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Geokinesis

Geokinesis shapes a character's supernatural focus, training, and power set.

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Geokinesis Powers

42 powers, grouped by tier. The rules needed for quick reference are shown directly in each row.

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Tier 0

2

Choose dirt, sand, clay, or stone within a 5-ft. cube in range. You may move loose earth up to 5 ft., mark stone or soil with shapes or words, or make the ground difficult terrain or normal terrain for 1 hour. You can maintain two non-instant effects at once.

Action: Action
Use: At-Will
Range: 30 ft.
Duration: Instant / 1 Hour
Type: Earth

Launch a shard of stone at one creature within range. Make a ranged power attack. On a hit, the target takes 4 (1d8) bludgeoning damage.

Action: Action
Use: At-Will
Range: 60 ft.
Duration: Instant
Effect: 1d8
Type: Bludgeoning
Roll: Attack

Tier 1

4

The ground shakes around you. Creatures of your choice on the ground in the emanation must make a DEX save, taking 7 (2d6) bludgeoning damage and falling prone on a failed save, or half damage with no prone on a success. Loose earth or stone becomes difficult terrain until cleared.

Action: Action
Use: At-Will
Range: Self (10 ft.)
Duration: Instant
Effect: 2d6
Type: Bludgeoning
Save: DEX

When a creature you can see within range takes bludgeoning, piercing, or slashing damage, stones rise to intercept. Reduce the damage by your WIS modifier plus your proficiency bonus.

Action: Reaction
Use: At-Will
Range: 30 ft.
Duration: Instant
Effect: WIS + PB
Type: Reduction

Choose one creature standing on earth or stone within range. It must make a STR save or have its speed reduced to 0 until the start of your next turn.

Action: Action
Use: At-Will
Range: 60 ft.
Duration: 1 Round
Type: Earth
Save: STR

Until the end of your turn, you ignore difficult terrain made of earth, sand, mud, rubble, or stone, and your movement does not trigger unstable earth or loose-stone hazards.

Action: Bonus Action
Use: At-Will
Range: Self
Duration: 1 Round
Type: Movement

Tier 2

4

When a creature you can see within range would be pushed, pulled, knocked prone, or lifted while standing on earth or stone, reduce the movement by up to 20 ft. and grant advantage on the save or check against the effect.

Action: Reaction
Use: At-Will
Range: 60 ft.
Duration: Instant
Effect: 20 ft.
Type: Protection

A hand of compacted earth rises in an unoccupied 5-ft. space on the ground within range. One creature within 5 ft. of it must make a STR save, taking 10 (3d6) bludgeoning damage and becoming restrained on a failed save, or half damage with no restraint on a success. As an action, move the hand up to 20 ft. or crush a restrained target for 3d6 bludgeoning damage.

Action: Action
Use: At-Will
Range: 60 ft.
Duration: Concentration, 1 Minute
Effect: 3d6
Type: Bludgeoning
Save: STR

Stone fragments erupt in a 10-ft. radius centered on a point of earth or stone within range. Creatures in the area must make a DEX save, taking 14 (4d6) bludgeoning damage on a failed save, or half as much on a success. The area becomes difficult terrain until cleared.

Action: Action
Use: At-Will
Range: 90 ft.
Duration: Instant
Effect: 4d6
Type: Bludgeoning
Save: DEX

Touch a stone object or section of stone no more than 5 ft. in any dimension and reshape it into a simple form, opening, seal, tool, container, or crude weapon. Fine mechanical detail is not possible.

Action: Action
Use: At-Will
Range: Touch
Duration: Instant
Effect: 5 ft.
Type: Stone

Tier 3

4

A fountain of earth and stone erupts in a 20-ft. cube centered on a point of ground within range. Creatures in the area must make a DEX save, taking 20 (3d12) bludgeoning damage on a failed save, or half as much on a success. The ground becomes difficult terrain until cleared.

