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 Table of Contents
06 Introduction
08 Akara
10 Torn
12 Rule Changes in Scavenger
14 Shards
16 Scavenger’s Equipment
20 Scavenger Roles
22 Invokers
24 Mystics
26 Nomads
28 Warlords
30 The Path of Exiles
34 Act 1: The Ghost Town of Umbar
36 Act 2: The Umbar Massacre
38 Act 3: Spears that Skewer Stars
40 Act 4: In the Shadow of Tarnak’s Walls
42 Adventure Bestiary
48 Character Sheets
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Wondrous the stone of these ancient walls,
shattered by fate.
The buildings of the city have crumbled.
The work of giants of old lies decayed.
Roofs are long tumbled down,
The tall towers are now in ruins.
Empty are the streets,
Tiles weathered and fallen, undermined by age.
All the inhabitants succumbed to pestilence.
Swept away are the great warriors.
Their towers and walls are deserted,
the desolate city crumbles away.
Who could repair any of it,
for they are long dead.
- unknown poet
Introduction
There is a land: let us call her Akara.
Imagine our own Earth’s Bronze Age. City-states flourish, each
the beginnings of civilization in its own way. Metalworking is
a technology new and bold; copper and tin and gold and, yes,
bronze forge jewelry and blade twinned. Limestone monoliths
call suspicious tribes from the wilderness with promises unique
to the New Age. These tribes, though they listen, are wary
nonetheless--many answer, many do not.
Yes, this is Akara. No. This was Akara. Quake does the earth,
violently, recklessly. Extinction seeps from canyons that
swallow nations. Creatures older than mankind die and their
bones crumble alongside falling mountains. Witness the end
of days. But Akarans--those humans and kith and morg--are
desperate enough for salvation to go to places no life has ever
been before. A World Torn Apart lies just beyond the ken of
Akara. Let us not mince words: it is a confusing and convoluted
space in a dimension beyond Akara’s own. But it is there that
hope can be found as frequent as death on the older side.
This is the world you inhabit, scavenger. You are a refugee or
you were born in one of the few remaining city-states and you
know that if you stay as you are now, you will die. So you go
out into Akara, and you venture through the Monolith into
Torn, and you seek, you search, you scavenge for some way
to save what is precious to you. And in that process, you will
change.
This is the end, and this is the beginning, and most of all, this is
SCAVENGER.
This document is a playtest for the SCAVENGER game and a
quickstart to playing in its core setting. Built off of the D&D
5th SRD, SCAVENGER is a setting where characters exploring
a world dying and another world alien are searching for hope,
power, riches, or just a way to save their loved ones. It brings the
5th edition’s exploration rules to the forefront, and supplements
them with in-depth social conflicts.
Ultimatley: you are Bronze Age punks desperately adventuring
in a trans-dimensional world.
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Within this playtest, you will find the following:
• Base game rules changes for the SCAVENGER setting
(page 08).
• Shards and the shard-system for magic and artifice
(page 10).
• A new encumbrance system and replacements for armors
and weapons unfitting to the world (page 12).
• Scavenger Roles--an exciting new way to explore the
character classes from core 5th Edition with alternative class
features (page 16).
In addition to the above materials for playtesting, this document
serves as a quickstart for the setting. This includes:
• The map of Akara, and a short primer for its various
locations (page 06).
• A short roll-table of adventure seeds (page 06).
• The 3rd level adventure “The Path of Exiles” (page 26).
• 8 pre-generated characters created using the SCAVENGER
rules (page 40).
• An example space in Torn, the trans-dimensional and alien
world, for scavengers to adventure (page 07).
This is all in preparation for the first official book using this IP,
SCAVENGER, which will be going to Kickstarter later this year.
The full book will contain much of what’s in this document and
more--a full explanation of the setting, the cities, Torn, additional
races, magical items, a bestiary, and more.
Feedback can be completed by completing a survey found on
the ScavengerWorld.net website, email to one of the creators, or
through our SCAVENGER FaceBook page. We greatly await your
feedback and are excited to polish what we have into something
truly special.
 Bataar Mur

Akara In the northwestern swamps bordering the Old Sea is Bataar. Atop a mountain unclimbable is the city-state of Mur.
The Assassin’s House, as many call it, is the origin of both Outsiders are forbidden from entering and trade is done miles
Akara’s many colorful dyes and those poisons that are truly away, at the mountain’s base. The Murish produce
legendary. Frogs are sacred to the Batash, and in the main overwhelming amounts of gold and stonecraft that are shaped
square is a great statue toad statue that represents the city’s unmatched--it is rumored that something divine guides their
founding myth. The Batash are silver-tongued and clever hands, and that every citizen is wealthy as a king and a god of
While Akara is the name given to the world as a whole, it refers in particular to a sub-continent hemmed in by
beyond responsibility. Thus, their city is a place of strange art. In reality those that are neither slave nor noble are
mountains and ashen wastes to the northeast, an ocean to the west, and a smaller, drier continent to the south.
intrigues, stark assassinations, and wild festivals. indoctrinated into a belief that their poverty is somehow equal
The Great Dying, also known as the Cataclysm, racks her with earthquakes and plagues and famine, which in
to the rulers of other lands.
turn spawn wars and swallow homes. There is no king or queen or otherwise ruler of Akara--she is instead
ruled by a mixture of displaced tribes and the few remaining city-states.
Other Locations
Tribes
From the deific Serpent Pillars of the south to the
Ta r n a k Kanuma crossroad-town of Stig and the ruins of the once great Tepe,
There are the Pua, the Odilord, the Yualat, and many more
beyond. Most have disappeared. Those left have joined
beyond that, Akara is a place where much is lost, waiting to pilgrimage to city-states or been decimated by a rival tribe.
The most famous and, arguably, powerful of the remaining No city-state is as loathed as the constellation-worshipping
be found, or waiting to kill whoever challenges that which it Though they are not city-dwellers, they are not uncivilized.
city-states, Tarnak has become the glowing beacon of hope for Kanuma. Behind their great walls, these slavers send out raiders
holds dear. Akaran tribes are rich in tradition and artifice, proud too; above
much of the world’s refugees. At the city’s heart is the to bring both shards and flesh back in hopes of surviving the
Cataclysm. As Akara continues to spiral, so too do Kanuma’s all, forever searching for a place better.
Monolith: a massive and strange pillar that, when entered,
serves as a gateway to the World Torn Apart, --Torn for short. raids become more frequent. Peoples
There, alien shards of great power are mined, and new lands The Great Dying
are explored in hopes of discovering a means of saving or Travelers learn to recognize their strange star-spears as a
Akara was home to many different peoples before the
escaping Akara. Tarnak is steeped in political and social warning to escape lest they be taken and forced into the
Cataclysm erupted. In addition to humanity, there were the Otherwise known as the Cataclysm, something is actively killing
conflict; shards have created cults, factions, and artificers gladiatorial blood pits.
whispering men, the pygmies, the bloodless--all types of the world of Akara. Her oldest and greatest creatures are going
desperate to rise above the other. human that, now, have perished. Humanity is almost alone; extinct, city-states are being earth-swallowed, and strange
only the kith--a short species intune with nature and radiations warp her lands. As Akara is torn apart, the many
emotionally connected to one another--and the morg, peoples that call this land home are left with nothing but the
a four-armed race of pragmatic nomadic warriors, remain. promise of a pitiful death.

