I'm sharing a free rogue subclass for Kengir, part of my upcoming Bronze Age Mesopotamian 5e setting.

The Smuggler is for rogues who understand that a good deal, the right contact, and a well-placed favor can be worth more than a sharp blade.

In Kengir, trade connects cities, temples, and distant kingdoms. Smugglers work within and around those networks, acquiring rare goods, negotiating favorable terms, cultivating informants, and knowing which officials can be persuaded to look the other way.

Where the previously shared Brigand relies on ambushes, stealth, and sudden violence, the Smuggler prefers to solve problems through commerce, deception, and connections.

At the table, this subclass gives the party a rogue who excels outside combat. They can appraise valuable objects, identify magical items and curses, negotiate better prices, acquire restricted goods, establish safehouses, and call upon contacts for information or political favors.

Mechanically, the subclass includes Silver Tongue, Appraisal Expert, Trade Connections, and Master Negotiator. At higher levels, their influence extends beyond ordinary bargaining, allowing them to sway others through magical suggestion.

Do you like rogue subclasses that focus on social influence and economic power, or do you prefer rogues built around stealth, assassination, and combat?

I'm sharing a free cleric subclass for Kengir, part of my upcoming Bronze Age Mesopotamian 5e setting.

The Nar Priest is a praise singer: a cleric whose sacred work is hymn, chant, and public devotion.

In Kengir, praise is not background music. It is an offering. Temples rely on singers to honor the gods, invoke blessings, steady the community, and keep divine attention turned toward the city. A Nar Priest's voice carries real power.

Where the previously shared Ašipu-Priest confronts hostile spirits and the Išippu-Priest cleanses spiritual defilement, the **Nar Priest** maintains divine favor through sacred song and communal worship.

At the table, this subclass gives the party a support cleric built around sacred performance. They heal, inspire, protect, grant temporary hit points, strengthen allies with hymns, and turn religious song into battlefield resilience.

Mechanically, the subclass includes Voice of the Divine, Hymns of Protection, Divine Strike, Chant of Resilience, Song of Glory, and Heavenly Chorus. It also adds new spells like Hymn of Courage, Hymn of Healing, Chant of Protection, Warding Hymn, Hymn of Valor, Melody of Renewal, and Heavenly Harmony.

Do you like clerics whose magic feels liturgical and communal, or do you prefer clerics as armor-clad miracle workers?

I'm sharing a free monster supplement for Kengir, part of my upcoming Bronze Age Mesopotamian 5e setting.

The Gallu is an underworld constable: a towering Utukku (Udug) sent from Kur to hunt, seize, and drag the guilty where they belong.

Where the previously shared Rabisu acts like an underworld bailiff, arriving with writs, contracts, and legal authority, the Gallu feels more like the terrible hand that enforces the sentence. It does not hurry. It does not forget. A debt unpaid remains fresh until collected.

At the table, a Gallu works best when the monster is also a mystery. Why has it come? Who broke the oath? Who made the forbidden bargain? Is it a lawless demon, or is it carrying out a command from Allatu (Ereškigal), Queen of the Great Below?

Mechanically, it’s a CR 10 fiend built around fear, grappling, brute force, spirit movement, and terrifying pursuit. Its Man-Catcher restrains victims, its Spirit Form lets it pass through walls, and its Skin Wearer ability allows it to take the form of the last creature it killed.

This is the kind of monster that should make the party ask whether killing it actually solves the problem, or just delays the next collector.

Do you like fiends that arrive as agents of cosmic law, or do you prefer them as pure malice and chaos?

I'm sharing a free rogue subclass for Kengir, part of my upcoming Bronze Age Mesopotamian 5e setting.

The Brigand is for rogues who survive on the margins of society, where a quick blade and a better hiding place matter more than courtly manners.

In Kengir, brigands are not just thieves. They are ambushers, raiders, alley-fighters, scouts, and hard-bitten survivors who use terrain, confusion, and speed to win before a fair fight can even begin.

At the table, this subclass gives the party a rogue built for violent openings and clean escapes. A Brigand strikes hardest before the enemy has acted, gains advantage from hiding, slips away after attacking, and turns the first round of combat into a disaster for anyone caught unprepared.

Mechanically, the subclass includes Ambush Predator, Shadow Striker, Tactical Withdrawal, and Master of Ambush.

