Phantom

Average Height: 5' 5" - 6' 4" Average Weight: 0lb. Ability Scores: +2 Dexterity, +2 Wisdom or +2 Charisma Size: Medium Speed: 6 squares Vision: Low-light Languages: Common, choice of one other Skill Bonuses: +2 Intimidate, +2 Stealth Already Dead: Whenever you drop to 0 hit points or fewer, you are dying but you can choose to remain conscious until you attempt your first death saving throw. If you remain conscious, you can take only one standard action before you attempt your first death saving throw. Ghostwalk: You can use ghostwalk as a daily power. Past Life: Select a race other than phantom. You can take feats, a paragon path, and an epic destiny that have the selected race as a prerequisite, as long as you meet all other prerequisites. Undead: You are considered to be an undead creature for effects that relate to that keyword. Unfinished Business: You gain a +1 racial bonus to Will.

Ghostwalk			Phantom Racial Power
You pass from this world for a brief while.
Daily   ✦   Illusion
Minor Action		Personal
Effect: You become insubstantial and gain phasing until the end of your next turn.
Level 21: You become invisible and insubstantial and gain phasing until the end of your next turn.

 

Sometimes, when people die with unfinished, they become ghosts. Those who have the most drive to continue living, without the means to do so, become phantoms - solid ghosts that hold the semblance of life due to sheer willpower.

Though a phantom's body is a silvery reflection of their former form, the ectoplasm that composes that body is solid to the touch. They are held together by subconscious rage, sorrow, grief or whatever emotion has caused them to rise from the grave. So strong is this emotion that it takes a conscious effort to stop being solid.

The clarity of purpose behind their resurrection means that phantoms are not mindless like many other undead, although it does make them somewhat single-minded instead.

Play a phantom if you want...

• to be a spooky ghost.
• to search for the true path to eternal rest, or haunt the world forever as a spirit of vengeance.
• to be a member of a race that favors the monk, ranger and rogue classes.

Racial Feats

Heroic Tier

Ghostborn

Prerequisite: Phantom
Benefit: When you are missed by a melee attack, you can teleport 1 square as an immediate reaction.

Poltergeist

Prerequisite: Phantom
Benefit: When you hit with a daily power, you can shift each creature adjacent to the target 1 square.

Transparent

Prerequisite: Phantom
Benefit: If you are hit by an area attack and take damage, an enemy within 2 squares of you that has not been hit by the area attack takes damage equal to the damage you took.

Paragon Tier

Dread Aura

Prerequisite: 11th level, phantom
Benefit: Adjacent enemies take a -2 penalty to saving throws.

Ethereality

Prerequisite: 11th level, phantom
Benefit: When you use a daily attack power, you become insubstantial until the start of your next turn.

Epic Tier

Translucent

Prerequisite: 21st level, phantom
Benefit: Enemies more than 10 squares away treat you as having total concealment.

Racial Backgrounds

Betrayed

You were knifed in the back, or left to die, but either way you went to your death knowing you had been betrayed by someone you trusted with your life. Your anger has brought you back, made you solid, so you can wrap your fingers around their neck and choke the life out of them. Are you bristling with rage? Or are you calmly plotting your revenge? Is vengeance everything to you? What if your betrayer has already died?

Associated Skills: Intimidate, Streetwise

Didn't Let Go

Forget anger or sorrow, the reason you stuck around is that you just didn't want to die. There was so much left to do! What do you want to do with your newfound life? Are you only just taking up adventuring due to your presumably-unkillable form? Or were you an adventurer before you died? Has being dead made you appreciate life more?

Associated Skills: Endurance, Heal

Lost Love

You lost the love of your life to tragedy, breaking your heart so badly it has brought you back after death through the power of grief. Does your lost love already wander the world as a spirit? Or have you been separated once again, with you stuck in the mortal plane? Are you seeking a way to lay your soul to rest?

Associated Skills: Diplomacy, Insight

Racial Paragon Path: Wraithborn

"I have never yet heard of a murderer who was not afraid of a ghost."

Prerequisite: Phantom

Wraithborn Path Features

Ghostwalk Action (11th level): When you spend an action point, you gain phasing and insubstantial until the end of your next turn.
Shadow Aura (11th level): Your allies gain concealment while adjacent to you.
Exorcism Proof (16th level): Your already dead racial feature allows you to stay conscious until you die.

Wraithborn Powers

Temporary Possession		Wraithborn Attack 11
You plunge your ethereal hand into the chest of your enemy and control their actions for a brief moment.
Encounter   ✦   Psychic
Standard Action		Melee touch
Target: One creature
Attack: Dexterity vs. Will
Effect: You choose from one of the following effects: the target slides half its speed, or the target ends a grab, or the target is dazed (save ends), or the target performs a basic attack against a creature in range, or 3d8 + Dexterity modifier psychic damage.

Ghostjaunt			Wraithborn Utility 12
You fade into shreds of mist and reform elsewhere, remaining an immaterial specter.
Daily   ✦   Teleport
Move Action		Personal
Effect: You teleport up to 5 squares. In addition, you become insubstantial and gain phasing until the end of your next turn.

Folorn Image			Wraithborn Attack 20
You reach into the afterlife and draw out an image of the dead, tormenting your enemy with the sight of someone who was once close to them.
Daily   ✦   Conjuration, Fear, Psychic
Standard Action		Close burst 5
Effect: You conjure a folorn image in an unoccupied square within 5 squares of you. The image lasts until the end of your next turn. The image is invisible to everyone but you and the target. Whenever the target starts its turn and can see the image, the target takes 2d8 psychic damage.
Sustain Minor: The image persists, and you can move it 5 squares.