Phasing
Phasing shapes a character's supernatural focus, training, and power set.
Power index
Phasing Powers
42 powers, grouped by tier. The rules needed for quick reference are shown directly in each row.
Tier 0
2
Reach slightly through matter or armor. Make a melee power attack against one creature or object within reach. On a hit, the target takes 4 (1d8) force damage, ignoring nonmagical cover from a thin barrier no more than 1 inch thick.
- Action
- Action
- Use
- At-Will
- Range
- Touch
- Duration
- Instant
- Effect
- 1d8
- Type
- Force
- Roll
- Attack
Briefly slip out of phase when you are hit by an attack or would take damage from a solid object. Reduce the damage by 1d6 + your INT modifier. This cannot reduce psychic damage or effects that already target phased or ethereal creatures.
- Action
- Reaction
- Use
- At-Will
- Range
- Self
- Duration
- Instant
- Effect
- 1d6 + INT
- Type
- Reduction
Tier 1
4
Phase one hand, tool, or held object through a nonmagical barrier no thicker than 1 foot. You can manipulate an object, lift a latch, retrieve a loose item, or deliver a touch-range Phasing power through the barrier.
- Action
- Action
- Use
- At-Will
- Range
- Touch
- Duration
- 1 Minute
- Effect
- 1 ft.
- Type
- Passage
Make a ranged power attack against one creature or object within range. On a hit, the target takes 7 (2d6) force damage as the strike partially manifests inside its defenses. The attack ignores half cover from nonmagical solid objects.
- Action
- Action
- Use
- At-Will
- Range
- 30 ft.
- Duration
- Instant
- Effect
- 2d6
- Type
- Force
- Roll
- Attack
Choose one creature or object within range. The target must make a CHA save or become phase-anchored until the start of your next turn. While anchored, it cannot benefit from teleportation, intangibility, ethereal travel, or effects that move it between planes.
- Action
- Action
- Use
- At-Will
- Range
- 60 ft.
- Duration
- 1 Round
- Type
- Anchor
- Save
- CHA
Your feet and gear partly lose contact with the world. Until the start of your next turn, you ignore difficult terrain, do not trigger mundane pressure plates, and can move through another creature’s space, though you cannot end your turn there.
- Action
- Bonus Action
- Use
- At-Will
- Range
- Self
- Duration
- 1 Round
- Type
- Phase / Movement
Tier 2
4
Touch one object or set of worn gear weighing no more than 50 pounds. For the duration, it phases with you when you use Phasing powers, and it can pass harmlessly through mundane barriers that you pass through.
- Action
- Bonus Action
- Use
- At-Will
- Range
- Touch
- Duration
- 10 Minutes
- Effect
- 50 lb
- Type
- Phase / Utility
When you or a creature you can see within range is hit by a weapon attack or takes damage from a solid object, phase the target partially aside. Reduce the damage by 2d8 + your INT modifier.
- Action
- Reaction
- Use
- At-Will
- Range
- 60 ft.
- Duration
- Instant
- Effect
- 2d8 + INT
- Type
- Reduction
Choose one creature within range. The target must make a STR save or become half-sunk into the surface or object it touches. Until the start of your next turn, its speed is 0 and it cannot take reactions.
- Action
- Action
- Use
- At-Will
- Range
- 60 ft.
- Duration
- 1 Round
- Type
- Control / Phase
- Save
- STR
Move up to 10 ft. through nonmagical solid matter, emerging in an unoccupied space you can see or know. If you would end inside an object or creature, you are shunted to the nearest open space and take 1d10 force damage.
- Action
- Action
- Use
- At-Will
- Range
- Self
- Duration
- Instant
- Effect
- 10 ft.
- Type
- Passage / Force
Tier 3
4
You flicker between the world and the Border Ethereal. At the end of each of your turns, roll 1d6. On a 4–6, you vanish until the start of your next turn, reappearing in an unoccupied space within 10 ft. of where you vanished.
