Cunning Inventors

Every artificer is defined by a specific craft. Artificers see mastering the basic methods of a craft as the first step to true progress, the invention of new methods and approaches. Some artificers are gunsmiths, students of invention and warfare who craft deadly firearms that they can augment with magic. Other artificers are alchemists. Using their knowledge of magic and various exotic ingredients, they create potions and draughts to aid them on their adventures. Others still are mechanists crafting clockwork servants who carryout their needs. Alchemy, mechanics, and gunsmithing are the two most common areas of study for artificers, but others do exist.

All artificers are united by their curiosity and inventive nature. To an artificer, magic is an evolving art with a leading edge of discovery and mastery that pushes further ahead with each passing year. Artificers value novelty and discovery. This penchant pushes them to seek a life of adventure. A hidden ruin might hold a forgotten magic item or a beautifully crafted mirror perfect for magical enhancement. Artificers win respect and renown among their kind by uncovering new lore or inventing new methods of creation.

Intense Rivalries

The artificers' drive to invent and expand their knowledge creates an intense drive to uncover new magic discoveries. An artificer who hears news of a newly discovered magic item must act fast to get it before any rivals do. Good-aligned artificers recover items on adventures or offer gold or wondrous items to those who possess items they are keen to own. Evil ones have no problem committing crimes to claim what they want.

Almost every artificer has at least one rival, someone whom they seek to outdo at every turn. By the same token, artificers with similar philosophies and theories band together into loose guilds. They share their discoveries and work together to verify their theories and keep ahead of their rivals.

First Invention

The ultimate subject of your artificing area of expertise is expressed with your specialisation, but most artificers had their first spark of eccentric brilliance in something somewhat more modest... or at least a good bit less useful. Regardless of its utility, many artificers will remember fondly the first time they mocked the laws of possibility by creating something that defied conventional rationality and shocked their peers.

Perhaps you still carry it around, or you've left it behind, or you've lost it and check every pawn shop and black market to see if it will turn back up.

Methodology

One of the things that defines any artificer is why they do what they do. No matter how peculiar their path was, no one ends up an artificer on accident. More than just how they define their relationship with their work, frequently an artificer's methodology defines their relationship with the world... and just as often the world's relationship with them.

How do you decide what to work on, and how to do work on it once you've decided?

While it is often advisable to spend some time thinking about this subject, below are some ideas that may start you down your path, or if you really want to leave it in the hands of fate, you can simply roll on the table.

The artificer in other worlds

Eberron is the world most associated with artificers, yet the class can be found throughout the multiverse.

In the Forgotten Realms, for example, the island of Lantan is home to many artificers, and in the world of Dragonlance, tinker gnomes are often members of this class.

The strange technologies in the Barrier Peaks of the World of Greyhawk have inspired some folk to walk the path of the artificer, and in Mystara, various nations employ artificers to keep airships and other wondrous devices operational.

In the City of Sigil, artificers share discoveries from throughout the cosmos, and one in particular—the gnome inventor named Vi—runs a multiverse-spanning business from there.

Necro-alchemists in the gothic realm of Innistrad are just as frequently macabre artificers as they are necromancers, and in the worldcity Ravnica, the Izzet League trains numerous artificers, the destructiveness of whom is unparalleled in other worlds, except by the tinker gnomes of Krynn. The Keyrunes of the Ravnican guilds count as Figurines of Wondrous Power when crafting them.

Creating an Artificer

When creating an artificer character, think about your character's background and drive for adventure. Does the character have a rival? What is the character's relationship with the artisan or artificer who taught the basics of the craft? Talk to your DM about the role played by artificers in the campaign, and what sort of organizations and NPCs you might have ties to.

Class Features

As an artificer, you gain the following class features.

Tools Required

You produce your artificer spell effects through your tools. You must have a spellcasting focus—specifically thieves' tools or some kind of artisan's tools—in hand when you cast any spell with this Spellcasting feature regardless of components. You must be proficient with the tool to use it in this way. See chapter 5, "Equipment," in the Player's Handbook for descriptions of these tools.

After you gain the Infuse Item feature at 2nd level, you can also use any item bearing one of your infusions as a spellcasting focus.

Cantrips

At 1st level, you know two cantrips of your choice from the artificer spell list below. At higher levels, you learn additional artificer cantrips of your choice, as shown in the Cantrips Known column of the Artificer table.

When you gain a level in this class, you can replace one of the artificer cantrips you know with another cantrip from the artificer spell list.

Preparing and Casting Spells

The Artificer table shows how many spell slots you have to cast your artificer spells. To cast one of your artificer spells of 1st level or higher, you must expend a slot of the spell's level or higher. You regain all expended spell slots when you finish a long rest.

You prepare the list of artificer spells that are available for you to cast, choosing from the artificer spell list. When you do so, choose a number of artificer spells equal to your Intelligence modifier + half your artificer level, rounded down (minimum of one spell). The spells must be of a level for which you have spell slots.

For example, if you are a 5th level artificer, you have four 1st-level and two 2nd-level spell slots. With an Intelligence of 14, your list of prepared spells can include four spells of 1st or 2nd level, in any combination. If you prepare the 1st-level spell cure wounds, you can cast it using a 1st-level or a 2nd-level slot. Casting the spell doesn't remove it from your list of prepared spells. You can change your list of prepared spells when you finish a long rest. Preparing a new list of artificer spells requires time spent in tinkering with your spellcasting focuses: at least 1 minute per spell level for each spell on your list.

Spellcasting Ability

Intelligence is your spellcasting ability for your artificer spells; your understanding of the theory behind magic allows you to wield these spells with superior skill. You use your Intelligence whenever an artificer spell refers to your spellcasting ability. In addition, you use your Intelligence modifier when setting the saving throw DC for an artificer spell you cast and when making an attack roll with one.

• Spell save DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Intelligence modifier
• Spell attack modifier = your proficiency bonus + your Intelligence modifier

Ritual Casting

You can cast an artificer spell as a ritual if that spell has the ritual tag and you have the spell prepared.

Crafting Table

You craft consumable items such as potions, scrolls, and items with finite charges at half the cost.