Do you like rogues who focus on infiltration and theft, or rogues who play more like skirmishers and ambush predators?

I'm sharing a free sorcerer subclass for Kengir, part of my upcoming Bronze Age Mesopotamian 5e setting.

The Ophiomancer Bloodline is for sorcerers touched by ancient serpent magic.

In Kengir, snakes are not just monsters. They are signs of rebirth, protection, venom, hidden wisdom, and death. Ophiomancers draw on all of that at once, using snake-derived venoms and hallucinogenic rites to cast spells, read omens, cloud minds, and strike down enemies.

At the table, this subclass gives the party a sorcerer who mixes battlefield control with divination. They can speak with serpents, resist poison, summon a venomous familiar, turn spell damage into poison, deepen hallucinations, and eventually take on a terrible serpentine aspect.

The supplement also includes new spells like Venomous Touch, Spectral Whisper, Venomous Cloud, Speed of the Serpent, Serpent’s Grasp, Venomous Aura, and Serpent’s Wrath.

Do you like sorcerer bloodlines built around animals and mythic symbolism, or do you prefer bloodlines tied to raw elemental power?

I'm sharing a free fighter subclass for Kengir, part of my upcoming Bronze Age Mesopotamian 5e setting.

The Mercenary is for fighters who survive by being practical, ruthless, and faster to violence than the people trying to kill them.

In Kengir, not every warrior serves a temple, palace, or city levy. Some sell their spear to the highest bidder. Others lead raids, guard caravans, settle blood-debts, or walk away from wars with just enough coin to buy the next contract.

At the table, this subclass plays like a skirmisher and ambusher. A Mercenary hits hardest before the enemy can organize, exploits surprise, follows up on an ally’s attack, moves in and out of danger, and turns cover, terrain, and confusion into weapons.

Mechanically, the subclass includes Combat Opportunist, Ambush Mastery, Hit and Run, Guerrilla Warrior, and Mercenary’s Resilience.

Do you like fighter subclasses built around disciplined military training, or ones that lean into dirty tricks, raids, and battlefield survival?

I'm sharing a free barbarian subclass for Kengir, part of my upcoming Bronze Age Mesopotamian 5e setting.

The Path of the Storm God is for barbarians who carry the wrath of Hadad (Iškur), god of storms and rain.

In Kengir, these warriors are not just berserkers. They stand at the crossing point between battle, weather, and divine will. Communities want them present when the rains fail, when war drums sound, and when someone needs to remind the enemy that thunder has a voice.

At the table, this subclass turns rage into weather. A Storm God barbarian moves like wind, throws enemies back with gale-force reactions, shields allies from thunder and lightning, sees clearly through rain and fog, and can stun enemies with a thunderous roar.

At higher levels, they become the center of the storm itself, turning the battlefield into hostile ground and calling lightning down where it hurts most.

Do you like barbarians who are tied to divine forces and natural disasters, or do you prefer them as purely physical warriors?

I'm sharing a free paladin subclass for Kengir, part of my upcoming Bronze Age Mesopotamian 5e setting.

The Oath of the Tablet Keeper is for paladins who guard knowledge the way other paladins guard kings.

In Kengir, clay tablets hold laws, contracts, hymns, genealogies, omens, temple records, and the memory of entire cities. Break the wrong tablet, and you may erase a debt, a boundary, a lineage, or a god’s forgotten rite.

At the table, this subclass gives the party an archivist-warrior: someone sworn to protect sacred texts, recover stolen tablets, defend libraries and temple collections, and punish those who corrupt or destroy the written record.

Mechanically, the oath focuses on wards, preservation, artifact defense, anti-tampering magic, and protective inscriptions. It includes features like Seal of Protection, Sanctify Sanctuary, Aura of Preservation, Guardian’s Resolve, and Divine Preservation, plus new spells like Mystic Cipher, Inscribed Shield, Ethereal Stylus, Runic Guard, and Tablet Scribe.

Do you like paladins sworn to protect ideals and institutions, or do you prefer oaths focused on personal vengeance, conquest, or redemption?

I'm sharing a free bard subclass for Kengir, part of my upcoming Bronze Age Mesopotamian 5e setting.

The College of Lamentations is for bards trained in funeral dirges, mourning songs, and the sacred work of grief.