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Torn
With the advent of the Great Dying, the strange
Monolith in the center of Tarnak awoke. It opened with
a great rumble and the sound of shifting metal. Brave,
though unprepared, souls ventured in. Those unfortunate
enough to return spoke of a strange world, one where
shards of blood-red crystal grew from the ground, where
the sky was not always blue, where whatever laws that
bound Akara apply not in full.
This place, dubbed the World Torn Apart for its
mix-matched horror, or Torn for short, has become the
prime suspect in both the Great Dying and humanity’s
potential salvation. There is much to Torn. In this
document, only a taste is offered.
The Plains Where Glass-Tears Weeps
From Wounded Grass
A great grassland yawns horizon to horizon. The grass
is red, and smells of rain that never falls. When touched
opaque tears flow out. Here, the blue sky fades into a
crimson twilight and back again, never turning night in full.
The first scavengers to explore these plains believed the
great hills dotting these plains to be old mountains. On
further inspection, they turned out to be burrows, or
perhaps long-dead nests, filled with strange bones, odd
artefacts, and yes, shards too.
What truly births the name of these plains are the strange
tears that spills from touched grass. Cold to the finger and
somehow sharp despite being a liquid, these glass-tears
have become a valued resource for Akara’s many artificers.
More importantly, white fountains of ivory and mysterious
bone appear and disappear on the horizon, and from these
fountains spill in tears uncountable.
Rumor tells a tale that following the horizons will lead to
an ocean upon which floats a city of bone and glass where
salvation (or riches) can be found in great hordes. Adding
truth to these tall-tales are shard-engraved maps
discovered in opened burrows. Alas, until Torn is further
explored, where these maps truly lead no one knows.
d6 Adventure seed in Akara
Seeking refuge in Tarnak, the scavengers are ambushed by
Kanuman star-raiders on the road. In their midst is a man
1 whose eyes are shards and who claims to have seen the
scavenger’s futures--they will die if they do not take him to
Dal Raka; a place he believes to be holy.
The scavengers go to Bataar to find an antidote to a poison
contaminating and killing their loved one’s. There, they realize
2 that the woman who made the poison died in an earthquake,
and that her missing wife holds the antidote.
Four mekards from Mur approach the scavengers. They offer
more gold than the party has ever seen in return for them
3 coming to Mur and finding their Oracle, who is missing in the
city’s catacombs.
4
An akarok, the great furred sky-hunter, crashes dead, close by
the scavengers’ camp. When they arrive, they see the
star-spears of Kanuman raiders approaching from the horizon.
An artificer of Tarnak believes that he has created a way to
bring dead creatures back to life. In exchange for killing and
5 bringing him the fossils of 5 extinct creatures, they will give the
scavengers a shard per party member.
A strange mist has been rolling in from the Sea of Songs. The
scavengers learn that this mist may originate from Torn, and
6 others believe it may be a new way of entering Torn. On the
way to investigate, competing parties of scavengers seek to
sabotage the scavengers.
d4 Adventure seed in Torn
A loved one is assaulted and nearly killed. The attacker, afraid
1 of retribution, flees into Torn with not only their sin, but with
something valuable of the scavengers’ as well.
On the Plains Where Ammonia Weeps, the wind whispers the
scavengers name as they approach a certain burrow. When
2 opened, the bones seem fresh and the glimmer of shards in
abundance shines bright as diamond.
A rival scavenger party appears, decimated down to 1 or 2
surviving members. They beg the party for succor and, if
3 granted, will disappear while everyone is sleeping. The
vscavengers will be missing most of their shards, and a trail
leads directly to an opened burrow.
On the horizon, a fountain spills great gallons of glass-tears
onto the ground. When approached, it shimmers like a heat
4 haze, and a nest is revealed to be where it once stood. And
inside that nest, sings running water and tinkling wind chimes.
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Rule Changes in Scavenger
A number of rules changes have been drafted up below for the purpose of enhancing the SCAVENGER
game experience. This place, dubbed the World Torn Apart for its mix-matched horror, or Torn for short,
has become the prime suspect in both the Great Dying and humanity’s potential salvation. There is much
to Torn. In this document, only a taste is offered.
Attribute Proficiency
Instead of Skill Proficiencies, scavengers are proficient in ability
checks made with any attribute in which they are proficient.
Features that give scavenger’s Skill Proficiencies instead give
them proficiency in that attribute.
If the scavenger already has proficiency in that attribute, they
add double their proficiency bonus whenever they make an
ability check in a situation related to the skill. For example, if the
scavenger is proficient in Intelligence checks and gains a bonus
proficiency in Religion, whenever they make an Intelligence
check concerning religion, they add double their proficiency
bonus to the number rolled.
The Expertise class feature gives double proficiency bonus
in the chosen attribute whenever said attribute is used for an
ability check. The Jack-of-All-Trades feature gives half of the
scavenger’s proficiency bonus to any attributes in which the
scavenger is not proficient.
Artefact Usage
Artefacts not powered by shards require a DC 10 Intelligence
check to figure out how to work it, as well as everytime the
artefact is used. Success on a check provides advantage on the
next one. Failure means that the artefact does nothing.
Breaking Cover
A critical attack against a creature behind cover reduces that
cover by one tier and destroys ½ cover.
Jury Rigged Tools
When making an ability check with a set of tools, a scavenger
can instead use any weapons, adventuring gear, or improvised
materials instead of the tools required. The DC for these checks
is increased by +10 and no Proficiency bonus is added to the
roll.
Climbing Creatures
A scavenger can climb another creature that is bigger than it
by at least 2 sizes. This is an action, requiring the scavenger to
make a DC 10 Dexterity check to grab onto the creature and
start climbing. Creatures being climbed can attempt to shake
off any climbers as a bonus action. In this case, the climber
must make a DC 15 Strength check. The climber has
disadvantage if the creature uses a tool or piece of terrain, such
as a cliffside, to knock the climber off.
While climbing a creature, you move your climbing speed and
occupy the same space as that of the creature being climbed,
and all damage rolls against the creature being climbed are
treated as if they rolled their maximum possible damage.
Healing Kits Required
A scavenger cannot spend hit dice during a short or long rest to
recover hit points without expending 1 use of a healer’s kit.
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Attitudes
Creatures other than the scavenger characters have either a
friendly, indifferent, or hostile attitude towards the
scavengers. Determine the starting attitude of the creature
depending on the situation in which the scavengers encounter
it. A DC 10 Wisdom check as an action allows the scavengers to
determine the attitude of a creature or group of creatures.
Changing attitude.
Scavengers can improve a creature’s attitude towards them
(from hostile to indifferent, and from indifferent to friendly)
with a DC 20 Charisma check. This check can be forgone if the
scavengers earnestly assist the NPC in some way. If the
scavengers do something that the creature would not like, such
as stealing from or hurting it, than the scavenger doing the
action must make a DC 20 Charisma saving throw. On a failure,
the creature’s attitude worsens (from friendly to indifferent,
and from indifferent to hostile). This attitude can be reflected
towards the entire party. Ability checks to change a creature’s
attitude may only be made once every 24 hours against that
specific creature.
Requesting Favors
The Favor DC table below illustrates the required DC for a
Charisma check to get a friendly or indifferent creature to do
the scavengers a favor or to stop a hostile creature from
attacking. These DC’s can be skewed in favor of roleplaying,
though the GM should keep track of the creature’s attitude
towards the scavengers regardless.
Attitude in relation to favor DC
Friendly creature to do a favor at no risk or
0 Tracking situation
sacrifice
Indifferent creature to do a favor at no risk or
10
sacrifice
Friendly creature to do a favor at risk or requiring
15
sacrifice
Indifferent creature to do a favor at risk or requir-
ing sacrifice 20
Hostile creature to not attack 25
Hostile creature not attacking to do a favor at no
risk or sacrifice 20
No shared languages +5
Turned Tables Morale
When a creature or group of creatures begins to lose a fight,
Reason for fleeing they may flee due to any of circumstances listed in Turned Tides
table below. The GM should roll a DC 20 Charisma saving throw
The creature or group is surprised by 3 or more other for each individual creature or group of creatures. On a failure,
creatures the creature or group or creatures are frightened towards the
scavengers and must use their turn to move as far away as
The creature is reduced to half its maximum hit points for the possible for 1d10 minutes.
first time during battle If the scavengers or other creatures attack the fleeing group,
then the creatures will defend themselves and are no longer
The group’s leader is reduced to 0 hit points or flees frightened.
Half of the group’s original members are dead or
unconscious Limited Death Save Success
A scavenger can roll a number of successful death
A spell of 3rd level or greater is cast on the creature or group saving throws equal to 3 + their Constitution score. Any death
saving throws made beyond that are
considered failures.
A creature or group is outnumbered at a ratio of 1:2
Noticing Creatures While Exploring
While exploring, consider creatures as groups equivalent to
the scavengers. The group that has a member with the highest
Know Intentions passive Wisdom (10 + Wisdom modifier) notices the opposing
Scavengers can make a DC 15 Charisma check when meeting a
creature to glean one of the following pieces of information:
group 1 minute before they are noticed unless the opposing
group makes themselves known. If one or both groups are
moving in stealth, compare the highest Dexterity rolls in both
It’s alignment groups against the opposing groups highest passive Perception
score. If a group does not notice another, it is surprised when
the other group makes itself known.
It’s general intelligence (below 6, between 6-12, or above 12)
Role and Background-based Proficiencies
One of its personality traits, ideals, bonds, or flaws Your class selection does not give you proficiencies. Instead,
your Scavenger Role gives you a list of proficiencies to choose
from, and your background gives you an additional 2
proficiencies.
DC
Tracking Creatures and Vehicles
To track one or more creatures or vehicles, make an Intelligence
Soft surfaces (mud, sand, snow) 10 or Wisdom ability check. The DC of this check is determined by
the Tracking DC table.
Natural, unbare surfaces (dirt, grass) 15
Slow Healing
Bare stone 20 During a long rest, you only recover hit points up to half of your
hit point maximum. Further hit points can be recovered through
spending hit dice.
Each day since the creature passed +5
Creature left a trail such as blood -5
Poor weather (raining, snowing) Disadvantage
Vehicle or group of creatures Advantage
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Shards
Magic is a foreign power in the world of Akara. Mysticism and ritual, old as thought both, have never had true
power behind them. This changed when shards were discovered in the World Torn Apart.
Shards—sanguine gemstones that radiate undiscovered aethers—have brought light to the wasting Akara.
Alchemists and experimenters have learned that the power of shards can be drawn out and used to create
dazzling effects and weird technologies. In short, they are the foundations for what the uninitiated now call spells.
What Shards are and are not
in terms of mechanics
Shards are the following things:
• A change to 5E Fantasy’s spell slot system.
• A thematic way to use 5E Fantasy’s spell system.
• A thematic way to explain why some scavengers have
developed their class features.
• An explanation for how artefacts work in the world.
• A resource to be gathered.
Shards are not the following things:
• A replacement for 5E Fantasy’s spell system.
• A replacement for classes with the
spellcasting feature.
A way to gain class features
Shards can be powdered into dust and combined with strange
ingredients to be consumed. For many, this does nothing other
then producing an absolutely unmatched high and an
extremely vivid trip. For some, the radiating power changes
them. Supernatural class features like the Barbarian’s Rage,
the Ranger’s Primeval Awareness, and the Paladin’s Smite are
achieved by ingesting shard-drugs or prolonged exposure to
shard-based radiation. These individuals are treated strangely
by most, and they are few and far between. Most Akarans will
never interact with or become someone with such powers—
those that get them are both blessed and cursed by shard
alchemy.
Any class that has the Spellcasting feature instead replaces it
with Shardcasting.
A resource for players to use
Any magical items or artefacts that have charges are powered
by shards. Shards can only be used a certain number of times
a day, and a scavenger can only be attuned to so many shards.
What makes this different than core 5E Fantasy rules are the
following changes:
• You must be attuned to a shard to cast a spell. A shard
attuned for spellcasting cannot be apart of a magical item
or artefact. You can break these items to steal their shards
for this use.
• In the world of Akara, you have only 2 attunement slots.
In the world of Torn, you have 3 + ½ your total character
levels in attunement slots.
• You can use shards that you are not attuned to for a cost.
This applies to shard-based magical items as well. This
requires 2 hit dice per shard drawn from. If you have no
remaining HD, you instead gain 1 level of exhaustion.
This means it is beneficial for scavengers to find more shards,
but still dangerous to use them recklessly.
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Shardcasting
Through experimentation or accident, you have learned how to
draw power from shards to accomplish extraordinary feats. You
may believe this to be an act of some deity or merely an
extension of science or alchemy, but regardless of your belief,
the strength you now wield is real as a blade through the
throat.
Attuned Shards
When you gain the Shardcasting feature, you can use shards
you are attuned to in order to cast cantrips and spells. In Akara,
you can be attuned to 2 shards or artefacts at a time. In Torn,
you can be attuned to 3 + ½ your total character level
(rounded up) shards or artefacts at a time. Shards replace all
spell components, including those with a price attached to
them.
Shard Spells
When you gain this feature, you know a number of spells as
dictated by your Class Feature table. These spells must be
engraved physically somewhere for you to reference them.
How Shards are used mechanically
There are 3 ways shards are used in SCAVENGER games:
a resource for scavengers to use, a way to gain class features
within the bounds of the world, and a replacement class
feature.
Shardcasting Limitations
While in Akara, spells from the conjuration, necromancy, and
transmutation schools cannot be cast.
When shards are used to shardcast spells of 6th level or higher,
roll 1d6. This is your shardcasting limitation die. On a 1, the dice
rolled permanently becomes a 1d4, and you must use this 1d4
when drawing power from shards for 6th-level or higher spells.
If you roll a 1 on the 1d4, the shard explodes, dealing 10d10
force damage to anything within 100’ of the shard.
Afterwards, the 1d4 rises to 1d6 again. After completing a long
rest, if your shardcasting limitation die is 1d4, it becomes 1d6.
The wizard class retains its ability to cast ritual spells, and does
not require these spells to be prepared.
Shardcasting Ability Scores
Your shardcasting ability score is the same ability score it would
have been if you had the spellcasting feature. You will use your
shardcasting ability to find your shardcasting save DC and
attack modifier.
Shardcasting save DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus + your
Ability modifier
Shardcasting attack modifier = your
proficiency bonus + your Ability modifier
Casting and Preparing Spells
Your Class Feature table shows how many spell slots you have
to cast your spells of 1st level and higher. To cast one of these
spells, you must expend a slot of the spell’s level or higher. You
regain all expended spell slots when you finish a long rest.
When you cast a spell, you must also draw power from a
number of shards equal to the spell’s level. You can only safely
draw power from shards you are attuned to. If you attempt
to draw power from shards that you are not attuned to, you
lose 2 hit dice per spell level. If you have no available hit dice,
you instead suffer from 1 level of exhaustion. Casting cantrips
requires 1 shard, as if they were 1st level spells.
If you have no spell slots, you can still draw power from shards
in order to shardcast. To do so, you must draw power from
twice the number of shards that are normally required for the
spell. For example, if you were casting the spell Fly and had no
available spell slots, you could draw power from 6 shards to
cast the spell instead of the normal 3. You can do this a number
of times equal to your proficiency bonus per long rest.
When shardcasting, the shards you draw on must be within
5 feet of you. For every additional 5 feet the shards are away
from you, you must draw on 1 additional shard per spell level in
order to shardcast your spell. For example, in order to cast the
spell Magic Missile with shards 10 feet away from you, you’d
need to draw on 2 shards instead of 1 in order to shardcast the
spell.
You prepare the list of spells that are available for you to cast.
To do so, choose a number of spells that you have engraved
equal to your shardcasting Ability modifier + your shardcasting
class level (minimum of one spell). The spells must be of a level
for which you have spell slots.
For example, if you’re a 3rd-level wizard, you have four 1st-level
and two 2nd-level spell slots. With an Intelligence of 16, your
list of prepared spells can include 6 spells of 1st or 2nd level, in
any combination, chosen from your engravings. If you prepare
the 1st-level spell magic missile, you can cast it using a 1st-level
or a 2nd-level slot. Casting the spell doesn’t remove it from
your list of prepared spells.
You can change your list of prepared spells when you finish
a long rest. Preparing a new list of spells requires time spent
studying your engravings and memorizing laws and sciences
behind performing them: at least 1 minute per spell level for
each spell on your list.
Learning New Spells
You learn new spells when your Class Features Table indicates
that you have gained new spells learned. However, learning
new spells does not automatically provide you with new shards.
Shards must be scavenged, stolen, or bought.
The cleric, druid, and paladin classes do not learn spells.
Instead, they simply prepare the ones they want to use.
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Scavenger’s Equipment
Encumberance
Encumbrance weights are replaced with encumbrance slots.
Each slot is equal to one item being held in one hand. Armor
and clothing can be worn as normal, and contribute ½ their
slots (rounded up) towards your total encumbrance.
You can carry a total number of encumbrance slots equal to
5 + your Strength, Constitution, and Intelligence modifiers
(minimum 0). If you carry up to 10 additional slots beyond
your total, you have the encumbered condition, listed below.
If you carry more than 10 + your total maximum number of
encumbrance slots, you are considered incapacitated until
you shed the excess weight.
Encumbered:
• Your maximum movement speed is cut in half (rounded
down).
• You make Dexterity saving throws at disadvantage.
Containers allow for the carrying of additional equipment, as
seen in the Container Capacity table below. Each container
takes up 1 slot if it carries fewer than 6 items, or 3 slots if 6 or
more.
Starting Equipment
When making a scavenger character at 1st level, you start
with the following equipment:
Either (A) ceramic-cloth or (B) chitinous hides
Either (A) a backpack or (B) 3 sacks.
Either (A) 1 melee weapon that you are proficient in or (B) 1
ranged weapon that you are proficient in and a bundle of
ammunition for it if needed.
Either (A) 3 healer’s kits or (B) 1 potion of healing.
1 melee weapon that you are proficient in.
Any tools that you are proficient in.
1 shard, if you have the shardcasting class feature.
Choose from (A) burglar’s pack (B) dungeoneer’s pack (C)
explorer’s pack or (D) scholar’s pack
Any equipment gained from your background.
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Adventuring Gear
Climber’s kits, clothes, manacles, miner’s picks, and shovels
each consume 2 slots. Rope ladders and tents consume 3
slots.
Ammunition
Bundles of ammunition purchased, such as 20 arrows,
consume 1 slot.
Currency
Coins, jewels, and other tradable currencies consume 1 slot
for every 100 pieces of currency.
Tools
Artisan’s tools, musical instruments, and navigator’s tools
consume 2 slots. All others consume 1 slot.
Exotics
Exotics consume a number of slots unique to the item in
question.
Weapons
Nowhere in Akara has metal smithing advanced far enough
for the production of iron, let alone steel or more advanced
metals. Instead, arms of cast bronze, reinforced gold, shaped
stone and glass, or monstrous bone are commonplace.
Bola
Leather chords weighted with stones are used to disable prey
by ensnaring their legs. Critical hits on creatures within 20’
are grappled.
Katar
By taking a bone or bronze blade and affixing it to a
horizontal H-shaped hilt, a push-dagger such as a katar can
be created.
Wrist blade
A 2 ½’ foot-long piece of metal or bone attached to a
wooden contraption to the wrist. With a flick, it explodes from
its holder. Lowering the hand over the wrist retracts it.
Bladed boomerang
Wooden or bone boomerangs have blades inserted or tied to
them to make them all the deadlier. Returns to your hand on
a missed attack roll. You have to wear special gloves to use it
properly, especially for the bladed one.
Dart-thrower
A contraption of slendered, cut wood that rests alongside the
arm when not in used. Requires 2-foot long bladed darts for
ammunition, which are launched with a swinging motion of
the arm.
Armor and Weapon Replacements
Without more advanced blacksmithing techniques,
certain weapons and armors don’t exist in Akara.
Below, a table stating what weapons and armors are
replaced and what is replacing them is given.
Ceramic-cloth
Ceramic plates are interwoven with cloth robes to
provide protection. The plates break when struck, but
replacing them is easy for any scavenger, even on the
fly.
Chitinous hide
Many of Akara’s beast and those found in Torn have
hides strong enough to turn bronze and rebuke
hammers. These hides are taken, cured, and cut into
wearable armor.
Bronze wargarb
A chest-plate of bronze, grieves, bracers, and a skirt
of bronze are worn by many scavengers across Akara.
Cultural differences often sees these plates taking on
strange, but effective, shapes.
Ancient bones
Creatures long since extinct have had their bones,
harder than copper, taken and cut into plates,
pauldrons, and other pieces of armor to wear. Many of
these bones are of strange colors, though few can say
why.
Interlocking exoskeleton
Some massive beetles and other insects have
exoskeletons that, if kept in tact but rearranged,
provide a set of armor nigh-impenetrable. These
suits are expensive to make but lightweight and easy
to clean.
Copper wardress
Long dresses of copper plates are taken and bound
with straps of leather, creating a loud suit of armor
with all the defensive strength of a fortress wall.
Warlords wearing wardresses paint them with
terrifying visages.
Reinforced chitin
The chitin from the most dangerous of creatures is
taken and reinforced with bronze, creating a set of
armor prized by all but too expensive and rare to be
worn by all save the few.
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 Armor
Armor being replaced Armor replacement Cost Armor Class (AC) Strength Stealth

Studded leather Ceramic-cloth 45 gp 12 + dex modifier - -

13 + dex modifier
Chain shirt Chitinous hide 50 gp - -
(max 2)
14 + dex modifier
Scale mail Ancient bones 50 gp - Disadvantage
(max 2)
15 + dex modifier
Half plate Bronze wargarb 750 gp - Disadvantage
(max 2)
Interlocking
Ring mail 100 gp 14 - Disadvantage
exoskeleton

Chain mail Copper wardress 200 gp 16 Str 13 Disadvantage

Full plate Reinforced Chitin 1,500 gp 18 Str 15 Disadvantage

Weapons
Weapon being replaced Weapon replacement Cost Damage Weight Properties
Finesse, light, thrown (20/40),
Crossbow, light Bola 1 gp 1d4 1 lb.
special
Morningstar Katar 15 gp 1d8 piercing 5 lb. -

