Deep Magic 10 Shadow Magic
Deep Magic 10 Shadow Magic
Deep Magic 10 Shadow Magic
MICHAEL OHL
Shadow Magic
Credits
Design: Michael Ohl
Development & Editing: Dan Dillon, Steve Winter
Art Director & Graphic Design: Marc Radle
Cover Art: Felipe Escobar
Interior Art: Emile Denis, Felipe Escobar, Florian Stitz
Publisher: Wolfgang Baur
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Shadow Magic
rom the beginning of time, shadows have her own soul. Spellcasters who manipulate shadow
been respected and feared. Darkness brings draw this mysterious, unsettling energy from alien
a tingle to the spine, reminding us of a time dimensions and turn it to their own uses.
when we felt trapped without light and the darkness
itself seemed a predator to fear.
When the light goes out, the hair on the back of your Sorcerous Origin:
neck stands up. Was that the wind, or is something
lurking in the dark, waiting to attack me? Some of
Shadow Bloodline
nature’s deadliest predators hunt in darkness, and Your magic comes from a place drained of color,
their ability to see when we can’t makes us feel weak where light fights a losing battle against the relentless
against their power. encroachment of darkness. In the distant past, your
Shadow magic can lend a sinister feel to an NPC ancestors were touched by the Shadow Realm, and this
or cast a player character as a cursed hero who uses contact left its mark on your family bloodline.
the power of darkness for good at the cost of his or
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TAINT OF SHADOW
Your magic always acts a bit differently than that of Warlock Patron:
other casters. Your magical fire burns with a deep
purple flame that sheds little light but casts inky
The Light-Eater
shadows. The influence of the Shadow Realm can be You have made a pact with a being from the Plane
seen in every manifestation of your magic, whether of Shadows whose goal is to plunge the world into
that’s shadowy bonds tightening around the target of unending darkness. You may or may not share this
a hold person spell or the shadows that swirl like storm ambition, but you’ve sworn loyalty to this entity.
clouds inside your dimension door. At 1st level, you Unlike fiends who seek to corrupt and destroy, light-
gain darkvision out to 60 feet. Within that range, you eaters want to make the Material Plane more like
see through magical darkness as if it were dim light. their own Shadow Realm. Many light-eaters were
once liches, shadow dragons, death knights, vampiric
EVIL EYE wizards, or other shadow beings that existed long
Starting at 1st level, you can gaze at one creature enough to amass great power before abandoning
within 60 feet of you and with a bonus action, mark their former paths to pursue the glorifcation of the
that creature with darkness. The marked creature night as an end in itself.
has disadvantage on its next attack roll or skill check
involving sight unless it makes a successful Charisma EXPANDED SPELL LIST
saving throw. You can use this feature a number of The Light-Eater lets you choose from an expanded list
times equal to your Charisma modifier (minimum of spells when you learn a warlock spell. The following
of once), and you regain all expended uses when you spells are added to the warlock spell list for you.
finish a long rest.
Light-Eater Expanded Spells
DARK ILLUSIONS Spell
Starting at 6th level, you have advantage on saving Level Spells
throws against illusion magic. You can also cast blur
1st ray of sickness, cloying darkness
or mirror image by spending 2 sorcery points.
2nd blindness/deafness, dark path
PASSAGE THROUGH THE DARK 3rd fear, legion
At 14th level, you gain the ability to traverse between 4th shadow monsters, night terrors
patches of darkness. When you are lightly or heavily
obscured you can, as a bonus action, step through a 5th dark dementing, Shadow Realm gateway
shadow and emerge from another shadow up to 200
feet away. You can stay inside the shadow connection DARKNESS CALLS
for a number of rounds equal to your Charisma
modifier (minimum of 1) if you choose to; while Starting at 1st level, the shadows give you the power
there, you are invisible, nothing can affect you, and to draw a small part of the Shadow Realm into
you can’t affect anything else. Each use of this ability the Material Plane. As an action you can force all
costs you 4 sorcery points. creatures within 10 feet of you to make a Wisdom
saving throw. Those that fail are blinded until the
TAINTED SHADOWS end of your next turn, by bits of the Shadow Realm
Beginning at 18th level, you can emanate an aura clouding their eyes. Once you use this feature, you
of energy from the Shadow Realm. By spending 4 can’t use it again until you finish a short or long rest.
sorcery points, you radiate an aura of shadow that LIVING SHADOW
causes everything within 15 feet of you to become
lightly obscured because of dim lighting. Any Beginning at 6th level, the shadows around you
portion of that area that’s already dimly lit becomes sometimes take on a life of their own and defend
completely dark instead. Enemy creatures that start you when you’re in danger by transporting enemies
their turns inside this aura take 10 necrotic damage away through the Shadow Realm. When you take
and must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw or damage, you can use your reaction to transport the
become frightened of this effect. The effect lasts until creature that damaged you through the shadows to
the start of your next turn. an unoccupied space up to 60 feet away. The affected
creature must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw
against your spell save DC or take 2d6 cold damage
and become frightened of you until the end of its next
turn. Once you use this feature, you can’t use it again
until you finish a short or long rest.
