Sleeper's Artifice

The Sleeper’s Options · No. 1

Dream & Ruin

A barbarian who teleports through a Rage and a druid whose wall fights back, both built to keep working through level 20.

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Cover of Dream & Ruin: a barbarian bursting through violet dream mist beside a druid raising a guardian of root and stone

The cover. The rest is in the PDF.

A Barbarian and a Druid Subclass for 5e

Half of this book is a barbarian who moves through a fight like a half-remembered dream, and the other half is a druid who brings a piece of an old ruin along to do some of the heavy lifting.

PATH OF THE WAKING DREAM (barbarian) rages lucid. While the Rage is up, each turn brings a Dreamstep, a free 15-foot teleport to any space the barbarian can see, ignoring Opportunity Attacks and Difficult Terrain on the way. From 6th level they can reroll an ally's failed save. By 10th the step reaches 30 feet and can take a companion along. At 14th, attacks from more than 5 feet away have Disadvantage, and any hit lets the barbarian step clear as a Reaction.

CIRCLE OF RUINS (druid) belongs to broken places. For a Bonus Action and one use of Wild Shape, the druid raises a Guardian of Ruin, a wall of root and masonry that lasts ten minutes. It fights, it spends its Reaction covering the back line, and everyone standing near it has Half Cover. A destroyed Guardian still collapses with a Restrained rider from 10th level on, and at 14th the druid can pull the ruin up through the floor of any fight, soil and flagstone and hall alike.

WHAT'S INSIDE

  • Two full subclasses built on the 2024 rules, with features at levels 3, 6, 10, and 14, made to keep working through level 20.
  • Balanced against the strongest published 2024 subclasses, and never stronger than them.
  • The Guardian of Ruin stat block, plus play notes and higher-level pages for both subclasses.
  • Two flavor tables to roll on or pick from, What the Dream Shows You and What Your Ruin Was.
  • 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.

Both subclasses are also sold on their own.

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