THE SEER

You make a pact with a creature that serves you and assists your spellcasting. You gain a familiar.

When a creature casts a spell and you can see its manifestation, you can use the power of the Deck of Fate to disrupt it. You expend a Spell Slot of the same level as the triggering spell and a Card from your hand to counter the triggering creature's casting of a spell. You lose your spell slot and discard the chosen card as if you had cast the spell on it, then attempt to Counteract the triggering spell.

You can extend the range of your spells. If the next action you use is to Cast a Spell that has a range, increase that spell's range by 30 feet. As is standard for increasing spell ranges, if the spell normally has a range of touch, you extend its range to 30 feet.

You manipulate the energy of your spell, causing it to spread out and affect a wider area. If the next action you use is to Cast a Spell that has an area of a burst, cone, or line and does not have a duration, increase the area of that spell. Add 5 feet to the radius of a burst that normally has a radius of at least 10 feet (a burst with a smaller radius is not affected). Add 5 feet to the length of a cone or line that is normally 15 feet long or smaller, and add 10 feet to the length of a larger cone or line.

You've broadened the ways in which you can read and bend the power of your deck. You gain your choice of one Basic reading.

Leads Into: Advanced Reading

You've learned how to take advantage of the Deck of Fate's power to attempt to shift Fate in your favor, at the cost of your hand. Reroll the triggering roll, then discard a card from your Hand. You must use the new roll.

Your ability to harness fate's magic has allowed you to delve into limited godly magic. Choose one of the following Domains: Dreams, Nightmare, Knowledge, or Luck. You learn the domain spell for this Domain. However, you can cast this spell only once per day.

Leads Into: Advanced Hubris

A greater understanding of your magic broadens your range of simple spells.

• Prepared Caster (Cleric, Wizard, etc.)

You can prepare two additional cantrips each day.

• Spontaneous Caster (Bard, Sorcerer, etc.

Add two additional cantrips from your spell list to your repertoire.

You infuse your familiar with additional magical energy. You can select four familiar or master abilities each day, instead of two.

You ask the Deck of Fates for advice to give the required ally advice about the upcoming day. The required ally gains a +2 circumstance to a single attack roll, ability check, or saving throw they make before your next daily preparations. They can choose to apply this bonus after rolling, but before knowing the result.

Leads Into: (Glimpse the Future 2)

You put your faith in Deck of Fates to give you the card you need right when you need it. Draw the designated card from the Deck of Fates, and then shuffle.

Leads Into:Ace Up My Sleeve

You declare one card in your hand to be Spade, and cast spells from that card as if it is a Spade until the end of this turn. Its Face or Number do not otherwise change.

Leads Into:Ace Up My Sleeve

Reveal cards from the top of your deck until you reveal a Diamond card. Draw that card, and discard the rest.

Leads Into:Ace Up My Sleeve

Your magic rebounds momentarily. Until the end of this turn, the next spell you cast from your Hand may be cast as if it was from one of the Clubs Suit Cards you have discarded since your last daily preparations

Leads Into:Ace Up My Sleeve

Access You are a member of the College of Mysteries or a Similiar Organization

Your face bears an intricate magical tattoo known as the irezoko, a badge of your understanding of your chosen field of magic and a recognition of your advancement within Absalom's College of Mysteries. Choose a class that you are a member of that grants you access to a focus pool. When you take this feat, it gains the trait that applies to your chosen class. Once per day, you may concentrate upon the pattern of your irezoko to recover 1 Focus Point as a three-action activity.

Your connection with the Deck of Fate makes you adept in the ways of Divination, and you can call upon some of that power with a little focus. Choose one spell on your Deck's spell list with the Revelation, Scrying, or Prediction trait. You can spend 10 minutes to change one spell you have prepared to the chosen spell, heightened to the same level. The spell you replaced must be of at least the chosen spell's minimum spell rank.

You fragment a ranged spell. If your next action is to Cast a Spell without a duration that requires an attack roll against a single target, you can choose a second target within range. You roll a single attack roll and compare the result to the AC of both targets. This counts as one attack for your multiple attack penalty. To the second target, the spell deals half the amount of damage it would normally deal and has no effects beyond the spell's initial damage (such as imposing conditions or penalties).

If your next action is to cast a spell using the required card, and the required ally is within 40 feet of you, you cast the spell from the required Allies location, drawing line of sight, range, and cover from the required allies position instead of your own.

You siphon some of the Deck of Fate's power to maintain your spells. Discard a Card from your Hand, then Sustain a Spell

You sacrifice your initial options for a surge of knowledge. Your maximum hand size is reduced by 2. However, the first time each Day you Cast a Spell from the Deck of Fate using a Spell Slot, you draw 4 cards. These cards do not count against your maximum hand size.

Confident in your technique, you don't easily lose your concentration when you Cast a Spell. If a reaction would disrupt your spellcasting action, attempt a DC 15 flat check. If you succeed, your action isn't disrupted.

You've further increased your Deck's ability to twist and bend fate. You gain your choice of one Advanced Reading.