Superior Attunement

At 5th level, your superior understanding of magic items allows you to master their use. You can now attune to up to four, rather than three, magic items at a time.

At 15th level, this limit increases to five magic items.

Arcane Armament

Starting at 7th level, you can attack twice, rather than once, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn, but one of the attacks must be made with a magic weapon or your wondrous invention.

Use Magic Device

Also by 7th level, you have learned enough about the workings of magic that you can improvise the use of items even when they are not intended for you. You ignore all class, race, and alignment requirements on the use of magic items.

Additionally you no longer need to make an Intelligence (Arcana) check to attempt to use a spell scroll that bears a spell not on your classes' spell list, and spell scrolls count as artificer spells for your Infuse Spell feature,

The Right Cantrip for the Job

At 10th level, you gain the ability to make sure you have the right magical tool for a job. Whenever you finish a short or long rest, you can replace one of the artificer cantrips you know with another cantrip from the artificer spell list.

Toolbox

Starting at 10th level, you can add half your proficiency bonus, rounded down, to any ability check you make using a tool with which you don't have proficiency.

Spell-Storing Item

When you reach 18th level, you learn how to better store a spell in an object for repeated use.

Whenever you finish a long rest, you can touch one set of armour, a weapon, or an item that you can use as a spellcasting focus and store a spell in it, choosing one 1st-or 2nd-level spell from the artificers spell list that requires 1 action to cast (you don't need to have the spell prepared). With the object worn or in hand, a creature can take an action to produce the spell's effect from it, using your spellcasting ability modifier.

The spell stays in the object until it has been used a number of times equal to twice your Intelligence modifier (minimum of twice) or until you use this feature again.

Soul of Artifice

At 20th level, your understanding of magic items is unmatched, allowing you to mingle your soul with items linked to you. You can attune to up to six magic items at once. In addition, you gain a +1 bonus to all saving throws per magic item you are currently attuned to.

Artificer Multiclassing

Should you wish to multiclass (Player's Handbook, page 163) as an artificer, the prerequisites and proficiencies gained are listed below.

Artificer Starting Gold

When you create an Artificer you may choose to start with gold and purchase your equipment, instead of the class and background's starting equipment, as shown below.

Artificer Spell List

Alchemist

An alchemist is an expert at combining exotic reagents to produce a variety of materials, from healing draughts that can mend a wound in moments to clinging goo that slows creatures down.

Alchemical Homunculus

Tiny, construct

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• armour Class 13 (natural armour)
• Hit Points equal to five times your level in this class + your Intelligence modifier
• Speed 20 ft., fly 30 ft.

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
4 (-3)	15 (+2)	11 (+0)	10 (+0)	10 (+0)	7 (-2)

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• Skills Perception +4, Stealth +4
• Damage Immunities acid, poison
• Condition Immunities charmed, exhaustion, poisoned
• Senses darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 10
• Languages understands the languages you speak

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Might of the Master. The following numbers increase by 1 when your proficiency bonus increases by 1: the homunculus' skill bonuses and the bonuses to hit and damage of its Acidic Spittle.

Actions (require your bonus action)

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Acidic Spittle. Ranged weapon attack: +4 to hit, range 30 ft., one target you can see. Hit: 1d6+2 acid damage.

Alchemical Salve (3/day). The homunculus can only use this action within 24 hours of when you last cast the Alchemic Homunculus spell. The homunculus produces a salve and touches one creature you designate. The target receives one of the following magical benefits of your choice:

• Buoyancy. The target gains a flying speed of 10 feet for 10 minutes.
• Inspiration. The target feels giddy and effective, gaining advantage on certain ability checks in the next hour. The target chooses the checks before or after rolling. The magic runs out after the target has used it on a number of checks equal to your spellcasting modifier (minimum of 1).
• Resilience. The target gains a number of temporary hit points equal to 2d6 + your spellcasting modifier.

Master Smith

When you choose this specialisation at 1st level, you gain proficiency with smith's tools, and you learn the Mending cantrip.

Wondrous Invention: Thunder Cannon

At 1st level, you forge a deadly firearm using a combination of arcane magic and your knowledge of engineering and metallurgy. This firearm is called a Thunder Cannon. It is a ferocious weapon that fires leaden bullets that can punch through armour with ease.

You are proficient with the Thunder Cannon. The firearm is a two-handed martial ranged weapon with the loading and ammunition properties that deals 1d12 piercing damage. Its normal range is 150 feet, and its maximum range is 500 feet. Firing the thunder cannon while prone does not incur disadvantage.

When you fire the thunder cannon a loud booming sound echoes, audible out to a range of 300 feet.

If you lose your Thunder Cannon, you can create a new one over the course of three days of work (eight hours each day) by expending 100 gp worth of metal and other raw materials.

Arcane Magazine

At 1st level, you craft a leather bag used to carry your tools and ammunition for your Thunder Cannon. Your Arcane Magazine includes the powders, lead shot, and other materials needed to keep that weapon functioning.

You can use the Arcane Magazine to produce ammunition for your gun. At the end of each long rest, you can magically produce 40 rounds of ammunition with this magazine. After each short rest, you can produce 10 rounds.

If you lose your Arcane Magazine, you can create a new one as part of a long rest, using 25 gp of leather and other raw materials.

Thunder Monger

At 3rd level, you learn to channel thunder energy into your Thunder Cannon or a crossbow. Once on each of your turns, when you hit with an attack using your Thunder Cannon or a crossbow, you can deal an extra 1d4 thunder damage.

This extra damage increases by 1d4 when you reach certain levels in this class: 6th level (2d4), 9th level (3d4), 12th level (4d4), 15th level (5d4), and 18th level (6d4).

Improved Weapon Crafting

At 3rd level, your experience with your Smith's Tools and Thunder Cannon allows you to create magical and non-magical weapons more easily.

When crafting a weapon, you make progress much faster than usual; it takes you a quarter of the normal time, and it costs you half as much as the usual gold.