Action: Action
Use: At-Will
Range: 120 ft.
Duration: Instant
Effect: 3d12
Type: Bludgeoning
Save: DEX

Meld into Stone

Step into a stone object or surface large enough to contain your body. You and your equipment merge with it. You cannot see outside, but can hear faintly and remain aware of time. You may exit through the entry point by spending 5 ft. of movement. If the stone is broken so you no longer fit, you are expelled and take 6d6 force damage.

Action: Action
Use: At-Will
Range: Touch
Duration: 8 Hours
Effect: 6d6
Type: Force

Raise a 5-ft. diameter stone pillar up to 20 ft. high from earth or stone within range. A creature in the space must make a DEX save or be lifted by the pillar. The pillar has AC 15, 30 hit points, and immunity to poison and psychic damage.

Action: Bonus Action
Use: At-Will
Range: 60 ft.
Duration: 1 Minute
Effect: 20 ft.
Type: Stone
Save: DEX

Create a wall of swirling sand on the ground within range, up to 30 ft. long, 10 ft. high, and 10 ft. thick. It blocks line of sight but not movement. A creature in the wall is blinded and must spend 3 ft. of movement for every 1 ft. it moves there.

Action: Action
Use: At-Will
Range: 90 ft.
Duration: Concentration, 10 Minutes
Type: Earth

Tier 4

4

Earthen Entrapment

Choose one creature standing on loose earth, sand, mud, or soil within range. It must make a STR save or become restrained and blinded as the ground closes around it. A restrained creature may use its action to make a STR check against your power save DC, ending the effect on a success.

Action: Action
Use: At-Will
Range: 60 ft.
Duration: 1 Minute
Type: Earth
Save: STR

Your walking speed increases by 10 ft., and you ignore difficult terrain made of earth, stone, mud, sand, or rubble. Once per turn when you move at least 10 ft. on earth or stone, one creature within 5 ft. of you must make a STR save or fall prone.

Action: Bonus Action
Use: At-Will
Range: Self
Duration: 1 Minute
Effect: +10 ft.
Type: Movement
Save: STR

When a creature you can see within range takes damage, stone armor forms around it. Reduce the damage by 4d8 + your WIS modifier. If the creature is on earth or stone, it also gains temporary hit points equal to your WIS modifier.

Action: Reaction
Use: At-Will
Range: 60 ft.
Duration: Instant
Effect: 4d8 + WIS
Type: Reduction / Temp HP

Touch one willing creature. Until the effect ends, it has resistance to bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage.

Action: Action
Use: At-Will
Range: Touch
Duration: Concentration, 1 Hour
Type: Resistance

Tier 5

4

Create a passage through wood, plaster, packed earth, or stone within range. The opening can be up to 5 ft. wide, 8 ft. tall, and 20 ft. deep. When the passage closes, creatures and objects inside are safely ejected.

Action: Action
Use: At-Will
Range: 30 ft.
Duration: 1 Hour
Effect: 20 ft.
Type: Earth / Stone

Choose a 20-ft. radius area of ground within range. Creatures in the area must make a DEX save, taking 36 (8d8) bludgeoning damage and falling prone on a failed save, or half damage with no prone on a success. The area becomes difficult terrain, and creatures that failed are pulled 10 ft. toward the center.

Action: Action
Use: At-Will
Range: 120 ft.
Duration: 1 Round
Effect: 8d8
Type: Bludgeoning
Save: DEX

Choose stone or mud in a 40-ft. cube within range and change rock to mud or mud to soft stone. Rock turned to mud is difficult terrain and may restrain creatures on a failed STR save. Mud turned to stone may restrain creatures in it on a failed DEX save.

Action: Action
Use: At-Will
Range: 120 ft.
Duration: Until Dispelled
Effect: 40-ft. cube
Type: Earth / Stone
Save: STR / DEX

Create a wall of solid stone made of ten contiguous 10-ft. panels. Each panel has AC 15, 30 hit points per inch of thickness, and immunity to poison and psychic damage. If maintained for the full duration, the wall becomes permanent.