Rapier Wrist blade 5 gp 1d8 piercing - Finesse

Finesse, light, thrown (30/120),
Crossbow, hand Bladed boomerang 1 sp 1d6 slashing ½ lb.
special
Crossbow, heavy Dart-thrower 30 gp 1d8 5 lb. Ammunition (60/200) heavy,
loading, two-handed

Ammunition
Ammunition being replaced Ammunition replacement Cost
Crossbow bolts (20) Bladed darts (10) 1 gp

Equipment Slots Table Container Capacity Table

Item type Encumbrance slots used Container Capacity
Light armor 4 slots Backpack 12 slots
Medium armor 6 slots Barrel 40 slots, liquid only
Heavy armor 10 slots
Basket 10 slots
Melee weapons - light 1 slots Bottle 1 slot, liquid only
Melee weapons 2 slots
Bucket 5 slots, liquid only
Melee weapons - heavy 4 slots
Chest 20 slots
Ranged weapons - light 1 slots
2 slots Flask or tankard 2 slots, liquid only
Ranged weapons
Ranged weapons - heavy 4 slots Jug or pitcher 10 slots, liquid only
Equipment packs 3 slots Pot, iron 15 slots, liquid only
Adventuring gear 1-3 slots, special Pouch 1 slot
Ammunition 1 slot, special
Sack 7 slots
Currency 1 slot, special
Tools 1-2 slots, special Vial 1 slot, liquid only
Exotics (artefacts, shard items) 1-10 slots, special Waterskin 3 slots, liquid only

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Scavenger Roles
Creating a character in SCAVENGER involves three components:
race, background, and scavenger role. Scavenger role is a
concept that doesn’t replace class, but instead supplements it.
A scavenger role is a grouping of classes that share a similar
theme and name in the SCAVENGER world. For example, both
rangers and rogues are considered nomads instead of their
normal class titles.
The idea behind these scavenger role is simple: there are various
mechanical changes to classes, as well as some major fluff
changes. Instead of simply rewriting every class, we group them
together for both narrative and mechanical consistency.
When you pick your scavenger role, you decide which
mechanical class you use to fulfill that character fantasy. If
that class has mechanical changes, they are listed underneath
the proper scavenger role. You also choose your proficiencies.
Note that if your role gives you an armor proficiency, you
must have the tier of armor under it to choose the next tier,
e.g: to have Medium Armor proficiency, you must have Light
Armor proficiency.
Multiclassing requirements in terms of attributes remains the
same, as do the basic mechanics of multiclassing. However,
this only applies for multiclassing into another role. You can
multiclass into different classes inside of your scavenger role
without meeting the requirements.

Scavenger Role Table

Role Name Classes Short Description
Invoker Sorcerer, Warlock, Wizard Scientist-Magicians who explore the power of shards.

Nomad Bard, Ranger, Rogue Wanderers picking up talents across the worlds.

Cultists and shamans who believe shards serve as proof to their religion’s
Mystic Cleric, Druid, Monk truth.

Warlord Barbarian, Fighter, Paladin Warriors and raiders who rely on strength and tact.

As mentioned above, some of the classes have replacement class features. If a feature is replaced, you
cannot use the original feature; instead, you must use the replacement. These features have been re-
placed for narrative reasons, as they were considered inconsistent with the SCAVENGER universe.

The table below contains the cliffnotes of which classes have what features replaced:

Class Name Class Feature Replaced Replacement Class Feature

Bard Spellcasting, Magical Secrets Shardcasting, World Wises
Spellcasting, Destroy Undead, Shardcasting, Destroy Aberration,
Cleric
Divine Intervention Rapture
Druid Spellcasting, Wild Shape* Shardcasting, Spiritual Wisdom Made Manifest*

Paladin Spellcasting, Divine Health Shardcasting, Righteous Acts

Ranger Spellcasting, Natural Explorer* Shardcasting, Far-Strider’s Trick*

Sorcerer Spellcasting Shardcasting

Warlock Pact Casting Shardcasting

Wizard Spellcasting, Arcane Recovery Shardcasting, Shard Drain

* - Not a required substitution

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 Spellcasting Points by Level Spellcasting Point Cost per Spell Level

Invokers Class Level

1st
Spellcasting Points
4
Max Spell Level
1st
Spell Level
1st
Spellcasting Point Cost
2
2nd 6 2nd 2nd 3
Included Classes: Sorcerer, Warlock, Wizard 3rd 14 2nd 3rd 5
Cultural Names: Tainted (Universal), Alchemist (Bataar), Artificer (Tarnak), Astrals (Kanuma), 4th 17 2nd 4th 6
Aziptu (Kith), Idimmu (Morg)
5th 27 3rd 5th 7
When the first shards were found, thus were birthed the first
true invokers. For many generations before did these people
Mechanical and Narrative Changes 6th 32 3rd 6th 9
exist. They claimed to have powers over the world, or were 7th 38 4th 7th 10
inventors whose craft seemed magic to the uneducated. All Classes: Replace your Spellcasting or Pact Casting
Shards have now turned superstition into fact. Those with features with the Shardcasting feature. 8th 11
8th 44 4th
the mind or force of personality necessary have brought the
9th 13
fantasies of their lives into the reality of Akara. Sorcerers: A part of you unseen exists in the World Torn 9th 57 5th
Apart. Your Sorcerous Origins represent the strange world
An invoker can come in many forms. The alchemist of Bataars that has warped you. You are considered Tainted. Replace 10th 64 5th
and the artificers of Tarnak are much the same; intelligent your Spellcasting Feature with Shardcasting. You use Invoker Proficiencies: You start with 5 of the
men and women who use shards to fuel whatever invention spellcasting points instead of spell slots, as per the 11th 73 6th following proficiencies, and must have one from each
of the mind has possessed them. In Kanuma, the few that spellcasting points table below. No further changes. category with options other than “None”:
12th 73 6th
have real power are called astrals, named as such for their
uncanny combination of astrology and shard science. Warlock: You have found Ancient technology or had 13th 83 7th Ability Checks: Intelligence or Charisma
strange dreams while in the World Torn Apart or after
All know the legends of tainted invokers. It is said that those 14th 83 7th
who spend too much time in Torn, or around shards, or even
encountering your first shard. These things have put a strange Armor: None
knowledge in you. You are considered Aziptu or Idimmu. Your 15th 94 8th
in strange places in Akara, are warped. shardcasting slots are regained on a short rest, and you have
These individuals have something inside of them that grants spell numbers and levels equal to the Pact Casting feature. 16th 94 8th
Saves: Charisma, Constitution, Intelligence, or Wisdom
power not to be questioned--a science dances at their No further changes.
fingertips fueled not by intellect or artifice but instead by 17th 107 9th Tools: Artisan tools (choose 1), gaming sets (choose 1),
some trick of the mind. or herbalism kits
Wizard: You are a person of intellect, and shards your 18th 117 9th
Haunting the world’s imagination alongside the tainted are primary tool. Your Arcane Traditions are called Shard
what the kith call the Aziptu, and the morg the Idimmu. Sciences. You are considered an Alchemist, Artificer, or Astral.
19th 123 9th Weapons: Clubs, daggers, longbows, quarterstaves, short
Strange forces, their folktales say, exist unseen. They emerge Your spellbook is a book of notes written in shard-powder swords, or slings..
20th 133 9th
and forge pacts with glyphs on shards, and those that accept ink instead of gold. Replace your Spellcasting Feature with
these pacts are given knowledge intimate. Much like the Shardcasting.
tainted, these covenant-makers are shadows at the edge of Replace your Arcane Recovery feature with Shard Drain.
society; secrets that have yet to be proven. Invoker Lifepath
If you create an invoker, roll on the table below or decide
Shard Drain d6 Lifepath
You have learned to more effectively tap into the power
your own reason for coming down this strange path. I had a dream of an old shadow. It wrote its name into a great shard, and mine under that, and I awoke with knowl-
trapped within shards. You can shardcast an additional 1
Additionally, roll on the table below that, or decide how edge foreign to me.
number of times equal to your Intelligence modifier when
working as an Invoker has changed you in some way.
you run out of spell slots. Shardcasting in this way follows the 2 I want to learn how to control shards to create a safe home for my family.
same rules as shardcasting without spell slots. Multiclassing
requirements in terms of attributes remains the same, as 3 Shards come from somewhere, and that somewhere may hold the answer to how to save my people.
do the basic mechanics of multiclassing. However, this only
applies for multiclassing into another role. You can multiclass 4
into different classes inside of your scavenger role without With shards, the future is before us. I want to join the greats before me in remaking history.
meeting the requirements.
5 I’ve always been fascinated with artifice. The life of an Invoker will let me pursue my passion of creation.

6 With my home lost, I feel a calling towards Torn, as if it were my real home all along.

Invoker Lifechange
d4 Lifechange
1 A strange pattern has appeared on my skin. It moves and grows overtime.

