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Bulwark of the Undead Spellcasting Ability
Intelligence is your spellcasting ability for your grave warden
At 1st level, you learn to harness the gifts possessed by the
spells, since you learn your spells through dedicated study
undead creatures in your company. You gain immunity to
and memorization. You use your Intelligence whenever a
disease and while you are wearing no armor and are not
spell refers to your spellcasting ability.
wielding a shield, your AC equals 13 + your Constitution
In addition, you use your Intelligence modifier when setting
modifier as your skin becomes as hard as bone.
the saving throw DC for a grave warden spell you cast and
Spellcasting when making an attack roll with one.
S p e l l s a v e D C = 8 + your proficiency bonus + your
As a student of necromantic magic, you have obtained a
Intelligence modifier
grimoire containing spells dealing with the dark arts. At first,
your ability to understand the scripture in this tome is limited.
S p e l l a t t a c k m o d i f i e r = your proficiency bonus + your
However, you are told that through devoted study and
Intelligence modifier
practice you will be able to decipher more of the pages, and
Ritual Casting
the potency of the spells available to you will become
formidable. Unlike more traditional arcane casters, you are
You can cast a necromancy spell as a ritual if that spell has
unable to learn spells from schools of magic other than
the ritual tag, as the spell is in your grimoire. You don't need
necromancy unless they are granted by your chosen requiem.
to have the spell prepared.
See the Grave Warden Spell List on page 13 of this book.
Cantrips Spellcasting Focus
You can use an arcane focus (found in chapter 5) as a
At 1st level, you know three cantrips of your choice from the
spellcasting focus for your grave warden spells. Your Undead
grave warden spell list. You learn additional grave warden
Graft, obtained at 3rd level, becomes your spellcasting focus.
cantrips of your choice at higher levels, as shown in the
Learning Spells of 1st Level and Higher
Cantrips Known column of the Grave Warden table.
Grimoire Each time you gain a grave warden level, you are able to
decipher more of your grimoire. When you gain a new spell
At 1st level, you obtain a tome containing all of the currently
slot level, you are able to understand and cast the
known necromancy spells in the realm. There are a few blank
corresponding level of spells if you have them prepared.
pages at the back of the grimoire, allowing you to inscribe any
Replacing a Grimoire
requiem spells you learn during your travels when you
choose which requiem path to follow.
Your grimoire is an ancient tome that was given to you and is
The spells that you decipher in your grimoire as you gain
thus practically irreplaceable.
levels reflect the research you conduct on your own, as well
However, you are able to copy a spell from your own
as intellectual breakthroughs you have had while dealing
grimoire into another tome - for example, if you want to make
with undead.
a backup copy of your grimoire. This is a lengthy and
Preparing and Casting Spells painstaking process, particularly for the spells you have not
yet deciphered and used.
The Grave Warden table shows how many spell slots you
For spells you are able to cast, coping the spell is just like
have to cast your spells of 1st level and higher. To cast one of
scribing onto a scroll, but faster and easier, since you
these spells, you must expend a slot of the spell's level or
understand the notation and already know how to cast the
higher. You regain all expended spell slots when you finish a
spell. You need spend only 1 hour and 10 gp. for each level of
long rest.
the copied spell.
You prepare the list of necromancy spells that are available
For spells you cannot yet cast, the process is much more
for you to cast. To do so, choose a number of grave warden
difficult. To retain the incantation's meaning, you must copy it
spells from your grimoire equal to your Intelligence modifier
exactly. To do so, you may make an arcana check against a
+ your grave warden level (minimum of one spell). The spells
DC 15 for second levels spells. This DC further increases by
must be of a level for which you have spell slots.
2 for ever y additional spell level you wish to transcribe.
For example, if you're a 3rd-level grave warden you have
For this reason, it is ver y rare for
four 1st-level and two 2nd-level spell slots. With an
a grave warden to make copies of
Intelligence of 16, your list of prepared spells can include six
their grimoire; rather choosing to
spells of 1st or 2nd level, in any combination, chosen from
value it above all their other
your grimoire. If you prepare the 1st-level spell inflict
material possessions.
wounds, you can cast it using a 1st-level or a 2nd-level slot.
The Grimoire’s
Casting the spell doesn't remove it from your list of prepared
Appearance
spells.
You can change your list of prepared spells when you finish
A grave warden's grimoire tends
a long rest. Preparing a new list of grave warden spells
to don runes inlaid into a black
requires time spent studying your grimoire and memorizing
leather cover, which symbolize
the incantations and gestures you must make to cast the
the dark magic contained
spell: at least 1 minute per spell level for each spell on your
within.
list.
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