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The Sentient Weapon - a new combination of race and class

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BECOME A WEAPON OF LEGEND!

“I have seen people rise to the hero’s call, and others succumb to the way of villainy. Each person has a story to tell. What few people realize is that there are other stories out there that have yet to be told. I’m sure you’ve heard of Blackrazor. Have you heard the sword tell its version of the tale? Listen and learn, for these weapons are people too.”

～ Loremaster Shem

— Class Overview —

♦ Tell the story of how you came to be and who created you.

♦ Draw on your magical origin to fuel unique abilities and cast spells.

♦ Unlock your potential by choosing major and minor properties.

♦ Develop a relationship with your bearer.

♦ Fight as a single unit.

— En Garde! —

The Sentient Weapon is a brand-new combination of race and class, carefully balanced to be compatible with the Player’s Handbook. Tell new stories in new ways as you navigate the world of D&D! Discover your sentient origin, decide on a bearer, and wage your way forward to adventure!

We’d love to hear what you have to say about The Sentient Weapon. Please leave a rating and a comment!

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Lucifer B April 13, 2023 6:13 pm UTC

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hello so i just wanted to let you know i think there as a miss labeling of the Draconic Origin features under features table you have loot magnet but the feature is labeled as detect treasure just wanted to point that out

Scott W January 29, 2023 6:48 pm UTC

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Michael R February 02, 2023 5:25 pm UTC

Hi Scott! We absolutely love hearing about when people use our supplements! I think I listened to a couple episodes of The Die As Cast sometime last year. I'm definitely going to get back into it!

For your question, the Aid Attack action is meant only to be used when you have a PC bearer, as otherwise if you don't want to cast a spell there's sometimes not much else you can do on your turn.

Since you're capable of attacking "by yourself" with an NPC bearer, you don't need the Aid Attack action. It would be sort of like taking the Help action to give yourself advantage as a regular PC, it's just not meant for that and so the rules don't support it.

I hope that answers your question! Feel free to ask any follow-up questions here, or on Twitter (@unraveledarch), or by email (shem@unraveledarchives.com). Whatever's easiest for you!

Scott W February 04, 2023 5:39 pm UTC

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This answers my question perfectly, as, yes using the Aid Attack with an NPC bearer would be double-dipping.

If I can make a suggestion, I would see about updating the description of "Aid Attack" to say that this only works with PC-bearers. (unless it's there and I missed it).

Maybe just update the one sentence:

"You can use your action to aid a creature using you to attack, such as by giving it advice or encouragement, magically directing its strikes, or distracting the target."

to

"You can use your action to aid a "PC bearer and only a PC bearer" using you to attack, such as by giving it advice or encouragement, magically directing its strikes, or distracting the target."

Or maybe in special cases with NPC bearers completely controlled by the DM. Example: a DM was running an NPC character as an extra party member and they were temporarily your bearer but you had no control over it's actions....See more

Michael R February 04, 2023 7:02 pm UTC

You are absolutely right about that not being clear in the text. We're currently working on an update to clarify and tweak a couple of minor things in the document, and now I've got the Aid Attack action noted down to fix. Thank you for pointing this out!

I've listened to that first episode with Templar and I'm really impressed with the overall quality of the podcast. And it's so awesome to hear people running with this kind of random idea I had!

Your gnome bearer idea sounds like a ton of fun! I'd love to hear how your players interact with such an interesting pair!

Lawrence G March 15, 2022 10:27 am UTC

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I'm playing a ruinbound dwarf artificer who is trying to remove his symbiote. I wonder if I can subclass into this and make it so that I succeed in removing the symbiote and harnessed it as a weapon? The possibilities!

Michael R April 17, 2022 8:12 pm UTC

CREATOR

That sounds like an awesome character concept! The Sentient Weapon class currently doesn't function with multiclassing, but I can see a couple of different ways you could go about working your idea.

1. There are simplified rules in this product for how to create and play with sentient weapon sidekicks - so depending on how your DM feels about the sidekick rules (such as in Tasha's Cauldron of Everything or the D&D Essentials Set) you could go that route.

2. Use these rules to create a full 'character' for your symbiote/weapon, though that would be a bit like running two player characters.

3. If it sounds interesting, you could instead use a different supplement of ours, the Slaad Symbiote subclass for Sorcerer. Basically you have a slaad egg stuck in you, and you can hatch it out of you as your familiar. Pretty gross, but also tons of fun, and sounds like it might be up your ally? Obviously, you could reflavor it from a slaad to whatever aberration you wanted.
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Michael R April 17, 2022 8:12 pm UTC

CREATOR

https://www.dmsguild.com/product/313951/Sorcerer-Slaad-Symbiote

Natalie N April 07, 2021 2:47 pm UTC

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Can you please talk to Rob Twohy. We there wondering if this The Sentient Weapon can be converted on to Fantasy Grounds. I want to know if Rob Twohy can do this with your permission. Also Rob Twohy wanted to know if there is some way to contact you?

Michael R April 07, 2021 9:34 pm UTC

CREATOR

I'd love to talk to Rob. My email is: shem@unraveledarchives.com

Thanks!

Trevor A May 21, 2021 1:45 am UTC

Hi Natalie,

I'm excited to note that this module is already available for Fantasy Grounds! You can find it with the link below:

https://www.dmsguild.com/product/357796/The-Sentient-Weapon--a-new-combination-of-race-and-class-Fantasy-Grounds?affiliate_id=1549348

Ellis S March 31, 2021 7:07 pm UTC

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Hi there! My friend and I were looking to start a D&D podcast and would love to make a character using this supplement, would you be ok with us using this class for one of our characters?! We will disclose where it had come from and direct every listener to this page if they are interested in using this class themselves. We love this document and we have great story elements that could link into this class. Hope to hear back from you soon! Cheers :)

Michael R March 31, 2021 7:34 pm UTC

CREATOR

That's wonderful! By all means, go ahead and use it! And let me know when your podcast is up, I'd love to give it a listen :)