2 The whites of my eyes have taken on a strange glow.

3 I must wear a mask of some sort--without it, my knowledge will leave me.

4 There is a strange echo to my voice, as if two of me were talking at once.

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Mystics
Included Classes: Cleric, Druid, Monk
Cultural Names: Wise (Universal), Shaman (Tribal), Cultist (Tarnak), Oracle (Mur),
Astrologers (Kanuma), Paint-Singers (Bataar)
If there has ever been something considered a “god” to the
Akarans, it has been dead or quiet since the world’s birth. Still,
as humans are wont to do, philosophy, nature, fate--all of
these things have been thought of, and religions have
simmered in Akara since time immemorial. Mystics are those
that tend these beliefs in both the supernatural and the
deeper spirit.
Universally, these mystics are referred to as the Wise. They
form communes where they discuss their beliefs on the
structure of the universe and the truth of the human spirit.
In Tarnak, this is pushed further--cults are formed, where
representations of these beliefs are worshipped as idols
whose physical features and clothing are symbolically worn.
These cults believe that the World Torn Apart contains secrets
that must be brought back for further understanding of the
universe.
The oracles of Mur are exclusive; created by the ruling
Dinashii for but a singular purpose. The astrologers of
Kanuma are much the opposite--men and women who read
the stars, and use zodiacs and constellations to educate
and guide the rest of the city-state. Most reverend are the
paint-singers of Bataar, keepers of frogs and toads, whose
songs wake the city every morning and drouse it every night.
Kith and morg do not consider their beliefs as religions
but instead as provable fact. The kith consider nature and
emotion the same physical construct. Because of this, they
believe that the machinations of the natural realm reflect too
the machinations of their hearts. Morg, on the other end, see
Akara as a cruel thing and offer it no respect. The sky,
however, they see as free from the cruelties of life, and thus
they aspire to one day venture into the heavens above.
If you create a Mystic, roll on the tables below to decide why
you fell into your current beliefs and how they’ve changed
your life.
Rapture
At 10th level, your belief in your philosophies and religion
allows you to access enormous power.
As an action, you present your shards and holy symbol and
roll 1d100. If you roll under your total Cleric levels, the
following happens:
• You and any creatures within 120 feet of you are trans-
ported to the World Torn Apart if you are not currently
there. If you have banished an aberration, you are taken
to its banishment location.
• You either regain all missing hit points or all missing spell
slots.
• All conditions on you immediately end.
• If you succeed on your 1d100 roll, you can’t use this
feature again for 7 days. Otherwise, you can’t use it again
until you finish a long rest.
• At 20th level, you succeed on your 1d100 roll automati-
cally, no roll required.
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Mechanical and Narrative Changes
Clerics: You are considered a Wise, or a Cultist, or
perhaps even an astrologer of Kanuma. You work to achieve
the ends of a greater civilization through spreading both
philosophy and hope. Replace your Spellcasting feature with
Shardcasting, Channel Divinity: Turn Undead with Channel
Divinity: Miracle Worker, Destroy Undead with Banish
Aberration, and Divine Intervention with Rapture.
No further changes.
Druids: You are likely considered a Shaman in Akara--
people whose lives have been shaped by tribal teachings
and a closeness with nature. Certain cultists and Batash
Paint-Singers also culturally fit this class. Replace your
Spellcasting Feature with Shardcasting. If desired, you can
replace your Wild Shape ability with Spiritual Wisdom Made
Manifest. No further changes. No further changes.
Monk: Akara’s belief systems have learned that in this dying
world, that might and faith twinned are needed to survive.
You are likely a Cultist, Paint-Singer, or Wise who has
trained in the arts of self-defense for the purpose of
protecting orison-scribes and pilgrims. Many have been
influenced by the strangeness of Torn, shard-powder drugs,
or other strange events that have left them with abilities not
unlike those of invokers. No further changes.
Channel Divinity: Miracle Worker
As an action, you present your holy symbol along with a shard
before a gathered group of creatures and work a miracle
before them. Each creature within 30 feet of you must make
a Wisdom saving throw. If the creature fails the saving throw,
its attitude becomes friendly with you, and if the creature was
already friendly, it is instead charmed for 1 hour or until it
receives damage from any source.
Banish Aberration
Starting at 5th level, when an aberration fails its saving throw
against your Miracle Worker, the creature is banished to
the World Torn Apart if its challenge rating is at or below a
certain threshold, as shown on the Banish Aberration table
below. If you are already in Torn, the creature is transported
500 miles away from its current location.
requirements.
Cleric Level Banish Aberration of Creature
5th ½ or lower
8th 1 or lower
11th 2 or lower
14th 3 or lower
17th 4 or lower
Spiritual Wisdom Made Manifest Additional Spiritual Wisdom Benefits
Starting at 2nd level, you can use your action create a stable Level Additional Benefits
zone around you that serves as a natural sanctuary so long
Recalculate your hit points as if you’ve rolled the
as you have 1 shard on your person. You can use this feature
twice. You regain expanded uses when you finish a long or 2nd maximum number possible on all of your Hit Dice. This
short rest. is your new hit point maximum until this effect ends.
When you create this zone, it expands outwards for 30 feet
Your passive Perception is increased by +5 and
and moves with you. This expands to 60 feet at level 11.
While inside the zone, you and any creatures friendly or 4th can target creatures you cannot see with spells
indifferent with you gain the following benefits: as long as they are within the spell’s range.
• Hidden doors or secret pathways are revealed. Ability checks and saving throws against environmental
• Ritual spells take 1 minute instead of 10 minutes to cast. hazards, such as falling off of cliffs, extreme
• Ability checks and saving throws against environmental 8th temperatures, or climbing natural constructs have a DC
hazards, such as falling off of cliffs, extreme tempera- of 10 for you instead of their normal DC.
tures, or climbing natural constructs have a DC of 15 for
you instead of their normal DC so long as their normal
DC was higher. Mystic Proficiencies: You start with 7 of the following
You gain additional benefits depending on your druid level. proficiencies, and must have one from each category with
At 2nd level, for example, you gain more hit points while in options other than “None”:
this zone.
Ability Checks: Wisdom or Charisma
All benefits are lost if the zone disappears or if a
creature is not within the zone. The zone disappears if:
Armor: Light or Medium Armor
• You use a bonus action to dissipate it.
• 1 hour has passed.
Saves: Constitution, Wisdom, or Charisma
• You fall unconscious or die.
• You run out of spell slots. Tools: Artisan tools (choose 1), forgery kits, herbalism kits, or
vehicles (choose 1 type)
If a druid class feature says you can expend a use of
Wildshape for a different benefit, you can instead Weapons: Clubs, daggers, katars, maces, quarterstaves,
scimitars, short bows, short swords, slings, or spears
expend a use of Spiritual Wisdom Made Manifest.
Mystic Lifepath
d6 Lifepath
They told me that I mattered--that my life meant something in the great scheme. In the face of everything ending,
1
what was I to do other than believe them?
2 At night, the shaman came to our village. Whatever he did stripped the consumption from us like dirt filtered from
water. I now follow that path in hopes that I can do the same.
3 Ever since I was a child, the machinations of Akara fascinated me. I let myself be inducted to learn more of our
world’s secrets--in hopes that salvation is there.
4 In Torn, I was afraid. Hunted, maybe. Starving and thirsty, they helped me, and educated me, and now I go into Torn
to do the same.
5 In the city-square, they gathered us all and showed a miracle. That’s what it was, I’m sure. I’d be a fool to believe in
anything else.
6 At the end of the day, the beliefs they’ve given me have saved my life more than once. I am in debt to them, and so
serve them I will.
Mystic Lifechange
d4 Lifechange
1
When I travel, pilgrims beg to come with me, and word of my arrival proceeds me no matter where I go.
2 A symballa has manifested itself on my body. If not a holy symbol, than what?
3 I’ve had visions. Many visions. I’ve seen deaths and I’ve seen fortunes and I know these visions will not stop.
4 I’ve been initiated into the deep secrets of my beliefs. I modify my body and dress to represent the depths of my new
wisdom.
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Nomads
Included Classes: Bard, Ranger, Rogue
Cultural Names: Wanderer (Universal), Silent-Blind (Bataar), Sayers (Tribal),
Outlaws (Kanuma & Tarnak), Strangers (Mur), Epatum (Kith), Gaar (Morg)
Across a weary world walks the nomads--those souls who,
detached from society and kinsmen both, find their boots
well-worn by roads rarely traveled. Rumors swirl around them
whenever they enter villages, and the authorities of city-states
are careful to keep an eye on all new arrivals. Despite their
ill-conceived reputations, nomads are knowledge-polished,
and this same knowledge is coveted wherever they go.
Wanderers in Akara find themselves greeted by different
receptions depending on the culture they’re now
encountering. In Bataar, they are called the silent-blind, for
most nomads they meet neither sing their songs nor paint
their flesh. Tribal groups have taken to calling them sayers,
on account of putting most of these people’s values on what
weird things they have to say. In Mur, the absurdly rare few
that make it into the city are called strangers and find
themselves given little in the way of hospitality.
The outlaws of Karnuma and Tarnak are put to use if nothing
else. In the former, they are conscripted into raiding outfits
and sent to bring wealth or glory back to the city. In Tarnak,
they are treated as sources of money--labor, usually, if not
potential Scavengers proper.
To the kith, Epatum are collectors of emotions and stories.
Should a kith tribe deem an Epatum non-dangerous, they
launch a barrage of requests for stories and anecdotes from
the nomad’s personal journeys. Morg are, as a whole, usually
nomads themselves if not warlords. With most of their homes
destroyed and their people disappeared, they simply refer to
all nomads as Gaar--a corruption of the word “gone” forced
by their malformed jaws.
If you create a nomad, roll on the tables below to decide how
you became a nomad and what strange knowledge you hold.
Nomad Proficiencies: You start with 9 of the following
proficiencies, and must have one from each category with op-
tions other than “None”:
Ability Checks: Dexterity or Charisma
Armor: Light or Medium Armor
Saves: Dexterity, Intelligence, or Charisma
Tools: Artisan tools (choose 1), disguise kits, forgery kits,
herbalism kits, musical instruments (choose 1), navigator’s tools,
poisoner’s kits, thieves’ tools or vehicles (choose 1 type)
Weapons: Bladed boomerangs, clubs, daggers, darts, maces,
nets, poison-pipes, quarterstaves, scimitars, short bows, short
swords, slings, whips, or wrists blades.
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Mechanical and Narrative Changes
Rogues: Thieves, assassins, and other scoundrels find
themselves uniquely equipped for a scavenger’s life. Origins
of the countless ill-tails for nomads across the board, rogues
still find their skills of navigating ruins, appraising resources
and treasure, and, if needed, sabotaging other scavenger’s
competing for prizes mutually shared, in high demand. No
further changes.
Bards: You are one who collect the oral histories and
traditions of a people and pass them down, often through
song or other artform. As a bard, you likely are one of the few
people in your culture who has anything similar to a history of
your people in full. Tribals call you Sayer in hopes of learning
from you. Replace your Spellcasting feature with
Shardcasting, and your Magical Secrets feature with World
Wises. No further changes.
Rangers: You were likely already dislodged from wherever
they were born, or likely were raised in Akara’s now-empty
wilds. Otherwise you have been employed by various
city-states as a beast hunters or tribe-killer. These soldiers
are experienced in war against foes that few others are. If
you desire, you can replace your Natural Explorer ability with
Far-Strider’s Trick.
If not, you have the following terrain options for Natural
Explorer instead of those listed in your class feature:
• Alien • Grassland
• Coast • Mountain
• Desert • Ruins
• Forest • Swamp
Alien refers to the World Torn Apart. However, planes entered Boots Made Sturdy: When your movement speed
through monoliths found in the World Torn Apart are not would be reduced from any cause, including climbing or
covered. When you gain an additional terrain, you can choose swimming, you instead move at your normal movement speed
to take Alien again in order to cover any new planes for the next minute.
discovered. No further changes required.
World Wises Hidden Cover: When you’re the target of a ranged
By 10th level, you’ve learned enough of the world and its spell, ranged weapon attack, or Dexterity saving throw, you
create three-fourths cover for yourself. If you already had at
people to emulate many of their greatest legends. Choose a
least half-cover, you instead create full cover. Any cover created
class feature of another class gained at 1st level that you do not
already have and that is not a subclass feature. You can use this by this trick is destroyed at the beginning of your next turn.
class feature. Once you’ve used it, you cannot do so again until
you complete a long rest. If the feature is a passive feature not Measured Strength: When you would take a level of
requiring a use, it takes an Action for you to use it and lasts for exhaustion, you can ignore the effects of that level for 1 hour or
1 minute. until you fall unconscious.
You gain additional class features at 14th level and again at
18th level. The additional class feature can be from 2nd level or Secret Cure: When you are afflicted with a disease or
below for these additional class features. Class features gained poison, you quickly treat yourself to overcome the effects. At
this way do not scale; instead, treat them in use as if they used the beginning of your next turn you are no longer affected by
by a character at their appropriate level. For example, if you the disease or poison.
learned the monk’s Martial Arts feature, you would do 1d4
damage with unarmed attacks, even if you’re 10th level. Treader’s Wisdom: When a creature within 5 feet of
you fails an ability check, you can add your Proficiency bonus to
Far-Strider’s Trick their roll. If the new total would have succeeded, the creature is
You have seen much of the world, and it has taught you the considered as having succeeded on the ability check.
trick of survival when survival would otherwise seem impossible.
Choose one of the following Far-Strider’s Tricks listed below. Unlikely Survival: When you take damage, you can
You can use your Far-Strider’s Trick twice, and each use requires spend 1 of your hit die and reduce the incoming damage by
a reaction. You regain expended uses after completing a long
that amount.
rest. You gain 1 additional use at 6th level, and again at 10th
level.
Nomad Lifepath
d6 Lifepath
1 Framed for a crime I did not commit, I chose exile over execution.
As a child I’ve long since dreamed of seeing the wider Akara. Now that it’s dying, I must take advantage of this final
2
chance.
3 My people taught me that in order to become an adult, I must see at least seven sights no one else ever has. So I
travel, so I see.
The Great Dying left my home less than a ruin, and took everything else I had. Now I wander, wondering if I’ll ever
4
find anything like it again.
5 If the world is to die, it must be remembered. I seek the stories of Akara’s peoples, so that they may be passed on to
the generations after me--should any exist.
6 I was born on the road. It is all I have ever known. It is all I know.
Nomad Lifechange
d4 Lifechange
In the forests, deep in the night, there are songs humming from the earth. I know them, and they have taught me
1
much..
2 There are many ways to cure the flesh’s ills. I know the secrets of medicine that most others don’t.
There are many creatures in the world, and many more that have perished. In charcoal and stone I have recorded the
3
lives of the last of many of Akara’s beasts.
4 A thousand tribes and villages have I seen. I doubt a tenth of them will make it to Tarnak. So I carry with me their
cultures, their traditions, and yes, their secrets too.
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Warlords
Included Classes: Barbarian, Fighter, Paladin
Cultural Names: Man-at-arms (Universal), Raider (Kanuma), Blood-Throat (Bataar), Mekards (Mur),
Conscript (Tarnak & Kanuma), Gladiator (Kanuma), Howler (Tribal), Anjage (Kith),
Morg (Morg)
Long as animal has haunted Akara, warlords have fought for
her many bounties. Generation after generation there rises
mighty warriors, blade-kings, bronze-fortresses, tattooed
spear-hunters of the world, each more violent more skilled
than the last. Long traditions of strategy and tactic have been
passed down alongside religion and tradition to ensure the
longevity of whatever culture the warlord in question is apart
of. During this Great Dying, numberless have found these
legacies more important than anything else, for their strength
at arms protects what little precious they have left.
Kanuma’s raiders are infamous. Already before the Cataclysm
were they unrelenting in attacks well-planned and terrifying.
Now, pushed by extinction, they strike as far south as Tarnak,
their oddly-shaped spears communicating intent if not
warning to their new targets. Mur makes use of mekards, or
slave-warriors, ornately bedecked in gold and silver in
addition to the bone planes and linen veils they wear into
combat. In Bataar, an elite class of noble-warrior, the blood-
throat, exists for the sole purpose of destroying enemies
before they reach the city.
Their names come from the strange throat-singing they do
as they charge into battle, and their tendency to hang the
throats of their victims off pikes as warnings to others. These
Blood-Throats are eclipsed in fear by what most tribespeople
call Howlers. These warlords, made mind-mad by drugs and
spirits, scream without end during combat. Superstition says
that the only way a howler may go quiet is through death or
murder. So dangerous are they that this rumor is believed
more often than not.
Anjage, the kith warriors, are pitied by their kin. The
emotional weight of slaughter weighing on their shoulders
drives kith into isolation or into violent communities separate
from their villages. There they are left alone until a village is in
danger, in which case, after all options are exhausted, word is
sent to the anjage who arrive half-feral and ruthlessly sadistic.
Morg, on the other hand, have but one word for their
men-at-arms: morg. To them, war is existence, a
pragmatic aspect of life that will be indulged in.
Every morg is thus expected to be a warlord in some capacity.
If you create a warlord, roll on the tables below to determine
what your greatest battle-feat so far has been, and how such
a violent life has changed you.
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Mechanical and Narrative Changes
Barbarians: Whether howler or gladiator, you fight
primevally, as your parents have, your ancestors before them.
With drug and ritual, barbarians are able to throw themselves
into nonsensical rages so pitched and so steeped in symbol
that their tribesmen consider them supernaturally monstrous.
No further changes.
Fighter: Men-at-arms are easy to come by, and in a world
rapidly devolving into a battlefield chaotic, martial training
has become common. You are quick to find themselves
learning the basics of some weapon or another; those that go
further do so because they have talent, or because they are
forced. No further changes.
Paladin: With shard-born cults spreading throughout
Akara, a new type of cultist has entered the world. To the
Bataar, are you a blood-throat, and to the rest of the world,
you are a tyrant or messiah whose bronze blades are
sharpened with zealous dogma. Pride is thrown upon these
individuals, as the seemingly divine powers granted to them
by shards and Torn have made them into worshipped
miracle-givers. Replace your Divine Health feature with
Righteous Acts. No further mechanical changes required.
Righteous Acts Warlord Lifepath
At 3rd level, you can give 1 creature a point of inspiration d6 Lifepath
whenever they see you using a paladin class feature other
than this one. A specific creature can only receive this point 1 There was me, and there were them. One against a dozen. I survived and they did not.
of inspiration once every 24 hours.
2 The Beast would not die, no matter how many tried to kill it. My band and I decided no more. Only I survived.
3 Freedom in the Kanuman star-pits demands a high price. I paid that price a thousandfold.
Warlord Proficiencies: You start with 7 of the
following proficiencies, and must have one from each 4 They took from us everything. With neither weapon nor supply, I found them, and I took it back.
category with options other than “None”:
5 Ten feet tall, the bastard must have been. Not human, but close enough. In single-combat I bested him, and now I
Ability Checks: Strength, Constitution, or Intelligence wear his bones as trophies
Weakened by the Cataclysm, I led my men into battle to finally rid ourselves of our enemy. Now all that haunts their
6
city streets are bones and hopes I personally skewered.
Armor: Light, Medium, or Heavy Armor
Saves: Strength, Constitution, or Intelligence Warlord Lifechange
d4 Lifechange
Tools: Artisan tools (choose 1), disguise kits, musical 1 When I sleep , I dream of wounds, of weapons, of war.
instruments (choose 1), navigator’s tools, poisoner’s kits,
or vehicles (choose 1 type) 2 Not everyone I’ve killed deserved to die. I hope one day redemption will find me...or retribution.
Weapons: Simple weapons and martial weapons, or shields 3 I’ve grown addicted to violence; without it, I am as useless as water to an ocean.
4 My name is known by those who travel and those who fight. My reputation now shows little sign of weakening.
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The Path of Exiles
A Scavenger-Introduction Adventure for Level 3 Characters

Adventure Overview
The town of Umbar has, is as wounded by the Great Dying
as the rest of Akara. Where once rich farmland skirted her
walls, now there is poisoned soil. Constant earthquakes have
torn down buildings and ruined walls alike. Most have left
for Tarnak. Those who remain are hopeful that this, as all
things must, will pass.

They are wrong.

