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Threadweaving (Webweaving)

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Threadweaving (Webweaving) shapes a character's supernatural focus, training, and power set.

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Threadweaving (Webweaving) Powers

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

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Tier 0

Needle Flick

Fling a sharpened thread, web barb, needle, hairpin, or cutting filament at one target within range. Make a ranged power attack. On a hit, the target takes 1d8 piercing or slashing damage, and you may pull a Tiny unattended object on it up to 5 ft.

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

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Thread Touch

Create or manipulate a thin strand of webbing, sewing thread, hair, fiber, cord, or binding filament within range. You can pull a Tiny object, stitch a small tear, mark a creature with a visible thread, tie or untie a simple knot, or create a harmless line up to 30 ft. long.

Action: Action
Use: At-Will
Range: 30 ft.
Duration: 1 Minute
Type: Thread / Utility

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Tier 1

Choose the Weave

Choose your primary Threadweaving archetype: Web, Garment, Suture, or Hair. Web creates sticky restraints and movement lines; Garment creates clothing, veils, and textile protections; Suture joins, repairs, binds, and mends bodies or objects; Hair manipulates hair, fine fibers, filaments, and delicate objects.

Action: Passive
Use: At-Will
Range: Self
Duration: Permanent
Type: Archetype

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Garment: Quick Stitch

Repair, resize, reinforce, disguise, or alter one worn garment, cloak, cloth wrap, costume, pack strap, rope, sail, tent, or leather-soft textile you touch. The change grants advantage on one related disguise, survival, repair, or concealment check before the duration ends.

Action: Action
Use: At-Will
Range: Touch
Duration: 1 Hour
Type: Garment / Utility

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Hair: Fine Control

Manipulate hair, whiskers, eyelashes, fibers, embroidery, loose filaments, or fine threads within range. You can braid, unbraid, tug, lift a Tiny object, operate a simple latch, move a needle, pick a simple knot, or create a brief distraction. Contested or precise work uses Sleight of Hand with WIS.

Action: Bonus Action
Use: At-Will
Range: 30 ft.
Duration: 10 Minutes
Type: Hair / Fine Control
Save: WIS

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Web: Sticky Strand

Launch a sticky webline at one creature or object within range. A creature must make a DEX save or have its speed reduced by 10 ft. for the duration. A creature can use an action to make a STR check against your power DC, ending the web on a success.

Action: Action
Use: At-Will
Range: 60 ft.
Duration: 1 Minute
Type: Web / Restraint
Save: DEX / STR

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Tier 2

Silken Line

Anchor a strong thread to a point, creature, or object within range. For the duration, you can climb, swing, pull yourself 20 ft., lower a creature safely, or pull an unattended object of up to 100 pounds up to 20 ft. as a bonus action.

Action: Bonus Action
Use: At-Will
Range: 90 ft.
Duration: 10 Minutes
Effect: 20 ft.
Type: Movement / Thread

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Suture: Binding Stitch

Stitch a wound, crack, tear, split rope, broken strap, or damaged object together. A willing creature gains temporary hit points equal to 2d8 + your WIS modifier, or an object regains enough integrity to function for 1 hour unless it is missing key parts.

Action: Action
Use: At-Will
Range: Touch
Duration: Instant
Effect: 2d8 + WIS
Type: Temp HP / Repair

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Threadsnare

When a creature within range moves, stands, attacks, or manipulates an object, snap hidden threads around it. The target must make a DEX save or have its speed reduced to 0 until the end of the current turn and subtract 1d6 from the triggering attack or check.

Action: Reaction
Use: At-Will
Range: 60 ft.
Duration: Instant
Effect: 1d6
Type: Thread / Control
Save: DEX

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Web

Conjure sticky webbing in a 20-ft. cube centered within range. The area is difficult terrain and lightly obscured. A creature that enters for the first time on a turn or starts there must make a DEX save or become restrained. A restrained creature can use an action to make a STR check against your power DC, ending the restraint on itself on a success. Burning a 5-ft. cube removes it and deals 2d4 fire damage to creatures in that cube.

Action: Action
Use: At-Will
Range: 60 ft.
Duration: Concentration, 1 Hour
Effect: 2d4
Type: Fire
Save: DEX / STR

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Tier 3

Garment: Armored Weave

Reinforce one willing creature’s clothing, cloak, wrappings, or light armor with hidden threads. For the duration, the target gains temporary hit points equal to 3d8 + your WIS modifier and has advantage on checks to resist being disarmed, exposed, or stripped of worn gear.

