Goldie Skullcrusher
Goldie Skullcrusher
Sheet
AC 9 · HP 62 · 30 ft.Saving throws
Skills
- AcrobaticsDEX
- Animal HandlingWIS
- ArcanaINT
- AthleticsSTR
- AthleticsSTR
- DeceptionCHA
- HistoryINT
- InsightWIS
- InvestigationINT
- MedicineWIS
- NatureINT
- PerceptionWIS
- PersuasionCHA
- ReligionINT
- Sleight of HandDEX
- StealthDEX
Weapons
Tools
Languages
Features
26 featuresBonus action
- Adrenaline Rush
When As a Bonus Action
Goldie charges across the battlefield with startling speed and gains temporary resilience.
- Adrenaline RushOrcAs a Bonus Action, Dash and gain 6 Temporary Hit Points. Usable 6 times per Long Rest.
Reaction
- Sculpted Evocation
When When an Evocation spell affects allies in its area
Goldie releases a controlled burst of magical force, shaping the blast around allies with practiced precision.
Always on
- OverchannelLevel 14
When When casting a 1st through 5th-level Evocation spell
Goldie briefly turns a spell's energy into catastrophic force, maximizing its damage.
- SpellcastingLevel 1
Goldie casts Wizard spells using Intelligence. She has a spellbook, can prepare 19 Wizard spells, and has four cantrips from Wizard levels. Her spellbook contains the spells she has learned throughout her career.
- Ritual AdeptLevel 1
Goldie can cast a Wizard spell as a Ritual if it has the Ritual tag and is in her spellbook, without expending a spell slot.
- Arcane RecoveryLevel 1
Once per Long Rest, Goldie can recover expended spell slots with a combined level of 10 or less after a Short Rest.
- ScholarLevel 2
Goldie gains expertise in Arcana and History, doubling her Proficiency Bonus for ability checks using either skill.
- Wizard SubclassLevel 3
Goldie gains the Evocation subclass and its subclass features.
- Ability Score ImprovementLevel 4
Goldie gains an Ability Score Improvement or another feat. Her Intelligence remains 9 because the provided scores are final.
- MemorizeLevel 5
Goldie can replace one prepared Wizard spell with another spell from her spellbook when she finishes a Short or Long Rest.
- Sculpt SpellsLevel 6
Goldie can shape many Evocation spells around allies, allowing chosen creatures to automatically succeed on their saving throws and take no damage when appropriate.
- Potent CantripLevel 6
Goldie's damaging cantrips deal half damage to a creature that succeeds on its saving throw, when the cantrip normally deals no damage on a successful save.
- Ability Score ImprovementLevel 8
Goldie gains an Ability Score Improvement or another feat. Her Intelligence remains 9 because the provided scores are final.
- Empowered EvocationLevel 10
Goldie can add her Intelligence modifier to one damage roll of an Evocation spell she casts.
- Ability Score ImprovementLevel 12
Goldie gains an Ability Score Improvement or another feat. Her Intelligence remains 9 because the provided scores are final.
- Spell MasteryLevel 18
Goldie can cast a prepared 1st or 2nd-level Wizard spell without expending a spell slot a limited number of times per Long Rest, as allowed by the 2024 Wizard rules.
- Epic BoonLevel 19
Goldie gains an Epic Boon feat. Her Intelligence remains 9 because the provided scores are final.
- Signature SpellsLevel 20
Goldie chooses two 3rd-level or lower Wizard spells as Signature Spells. She always has them prepared and can cast each once per Long Rest without expending a spell slot.
- Creature TypeOrcHumanoid.
- TraitOrcMedium size, typically 6 to 7 feet tall.
- SpeedOrc30 feet.
- TraitOrcDarkvision out to 120 feet.
- Relentless EnduranceOrcWhen reduced to 0 Hit Points but not killed outright, drop to 1 Hit Point instead. Once per Long Rest.
