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#REDIRECT [[Harbinger#Hexblade_Conversions]]


[[Hexblade]] is a custom base class available on Arelith.
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[[Hexblade]] was a custom base class available on Arelith. It has been replaced by [[Harbinger]]




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*Saving Throws: High: Fortitude; Low: Reflex and Will
*Saving Throws: High: Fortitude; Low: Reflex and Will


*Skill Points: 4 + Int
*Skill Points: 4 + int modifier ((4 + int modifier) * 4 at 1st level)


*Class Skills: concentration, craft mastery, bluff, discipline, intimidate, heal, listen, lore, parry, leadership, ride, spot, taunt, use traps
*Class Skills: concentration, craft mastery, bluff, discipline, intimidate, heal, listen, lore, parry, leadership, ride, sail, spot, taunt, use traps


*Spellcasting: Arcane (spell failure from armor is a factor), charisma-based (a base charisma score of 10 + the spell's level is required to cast a spell, bonus spells are based on modified charisma, and the charisma modifier affects spell DCs), and spontaneous cast (no spell preparation required).
*Spellcasting: Arcane (spell failure from armor is a factor), charisma-based (a base charisma score of 10 + the spell's level is required to cast a spell, bonus spells are based on modified charisma, and the charisma modifier affects spell DCs), and spontaneous cast (no spell preparation required).
*Alignment: Any Evil
*Alignment: Any Evil
* Bonus [[Languages|Language]]: [[Infernal]]


*Special: '''Arcane Spell Failure for Armor and Shields is reduced by 20%''' if the majority of your levels are in Hexblade.
*Special: '''Arcane Spell Failure for Armor and Shields is reduced by 20%''' if the majority of your levels are in Hexblade.
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== Hexes ==
== Hexes ==
 
A [[Hexblade]] can use their '''Hex feat''' to cast a Hex on someone with a 30 second duration and a 30 second cooldown. The cooldown resets if the hexed creature dies before the cooldown has ended. This will lower the Armor Class of the target by -1 per every 6 combined [[Hexblade]] and ([[Warlock]] / 2) levels with a minimum reduction of -1 and a maximum reduction of -5 at 30 combined levels.
A Hexblade can use their '''Hex feat''' to cast a Hex on someone with a 30 second duration and a 30 second cooldown. This will lower the Armor Class of the target by 1 per 5 hexblade levels to a minimum of 1, capping at +6 at level 30.
:: '''Note''': A Hexed target can remove the Hex using the Restoration spell.
:: '''Note''': A Hexed target can remove the Hex using the Restoration spell.


The following feats will add additional benefits to your Hex ability. They can be taken only as bonus feats at levels 5, 10, 15, 20, 23, 26, and 29.
The following feats will add additional benefits to your Hex ability. They can be taken only as bonus feats at levels 6, 12, 18, 23, 26, and 29.


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| All those nasty little things you hear in the back of your mind are true - I am the voice that whispers them. Let all your pitiful anxieties and insecurities become a self-fulfilling prophecy. The mind affects the body. The body affects the mind. Cause enough dissonance between the two and expertise crumbles into ineptitude. All that's left is to watch you fail.
| All those nasty little things you hear in the back of your mind are true - I am the voice that whispers them. Let all your pitiful anxieties and insecurities become a self-fulfilling prophecy. The mind affects the body. The body affects the mind. Cause enough dissonance between the two and expertise crumbles into ineptitude. All that's left is to watch you fail.
| Lowers target’s skills by -2 per 5 Hexblade levels.
| Lowers target’s skills by -1 per 6 Hexblade levels.


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| Do you even know where you are right now? You seem to be lost, or is it simply the madness taking over, leading you astray.
| Do you even know where you are right now? You seem to be lost, or is it simply the madness taking over, leading you astray.
| Lowers target's attack bonus by -1 per 5 Hexblade levels.
| Lowers target's attack bonus by -1 per 6 Hexblade levels.


