Shinobi

A bandit leaps from a bush stabbing at a lone man on the

road. The blade sink deep into what he realizes is a small log
that is now where the man was just moments ago. Before the
bandit has time to realize what has happend he jerks and
slumps forward as a barrage of shuriken slam into his back.
A shadowy figure leaps gracefully from rooftop to rooftop,
valuable document in hand. Whistles blow as guards fill the
streets attempting to find the figure. As two guards turn a
silhouette cuts across the moon before landing with a foot in
the face of one guard and a swift punch doubles the second
before the figure dashes across the large koi pond into the
darkness.
A group of wild hounds circle an elderly looking woman,
hunger in their eyes. The woman quickly makes a few hand
signs while taking in a deep breath before exhaling a stream
of fire onto the hounds sending them scurrying away, the
hunger replaced with fear.
Master Ones Self
A shinobi is a studios warrior who seeks to master their craft
both physically and mentally. A shinobi must be both sharp of
mind and deft of blade. Harsh training is undergone to
strengthen both body and mind, such as meditating on hot
coals, carrying logs accros thin rope bridges and sparring in
absolute darkness. The life of a shinobi is harsh, only those
with strong mental and physical resiliance can train and live
as shinobi.
Ancient and Secret
The art of jutsu is a closely guarded secret known only to the
shinobi who live in secluded temples that are nearly
impossible to get to. Few can use it and fewer still can master
this ancient art. This mystical craft harness inner strength
known as ki to create mystical effects that can be mistaken
for magic. Should the secret of jutsu ever be discoverd or
stolen shinobi will stop at nothing to keep the knowledge
known to only themselves.
Blades for Hire
Shinobi are often hired for espionage and assassination
missions and occasionally body guards by the wealthy and
powerful. Shinobi follow a strict code that varies from temple
to temple when it comes to contracting their services and
violation results in immediate termination of services and in
some cases termination of the contractor.
The Shinobi
Chakra Jutsu
Level Proficiency Bonus Points Known Features
1st +2 1 2 Jutsu, Ki, Unarmored Defense
2nd +2 3 2 Know The Land, Trap Finding
3rd +2 4 2 Shinobi Way
4th +2 6 3 Ability Score Improvment
5th +3 7 3 Vanish
6th +3 9 4 Shinobi Way
7th +3 10 4 Evasion
8th +3 12 5 Ability Score Improvment
9th +4 13 5 ─
10th +4 15 6 Meditation
11th +4 16 6 Shinobi Way
12th +4 18 7 Ability Score Improvment
13th +5 19 7 Toxin Immunity
14th +5 21 8 ─
15th +5 22 8 Death Blow
16th +5 24 9 Ability Score Improvment
17th +6 25 9 Honed Senses
18th +6 27 10 ─
19th +6 28 10 Ability Score Improvment
20th +6 30 10 Master Shinobi

Quickbuild Equipment
You can make a shinobi quickly by following these You start with the following equipment, in addition to the
suggestions. First, make Dexterity your highest ability score, equipment granted by your background:
followed by Wisdom . Second, choose the criminal (a) a martial weapon or (b) two simple weapons
background. ten shuriken
burgalers pack
Class Features Jutsu
As a shinobi, you gain the following class features The staple of the shinobi. Jutsu are mystical abilities learned
Hit Points through rigoriuse training that allow a shinobie to accomplish
Hit Dice: 1d8 per shinobi level wonderious feats.
Hit Points at 1st Level: 8 + your Constituion modifier At 1st level, you know one jutsu of your choice. Your jutsu
Hit Points at Higher Levels: 1d8 (or 5) + your Constituion options are detailed at the end of the class description. When
modifier per shinobi level after 1st you gain certain shinobi levels, you gain additional jutsu of
your choice, as shown in the jutsu known column of the
Proficiencies Shinobi table.
Armor: None Additionally, when you gain a level in this class, you can
Weapons: Simple weapons choose one of the jutsu you know and replace it with another
Tools: Thieve's tools jutsu that you could learn at that level.
Saving Throws: Wisdom, Dexterity
Skills: Choose three from Acrobatics, Athletics, Deception.
