Guildmasters Guide to Ravnica

life forms are known as biomancers, while those who

focus on water, weather, and atmospheric conditions are

called terraformers, but you can choose your own path

of research.

GUARDIAN

If you are playing a Simic hybrid, you initially became

involved in Simic research as a test subject in the
Guardian Project. You volunteered to participate, but it's
possible there was some pressure on you, or you viewed
it as the only way to be accepted in the guild. Your
biological modifications make you ideally suited to spe-
cific tasks, and you might come to operate as a spy, an
infiltrator, or brute muscle. Good class options include
fighter or rogue (of any archetype), or a monk of the Way
of the Open Hand.

DEEPSAGE

You might instead choose an ascetic, contemplative life

as a deepsage (perhaps as a wizard or monk). You would

devote yourself to meditating on the philosophical prin-

ciples of the Holdfast and the Upwelling, a pair of com-

plementary ideas that describe the Simic approach to

nature and the city. Deepsages inscribe short philosoph-

ical riddles, bordering on paradoxes, into shel1s, exo-

s keletons, and stones, and Simic guild members reflect

on these sayings to advance their understanding of the

combine's role in the world. Deepsage wizards typically

specialize in the School of Conjuration, and deepsage

monks follow the Way of the Four Elements (focusing on

air and water over the other two elements).

Background: Simic Scientist

Imagine a perfect world: one in which nature and civi-

lization exist in harmony, adapted to each other; one in

which life is shaped to match its environment and the

environment is shaped to match life. That's the world

you have been trying to grow in the laboratories of the

Simic Combine. Nature is all about adaptation, evolu-

tion, and balance- but for it to keep up with the pace of

advancing civilization, nature needs some help from bio-

mancers and terraformers. If, along the way, you happen

to create super-soldiers and mutant monsters that can

bolster the combine's defenses against the schemes and

ambitions of the other guilds, so much the better.

Skill Proficiencies: Arcana, Medicine

Languages : Two of your choice

Equipment: A Simic insignia, a set of commoner's

clothes, a book of research notes, an ink pen, a bottle

of squid ink, a flask of oil (made from blubber), a vial

of acid (derived from digestive juices), a vial of fish

scales, a vial of seaweed, a vial of jellyfish stingers,

a glass bottle of unidentified s lime, and a belt pouch

containing 10 gp (Azorius 1-zino coins)

GLADES AND PROJECTS

As a Simic researcher, you are part of a clade-a diverse

group of individuals combining disparate talents in pur-

suit of a common goal-or a researcher on a specialized,

short-term project focused on addressing an immediate

need. You can roll a d6 or choose from the options in

the Research Options table to determine your area

of research.

RESEARCH OPTIONS

d6 Clade/ Project

l Hull Clade, focused on protection and durability

2 Fin Clade, focused on movement

3 Gyre Clade, focused on cyclical patterns and

metamagic

4 Guardian Project, focused on creating guard

monsters and super soldiers

5 Crypsis Project, focused on intelligence and counter-

intelligence

6 Independent research in a new area

FEATURE: RESEARCHE R

When you attempt to learn or recall a magical or scien-

tific fact, if you don't know that information, you know

where and from whom you can obtain it. Usually, this in-

formation comes from a Simic laboratory, or sometimes

from an Izzet facility, a library, a university, or an inde-

pendent scholar or other learned person or creature.

Knowing where the information can be found doesn't

automatically enable you to learn it; you might need to

offer bribes, favors, or other incentives to induce people

to reveal their secrets.

Your OM might rule that the knowledge you seek

is secreted away in an inaccessible place, or that it

simply can't be found. Unearthing the deepest secrets

of the multiverse can require an adventure or even a

whole campaign.

Simic Guild Spells

Prerequisite: Spellcasting or Pact Magic class feature

For you, the spells on the Simic Guild Spel1s table are

added to the spell list of your spellcasting class. (If you

are a multiclass character with multiple spell lists, these

spells are added to all of them.)

SIMIC GUILD SPELLS

Spell Level

Cant rip

lst

2nd

3rd

4th

5th

Spells

acid splash, druidcraft

detect poison ond disease, expeditious retreat,

jump

alter self. enhance ability, enlarge/reduce

gaseous form, water breathing, wind wall

freedom of movement, polymorph

creation

When your magic causes physical alterations in

yourself or others, the result often displays the charac-

teristics of fish, amphibians, or other water-dwelling

creatures. Blue-green eddies of magical energy some-

times accompany your spellcasting, forming spirals that

reflect the mathematical perfection of nature.