Action: Bonus Action
Use: At-Will
Range: Touch
Duration: 1 Hour
Effect: 3d8 + WIS
Type: Temp HP / Garment

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Hair: Tress Lash

Animate your hair, an ally’s willing hair, or loose fibers into a striking lash. Make a melee or ranged power attack within range. On a hit, the target takes 4d8 bludgeoning or slashing damage and must make a STR save or drop one Tiny held object, component, key, vial, or tool.

Action: Action
Use: At-Will
Range: 30 ft.
Duration: Instant
Effect: 4d8
Type: Bludgeoning / Slashing
Roll: Attack
Save: STR

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Suture: Stitch Flesh

Bind torn flesh, cracked bone, or ruptured tissue with living thread. A willing creature regains hit points equal to 3d8 + your WIS modifier. This does not replace Healing as a specialty: it cannot cure disease, poison, curses, or restore missing organs without higher-tier powers.

Action: Action
Use: At-Will
Range: Touch
Duration: Instant
Effect: 3d8 + WIS
Type: Healing / Suture

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Web: Cocoon Wrap

Wrap one Large or smaller creature within range in thick webbing. The target must make a STR save or become restrained for the duration. While restrained this way, it has disadvantage on attack rolls using weapons or tools, and it repeats the save at the end of each turn.

Action: Action
Use: At-Will
Range: 60 ft.
Duration: Concentration, 1 Minute
Type: Web / Restraint
Save: STR

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Tier 4

Binding Pattern

Lay a pattern of thread, cloth, web, knots, hair, or stitch-marks across a 30-ft. area. Chosen creatures have advantage on checks to hide, climb, anchor, repair, or resist forced movement in the area. Hostile creatures treat the area as difficult terrain if the pattern is visible.

Action: 10 Minutes
Use: At-Will
Range: Touch
Duration: 8 Hours
Effect: 30 ft.
Type: Pattern / Area

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Tapestry Step

Step through a hanging cloth, web curtain, cloak, banner, tapestry, curtain, garment, thick braid, or dense thread cluster within reach and emerge from another such surface within range that you can see. This is movement through thread, not general teleportation.

Action: Bonus Action
Use: At-Will
Range: 60 ft.
Duration: Instant
Effect: 60 ft.
Type: Movement / Thread

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Threadblade

Slash with a monofilament thread, razor web, needle-line, garrote fiber, or severing hair-strand. Make a ranged power attack. On a hit, the target takes 5d10 slashing damage, and a rope, strap, web, garment, or held Tiny object on it may be cut if nonmagical.

Action: Action
Use: At-Will
Range: 90 ft.
Duration: Instant
Effect: 5d10
Type: Slashing
Roll: Attack

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Woven Screen

When you or a creature within range is hit by an attack, interpose web, cloth, hair, loose fiber, or hanging threads. Reduce the damage by 4d8 + your WIS modifier. If this reduces the damage to 0, the protected target may move 10 ft. without provoking opportunity attacks.

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

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Tier 5

Garment: Manyfold Cloak

Weave a cloak, veil, coat, costume, or layered outfit of many hidden folds. For the duration, you have advantage on Stealth and Deception checks using clothing, may conceal or retrieve Tiny objects without a check, and ranged attacks against you from beyond 30 ft. have disadvantage if the cloak can move freely.

Action: Action
Use: At-Will
Range: Self
Duration: 1 Hour
Type: Garment / Veil

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Hair: Living Braid

Your hair or carried fibers become long, prehensile, and precise. For the duration, you have two extra fine-manipulation limbs with 15-ft. reach. They can hold Tiny objects, use simple tools, pick pockets, retrieve items, open latches, or make one power attack per turn for 3d8 bludgeoning or slashing damage.

Action: Bonus Action
Use: At-Will
Range: Self
Duration: 10 Minutes
Effect: 3d8
Type: Bludgeoning / Slashing
Roll: Attack

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Suture: Seal the Rupture

When a creature or object within range takes slashing, piercing, force, necrotic, or falling damage, stitch the rupture closed. Reduce the damage by 5d8 + your WIS modifier. If the target is a creature and the damage is reduced to 0, it may end bleeding or one minor wound-based rider.

Action: Reaction
Use: At-Will
Range: 60 ft.
Duration: Instant
Effect: 5d8 + WIS
Type: Reduction / Suture

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Web: Spider Dominion

For the duration, you gain a climbing speed equal to your walking speed, can move across webs without penalty, cannot be restrained by mundane webs or ropes, and know the location of creatures touching your webs within 120 ft.