- Action
- Bonus Action
- Use
- At-Will
- Range
- Self
- Duration
- 1 Minute
- Effect
- 1d6
- Type
- Phase
Choose one creature within range. It must make a CHA save or become partially out of phase until the start of your next turn. While affected, it has disadvantage on attack rolls, cannot benefit from cover, and takes 9 (2d8) force damage if it moves.
- Action
- Action
- Use
- At-Will
- Range
- 30 ft.
- Duration
- 1 Round
- Effect
- 2d8
- Type
- Force / Phase
- Save
- CHA
Fire a lance that phases through intervening matter. Make a ranged power attack against one creature within range. On a hit, the target takes 18 (4d8) force damage, ignoring half and three-quarters cover from nonmagical solid objects.
- Action
- Action
- Use
- At-Will
- Range
- 90 ft.
- Duration
- Instant
- Effect
- 4d8
- Type
- Force
- Roll
- Attack
Move up to your speed through creatures, nonmagical objects, and barriers no thicker than 5 ft. You cannot end this movement inside matter. If forced to do so, you are shunted to the nearest open space and take 2d10 force damage.
- Action
- Action
- Use
- At-Will
- Range
- Self
- Duration
- Instant
- Effect
- 5 ft.
- Type
- Passage / Movement
Tier 4
4
When you are critically hit, grappled, restrained, or knocked prone, split your body’s phase. Treat the critical hit as a normal hit, or end one grappled, restrained, or prone condition on yourself.
- Action
- Reaction
- Use
- At-Will
- Range
- Self
- Duration
- Instant
- Type
- Protection / Phase
Step fully into the Border Ethereal until the start of your next turn. You can perceive the plane you left in gray tones out to 60 ft. and return to an unoccupied corresponding space when the effect ends.
- Action
- Bonus Action
- Use
- At-Will
- Range
- Self
- Duration
- 1 Round
- Type
- Ethereal
When a creature within range teleports, phases, turns ethereal, passes through matter, or shifts planes, force it to make a CHA save. On a failed save, the movement fails and the triggering action is wasted. On a success, its movement distance is halved.
- Action
- Reaction
- Use
- At-Will
- Range
- 90 ft.
- Duration
- Instant
- Type
- Anchor
- Save
- CHA
Choose a 10-ft. square section of nonmagical wall, floor, ceiling, door, or similar barrier within range. For the duration, you and willing creatures you designate can pass through that section as if it were difficult terrain.
- Action
- Action
- Use
- At-Will
- Range
- 60 ft.
- Duration
- 1 Minute
- Effect
- 10-ft. square
- Type
- Passage
Tier 5
4
Create an anchoring field. Hostile creatures in the emanation cannot teleport, phase through matter, become ethereal, or shift planes unless they succeed on a CHA save at the start of the triggering movement.
- Action
- Action
- Use
- At-Will
- Range
- Self (30 ft.)
- Duration
- Concentration, 1 Minute
- Effect
- 30 ft.
- Type
- Anchor
- Save
- CHA
For the duration, you can move through creatures and nonmagical objects as difficult terrain. You take 5 force damage if you end your turn inside an object. You do not trigger mundane traps based on touch, weight, or pressure.
- Action
- Action
- Use
- At-Will
- Range
- Self
- Duration
- 10 Minutes
- Effect
- 5
- Type
- Passage / Force
Tear the target’s phase alignment. One creature within range must make a CON save, taking 33 (6d10) force damage and losing resistance to force damage until the start of your next turn on a failed save, or half damage only on a success.
- Action
- Action
- Use
- At-Will
- Range
- 60 ft.
- Duration
- Instant
- Effect
- 6d10
- Type
- Force
- Save
- CON
Touch one willing creature. For the duration, the target can move through creatures and nonmagical objects as difficult terrain, taking 5 force damage if it ends its turn inside an object. Its worn and carried gear phases with it.
- Action
- Action
- Use
- At-Will
- Range
- Touch
- Duration
- 1 Minute
- Effect
- 5
- Type
- Phase / Passage
Tier 6
4
Choose one creature within range that is adjacent to a solid object or surface. It must make a CHA save or be dragged half into that matter until the start of your next turn. While trapped, it is restrained, has total cover from creatures on the far side of the surface, and takes 27 (6d8) force damage.
