Creed's Codex: Arcane Secrets of the Summoners

As the last flickers of torchlight danced across the forgotten scrolls, your hand trembled with anticipation. The arcane symbols revealed powers long lost to time—powers that once shaped the destiny of entire civilizations. In your hands lay the secrets to becoming a summoner—if you dare to unlock them.

Rigorously tested and reviewed by over 50 playtesters and more than 100 mechanics reviewers for balanced play, Creed’s Codex: Arcane Secrets of the Summoners is a comprehensive player supplement for fifth edition. Creed, an adventurer in pursuit of legend and lore, has uncovered the long-hidden secrets of summoners, unearthed fearsome weapons wielded by warriors of the Burning Summit, and ventured deep into ancient ruins in search of the fabled power of convergence. His findings are compiled within this tome, offering a rich blend of new mechanics and immersive lore.

With countless new options for every player, make your character feel truly unique with a wealth of exciting choices. Thoroughly play-tested and ready for your campaign!

What's Inside:

🔹Balanced Summoner Class: Bring forth powerful entities to fight alongside you with this painstakingly balanced new class.
🔹7 Distinct Summoner Subclasses:  Bring forth gargantuan summons with devastating attacks with the Colossus, evolve your perfect creation with the Evolutionist's extreme precision, or explore one of the other 5 options created with extensive community feedback to meet your wants. 
🔹28 Transformative Force Augments: Unique options to dial in your summoner build such as healing allies when your summon deals damage, increasing the size of your summon, or switching places with your summon.
🔹11 Inspirational Build Guides: Detailed evolutionist builds showcasing ideas to build everything from a guardian angel to a Frankenstein monster. 
🔹The Spirit Warlock Subclass: A new warlock patron summoning forth mighty totems and, even for brief moments, unleashing their patron themselves.
🔹4 Empowering Eldritch Invocations: Augment your warlock with additional capabilities like Totem Conduit, damaging all who pass between you and your totem, or Unstable Earth, creating minor quakes at will.
🔹Unleash the Power of Convergence: Tap into forbidden magic, amplifying your abilities. This power is accompanied by random effects, some of which are good such as being given a treasure map by a friendly shopkeeper or guaranteeing a critical hit on your next attack. Others are not, such as being followed around by a ghostly bagpipe quartet or falling 1d100 feet into a sinkhole that suddenly appears under you.
🔹15 Versatile Creatures: Leverage the mental formulation, a flexible creature developed for summoners to ensure a summon is available for every level regardless of the types of creatures you've encountered on your adventures (Works for wild shape druid feature too!).
🔹Cooperative Summoning Rules: Have more than one summoner in the party? Combine your powers to bring forth legendary creatures!
🔹12 Exotic Weapons and Armor: Dragon silk armor, bulwark shield, and war scythe are but a few of the new tactical equipment options.
🔹Exotic Weapon Crafting: Simple mechanics to add more capabilities to your weapons such as the ability to cleave through multiple foes or incorporate fateweaver silk to act first in combat.
🔹Symbiotic Equipment: Clear details for creating equipment that has a mind of its own and progressively increases in strength based on how you use it.
🔹18 Intuitive Feats: Options to bring your vision to life including the ability to manifest as a shadow upon death with one last shot at stealing life or the companion caller feat path, a five feat chain that lets you add a summoning archtype on top of any class.
🔹41 Summoning-Themed Spells: Spells like chest burst and monstrous transformation are new options in your spellbook.
🔹Ancient Lore of the Summoners: The details you need to add summoners and the rest of the content into your world.
🔹No AI Illustrations: Art crafted in partnership with humans outputting masterpieces.