Weapon Tinkering

At 6th level, you modify your Thunder Cannon by upgrading its capabilities. You make two upgrades of your choice to your weapon from the Gunsmith Upgrades list, detailed at the end of the Gunsmith description. You can change these selected upgrades when rebuilding your Thunder Cannon, or by spending the time and money as though you were rebuilding it.

You choose two more upgrades at 11th level, and an additional one at 14th level, and again at 18th level.

Blast Wave

Starting at 6th level, you can channel force energy into your Thunder Cannon. As an action, you can make a special attack with it. Rather than making an attack roll, you unleash force energy in a 15-foot cone from the gun. Each creature in that area must make a Strength saving throw with a DC of 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Intelligence modifier. On a failed saving throw, a creature takes 3d6 force damage and is pushed 20 feet away from you. Taking half damage and not being pushed on a successful save.

This damage increases by 1d6 when you reach certain levels in this class: 14th level (4d6) and 17th level (5d6).

Devastating Blast

At 11th level, when you miss an attack with your Thunder Cannon or a crossbow, you can choose to have the target of your attack still take half of your extra Thunder Monger damage, rounded down. If you choose to deal Thunder Monger damage in this way you cannot deal damage with your Thunder Monger again until your next turn.

Piercing Round

Starting at 14th level, you can shoot lightning energy through your Thunder Cannon. As an action, you can make a special attack with it. Rather than making an attack roll, you cause the gun to unleash a bolt of lightning, 5-feet wide and 60-feet long. Each creature in that area must make Dexterity saving throws with a DC of 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Intelligence modifier. On a failed saving throw, a target takes 4d6 lightning damage, or half as much on a success.

This damage increases to 6d6 when you reach 19th level in this class.

Arcane Turret

After taking this upgrade, you learn how to create a magical turret. With your smith’s tools in hand, you can take an action to magically summon a Medium turret in an unoccupied space on a horizontal surface within 5 feet of you.

The turret is a magical object that occupies its space and that has crablike legs. It has an AC of 18 and a number of hit points equal to five times your artificer level. It is immune to poison damage, psychic damage, and all conditions. If it is forced to make an ability check or a saving throw, treat all its ability scores as 10 (+0). If the mending spell is cast on it, it regains 2d6 hit points. It disappears if it is reduced to 0 hit points or after 10 minutes. You can dismiss it early as an action.

When you summon the turret, you decide which type it is, choosing from the options on the Arcane Turrets table. On each of your turns, you can take a bonus action to cause the turret to activate if you are within 60 feet of it. As part of the same action, you can direct the turret to walk or climb up to 15 feet to an unoccupied space.

You can summon a turret once for free and must finish a long rest before doing so again. You can also summon the turret by expending a spell slot of 1st level or higher. If you summon a second turret, the first turret disappears. As an action, you can command your turret to detonate if you are within 60 feet of it. Doing so destroys the turret and forces each creature within 10 feet of it to make a Dexterity saving throw against your spell save DC, taking 3d6 force damage on a failed save or half as much damage on a successful one.

Arcane Turrets

Bayonet You affix an implement of vicious stabbing onto the end of your thunder cannon. This bayonet may be used to make a melee weapon attack with your thunder cannon, it is a simple weapon that deals 1d8 piercing damage.

Elemental Injector When you deal your Thunder Monger damage you may choose to have the damage be either acid, cold, fire, or lightning damage instead of thunder.

Extendable Stand On your turn, by spending no movement, and firing while prone, you have advantage on attacks with your Thunder Cannon.

Extended Barrel The normal weapon range of your Thunder Cannon increases by 100 feet.

Farsight Scope The maximum weapon range of your Thunder Cannon increases by 100 feet.

Integrated Magazine Your Thunder Cannon no longer has the loading property.

Silencer Requires 11th level, cannot have echoing boom

You may expend a spell slot of 2nd level or higher to cast Silence centred on your Thunder Cannon. The area of this spell moves with your firearm. Your thunder cannon is also no longer audible out to 300 feet when fired.

Echoing Boom Requires 11th level, cannot have silencer

When you deal damage to a creature with your Thunder Monger you may force the creature to make a Strength saving throw with a DC of 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Intelligence modifier. On a failed save the target is pushed back 30 feet and if they hit another creature or object, takes 1d8 thunder damage for every 10 feet they travel.

Fortified Position Requires: Arcane Turret, 14th level

Your turrets now grant you and your allies half cover while within 10 feet of a turret you create, as a result of a shimmering field of magical protection that the turret emits.

You can now also summon a second turret for free before needing to finish a long rest. You can have up to two turrets active at once, You can summon both turrets with the same action, and activate both of them with the same bonus action as well.

Rifled Barrel Requires: Farsight Scope, 18th level

The short and maximum range of your weapon is doubled, and you now roll three dice and take the highest when rolling advantage on an attack with your Thunder Cannon.

Master Tinker

When you choose this specialisation at 1st level, you gain proficiency with tinker's tools, and you learn the Mage Hand cantrip.

Wondrous Invention: Mechanical Servant

At 1st level, you complete a mechanical servant, formed from metal and clockwork. The servant is a construct that obeys your commands without hesitation and serves you loyally. Though magic fuels its creation, the servant is not magical itself. You are assumed to have recently succeeded in this creation after working towards it for sometime.

When you build your mechanical servant, you determine its game statistics by selecting a chassis and a build, which you apply to the the mechanical servant statistics provided at the end of the Mechanist description. Your construct's chassis determines its general appearance, but it can look however you like, as long as its form is appropriate for those statistics.

The construct has its own proficiency bonus which matches your own. It increases in level whenever you do, and gains a new hit die, just as you do. Your servant may spend hit dice to heal during a short rest, however you must be present and able to make repairs. Long rests for the construct follow the same rules as players.

Additionally, whenever you gain an ability score increase from this class, your servant gains an ability score increase of its own, however the construct's Intelligence and Charisma scores cannot be increased this way.

The servant obeys your orders to the best of its ability. In combat, it takes its turns on your initiative and requires you to command it to take an action using your bonus action. Your mechanical servant can't attack, but it can take other actions as normal.