The scavengers are refugees passing through Umbar on

their way to Tarnak or civilians of Umbar proper. The night
that they stay, they hear rumors of scren, Kanuman raiders,
and Yualat cannibal sightings in the surrounding plains. That
same night, a powerful earthquake strikes, and with it comes
the first of the three threats: the scren themselves.

The horde of scren makes saving Umbar impossible. At this

point, the party has to decide whether to flee Umbar and
save their own lives or listen to the people and try and save
as many as they can. Whether refugees by themselves or
the saviors of the few remaining survivors, the road between
Umbar and Tarnak is fraught with raiders, beasts,
and stranger, worser things still.

With wit, strength, and more than a little luck, the party
makes it to Tarnak in one piece, ending the adventure
and raising to level 4.

This adventure is meant to be played in a

single 4-6 hour session, or 2 smaller sessions.

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The Series of Events Scavenger Characters Extinction’s Refugees
Below is the series of events that occur assuming the scavengers For this adventure, 8 pre-generated scavenger characters are Listed here is the cast of potential NPCs and monsters that the
are absent. Treat them as guidelines for the adventure instead of
a sequence of must-happen events.
offered for play. The adventure is balanced around having at
least 4 of these characters. If you have 5+ scavengers, add
party can discover, as well as their starting attitudes towards the
PCs.
Naresh
Indifferent
10 to all enemy hit points. If you have 3 or fewer characters,
• Rumors travel across Umbar’s lonely streets: the scren are reduce all enemy hit points by 5.
causing the earthquakes, Kanuman raiders have been seen
Captain of a Tarnaki patrol of
in the foothills, the Yualat cannibals have been attacking Below is a table containing a quick synopsis for each White Helmets. Potentially
people on the roads. pre-generated character. Their character sheets can be discovers the party as they get
• Strong earthquake strikes at night. Scren flow from the found at the end of this document. close to Tarnak. If Zyrah is in the
opened cracks, their origins unknown, and overwhelm the party, he is friendly instead.
walls. Without assistance, only Avesta, Ru’Ku, and Ulaiken As a note: all pre-generated characters know each other
escape the slaughter. from previous events, and are friendly with one another.
• Eokin’s warband descend. Avesta is captured; Ru’Ku and
Ulaiken survive and deal a fatal wound to Eoken. E’el takes
Avesta Ru’Ku the Hide Hunter
Friendly Friendly
over the warband and returns to Kanuma.
• Ru’Ku and Ulaiken are descended upon by Yualat cannibals.
Ulaiken is captured, tortured, and eaten. Nomad witch doctor of the Pua A hide hunter from Tarnak. Knows
• Ru’Ku, sole survivor of the Umbar Massacre, returns to people. Sells medicinal potions on Shideh. Will trade skills for party
Tarnak with news of what has happened. her travels. Will help party save protection.
• All roads to Umbar are blocked off, and its location stricken survivors and has 20 full-use
from all maps. healing kits on her.

Zareene Zar Jeleher Byah Bonz Turin

Friendly Indifferent
Twin-knife using syndicate leader Shaman of the scattered Murai
of a thief house in Tarnak. Wants tribe. The Yualat tribe and scren Current co-commander of the A powerful Tarnak alchemist.
to save Umbar, her home, as they have decimated her people. 1d10 militia left in Umbar. No Working in secret on a drug
cannot save themselves. family left; suicidal. Will fight for made of shard powder. Will offer
party to make escape easier if they in exchange for party protection.
have survivors with them.

Shideh Wounded Bone Dazden Ulaiken

Hostile Indifferent
Nomad who was nearly killed by
Shaman of the Odilord tribe. Sent Slaver. Main scout for Eoken. Will A scavenger-explorer. Travels
scren recently. Arrives in Umbar to
by them to find Tarnak and to see be encountered before Eoken’s Tarnak and Stargazer Bay. Will
heal wounds.
if it is the haven it is whispered to warband. trade maps for party protection.
be.

Rahim Arzar Eoken Veneah Veniah Venoah

Friendly
Hostile
Warlord bought out by Veneah Survivor of several scren attacks, Leader of a Kanuma warband. Will Wealthy merchant who lives in
Veniah Venoah to be his which have decimated every place attempt to break and enslave the Umbar. Will offer to pay party for
bodyguard. While pragmatic, he he’s ever called home. Co-com- party. their protection, but will refuse
will lend his sword to others if he mands the milita with Byah Bonz. to pay once they reach Tarnak.
believes it will benefit him. Merchant of jasmine spice.

Darien T’akon E’el Zyrah

Hostile Friendly
Falconer who travels the world Young kith who knows not where Slaver. Right-hand woman of Wife of Xon, a member of the
hoping to find the secret of the his tribe is. Is on a pilgrimage to Eoken. Will betray the warband if White Helmets in Tarnak. Was
Great Dying. On-and-off again Tarnak, believing it to be a holy Eoken dies. sent to convince people to leave
relationship with Shideh. city, which it is for him but for no Umbar. Will help initiate party into
other kith. White Helmets faction if saved.

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Act 1: The Ghost Town of Umbar
The adventure begins with the party in Umbar. A basic map of it
is provided below.

The town of Umbar is largely deserted. The scavengers have

gathered in its last common place, Veneah Veniah Venoah’s
house, where the town gathers to share meals.

Read Aloud: “Whereas Umbar is broken and dust-covered,

Veneah Veniah Venoah’s home has clean water, tapestry-covered
walls, and the illusion that all things are normal. As the party eats,
they hear Umbar’s squalid people talking of recent ill omens.”

The following NPCs are present: Avesta, Ru’Ku, Turin,

Veneah Veniah Venoah, and Zyrah. In addition, there are 2d20
towns people here. Each NPC knows 1 of 6 rumors. Roll 1d6 on
the Umbar Rumors table below.

• NPCs are grim but optimistic that things will get better.
• For every rumor learned, roll a separate d6. On a 1 or after 5
rumors have been learned, trigger the Earthquake encounter
below.

d6 Rumor
Recent earthquakes been caused by some machination
1 at Tarnak. Lost three more homes and a chunk of wall the
other day!
Them Yualat Cannibals been seen less than a day south of
2 here. If they find you, who knows how they’ll savage you.

All the birds done flew somewhere else recently. A bad

3 sign; something is coming.

Saw strange fires in the hills lately. Warbands and slavers, I

4 tell ya’, done come south for fresh meat.
Ain’t right how the soil went so sour. Something must be
5 poisoning it, I’s thinks.
Everyone’s done left for Tarnak. Saw a falling star yester-
6 day. Maybe that means we shoulda’ left too.

Earthquake Encounter
Read Aloud: “At first, a tremor. Tapestries fall to the ground,
cups clatter. Then the earth heaves up as if taking in a deep
breath, and when it lowers again, Veneah’s home falls with it.”

• Earthquake strikes. DC 15 Dexterity saving throw vs take 3d6

bludgeoning damage from falling debris.
• Zyrah, Veneah himself, and 2d10 townsfolk are trapped by
debris. DC 17 Strength (Athletics) check to save each person.
• 2 failures on a check result in the NPC dying from shifting
debris.
• Using weapons, tools, or other NPCs lowers the DC to 12.
• After 2 NPCs are saved, Byah Bonz appears, shouting that
scren are attacking.