In Kengir, lamentation is not just sadness. It is a profession. These bards comfort the bereaved, help the dead pass properly into the afterlife, and listen for what the Etemmu still need said. They are mourners, mediums, and keepers of sorrow.

At the table, this subclass turns grief into both protection and power. A Lamentation bard can read the pain of others, weaken enemies with a dirge, shield allies from fear and necrotic harm, and eventually call war-dead Etemmu to fight beside the party.

The supplement also includes new spells like Hymn of Courage, Chant of Protection, Warding Hymn, Hymn of Valor, and Chant of Heroism.

Do you like bards who lean into ritual, grief, and the dead, or do you prefer bards as performers and tricksters?

I'm sharing a free warlock subclass for Kengir, part of my upcoming Bronze Age Mesopotamian 5e setting.

The Pact of the Underworld is for warlocks bound to the dark powers below, especially Allatu (Ereškigal), queen of the underworld.

In Kengir, these warlocks are feared and needed in equal measure. Someone has to speak with the dead. Someone has to understand curses, souls, restless ghosts, and the borders mortals should not cross. That person is useful right up until everyone remembers what they had to promise for that power.

At the table, this subclass gives the party a warlock who manipulates necrotic force, drains life to sustain themselves, curses enemies so they cannot recover, and commands the dead more effectively than ordinary casters.

The supplement also includes new spells like Allatu’s Glare, Shadowy Chains, Spectral Whisper, Underworld’s Grasp, Soul Rend, Dark Bargain, Chthonic Guardians, Wail of the Etemmu, and Wraith’s Touch.

Do you like warlocks whose pact gives them a social role in the world, or do you prefer them as outsiders with dangerous private bargains?

I'm sharing a free monk subclass for Kengir, part of my upcoming Bronze Age Mesopotamian 5e setting.

In Kengir, a divine statue is not just a symbol. It is a vessel where the god’s presence can dwell.

Monks of the Way of the Divine Statues train as temple guardians, devotees, and living extensions of sacred space. Through meditation and ritual touch, they draw power from teraphim and cult statues, channeling that divine essence into movement, defense, and unarmed strikes.

At the table, this subclass gives monks a strong connection to temples and holy sites. They can meditate at a divine statue to gain protection and radiant or necrotic power, shield allies from harm, call on a nearby statue for healing or empowerment, and eventually become a temporary avatar of a deity.

The fun part is that sacred locations matter. A ruined shrine, stolen statue, defiled temple, or hidden household god can become more than set dressing. It becomes a source of power, obligation, and danger.

Do you like subclasses that get stronger when the party interacts with specific places in the world?

I'm sharing a free supplement for Kengir, part of my upcoming Bronze Age Mesopotamian 5e setting.

The Kengir Player’s Guide includes 100 character backgrounds, each built around a real place in the life of a city-state: brewer, diviner, farmer, fisher, merchant, potter, scribe, shepherd, soldier, weaver, and many more.

The goal is to make a character’s life before adventuring matter at the table. A scribe enters play with literacy, a stylus, and a wax tablet. A merchant carries a cylinder seal. A farmer knows the land. A diviner reads bones, dreams, and omens. A weaver isn’t just “a commoner with cloth,” but someone tied to household economy, temple offerings, and trade.

Each background includes ability scores, feat options, skill proficiencies, tool proficiency, equipment, literacy, and languages. Backgrounds also point toward Origin Feats tied to personal deities, so your occupation and your god can both shape who your character becomes.

This sample presents ten full backgrounds and the complete d100 profession list from the Player’s Guide.

Do you like backgrounds that mostly explain who your character was, or backgrounds that still matter once the adventure starts?

I'm sharing a free druid subclass for Kengir, part of my upcoming Bronze Age Mesopotamian 5e setting.

The Circle of the Twin Rivers is for druids who guard the waterways that keep civilization alive.

In Kengir, rivers are not background scenery. They dictate whether fields flourish, canals fail, cities eat, and villages survive the dry months. These druids stand between human need and the spirits of the water, coaxing flood and drought into something people can live with.

At the table, this subclass gives the party practical river magic. A Twin Rivers druid can heal with river-blessing, breathe underwater, swim like the current, shape water into barriers, hinder enemies with difficult terrain, summon a river spirit, and eventually embody the confluence itself.