Action: Action
Use: At-Will
Range: 120 ft.
Duration: Concentration, 10 Minutes
Effect: 10 panels
Type: Stone
Save: DEX

Tier 6

4

Bones of the Earth

Cause up to six stone pillars to burst from ground within range. Each is 5 ft. in diameter and up to 30 ft. high. A creature in a pillar’s space must make a DEX save or be lifted. If blocked by a ceiling or obstacle, the creature takes 21 (6d6) bludgeoning damage and is restrained until it escapes with a STR or DEX check against your power save DC.

Action: Action
Use: At-Will
Range: 120 ft.
Duration: Instant
Effect: 6d6
Type: Bludgeoning
Save: DEX

Choose one creature within range. It must make a CON save or become restrained as stone spreads across it. A restrained target repeats the save at the end of each of its turns. Three successes end the effect; three failures petrify the target for the duration. If you maintain concentration for the full duration, the petrification lasts until cured.

Action: Action
Use: At-Will
Range: 60 ft.
Duration: Concentration, 1 Minute
Type: Petrification
Save: CON

Investiture of Stone

Stone spreads across your body. You gain resistance to nonmagical bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage, ignore earth and stone difficult terrain, and may move through solid earth or stone during your movement. If you end your movement inside solid earth or stone, you are ejected and stunned until the end of your next turn.

Action: Bonus Action
Use: At-Will
Range: Self
Duration: Concentration, 10 Minutes
Type: Resistance / Movement

Choose an area of dirt, sand, or clay no larger than 40 ft. on a side within range and reshape it gradually. You may raise or lower elevation, create or fill trenches, flatten ground, form walls, or shape pillars. Every 10 minutes, you may affect a new area within range.

Action: Action
Use: At-Will
Range: 120 ft.
Duration: Concentration, 2 Hours
Effect: 40 ft.
Type: Earth

Tier 7

4

Earthspeaker Dominion

You ignore resistance to bludgeoning damage dealt by Geokinesis powers. You always know the direction and distance to major stone, metal ore, worked tunnels, and unstable ground within 120 ft.

Action: Passive
Use: At-Will
Range: Self
Duration: Permanent
Effect: 120 ft.
Type: Earth

A jagged fault opens in a 120-ft. long, 10-ft. wide line. Creatures in the line must make a DEX save, taking 44 (8d10) bludgeoning damage and falling prone on a failed save, or half damage with no prone on a success. The line becomes difficult terrain.

Action: Action
Use: At-Will
Range: Self (120-ft. line)
Duration: Instant
Effect: 8d10
Type: Bludgeoning
Save: DEX

Choose up to six creatures standing on earth or stone within range. Each target must make a STR save or have speed 0, be unable to fly or burrow, and fall prone if airborne, until the start of your next turn.

Action: Action
Use: At-Will
Range: 120 ft.
Duration: 1 Round
Effect: 6 creatures
Type: Earth
Save: STR

Stone erupts around one Huge or smaller creature standing on earth or stone within range. The target must make a STR save or become restrained inside stone. It has total cover while restrained this way but is incapacitated. It repeats the save at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on a success.

Action: Action
Use: At-Will
Range: 120 ft.
Duration: 1 Minute
Type: Stone
Save: STR

Tier 8

4

Choose a point on the ground within range. Tremors rip through a 100-ft. radius. The area is difficult terrain. When you use this power and at the end of each of your turns, creatures on the ground in the area must make a DEX save or fall prone and lose concentration. Structures in contact with the ground take 50 bludgeoning damage each round.

Action: Action
Use: At-Will
Range: 500 ft.
Duration: Concentration, 1 Minute
Effect: 50
Type: Bludgeoning
Save: DEX

Mighty Fortress

A stone fortress erupts from a square area of ground within range, up to 120 ft. on each side. It includes outer walls, four corner turrets, stone doors, and a three-story keep you may divide into rooms. The fortress is furnished and stocked with food for up to 100 people each day. Using this power on the same spot every 7 days for a year makes it permanent.