Action: Bonus Action
Use: At-Will
Range: Self
Duration: 1 Hour
Effect: 120 ft.
Type: Web / Sense

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Tier 6

Grand Web

Fill up to four connected 20-ft. cubes within range with sticky, climbing, hanging, or floor-spread webbing. The area is difficult terrain and lightly obscured. Creatures entering or starting there must make DEX saves or become restrained until they use an action to succeed on a STR check against your power DC.

Action: Action
Use: At-Will
Range: 120 ft.
Duration: Concentration, 10 Minutes
Effect: 4 cubes
Type: Web / Area
Save: DEX / STR

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Hair: Filament Hands

Create a field of nearly invisible hairs, fibers, and filaments that perform delicate tasks. Within the emanation, you can manipulate up to six Tiny objects, write, sew, pick simple locks, thread needles, retrieve components, pull pins, braid restraints, or perform tool work as if you had six careful hands.

Action: Action
Use: At-Will
Range: Self (30 ft.)
Duration: 1 Hour
Effect: 6 objects
Type: Hair / Fine Control
Save: WIS

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Living Garment

Animate one willing creature’s clothing, cloak, armor padding, or wrappings. For the duration, the garment can pull, brace, carry small objects, deflect attacks, or assist movement. The target gains +10 ft. speed and may add your WIS modifier to one Acrobatics, Athletics, Stealth, or Sleight of Hand check each round.

Action: Bonus Action
Use: At-Will
Range: Touch
Duration: 1 Hour
Effect: +10 ft. / WIS
Type: Garment / Support

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Threadweaving Dominion

Your Threadweaving powers ignore mundane penalties from poor thread, bad cloth, broken needles, rain, wind, tangled fibers, or lack of anchoring when the effect is minor. You can sense your active threads, webs, knots, garments, hairs, and stitches within 300 ft.

Action: Passive
Use: At-Will
Range: Self
Duration: Permanent
Effect: 300 ft.
Type: Thread / Sense

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Tier 7

Hair: Thousand Filaments

When a creature within range uses a Tiny object, component, key, vial, scroll, tool, needle, trigger, focus, or held mechanism, seize it with hairlike filaments. The target must make a DEX save or the object is pulled up to 20 ft., jammed, opened, closed, or dropped.

Action: Reaction
Use: At-Will
Range: 60 ft.
Duration: Instant
Effect: 20 ft.
Type: Hair / Disarm
Save: DEX

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Puppet Strings

Attach controlling threads to one Large or smaller creature within range. The target must make a STR save. On a failure, it is restrained, and as a bonus action on later turns you may move it up to 15 ft. or force it to drop one held object. It repeats the save at the end of each turn.

Action: Action
Use: At-Will
Range: 90 ft.
Duration: Concentration, 1 Minute
Effect: 15 ft.
Type: Control / Thread
Save: STR

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Severing Line

Draw a cutting thread through a 60-ft. long, 5-ft. wide line within range. Creatures in the line must make a DEX save, taking 8d10 slashing damage on a failed save, or half on a success. Ropes, webs, cloth, hair, leather straps, and mundane restraints in the line are cut automatically.

Action: Action
Use: At-Will
Range: 120 ft.
Duration: Instant
Effect: 8d10
Type: Slashing
Save: DEX

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Suture: Rejoin What Was Broken

Rejoin a severed limb, broken object, torn document, shattered textile, snapped chain, split wood, cracked stone, or ruptured nonmagical construct component if most pieces are present. A creature must be alive or freshly dead within 1 minute for limb reattachment to function.

Action: 10 Minutes
Use: At-Will
Range: Touch
Duration: Instant
Type: Suture / Repair

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Tier 8

Garment: Mantle of Many Names

Weave a supernatural garment, uniform, veil, mask-cloth, or costume for one willing creature. For the duration, the target can appear as a specific social role, rank, profession, house, cult, or courtly identity. This grants advantage on Deception or Persuasion checks that rely on the garment, but does not alter the body or mind.

Action: Action
Use: At-Will
Range: Touch
Duration: 8 Hours
Type: Garment / Identity

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Hair: Needlework Storm

A storm of hair, needles, fibers, and delicate filaments fills the emanation. Hostile creatures treat the area as difficult terrain. Once per turn, when a hostile creature starts there or manipulates an object there, it must make a DEX save, taking 8d8 slashing damage and dropping one Tiny held object on a failure, or half damage only on a success.

Action: Action
Use: At-Will
Range: Self (30 ft.)
Duration: Concentration, 1 Minute
Effect: 8d8
Type: Slashing
Save: DEX

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Suture: Mend the Dying Pattern

When a creature within range would drop to 0 hit points or die from a wound, stitch its life-pattern closed. The creature drops to 1 hit point instead, gains temporary hit points equal to 8d8 + your WIS modifier, and ends one bleeding, maimed, or wound-based rider.