If the servant is killed, it can be returned to life via normal means, such as with the revivify spell. In addition, over the course of a long rest, you can repair a slain servant if you have access to its body. It returns to life with 1 hit point at the end of the rest.

If the servant is beyond recovery, you can reproduce the construct in the same form, with three days of work (eight hours each day) and 100 gp of raw materials.

Combat-Ready Construct

Starting at 3rd level you are able to create weapon components for your construct. Choose 2 simple weapons, the mechanical servant is considered proficient with the chosen weapons. The construct can now be commanded to attack, and follows the normal rules for wielding weapons.

These weapons may take a different form than a normal weapon. For example, curved blades may be attached to the wings of a flying construct, enabling it to deal slashing damage like a scimitar. Whatever its physical description, you can use the game statistics provided for the weapon in chapter 5 of the Player's Handbook.

Additionally, the construct has proficiency in all saving throws you are proficient with.

Upgraded Construct

At 3rd level you improve your construct by upgrading or adding components. You make three upgrades of your choice to your servant from the Mechanical Servant Upgrades list, detailed at the end of the Mechanist description. You can change these upgrades when rebuilding the construct after it has been destroyed beyond recovery or with 8 hours of work.

You choose an additional two upgrades each at level 6 and level 11, and one additional upgrade each at level 14 and level 18.

Improved Construct Creation

At 3rd level, your experience with your Tinker's Tools and Mechanical Servant allows you to create magical and mechanical constructs more easily.

When crafting a construct creature or figurine of wondrous power, you make progress much faster than usual; it takes you a quarter of the normal time, and it costs you half as much as the usual gold.

Magic Imbued Strikes

Starting at 6th level your servant's attacks count as magical for the purposes of overcoming resistances and immunity from non-magical attacks and damage.

Defensive Response

At 11th level, if you are attacked and the attacker is within 5 ft of your construct, your construct can make a single melee attack against the attacker as a reaction.

Overwrite Construct

At 11th level, you can use an action to target one construct creature within 30 feet of you. The target must make a wisdom saving throw. On a failed save the creature is turned for 1 minute or until it takes any damage.

A turned creature must spend its turns trying to move as far away from you as it can, and it can't willingly move to a space within 30 feet of you. It also can't take reactions. For its action, it can use only the Dash action or try to escape from an effect that prevents it from moving. If there's nowhere to move, the creature can use the Dodge action.

If the creature's challenge rating is less than your artificer level you may instead take control of it. The construct must obey your commands for a number of hours equal to half your artificer level rounded down. Or until you take control of another construct using this feature.

You must complete a short or long rest before you can use this ability again.

Mechanical Servant

Construct, unaligned

• armour Class 10 + proficiency bonus + Dexterity modifier

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
10 (+0)	10 (+0)	10 (+0)	3 (-4)	9 (-1)	1 (-5)

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• Damage Immunities poison, psychic
• Condition Immunities exhaustion, charmed, poisoned
• Senses passive perception 10 + Wisdom modifier, darkvision 60 ft.
• Languages Understands creator's languages, but cannot speak

Aerial Chassis

You construct a smaller, lighter chassis capable of flight. The servant gains the following additions to its statistics.

• Size small
• Skills acrobatics
• Speed 10 ft., fly 40 ft.
• Hit Die d6
• Hit Points at 1st Level 6 + its Constitution modifier
• Hit Points at Each Level After 1st 4 (or 1d6) + Constitution modifier

Biped Chassis

You construct a chassis built to stand upright on two legs. The servant gains the following additions to its statistics.

• Size medium
• Skills athletics
• Speed 30 ft., climb 30 ft.
• Hit Die d8
• Hit Points at 1st Level 8 + its Constitution modifier
• Hit Points at Each Level After 1st 5 (or 1d8) + Constitution modifier

Quadruped Chassis

You construct a chassis designed to move quickly using 4 legs. The servant gains the following additions to its statistics.

• Size medium
• Skills athletics, acrobatics
• Speed 40 ft.
• Hit Die d8
• Hit Points at 1st Level 8 + its Constitution modifier
• Hit Points at Each Level After 1st 5 (or 1d8) + Constitution modifier

Advanced Materials

Prerequisite: 14th level Artificer

By utilizing rare ore in upgrading the construct's armour, the construct gains resistance against bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage from nonmagical attacks.

Aquatic Adaptation

Using a special compound that you develop, you coat your construct in a friction reducing material. You attach fins, webbing, or other appropriate aquatic locomotive aids. The construct gains a swim speed equal to its base walking speed. If any effect increases its walking speed, that increase also applies to its swim speed.

Arcane Shielding

Prerequisite: 18th level Artificer

You install a device which can generate a bubble of arcane energy. As a bonus action the construct can activate the shield. While the shield is active the construct gains resistance to all damage for 1 minute.

Once your construct uses this feature, it must finish a short or long rest before it can use it again.

Arcane Sight

Prerequisite: 6th level Artificer

You develop an arcane link with you servant's sensors. You can use an action to don a special pair of goggles of your own design and see through your construct's eyes. These goggles are uniquely calibrated to you. If another creature looks through the goggles they see only blackness.

Arcane Sensors

Utilizing an array of magical sensors of your own design, you enable your construct to detect threats with greater ease. The construct gains proficiency with the perception skill. Additionally the construct has advantage on perception checks relying on sound.

Armour Plating

Prerequisite: 6th level Artificer, Construct's Strength score must be 15 or higher

By replacing much of the construct's chassis with heavy metal plates you significantly upgrade its armour at the cost of clumsier movement. The construct's AC becomes 18 + proficiency bonus. The construct has disadvantage on Dexterity (Stealth) checks.

Charge Attack

Prerequisite: Quadruped Chassis

By upgrading the construct's joints to be more nimble at high speeds, your construct gains the ability to attack while dashing. When the construct uses its action to dash, it can use a bonus action to make a single melee attack or to shove a creature.

If the construct moves at least 10 feet in a straight line immediately before taking this bonus action, it gains either a +5 bonus to the attack's damage roll (if it makes an attack and hits) or pushes the target up to 10 feet away from it (if it succeeds on the shove).

