Fleshwright

“The body is a living work, and its owner holds the final word.”

Lore Overview

Fleshwrights work with responsive membranes, living inks, and carefully fitted stimulators. They can heighten or quiet sensation and invite a consenting body to become something new: skin that toughens, limbs that adapt, or a form that answers a new environment. Their craft treats the living flesh as both a source of sensation and a medium for intentional change.

Subclass Features

Gain proficiency in Medicine or with alchemist’s supplies; if proficient in both, gain proficiency with another artisan’s tool. Prepare three removable living applications at the end of a long rest. They are reusable, require no attunement, and do not use Imbued Creation slots. Each is a Tiny patch, sculpting gel, or flexible band.

As an action, touch a conscious willing creature wearing one application and expend 1 Spark to grant one modification for 1 hour. Supple Form: increase walking speed by 10 feet and gain a climbing speed equal to walking speed. Waterform: gain a swimming speed equal to walking speed and breathe air and water. Hardened Flesh: gain temporary hit points equal to 1d6 + your Intelligence modifier (minimum 1) and, while any remain, add 1 to AC. Temporary hit points last for the modification’s duration. The wearer chooses the visible form. Maintain two modified creatures at once, one modification each; a new one ends a prior modification of your choice. A wearer can end its modification at any time.

Veiled Play. When the modification is applied, the wearer may gain 1 Arousal; if it does, its speed increases by 5 feet until the end of its next turn. Unveiled Play. When applying the modification, you may spend 1 Libido; the wearer may gain or reduce 1 Arousal and gain temporary hit points equal to your proficiency bonus. These temporary hit points do not stack with Hardened Flesh’s.

As a bonus action, expend 1 Spark to activate an application worn by a willing creature you can see within 30 feet. Choose Awaken or Calm. Awaken gives it advantage on its next Strength or Dexterity ability check within 1 minute; Calm lets it add 1d4 to its next Constitution or Wisdom saving throw within 1 minute. This does not require an active modification.

Veiled Play. The wearer may gain 1 Arousal when you choose Awaken, or reduce Arousal by 1 when you choose Calm. Unveiled Play. When you activate Calm, you may spend 1 Libido to let the wearer reduce Arousal by 2 instead; when you activate Awaken, the wearer may gain 1 Arousal to gain temporary hit points equal to your proficiency bonus for 1 minute.

During a short or long rest, spend 10 minutes with a willing creature fitting an application to its requested needs. Until its next long rest, it can add 1d4 to one Strength, Dexterity, or Constitution ability check of its choice. A creature can receive this benefit once per long rest.

Veiled Play. At the rite’s end the wearer may gain 1 Arousal to receive advantage on its next EROSave before its next long rest. Unveiled Play. At the rite’s end the wearer may spend 1 Libido to reduce its Arousal by 1. The process does not permanently alter the wearer.

When a modified creature you can see within 30 feet takes acid, cold, fire, lightning, or thunder damage, use your reaction and expend 1 Spark to give it resistance to that triggering instance of damage. Describe the flesh’s response with the wearer’s agreement.

Veiled Play. After the damage resolves, the wearer may gain 1 Arousal to move 5 feet without provoking opportunity attacks. Unveiled Play. After the damage resolves, the wearer may spend 1 Libido to retain that resistance until the start of your next turn.

You can maintain modifications on three creatures. As a bonus action, change a willing modified creature’s modification to another option while you can see it within 30 feet. The original duration remains; changing to Hardened Flesh does not refresh temporary hit points already granted by that activation.

Veiled and Unveiled Play. After you or a modified creature you can see within 30 feet resolves Climax, you may use your reaction to revise one willing modified creature you can see within 30 feet and give it temporary hit points equal to your proficiency bonus for 1 minute. Use this reaction a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus per long rest. This does not replace the class’s Breakthrough or reset the modification’s duration.

Unveiled Play. When using this reaction, you may spend 1 Libido to let that creature reduce its Arousal by 1.

As an action once per long rest, touch a conscious willing application wearer and grant it a masterwork form for 10 minutes, requiring concentration as if on a spell. It replaces that wearer’s existing modification and occupies one maintained slot. Choose two different Living Fleshcraft modifications. The wearer gains both, temporary hit points equal to twice your Relicwright level, and resistance to one damage type from Responsive Flesh. The wearer chooses the form and may end it at any time.

Veiled Play. Once during the form, after the wearer resolves Climax, it can regain 2d6 hit points. Unveiled Play. Once during the form, when the wearer would gain Arousal, it may spend 1 Libido to reduce that gain by up to 2. This does not interrupt a Climax already triggered.

Play Modes and Desire Resolution

Use the current Mechanics of Desire for the shared limits and resolution. A creature normally gains at most 3 Arousal during one turn unless a rule explicitly provides an exception. A benefit conditional on gaining or reducing Arousal requires that change actually to occur, and reductions cannot take the total below 0. An EROSave uses Constitution or Wisdom as allowed by the shared rules, with proficiency only when proficient in the chosen saving throw.

At 6 Arousal, resolve the applicable Climax Effect, reduce Libido by 1 where tracked, reset Arousal to 0, and then resolve eligible aftermath features. Healing, Exhaustion, and Spark recovery occur only when an applicable rule grants or imposes them. Pay any optional post-Climax Libido cost after the normal Libido loss. Changing play modes restores no expended uses, charges, reactions, or resources.

Your creations cannot determine attraction, consent, identity, or lasting feelings. A willing participant can stop using a preparation, transformation, or device as its feature permits. Agree on the sensory description; emotional or magical resonance and veiled description use the same mechanics.

• Classic Play. Use baseline effects and any expressly stated Classic alternative without tracking Arousal or Libido. A feature that only responds to or changes Desire supplies no extra Classic benefit.
• Veiled Play. Use the baseline feature and its Veiled option. Add each stated Arousal gain to the creature’s current total; apply an expressly stated reduction numerically. Features do not assign or replace a Desire state. If a gain reaches 6 Arousal, resolve Climax immediately before continuing. Do not also apply the Unveiled option.
• Unveiled Play. Use the baseline feature and its Unveiled option, plus any effect explicitly labeled for both modes. The two mode-specific alternatives do not stack. Spend Libido only when the feature permits it and you have enough to pay the cost; a feature without a Libido cost remains available subject to its normal requirements.