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Act 2: The Umbar Massacre
Byah Bonz appears. He begs help at the wall, saying that the
scren are attacking. NPCs that the party has met instead asks
them for help escaping Umbar.
• Before a decision is made, have the party roll initiative.
They act in this order for the remainder of the scene.
• 1d4 townspeople leave to assist Byah Bonz.
• If the party chooses to assist Byah Bonz at the wall, run the
Shattered Blood-Wall encounter below.
• If the party chooses to assist the NPCs, run the Hell-
Plagued Streets encounter below.
• At the end of this scene, if you not using XP, level the party
to 4th level.
Hell-Plagued Streets Encounter
The scavengers must decide how (or if) to help NPCs while
attempting to escape Umbar.
• The 1st NPC the party talked to asks for protection in
exchange for their service.
• All other NPCs scatter in Umbar.
• A second earthquake strikes. Read the Read Aloud below.
• 3 scren appear, but do not immediately engage the party
for 1 round.
• For every round spent fleeing or exploring Umbar, roll on
the Allies Attacked table below at the end of the round.
Allies rolled are attacked by 2 scren and a scren poisoner.
If allies rolled are not saved, the next time they are rolled,
they are killed.
• Umbar’s only exit is the east-facing gate. It takes 5 rounds
to reach moving directly towards it.
• Most buildings are empty, but can be explored given 1
round of time. Roll on the Deserted Umbar table below to
see what the party finds and the Umbar Ruin table to see
what kind of building it was. There are 1d20 buildings that
can be searched this way. Other buildings are too damaged
by earthquakes to explore.
Blood Wall Events
d6 Event
1 An additional Scren engages the party.
Several militiamen die at once. Their corpses turn
2 d10 Ally Attacked
the top of the wall into difficult terrain.
A tremor makes the wall shake. All combatants
3 must succeed on a DC 15 Dexterity saving throw or
fall prone.
Two militiamen join the party for the next round.
4 All attack rolls have advantage until the end of the
round.
An additional, but dying, scren hivelord
5 engages the party. All attack rolls made by scren
have advantage until the scren hivelord dies at the
end of the round.
All NPC militiamen die and the scren chatter-scream
6
in victory. Party must make a Morale check.
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Shattered Blood-Wall, Part I Umbar Ruins
Byah Bonz, 1d10 + 5 militiamen, and 1d4 townspeople rush to d8 Type of Ruin
the wall. It is 20’ high and 7’ thick. A militiamen falls from the
Small family home; recently deserted. Smells of urine
wall dead, a slain scren with him, landing at the base of the 1
and jasmine.
stairs. Byah Bonz rushes everyone up the stairs to fight.
Old broken temple. Hasn’t been used in years. 1d4
2
Read Aloud: “At the top of Umbar’s cracked wall, churns townspeople praying for safety to some broken idol.
blood, viscera. Scren and militiamen ill-armed fight and die Communal Kitchen. Smells of excrement. Squatters
3
against one another. A great gash stretches into the plains inside, who try and force the scavengers out.
beyond, and from that abyss come the chatter-screams of
Artisan’s house. Broken pieces of marble and
reinforcements.” 4
sculptures, litter the ground and walls.
• 3 scren and 1 scren hivelord engage the PCs at the top of Wealthy merchant deserted palace. Sounds echo;
the wall.
5
broken busts and looted chests abound.
• 10 other scren have engaged the militia.
• Roll a d6 on Initiative count 20 and reference the Blood 6 Half-broken apartments. Deserted after earthquake.
Wall Events table below. The rolled event happens.
• After the scren hivelord is killed, 4 rounds have passed, or Dead garden. Plants brown, rotten; corpses of
7
the party decides to flee, begin the Shattered Blood-Wall suicidal lovers found here.
Part II encounter below. Occupied home. Half-eaten townsperson found
8
inside.
Shattered Blood-Wall, Part II
As the wall falls, the scavengers must find a way to somehow
Deserted Umbar
flee the now-promised massacre. d8 Finding
Read Aloud: “With a sound akin to a thousand peals of 1 1 days worth of rations.
thunder, another earthquake strikes, and Umbar’s southern wall
collapses.” 2 10’ of rope, 1 gallon of oil, and a torch.
• The party can make DC 15 ability checks of their choice.
3 A wooden shield.
On a success, they land safely. On a failure, they take 3d6
bludgeoning damage.
Some sort of memento left behind; a glyph of
• Byah Bonz and any remaining militiamen urge the party to 4-5
family names, a toy, a love letter in clay.
save themselves as they hold off the scren.
• If the party stays, roll a d10 at the end of every round. That Dust and old corpses, killed by starvation or
6-7
many Scren and Scren Poisoners engage the party. broken hearts.
• If the party flees, roll 3d10 and reference the Allies Killed
table below. Upon fleeing Umbar, any NPCs rolled are 8
Cracks in the ground. 1 Scren emerges and
engages the party.
dead; any left alive join the party alongside 1d4 townspeo-
ple.
• If the party flees after engaging combat, then roll an addi-
tional time on the Allies Killed table and subtract 1 from
the surviving townspeople. Allies Attacked / Attacked
• 2 Scren Poisoner’s chase the party if/when they flee. If the
party continues to run, they all roll DC 15 Constitution abil-
ity checks. If half the party succeeds, they lose the scren. If
more than half the party fails, combat begins. 1-2 Avesta
3-4 Ru’Ku
5-6 Ulaiken
7-8 Veneah Veniah Venoah
9-10 Zyrah
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Act 3: Spears that Skewer Stars
As the scavengers escape, they and any NPCs they’ve saved
need to travel East to Tarnak. This promises to be a grueling
10+ day trek. The pass between Umbar and Tarnak has been
ruined by earthquakes. Canyons and ravines have swallowed
much of the forest, and road.
• The NPCs want to make camp only when Umbar is no
longer in sight. Any attempt to do so beforehand requires
argument.
• Unless food and water was brought, there will be little
enough to make the trip. Refer to the Extinction’s Refugees
to see which NPCs effectively help with hunting and which
do not.
• Any scavenger with a passive Perception of 15 or higher
note that they are being watched as they leave Umbar by a
woman in black. If given chase, she disappears, obscuring
her tracks as she runs. Run the Dazden Chase encounter.
• If the party does not find the woman, run the Kanuman
Raid encounter below.
• If the party does find the woman, the Kanumans hold off
on their raid. Instead, run the Ruined Road encounter
below. This encounter is ran whether the Kanuman Raid
occurs or not, unless the scavengers decide to no longer
go to Tarnak.
• It takes 10 days to reach Tarnak at a normal pace.
Spending a day moving at a death march gives all
scavengers and NPCs 1 level of exhaustion and counts
as 3 days traveled.
• At the end of this scene, if you not using XP, level the party
to 4th level.
Wounded Beast Encounter
Read aloud: “You hear the ferocious thunder-cry of a
nearby beast, followed by the sounds of deep, rugged
breathing. A sanguine trail and claw marks fresh leads into a
nearby ravine.”
• 20 feet away, an outland beast is in a 10 foot deep ravine
with the following variation:
> 20 remaining hit points
> 1 level of exhaustion
• The beast is hostile towards the scavengers, on account of
being wounded, but does not attack unless the scavengers
approach aggressively.
• If the beast is healed or fed by the scavengers, it becomes
indifferent. If both are done, it becomes friendly and aids
the scavengers until they reach Tarnak. It remains friendly
afterwards.
• The outland beast fights to the death against the scav-
engers, or if fighting an enemy of the scavengers after it
becomes friendly to them.
• The outland beast is protecting the following:
> An animal carcass that, if salvaged, is worth 2 days 6
of rations.
> A set of bronze wargarb.
> Herbs that Avesta can use to make 4 potions of
healing.
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Dazden Chase
A female scout by the name of Dazden is watching for survivors
to lead the Kanuman Raiders to. She is a lithe woman with the
stat-block of a raider proficient in Wisdom and with a
Constitution score of 18 and the following personality
trait/ideal/bond/flaw:
> I’ve lost too many friends, and am slow to make new ones.
> In life as in war, the stronger force wins.
> I would lay down my life for Eoken, and him for me.
> I obey Kanuman law, even if it causes misery.
• Keeping initiative order, roll for Dazden and add +8.
• This is a Chase. Dazden begins 120 feet away from the
scavengers. Every participant can dash a number of times
on their turn equal to their Constitution modifier.
• All dashes except for 1 can be traded in for one of the
following actions: Attack, Hide, Make Complication, or Use
Object. below, the road is interrupted by one of the following (roll
• If the scavengers lose sight of Dazden for an entire round,
she escapes.
• If Dazden cannot escape, she uses the Use Object action
to quickly sew her mouth shut. Her starting attitude is
considered hostile to the scavengers, and she allowed
herself to be captured and will do her best to not share any
information.
• If Dazden does not return, run the Kanuma Raid encounter
1d4 days after Dazden’s capture.
Make Complication: You make some sort of
complication to slow or throw off your pursuers. Describe the
complication and roll either an Intelligence or Wisdom check.
If you roll a 10 or above, the complication is created. The
complication has a DC equal to your roll, and requires a
Strength, Dexterity, Intelligence, or Wisdom saving throw to be
made at the beginning of each creature’s turn that is behind
you. On a failure, their speed is 0 until the beginning of their
next turn.
I loot the body
d12 Loot
1 An unbroken star-spear. Treat as a +1 spear.
1d4x2 days of ration and 1d10x3 gallons of water,
2-3
carried in a sack and jug.
Roll 1d4: a set of bone gages, a piece of human skin
with the Kanuman constellation alphabet written
4 for 24 hours. If Ru’Ku is alive and with the party, make the
on it, pieces of charcoal used for writing, or a white
silken scar.
5 A hand drawn map from Kanuma to Umbar.
A set of chitinous hide.
7-8 175 gp in Kanuman star-coins.
9-10-11 1d4 bronze short swords.
12 A shard.
The Ruined Road Encounter
The road between Umbar and Tarnak is ruined by earthquakes
that have swallowed forests and tore great rents into the
ground. With the exception of a possible acid-rain storm, the
weather is even, temperate, and humid.
After the total number of days needed to reach Umbar has
past, begin the next scene.
Suggested: Roleplaying out scenes at the camp is encouraged.
> I’ve lost too many friends, and am slow to make new ones.
> In life as in war, the stronger force wins.
> I would lay down my life for Eoken, and him for me.
> I obey Kanuman law, even if it causes misery.
• For the first 2 days, consider all terrain difficult terrain.
Afterwards they are used to navigating the terrain.
• For the first 6 days of travel roll 1d20 every day. On a 10 or
1d4 to see which):
1. A series of cliffs that must be climbed. DC 14 to scale
without tools. If the scavengers figure a clever way, such as
creating rope or a safer way to climb there is no DC for the
first 3 rounds of the encounter. Roll initiative for scaven-
gers and NPCs. On initiative count 20, roll 1d10. On a 3 or
lower, pieces of the cliff fall. All NPCs and PCs must make a
Dexterity saving throw, choosing one of the following two
effects on a failure: falling 5d10 feet or taking 3d6 damage.
After 3 successful rounds of scaling, the PCs have reached
the top of the cliffs. Scavengers and NPCs who fail to make
it to the top of the cliff after 4 rounds suffer 1 level of
exhaustion at the end of the encounter, and must succeed
on a DC 15 Constitution saving throw or suffer a 2nd level
of exhaustion.
2. Run the Kanuman Raiders encounter. If the raiders
have returned to Kanuma or are all dead, instead run
option #3.
3. As the party makes camp, the ground shakes. 1d4
scren emerge and attack the party. They fight to the death.
4. A storm of acid-rain begins. Roll initiative for scaven-
gers and NPCs. For every round that shelter is not found, 1
days worth of rations and water are ruined. The storm lasts
for 1 hour, and adds +1 days of travel to the journey.
• Wisdom checks to hunt and find food or water are DC 15.
They become DC 10 after 10 days of travel, as the closer
to Tarnak they approach, the more verdant the animal life
and ponds. On a success, they find 1d4 days worth of food
and water. On a failure, a check cannot be made by anyone
Wisdom check with advantage. If the check is a 1, run the
Wounded Beast encounter.
• For every day the scavengers go without food, they gain 1
level of exhaustion. For every day the scavengers go with-
out water, they gain 2 levels of exhaustion.
• If the party camps for an entire day, they receive the bene-
fits of a long rest, despite being on the road.
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Kanuma Raid Encounter
When the scavengers go to make camp, the watching Kanuman
raiders attack.
Read aloud: “A shrill whistle cuts through the silence. In
the distance, atop great boulders torn asunder, strange spears
shaped like constellations appear. Following them as the
Kanuman raiders!”
• Eoken, E’el, Dazden, and 4 other raiders appear.
• Eoken is a raider with the following changes:
> 80 hit points
> A challenge rating of 3 (700 XP)
> A +6 to hit bonus
> A +1 spear (factored into the above to hit bonus)
> Multiattack. Eoken makes 2 attacks with his spear.
> Skewering Stars [Recharge 6].
> Eoken does his multiattack twice.
• E’el is a raider with the following changes:
> 30 hit points
> A challenge rating of 1 (200 XP)
> A +6 to hit bonus
> A +1 spear (factored into the above to hit bonus)
> Sneak Attack. E’el does an extra 14 (4d6) damage
when she hits a target with a a weapon attack, or when the
target is within 5 feet of an ally of E’el that isn’t incapacitated
and E’el doesn’t have disadvantage on the roll.
• The raiders are 30 feet away from the party.
• All ground is difficult terrain on account of the craigs and
ravines. Each ravine is 1d10x10 feet deep and 1d10 feet
wide. Create as many as you want, or as the situation
demands.
• The following NPCs, if there, begin the combat feared for
1 minute and take no actions except to dash, disenage, or
hide: Turin, Veneah Veniah Venoah, and Zyrah.
• The following NPCs fight alongside the party, using the
stat block of a nomad: Avesta, Ru’Ku, and Ulaiken.
• If 2 of the unnamed raiders die or if E’el or Eoken fall
below half of their maximum hit points, they attempt
to retreat. Treat this as a chase scene; if the raiders are
caught, they fight to the death.
• If Eoken dies or surrenders, E’el betrays him and attempt
to use his betrayal as a reason for the scavengers to
protect her to Tarnak.
• If the raiders escape, they follow the scavengers and
attack again, as per the Ruined Road encounter. Rerun this
encounter with the above parameters.
• The Kanuman raiders have a small camp kept half a day’s
journey north of Umbar.
• Any scavengers or NPCs that drop to 0 hit points have
a net thrown over them and are pulled away, illicting an
immediate retreat by the Kanumans.
• Scavengers and NPCs that drop to 0 hit points suffer
non-lethal damage unless they have killed one of the
raiders.
• If all scavengers are captured, or at least 3 NPCs, the Kanu-
mans return to Kanuma with their prize. What happens in
this situation is beyond the bounds of this adventure.
• Roll on the “I loot the body…” table below for each raider
captured or killed.
Act 4: In the Shadow of Tarnak’s Walls
Upon reaching the borders of Tarnaks lands, there are fewer
ravines, and forested meadows reappear. Roll a 1d20. On a 10
or lower, run the Kanuman Raiders encounter with the
following change: All raiders fight to the death.
If the Kanuman raiders are dead or have returned to Kanuma,
instead run the encounter with 3 scren and 1 scren hivelord.
If an 11-20 is rolled, run the Saviors Envoy encounter.
Saviors Envoy Encounter
With Tarnak on the horizon, the scavengers run into a patrol of
20 soldiers. These are White Helmets, and they wear distinctive
white helmets over their heads. White Helmets are considered
to be enforcers of the law and their patrols are dedicated to
gatekeeping what refugees can enter Tarnak.
Their leader, Naresh, is a warlord with the following
personality trait/ideal/bond/flaw:
- I face problems head-on. A simple, direct solution is
the best path to success.
- I do what I must and obey just authority.
- I fight for those who cannot fight for themselves.
- I’d rather eat my armor than admit that I’m wrong.
• Naresh interrogates the scavengers and the NPCs. If he
learns of the Kanuman raiders, she has 10 soldiers escort
the party to Tarnak, and leads 10 more to find and kill the
raiders.
• If the scavengers have a total of 50 remaining hit points
between them, Naresh requests their aid. If they accept,
he sees that they are all paid 300 gp worth of wheat, milk,
and lodgings.
• If Zyrah is with the scavengers, Naresh is friendly, and
escorts the party to Tarnak regardless of if the Kanuman
raiders are close by or not.
• If Naresh learns from the NPCs that the scavengers are
dangerous to Tarnak, or lie about their journey, he and all
20 soldiers--whose stat blocks are warlords--engage the
scavengers in combat. Scavengers who fall to 0 hit points
are dealt non-lethal damage and imprisoned.
• If the scavengers draw weapons, threaten Naresh and the
White Helmets, or otherwise come off as hostile, have Na-
resh make a DC 15 Charisma saving throw each time. On a
failure, he engages the party in combat, as per the above.
• If the Scavengers are captured or escorted to Tarnak,
see the Ending the Adventure section at the end of this
adventure.
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Ending the Adventure
Once the scavengers arrive at Tarnak, the adventure ends.
• ESCORTED. If escorted or the party otherwise infil-
trates Tarnak, they enter into a new place with its own
intrigues, factions, rules, and adventures. Any NPC that sur-
vives and was escorted by the party provides the following:
• E’el. Disappears. If needed, she can be found, and does
the scavengers a single favor, no matter the risk, so long
as it is within her power to do so. Murder is amongst the
possibilities.
• Avesta. Seek out apothecaries and invokers. She gives
each scavenger 2 potions of healing, and sells them further
potions of healing or healer’s kits for half their normal
price.
• Ru’Ku. Leaves to find work in hunting and selling hides.
He does the scavengers 1 favor so long as it provides little
sacrifice from himself.
• Turin. Find his master, Sarok, and tell him of what he’s
seen. Sarok reaches out to the scavengers, offering them
jobs to go into Torn to find him shards and artefacts in
exchange for shard-drugs.
• Ulaiken. Prepares for a journey into Torn. He gives the
scavengers a map leading to what he believes treasures
left behind in the ruin of Ark.
• Veneah Veniah Venoah. Tries and con his way into
power again. He pretends he doesn’t know the scavengers
and does his best to ignore them if they try to force him to
make good on his promise of payment.
• Zyrah. Reunites with her husband. The White Helmets
help the scavengers out of a pinch with the law once, and
they offer them positions amongst them.
• IMPRISONED BY THE WHITE HELMETS. The
scavengers awake without armor, clothes, weapons, or any
other form of equipment. They are put through a mock
trial, given their items back, and sent into Torn, told to only
return if they find at least 100 shards a piece.
• SLAVE TRADE. The scavengers awake in the blood
pits of Kanuma. There, they are thrown weapons, and
treated as gladiators until they die, earn their freedom, or
somehow escape.
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Adventure Bestiary
Nomads Raiders
Nomads are wanderers all, usually with some kind of hidden Raiders usually hail from Kanuma, but the Great Dying has
knowledge or special skill unique solely to them. turned many unassuming refugees into killers all the same.
Food, water, supply, flesh--if they cannot have it, they take it.
Medium humanoid (any race), any alignment
Medium humanoid (any race), any alignment
Armor class 15 (chitinous hide)
Armor class 14 (chitinous hide)
Hit points 44 (8d8 + 8)
Hit points 11 (2d8 + 2)
Speed 35 ft.
Speed 30 ft.
STR 11 (+0) DEX 14 (+2) CON 12 (+1) INT 10 (+0)
WIS 13 (+1) CHA 14 (+2) STR 15 (+2) DEX 13 (+2) CON 9 (-1) INT 10 (+0)
WIS 10 (+0) CHA 9 (-1)
Proficiencies Dex +4, Wis +3
Proficiencies Str +4, Con +4
Saving throws Dex +4, Wis +3
Saving throws Con +4
Senses passive Perception 15
Senses passive Perception 12
Languages any 3 languages
Languages any 1 language
Challenge 3 (700 XP)
Challenge ½ (100 XP)

Cunning Action. On each of its turns, the nomad can Hit and Run. The raider can take the Disengage action
use a bonus action to take the Dash, Disengage, or Hide as a bonus action after making an attack roll.
action.

Pack Tactics. The raider has advantage on attack rolls

Evasion. If the nomad is subjected to an effect that allows
it to make a Dexterity saving throw to take only half damage,
the nomad instead takes no damage if it succeeds on the
saving throw, and only half damage if it fails.
Treader’s Wisdom: When a creature within 5 feet
of you fails an ability check, you can add your Proficiency
bonus to their roll. If the new total would have succeeded,
the creature is considered as having succeeded on the ability
check.
ACTIONS
against a creature if at least one of the raider’s allies are
within 5 feet of the creature and isn’t incapacitated.
ACTIONS
Shortsword. Melee weapon attack: +4 to hit,
reach 5 ft., one target.
Hit: 6 (1d6 + 2) slashing damage.
Spear. Melee weapon attack: +4 to hit,
range 20/60 ft., reach 5 ft., one target.
Hit: 6 (1d6 + 2) piercing damage.

Multiattack. The nomad makes 2 attacks with its

scimitar and uses its cunning action to disengage.

Scimitar. Melee weapon attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft.,

one target. Hit: 6 (1d6 + 2) slashing damage.

Bola. Ranged weapon attack: +4 to hit, range 20/40, one

target. Hit: 4 (1d4 + 2) bludgeoning damage. If this attack is
a critical hit on a creature within 20’, the creature is grappled
(escape DC 10)

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Warlords
Warlords are those who claim bronze as their means of survival
in Akara’s dying days. Unlike many raiders, they are well-trained
and highly disciplined.
Medium humanoid (any race), any alignment
Outland Beasts
Outland beasts, once creatures who had mighty packs half
a hundred strong, now roam the extinct Akara plains lonely.
With much of their prey dead or missing many have turned
to hunting humans or instead simply just waste away. Their
hides have become an exotic fur to wear.

