Enjoiner
Today we have an extra special release for you all, one that's been in the making for a long time; the Enjoiner, our new full class! The Enjoiner is a summoner class, a scholar of the planes who binds and commands servants from beyond the Materium. Enjoiners, Intelligence based half-casters, are especially good at controlling the battlefield, and their ability to cast through and transform their enjoined, their primary companion, lets them stay versatile and dangerous even from a safe vantage point.
'Minion-mancy' is a difficult thing to balance properly, and was the most complicated part of developing this class. Giving a player a master and minion can be like giving them two full characters worth of power, and it's a pitfall many summoners have fallen victim to before. As we playtested, we were especially careful to keep a close eye on how it compared to other classes, while still letting the Enjoiner be better in some ways. After all, while it shouldn't be able to replace two full party members, there should be upsides to being plural, don't you think?
This class is easily our most difficult project to date, but that just makes us all the more excited to get your hands on it. Below, we have a sample, so that you can test out our creation. The full version, meanwhile, will be available on our DriveThruRPG! We apparently have to wait to be verified, but in only a few days, for only $6, you get all five archetypes and all twenty levels, and our deepest thanks for your support. And, if you want to really support us, Enjoiner is already available to our $5 patrons on Patreon! However you support us, funds raised will go directly back into improving our site, refining our future creations, and just generally making sure that Gelatinous Cubicles will be producing top-flight homebrew until we're all white-haired, achy-boned, and drowning in melted glacier decades from now. Enjoy!
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Enjoiner
A wizened acolyte casts blessed ashes across a smoldering bowl of incense, inhaling the smoke deep into his lungs. He lowers the icon of a saint into the open chest of a chiseled statue, chanting ancient prayers in order to beckon forth the divine. A radiant light begins to manifest in the darkness.
A pallid, scowling gnome peers at a camp full of orcs from the safety of the shadows. A silent gesture beckons forth a deformed lump of flesh, which grows three times its size, splitting and reforming at the seams. It bursts from the brush and descends upon the brutes with thrashing wrath.
A finely dressed woman in black watches her servant move amongst the crowd: a beautiful fey being, casting its ear toward whispered conversations. As it passes between groups, its form changes, reshaping into a black-haired nobleman who presents a sparkling rose to his master, ready to share the secrets he has garnered during the waltz.
Enjoiners are academics who study the planes and specialize in one field of planar study from which they learn as much as they can, forging connections between themselves and these otherworldly beings. Enjoiners draw their power from these connections to the non-material, and can forge a special bond with an outsider creature, such as a fey, elemental, fiend, or celestial. The enjoiner is also able to form temporary connections to other beings, though such links are more ephemeral than the unique connection an enjoiner shares with its enjoined.