Cloaking Mechanism

Prerequisite: 11th level Artificer

Through a series of enhancements, magical and mechanical, you create an advanced stealth system. As an action, the construct can become invisible. The invisibility ends after one hour, or if the construct attacks or casts a spell.

After the effect ends, the construct can't do so again for 1 minute.

Clockwork Brain

Prerequisite: 6th level Artificer

You design a clockwork brain and install it into your mechanical servant. The construct gains an intelligence score of 6, allowing it to utilize items imbued with your magical infusion and follow more complex commands. You can now order the construct to harry a single creature and it will attack that creature until you command it otherwise, or the creature dies. Your construct will now also do its best to defend you if you are unconscious.

Additionally, you can use your Infuse Magic feature directly on your construct once without counting against your max number of infused spells. Only the construct can activate the infusion.

Due to its increased intelligence, the construct loses its immunity to psychic damage.

Master Medic

When you choose this specialisation at 1st level, you gain proficiency with Medicine, Smith's tools, one melee weapon of your choice, and you learn the Spare the Dying cantrip.

Wondrous Invention: Power Fist

At 1st level, you create a powerful invention that replaces your arm and has increased strength and durability. Maybe you created this augment to strengthen your own arm, or maybe you forged a new augmented arm to replace the lost limb.

If you lose your Power Fist, you can create a new one over the course of three days of work (eight hours each day) by expending 100 gp worth of raw materials.

Your Power Fist functions exactly as if it were an ordinary arm, but it also grants you the following benefits;

• Your power fist is a simple melee weapon which you are proficient with that deals 1d6 bludgeoning damage on a hit. You cannot be disarmed of your power fist.
• You can use Intelligence instead of Strength for the attack and damage rolls of your unarmed strikes and your power fist.

Expanded Spell List

At 1st level, you always have certain spells prepared after you reach particular levels in this class, as shown in the following table. These spells count as artificer spells for you, but they don't count against the number of artificer spells you prepare.

Augmented Body

In your study of the arcane and the scientific you have learned how to create part-magical part-scientific augmentations to yourself or your armour based on the enhancements of your power fist.

At 3rd level, you make three upgrades to yourself or your armour from the Self-Forged Upgrades list, detailed at the end of the Self-Forged description.

When you gain a level in this class, you can choose one of the upgrades you know and replace it with another upgrade that you meet the requirements for.

You choose an two additional upgrades at level 6 and level 11, and one additional upgrade each at level 14 and level 18.

Improved Prosthetic Building

At 3rd level, your experience with your Smith's Tools and Power Fist allows you to create magical and non-magical prosthetics and warforged components more easily.

When crafting a warforged component or prosthetic, you make progress much faster than usual; it takes you a quarter of the normal time, and it costs you half as much as the usual gold. A prosthetic counts as a common magic item that does not require attunemnt.

Mass Accelerated Strike

At 3rd level, you learn to channel magical energy into your weapon strikes. Once on each of your turns, when you hit with an attack using a melee weapon or a crossbow, you can deal an extra 1d4 thunder damage.

This extra damage increases by 1d4 when you reach certain levels in this class: 6th level (2d4), 9th level (3d4), 12th level (4d4), 15th level (5d4), and 18th level (6d4).

Arcane Metal

Starting at 6th level, your Power Fist now also grants the following benefits:

• Your power fist and unarmed strikes count as magical for the purpose of overcoming resistance and immunity to nonmagical attacks and damage.
• You can use your Intelligence modifier in place of Strength or Dexterity for the attack and damage rolls of crossbows, and melee weapons you are proficient with that lack the two-handed property.

Bio-Augmentation

Beginning at 6th level your familiarity with your upgrades and usage of them has honed to the point where you are able to augment your body beyond what should be possible.

Choose and gain the benefits of one upgrade for which you meet the requirements, this upgrade doesn't count against the maximum number of upgrades you can have.

You may choose an additional upgrade to gain with this feature at 18th level.

You can only swap these upgrades when you gain access to a new tier of upgrade.

Tier 1: No Level Requirements

Arcane Optics: Whilst this upgrade is active it provides you with a heads up display to help you process information faster and keep better awareness of your surroundings. You have advantage on Intelligence (Investigation) checks and enemies don’t gain advantage on attacks against you as a result of being unseen.

Cryo-Projector: Whilst this upgrade is active you know the Ray of Frost cantrip, this does not count against your maximum cantrips known. Additionally, you can also cast the following spells at their lowest level using your spell save DC and spell attack modifier, once per day each at certain Artificer levels.

3rd level; Ice Knife, 5th level; Snilloc’s Snowball Swarm, 7th level; Glacial Blast, 9th level; Ice Storm, 11th level; Cone of Cold, 13th level; Wall of Ice.

Heavy Work Augment: You double the amount of weight you can carry, drag, lift, or push. Additionally you may grapple or shove a creature that is two sizes larger than you.

Holographic Projector: You may cast Disguise Self and Silent Image a number of times equal to your Intelligence modifier each whilst this upgrade is active. You must complete a long rest before you can use this upgrade again.

Hydraulic Leg Pistons: Your base walking speed is increased by 10 ft. and your jump distance and height is doubled whilst this upgrade is active.

Integrated Armour: Your body has built-in defensive layers with this upgrade, which determines your armour class. You gain no benefit from wearing armour, but if you are using a shield, you apply it's bonus as normal.

Your AC is equal to 14 + your proficiency bonus, as long as this upgrade is active.

Night-Vision: Whilst this upgrade is active you have darkvision out to 60 feet, or an additional 30 feet if you already have darkvision.

Nimble Work Augment: You have advantage on all Sleight of Hand and Acrobatics checks. Additionally, when squeezing, you are not slowed and your attacks don't have disadvantage.

Rebreather: Whilst this upgrade is active you may breathe underwater.

Storm-Projector: Whilst this upgrade is active you know the Lightning Lure cantrip, this does not count against your maximum cantrips known. Additionally, you can also cast the following spells at their lowest level using your spell save DC and spell attack modifier, once per day each at certain Artificer levels.