Armor class 16 (bronze wargarb) Large beast, unaligned

Hit points 38 (5d8 + 10) Armor class 14 (natural armor)

Speed 30 ft. Hit points 37 (5d10 + 10)

STR 16 (+3) DEX 12 (+1) CON 14 (+2) INT 11 (+0) Speed 50 ft.
WIS 10 (+0) CHA 10 (+0)
STR 17 (+3) DEX 15 (+2) CON 15 (+2) INT 3 (-4)
Proficiencies Str +5, Con +4 WIS 12 (+1) CHA 7 (-2)

Saving throws Str +5 Proficiencies Dex +4

Senses passive Perception 10 Senses passive Perception 12

Languages any 1 language Languages -

Challenge 2 (450 XP) Challenge 1 (200 XP)

Second Wind (Recharge 6). As a bonus action, the Keen Hearing and Smell. The outland beast has
warlord can recover 7 hit points. advantage on Wisdom checks relying on hearing or smell.

Pack Tactics. As a reaction, the warlord can make a melee Pack Tactics. The outland beast has advantage on
weapon attack against a creature within 5 feet of it that has attack rolls against a creature if at least one of the beast’s
attacked an ally. allies are within 5 feet of the creature and isn’t incapacitated.

ACTIONS ACTIONS

Multiattack. The warlord makes either 2 attacks with its
shortsword or 2 attacks with its spear.
Shortsword. Melee weapon attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft.,
one target. Hit: 7 (1d6 + 3) slashing damage.
Spear. Melee weapon attack: +5 to hit, range 20/60 ft., reach
5 ft., one target. Hit: 7 (1d6 + 3) piercing damage.
Bite. Melee weapon attack: +3 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target.
Hit: 10 (2d6 + 3) piercing damage. If the target is a creature,
it must succeed on a DC 14 Strength saving throw or be
restrained.
Spear. Melee weapon attack: +4 to hit, range 20/60 ft.,
reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 6 (1d6 + 2) piercing damage.

Dart-Thrower. Ranged weapon attack: +4 to hit, range

60/200 ft., one target. Hit: 6 (1d8 + 1) piercing damage.

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Scren
Medium aberration, neutral evil
Scren are a sentient, vaguely humanoid race with four
appendages, vicious claws, a steel-hard carapace, and a tail
ending in a stinger all too deadly. Scren take no part in
communications with human, kith, or morg and seemingly
only live to kill and eat other sentient creatures.
The heads of scren are bulbous and covered in sharp
protrusions. They are eyeless. Their lipless mouths are full of
serrated teeth pointing inward. Scren possess long, bifurcated
tongues that act as mandibles. The sides of their heads are
covered in small, soft sensorial membranes that detect heat and
vibrations in the environment.
Young scren do not have the barbed stinger that the scren are
known for, but make up for it by moving quickly to overwhelm
their prey. During their adult molt, when scren grow their
tail, they learn to use to strike overhead when on all fours or
between their legs while standing (usually when battling larger
creatures like morg). When standing on their hind legs, scren
look somewhat humanoid, but they prefer to move on all four
limbs.
Scren communicate through vocal clicks and chirps, body
posture, and tail gesticulation. Larger, more intelligent scren
hivelords command their smaller scren by tapping their stingers
against various parts of their carapace in addition to vocal
chirps. These carapace taps can be heard by the screen for
some distance.
The common scren is a creature deadly, common, and as
replaceable as an ant worker to its colony. Their chips echo in
underground caverns; they always attack shardcasters and the
largest creatures first.
Armor class 12 (natural armor)
Hit points 10 (2d8 + 2)
Speed 40 ft.
STR 11 (+0) DEX 11 (+0) CON 13 (+1) INT 6 (-2)
WIS 9 (-1) CHA 6 (-2)
Senses blindsight 60 ft., passive Perception 9
Languages Scren
Challenge ½ (100 XP)
Merciless. Scren can use their bonus action to make a claw
attack against a creature they have grappled this turn.
ACTIONS
Claw. Melee weapon attack: +2 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target.
Hit: 4 (1d6+1) bludgeoning damage, and the target is grappled
(escape DC 10). The scren has two claws, each of which can
grapple a target.
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Scren Hivelord
Medium aberration, neutral evil
Very large, if not for whatever evil boils so deeply in their blood.
Hivelords scream and chatter as if giving orders, and given
how differently scren act on the field when the hivelord speaks,
maybe that isn’t so far from the truth.
Armor class 15 (natural armor)
Hit points 52 (7d10 + 14)
Speed 40 ft.
STR 15 (+2) DEX 13 (+1) CON 15 (+2) INT 16 (+3)
WIS 12 (+1) CHA 10 (+0)
Senses blindsight 60 ft., passive Perception 14
Languages Scren
Challenge 3 (700 XP)
Slaughterer. Scren hivelords can use their bonus action to
make their multiattack against a grappled creature.
ACTIONS
Multiattack. The scren hivelord makes 2 attacks with its
claws and 1 with its sting.
Claw. Melee weapon attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target.
Hit: 9 (2d6+2) bludgeoning damage, and the target is grappled
(escape DC 12). The scren hivelord has two claws, each of which
can grapple a target.
Sting Melee weapon attack: +4 to hit, reach 15 ft., one
creature. Hit: 11 (2d8+2) piercing damage, and the target must
make a DC 13 Constitution saving throw, taking 22 (4d10)
poison damage on a failed save, or half as much on a successful
one.
Scren Poisoner
Medium aberration, neutral evil
Certain scren are smaller and more lithe than their shocktrooper
cousins. Despite this, their tails, serrated and barbed, leak an
oil-slick poison whose antidote no one has mastered.
Armor class 13 (natural armor)
Hit points 22 (4d8 + 4)
Speed 40 ft.
STR 13 (+1) DEX 11 (+0) CON 13 (+1) INT 6 (-2)
WIS 9 (-1) CHA 6 (-2)
Senses blindsense 60 ft., passive Perception 9
Languages Scren
Challenge 1 (200 XP)
Merciless. Scren poisoner’s can use their bonus action to
make an attack with their stinger against a creature they have
grappled this turn.
ACTIONS
Claw. Melee weapon attack: +3 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target.
Hit: 4 (1d6+1) bludgeoning damage, and the target is grappled
(escape DC 11). The scren poisoner has two claws, each of which
can grapple a target.
Sting. Melee weapon attack: +3 to hit, reach 10 ft., one
creature. Hit: 5 (1d8+1) piercing damage, and the target must
make a DC 12 Constitution saving throw, taking 11 (2d10)
poison damage on a failed save, or half as much on a successful
one.
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 Additional Features
Rahim Warlord (Fighter) Soldier
Specialty: Infantry

Military Rank: You have a military rank from your career as a soldier. Soldiers loyal to your former military organization still
Human Chaotic Neutral 30 recognize your authority and influence, and they defer to you if they are of a lower rank. You can invoke your rank to exert
influence over other soldiers and requisition simple equipment or horses for temporary use. You can also usually gain access to
friendly military encampments and fortresses where your rank is recognized.
16 +5 +5
3 An insignia of rank (my bone chin strap), a broken star-spear taken from Kanuman raiders, a set of bone dice, a set of common
+3 I’
ve lost too many friends, and I’
m clothes, Chitinous hides, 3 sacks, a Dart-Thrower and 10 Bladed Darts, a quarterstaff, spinning tops, 1 potion of healing, and a
slow to make new ones. dungoneer’s pack.
900
Second Wind
13 +1 +1 28 Fighting Style (Great Weapon Fighting): When you roll a 1 or 2 on a damage die for an attack you make with a melee
Ideals aren’
t worth killing for. weapon that you are wielding with two hands, you can reroll the die and must use the new roll, even if the new roll is a 1 or a 2.
+1 The weapon must have the two-handed or versatile property for you to gain this benefit.
+2 14
Action Surge
I’
ll never forget the crushing defeat Improved Critical: 19-20
15 +4 +4 +1 3d10 my tribe suffered at the hands of the
Kanumans.
+2

Dart-thrower 1d8 Pierce I’

d rather eat my own armor than
9 -1 -1
(+3 to hit) admit I’
m wrong.

-1 Quarterstaff 1d8(10) Bludgeon

14 +2 +2
+2

11 0 0
0

Proficiencies: Strength Ability checks An insignia of rank (my bone chin

; Light and Medium armor ; Strength &
Constitution saving throws ; Vehicles
(land) ; Simple & Martial weapons;
Games (Spinning tops)
Skill Bonuses: Athletics ; Intimidation
strap), a broken star-spear taken
10 from Kanuman raiders, a set of bone
dice, a set of common clothes, Chi-
tinous hides, 3 sacks, a Dart-Thrower
and 10 Bladed Darts, a quarterstaff,
spinning tops, 1 potion of healing,
and a dungoneer’ s pack

ENCUMBERANCE: 15/26

0 2

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 Additional Features
Shideh Nomand (Ranger) Outlander
Origin: Trapper

Wanderer: You have an excellent memory for maps and geography, and you can always recall the general layout of terrain,
Human Neutral Good 30 settlements, and other features around you. In addition, you can find food and fresh water for yourself and up to five other
people each day, provided that the land offers berries, small game, water, and so forth.

13 +1 +1 Favored Enemy: Humanoids (humans, morg)

3 I once ran twenty-five miles without
+1 stopping to warn to my clan of an Far-Strider’s Trick (Unlikely Survival): When you take damage, you canspend 1 of your hit die and reduce the incoming
approaching Kanuman raid-band. damage by that amount.
900 I’d do it again if I had to.
Fighting Style (Defense): When wearing armor gain +1 AC
16 +5 +5 28 Primeval Awareness: Use your action and expend one ranger spell slot to focus your awareness on the region around you.
Akara is more important than her For 1 minute per level of the spell slot you expend, you can sense whether the following types of creatures are present within
+3 civilizations. 1 mile of you (or within up to 6 miles if you are in your favored terrain): aberrations, celestials, dragons, elementals, fey,
+2 14 fiends, and undead. This feature doesn’t reveal the creatures’ location or number.

Hunter’s Prey (Horde Breaker): Once on each of your turns when you make a weapon attack, you can make another attack
I will bring terrible wrath upon the
15 +2 +2 +1 3d10 Kanumans for enslaving my tribe.
with the same weapon against a different creature that is within 5 feet of the original target and within range of your
weapon.

+2 Nomad Lifepath. Framed for a crime I did not commit, I chose exile over execution.

Nomad Lifechange. There are many ways to cure the flesh’s ills. I know the secrets of medicine that most others don’t.
Bladed 1d6 Slash I remember every insult I’ve received
9 -1 -1
Boomerang and nurse a silent resentment toward
anyone who’ s ever wronged me.
(+5 to hit)
-1
Dagger 1d4 Slash

14 +2 +2
+2

11 0 0
0

Save: 12 Proficiencies: Dexterity Ability checks ;

To-hit: +4 Light & Medium Armor ; Dexterity sav- A staff, a hunting trap, the fangs of
ing throws ; Disguise Kits & Herbalism an Outlander Beast, a set of trav-
Spells Known: Kits ; Bladed Boomerangs, daggers, & 10 eler’s clothes, Chitinous Hides, 3
1st Level: Hunter’s Mark, Ensnaring Strike, short bows; Glass Burns instrument sacks, 1 bladed boomerang, 3 healer’ s
Longstrider kits, 1 dagger, 1 shard, an explorer’
s
Skill Bonuses: Athletics, Survival pack, and a set of Glass Burns (glass
Shards: A blood-red earring through your left beads that, when thrown into fire,
cartilage. make music when they shatter)

ENCUMBERANCE: 15/24

1 2

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 Additional Features
Zareene Zar Nomad (Rogue) Criminal
Criminal Specialty: Pickpocket

Human Chaotic Good Thieves Cant

30
Expertise: Dexterity; Thieves Tools
9 -1 -1 Sneak Attack: 2d6
3
-1 I always have a plan for when things Cunning Action: Dash, Disengage, Hide as bonus actions
go wrong.
900 Fast Hands: Bonus action for Use Object, disarming traps or opening locks with thieves tools, or for making a Dexterity check
involving a sleight of hands.
16 +5 +5 18 I’
m loyal to my friends, not ideals, Second Story Work: Climbing no longer costs extra movement ; in addition, when you make a running jump, the distance
which can die with the rest of Akara you cover increases by a number of feet equal to your Dexterity modifier.
+3 for all I care.
+2 15 Nomad Lifepath. The Great Dying left my home less than a ruin, and took everything else I had. Now I wander, wondering if
I’ll ever find anything like it again.
Someone I loved died because of a
11 0 0 +3 3d8 mistake I made. I will never let that Nomad Lifechange. A thousand tribes and villages have I seen. I doubt a tenth of them will make it to Tarnak. So I carry with
me their cultures, their traditions, and yes, their secrets too.
happen again.
0

Daggers (x2) 1d4+3 Slash When I lie, I can’ t help but snarl my
13 +1 +3
(+5 to hit) lips.

+1
Thieves Cant

Expertise: Dexterity; Thieves Tools

14 +2 +2
Sneak Attack: 2d6
+2
Cunning Action: Dash, Disengage, Hide as
bonus actions

15 +4 +4
Fast Hands
Second Story Work

+2

Proficiencies: Dexterity & Charisma

Attribute checks ; Dexterity, Charisma,
and Intelligence Saves ; Light Armor ;
Thieves Tools ; Daggers & Wrist Blades;
Dice
Ceramic Cloth, 3 sacks, 2 daggers, 3
healers kits, thieves tools, a burglar’
s
15 pack, a crowbar, a set of dark and
hooded clothes.

Skill Bonuses: Stealth, Deception ENCUMBERANCE: 10/25

Languages: Low Tarkani, High Tarkani

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Darien Nomand (Ranger) Tarnaki Seeker
Favored Enemy: Beasts. Advantage on Wisdom checks to track, and on Intelligence checks to recall information about
them.
Human Neutral Good 30 Far-StriderTrick (Treaders Wisdom). When a creature within 5 feet of you fails an ability check, you can add your
Proficiency bonus to their roll. If the new total would have succeeded, the creature is considered as having succeeded on
15 +2 +2
the ability check.
3 Fighting Style (Dueling): When you are wielding a melee weapon in one hand and no other weapons, you gain a +2 bonus
+2 I evaluate everything based on what I to damage rolls with that weapon.
already know, and I already know a lot.
900 Beastmaster Features.
Ranger’s Companion - Swarm of Ravens (reskinned as falcons). Add your proficiency (+2) to your beast’s AC, attack rolls,
16 +5 +5 23 and damage rolls, as well as to any saving throws and skills it is proficient in. Its HP Maximum is 24. It can spend HD during
a short rest to regain hit points. OBeys your command and acts on your initiative. You can use your action to command it to
The secret that I am searching for will
Attack, Dash,
+3 change the world, for better or worse.
Disengage, or Help. It takes the Dodge action if no command is given. You can substitute one of your Extra Attacks to give
+2 15 the swarm another attack. If you are incapacitated or absent, the swarm focused on protecting you and itself and takes its
own actions. Does not require a command to use its reaction. If it dies, 8 hours can be spent to bond with another beast.
Shideh knows so much, and for that
13 +1 +1 +2 3d10 knowledge I not only love her, but need
Nomad Lifepath. I was born on the road. It is all I have ever known.

to learn more from her. Nomad Lifechange. There are many creatures in the world, and many more that have perished. In charcoal and stone I have
+1
recorded the lives of the last of many of Akara’s beasts.

