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Evil Archetypes (Patreon)

Published:
2016-10-01 05:11:58
Edited:
2020-05-16 11:48:26
Imported:
2026-06
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Every campaign has a big bad guy, and every hero has an evil side.

Mage Hand Press presents Evil Archetypes, a book containing the most wicked flavors of every class, alongside a host of villainous characters to terrorize your heroes. Villains come complete with NPC stat blocks, additional combat information, and a detailed backstory, so you know just how to introduce them into your campaign, and how to make them hurt your heroes.

The following classes are included in this book (those marked with an * are new releases):

Barbarian: Path of the Cannibal*

Bard: Master of Masks (Redux)*

Cleric: Entropy Domain

Druid: Circle of Desolation

Fighter: Umbral Knight*

Monk: Way of the Jiangshi*

Paladin: Oath of Heresy

Ranger: Abysswalker

Rogue: Man Who Laughs*

Sorcerer: Pale Master

Warlock: The Parasite

Wizard: School of Diabolism

The following villains are included in this book:

Neferat, the Man-Eater

Persona

Undolon, the Entropic Hierophant 

Goril, King of Rot

Black Knight Roldin

Ransom the Heretic

Siddhartha of the Bloodless

Virgil

Pale Man

Patia the Pale

X

Senator Faust

 

  

Changelog: 

5/7/17: Persona: Spellcasting: Blade ward replaced with dancing lights, dissonant whispers replaced with thunderwave, bane replaced with disguise self

Persona: Ability scores changed, all other statistics changed accordingly

Entropy Domain: Spells: Witch bolt replaced with inflict wounds

Undolon: Spellcasting: Witch bolt replaced with inflict wounds

Goril: Skills, saving throws, attack bonuses, and save DC statistics fixed

Siddhartha: Saving throws and skills fixed

Heretic: Oath Spells: Hex replaced with bane

Ransom: Saving throws and skills numbers modified

Ransom: Spellcasting: Compelled duel replaced with divine favor, searing smite replaced with protection from evil and good, elemental weapon replaced with fear, staggering smite replaced with dominate beast

Virgil: Saving throw DCs fixed

The Pale Man: Pranks: Saving throw and spell attack bonuses added

Patia the Pale: Blade ward replaced with true strike, ray of sickness replaced with sleep, witch bolt replaced with thunderwave

Patia the Pale: Spell save DC and spell attack bonus adjusted

The Parasite: Expanded Spells: Dissonant whispers replaced with ray of enfeeblement

Host Template: Blade ward replaced with mage hand, friends replaced with minor illusion, crown of madness replaced with hold person, hex replaced with invisibility

Senator Faust: Infernal Allies: Gets four lemures rather than two spined devils

Comments

Silver Wing

On the oath of heresy spell table, hold person is repeated

zacobin

The Wizard school in the PDF is listed as the "School of Diabolism" and not the "School of Desolation"

Grand Moff Xela

Its supposed to read Diabolism. A Diabolist is a wizard who deals with and controls devils.

Sean Riley

Definitely excited for this one. I love your collected editions like this one. Found a typo: Persona's multiattack section, "two attacks with his rapier or brossbow" As much as I might be interested in a bossbow- does it shoot quarterly performance reports?

Mage Hand Press

No, a bossbow fires actual managerial staff. Their oversized egos and paychecks make quite the projectile XD I'll fix that very soon.

Mage Hand Press

Also, I won't be making a changelog for this since it's a one letter change.

Geoffrey Ludgate

Love these. Having prepared villains is so awesome. Keep up the great work!

Spookyboots

My group has slowly shifted their alignments to evil...running a sandbox really changed their view of the in game world. One of my players is super amped to play the cannibal subclass when the orc race is released with Volo's. His battle rager was killed in the climax of the last session.

E Koebel

So umbral knights says you can't use multiple shadow effects simultaneously, but how its written, i'm unsure if you can start an new effect, ending the old one prematurely, or are you just blocked from turning on new effects? because the shadowbane effect is instantaneous, where the others are short-duration buffs. Expanding your crit range, critting, then ending it to multiply extra 2d8 to 4d8 nectrotic damage doesn't seem overpowered, as it burns a short-rest resource very quickly, but i'm not sure if its in the spirit of how the material is written. also, with the shadowcast doesn't say it disregards reach weapon quality, 20ft of sentinel is a truly insane amount of sticky battle field control, especially with bonus action to Morphicly from maul damage to a glaive for AoOs. ...or maybe that all intentional, i like it, but im hesitant as it sounds too good to be true.

Mage Hand Press

By RAW, there's no means to end a shadow maneuver early, so you have to abide by their durations. That being said, if a DM wants to allow a player a ability to end a maneuver early, I'd say that's probably fine, as long as he doesn't use more than one in the span on one attack. In other words, using Shadowsharp for the attack roll and Shadowstrike for the damage probably shouldn't be allowed. Shadowcast just overwrites Reach if it's present, so 15 feet reach total. This range is powerful in conjunction with Sentinel, but the point cost, short duration, and high feature level basically justify it.

Mage Hand Press

I'm glad your players are slowly turning to the Dark Side. We have cookies over here.

Sgt 86Delta

I loved the cannibal, specifically,those abilities describe perfectly how I want my undead to perform. The other "evil" archetypes are well thought out and I will be making use of them in my upcoming games.

Dragun

I'm loving all of the content you lot are putting out, and am currently considering playing a College of Masks Bard. I was wondering if the damage on the Dragon mask is correct, simply because it starts with 1d6, but at higher levels moves to a d4. It's probably not much of a difference damage wise, but I just wanted some insight.