Koa the DM

The Hollow Angel - A CR 9 celestial frozen and trapped, unable to fly with weeping rivulets of holy rime

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This week i have for you all, the Hollow Angel! In Íslöven, souls do not pass on to the afterlife, and instead, freeze over and are forever longing and wandering, searching for warmth. I thought to myself "surely, if a bunch of people kept dying the same area, some kind of celestial has got to have taken notice of that since the souls refuse to pass on," and the answer to t...

The Iceborne Sorcerer! Infuse your frostcursed blood into the spells you weave to curse the land around you to numb and freeze your foes!

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This week I have for you all a Sorcerer subclass that is all about area denial! This lineage has been cursed by the Winter Moth, allowing you to spread the accursed properties of Íslöven by spilling your blood onto land or infusing your blood into spells! Mechanically, its all about area-denial, creating zones and pockets that make life more difficult for your enemies, and mu...

The Boilwurm! A CR 5 monstrosity that can spit out its boiling guts to coat, capture, and swallow its prey!

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This week I have for y'all the Boilwurm! This was a fun monster to design, as it was inspired by sea cucumbers and their pecuilar defensive mechanism, which is to spray out their own intestines to scare off predators! I thought, "what if that was an OFFENSIVE mechanism?" and made a worm that sprays out its sticky, boiling stomach to grab onto creatures, before sucking it all ba...

The Soul Whisperer Ranger - Command a lost soul to aid your allies (and let your allies have fun with hunter's mark too!)

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This week I have for you all, the Soul Whisperer Ranger! This Ranger was actually inspired by how I could maybe think about adding Luna Snow from Marvel Rivals specifically into D&D! The result is a ranger that can whisper to and hear a frostbitten soul that they can send to protect their allies! At earlier levels this means getting to have the soul do a little extra damage ...

The Wéiscarver - a CR 5 frozen spellblade to attack your players in a flurry of winter and steel!

Hello everyone, today I have for you the Wéiscarver! This is the last of the Aldriśes people's statblocks, and is the most powerful of the Aldriśes but the most taboo within their culture! Based off of the Wéiscarver fighter subclass that I have released already, this adversary has a tattoo made of the blood of the Winter Moth etched upon their palm, a Húrfrójsa, that allows them to freez...

Oath of the Lost - Become the voice and vengence of the forgotten and frozen souls trapped in the lands of Íslöven with freezing smites and tons of temp hp!

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This week I have for y'all a paladin subclass: the oath of the lost! This paladin is all about avenging and becoming the voice for the forgotten and frozen souls of Íslöven, borrowing their agony and anguish to fuel their spells and enchant their blades! This paladin is all about doing your best to reduce enemies movement speeds so you can really whack them for tons of dama...

The Aldriśes - A combination of four CR 2-5 natives of a frozen land that wield cyromancy!

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This week I have for you all the Aldriśes people! I wanted to stat out the denizens of Íslöven as not just reflavored Commoners but adversaries (or allies) that have abilities and features that are indicative of their time spent within the frozen land that they call home! With some added lore on why Trekkers tend to be more outgoing and expressive (to draw the Winter Moth and...

Warrior of the Nine Souls: A monk subclass that fractures their soul into pieces through combat that they can hold onto for passive benefits or expend for immediate bonuses!

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Not to be confused with the rogue-lite metrodvania, this week I have for y'all a monk subclass thats all about in-combat resource management that really really encourages you to burn through all of your Focus Points! Flavor-wise it is centered around the idea that to fully grasp the outline of one's soul means to incarnate fragments of the soul around you, and to incrnate the 1...

Winter Moth Cultists - CR 2 and CR 9 Cultists that offer their own bodies and the warmth of others to an auroral, longing God

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This week I have for y'all some lovely mechanically flavorful Cultists! These guys are all about reducing the speed of others so their enemies might obtain hægfara (frostbite) and empower their God, the Winter Moth. Since their God is always longing and seeking warmth, of course they have to yoink any warmth (healing) of their enemies for their God! All of their stuff really le...

Circle of the Frostbitten Soul - An icy Druid that can beckon the souls of the land to aid them in battle while in their bestial forms!

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This week I have for you a Druid subclass that is tanking whilst still remaining in their bestial form! With Boreal Touch, Soul-Infused Shape, and eventually Alpine Allies, this Druid is a crowd control tank menace that really just wants to get in the face of the enemies and tank those hits with more temp HP than normal and stop them from moving around to their other allies! ...

The Zawéis Elemental - A series of true ice elementals made from the innards of exploited souls!

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This week for y'all I have a series of Zawéis Elementals! Ranging from a Lesser Elemental at CR 1/2, a 'normal' Elemental at CR 3, and a big boi Chained Elemental Boss at CR 7, these fun elementals have a variety of unique skills at their disposal! Canceling out healing if they're continually dishing out damage, death rattles, and burrow speeds!! But to be honest, all of it is...

College of the Skald - Be a Warrior Bard that Relishes in your Allies Rollin' MAX DAMAGE!