Bludgeo. I’
m skeptical of everything, Seeker Feature: Secret Finder. There is something important that you are searching for. Whenever you learn something
Mace 1d6
especially when it goes against new about it, you gain both a point of inspiration and a new clue as to where it is.
11 0 0
+5 to hit something I already believe in.
+2 damage
0

14 Bola
+2 +2 1d4 Piercing
+6 to hit
+2 +3 damage

9 -1 -1
-1

Save: 12 Proficiencies: Dexterity Ability checks

To-hit: +4 ; Light & Medium Armor ; Dexterity
Saves ; Woodcarver’s tools,
Spells Known: Navigator’s tools, and thieve’s tools
1st Level (3 Slots): Hunter’s Mark, Snare, ; Bolas and Maces
Speak With Animals
Skill Bonuses: Survival, History
Shards: One of the lenses in your googles.
Languages: High Tarnaki, Low
Tarnaki, Kanuman, Various Tribal
Dialects, Bataari
A mace, a short bow and 20 arrows,
chitinous hides, a set of traveling
10 clothes including a dark cloak, a map
of Akara, a backpack, 3 healer’s
kits, woodcarver’s tools,
navigator’s tools, thieve’s tools,
and a scholar’s pack.
ENCUMBERANCE: 14/15

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Jelehar Mystic (Cleric) Tribal
Divine Domain - Forge

Human Lawful Good Channel Divinity - 1/Long Rest (2 at 6th level, 3 at 18th level)
30
Channel Divinity: Miracle Worker. As an action, you present your holy symbol along with a shard before a gathered group
11 0 0
of creatures and work a miracle before them. Each creature within 30 feet of you must make a Wisdom saving throw. If the
creature fails the saving throw, its attitude becomes friendly with you, and if the creature was already friendly, it is instead
3 charmed for 1 hour or until it receives damage from any source.
0 The ways of other tribes, no matter
how strange, can be used to make us Forge Features
900 better.
Domain Spells: Identity, searing smite, heat metal, magic weapon.

9 -1 -1 24 Bonus Proficiences: Heavy armor and smith’s tools.

My beliefs are the only things that
Blessing of the Forge. At the end of a LONG rest, you can touch 1 nonmagical object that is either a simple or martial
-1 have kept me from certain death. weapon, or a suit of armor. Until the end of your next long rest or until you die, the item is considered an artefact, grants a
+2 12 +1 bonus to AC if it is armor or a +1 bonus to attack and damage rolls if it’s a weapon. 1/Long rest.

Channel Divinity: Artisan’s Blessing. After an hour-long ritual you create one of the following: a simple or martial weapon,
My people are gone, but their memories
15 +2 +2 +0 3d8 push me to find a new tribe.
a suit of armor, 10 pieces of ammunition, a set of tools, or another bronze object. The creation appears in a space within 5
feet of you when created. The item can be worth no more than 100 gp. As part of this ritual, you provide any bronze, bones,
or other materials needed, which becomes the object. The ritual can create a duplicate of any non-magical item.
+2
Tribal Feature: Akara’s Friend. Whenever you are traveling Akara or Torn, you can find caches of food, water, and other
Piercing I cannot trust those who do not honor equipment found normally in an explorer’s pack left behind by other tribesmen.
Spear x2 1d6
what my tribe believes in.
13 +1 +1
+2 to hit Mystic Lifepath. At the end of the day, the beliefs they’ve given me have saved my life more than once. I am in debt to
+0 damage them, and so serve them I will.
+2
Mystic Lifechange. I’ve been initiated into the deep secrets of my beliefs. I modify my body and dress to represent the
depths of my new wisdom.

16 +5 +3
+3

14 +4 +4
+2

Save: 13 Proficiencies: Wisdom and Charisma

To-hit: +5
Spells Prepared:
Cantrips: Mending, Thaumaturgy, Word of
Radiance
1st Level (4 slots): Identify, searing smite,
ceremony, protection from evil and good, shield
of faith
2nd Level (2 slots): Heat metal, magic weapon,
aid, augury, prayer of healing
Ability checks; Light Armor ; Charisma
saving throws ; Potter’s tools and
herbalism kits ; Spears
Skill Bonuses: Perception
Languages: Low Tarnaki, Various Tribal
Dialects
Two spears, a set of ceramic-cloth,
3 sacks, 3 healer’s kits, potter’s
5 tools, herbalism kits, 2 shards (one of
which your dead wife’s),
explorer’s pack, a set of tribal
clothing for ceremony, and a set
of bones inscribed with your tribal
beliefs.
ENCUMBERANCE: 14/25

Shards: Two bangles, both on a different hair

loc.

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Druidic

Human True Neutral 30 Channel Divinity - 1/Long Rest (2 at 6th level, 3 at 18th level)

Spiritual Wisdom Made Manifest. As an action, you create a 30 foot zone that moves with you as its center so long as you
14 +2 +2
have
1 shard on your person 2/long rest. While in this zone, you and friendly or indifferent allies can see hidden doors and secret
3 pathways, ritual spells take 1 minute instead of 10, ability checks and saving throws against environmental hazards with a DC
+2 I speak only 6 words or less to those
outside of my tribe. higher than 15 now have a DC of 15, and you have 30 hit points. These benefits last for 1 hour or until you find unconscious,
900 die, run out of spell slots, or use a bonus action to dissipate the zone.

Shepperd Features
13 +1 +1 24 Speech of the Woods. You speak, read, and write Sylvan. In addition, beasts understand your speech, and you can decipher
My tribe has given me purpose, and their noises and motions. This does not automatically grant friendship.
+1 that purpose is why I live.
Spirit Totem. You call forth one of 3 spirit totems as a bonus action that appears within 60 feet of you. This spirit can move
+2 12 up to 60 feet to a point you can see and exudes a 30 feet aura. It lasts for 1 minute or until you’re incapacitated. 1/short or
long rest. Spirits are:
I must find Tarnak so that my son no BEAR - 8 temp hit points to allies and advantage on Strength checks and saving throws for allies in aura ;
15 +2 +4 +1 3d8 longer sleeps with a dagger in his hand.
HAWK - Use your reaction to grant advantage to an allies attack roll in the aura and advantage on Wisdom checks for allies
in aura; UNICORN - Advantage on all ability checks to detect creatures in aura and spell slots spent to restore hit points give
+2 every creature in aura 3 hit points.

Tribal Feature: Akara’s Friend. Whenever you are traveling Akara or Torn, you can find caches of food, water, and other
Piercing I take threats seriously, even if they
Katar 1d8 equipment found normally in an explorer’s pack left behind by other tribesmen.
are jokes or not.
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+4 to hit Mystic Lifepath. They told me that I mattered--that my life meant something in the great scheme. In the face of everything
+2 damage ending, what was I to do other than believe them?
0
Mystic Lifechange. A symballa has manifested itself on my body. If not a holy symbol, than what?
Spear 1d6 Piercing1
+4 to hit
16 +2 damage
+5 +2
+3

9 -1 -1
-1

Save: 13 Proficiencies: Wisdom Ability checks ;

To-hit: +5
Spells Prepared:
Cantrips: Frostbite, Guidance, Resistance
1st Level (4 slots): Cure Wounds, Faerie Fire,
Thunderwave
2nd Level (2 slots): Animal Messenger, Pass
without Trace, Warding Wind
Light and Medium armor ; Constitution
saving throws ; Herbalism kits ; Katars
and spears.
Skill Bonuses: Perception
Languages: Low Tarnaki, Various Tribal
Dialects
A spear, a katar, a set of ceram-
ic-cloth, 3 sacks, 3 healer’s kits,
5 herbalism kits, 2 shards (one of
which you took from a dead man),
explorer’s pack, a set of tribal
clothing for ceremony, and a set of
ceremonial paints.
ENCUMBERANCE: 15/27

Shards: Two shards hidden in robes.

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Arzar Warlord (Fighter) Kanuman Escapee
Kanuman Slave Role: Gladiator

Fighting Style: Defence. While you are wearing armor, you gain a +1 bonus to AC.
Human Lawful Good 30
Second Wind. As a bonus action, you regain 1d10 + 3 hit points. 1/short or long rest.

15 +2 +2 Action Surge. On your turn, you can take one additional action. 1/short or long rest (2 at 17th level).
3
+2 When someone does something with Battlemaster Features
purpose, I will always lend them my Combat You know 3 manuevers, listed below. You gain 2 additional manuevers at 7th, 10th, and 15th level. You have 4
900 aid. superiority dice, which are d8s. A superiority die is expended when you use it. You regain all after a short or long rest. You
gain another die at 7th and 15th levels. Some manuevers require a saving throw. 8 + prof bonus + Str or Dex mod (13).
16 +5 +5 26 Commander’s Strike. You forgo one of your attacks with the attack action and instead use a bonus action to direct a
Slavery is the greatest evil, and I will companion to strike. They must be able to see or hear you, and you expend 1 superiority die. The creature uses its reaction
+3 not permit it. to make 1 weapon attack and adds the superiority die to the attack’s damage roll.
+2 16
Distracting Strike. When you hit a creature with a weapon attack, you expend one superiority die. Add the die to the attack’s
damage roll. Attack rolls against the target by an attacker other than you have advantage if made before the start of your next
Byah Bonz is like a brother to me, and I
13 +1 +1 +0 3d10 would do anything to see them succeed.
turn.

Goading Attack. When you hit a creature with a weapon attack, expend one superiority die. Add the die to the attack’s
+1 damage roll, and the target makes a Wisdom saving throw. On a failed save, the target has disadvantage on attack rolls
against targets other than you until the end of your next turn.
Dart-thrower 1d8 Piercing. Disrespectful authority always
Student of War. You are proficient in one type of artisan’s tools (Leatherworker’s tools).
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+4 to hit prompts me to draw my swords.
+2 damage Warlord Lifepath: Freedom in the Kanuman star-pits demands a high price. I paid that price a thousandfold.
0 Warlord Lifechange: I’ve grown addicted to violence; without it, I am as useless as water to an ocean.

Kanuman Escapee Feature: Chained Kinship. You have a contact still alive that you can find while traveling Akaran or inside
of a city. This contact will do a favor for you, no matter how dangerous it is.
14 Bone
+2 +2 1d8/10 Slashing
Longsword
+2 +5 to hit
+3 damage

9 -1 -1
-1

Proficiencies: Strength Ability checks;

Light, Medium, and Heavy armor;
Strength saving throws; Leatherwork-
er’s tools and Death whistles; Simple
and martial weapons.
Skill Bonuses: Intimidation
Languages: Low Tarnaki, Kanuman
A dart-thrower and 10 bladed darts, a
longsword, chitinous hides, leath-
5 erworker’s tools, a death whistle,
a backpack, 1 potion of healing, a
dungeoneer’s pack, a facial scar
marking slave as a former Kanuman
slave and another marking you as a
free slave, and a broken star-spear.

ENCUMBERANCE: 13/19

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akon Nomad (Rogue) Tribal Additional Features
Expertise. Add double your proficiency bonus to Dexterity saving throws and thieves tools. Choose 2 more proficiencies to
gain this benefit at 6th level.
Kith Neutral Good 25 Sneak Attack. Add 2d6 damage to weapon attacks made with advantage once per turn. This attack doesn’t require advantage
if another enemy of the target is within 5 feet of it, that enemy isn’t incapacitated, and you don’t have disadvantage on the
8 -1 -1
attack roll.
3 Thieves’ Cant
+2 I love to share the stories of my
people with others, and have a story
900 for anything. Cunning Action. Dash, Disengage, and Hide can be used as bonus actions.

Scout Features
16 +5 +5 21 Skirmisher. You can move 1/2 your speed as a reaction when an enemy ends its turn within 5 feet of you. This provokes no
My tribe taught me to always be opportunity attacks.
+3 cautious, and so cautious I am.
Survivalist. You add double your proficiency bonus to Wisdom checks for survival and Intelligence checks about nature.
+2 15
Kith Traits
I yearn to have my tribe with me, and Ambusher. You can climb your full movement instead of half. Additionally, if you use your movement to climb, you can use
13 +1 +1 +3 3d8 I am quick to name someone a tribe
your bonus action on that same turn to take the Hide action.
member. Empath. You form a powerful empathetic connection with creatures of your choice. When a creature within 30 feet of you
+1
that you see and have a connection with fails an Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma saving throw, you can use your reaction
to make the saving throw yourself. On a success, the target creature succeeds. On a failure, both you and the target creature
Bladed 1d6 Slashing. I am slow to give aid to those suffer the
consequences. Once you’ve used this ability, you cannot use it again until you complete a long rest.
10 0 0
Boomerang not in my tribe.
+5 to hit Naturally Stealthy. You can attempt to hide when you are obscured by a creature that is at least one size larger than you.
0 +3 damage
Nomad Lifepath: My people taught me that in order to become an adult, I must see at least seven sights no one else ever
has.
So I travel, so I see.

16 +3 +3 Nets Nomad Lifechange: A thousand tribes and villages have I seen. I doubt a tenth of them will make it to Tarnak. So I carry with
me their cultures, their traditions, and yes, their secrets too.
+3 +5 to hit
Tribal Feature: Akara’s Friend. Whenever you are traveling Akara or Torn, you can find caches of food, water, and other
equipment found normally in an explorer’s pack left behind by other tribesmen.

12 +1 +4
+1

Proficiencies: Dexterity Ability checks;

Light armor ; Dexterity and Charisma
saving throws ; Disguise kits, Pattern
chords, and thieves tools ; Bladed boo-
merangs and nets
Skill Bonuses: Nature, Perception,
Survival
Languages: Various Kith Dialects, High
Tarnaki, Various Tribal Dialects
A bladed boomerang, a net, a back-
pack, 1 potion of healing, thieves
10 tools, a disguise kit, a set of
pattern chords (Tight, thin cords
are wrapped around the fingers and
hands into intricate patterns. With
pieces of sharp bone at the end of
the fingers, the chords are played.
Different patterns lead to
different sounds. Most often played
by children or old campfire-sitters),
ceramic-cloth, an explorer’s pack,
a sacred stone given to me for
protection by my tribe.

ENCUMBERANCE: 11/13

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