Insight, Intimidation, Investigation, Perception,
Performance. Persuasion, Sleight of Hand, and Stealth
Chakra
Starting at 1st level, your training allows you to harness the
mystic energy of chakra. Your access to this energy is
represented by a number of chakra points. Your shinobi level
determines the number of points you have, as shown in the
Chakra Points column of the Shinobi table. You can spend
these points to fuel various Shakra features and jutsu. You
begin knowing three such features: Death Mark, Flash Step,
and Steel Wind.
When you spend a chakra point, it is unavailable until you
finish a short or long rest, at the end of which you draw all of
your expended ki back into yourself. You must spend at least
30 minutes of the rest meditating to regain your ki points.
Some of your chakra features and jutsu require your target
to make a saving throw to resist the effects. the saving throw
DC is calculated as follows.
Chakra save DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus + your
Wisdom modifier
Death Mark
As a bonus action you can expend 1 chakra and mark a
creature for death for 1 minute. You deal an extra 1d6
damage to the marked target whenever you hit it with an
attack.
If the target drops to 0 hit points before the mark ends, you
can use a bonus action on a subsequent turn of yours to mark
a new creature.
Flash Step
As a bonus action you may expend 1 chakra points to teleport
to a location you can see within 15 feet. You may make a
Dexterity (Stealth) check to hide as part of this action if the
destination of your teleport is obscured. If you wish you may
leave a small 2 foot long log behind in the space you vacated.
At 7th level you may flash step as a reaction if you would be
hit by an attack.
Steel Wind
Immediately after you take the Attack action on your turn, you
can spend 1 chakra point to make two ranged attacks with
shuriken as a bonus action.
Unarmored Defense
Beginning at 1st level, while you are wearing no armor and
not wielding a shield, your AC equals 10 + your Dexterity
modifier + your Wisdom modifier.
Know The Land
Starting at 2nd level, you are particularly familiar with one
type of natural environment and are adept at traveling and
surviving in such regions. Choose one type of favored terrain:
arctic, coast, desert, forest, grassland, mountain, or swamp.
W hen you make an Intelligence or Wisdom check related to
your favored terrain, your proficiency bonus is doubled if you
are using a skill that you’re proficient in.
While traveling for an hour or more in your favored terrain,
you gain the following benefits:
Difficult terrain doesn’t slow your group’s travel.
Your group can’t become lost except by magical means.
Even when you are engaged in another activity while
traveling (such as foraging, navigating, or tracking), you
remain alert to danger.
If you are traveling alone, you can move stealthily at a
normal pace.
When you forage, you find twice as much food as you
normally would.
While tracking other creatures, you also learn their exact
number, their sizes, and how long ago they passed through
the area. You choose additional favored terrain types at
6th and 10th level.
Trap Finding
Starting at 2nd level, when you make a Wisdome (Perception)
test to spot traps and the result of the die roll is less then 10
you can instead take 10.

Jutsu Style
When you reach 3rd level you adopt a particular style of jutsu:
Genjutsu, Ninjutsu or Tiajutsu, all detailed at the end of the
class description. Your jutsu style grants you features at 3rd
level and again at 6th and 11th level.
Vanish
Starting at 5th level you can use the Hide action as a bonus
action on ynur turn. Also, you can't be tracked by nonmagical
means, unless ynu choose to leave a trail
Evasion
At 7th level, your instinctive agility lets you dodge out of the
way of certain area effects, such as a blue dragon’s lightning
breath or a fireball spell. When you are subjected to an effect
that allows you to make a Dexterity saving throw to take only
half damage, you instead take no damage if you succeed on
the saving throw, and only half damage if you fail.
Meditation
Beginning at 10th level you can complete a brief meditation
to call on your chakra reserves. As an action you immediatly
regain a number of ki points equal to your proficiency bonus.
Must complete a long rest before using this feature again.
Toxin Immunity
Starting at 13th level, by dosing yourself with small amounts
of toxins over the years has caused your body to gain
immunity to them. You have immunity to poison damage and
cannot be effected by poisons.
When tasting food or drink you immediatly know if it has
been poisoned. Additionally when attempting to identify a
poison you have advantage on the roll.