- Action
- Action
- Use
- At-Will
- Range
- 60 ft.
- Duration
- 1 Round
- Effect
- 6d8
- Type
- Force
- Save
- CHA
When you or a willing creature you can see within range would take damage, pull the target partly into the Border Ethereal until the start of your next turn. Reduce the damage by 6d8 + your INT modifier, and the target can move through creatures until the effect ends.
- Action
- Reaction
- Use
- At-Will
- Range
- 60 ft.
- Duration
- 1 Round
- Effect
- 6d8 + INT
- Type
- Reduction / Phase
Create a phase corridor through up to 60 ft. of nonmagical matter between two points you can see or know within range. Willing creatures can move through the corridor as difficult terrain. Hostile creatures must make a CHA save to enter it.
- Action
- Action
- Use
- At-Will
- Range
- 120 ft.
- Duration
- 10 Minutes
- Effect
- 60 ft.
- Type
- Passage
- Save
- CHA
Your Phasing powers ignore resistance to force damage from phased, ethereal, incorporeal, or teleporting creatures. You always know if a creature or object you can see is phased, ethereal, incorporeal, or anchored.
- Action
- Passive
- Use
- At-Will
- Range
- Self
- Duration
- Permanent
- Type
- Phase / Senses
Tier 7
4
When a creature within range teleports, phases, becomes ethereal, passes through matter, or shifts planes, force it to make a CHA save. On a failed save, the movement fails and it takes 33 (6d10) force damage. On a success, it takes half damage and moves normally.
- Action
- Reaction
- Use
- At-Will
- Range
- 120 ft.
- Duration
- Instant
- Effect
- 6d10
- Type
- Force / Anchor
- Save
- CHA
Step into the Border Ethereal for the duration. You can move there and perceive the plane you left in gray tones out to 60 ft. You can affect and be affected only by creatures, objects, and effects on the Ethereal Plane. When the effect ends, you return to the corresponding location or nearest open space.
- Action
- Action
- Use
- At-Will
- Range
- Self
- Duration
- 8 Hours
- Type
- Ethereal
Choose up to six willing creatures within range. Each target can move through creatures and nonmagical objects as difficult terrain for the duration, taking 5 force damage if it ends its turn inside an object. Gear worn or carried by a target phases with it.
- Action
- Action
- Use
- At-Will
- Range
- 60 ft.
- Duration
- 10 Minutes
- Effect
- 6 creatures
- Type
- Phase / Passage
Strike from a misaligned state. Choose up to three creatures within range. Each target must make a CON save, taking 44 (8d10) force damage on a failed save, or half on a success. Phased, ethereal, teleporting, or incorporeal targets have disadvantage on the save.
- Action
- Action
- Use
- At-Will
- Range
- 120 ft.
- Duration
- Instant
- Effect
- 8d10
- Type
- Force
- Save
- CON
Tier 8
4
Choose one creature within range. The target must make a CHA save or be forced into the Border Ethereal for the duration. It repeats the save at the end of each turn, returning on a success. If there is no corresponding safe space when it returns, it is shunted to the nearest open space and takes 4d10 force damage.
- Action
- Action
- Use
- 1/Long Rest
- Range
- 90 ft.
- Duration
- 1 Minute
- Effect
- 4d10
- Type
- Force / Ethereal
- Save
- CHA
For the duration, you have resistance to bludgeoning, piercing, slashing, and force damage, can move through creatures and nonmagical objects as difficult terrain, and your Phasing powers deal extra force damage equal to your INT modifier once per turn.
- Action
- Bonus Action
- Use
- At-Will
- Range
- Self
- Duration
- 1 Minute
- Effect
- INT
- Type
- Force / Resistance
Create a 30-ft. radius storm of unstable phase around a point within range. Hostile creatures treat the area as difficult terrain. When a hostile creature starts there, it must make a CON save, taking 55 (10d10) force damage and becoming unable to teleport or phase until the start of its next turn on a failed save, or half damage only on a success.