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UNSHAKABLE
Starting at 10th level, your patron fortifies
your mind against fear, letting you
shake off even the worst of its effects.
You gain immunity to fear-based effects
DARK ONE
PACT BOONS
When you select your pact
boon at 3rd level, it is subtly
altered in the following ways.
Pact of the Chain: Your familiar
can take the Hide action whenever it’s in dim light Pact of the Blade: The Dark one grants a blade made
or darkness. It has disadvantage on attack rolls and of an unearthly, shadowy material that is nearly
Wisdom (Perception) checks while in bright light. invisible in dim light or darkness. Each time you
The same penalties apply to you while you’re using create it, you can choose whether it does its standard
its senses or casting spells through it, while it’s in damage type or necrotic damage.
bright light. Pact of the Tome: Your book is literally a book of
shadow; shadowy vapor drips from it whenever it is
opened or held, and it weighs nothing.
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disrupted until the start of your next turn. This ability
Roguish Archetype: also does not protect you while you’re unconscious
or incapacitated.
Whisper
You’ve dedicated your life to the arts of deception,
disappearing, and illusion. Somewhere along that Shadow Spell List
path, you encountered something from the Shadow
CANTRIP 4TH LEVEL
Realm that showed you how to truly be one with the
Claws of Darkness Night Terrors
shadows—or perhaps you learned your best tricks
from the shadows themselves. All whispers have been Douse Light Shadow Monsters
touched by a shadow, performed a ritual to bind a
1ST LEVEL 5TH LEVEL
shadow to themselves, or drawn in energy from the
Black Ribbons Dark Dementing
Shadow Realm to enhance their stealthiness and to
become supreme thieves, assassins, or spies. Cloak in Shadow Shadow Realm Gateway
Cloying Darkness
DARK TRICKERY 6TH LEVEL
Starting at 3rd level, you gain darkvision to 60 feet if 2ND LEVEL Banshee Wail
you did not already have it. You also can use the minor Dark Path Become Nightwing
illusion and douse light cantrips. Darkbolt
7TH LEVEL
Negative Image
FADE AWAY Conjure Shadow Titan
Shadow Puppets
When you choose this archetype at 3rd level, you
8TH LEVEL
become able to take the Hide action while you’re in 3RD LEVEL Malevolent Waves
dim light or darkness, even if you’re being observed. Call Shadow Mastiff
You have advantage on the Dexterity (Stealth) check 9TH LEVEL
Legion
to become hidden. After using this feature, you must Umbral Storm
complete a short or long rest before using it again.
You gain an additional use of this ability at 7th level
and at 15th level.
New Spells
SHADOW ROAD
Starting at 9th level, you can step from one area of BANSHEE WAIL
dim light or darkness directly into another that is no 6th-level necromancy
more than 60 feet away. Doing so uses an action. You Casting Time: 1 action
must be able to see the destination or be familiar with
Range: Self (30-foot cone)
its location. If you weren’t already hidden, you you
can make a Dexterity (Stealth) check to hide as part Components: V, S, M (a swatch from a death shroud)
of this action. After using this ability, you can’t use it Duration: instantaneous
again until you finish a short or long rest. You emit a soul-shattering wail. Every creature
within a 30-foot cone who hears the wail must make
BECOME SHADOW a Wisdom saving throw. Those that fail lose half their
At level 13, you learn to harness Shadow Realm remaining hit points and become frightened of you;
energy to vanish. While you’re in dim light or a frightened creature repeats the saving throw at
darkness, you can use an action to become invisible. the end of its turn, ending the effect on itself with a
You remain invisible for 1 hour or until you attack success. Those that succeed take 3d10 psychic damage
or cast a spell. If you enter an area illuminated with and aren’t frightened. This spell has no effect on
bright light, you must make a successful DC 15 constructs and undead.
Dexterity (Stealth) check to remain invisible. After
using this ability, you can’t use it again until you finish BECOME NIGHTWING
a short or long rest. 6th-level enchantment
Casting Time: 1 action
MISDIRECTION
Range: self
When you reach 17th level, you learn the displacer
beast’s trick of making itself appear in a slightly Components: V, S, M (a crow’s eye)
different location. Attacks against you have Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute
disadvantage. If an attack hits you, this ability is By channeling the essence of the Shadow Realm into
yourself, this spell imbues you with wings of shadow.
