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Spectre

Human · Monk (Spectral attack) · Level 20 · Urchin

Spectre

Spectre is effortlessly charming, detached, and observant.
AC20
HP260/260
Init
STR
DEX
CON
INT
WIS
CHA
ConditionsNone

Sheet

AC 20 · HP 260 · 80 ft.
AlignmentLawful NeutralGenderMaleAgeAppears to be in his mid-thirties, though he claims to have died and returned more times than he can remember.
STR
DEX
CON
INT
WIS
CHA

Saving throws

STRDEXCONINTWISCHA

Skills

  • AcrobaticsDEX
  • Animal HandlingWIS
  • ArcanaINT
  • AthleticsSTR
  • DeceptionCHA
  • HistoryINT
  • InsightWIS
  • IntimidationCHA
  • InvestigationINT
  • MedicineWIS
  • NatureINT
  • PerceptionWIS
  • PerformanceCHA
  • PersuasionCHA
  • ReligionINT
  • Sleight of HandDEX
  • StealthDEX
  • SurvivalWIS

Weapons

Simple weapons,
Shortswords,
Quarterstaffs,
Darts,
Unarmed strikes

Tools

Thieves' tools,
Disguise kit

Languages

Common,
Infernal

Features

29 features

Action

  • Whirlwind Attack

    When As an action.

    Spectre makes a melee attack against every creature within 5 feet, using a separate attack roll for each target.

  • Fluid FocusLevel 17

    When On his turn.

    Spectre enters his automatic combat focus, gaining his Fluid Focus benefits and restoring all ki.

  • Whirlwind Attack and Amplified AssaultLevel 11

    Spectre has four attacks whenever he takes the Attack action. He can also make four additional attacks when using Flurry of Blows. He can use an action to make one melee attack against any number of creatures within 5 feet of him, with a separate attack roll for each target.

Bonus action

  • Flurry of Blows

    When After taking the Attack action with an unarmed strike or monk weapon.

    Spectre makes four additional unarmed strikes as a bonus action after taking the Attack action.

  • Patient Defense

    When On his turn.

    Spectre takes the Dodge action as a bonus action.

  • Step of the Wind

    When On his turn.

    Spectre takes the Dash or Disengage action as a bonus action.

  • Unarmored Defense and Martial ArtsLevel 1

    While unarmored and not wielding a shield, Spectre's AC equals 10 + his Dexterity modifier + his Wisdom modifier. He can use Dexterity instead of Strength for monk weapons and unarmed strikes, and he can roll his Martial Arts die in place of normal weapon damage for monk weapons and unarmed strikes. After taking the Attack action with an unarmed strike or monk weapon, he can make one unarmed strike as a bonus action.

Reaction

  • Deflect MissilesLevel 3

    When When hit by a ranged weapon attack.

    Spectre attempts to catch or deflect a ranged weapon attack, reducing its damage by 1d10 + 25. If reduced to 0, he can spend 1 ki to throw the missile back.

Always on

  • Immortal KiLevel 3

    When When reduced to 0 hit points or killed instantly.

    Spectre returns from the brink of death by making the Immortal Ki Constitution saving throw and spending ki as needed.

  • KiLevel 2

    Spectre has a pool of 20 ki points, regained after a short or long rest. His ki save DC is 19. Ki options include Flurry of Blows, Patient Defense, and Step of the Wind.

  • Unarmored MovementLevel 2

    Spectre can move along vertical surfaces and across liquids during his movement without falling during the move.

  • The Way of the Spectral AttackLevel 3

    Spectre can use his action to become invisible, resist all damage except force damage, and gain advantage on death saving throws for up to 1 minute. The effect ends if he attacks or forces a creature to make a saving throw. Once used, he must finish a long rest before using it again.

  • Astral StepLevel 3

    Spectre can move through another creature's space. If he ends his turn inside a creature, he is shunted to the nearest unoccupied space and takes 5 force damage. His jump distance is doubled.

  • Spectral TrainingLevel 3

    Spectre can catch and redirect missiles and manipulate space around his body with supernatural precision. He gains proficiency in Acrobatics and Insight from his monastic training.

  • Stillness of Mind and Ki-Empowered StrikesLevel 6

    Spectre can spend 1 ki point to cast comprehend languages, darkvision, or see invisibility without material components. He can also communicate with any creature that understands a language.

  • Improved Unarmored MovementLevel 6

    Spectre's unarmored movement increases to 30 feet. His unarmed strikes count as magical for overcoming resistance and immunity to nonmagical attacks and damage.

  • Ki AmplificationLevel 6

    Flurry of Blows, Patient Defense, and Step of the Wind no longer require ki. Spectre can amplify Flurry of Blows by spending 1 ki to make its attacks with advantage, amplify Patient Defense by spending 1 ki so that creatures that miss him while it is active become vulnerable to his immediate counterattacks, and amplify Step of the Wind by spending 1 ki to double his movement speed and triple his jump distance.

  • Stillness of MindLevel 7

    Spectre can use his action to end one effect on himself causing him to be charmed or frightened. Beginning at 10th level, he can use this feature to end a disease or poison effect as well.

  • Extra AttackLevel 11

    Spectre can make an additional attack when he takes the Attack action. His Martial Arts die becomes a d10, and his unarmored movement increases to 35 feet.

  • Diamond SoulLevel 14

    Spectre gains proficiency in all saving throws. When he fails a saving throw, he can spend 1 ki point to reroll it and must use the new result.