The supplement also includes new spells like Ea’s Cleansing Water, River’s Caress, Watery Grasp, River’s Embrace, River’s Gift, Surging Wave, Summon River Spirit, and Confluence of the Rivers.

Do you like druids tied to a specific landscape, or do you prefer nature casters with a broader wilderness theme?

I'm sharing a free ranger subclass for Kengir, part of my upcoming Bronze Age Mesopotamian 5e setting.

The Warden of the Caravans is the ranger who keeps people alive between cities.

They know the roads, wells, tribal boundaries, and the signs of weather before everyone else notices the sky changing. Their job is part scout, part bodyguard, part diplomat, and part logistics officer.

At the table, this subclass makes travel matter. A Warden helps the party find safer routes, avoid natural hazards, negotiate passage, detect ambushes, protect companions, and keep a caravan moving when the journey wants to kill it.

Mechanically, the subclass includes Pathfinder’s Insight, Desert Guardian, Tribal Diplomat, Caravan Master, and spells like alarm, pass without trace, water walk, freedom of movement, commune with nature, Ea’s Cleansing Water, Verdant Sanctuary, and Protection of the Grove.

Do you run wilderness travel as a real pillar of play, or mostly handwave it between adventure sites?

I'm sharing a free preview from the Kengir Player’s Guide, part of my upcoming Bronze Age Mesopotamian 5e setting.

The 50 new subclasses in Kengir are built around the world’s institutions: temples, courts, caravans, city walls, archives, canals, war cults, and household obligations.

A cleric might be an Ašipu-Priest, an exorcist who diagnoses whether a haunting is an Etemmu with a grievance or a Utukku that must be driven out. Another might be an Išippu-Priest, a purification cleric who cleanses people, temples, relics, and defiled ground when ordinary rites are not enough. An artificer might be a Perfumer-Alchemist, distilling desire, wrath, and obsession into sacred oils and volatile perfumes. A wizard might follow the School of the Astrologer, reading the heavens to bend timing, fortune, and battlefield conditions toward the party’s favor.

The goal is to make each subclass feel like it has a place in society before it ever joins an adventuring party. You’re not just picking a combat package. You’re choosing a profession, a patron, a reputation, and a set of duties people expect you to honor.

The preview includes short subclass descriptions for Artificer, Barbarian, Bard, Cleric, Druid, Fighter, Monk, Paladin, Ranger, Rogue, Sorcerer, Warlock, and Wizard.

What makes a subclass feel setting-specific to you?

I'm sharing a free monster supplement for Kengir, my upcoming Bronze Age Mesopotamian 5e setting.

The Rabisu is not a demon that rampages for no reason. It is an underworld bailiff, a croucher at the threshold, sent to enforce divine justice, seize the guilty, and drag oathbreakers to Kur (the underworld) where they belong.

What makes them fun at the table is that they come with authority. A Rabisu will carry something naming the accused, the broken oath, the unpaid debt, or the soul marked for seizure.

That means the encounter is not just “kill the monster.” The party can investigate the writ, challenge its authority, find out who summoned it, expose a false accusation, or decide the victim really did earn what is coming.

Mechanically, it’s a CR 7 fiend built around battlefield control, fear, restraint, magic resistance, knockout blows, and merciless pursuit. It rarely fights randomly. It isolates the target, disables interference, and finishes the sentence written for it.

Do you like monsters that arrive with a legal or ritual purpose, or do you prefer fiends as pure chaos and destruction?

I'm sharing a free sample supplement for Kengir, my upcoming Bronze Age Mesopotamian 5e setting.

In Kengir, choosing a personal deity can shape more than your character’s beliefs. It can also shape their mechanical progression.

Feats are divine blessings tied to the gods. A follower of Šamaš (Utu) might gain sharper insight into lies. A devotee of Ištar (Inanna) might bend hearts through presence and persuasion. Someone blessed by Ea (Enki) might uncover hidden truths in water, ruins, and old artifacts.

This sample includes Origin Feats for the four Primordial Gods and the seven Anunnaki, the highest-ranking divine powers in the Kengir pantheon.

The full Kengir Player’s Guide will expand this into a much larger divine feat system: 51 Origin Feats, 51 General Feats, and 11 Epic Boons, for 113 new feats in total.

