Sparkfall

Player Upbringing Feats

All Player Characters must choose a background attached to their home district.
Option 1 will always be a reaction that spends your Hit Dice to repeatedly enact a minor effect.
Option 2 will always be a Once per Long Rest action to occasionally enact a major effect.

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NORTHERN DISTRICT

1. Blight Deviant
While dedicated to the mysticism of the Fabricators, you're less willing to forego the world.

Feat: Elemental Rebound (Reaction)

When someone performs a successful attack within 30 feet of you
you may spend a hit die to disrupt the energy flow and convert it to the dmg type of your choice.

Choose between: Force, Lighting, Psychic, Fire, Cold, or Thunder.
Roll a spell attack against the attacker
If you hit, the attacker takes the damage of their own roll with the new dmg type.
If you fail the damage is split 50/50 between the attacker and their target.
 

2. Northern Degen

You've lived with nothing and have little worry about the consequences of your actions. 
Feat: Chaotic Revision (Action)

Once per Long Rest

You can channel the blight into a weapon in order to add additional damage
though you cannot control what kind of damage you're imbuing.

Roll a d6.
1 = +1d10 Fire
2 = +1d10 Cold

3 = +1d10 Thunder

4 = +1d10 Lightning

5 = +1d10 Force

6 = +1d10 Psychic

This augmentation lasts 1 hour.
 

MID-NORTH DISTRICT

1. Shrine Volunteer

You closely assisted the Coven members at a shrine and have found comfort in the future past.

Feat: Glance Back (Reaction)

You may burn a hit die to undo a d20 roll made by an ally after seeing the outcome.
You can use this to retry the same roll adding your hit die roll to it,
or to attempt a new course of action.
Upon either reroll you must take the new result.
Cannot use this Feat twice in the same minute.

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2. Farm Hand

You were raised on a farm and are generally familiar with what plants are safe to eat or not. 
Feat: Fast Forraging (Action)

Once per Long Rest

You can search the area for plant growths around you to help or hurt.

Roll a Nature check.
DC5 = 1 dose worth. DC10 = 2 doses. etc.

You can choose how many doses are healing (+10 HP) and how many are poisonous (+10 DMG).
These doses expire after 2 long rests.

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MIDDLE DISTRICT

1. Bone Roller

You grew up gambling in alleyways and gained a talent for well timed distractions.
Feat: Cast Doubt (Reaction)
When a creature within 30 feet who can hear you makes a d20 roll. Spend 1 Hit Die and roll it to subtract that amount from the d20 roll.
 

2. Distiller

You grew up assisting in the extraction facility and recall how to create some basic tinctures.

Feat: Reduction (Action)

Once per Long Rest
When looting a corpse, roll a survival check.
1-5 gets you one organ, 6-10 gets two, etc.
You choose which organs.

At your next Rest the organs are distilled into tinctures with the following effects:
Heart: +1 dmg die to your single target attacks.
Liver: Add the equivalent of 1 max hit die as Temp HP.

Lung: Both 19 & 20 are critical hits in combat.
Brain: Telepathy sent to chosen creatures within 60 ft.

Tongue: Add Proficiency to social rolls. Stacks with existing Proficiencies or Expertise.

Eyes: +2 to Armor Class

These tinctures last 1 hour and sell at a retail price of 5 gold.

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MID-SOUTH DISTRICT

1. Labor Apprentice
You had a youth made up of strenuous and tedious work towards preparing you for a labor job.

Feat: Persistent Effort (Reaction)
Upon taking damage, you make spend a hit die to shrug off an equivalent amount of taken damage.
 

2. Clique Reject

As 2nd born, you were given to the Flicker Clique but were ejected for a lack of aptitude. 
Feat: Flicker Blitz (Action)

Once per Long Rest

You can perform a calculated series of melee attacks against multiple opponents simultaneously.

Target a number of creatures within 15 feet of you equal to your proficiency bonus.

Roll a melee attack with +2 to hit for each of the targets.

If all attacks are successful roll an additional 1d10 and deal that damage to all target.

You cannot target the same creature twice.

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SOUTHERN DISTRICT

1. Fallen Star
You were seen as having academic potential growing up but have failed to live up to expectations.

Feat: Extrapolation (Reaction)
You may spend a hit die to ask the DM to list the potential outcomes for a specific action attempt that you or an ally could take including failure, success, and the degrees between.

After finding out, if you choose to proceed you may add or subtract

your hit-die roll to the d20 roll towards the desired outcome.
 

2. Bio Student

You were studying to be a Bio-Scholar but burnt out, though you have retained some information. 
Feat: Acupressure (Action)

Once per Long Rest

You can apply pressure to key points on a willing creature's body.
Choose a skill or save and the target creature adds their proficiency bonus

to rolls using that skill or save for the next 8 hours.

This bonus stacks on top of existing proficiency or expertise bonuses.