3rd level; Witch Bolt, 5th level; Arc Lightning, 7th level; Call Lightning, 9th level; Storm Sphere, 11th level; Control Winds, 13th level; Chain Lightning.

Thermo-Projector: Whilst this upgrade is active you know the Fire Bolt cantrip, this does not count against your maximum cantrips known. Additionally, you can also cast the following spells at their lowest level using your spell save DC and spell attack modifier, once per day each at certain Artificer levels.

3rd level; Burning Hands, 5th level; Aganazzar’s Scorcher, 7th level; Fireball, 9th level; Wall of Fire, 11th level; Immolation, 13th level Investiture of Flame.

Tier 2: Requires level 6

Active Camouflage: As a bonus action, you can activate this upgrade causing yourself to automatically blend into your surroundings. This lasts until you use an attack, cast a spell, or move. While this is active, you are lightly obscured, and can hide from a creature even when they have a clear line of sight to you.

Arcane Barrage: You may use an action to cast Magic Missile at 3rd level, you must complete a short or long rest before you can use this upgrade again.

Flail Fist: Your power fist gains the reach property, as long as this upgrade is active.

Overdrive Servos: Whilst this upgrade is active you may take the dash action as a bonus action.

Reforged Biology: Whilst this upgrade is active you don’t need to eat, drink, breathe, or sleep, and magic cannot put you to sleep. To gain the benefits of a long rest, you must spend at least 6 hours in an inactive, motionless state, rather than sleeping. In this state, you appear unconscious, but you aren't, and you can see and hear as normal. You also count as a Construct in addition to your other types.

Restriction: Warforged Only

Only warforged can becomes transformers. The nature of their bodies enabling such rapid changes without the aid of magic like a druid.

Your DM can lift this restriction to better suit the campaign. The restriction exists for Eberron. It might not apply to your DM's setting or your DM's version of Eberron.

Master Defender

You gain proficiency in the Disguise Kit, learn the Resistance cantrip, and gain the Protection Fighting Style.

Wondrous Invention: Morph Core

At 1st level, you forge a core that you then implant into yourself that allows your body to shift and transform, changing the uses of the mechanical parts inside of you to better suit your purposes. As part of creating the Morph Core, you had to make some changes to your body, making it more mechanical in preparation for the device. You count as a construct in addition to your other types and are affected by spells and abilities that target both constructs and humanoids.

If you lose your Morph Core or it is destroyed, you can create a new one over the course of three days of work (eight hours each day) by expending 100 gp worth of metal and other raw materials.

Golem Shape

Beginning at 1st level, as an action, you may use the Morph Core to transform into a large machine-like construct, whilst in this golem form you are one size larger and you gain temporary hit points equal to 4 times your artificer level. You still benefit from all your race and class features whilst in this golem form. If you take lightning damage whilst in this form you cannot use reactions until the start of your next turn.

You can also use your action whilst in this golem form to transform into a vehicle the same size category as your golem form, you cannot transform into a flying vehicle, doing so does not cost a use of this feature.

You can transform into golem form twice per short rest.

The transformation lasts for 1 hour or when you run out of temporary hit points, whichever comes first.

Combat Transformation

Starting at 3rd level, you can install weapons systems into your golem form, you may take the time to integrate two weapons which you are proficient with into your body and can equip them using your object interaction, you can access these weapons only while in golem form and your weapon attacks in this form deal an additional 1d4 damage. You can change these installed weapons over the course of a long rest.

In addition you may transform as a bonus action.

Improved Component Forging

At 3rd level, your experience with your Morph Core allows you to create warforged components more easily.

When crafting a warforged component, you make progress much faster than usual; it takes you a quarter of the normal time, and it costs you half as much as the usual gold.

You can also attune and unattune to warforged components in 10 minutes, rather than an hour.

Stinger

You have learned to channel the electrical energy of your body to further fuel the power of your strikes. Once per turn, when you hit with an attack using an installed weapon or a crossbow, you can deal an extra 1d4 lightning damage.

This extra damage increases when you reach certain levels in this class: 6th level (2d4), 9th level (3d4), 12th level (4d4), 15th level (5d4), and 18th level (6d4).

Modular Transforming

At 6th level, you learned to create various modules and upgrades to apply to your golem and vehicle forms. You create two upgrades of your choice from the Transfomer Upgrades list, detailed at the end of the Transformer description.

You can change one of these upgrades when you level up, or after rebuilding your Morph Core.

You choose one additional upgrade each at level 11, level 14 and level 18.

Partial Transformation

At 6th level, you can now partially transform your body, not quite accessing your full strength, but some of the utility. You may transform your installed weapons, equipping them even when not in golem form, and you may transform into vehicle mode at any time. You may only remain in vehicle mode without transforming fully for 10 minutes.

Armour Plating

Starting at 11th level, your armour becomes thicker and even more protective, when you transform you gain an additional 2 temporary hit points per artificer level.

Beast Mode

Choose a beast with a challenge rating equal to your artificer level divided by three, you can now alternatively turn into a Beast Mode which resembles a mechanical version of the creature you chose. Whilst in this form you have the size and speeds of that beast and can use its attacks and traits, but your stats otherwise remain the same.

Your Beast Form still gains the same damage benefit and grants you temporary hit points like if you transformed into golem form. You also cannot access any of your equipment except installed ranged weapons whilst in Beast Mode.

You can choose a different beast form when you level up in this class.

Damage Resistant Plating

Prerequisite: 14th level

You have resistance to bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage whilst transformed.

Energy Knife

You have learned to create and install a blade with an edge of magical energy that protrudes from your forearm. You are proficient with this martial melee weapon, it deals 1d8 slashing damage and counts as a magic weapon for the purposes of overcoming resistance and immunity, and your arcane armament feature.

You can spend a spell slot to increase it's sharpness and cause it to deal double damage against objects for the next 1 minute.

Energy Shield

You can now create a shield of energy from your arm, taking a bonus action to don or doff. You can access this shield even when not transformed.

Flame Thrower

You have installed a powerful compressed canister of a liquid that you can ignite with a spark at the end of a pressurised nozzle, allowing you to launch gouts of flame at your foes. As an action you may launch a 30-foot cone of fire, all creatures caught in the area must make a Dexterity saving throw, taking 5d6 fire damage on a fail and half as much on a success.