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| You look about anxiously this way and that, and sigh that none of your brethren care to save you, a kind of unreasonable confusion of mind takes possession of you like some foul darkness.
| You look about anxiously this way and that, and sigh that none of your brethren care to save you, a kind of unreasonable confusion of mind takes possession of you like some foul darkness.
| Lowers target's saves (Fortitude/Will/Reflex) by -1 per 5 Hexblade levels.
| Lowers target's saves (Fortitude/Will/Reflex) by -1 per 6 Hexblade levels.


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| Lvl23
| Lvl23
| Time is the enemy of all things. Perhaps you should have taken care of your armor better. The little things you neglected in life will be your final regret.
| Time is the enemy of all things. Perhaps you should have taken care of your armor better. The little things you neglected in life will be your final regret.
| Target receives 3% vulnerability to physical damage per 5 Hexblade levels.
| Target receives 3% vulnerability to physical damage per 6 Hexblade levels.


|-
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|'''Hex of Elemental Decay'''
|'''Hex of Elemental Decay'''
| Lvl23<br/>Str17
| Lvl23
| Nature has no power here. The primal forces the foolish druids strive to protect have been corrupted to serve your own purposes.
| Nature has no power here. The primal forces the foolish druids strive to protect have been corrupted to serve your own purposes.
| Target receives 3% vulnerability to all elemental damage per 5 Hexblade levels. +1 damage to elemental damage curses, in addition to their normal damage.
| Target receives 3% vulnerability to all elemental damage per 6 Hexblade levels. +1 damage to elemental damage curses, in addition to their normal damage.


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|'''Hex of Duality'''
|'''Hex of Duality'''
| Lvl23<br/>Str17
| Lvl23
| Light and dark. Good and evil. It's all just two sides of the same coin. Who cares if you call yourself a paladin or a warlock. You're both killers in the end.
| Light and dark. Good and evil. It's all just two sides of the same coin. Who cares if you call yourself a paladin or a warlock. You're both killers in the end.
| Target receives 3% vulnerability to positive and negative damage per 5 Hexblade levels. +1 damage to both the Positive and Negative damage for the Curse of Hypocrisy effects, in addition to their normal damage.
| Target receives 3% vulnerability to positive and negative damage per 6 Hexblade levels. +1 damage to both the Positive and Negative damage for the Curse of Hypocrisy effects, in addition to their normal damage.


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== Curses ==
== Curses ==


While common folk fear curses, you embrace the dark power and the horrible deeds they urge you to do. Once a day, you can use your '''Curse Weapon feat''' to curse your own weapon, giving it an enchantment bonus of 1 per 5 hexblade levels to a minimum of 1, capping at +6 at level 30. This effect lasts for 24 hours. If cast it automatically applies to off hand weapons.
While common folk fear curses, you embrace the dark power and the horrible deeds they urge you to do. Once a day, you can use your '''Curse Weapon feat''' to curse your own weapon, giving it an enchantment bonus of +1 per every 5 combined [[Hexblade]] and ([[Warlock]] / 2) levels with a minimum of +1 and a maximum +6 at 30 combined levels. This effect lasts for 24 hours. If cast it automatically applies to off hand weapons.


The following feats will add additional benefits to your Curse Weapon ability. They can be taken only as bonus feats at levels 5, 10, 15, 20, 23, 26, and 29.
The following feats will add additional benefits to your Curse Weapon ability. They can be taken only as bonus feats at levels 6, 12, 18, 23, 26, and 29.