Your spells seem to always find the cracks in other creatures' natural resistances. Any creature that has a status bonus to saving throws against magic reduces the bonus by 1 against your spells

You've expanded your grasp on Godly magic. You learn the Advanced Domain spell for the Domain you chose for Seer's Hubris. You may cast this spell only once per day.

This is the secret of chaotic magic — your foe can hardly predict and counter your moves if you yourself have no idea what will happen. If the next action you use is to Cast a Spell that deals acid, cold, electricity, fire, or sonic damage, roll a d6. The spell's damage type changes to the type below associated with the result of the roll, and each creature who is damaged by the spell takes the listed additional effect.

Access Members of the Firebrands at the rank of second mark or higher, or some equivalent organization, have access to this feat.

Ranik Helt knows a special technique to hide his spells as part of a performance, and you've learned this technique. Ostentatiously performing, you move across the battlefield, taking foes aback and creating an opening for your spell. Attempt a Performance check against all observers' Perception DCs. Then, Stride once or twice. During this movement, you don't trigger reactions that are triggered by your movement from the creatures against which you succeeded on your Performance check. After your movement, you can Cast a Spell. If you used one Stride, you can cast either a 1-action or a 2-action spell; if you used two Strides, you can only cast a 1-action spell. If you critically succeed on your check against any creature, they take a –1 circumstance penalty to their saving throws against any spell you cast as part of your Helt's Spelldance due to your distracting performance. All creatures that observed you become temporarily immune to your Helt's Spelldance for 10 minutes.

You flick a card at a foe, and it blossoms into a cloud of razor-edged cards. Choose a creature within 20 feet you, and discard a Card from your hand. The target makes a basic reflex save against your Spell Dc or takes 6d6 slashing damage. Additionally, this action triggers the discarded Card's Whim of Fate as if you cast a spell using your highest rank of spell slot. If you discard a face Card, use the Card Trick table instead. At 9th level and every 2 levels thereafter, increase the damage of this action by 2d6

When you read your allies' possible futures, you can see slightly more than before. When you perform a reading during your Daily Preparations, You may either allow the chosen ally to use Glimpse the Future's benefit an additional time this day, or you may choose a second ally to also gain the benefits of Glimpse the Future.

You've learned how to better channel your decks magic, and have broadened your maximum amount of available cards. Increase your Maximum Hand size by 1.

If your next action is to cast a cantrip or a spell that is at least 2 ranks lower than the highest-rank spell slot you have, reduce the number of actions to cast it by 1 (minimum 1 action).

Your connection to the Deck of Fate has grown, and you can rely on getting your most powerful magic just when you need it most, depending on which Suit you're most connected to. If you have Heart of the Cards, When you designate a card for Heart of the Cards, it may now be the Ace of Hearts. If you have Call a Spade a Spade, if the card you chose was a Face card, you may treat it as an Ace as well. If you have Diamond in the Rough, you may treat the card as an Ace when you cast it's spell. If you have (Clubs Feat), you may use this action twice in a day, but one of those uses can only target the Ace of Clubs.

You tap into the Deck of Fate to replenish your hand and cast more spells. Draw a card from your Deck of Fate and put it into your hand. You cannot use this cantrip to draw more cards than your maximum hand size.

You take a gamble with The Deck of Fate, discarding cards in hopes of getting something better in return. Discard up to two cards, then Draw that many.

Heightened (7th Rank): You may discard up to 3 cards, and draw that many cards, though you cannot exceed your maximum hand size with cards drawn this way.

You prepare to manipulate the energy of the Deck as you cast your spell to keep the Card you intend to cast. If your next action is to Cast a Spell using the Deck of Fate, instead of discarding the card, you may instead return the card to your hand.

You sacrifice an additional card to augment the effects of a card in hand. Discard a card from your hand. If your next action is to Cast a Spell using the Deck of Fate, apply the Discarded card's Whim of Fate affect in addition to any other that spell would have had.

You present a Card from your Hand, and boldly declare exactly why it spells bad luck for your foe. The target makes a Will save, and on a failure takes a -2 status penalty to their next Attack Roll, Saving Throw, or Ability Check. On a Critical Failure, they instead roll the next Attack Roll, Saving Throw, or Ability Check twice, and take the worst result. This is a Misfortune Effect. You then discard the chosen card.

You will a card's value to be slightly different. The next spell you cast from the chosen card treats its values as up to 2 higher or lower, potentially altering the Whims of Fate that would trigger.

Heightened (9th Rank): You may choose to instead change the value to a value of your choice. However, if you do this, you cannot use this spell again for 1d4 hours.

You manipulate the Deck to return some previously cast spells to the top of the deck. Choose a card you have previously discarded, and place it on top of the Deck of Fate.

Heightened (+3): You may spend one additional action when casting this spell to choose an additional card, for a maximum of 3 action and 3 cards at 9th rank

You turn a single card into an impossible cloud with a dramatic flourish. Discard a Card from your hand. You become Concealed for 1 minute as the cards swirl around you in a disorienting manner, though you cannot use this Concealment to Hide. Additionally, you gain the Whim of Fate effect of the discarded card, using the Card Trick table if you discarded a Face Card. You may have the this effect target any adjacent creature.