The Weaver Class - Write Your Own Spells

VERSION 1. 5: NEW LOOK! My art man finally delivered. Version 1. 4 brought the Cardweaver, a third subclass that plays the battlefield as a loom, and 1. 4. 1 the ground update. Feedback is very welcome.

This mod adds the Weaver, a full class (levels 1-12) with three subclasses. The Weaver has no spell list: you build your own spells, called Patterns, by combining parts at an arcane Loom, then cast them in combat from Shuttles.

Class overview

• []Intelligence caster. Proficient with daggers, quarterstaffs and light crossbows; Intelligence and Wisdom saving throws.[/]

  []Main resource: Weave-Threads. You start with 8 at level 1 and gain 4 per level, up to 52 at level 12. Threads are spent when casting patterns and restored on a long rest.[/]

  []Pattern Budget: 4 at level 1, then 6/8/10/12/14 at levels 3/5/7/9/11. Patterns woven above your budget risk a Snag when cast (see below).[/]

  []Feats at levels 4, 8 and 12. Subclass choice at level 3.[/]

  []At level 11, Karsus's Folly removes the last safety limits of the Loom.[/]

  []Every icon is colour-coded by what it does (gold strengthens, pink controls, red harms, blue aims), so a crowded Loom menu still reads at a glance.[/]

  Class progression

  • []Level 1 - Patternweaving: the Loom, the Needles (Single Thread), Load a Shuttle with three Shuttles (I, II, III), Read the Weave, Unravel, Loose Thread and Sweep the Frame. Three stitches known: Fire, Cold and Lightning. Pattern Budget 4.[/]

    []Level 2 - Ply the Thread (x2; x3 is a discovery) and the Observer needle, to weave a pattern upon yourself.[/]

    []Level 3 - Subclass. Pattern Budget 6. Shuttle IV.[/]

    []Level 4 - Feat. The Errant Thread, a needle that ignores sight, waits in Misty Step and Dimension Door scrolls.[/]

    []Level 5 - Broad Weave and Shapes (burst, aura, cone, line) and the Spread. Deeper Weaving: patterns roll two dice. Pattern Budget 8. Shuttle V.[/]

    []Level 6 - The Pirns.[/]

    []Level 7 - The Selvedge. Pattern Budget 10. Shuttle VI.[/]

    []Level 8 - Feat.[/]

    []Level 9 - The Knots, with preset conditions. Pattern Budget 12. Shuttle VII.[/]

    []Level 10 - Deeper Weaving: patterns roll three dice.[/]

    []Level 11 - Karsus's Folly. Pattern Budget 14. Shuttle VIII.[/]

    []Level 12 - Feat.[/]

    The menu where you assemble patterns. Weaving at the Loom is free and everything lives in tidy submenus that grow as you level. Committing the frame into a Shuttle out of combat is free too; doing it mid-fight costs your action (the Unraveler does it as a bonus action) and makes the pattern unstable unless you are an Unraveler.

    Thirteen stitches in total: eleven damage and effect types, the featherlight Soft Stitch (deals nothing, costs half, carries your dyes) and the Warding Stitch (+2 Armour Class for as many turns as its ply), learned from protective scrolls. Fire, Cold and Lightning are known from level 1. The other eight, including Mending (healing), have to be discovered by unraveling scrolls. Which scroll teaches what is yours to find out; a full spoiler list lives in the Unlocks section below.

    Finished patterns are loaded into Shuttles, which is what you actually use in combat. The Shuttle takes the icon, targeting shape and Thread cost of the loaded pattern. Reloading is free out of combat, so your whole set of patterns travels with you. More Shuttles come at levels 3, 5, 7, 9 and 11, eight in all.

    The more Plies, the greater the effect (x2, x3) for more Threads. Plying thrice is a discovery.

    The Needles decide how the pattern finds its marks: a single thread, the Observer (weave it upon yourself), and from level 5 four area shapes with proper targeting previews: Broad Weave (a burst at a point), an Aura around you, a Cone, or a Line. A fifth kind, the Errant Needle (level 4), can be discovered: an unerring thread that never misses (no attack roll), woven through walls and around corners.

    The Spread (level 5): set how wide the weave spreads. Wide grows the area by half again, and a discoverable Vast tier doubles it: the reach of a cone, the radius of a burst or aura, the breadth of a line. Area needles only, and the surcharge counts toward your Pattern Budget.