Spiritbound Marksman

Class Overview

Class Features

• Spellcasting Ability: Wisdom is your spellcasting ability for your spiritbound spells. You use your Wisdom whenever a spell refers to your spellcasting ability.
• Spell Save DC: 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Wisdom modifier.
• Spell Attack Bonus: your proficiency bonus + your Wisdom modifier.

Spellcasting (1st Level)

You've studied the workings of magic and how to cast spells, channeling the magic through objects. To observers, you don't appear to be casting spells in a conventional way; you appear to produce wonders from mundane items and outlandish inventions.

Cantrips (0-Level Spells)

At 1st level, you know two cantrips of your choice from the artificer spell list. At higher levels, you learn additional artificer cantrips of your choice, as shown in the Cantrips Known column of the Artificer table.

When you gain a level in this class, you can replace one of the artificer cantrips you know with another cantrip from the artificer spell list.

Preparing and Casting Spells

The Artificer table shows how many spell slots you have to cast your artificer spells. To cast one of your artificer spells of 1st level or higher, you must expend a slot of the spell's level or higher. You regain all expended spell slots when you finish a long rest.

You prepare the list of artificer spells that are available for you to cast, choosing from the artificer spell list. When you do so, choose a number of artificer spells equal to your Wisdom modifier + half your artificer level, rounded down (minimum of one spell). The spells must be of a level for which you have spell slots.

For example, if you are a 5th-level artificer, you have four 1st-level and two 2nd-level spell slots. With an Wisdom of 14, your list of prepared spells can include four spells of 1st or 2nd level, in any combination. If you prepare the 1st-level spell Cure Wounds, 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 artificer spells requires time spent tinkering with your spellcasting focuses: at least 1 minute per spell level for each spell on your list.

Spellcasting Ability

Wisdom is your spellcasting ability for your artificer spells; your understanding of the theory behind magic allows you to wield these spells with superior skill. You use your Wisdom whenever an artificer spell refers to your spellcasting ability. In addition, you use your Wisdom modifier when setting the saving throw DC for an artificer spell you cast and when making an attack roll with one.

Spell save DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Wisdom modifier

Spell attack modifier = your proficiency bonus + your Wisdom modifier

Ritual Casting

You can cast an artificer spell as a ritual if that spell has the ritual tag and you have the spell prepared.

Spiritfire Gun (1st Level)

A handcrafted, spirit-imbued firearm that channels spiritual energy from echoes of the past as a ranged cantrip. When you use this feature, make a spell attack roll using your spell attack modifier.

• Damage: 1d10 force or necrotic
• Range: 120 ft (varies with subclass)
• Attack Roll: Spell attack using Wisdom
• Scaling Shots:
  • 1 shot at level 1
  • 2 shots at level 5
  • 3 shots at level 11
  • 4 shots at level 17

Tools of the Trade (1st Level)

Gain proficiency in:

• Gunsmith's Tools (custom)
• One other artisan's tool of your choice

You may use these to craft Spiritfire Gun parts, ammo, and ritual components.

Echo Marks

Through your connection to the echoes of the forgotten and the craftsmanship of your soul-bound weapon, you learn to shape your Spiritfire Gun’s energy in potent ways.

Starting at 2nd level, you gain access to a pool of special effects called Echo Marks. These are spiritual “upgrades” that you channel into your Spiritfire Gun at the moment you fire it.

• Once per turn, when you make an attack with your Spiritfire Gun, you may choose one Echo Mark to apply to that shot.
• You declare which Echo Mark you are using before the attack roll.
• Echo Marks represent temporary modifications, spiritual surges, or ancestral effects channeled through your gun.

Spirit Paths (3rd Level)

Path Deepens (6th Level)

Harmonized Echo (7th Level)

You can spiritually enhance non-magical objects for 1 hour via a 10-minute ritual. Choose one of the following effects:

• Warding Embrace: Emits dim light (10 ft), grants +1 to saves vs. charm/frighten
• Echo Compass: Know direction and distance to a creature hit within the last 10 minutes (range: 300 ft)
• Silent Veil: Muffles all sound in a 5 ft radius
• Ancestral Recall: Allows one reroll of an ability check during its duration

You can maintain a number of these equal to your Wisdom modifier (minimum 1). No cost, but only a limited number can be active.

Echo-Forged Arsenal (9th & 14th Level)

Forge additional Spiritfire weapons — each tied to a different Spirit Path.

• Level 9: Craft a second gun.
• Level 14: Craft a third gun (optional).

You may attune to one weapon at a time. Switch attunement during a short or long rest. Only your attuned gun grants subclass features and its Echo Mark.

Spiritual Circuitry (10th Level)

At 10th level, your mastery over spiritual harmonics allows you to integrate a Lesser Echo Mark permanently into your Spiritfire Gun.

• Choose one Lesser Echo Mark you know. It is always active and does not count against your once-per-turn limit.
• You may change your permanent Echo Mark when you finish a long res

Echoforge Imprint (13th Level)

Once per long rest (twice at level 17), you may bind a spiritual effect into an object or area using a 1-hour ritual:

• Sealed Echo: Triggers on intrusion — Dex save or 3d8 force damage and prone
• Spiritual Anchor: 5-ft zone prevents teleport/invisibility for enemies, grants Wis save advantage for allies
• Memory Loop: Ghostly scene replays on trigger; useful for deception or intimidation
• Weapon Lure: First enemy to pick up bound object triggers Shatterpulse Round

Only one imprint can be active at a time. Creating a new one ends the previous.

Path Deepens (14th Level)

Avatar of the Forgotten (18th Level)

Once per long rest, you may enter Spiritform for 1 minute:

• Gain resistance to all damage except force and psychic
• Spiritfire Gun deals +1d10 force damage per shot
• Ignore difficult terrain and may move through occupied spaces

Echoforged Apex (20th Level)

The spirits no longer whisper — they speak through you.

• Choose two Echo Marks to always be active
• You may use two Spiritfire Guns, swapping freely between them
• Your Spiritfire Gun attacks score a critical hit on a roll of 19-20