'''The damage from these effects can not be mitigated or changed in any way by defensive essences or immunity. This also includes damage not being increased by vulnerability; duality and elemental hexes for example. The damage is multiplied on critical hits, except where specifically noted differently.'''
'''The damage from these effects can not be mitigated or changed in any way by defensive essences or immunity. This also includes damage not being increased by vulnerability; duality and elemental hexes for example. The damage is multiplied on critical hits, except where specifically noted differently.'''
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|'''Curse of Hypocrisy'''
|'''Curse of Hypocrisy'''
| Str15
|  
| You say you fight for justice, but you care more about delivering the punishment than finding the truth of the crime. You say you fight for good, but you've murdered far more than any villain.
| You say you fight for justice, but you care more about delivering the punishment than finding the truth of the crime. You say you fight for good, but you've murdered far more than any villain.
| Adds +2 positive and +2 negative damage.   
| Adds +2 positive and +2 negative damage.   
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|'''Curse of Life'''
|'''Curse of Life'''
| Str13
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| Grants the Hexblade 3% physical damage immunity per 5 Hexblade levels
| Grants the Hexblade 3% physical damage immunity per 5 Hexblade levels
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| You think you've made sacrifices? Giving a few pennies to the poor isn't a sacrifice. Leaving your home to serve your so-called god isn't a sacrifice. Look at me! I've sacrificed everything for this power, and I won't have it taken from me by some noble hearted fool.  
| You think you've made sacrifices? Giving a few pennies to the poor isn't a sacrifice. Leaving your home to serve your so-called god isn't a sacrifice. Look at me! I've sacrificed everything for this power, and I won't have it taken from me by some noble hearted fool.  
| Adds +2 magic damage per 5 Hexblade levels, Hexblade is damaged at half this total. ''Note: This damage is unaffected by critical strikes.''
| Adds +2 magic damage per 5 Hexblade levels, Hexblade is damaged at half this total. ''Note: This damage is unaffected by critical strikes.''
|-
|'''Maledictum of Worms'''
| Lvl25<br/>Special
| Oh, no, not worms!
| As a standard action, create an area of effect cloud that prevents anyone (including the hexblade and their allies) from being healed by the cure/heal line of spells. Other spells, healing kits, feats, etc. that provide healing bonuses are unaffected. Leaving the cloud will end the effect. The AoE lasts for 1 turn and has a 5 turn cooldown. '''Can only be gained in game at a FOIG location which is not currently in the game.'''


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== Spells ==
== Spells ==
See [[:Category:Hexblade_Spells]] for a list of all spells by category.
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* [[Bestow Wound]]
* [[Blades of Fire]]
* [[Chill Touch]]
* [[Light]]
* [[Resistance]]
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*Charm Person
* [[Charm Person]]
*Expeditious Retreat
* [[Expeditious Retreat]]
*Light
* [[Light]]
*Mage Armor
* [[Mage Armor]]
*Magic Weapon
* [[Magic Weapon]]
*Negative Energy Ray
* [[Negative Energy Ray]]
*Scare
* [[Scare]]
*Shield
* [[Shield (spell)|Shield]]
*Sleep
* [[Sleep (spell)|Sleep]]
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*Blind/Deafness
* [[Bear's Endurance]]
*Bulls Strength
* [[Blindness/Deafness]]
*Cats Grace
* [[Bull's Strength]]
*Darkness
* [[Cat's Grace]]
*Eagles Splendor
* [[Darkness]]
*Endurance
* [[Eagle's Splendor]]
*Ghostly Visage
* [[False Life]]
*Ghoul Touch
* [[Frigid Darkness]]
*Invisibility
* [[Ghostly Visage]]
*Protection from Elements
* [[Ghoul Touch]]
*See Invisibility
* [[Invisibility (spell)|Invisibility]]
*Ultravision
* [[Protection from Elements]]
* [[See Invisibility]]
* [[Sustenance]]
* [[Ultravision]]
* [[Vengeful Mount]]
 
