The Sleeper’s Options · No. 2
Lullaby & Larceny
A lullaby bard, a sleepwalking monk, a dream-stealing rogue and a warlock who answers to a court, all four for 5e.
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- 9 pages
- 4 subclasses
- Screen and print editions
- Plain text for VTTs
- US Letter
- The 2024 rules for fifth edition
The cover. The rest is in the PDF.
4 Dream Subclasses for 5e
Sleep is somewhere you can actually go, as far as these four are concerned. They found different doors in, and they play very differently once they're through.
COLLEGE OF LULLABIES (bard) sings cradle songs on a battlefield. One action shields your side and slows theirs. The heart of the college is Refrain, which hands failed Inspiration dice back to the bard, so the table gets out of the habit of hoarding them.
WAY OF THE SLEEPWALKER (monk) moves the way people move in dreams, past terrain and through crowds and eventually past gravity. For one Focus Point it can also soften enemies up for the party's big spells.
THE DREAM-THIEF (rogue) steals tempo during a fight and memories after one. From 13th level a whole dream can come out as a glass bead to look at, plant somewhere else, or keep, though keeping them tends to get the sleeping world's attention.
THE DREAMING COURT (warlock patron) is basically employment. A parliament of dreams hands out errands, the spell list is full of control, and at 14th level a summons offers its target an audience or terms.
WHAT'S INSIDE
- 4 full subclasses built on the 2024 rules, with features at each class's own subclass levels.
- Balanced against the strongest published 2024 subclasses, and never stronger than them.
- Play notes for all four, and a d6 flavor table for each one.
- Conversion sidebars on every subclass for tables still playing the 2014 rules.
- A screen edition and a plain white print edition, both US Letter, plus the full text as plain text for VTT import.
- A bookmarked PDF that isn't locked.
Compatible with the 2024 rules for fifth edition. Includes material from the SRD 5.2 by Wizards of the Coast LLC under CC-BY-4.0. Full license statement in the PDF. Unaffiliated with Wizards of the Coast.
The barbarian who walks this same dream is in Options No. 1, Dream & Ruin. The other half of the line is Ruin & Remnant.
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The Sleeper’s Options
The four inside it
Bard
College of Lullabies
Failed Inspiration dice come back to this bard, so the table finally stops sitting on them.
In this pack
Rogue
The Dream-Thief
Steal a dream, hang on to it, and wait for the sleeping world to notice.
In this pack
Warlock
The Dreaming Court
The patron is a parliament of dreams, and it has errands.
In this pack
Monk
Way of the Sleepwalker
Moves the way people move in dreams, and sets up the party's biggest spells.
In this pack
