CYBERGHOUL

Necromancer Subclass ritual following a long rest, you can choose to animate any of
There’s more than one way to imbue a corpse with the your thralls as Constructs, causing each such thrall to have the
semblance of life: while other necromancers leverage their following changes:
magic for animation, you weave humming, electric wires in • The thrall is a Construct instead of an Undead,
the dead flesh until it stirs once more. A corpse is no more but counts as an Undead for the purpose of your
than spare parts, after all. necromancer class features.
Cyberghouls eschew the traditional foundations of • Any critical hit against the thrall becomes a normal hit.
necromancy in favor of high technology and digital ghosts. • The thrall gains thermalsight out to a range of 60 feet.
They are hackers in every sense of the word, leveraging the
bleeding edge of cybernetics to construct undead machines CHARNEL BLASTER
and dominate the technological landscape. With enough At 3rd level, your Chanel Touch deals damage to Constructs.
resources, such a necromancer might be able to download Additionally, when you use your Charnel Touch and expend 5
their brain from their body and achieve the cold, immortal life or more points, you can coalesce your necromantic energy
of a cyber lich. into an antimatter beam. Make a ranged spell attack against
a target you can see within 30 feet of you instead of making a
CYBER SPELLS melee spell attack, dealing necrotic damage as normal on a hit.
When you choose this ambition at 3rd level, you learn
additional spells as noted in the table below. Each of these
spells counts as a necromancer spell for you, but doesn’t count
against the number of necromancer spells you know.
Additionally, you learn the technomancy cantrip, which is
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a necromancer spell for you and doesn’t count against your
number of cantrips known.
Spell Level Spells
1st flawed reconstruction, technical difficulties
2nd circuit breaker, perception hack
3rd greater mending, lightning bolt
4th intensify gravity, logic bomb
5th simulation, wall of force

CONSTRUCT CORPSES
Also at 3rd level, you learn to raise the
dead through blasphemous technology.
When you perform your Animate Thralls

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 Phylactery Device. A computing device, such as an arcane
GHOST IN THE MACHINE terminal, houses your soul and acts as your phylactery. You
Beginning at 6th level, you can use your bonus action to infect
can upload your soul to a connected arcane terminal, ship
a piece of magical technology you can see within 120 feet
computer, or datapad in an upload that you perform over the
with a digital spirit known as a daemon process. The daemon
course of 10 minutes. Once your soul has left a device, it no
remains within the technology until it is removed by an
longer bears the invulnerability typical of a phylactery. When
antivirus or remove curse spell, or you use this ability to infect
you drop to 0 hit points, you regenerate in hardlight form
a different piece of technology. While a piece of technology is
within 5 feet of your phylactery device.
infected, you can perform any of the following operations as
Hardlight Form. You interact through the world with
a bonus action while you and the target technology are on the
a hardlight avatar, a physical representation of the ones and
same plane of existence:
zeros of your soul that shifts and moves as you think. You are
• You can cause the device to malfunction and become immune to radiant damage. 
unusable until you use this ability to restore functionality to it. Infect Construct. As an action, your body becomes
• You can attempt to hack the device. You have advantage on immaterial, and you attempt to infect a Large or smaller
Intelligence (Data) checks you make to hack technology Construct you can see within 10 feet of you. This target
infected with your daemon process and you don’t require must make a Charisma saving throw against your spell save
an interface rig to do so. DC. A Construct with a challenge rating greater than 10
• You can remotely operate the device within its normal automatically succeeds on this save.
parameters. You can only perform unauthorized If it fails its saving throw, you disappear and infect the
operations, such as opening a locked door or disabling an Construct. While infecting the Construct, you control it. You
alarm, if you have already hacked the device. maintain your Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma scores and
• You can instruct your daemon to act autonomously. You your alignment, but otherwise use the creature’s statistics. You
describe a circumstance, such as a character entering a few don’t gain access to the target’s class features or proficiencies.
keystrokes of data or a certain amount of time passing, The infection lasts until the Construct drops to 0
and one of the other operations detailed in this list to be hit points, you end the infection on your turn as a bonus
performed in response. Your daemon can remember up to action, or you are forced out by an effect like the antivirus
eight such circumstances and reactions. spell. When the infection ends, your body reappears in an
unoccupied space within 5 feet of the Construct.
DIGITAL DEATH Once you use this feature, you can’t do so again until you
By 10th level, you can download the necromantic spirit of finish a long rest.
your thralls into waiting corpses at the moment of death. Inhabit Technology. You can use your action to inhabit
When one of your thralls dies, you can cast the spell animate a piece of magical technology such as an arcane terminal or
dead as a reaction. As always, you can’t reanimate Undead that datapad that you can see within 5 feet of you. You disappear
have been reduced to 0 hit points. and gain control over the device. While inhabiting the device,
you can’t be targeted by any attack, spell or other effect, and
CYBER LICH you can perform any function the device is capable of, without
At 20th level, you have reached the pinnacle of necromancy first hacking into it. As a bonus action, you can transfer
and transformed yourself into a lich. You have forsaken your yourself to any other piece of magical technology that is
body, digitized your soul, and transferred it into an arcane connected to the current device, or end the inhabitation.
terminal, which acts as your phylactery. From this digital The inhabitation ends early if the device is destroyed
vantage, you stand at the forefront of technology, far beyond or if you are forced out by an effect like the antivirus spell.
the frontiers of ethics that constrain your peers. When the inhabitation ends, you reappear within 5 feet of the
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