- Sage Origin featOrcMagic Initiate (Wizard), granting two Wizard cantrips and one 1st-level Wizard spell.
- ResearcherSage
Goldie can usually locate information in libraries, archives, monasteries, and scholarly institutions. She knows how to obtain access to restricted or obscure knowledge by persuading custodians, trading information, or calling upon former academic contacts.
Spells
19 spellsSpellcasting. Goldie Skullcrusher casts with Intelligence (spell save DC 13, to hit with spell attacks).
Cantrips (at will): , , ,
1st level (4 slots): , , ,
2nd level (3 slots): no spells
3rd level (3 slots): ,
4th level (3 slots): ,
5th level (2 slots): ,
6th level (1 slot):
7th level (1 slot):
8th level (1 slot):
9th level (1 slot): ,
Gear
7 itemsWeapons
- QuarterstaffA polished but heavily scarred wooden staff used as an arcane focus and walking stick.
Tools
- Calligrapher's SuppliesA set of fine writing tools, sealing wax, ink, and blank labels.
Gear
- SpellbookA leather-bound spellbook filled with cramped notes, anatomical diagrams, and pressed black flowers.
- Book of HistoryA historical study of the monastery's founding, with Goldie's annotations in the margins.
- 8×ParchmentBlank sheets for copying spells, recording observations, and writing letters to the dead.
- RobeA loose scholar's robe reinforced at the elbows and shoulders.
Purse
- 63×Gold PiecesCoins saved from years of tutoring, translation, and discreet supernatural consulting.
Appearance
Goldie Skullcrusher is a towering, broad-shouldered orc woman with ash-gray skin, a heavy brow, prominent lower tusks, and close-cropped black hair streaked with silver. Her muscular frame is wrapped in a patched scholar's robe reinforced with leather shoulder guards. She wears spectacles balanced between her tusks, several ink-stained gloves, and a belt crowded with scroll cases, bone pens, and tiny labeled specimen jars.
Mannerisms
Goldie adjusts her spectacles with the end of her staff, taps her tusks while thinking, and assigns catalog numbers to everything from ancient artifacts to party members. When excited, she speaks faster, switches between academic terminology and blunt orcish slang, and occasionally forgets that others cannot see the ghost she is currently interviewing.
Personality
Goldie is enthusiastic, direct, and endlessly curious. She loves learning of all kinds, from battlefield tactics and ancient languages to cooking methods and the mating habits of cave beetles. She is physically imposing but emotionally gentle with frightened people, injured creatures, and spirits who have been denied a proper farewell. Her fascination with necromancy is scholarly and protective rather than cruel, although her casual discussions of corpse preservation can unsettle nearly everyone around her.
Ideals
Knowledge belongs to everyone willing to seek it. Death should be studied rather than worshiped or feared, because understanding the boundary between life and death is the first step toward protecting both.
Bonds
Goldie is bound to the ruined monastery library that gave her a life of learning. She has sworn to recover its scattered books and restore its forbidden archive, especially the records of the dead whose stories were erased by fear.
Flaws
Goldie cannot leave a mystery alone, even when solving it is dangerous, illegal, or deeply disrespectful to the dead. She also has a habit of treating living companions as research assistants and can become dismissive when someone lacks the vocabulary to explain their own fear.
Quirks
Background
Goldie Skullcrusher was born into an orc clan that expected her to become a raider, champion, or at least a respectable smith. Instead, she became fascinated by every scrap of knowledge that crossed her path. She learned the clan's hunting routes, memorized the names of medicinal plants, took apart broken weapons to understand their construction, and eventually discovered an abandoned monastery whose library had been sealed after a plague. The monks expected a monster when Goldie arrived. They found a tireless student who could carry an entire shelf of books at once and who asked unsettlingly precise questions about death, memory, and what remained after the soul departed.
“Instead, she became fascinated by every scrap of knowledge that crossed her path.”
- Background
- Sage
Connections
Species
Orc
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