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This week I have for y'all the College of the Skald Bard! This Bard has a mechanic that I am very partial towards that I don't think gets enough attention in D&D, rolling max on damage dice! It used to only really exist with the Spell Bombardment feature of the Wild Magic Sorcerer, but that was removed in the 2024 rules! So i brought it back with an inspiration-toting Bard t...

Undead Elemental Combos The Snowsoul and Fused Snowsoul - A CR 3 and CR 8 Amalgamation of Souls Suffused with Snow

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This week I have for you all the Snowsoul and Fused Snowsoul! These fun little monsters are considered both elementals AND undead because of their unique makeup! However I find them to be especially fun in encounters due to their Chilling Touch and Subzero Affinity traits! With these, not only do the players have to worry about damage and dealing damage, but they also have...

Barbarian Path of the Veterwulf Updated!

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Quick update for you all, I got some good feedback on the Barbarian Veterwulf so I have gone ahead and made those updates! Overall the subclass was buffed:

• Wolven Fury was consolidated into Primal Instinct so there are 3 ways to gain Instinct Dice when you first get the subclass

• The max amount of Instinct Dice you can carry is now +1 (so 3 at level 3...

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LEGACY - Path of the Veterwulf! A Per Combat Resource Management Barbarian with an Upgrading Instinct Die that Channels the Fury of the Veterwulf!

This is the legacy version of the Veterwulf subclass! The updated subclass can be found here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/129142449?pr=true

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I have for y'all this week the Path of the Veterwulf Barbarian! Inspired by the Jaeger from Steinhardt's where the class has resource mana...

A CR 10 Souped-up Winter Wolf Protective of Lost Souls: The Veterwulf!

Hey y'all! Sorry for the delay!

Today I have for you all the Veterwulf! This CR10 adversary is essentially an omega Winter Wolf, one that has mistaken a Frostbitten Soul for a lost pup, and in the process of holding such a soul, melded with it! Its got a ton of fun stuff when it comes to protecting lost souls with a Bonus Action enraged state that it can continually enter when combat isn'...

The Frostbitten Soul - An undead CR 2 longing soul filled to the brim with storyhooks and lore-implications!

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Coming back from last week, this is the secondary part to the Ice Husk (although it can definately be found on its own), that was puppetting the dead cadaever, the Frostbitten Soul! These little guys are honestly the entire lynchpin of the Winter Echoes of Íslöven (the project this is all for), as the land of Íslöven itself is so cold it literally freezes souls and doesn't a...

The Wintercursed Assassin - A roguish archetype all about freezing your enemies before shattering them for additional damage!

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I have a new Rogue subclass for you all known as the Wintercursed Assassin! I really liked the idea of freezing and then shattering things (a good ole' 1 - 2 combo), and although I made it into the Fighter, I said fuck it! Why don't we put it into the Rogue! Feedback is def appreciated, and it was a ton of fun to think about how I wanted to set up a shatter, and it was nice to i...

The Ice Husk - An undead remnant of one who died of Frostbite with their soul still trapped within the flesh, seeking out any semblance of warmth and life

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I have for you all this week the first of Those Lost in Íslöven, the Ice Husk! This is essentially a souped up ice zombie that can reduce movement speed with a reaction that ties into their lore of wanting to seek out warmth and life by any means necessary! Also withholding the Frostbitten Soul that cannot move onto the afterlife that puppets the flesh, they can also be a m...

The Wintersmith Domain - A Cleric that protects themself and their allies with freezing pauldrons of winter armor and by temporarily freezing the flesh

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This week I have for you all a Cleric subclass known as the Winterflesh Domain! This Cleric has had some of or all of their flesh previously frozen by the Winter Moth and instead of finding horror within this near-death experience, they have found comfort and enlightenment within it! If your flesh and frozen and you don't FEEL any pain, then you're protected from the pain! This ...

The Wéiscarver Fighter - Gather moisture from the air to instantly freeze and carve gelid weapons to strike and shatter your foes!

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This week I have for you all a Figher subclass known as the Wéiscarver! I really had a ton of fun developing the lore of this and making a lil' potiential storyline to follow through with within the subclass itself! Using the Winter Moth's blood as a way to create a new way of fighting (potientially AGAINST the Winter Moth), and yet it slowly begins to corrupt the user a...

Íslöven Cryomancy - 35 new ice-themed spells that take a toll on the body to wield their life-draining power!

Hello everyone! I am back!!!!! Sorry for the delay but I have a BRAND new project starting for you all, and of course since I'm a slut for spells, I have for you 35 new ice-themed spells!

These range from cantrips to 7th level spells so they can be used at any point in your games! These spells were super fun to make as they obviously synergize with each other and other class features/spel...

A little bit of a lull coming

Hey everyone! Now that Virgil's Prayerbook to the Horrifying Divine is released, I just wanted to let y'all know that there will be a bit of a lull for a week or so regarding new content.

Fear not! I have not disappeared, I'm just going to be focusing on making posts talkin' about Virgil's and sending that into the world.

New content WILL be...