For the duration of the spell, you gain a fly speed of 60 CLOAK IN SHADOW
feet and a new attack action: nightwing breath. 1st-level abjuration
Nightwing Breath (recharge 4–6). You exhale Casting Time: 1 reaction, which you take when you
shadow-substance in a 30-foot cone. Each creature are targeted by an attack but before the roll is made
in the area takes 5d6 necrotic damage, or half Range: Self
CLAWS OF DARKNESS
Evocation cantrip
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: Self
Components: V, S
Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute
You shape shadows into claws that grow from your
fingers and drip inky blackness. You can make melee
spell attacks with these claws that deal 1d10 cold
damage, and the claws have a reach of 10 feet.
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CLOYING DARKNESS DARK PATH
1st-level necromancy 2nd-level conjuration
Casting Time: 1 action Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 30 feet Range: 30 feet
Components: V, S Components: V, S, M (a lodestone)
Duration: 1 round Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute
You reach out with a hand of decaying shadows. You conjure a shadowy road between points to create
Make a ranged spell attack. If it hits, the target takes a bridge or path where there was none before. This
2d8 necrotic damage and must make a Constitution can bridge a chasm or create a smooth path through
saving throw. If it fails, its visual organs are enveloped difficult terrain to speed movement. The dark path is
in shadow until the start of your next turn, causing it 10 feet wide and up to 50 feet long. It can support up
to treat all lighting as if it’s one step lower in intensity to 500 pounds of weight at one time. A creature that
(it treats bright light as dim, dim light as darkness, adds more weight than the path can support sinks
and darkness as magical darkness). through the path as if it didn’t exist.
At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a
spell slot of 2nd level or higher, the damage increases DARKBOLT
by 1d8 for each slot level above 1st. 2nd-level evocation
Casting Time: 1 action
CONJURE SHADOW TITAN Range: 60 feet
7th-level conjuration Components: V, S
Casting Time: 1 minute Duration: Instantaneous
Range: 90 feet You say a quick invocation to create a black nimbus
Components: V, S around your hand, then hurl three rays of darkness at
Duration: Concentration, up to 1 hour one or more targets in range. The rays can be divided
You summon a shadow titan, which appears in an between targets however you like. Make a ranged
unoccupied space that you can see within range. spell attack for each target (not each ray); each ray
The shadow titan’s statistics are identical to a stone that hits does 1d10 cold damage. A target that was
giant’s, with two differences: its camouflage ability hit by any number of rays must make a successful
works in dim light instead of rocky terrain, and the Constitution saving throw or be unable to use a
“rocks” it hurls are composed of shadow-stuff and reaction until the start of its next turn.
cause cold damage. At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell at 3rd
The shadow titan is friendly to you and your level or higher, you create one additional ray for each
companions. Roll initiative for the shadow titan; level above 2nd.
it acts on its own turn. It obeys verbal or telepathic
commands that you issue to it (giving a command DOUSE LIGHT
takes no action on your part). If you don’t issue any Transmutation cantrip
commands to the shadow titan, it defends itself from Casting Time: 1 action
hostile creatures but otherwise takes no actions.
Range: 30 feet
The shadow titan disappears when it drops to 0 hit
points or when the spell ends. Components: V, S
Duration: Instantaneous
DARK DEMENTING With a hand gesture and an incantation, you are able
5th-level illusion to douse a single, small source of light within range.
Casting Time: 1 action This spell extinguishes a torch, a candle, a lantern, or
a light or dancing lights cantrip.
Range: 120 feet
Components: V, S, M (a moonstone) LEGION
Duration: Instantaneous 3rd-level conjuration
A dark shadow creeps across the target’s mind Casting Time: 1 action
and leaves a small bit of shadow essence behind,
Range: 60 feet
triggering a profound fear of the dark. The target
creature must make a Charisma saving throw. If it Components: V, S, M (a toy soldier)
fails, the target is afflicted with a long-term madness Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute
effect. If the saving throw succeeds, the target is You call down a legion of shadowy soldiers in a
afflicted with a short-term madness effect. 10‑foot cube. They are conjured from the Shadow
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Realm, and their features resemble a mockery of SHADOW MONSTERS
once-living creatures. Whenever a creature starts its 4th-level illusion
turn inside the cube, within 5 feet of it, or enters the
Casting Time: 1 action
cube for the first time on its turn, the conjured shades
make an attack using your melee spell modifier; if it Range: 120 feet
hits, the target takes 3d8 necrotic damage. The space Components: V, S, M (a doll)
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UMBRAL STORM of dark, raging entropy fills a sphere 20 feet in
9th-level necromancy radius, centered on a point you can see within
range. Any creature that starts its turn in the storm
Casting Time: 1 action
or enters it for the first time on its turn takes 6d8
Range: 120 feet necrotic damage and gains one level of exhaustion;
Components: V, S a successful Constitution saving throw halves the
Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute damage and prevents exhaustion.
You create a channel to a region of the Shadow You can use a bonus action on your turn to move
Realm that is inimical to life and order. A storm the area of the storm 30 feet in any direction.
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