Death Blow
Starting at 15th level, you may expend 10 chakra the next
time you hit a creature with an attack and deal 10d12
additional damage. You must complete a short rest before
using this feature again.
Honed Senses
At 18th level, you gain preternatural senses that help you fight
creatures you can’t see. When you attack a creature you can’t
see, your inability to see it doesn’t impose disadvantage on
your attack rolls against it. You are also aware of the location
of any invisible creature within 30 feet of you, provided that
the creature isn’t hidden from you and you aren’t blinded or
deafened.
Master Shinobi
To master yourself is to master the mind. You have aquired
mastery of the Shinobi way. The chakra cost of abilities that
use chakra are reduced by 1(minimum 1)
Shinobi Way
Genjutsu
Shinobi who choose to pursue genjutsu muddle the minds of
their opponents making them easier targets and make them
their own worst enemy.
Mind Spike
Starting when you choose this Shinobi Way at 3rd level,
creatures who fail their saving throw or ability check against
a genjutsu cast by you take 1d6 + your Wisdom modifier
psychic damage.
This damage increases by 1d6 when you reach 5th level
(2d6), 11th level (3d6), and 17th level (4d6)
Misdirection
Beginning at 6th level, when a creature you can see within 30
feet of you makes an attack roll against you, you can use your
reaction to divert the attack, provided that another creature is
within the attack’s range. The attacker must make a Wisdom
saving throw against your ki save DC. On a failed save, the
attacker must target the creature that is closest to it, not
including you or itself. If multiple creatures are closest, the
attacker chooses which one to target.
Reality Sculpt
Starting at 11th level, when you cast an illusion genjutsu that
has a duration of 1 minute or longer, you can use your action
to change the nature of that illusion (using the spell’s norm al
parameters for the illusion), provided that you can see the
illusion.
When you cast an illusion spell of 1st level or higher, you
can choose one inanimate, nonm agical object that is part of
the illusion and make that object real. You can do this on your
turn as a bonus action while the spell is ongoing. The object
remains real for 1 minute. For example, you can create an
illusion of a bridge over a chasm and then make it real long
enough for your allies to cross. The object can’t deal damage
or otherwise directly harm anyone.
Ninjutsu
Shinobi who pursue ninjutsu master a wide variety of
powers, most notable or those that call forth the elementse to
do their bidding.
Empower
Starting when you choose this Shinobi Way at 3rd level, when
you use a ninjutsu that lets you cast a spell, you can increase
the spell level by one for each chakra point you spend in
addition to the normal cost.
Quick Handsigns
Starting at 6th level when you use a ninjutsu that has a
casting time of 1 action, you can spend 2 chakra points to
change the casting time to 1 bonus action for this casting.
Potent Jutsu
Beginning at 11th level, you can add your Wisdom modifier to
the damage roll of any ninjutsu you cast.
Taijutsu Greater Misty Visions
Shinobi who pursue taijutsu seek to turn their body into the Prerequisite: level 5
perfect weapon. Practitionoers of taijutsu need no weapon, As an action you can spend 3 chakra points to cast major
using their iron hard knuckles, strength, and speed to image
devistate their foes. Hydra Form
Prerequisite: level 2
Unarmed Specialist As an action you may spend 2 chakra points to cast mirror
Starting when you choose this Shinobi Way at 3rd level, You image
can use Dexterity instead of Strength for the attack and
damage rolls of your unarmed strikes. Hydra Head
You can roll a d4 in place of the normal damage of your You can cast disguise self at will.
unarmed strikes.
When you use the Attack action with an unarmed strike on Mind Mold
your turn, you can make one unarmed strike as a bonus Prerequisite: level 3
action. As an action you can spen 2 chakra points to cast phantasmal
force
Extra Attack
Starting at 6th level, you can attack twice, instead of once, Mirror Prison
whenever you take the Attack action on your turn. Prerequisite: level 4
Additionally your unarmed strikes count as magical for the As an action you can spend 3 chakra points and begin
purpose of overcoming resistance and immunity to non- concentraiting. Choose a creature within 60 feet. The
magical attacks and damage creature must makes a Charisma save, and on a failed save
they become trapped in a four sided illusoryy box made of
Ellusive mirrors. The creature must attack one of the dark reflections
Starting at 11th level you cannot be suprised and creature and automaticcly hits a reflection, shattering the mirror and
suffer disadvantage when making opprotunity attacks against taking half the damage they dealt.
