you are not aware it possesses. You can, however, force it to employ any abilities you know of, even purely mental ones (such as manifesting powers).

While you control the subject's actions, your arcane mark glows as bright as candlelight. The subject retains no memories of its time under your control.

This curse ends immediately if you die or are destroyed.

Since this spell takes 10 minutes to cast and involves writing on the target, you can cast it only on a creature that is willing or restrained.

You need not be within range to take control of the subject or to dismiss azure bonds. You can do so at any time, regardless of where you and the subject are, even if you are on different planes.

The curse bestowed by this spell cannot be dispelled, but it can be removed with a break enchantment, limited wish, miracle, remove curse, or wish spell. Remove curse works only if its caster level is at least two higher than your azure bonds caster level.

Material Component
Special inks worth 1000 gp.


Contagious Curse
Necromancy
Level: Hexblade 5
Components: V, S
Casting Time: 1 standard action
Range: Touch
Target: Creature touched
Duration: 1 round/level
Saving Throw: None; Will negates
Spell Resistance: No; Yes

Upon touching the subject, you become aware of all curses on her. Choose one curse on the subject, excluding curses tied to a specific object (such as cursed magic items). Immediately, and again each round thereafter for the duration of this spell (including the final round), the curse attempts to spread to the nearest valid creature within 30 feet of the subject. It will not attempt to spread to you, nor to any creature it has tried and failed to spread to previously during this casting of contagious curse. When the curse attempts to spread, the new victim must make a Will save against this spell or become affected by it as well. If the curse originally allowed a saving throw, the save DC is the  lesser of this spell's save DC and the curse's save DC. Otherwise, use this spell's normal save DC.

A curse spread through contagious curse is not itself contagious (unless, of course, this spell is cast again on the new victim). Only the original subject of this spell continues to spread the curse.

A curse spread through contagious curse functions normally and can be removed from each victim independently. However, if it is removed from the subject of contagious curse, the creature from which it had originally spread, it is also removed from all creatures it spread to with this spell.

If the chosen curse is removed while contagious curse is still ongoing, the spell immediately ends.


Corpse Puppet
Level: Hexblade 2, Sor/Wiz 3
Target: One mostly intact corpse with discernible limbs
Duration: 1 day
Saving Throw: None
Spell Resistance: No

This spell functions like puppeteer's curse except as noted above. The corpse uses the statistics and abilities of a zombie while you are controlling it, except that since you are controlling its movements, rather than animating it with negative energy, it has the type and traits of a construct, rather than an undead creature.

You can animate and control a zombie with no more HD than twice your caster level with this spell.

Unlike animate dead, this spell does not interact with the dead creature's soul, so no special means are required to raise the subject from the dead.

This curse ends immediately if the subject is returned to life.

Material Component
A clay doll with the same basic form as the corpse.


Curse of Energies
Evocation
Level: Hexblade 5, Sor/Wiz 6
Components: V, S
Casting Time: 1 standard action
Range: Close (25 ft. + 5 ft./2 levels)
Target: One creature
Duration: Permanent (D)
Saving Throw: Will negates
Spell Resistance: Yes

The subject becomes vulnerable to all types of energy damage (acid, cold, electricity, fire, and sonic). It takes half again as much (+50%) damage as normal from any such attack or effect, regardless of whether a saving throw is allowed, or if the save is a success or failure.

Curse of energies is mutually exclusive with curse of vulnerability. A given creature can be under the effects of only one of them at a time.

Curse of energies dispels and counters curse of vulnerability.

The curse bestowed by this spell cannot be dispelled, but it can be removed with a break enchantment, limited wish, miracle, remove curse, or wish spell.


Curse of the Black Pearl
Necromancy [Evil]
Level: Cleric 2, Hexblade 1
Components: V, S, M
Casting Time: 1 standard action
Range: Medium (100 ft. + 10 ft./level)
Target: One non-undead, corporeal creature that has a skeletal system
Duration: 1 day
Saving Throw: Will negates
Spell Resistance: Yes

You place a curse on the subject. If it dies before the curse is lifted, it rises as a skeleton as though with the animate dead spell. As per animate dead, creatures with more than 10 HD cannot be made into skeletons, and you cannot animate more HD of undead than twice your caster level. The skeleton remains animated only as long as it is under the curse; when the curse ends or is removed, the skeleton is destroyed.

The curse bestowed by this spell cannot be dispelled, but it can be removed with a break enchantment, limited wish, miracle, remove curse, or wish spell.

Material Component
A stolen gold coin worth at least 1 gp.


Curse of Vulnerability
Transmutation
Level: Cleric 6, Hexblade 5
Components: V, S
Casting Time: 1 standard action
Range: Close (25 ft. + 5 ft./2 levels)
Target: One creature
Duration: Permanent (D)
Saving Throw: Will negates
Spell Resistance: Yes

The subject becomes vulnerable to all types of physical damage (bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing). It takes half again as much (+50%) damage as normal from any such attack or effect, regardless of whether a saving throw is allowed, or if the save is a success or failure.

Curse of vulnerability is mutually exclusive with curse of energies. A given creature can be under the effects of only one of them at a time.

Curse of vulnerability dispels and counters curse of energies.

The curse bestowed by this spell cannot be dispelled, but it can be removed with a break enchantment, limited wish, miracle, remove curse, or wish spell.


Detect Curses
Level: Hexblade 0

This spell functions like detect magic except that it only reveals the auras of curses and cursed items.


