Chronomancers study time as a tangible current: a flow that can be read, tugged, and briefly diverted. They are full spellcasters who excel at controlling the tempo of a fight, escaping danger by returning to a place they recently occupied, and creating openings for allies. Their strongest techniques can suspend a moment, but even the greatest chronomancer cannot rewrite history without consequence.
Bend the next moment. Return to the last.
Full Caster; battlefield control, tactical repositioning, and support through timing manipulation.
At a glance
Chronal Charges
Hit die d6
Intelligence
ConstitutionYou can cast spells and use a spellbook-like chronicle to record your prepared spells. Intelligence is your spellcasting ability; see Spellcasting or Powers for your spell-slot progression and preparation rules.
As a bonus action, you can make your eyes glow with visible temporal threads for 1 minute or until you dismiss the effect (no action). While they glow, you have Advantage on Charisma (Intimidation) checks. You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Proficiency Bonus, regaining all uses when you finish a Long Rest.
You have a pool of Chronal Charges equal to your Proficiency Bonus, regained when you finish a Long Rest. As a bonus action, spend 1 charge to mark the space you occupy until the end of your next turn; before the mark expires, you can use a bonus action to teleport to an unoccupied space you can see within 30 feet of that space. The mark ends if you are incapacitated or on a different plane.
Choose the Chronomancer subclass that shapes your study of time: the Rewinder, the Paceweaver, or the Stillpoint. Your subclass grants features at levels 3, 6, 10, and 14.
Your Temporal Anchor lasts until the end of your next minute, and the teleport range increases to 60 feet. You can have only one anchor at a time.
Ability Score Improvement
When you or a creature you can see within 30 feet makes an attack roll, ability check, or saving throw, you can use your Reaction and spend 1 Chronal Charge to add or subtract 1d6 from the roll. You can decide after seeing the roll but before its effects are resolved.
When you roll Initiative and have no Chronal Charges remaining, you regain 1 charge. You can also move through nonmagical difficult terrain without spending extra movement, as you anticipate the path of least resistance.
Ability Score Improvement
You can use Nudge the Moment without spending a Chronal Charge a number of times equal to your Intelligence modifier (minimum once), regaining all free uses when you finish a Long Rest.
When you use Temporal Anchor, you can bring one willing creature within 5 feet of you along, teleporting it to an unoccupied space within 5 feet of your destination. The creature must be no larger than you.
Ability Score Improvement
When you roll Initiative, you can choose to add your Intelligence modifier to the roll. You can do so after rolling, but before the DM announces turn order.
When you use Nudge the Moment, you can roll 1d8 instead of 1d6. In addition, you regain 1 Chronal Charge when you finish a Short Rest, up to your maximum.
Ability Score Improvement
When you use Temporal Anchor, you can teleport to the marked space without spending a bonus action, as part of the same bonus action that created the anchor. You can still use the later teleport option if you choose not to return immediately.
You can cast Time Stop once without expending a spell slot, regaining the ability to do so when you finish a Long Rest. When you cast it this way, you can choose one willing creature you can see within 30 feet to be unaffected by the spell.
You gain an Epic Boon feat of your choice. You can also use Nudge the Moment when a creature you can see within 60 feet makes a damage roll, adding or subtracting 1d8 from one damage roll of that creature.
When you roll Initiative and have fewer than 2 Chronal Charges, you regain charges until you have 2. Once on each of your turns, you can also move up to 10 feet without provoking Opportunity Attacks.
IntelligenceConstitutionIntelligence
WisdomHit pointsHit Die: per Chronomancer level. Hit Points at 1st Level: 6 + your Constitution modifier. Hit Points at Higher Levels: (or 4) + your Constitution modifier per Chronomancer level after 1st.
DefensesHit Die: d6. Light armor proficiency supports defensive spellcasting, while Temporal Anchor offers limited repositioning rather than damage mitigation.
ArmorLight armor.
WeaponsSimple weapons.
ToolsNone.
Saving throwsIntelligence and Wisdom. Choose two skills from Arcana, History, Insight, Investigation, Medicine, Nature, and Religion.
Skill choicesArcana, History, Insight, Investigation, Medicine, Nature, Religion
ResourceChronal Charges: a pool equal to your Proficiency Bonus, normally regained on a Long Rest; certain higher-level features improve recovery. Charges fuel Temporal Anchor and Nudge the Moment.
MulticlassingPrerequisite: Intelligence 13. When you gain a level in a class other than your first, you gain light armor proficiency. For multiclass spell slots, add your Chronomancer levels to your levels in other spellcasting classes, following the multiclass spellcaster rules. You prepare Chronomancer spells separately and use Intelligence for them.
Full spellcaster.
You learn and prepare spells from the Chronomancer spell list, using Intelligence as your spellcasting ability (Spell Save DC = 8 + your Proficiency Bonus + your Intelligence modifier; spell attack modifier = your Proficiency Bonus + your Intelligence modifier). You use the Wizard spell-slot progression, gaining spell slots up to 9th level at the same class levels as a Wizard. At 1st level, choose three 1st-level spells from the list to record in your chronicle; you prepare a number of Chronomancer spells equal to your Intelligence modifier + your Chronomancer level (minimum one), and can change your prepared spells when you finish a Long Rest. You can add two eligible Chronomancer spells to your chronicle when you gain each Chronomancer level, and can copy additional eligible spells into it using the standard spellbook copying rules. Your chronicle can be a book, set of inscribed strips, or another personal record.
A guardian who pulls people back from the edge of disaster.
A battlefield conductor who decides who acts first.
A patient controller who makes the world wait.
Chronomancers study time as a tangible current: a flow that can be read, tugged, and briefly diverted.
They are full spellcasters who excel at controlling the tempo of a fight, escaping danger by returning to a place they recently occupied, and creating openings for allies. Their strongest techniques can suspend a moment, but even the greatest chronomancer cannot rewrite history without consequence.
You are a flexible full caster who rewards careful timing more than raw damage.
Use control spells to slow a dangerous fight, keep a Temporal Anchor near a safe route, and reserve Chronal Charges for decisive repositioning or changing a crucial roll. Your class features complement your spells rather than replacing normal spell-slot management.
Most chronomancers begin as students of arcane theory, history, or celestial observation.
Initiation comes when a learner successfully senses a moment's passage as a current and anchors themselves to a place they can later find again; traditions differ on whether this is taught through meditation, controlled magical experiments, or dangerous exposure to a temporal anomaly.
Ordinary people often admire chronomancers as uncanny problem-solvers, but their ability to revisit a place or alter timing can make them seem untrustworthy.
Communities that have suffered temporal disturbances may welcome their expertise while insisting that they never meddle with local history.
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