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*Bestow Curse
* [[Bestow Curse]]
*Displacement
* [[Darkfire]]
*Darkfire
* [[Dispel Magic]]
*Dispel Magic
* [[Displacement]]
*Invisibility Purge
* [[Invisibility Purge]]
*Invisibility Sphere
* [[Invisibility Sphere]]
*Negative Energy Burst
* [[Negative Energy Burst]]
*Poison
* [[Poison (spell)|Poison]]
*Slow
* [[Slow]]
*Stinking Cloud
* [[Stinking Cloud]]
*Vamp Touch
* [[Strangulate]]
* [[Vampiric Touch]]
* '''[[Hemorrhage]]'''
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*Confusion
* [[Confusion]]
*Contagion
* [[Contagion]]
*Dominate Person
* [[Crushing Despair]]
*Enervation
* [[Dominate Person]]
*Evard's Black Tentacles
* [[Enervation]]
*Fear
* [[Evard's Black Tentacles]]
*Haste
* [[Fear (spell)|Fear]]
*Ice Storm
* [[Finger of Agony]]
*Improved Invisibility
* [[Haste (spell)|Haste]]
*Phantasmal Killer
* [[Ice Storm]]
*Polymorph Self
* [[Improved Invisibility]]
*Shadow Conjuration
* [[Phantasmal Killer]]
*[[Spell_changes|Finger of Agony]]
* [[Polymorph Self]]
*[[Spell_changes|Crushing Despair]]
* [[Shadow Conjuration]]
* '''[[Predator]]'''
* [[Wraith Stride]]
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|4th || +4 || +4 || +1 || +1 ||align=left| [https://nwn.fandom.com/wiki/Summon_familiar Find Familiar]
|4th || +4 || +4 || +1 || +1 ||align=left| [[Familiar|Find Familiar (Summon Familiar)]]
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|5th || +5 || +4 || +1 || +1 ||align=left| Bonus Feat (see above)
|5th || +5 || +4 || +1 || +1 ||align=left|  
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|6th || +6/+1 || +5 || +2 || +2 ||align=left| Curse of Blood
|6th || +6/+1 || +5 || +2 || +2 ||align=left| Bonus Feat (see above), Curse of Blood
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|10th || +10/+5 || +7 || +3 || +3 ||align=left| Bonus Feat
|10th || +10/+5 || +7 || +3 || +3 ||align=left|  
|| 1 || 1 || - || - || 4 || 3 || - || -
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|12th || +12/+7/+2 || +8 || +4 || +4 ||align=left| Uncanny Dodge
|12th || +12/+7/+2 || +8 || +4 || +4 ||align=left| Bonus Feat, [https://nwn.fandom.com/wiki/Uncanny_dodge Uncanny Dodge I]
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|15th || +15/+10/+5 || +9 || +5 || +5 ||align=left| Bonus Feat
|15th || +15/+10/+5 || +9 || +5 || +5 ||align=left|  
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|18th || +18/+13/+8/+3 || +11 || +6 || +6 ||align=left| Bonus Feat
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|20th || +20/+15/+10/+5&nbsp; || +12 || +6 || +6 ||align=left| Bonus Feat
|20th || +20/+15/+10/+5&nbsp; || +12 || +6 || +6 ||align=left|  
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== Arelith Changes ==
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!Change
!Level
!Description
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|'''Spell changes'''
| -
| For specifics, see [[:Category:Hexblade_Spells]].
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|'''Spellbook'''
| -
| Can save and load Spellbooks through the Crafting Skills menu. Special Abilities > Crafting Skills > Choose "Spellbooks" from the menu.
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|'''Bonus [[Languages|Language]]'''
| -
| [[Infernal]] if Lawful. [[Abyssal]] if Chaotic or Neutral.
|-
|'''[[Familiar]]'''
| -
| Hexblade Find Familiar feat functions in the same way as the traditional Summon Familiar feat other arcane casters receive.<br/>
[[Familiar]] changes and notes.<br/>
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== External Links ==
== External Links ==
: [http://nwnarelith.com/index.php/news-list/new-class-hexblade Arelith Hexblade news post]
: [http://nwnarelith.com/index.php/news-list/new-class-hexblade Arelith Hexblade news post]
: [http://dnd5e.wikidot.com/warlock:hexblade DND 5th Edition Hexblade]
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