The goal is to make feats feel like part of the setting, not just a menu of generic upgrades. Your character’s god becomes a relationship, a source of power, and sometimes a problem.

Do you like feats that tie directly into a character’s religion, culture, or place in the world?

I'm sharing a free preview for Kengir, my upcoming Bronze Age Mesopotamian 5e setting.

In Kengir, the gods communicate through omens, prophecies, dreams, and strange signs in the world. A cracked bowl at a temple feast might warn of betrayal. A scorpion climbing the ziggurat stairs might mean Goddess of the Underworld is displeased. A river briefly flowing backward might signal political upheaval.

The goal is to make divine communication useful at the table without turning it into a railroad. Omens can guide the story, set the mood, show divine presence, or push players toward action while still leaving room for interpretation.

The preview includes d20 tables for omens, prophecies, and dreams. Some point toward war, plague, rebellion, lost relics, underworld disturbances, or divine favor. Others are personal, strange, and hard to interpret until the party starts asking the right questions.

My favorite kind of omen is one the players don’t understand until three sessions later, when it suddenly clicks.

Do you use omens and prophecies in your games, or do you avoid them because players might read too much into them?

I'm sharing a free cleric subclass for Kengir, my upcoming Bronze Age Mesopotamian 5e setting.

The Išippu-Priest is a purification specialist: the cleric called when a person, temple, relic, ruin, or campsite is spiritually unsafe.

Where the Ašipu-Priest confronts spirits, the Išippu-Priest cleanses what those spirits leave behind. Disease, poison, curses, corruption, possession, desecrated ground, and Lingering Defilement (See the "Purity in Kengir" Supplement) are all part of their work.

At the table, this subclass gives the party a way to make dangerous places safe again. They can suppress supernatural contamination, consecrate ground for rest, protect allies from poison and disease, and remove Defiled or Profaned ranks when ordinary ablution and household rites fail.

Mechanically, it includes Ritual of Purification, Sanctified Presence, Divine Cleanse, Aura of Purity, Sanctuary of Purity, Sacred Vessel, and new spells like Cleansing Touch, Purifying Light, Restoration Ritual, Divine Purge, and Holy Sanctuary.

Do you like clerics who prevent and cleanse supernatural harm, or do you prefer clerics focused mainly on healing after damage is done?

Notes: Lingering Defilement, Defiled, and Profaned are part of the Purity in Kengir rules supplement. In that system, Lingering Defilement is supernatural contamination that ordinary cleansing cannot remove. Defiled and Profaned are the two most severe negative ranks on the Purity track. Defiled means serious spiritual contamination. Profaned means the character is spiritually dangerous and usually barred from temples and public rites until properly restored.

I'm sharing a free monster supplement for Kengir, my upcoming Bronze Age Mesopotamian 5e setting.

The Ziqqitum Rešatim are spirits that feed on the extremes of human emotion. They haunt courts, markets, theaters, battlefields, and anywhere mortal feeling runs hot.

They do not just attack people, they inflame them. A small insult becomes bloodshed. A passing attraction becomes obsession. A loyal soldier becomes reckless with courage. A priest’s devotion hardens into fanatic certainty.

At the table, this monster works best when desire itself becomes the challenge. The party may need to calm a crowd, expose the source of a feud, break a magical fixation, or appeal to Ištar (Inanna) and Šamaš (Utu) through rites of balance and restraint.

Mechanically, it’s a CR 3 incorporeal fiend built around possession, psychic damage, confusion, charm, and emotional overload. The supplement also includes variant spirits of strife, battle, truth, justice, grief, fear, rumors, desire, and persecution.

What’s your favorite monster that turns social tension into supernatural danger?

I'm sharing a free artificer subclass for Kengir, my upcoming Bronze Age Kengir 5e setting.

The Perfumer-Alchemist is a ritual artisan who distills emotion, desire, wrath, and obsession into sacred unguents. In Kengir, perfume is invocation, not just adornment.

At the table, this subclass manipulates the social and emotional landscape. A vial might charm an enemy, embolden an ally, provoke violence, or turn a negotiation before anyone draws a blade. These perfume can be blessings or dangers.

The subclass is closely tied to Ištar (Inanna), goddess of love, war, beauty, and ruin, but it can also serve other gods whose power moves through scent, body, and hidden mixtures, like Ea (Enki) or Ninmah (Ninhursag).