you. At the end of each of its turns, the target repeats the saving
throw, ending the effect on a success or when all sfour
Jutsu illusory mirrors have been shatterd. If the creature is dealt
damage by another source they have advantage on their next
If a jutsu has prerequisites, you must meet them to learn it. saving throw
You can learn the jutsu at the same time that you meet its
prerequisites. Misty Visions
You can cast silent image at will.
Genjutsu
Agonize Phantom Form
Prerequisite: level 5 Prerequisite: level 5
You cause the mind to feel great pain no matter how small As an action you can spend 5 chakra points to cast mislead
the injury. As an action you can spend 2 chakra points to
target a creature within 30 feet. The target creature must Phantom Land
make a Charisam saving throw or gain vulerability to a Prerequisite: level 13 As an action you can spend 7chakra
damage type of your choice. At the end of each of its turns, points to cast mirage arcane
the target repeats the saving throw, ending the effect on a
success. Ninjutsu
Dragon Breath
Dream Eater Prerequisite: level 3
Prerequisite: level 7 As an action you can spend 2 chakra points to cast
As an action you can spend 5 chakra points to cast Aganazzar’s Scorcher at its lowest level.
Phantasmal Killer
Eyes of the Owl
False Form As an action you can spend 1 chakra point to gain darkvision
Prerequisite: level 5 out to a range of 120 feet for 1 hour.
As an action you can spend 5 chakra points to cas seeming
Expansion
Ghost Walk Prerequisite: level 3
Prerequisite: level 3 As an action you can spend 2 chakra points to cast
As an action you can spend 3 chakra points to cast invisibility enlarge/reduce
on yourself
Grasping Roots
As an action you can expend 2 chakra points to cast the
entangle
Hidden Mist
Prerequisite: level 3
As an action you can spend 2 chakra points to cast fog cloud
You deal an additional 1d6 damage when making an attack
against a creature inside the fog.
Mimic
Prerequisite: level 3
As an action you can spend 2 chakra points to cast Alter Self
Phantom Step
Prerequisite: level 3
As a bonus action you can spend 2 chakra points and cause
your form becomes transluscent. You can move through other
creatures and objects as if they were difficult terrain. You
takes 5 (1d10) force damage if you end turn inside an object
and are immediatly shunted outside the object to the closest
open space.
Wind Walk
When making a long or high jump you can do so as if effected
by the jump spell
Sand Burial
Prerequisite: sand coffin
As a bonus action you can spend 1 chakra point to crush a
creature effected by the Sand Coffin Jutsu. The creature
takes 3d10 bludgeoning damage.
Sand Coffin
As an action you can expend 1 chakra points to wrap a
creature within 60 feet of you in sand. The target creature
must make a Dexterity saving throw. On a failed save the
target is restrained. At the end of each of its turns, the target
can make a Dexterity or Strength saving throw, freeing itself
on a success.
Shadow Clone
Prerequisite: level 5
As an action you can spend 3 chakra points to create a
shadow clone in an unoccupied space with in 10 feet of you
that lasts for 1 minute. This shadow clone is identical to you
in ever way. Your shadow clone has 1 hit point and the same
ability modifiers and AC as you. You can summon a number
of shadow cones at once equal to your Constitution modifier.
You can mentally command your shadow clone, this does
not require an action and your shadow clone acts on your
turn. If your shadow clone uses jutsu, chakra points are
subtracted from your chakra pool.
Shadow Paralysis
Prerequisite: level 3
As an action you can spend 1 chakra point and target a
creature within 60 feet. The target must succeed on a
Wisdom saving throw or be restrained. While restrained in
this way the creature mimics your movements. At the end of
each of its turns, the target can make another Wisdom saving
throw. On a success, the jutsu ends.
At the beginning of your turn you must immediatly expend
another chakra point or the effect ends and if you leave the
range of the jutsu the effect ends. When in dim light the
range increases to 90 feet and when in darkness the range
increases to 120 feet.