You must finish a short or long rest before you can use this again.

Flight Mode

Prerequisite: 11th level

Whilst in golem form you gain a flight speed equal to your walking speed. You may also transform into flying vehicles.

Force Cannon

You have learned to create and install a cannon of magical force, transforming your forearm into this powerful weapon. You are proficient with this martial ranged weapon, it deals 1d8 bludgeoning damage and counts as a magic weapon for the purposes of overcoming resistance and immunity, and your arcane armament feature

You can spend a spell slot to increase its impact power and cause it to deal double damage to structures for the next 1 minute.

Larger Build

Prerequisites: 11th level

You upgrade your Golem form so you may take upon an even larger and more powerful build when you transform. Whilst in this larger Golem form your weapon attacks deal an additional 1d8 damage, instead of 1d4.

Your Vehicle mode similarly increases in size.

Stealth Mode

When you transform, you are now also capable of transforming into a Golem or Vehicle mode smaller than you are, compacting and storing the excess mass into a smaller package. You do not gain the damage boost of your transformation whilst in this Stealth mode but you do gain advantage on Dexterity (Stealth) checks to blend in as a Vehicle or when disguising yourself in an environment where you might blend in.

Weaponised Vehicle

Prerequisite: 18th level

You may access your installed weapons and make attacks with them whilst in Vehicle mode by transforming part of your form to your weapons.

Master Carver

When you choose this specialisation at 1st level, you gain proficiency with woodcarver's supplies, and you learn one evocation cantrip from any class, this cantrip counts as an artificer spell for you.

Wondrous Invention: Battle Wand

At 1st level, you've mastered the arcane secrets and fine craftsmanship to forge a wand. The first wand you create is your Battle Wand.

When you deal damage or cause healing to a creature or object with a cantrip while holding your Battle Wand or with a spell using a charge of a Wand, you can add your Intelligence modifier to the damage or amount healed by the spell.

You may use your Battle Wand as a spellcasting focus.

If you lose your Battle Wand, you can create a new one over the course of three days of work (eight hours each day) by expending 100 gp worth of gems, woods, and other raw materials.

Infused Wands

The time you have spent painstakingly carving wood, cutting gems, and shaping metal to create and maintain your Battle Wand has taught you how to create other wands which are empowered by your own magic.

Beginning at 3rd level you learn to craft Infusion Wands. These wands are made of wood and can have runes carved into them to enable them to store and remember spells.

At the end of a long rest, by spending one minute with a length of wood and expending a spell slot you can create an Infusion Wand and teach it an artificer spell of that level with a casting time of 1 action or 1 bonus action, at which point the wand gains 3 charges and any creature can, as an action, expend one charge to cast that spell at it's lowest level using your spellcasting modifier. These Infusion Wands regain all expended charges at the end of a long rest.

The number of Wands you can create begins at one, and you learn to create more as you level, two at 6th level, three at 11th level, four at 14th level, and five at 18th level. If you lose or want to change a wand you can create a new one by the same process you made the original, rendering it inert.

Improved Implement Carving

At 3rd level, your experience with your Woodcarver's Supplies and your Battle Wand allows you to create magical implements more easily.

When crafting a wand, staff, or rod, you make progress much faster than usual; it takes you a quarter of the normal time, and it costs you half as much as the usual gold.

Arcane Artillery

At 3rd level, your wands amplify the power of your damaging cantrips with additional power. Once on your turn, when you hit with an evocation cantrip that requires an attack roll while holding your Battle Wand, the cantrip deals an extra 1d4 damage to one target of the spell.

This extra damage increases by 1d4 when you reach certain levels in this class: 7th level (2d4), 11th level (3d4), 15th level (4d4), and 19th level (5d4).

Spell Editor

Beginning at 6th level, your knowledge of how to write spells into existence brought with it a new epiphany, the knowledge of how to edit and manipulate these spells.

You learn one metamagic option of your choice from among those available to the sorcerer, you learn an additional metamagic option at 11th level, and again at 18th level. You have a pool of sorcery points which you can use to fuel these metamagics. Your maximum number of points is equal to half your artificer level + your Intelligence modifier. You can never have more sorcery points than your maximum. As a bonus action you may expend a spell slot to regain a number of points equal to the level of the spell slot.

You regain all expended points when you finish a long rest.

Spell Battery

Starting at 6th level, once per day when you finish a short rest, you can choose expended spell slots to recover. The spell slots can have a combined level that is equal to or less than one third your artificer level (rounded up), and none of the slots can be 6th level or higher.

Additionally you can spend sorcery points to recharge a Wand you are holding. By spending 2 sorcery points as a bonus action you can restore 1 charge to a Wand.

Bouncing Spell

When a creature succeeds on the saving throw against a spell you cast that targets only it and the spell would have no effect, you may spend 2 sorcery points as a reaction to cause a different creature within range to make the saving throw against the spell as though they were the original target.

You can use Bouncing Spell even if you have already used a different metamagic option during the casting of the spell.

Disruptive Spell

When you cast a spell that deals damage, you can spend 1 sorcery point to cause all creatures damaged by that spell to have to make a saving throw to maintain concentration against your spell save DC instead of the normal DC.

Elemental Spell

When you cast a spell that deals acid, cold, fire, lightning, or poison damage, you may spend 2 sorcery points to change that damage to one of the other types.

Widen Spell

When you cast a spell that effects an area, you may spend 3 sorcery points to double the area effected.

Replicate Magic Item

Prerequisite: See below

Using this infusion, you replicate a particular magic item. You can learn this infusion multiple times; each time you do so, choose a different magic item that you can make with it, picking from the Replicable Magic Items tables below. If a table has a level in its title, you must be of at least that level in this class to choose an item from the table.

In the tables, an item's entry tells you whether the item requires attunement. See the item's description in the Dungeon Master's Guide for more information about it, including the type of object required for its making.

Adaptive Inventor

Requires Intelligence 13 or higher

You have honed your mind and studied the works of your colleagues so that you understand them intrinsically and can replicate them.