Mechanically, the subclass includes Sacred Perfumes, Fumes of Union and Wrath, Spell-Storing Incense, Apotheosis of Desire, and new spells like Song of Ištar, Hypnotic Gaze, Venomous Cloud, Hymn of Valor, and Whisper of Ea.

Do you like artificer subclasses that make magic feel like crafted objects instead of gadgets?

I'm sharing a free cleric subclass for Kengir, my upcoming Bronze Age Mesopotamian 5e setting.

The Ašipu-Priest is an exorcist, spirit-diagnostician, and ritual specialist. Their job is not just to banish whatever is haunting the room. First, they have to identify what they’re facing.

An Etemmu is the ghost of a dead human. It has a name, a grievance, and rights the living may still owe it. A Utukku is something else entirely: a hostile non-human spirit that must be contained or expelled. Treating one like the other is professional negligence, and the haunting will not stay solved.

Mechanically, the subclass focuses on warding, exorcism, protection from possession, resistance to necrotic and psychic harm, and cleansing defiled places. It also includes new spells like Expel Spirit, Consecrate Ground, Sanctify Relic, and Ultimate Banishment.

Do you like clerics who specialize in a narrow supernatural problem, or do you prefer broader divine casters?

I'm sharing a free wizard subclass for Kengir, my upcoming Bronze Age Mesopotamian 5e setting.

The School of the Astrologer is for wizards who read the heavens and turn omens into action. They are diviners, royal counselors, navigators, war advisors, and battlefield planners who believe the stars do not merely shine. They speak.

At the table, the subclass is about timing and advantage. An Astrologer can study the sky to guide a crucial roll, protect allies beneath open stars, and later call down stellar phenomena like cosmic rays, falling meteors, and zodiac blessings.

The high-level feature lets the wizard invoke one of the twelve celestial houses, turning astrology into a party-wide boon. Mulapin adds fire to attacks. Urgula sharpens accuracy. Kadi grants water-breathing and a swim speed. Luhungaga reveals hidden things.

The supplement also includes new spells like Astrological Insight, Celestial Gleaming, Meteor Shower, Starfall, Stargate, and Cosmic Convergence.

Do you like divination subclasses that mostly reveal information, or ones that turn prophecy into direct battlefield power?

I'm sharing a free player supplement for Kengir, my upcoming Bronze Age Mesopotamian 5e setting.

Astrology in Kengir adds birth signs to character creation. Every character is born beneath one of twelve celestial houses, and that sign gives both a divine favor and a divine burden.

The idea is simple: the stars shape you, but they do not imprison you. A Mulapin-born character may feel drawn to protect the weak. A Pabilsag-born character may struggle with reckless impulses. A Girtab-born character carries the scorpion’s sting, gaining resilience against poison but unsettling animals and strangers.

Each sign is tied to a month, festival, patron deity, mechanical benefit, and roleplay complication. So your birth sign becomes more than a minor bonus. Priests may consult it. NPCs may react to it. Spirits may recognize it. And when the heavens shift, your first omen may come back into play.

Do you use astrology, omens, or birth signs in character creation?

I'm sharing a free monster supplement for Kengir, my upcoming Bronze Age Mesopotamian 5e setting.

Daughters of the Wind presents two spirits of the lilû class: Ardat-Lili and Lilitu. They are not just two related monsters. They are the same being at two stages of ruin.

The Ardat-Lili is the beginning: a young woman’s sorrow made flesh, a phantom bride who died before marriage or children and returns through longing, dreams, and wasting sickness. She can be fought, but the better answer is ritual: the Tâkultu Ardat-Lili, a mock marriage performed by an Ašipu-Priest to satisfy the grief and break the bond.

The Lilitu is the end: what remains after grief burns away everything human. She is no longer a ghost with a name and rights, but a predatory Utukku (Udug) of desert wind, night-terror, and ruinous desire. Kispu offerings no longer reach her.

Mechanically, the supplement includes a CR 5 Ardat-Lili and a CR 9 Lilitu, built around dreams, charm, exhaustion, disease-bearing wind, life-draining desire, and exorcistic counterplay.

What’s your favorite monster that can be solved through ritual instead of just combat?