Action: Reaction
Use: 1/Long Rest
Range: 60 ft.
Duration: Instant
Effect: 8d8 + WIS
Type: Suture / Rescue

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Web: Palace of Silk

Weave a vast web structure, shelter, bridge, climbing route, trap maze, curtain-wall, or cocooned camp up to 300 ft. across. Chosen creatures move through it normally. Hostile creatures treat it as difficult terrain and must make DEX saves against restraint when entering key choke points.

Action: 10 Minutes
Use: At-Will
Range: Touch
Duration: 24 Hours
Effect: 300 ft.
Type: Web / Structure
Save: DEX

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Tier 9

Cut the Thread

Choose one creature, object, restraint, bond, garment enchantment, web, stitch, or active thread effect within range. The target must make a DEX or CON save, as appropriate. On a failure, it takes 14d10 slashing damage, and one bond, restraint, disguise, stitch, or thread-effect on it is severed.

Action: Action
Use: 1/Long Rest
Range: 120 ft.
Duration: Instant
Effect: 14d10
Type: Slashing
Save: DEX / CON

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Living Tapestry

Create a living tapestry, web-map, battle standard, protective cloth, medical shroud, hairwork charm, or thread-chart tied to a place or group. For the duration, up to twelve chosen creatures linked to it gain one 1d10 thread die they may add to an attack, check, save, or damage reduction roll while within 1 mile.

Action: 10 Minutes
Use: At-Will
Range: Touch
Duration: 24 Hours
Effect: 1d10
Type: Tapestry / Support
Roll: Attack

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Sovereign Threadweaver

Your Threadweaving powers ignore resistance to mundane cutting, burning, unraveling, fraying, poor anchoring, and weather unless the opposing effect is Tier 9 or higher. You can maintain one harmless thread, garment, hair, knot, stitch, or web effect indefinitely while conscious.

Action: Passive
Use: At-Will
Range: Self
Duration: Permanent
Type: Thread / Mastery

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Worldweb

A massive web of threads fills the emanation. Chosen creatures move normally. Hostile creatures must make DEX saves when they start their turn there, becoming restrained and taking 8d8 slashing or piercing damage on a failed save, or half damage only on a success. You know the location of creatures touching the web.

Action: Action
Use: 1/Long Rest
Range: Self (300 ft.)
Duration: Concentration, 10 Minutes
Effect: 8d8
Type: Slashing / Piercing
Save: DEX

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Tier 10

Loom of the World

The battlefield becomes a loom. Choose any number of creatures in the emanation. Each unwilling creature must make a DEX save. On a failure, it is restrained by threads of web, garment, suture, or hair and takes 12d10 slashing damage. Chosen allies gain 10d10 temporary hit points and may move 30 ft. without provoking opportunity attacks.

Action: Action
Use: 1/Long Rest
Range: Self (300 ft.)
Duration: Concentration, 1 Minute
Effect: 12d10 / 10d10
Type: Slashing / Temp HP
Save: DEX

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Omnifiber Form

Become a living mass of threads, webbing, cloth, hair, knots, and filaments. For the duration, you can move through spaces as narrow as 1 inch, resist bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage, cannot be restrained by mundane bindings, and once per turn one Threadweaving power you use deals or prevents an extra 4d8.

Action: Bonus Action
Use: At-Will
Range: Self
Duration: 1 Minute
Effect: 4d8
Type: Thread / Form

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Unravel the Skein

Choose one creature, object, structure section, curse-thread, garment, web, wound-stitch, braid, or delicate mechanism within range. The target must make a DEX save, taking 20d10 slashing damage on a failed save, or half on a success. On a failure, one non-divine thread-like bond, restraint, disguise, repair, or mechanism on the target is undone.

Action: Action
Use: 1/Long Rest
Range: 120 ft.
Duration: Instant
Effect: 20d10
Type: Slashing
Save: DEX

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Weave the Infinite

Declare a mythic weave tied to a city, bloodline, marriage, web, shroud, banner, garment, wound, hairline bridge, prison, or escape. Define its principle with the GM: a web no tyrant can cross, a cloak that hides a people, a braid that guides a lost army, a stitch that saves a dying land, or a filament that opens the smallest lock in the world. It can be opposed only by Tier 10 thread magic, divine intervention, or a story condition set when declared.

Action: Action
Use: 1/Ever
Range: 1 Mile
Duration: Until Resolved
Effect: Unique
Type: Threadweaving / Story
Roll: Varies
Save: Varies