Action: 1 Minute
Use: 1/Long Rest
Range: 1 Mile
Duration: 7 Days
Effect: 120 ft.
Type: Stone

A mass of stone descends into a 40-ft. radius centered on a point within range. Creatures of your choice in the area must make a DEX save, taking 55 (10d10) bludgeoning damage on a failed save, or half as much on a success. On a failed save, a creature is knocked prone and the area becomes difficult terrain.

Action: Action
Use: At-Will
Range: 300 ft.
Duration: Instant
Effect: 10d10
Type: Bludgeoning
Save: DEX

For the duration, you gain resistance to bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage, tremorsense 60 ft., and a burrowing speed of 30 ft. through earth and stone. Once per turn when you deal bludgeoning damage with Geokinesis, add your WIS modifier to the damage roll.

Action: Bonus Action
Use: At-Will
Range: Self
Duration: 1 Minute
Effect: WIS
Type: Resistance / Movement

Tier 9

4

Deep Stone Sovereignty

You have tremorsense 120 ft. while touching earth or stone. You can move through nonmagical earth and stone as difficult terrain without disturbing it, but are ejected to the nearest open space if you end your turn inside it.

Action: Passive
Use: At-Will
Range: Self
Duration: Permanent
Effect: 120 ft.
Type: Movement

Petrifying Dominion

Choose up to three creatures within range. Each target must make a CON save or become restrained as stone overtakes it. A restrained target repeats the save at the end of each of its turns. Three successes end the effect for that target; three failures petrify it until cured.

Action: Action
Use: 1/Long Rest
Range: 120 ft.
Duration: Concentration, 1 Minute
Effect: 3 creatures
Type: Petrification
Save: CON

Choose a point on the ground within range. Creatures of your choice in a 60-ft. radius must make a DEX save, taking 66 (12d10) bludgeoning damage and falling prone on a failed save, or half damage with no prone on a success. Structures in the area take double damage.

Action: Action
Use: At-Will
Range: 500 ft.
Duration: Instant
Effect: 12d10
Type: Bludgeoning
Save: DEX

Worldroot Fortress

Raise walls, tunnels, pillars, bridges, or shelters of stone occupying up to twenty 10-ft. cubes within range. Each section has AC 18, 80 hit points, and immunity to poison and psychic damage. The construction is permanent unless destroyed.

Action: Action
Use: At-Will
Range: 300 ft.
Duration: 8 Hours
Effect: 20 cubes
Type: Stone

Tier 10

4

Absolute Petrification

Choose one creature within range. It must make a CON save or become petrified for the duration. The target repeats the save at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on a success. If it fails three saves, the petrification lasts until cured by a Tier 10 or higher restoration effect.

Action: Action
Use: 1/Long Rest
Range: 120 ft.
Duration: 1 Minute
Type: Petrification
Save: CON

Continental Shelter

Raise a fortified subterranean or surface refuge from earth and stone, occupying up to a 300-ft. cube within range. You shape rooms, tunnels, gates, sealed chambers, and defensive walls. The refuge provides clean air, stable temperature, and enough stone-built shelter for up to 500 creatures.

Action: 1 Hour
Use: 1/Long Rest
Range: 1 Mile
Duration: 24 Hours
Effect: 300-ft. cube
Type: Stone

Elder Mountain Form

For the duration, you gain immunity to bludgeoning damage, resistance to piercing and slashing damage, tremorsense 300 ft., and a burrowing speed of 60 ft. through earth and stone. Your Geokinesis powers ignore resistance to bludgeoning damage.

Action: Bonus Action
Use: At-Will
Range: Self
Duration: 1 Minute
Type: Resistance / Movement

Worldstone Cataclysm

The earth convulses in a 60-ft. radius centered on a point within range. Creatures of your choice in the area must make a DEX save, taking 88 (16d10) bludgeoning damage on a failed save, or half as much on a success. On a failed save, a creature is knocked prone, restrained by rubble until the end of its next turn, and the area becomes difficult terrain.

Action: Action
Use: At-Will
Range: 500 ft.
Duration: Instant
Effect: 16d10
Type: Bludgeoning
Save: DEX