Shadow Strangle
Prerequisite: shadow paralysis
As a bonus action you can expend 2 chakra point to target a
creature effected by shadow paralysis. The target must make
a Constitution saving throw, suffering a level of exhaustion on
a failed save.
Smoke Bomb
As a bonus or disengage action you may spend 2 chakra
points to use a smoke bomb and vanish. Creature with in 5
feet of you must make a Constitution save or become blinded
until the end of their next turn. Using a smoke bomb also
renders you invisible until the end of your next turn or you
make an attack.
Spider Style
As an action you can spend 3 chakra points and gain the
ability to move up, down, and across vertical surfaces and
upside down along ceilings, while leaving your hands free for
1 minute. You also gains a climbing speed equal to your
walking speed.
Striking Shadow Snake
As an action you can spend 3 chakra points to send out a
serpent of shadow at a target within 30 feet. The target must
make a Dexterity saving throw. On a failed save the target is
grappled for 1 minute and takes 3d8 bludgeoning damage.
The target can repeat the saving throw at the beginning of its
turn, ending the grapple on a success and taking the damage
again on a failed save.
Summoning
Prerequisite: level 5
As an action you can spend 3 chakra points to casn Conjure
Animals at its lowest level
Water Dragon
Prerequisite: level 5
As an action you can spend 3 chakra points to cast Tidal
Wave
Water Prison
Prerequisite: level 7
As an action you can spend 4 chakra points to cast Watery
Sphere
Water Shark Bomb
A watery shark darts through the air to devour its target. As
an action you can expend 2 chakra points and begin
concentraiting to summon a shark made of water in
unoccupied spaces that you can see within 60 feet. The shark
swims through water as easily as air, hovering a few feet off
the ground. This shark has the same stats as a reef shark and
acts on your turn. It obeys any verbal commands that you
issue to it (no action required by you).
You can spend additional chakra points to summon a more
powerful shark when casting this jutsu. You can spend 4
chakra points to instead summon a hunter shark, or 8 chakra
points to instead summon a gaint shark.
Water Vortex
Prerequisite: level 9
As an action you can spend 5 chakra points to cast
Maelstrom
Watery Destruction
Prerequisite: level 15
As an action you can spend 8 chakra points to cast tsunami
Taijutsu
Air Palm
Prerequisite: level 5
Your swift and powerful strikes can send out buffeting wind.
Your unarmed attacks gain the reach property.
Body Boost
As an action you can spend 1 chakra point to cast bless
targetting yourself.
Dancing Leaf
Prerequisite: leaf hurricane
As a reaction when hit by a melee attack, you can spend 1
chakra and make two unarmed attacks against the creature
that hit you.
Dragon Claw
Your unarmed attacks deal slashing damage in addition to
bludgeoning. Once per turn when you hit a creature with an
unarmed attack you can spend 3 chakra points and leave a
bleeding wound. For 1 minute, the creature takes 2d8
damage at the beginning of each of its turns. The target can
can make a Constitution saving throw to end the effect and
can repeat the saving throw at the end of its turn. Additionally
if the target spends an action bandaging the wound or is
targetd by healing magic the effect ends.
Iron Body
Prerequisite: level 4
Intesne training has hardend your muscle like iron.
Bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage that you take
from non- magical weapons is reduced by 3
Leaf Hurricane
As an attack action you can make one unarmed attack against
each creature adjacent to you.
Lotus Release
Prerequisite: level 5
As an action you can spen 2 chakra points to cast haste
targetting yourself
Rock Breaker
Prerequisite: level 5
When you hit another creature with an unarmed attack, you
can spend 3 chakra points to deal 2d6 bonus damage and the
target must succeed on a Constitution saving throw or be
stunned until the end of your next turn
Roundhouse Kick
Once per turn you can replace one of your unarmed attacks
with a roundhouse kick. The roundhouse kick deals damage
equal to your strength modifier and the hit creature must
make a Strength saving throw or be knocked prone.
Tiger Release
As an action you can spend 2 chakra points to caste heroism
targetting yourself.