  • Superior Unarmored MovementLevel 18

    Spectre's unarmored movement increases to 40 feet. He can move along vertical surfaces and across liquids without falling during the movement.

  • Timeless BodyLevel 13

    Spectre can slow his aging, resist the effects of old age, understand all spoken languages, and communicate verbally with any creature that understands at least one language.

  • Perfect SelfLevel 20

    Spectre can use his action to regain 4 ki points, provided he has no ki remaining. Once he uses this feature, he must finish a long rest before using it again.

  • Ability Score IncreaseHuman+1 to all six ability scores.
  • TraitHumanMedium size.
  • TraitHumanWalking speed of 30 feet.
  • TraitHumanOne additional language, Infernal.
  • TraitHumanHumans reach adulthood in their late teens and commonly live less than a century, though Spectre's supernatural condition makes his lifespan uncertain.
  • City SecretsUrchin

    Spectre knows the secret patterns and signals of city streets. He can find passages through urban areas, identify safe hiding places, locate food and shelter for himself and others, and recognize the movement of local thieves, beggars, and informants.

Gear

10 items

Weapons

  • Quarterstaff
    A simple but perfectly balanced quarterstaff used when a visible weapon is preferable to an unarmed strike.
  • 10×
    Darts
    Ten polished darts concealed beneath his cloak and in hidden boot sheaths.

Armor

  • Studded leather armor
    Obsidian-black studded leather armor, worn as a purely cosmetic garment because Spectre relies on Unarmored Defense.

Tools

  • Small knife
    A small knife used for cutting cord, food, and occasionally locks.
  • Thieves' tools
    A set of thieves' tools hidden inside a false compartment in his boot.

Gear

  • Monastic keepsake
    A fragment of cloth from his first monastery robe, kept folded inside a silver reliquary.
  • Belt pouch
    A small belt pouch containing coins acquired through careful theft, contracts, and favors.
  • Common clothes
    A set of common clothes cut in dark colors and tailored for silent movement.
  • Family token
    A small token of his lost family, worn beneath his armor.

Purse

  • 15×
    Gold pieces
    Coins from the monk starting equipment and Urchin background.

Appearance

Spectre stands six feet two inches tall, with a lean, athletic build shaped by constant movement and combat. His devilishly handsome face carries a day's worth of dark stubble, framed by short, neatly trimmed brown hair. His perceptive eyes seem to notice every weakness, hidden weapon, and unspoken thought in the room. He wears obsidian-black studded leather armor beneath a heavy hooded black wool cloak trimmed in black and brown fur. A silver clasp fastens the cloak at his throat, and his matching black boots make almost no sound when he moves.

Mannerisms

Spectre speaks in a smooth, refined British aristocratic cadence, even when threatening someone. He adjusts his silver cloak clasp before entering danger, maintains unwavering eye contact, and often answers a question with a precise observation about the questioner's posture. When thinking, he taps two fingers against his wrist as though checking for a pulse that may no longer be there.

Personality

Spectre is effortlessly charming, detached, and observant. He makes people feel fascinating because he listens with complete attention, remembers tiny details, and speaks with calculated warmth. His confidence borders on arrogance, but his control is so complete that it rarely becomes offensive. He is courteous even toward enemies, though the courtesy often feels like the final warning before violence.

Ideals

Order. The world is cruel because it is chaotic, and the vulnerable suffer whenever the strong act without restraint. Every power must be disciplined, every promise must have weight, and every life must be given the chance to choose its own path.

Bonds

The forgotten children of every city belong to him in some small way. He secretly maintains a network of safe houses, food caches, and escape routes for street urchins, and he will risk almost anything to prevent a powerful person from exploiting them.

Flaws

Spectre believes that if he can understand death completely, he can eventually master it. This obsession makes him reckless with his own life and dismissive of ordinary danger. He also has difficulty accepting help, because dependence feels too much like the helplessness of his childhood. Beneath his polished charm lies a cold habit of judging everyone by how useful they might be in a crisis.

Quirks

He keeps a private ledger of every death he has personally witnessed.
He never sits with his back to a door, mirror, or open window.
He gives street children small silver coins but insists they spend them on food or shelter.
He occasionally addresses his own shadow as though it were an old companion.
He counts his breaths before answering questions about his past.

Background

Spectre remembers hunger before he remembers his family. He grew up in the alleys beneath a city that preferred not to see its abandoned children, surviving through theft, misdirection, and an uncanny talent for appearing exactly where no one expected him. His first lessons in combat came from evading watchmen and gang enforcers. His true training began when an aged monk found him calmly standing beside the body of a man who had tried to kill him. Rather than punish him, the monk taught him discipline, breath control, and the difference between surviving violence and mastering it. Years later, Spectre vanished from the monastery during an experiment involving a forbidden mirror said to reflect the spaces between worlds. He returned three days afterward, alive despite having been declared dead, carrying knowledge of distant planes and movements that seemed to leave echoes of himself behind. Since then, he has treated death as an inconvenience rather than an ending. He travels from city to city beneath his black hood, collecting debts, protecting the forgotten, and testing the limits of his own impossible nature. He claims his immortality is not a blessing, and his perfectly calm smile suggests that he knows precisely what it is costing him.

“His first lessons in combat came from evading watchmen and gang enforcers.”
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Background
Urchin

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