This is not damage, and thus cannot be reduced or circumvented by any means, but the lost hit points can be healed normally. For purposes of this class, paying hit points simply means reducing your hit point total by the stated amount. Most Blood Mage class abilities require you to 'pay' a given amount of hit points to activate them. After all, they only use what they were born with. They wield their own life and others' to power impressive works of magic with deceptive ease.ĭespite blood's unsavory connotations, blood mages can only shake their heads at those who would consider such methods unnatural. They forge oaths on such connections of blood, equating betrayal of one's word to betrayal of one's life. They share their blood with friend and foe, making others as themselves to share magic over impossible distances. Healing and harming comes more naturally to a blood mage than even to many miracleworkers. Power comes at a price, and few prices are higher than blood but the reward is proportional. Blood mages are those who become fascinated with it, learning to wield the very essence of life and, by extension, death. It connects kin, makes unrelated men brothers, and seals oaths with more symbolic authority than any law.

Many associate it with death, but that's only because you can't live without it. 'Blood calls to blood You and I are the same, like it or not. Stuff that needs discussion: The hp costs are slightly arbitrary and set with an eye on encouraging buffing and healing, but they're kind of hard to gauge. So here's my own take, in collaboration (again) with veekie. This is largely because nearly all of these focus on blood being icky and therefore edgy, ignoring more traditional mystic symbolism involving it. So I never really liked any of the various takes on blood mage classes I've seen around.

Blood mage d&d