Tornado Fist
Prerequisite: Air Palm
When making an unarmed attack you can spend 1 chakra
point to have the target creature make a Strength saving
throw or be pushed 10 feet away from you in the direction of
your attack in a striaght line
Kekkai Genkai
A Kekkai Genkai is a special jutsu availible only to a rare few
shinobi. It is not something that can be taught, rather it is a
part of you, something you were born with that cannot be
duplicated. If you choose a kekkai genkai you cannot learn
another kekkai genkai and you cannot later switch it out to
learn different jutsu. It is forever a part of you.
Byakugan
Prerequisite: 5th level
Your eyes become solid white orbs. Despire appearing blind,
your vision goes beyond what standerd sight could achieve.
You gain the following benefits:
You can spend 1 chakra to cast detect magic.
-All Seeing Eye. As a bonus action you can expend 2
chakra to activate your Byakugan, which causes veins to
visibly swell around your eyes. You can see through solid
matter for 1 minute to a range of 30 feet. To you, objects
within this radious appear transparent and dont prevent light
from passing through them. You can see through 1 foot of
stone, 1 inch of metal and 3 feet of wood and dirt. Thicker
substances block this vision as does a thin sheet of lead.
Activating the Byakugen again without completing a long
rest requires a DC 15 Constitution saving throw or aquire
one level of exhaustion.
Mangekyō Sharingan
Prerequist: sharingan, 12th level
A Mangekyō Sharingan is distinguished from a normal
Sharingan by its appearance. The exact design differs for
each user, though all resemble pinwheels.
The AC bonus granted from sharingan increases to +2
Tsukuyomi. With a glance you send a creature into a world
of illusion where seconds seems like days and pain cannot be
ignored. As an action you can expend 6 chakra and choose a
creature that you can see within 120 feet. The target creature
must make a Charisma saving throw, on a failed save thy are
restrained and enter a world of illusion created by you. You
may immediately take 3 actions, but only to effect the
creature target by by tsukuyomi. For the purpose of attacks
and spells the creature is considered to be within range no
matter how far away they are. After you complete the last
action the illusion ends and the target must make a Charisma
save, taking 6d6 psychick damage on a failed save and half as
much on a successful save.
You must complete a long rest before using this power
again.
Susonoo. As an action you expend 7 chakra points to
conjure a large armor clad being of translucent energy with
you at its center for 1 minute. Susonoo has the same
statistics as an Earth Elemental. While inside Susonoo it acts
on your turn and you can direct its action but may take no
actions of your own but to dismiss it as a bonus action. While
inside Susonoo you cannot be targeted by attacks or spells.
You must complete a long rest before using this power
again.
Rinnegan
Prerequist: 5th level
Your eyes take on a purple hue and your iris spreads out into
four rings. You gain the following benefits:
All Mighty Push. As an action you can expend 2 chakra
and send a line of strong force 30 feet long and 10 feet wide
in a direction you choose originating from your position. Each
creature in its path takes 2d10 force damage and must make
a Strength saving throw or be pushed back 15 feet and
knocked prone. If they would collide with an object or
creature as part of this movement they take 1d6 damage for
every 5 feet of movement they were pushed.
This damage increases by 1d10 when you reach 11th level
(3d10), and 17th level (4d10)
All Mighty Pull. As an action you can expend 2 chakra
point to pull 1 creature you can see within 60 feet. The target
must make a strength saving throw or be pulled 15 feet
forward in a straight line towards you.
Sharingan
Prerequist: 5th level
Your iris becomes red and additional pupils form within the
iris, wrapping around the central pupil. As a bonus action you
can expend 2 ki points to activate the sharingan for 1 minute.
While active you gain the following benefits:
As an action you can spend 1 chakra point to cast
command at its lowest level
You gain a +1 bonus to your AC
You have advantage on Wisdom (Perception) test that rely
on sight
Tenseigan
Prerequisite: Byakugan, 12th level
Your eyes change to blue pupils and irides which contain a
white, floral pattern. You gain the following benefits:
You can expend 5 chakra to cast scrying
You can cast detect magic at will, this does not cost an
action
The DC for activating the all seeing eye beyond the first
time is reduced to 10
The range of your all seeing eye is increased to 90 feet
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