- Action
- Action
- Use
- At-Will
- Range
- 150 ft.
- Duration
- Concentration, 1 Minute
- Effect
- 10d10
- Type
- Force / Anchor
- Save
- CON
Choose one non-Artifact wall, door, barrier, cage, or force obstruction within range no larger than a 20-ft. cube. Make an INT check against DC 10 + the effect’s tier if magical. On a success, the target becomes passable to creatures of your choice until the end of your next turn.
- Action
- Action
- Use
- At-Will
- Range
- 120 ft.
- Duration
- Instant
- Effect
- 20-ft. cube
- Type
- Passage / Negation
Tier 9
4
When a creature within range damages you, teleports, phases, or shifts planes, force it to make a CHA save. On a failed save, you drag it with you into a liminal phase-space. Both of you are removed from the battlefield until the start of your next turn, then return to spaces of your choice within 30 ft. of the departure point. The target is frightened of you for the duration.
- Action
- Reaction
- Use
- 1/Long Rest
- Range
- 120 ft.
- Duration
- 1 Minute
- Type
- Phase / Control
- Save
- CHA
Collapse phase around a point within range. Creatures of your choice in a 30-ft. radius must make a CON save, taking 66 (12d10) force damage and becoming phase-anchored for 1 minute on a failed save, or half damage and anchored until the start of your next turn on a success.
- Action
- Action
- Use
- At-Will
- Range
- 120 ft.
- Duration
- Instant
- Effect
- 12d10
- Type
- Force / Anchor
- Save
- CON
You cannot be trapped inside mundane matter by your own Phasing powers. Your Phasing powers ignore force resistance from phased, ethereal, incorporeal, or anchored creatures, and you have advantage on saves against teleportation, banishment, and planar displacement.
- Action
- Passive
- Use
- At-Will
- Range
- Self
- Duration
- Permanent
- Type
- Phase / Protection
For the duration, you can pass through mundane matter, creatures, and non-Artifact barriers as difficult terrain, and can enter or leave the Border Ethereal as a bonus action. You still cannot end your turn inside matter without taking 10 force damage.
- Action
- Action
- Use
- At-Will
- Range
- Self
- Duration
- 1 Hour
- Effect
- 10
- Type
- Passage / Ethereal
Tier 10
4
For the duration, you are immune to nonmagical bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage, can move through non-Artifact matter and creatures, and cannot be grappled, restrained, or trapped by mundane means. Magical force and effects that target ethereal or phased creatures affect you normally.
- Action
- Bonus Action
- Use
- At-Will
- Range
- Self
- Duration
- 1 Minute
- Type
- Intangibility / Immunity
Choose up to ten willing creatures within range. Each target steps into the Border Ethereal for the duration and returns when the effect ends, using the Etherealness rules. A target can end the effect on itself as an action.
- Action
- Action
- Use
- 1/Long Rest
- Range
- 60 ft.
- Duration
- 8 Hours
- Effect
- 10 creatures
- Type
- Ethereal
Choose one creature, object, portal, barrier, or planar effect within range. It must make a CHA save or be severed from its current phase. A creature takes 88 (16d10) force damage and is phase-anchored for 1 minute. An object or effect of Tier 10 or lower becomes passable, inert, or anchored, chosen by you.
- Action
- Action
- Use
- At-Will
- Range
- 300 ft.
- Duration
- Instant
- Effect
- 16d10
- Type
- Force / Anchor
- Save
- CHA
Create a mythic phase anomaly tied to a place, door, room, road, prison, or battlefield within range. Choose its principle with the GM: a hidden ethereal refuge, a wall that can never fully hold, a prison between worlds, or a road through solid earth. It can be ended only by Tier 10 planar magic, divine intervention, or a story condition set when created.
- Action
- Action
- Use
- 1/Ever
- Range
- 1 Mile
- Duration
- Until Dispelled
- Effect
- Unique
- Type
- Phase / Story
- Roll
- Varies
- Save
- Varies