Extract Curse
Necromancy
Level: Hexblade 5
Components: V, S, M
Casting Time: 1 standard action
Range: Touch
Target: Creature or item or cursed area touched
Duration: Instantaneous; 1 day
Saving Throw: Will negates (harmless); See text
Spell Resistance: Yes (harmless); See text

This spell removes a single curse, as the remove curse spell, and transfers its energies into the glass globe used for the material component. If the target is affected by multiple curses, you can choose which one to remove. The curse's energies are visible within the globe, usually as a roiling black fog.

During the spell's duration, the globe can be thrown to release the curse once more. To attack with it, make a ranged touch attack against the target. No weapon proficiency is required, so you don’t take the -4 nonproficiency penalty. On a hit, the globe shatters, applying the curse to whatever was struck (if the curse could be applied to it). On a miss, the globe still breaks, but the curse's energies dissipate harmlessly.

If you remove and store a curse affecting an area, the globe instead functions as a splash weapon, applying the curse to the area around where it hits.

If the globe is broken otherwise, the curse's energies dissipate harmlessly.

If the spell ends, the globe shatters and the curse's energies dissipate harmlessly.

Only a single curse can be stored in a given globe at once.

If you cast this spell without a material component, it removes the curse, but does not store it.

Material Component
A small, clear, hollow glass globe specially prepared and treated for this spell, worth 25 gp.


Karrius Infusion
Necromancy [Death]
Level: Hexblade 6
Components: V, S, M
Casting Time: 1 standard action
Range: Touch
Target: Creature touched
Duration: Permanent (D)
Saving Throw: None; Fortitude negates
Spell Resistance: Yes; No

The subject of this curse becomes infused with the malign aura of Karrius, the Silent Valley. Once the subject has spent a total of at least one week of its life under this curse or within Karrius, it must make a Fortitude save every hour while the curse remains or die.

You need not be within range to dismiss karrius infusion. You can dismiss it at any time, regardless of where you and the subject are, even if you are on different planes.

The curse bestowed by this spell cannot be dispelled, but it can be removed with a break enchantment, limited wish, miracle, remove curse, or wish spell. Remove curse works only if its caster level is equal to or higher than your karrius infusion caster level.


Lesser Bestow Curse
Level: Cleric 2, Hexblade 2, Sor/Wiz 3
Duration: 1 day

This spell functions like bestow curse except for its lesser duration and penalties:

• -4 decrease to an ability score (minimum 1).
• -2 penalty on attack rolls, saves, ability checks, and skill checks.
• Each turn, the target has a 75% chance to act normally; otherwise, it takes no action.

You may also invent your own curse, but it should be no more powerful than those described above.


Mass Corpse Puppet
Level: Hexblade 5, Sor/Wiz 6
Target: Up to one mostly intact corpse with discernible limbs per level

This spell functions like corpse puppet except that it affects multiple corpses. You can concentrate on and control the movements of any number of puppet zombies at once whose total HD do not exceed quadruple your caster level.

You can animate and control zombies each of which have no more HD than twice your caster level with this spell.


Puppeteer's Curse
Necromancy
Level: Hexblade 4
Components: V, S, M
Casting Time: 1 standard action
Range: Medium (100 ft. + 10 ft./level)
Target: One creature with discernible limbs
Duration: 1 minute/level
Saving Throw: Will negates
Spell Resistance: Yes

You place a curse on the subject, making it a puppet for you to control. While you concentrate (a standard action, as though with a spell with a duration of concentration), you can control the subject's limbs, forcing movement independent of the target’s mind. You can force the subject to stand up, sit down, walk, turn around, and so on. You can also hold the subject immobile, rendering it helpless.

You can only control the subject's limbs. You cannot, for example, operate its vocal cords or even stop it from speaking, nor can you force the subject to manifest powers, cast spells, or use any special ability that is not a function of just its limb movements. You can, however, force it to make use of any abilities or attack forms it possesses that rely solely on the use its limbs, such as attacking with natural and manufactured weapons, grappling, rending, and so forth.

While acting under your control, the subject uses your ability score that controls the save DC of this spell in place of its Strength and Dexterity scores, and your base attack bonus in place of its own. During its turn, you can force the subject to take its normal complement of actions as you direct it. While you control its movements, a subject of this curse is denied its Dexterity bonus to AC and cannot make attacks of opportunity.

Although the subject’s body is under your control, the subject’s mind is not. Creatures capable of taking purely mental actions (such as manifesting powers) or actions that do not involve the use of its limbs (such as casting spells with no somatic, material, or focus components) can do so. Any actions the subject takes on its own use its normal ability scores and base attack bonus.

You only control the subject's movements while you concentrate. If you lose concentration, you can regain it on your turn as a standard action, taking control of the subject once again.

The curse bestowed by this spell cannot be dispelled, but it can be removed with a break enchantment, limited wish, miracle, remove curse, or wish spell.

Material Component
String from a puppet.

Change Log

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22/6/2017: Clarified the limits on what creatures can be animated with curse of the black pearl, and what happens when the curse ends.
21/6/2017: Reposted to Min Max Forum. Typo fixes. Clarified contagious curse's saving throw.
28/2/2016: Fixed Cleric spell table (had curse of energies instead of curse of vulnerability).
13/12/2015: Added detect curses. Changed curse of energies to Evocation. Changed curse of vulnerability to Transmutation.
11/12/2015: Added azure bonds, curse of energies, curse of the black pearl, and curse of vulnerability. Extract curse now also works on area curses. Karrius infusion can be dismissed at any range. Clarified some things with puppeteer's curse.
9/12/2015: Added accursed glyph, corpse puppet, extract curse, Karrius infusion, mass corpse puppet, and puppeteer's curse.
2/12/2015: First posted.