The Blightbearer
A full 1–20 class for 5e & 5.5e
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The Blightbearer carries a living plague inside their body. They heal with it, they kill with it, and every spell is paid for in Contagion Points.
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What's inside
- ◆20-page PDF, in English and Italian
- ◆A full 1–20 class that casts with Constitution
- ◆Contagion Points instead of spell slots: turn them into the slot you need, up to 5th level
- ◆Gifts of the Mother of Contagion: cast 6th- to 9th-level spells once per long rest, from 11th level
- ◆4 Paths of Proliferation (subclasses)
- ◆Necrotic Bloom, a signature attack that gives you Contagion Points back when it kills
- ◆A Blightbearer spell list of over 80 spells
- ◆2 NPC stat blocks for your DM: Blightbearer Initiate (CR 2) and Blightbearer Spreader (CR 5)
- ◆The lore of the Ochre Blight, the Mother of Contagion, and the Rat, the Raven and the Five Pustules
- ◆US Letter PDF, ready to print at home
Choose your Path
The Plague Doctor
Heals with the Blight, and healing spells can burn a nearby creature with necrotic damage. Pulls allies back the moment they drop to 0 hit points.
The Ratmancer
Talks to rats and ravens, keeps one as a familiar, and reads omens to roll initiative with advantage.
The Plague Spreader
Marks enemies as Vectors, makes the fallen burst, and turns the place of death into a zone of contagion.
The Symbiarch
Infects allies to make them deadlier and enemies to make them weaker, then plays the whole network like an instrument.
The body is the grimoire.
The Blightbearer has no spell slots. They have Contagion Points: turn them into the slot you need, get half back on a short rest and all of them on a long rest. Necrotic Bloom, your 1st-level attack, makes the Blight erupt inside a creature 30 feet away, and every kill gives you a point back. At 20th level, The Blight Spreads: for one minute you stop holding it in, and every enemy near you takes necrotic and poison damage each turn.
The Ochre Blight
"Life does not ask for permission to grow, it only asks for space." — Prophet Corvian
The Ochre Blight is older than any god: life itself, growing without limits. The Mother of Contagion does not love, punish or judge. She only spreads. Blightbearers are the few who survived her touch, and they carry a fragment of it inside them. The book covers the Blight's origins, how the world contains it today, and the meaning of the Rat, the Raven and the Five Pustules.
At a glance
| Levels | 1–20 |
|---|---|
| Hit Die | d10 |
| Primary ability | Constitution |
| Spellcasting | Contagion Points, slots up to 5th level, plus 6th–9th-level Gifts |
| Saving throws | Constitution, Wisdom |
| Armor | light, medium, shields |
| Weapons | simple weapons, shortsword, whip |
| Rules | 5e (2014) and 5.5e (2024) |
| Page size | US Letter, ready to print at home |
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