Choose one Artificer Specialisation you do not already have, you gain the Wondrous Invention feature of that specialisation.

You also gain one upgrade or formula relevant to that specialisation that doesn't have a level requirement. You must be a warforged to choose Transformer and if you do you also gain the Golem Shape feature. You count as a 1st level Artificer for the purposes of these abilities.

1st level spells

Arc Lightning

2nd-level evocation (Druid, Sorcerer, Wizard)

• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: 60 feet
• Components: V, S, M (a piece of lightning-struck tree)
• Duration: Instantaneous

You create a bolt of lightning that arcs toward a creature of your choice that you can see within range. The target must make a Dexterity saving throw. The target takes 2d8 lightning damage on a failed save, or half as much on a successful one.

Lightning arcs from the target to up to 2 additional creatures within 20 feet. Those creatures must make Dexterity saving throws. Each target takes 1d8 lightning damage on a failed save, or half as much on a successful one.

At Higher Levels When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 3rd level or higher, the damage (both initial and arcs) increases by 1d8, and one additional arc leaps from the first target to another target, for each slot level above 2nd.

Carry Companion

2nd-level transmutation (ritual) (Artificer, Druid, Paladin, Ranger)

• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: Touch
• Components: V, S, M (a pinch of sand or limestone dust)
• Duration: until dispelled

You touch a willing beast, construct, conjured familiar, or conjured steed, that is friendly toward you, instantly transforming the creature into a miniature figurine of stone, small enough to fit into the palm of your hand.

A creature with an intelligence of 3 or higher must be a willing subject in order for this spell to take effect. Any items that the creature wears (such as a harness or saddle) or carries (such as those stowed in saddlebags) are transformed along with the creature.

While miniaturized, the creature is petrified: It is mindless and inert, and does not seem alive when examined. However, you may return the creature to its normal form at any time simply by placing the figurine on the ground, touching it, and uttering a word of command. Otherwise, the creature remains in miniature form unless the spell is broken, such as by dispel magic.

If the miniature figurine is broken or damaged, the creature (if returned to its original state) has similar damage or deformities.

Ironskin

2nd-level Abjuration (Artificer, Paladin, Ranger)

• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: Self
• Components: V, S, M (a pinch of forge soot)
• Duration: concentration, up to 1 hour

Your skin hardens and takes on the color and texture of rough iron. You gain a +3 bonus to your armour class. Whilst under the effects of this spell, if an opponent hits you with a critical hit you can use your reaction to end this spell and cause the attack to be treated as though it were not a critical (it still hits though). You cannot dismiss the spell in this way if you were unaware of the attacker.

Reinforce Construct

2nd-level transmutation (Artificer)

• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: Touch
• Components: V, S
• Duration: 1 hour

You bolster a constructs frame, making it better able to withstand blows. The construct gains 10 temporary hit points and +1 AC for the duration of the spell.

At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 3rd level or higher, the construct gains an additional 10 temporary hit points, and the duration is increased by 1 hour for each spell level above 2nd.

Thunderburst Mine

2nd-level transmutation (Artificer)

• Casting Time: 1 minute
• Range: Touch
• Components: V, S, M (an object to be infused)
• Duration: 8 hours

You can set a magical trap by infusing explosive magic into an item. You can set this item to detonate when a creature comes within 5 feet of it, or by a verbal command using your reaction.

When the magic trap detonates, each creature in a 10-foot-radius sphere centered on the mine must make a Constitution saving throw. A creature takes 3d8 thunder damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. If a creature is in the area of effect of more than one thunderburst mine during a turn, they take half damage from any subsequent effects of the mines.

A magical mine must be set 5 feet or more from another mine, and cannot be moved once placed; any attempt to move it results in it detonating unless the caster that set it disarms it with an action.

Adamantine Weapon

3rd-level transmutation (Artificer)

• Casting Time: 1 minute
• Range: Touch
• Components: V, S, M (a pinch of powdered adamantine)
• Duration: 1 hour

This spell temporarily alters the substance of one weapon made of metal, transforming it into adamantine. This effect replaces the properties of any other special material the weapon might be constructed from.

Fireburst Mine

3rd-level transmutation (Artificer)

• Casting Time: 1 minute
• Range: Touch
• Components: V, S, M (an object to be infused)
• Duration: 8 hours

You can set a magical trap by infusing explosive magic into an item. You can set this item to detonate when a creature comes within 5 feet of it, or by a verbal command using your reaction.

When the magic trap detonates, each creature in a 20-foot-radius sphere centered on the mine must make a Constitution saving throw. A creature takes 5d8 fire damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. If a creature is in the area of effect of more than one fireburst mine during a turn, they take half damage from any subsequent effects of the mines.

A magical mine must be set 5 feet or more from another mine, and cannot be moved once placed; any attempt to move it results in it detonating unless the caster that set it disarms it with an action.

Glacial Blast

3rd-level evocation (Sorcerer, Wizard)

• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: Self (30-foot cone)
• Components: V, S, M (a cracked sphere of ice)
• Duration: Instantaneous

A blast of freezing cold energy is launched from your fist, freezing and halting everything in a 30 ft. cone. Each creature in the spell's area must make a Dexterity saving throw. A creature takes 6d8 cold damage on a failed save, or half as much on a successful one.

At Higher Levels When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 4th level or higher, the damage increases by 1d8 for each slot level above 3rd.

Power Surge

3rd-level transmutation (Artificer)

• Casting Time: 1 minute
• Range: Touch
• Components: V, S
• Duration: Instantaneous

By touching a wand or staff that has at least 1 charge, you imbue it with 3 temporary charges. These charges work like temporary hit points; when a character uses the item, deduct the charges spent from the temporary charges first. These charges expire at the end of a long rest.

Spell Snare

3rd-level abjuration (Artificer)

• Casting Time: 1 minute
• Range: Touch
• Components: V, S, M (a precious gem worth at least 25 gp, which is consumed when the spell triggers)
• Duration: 8 hours

You imbue a precious gem with protective and binding magics, tuning it so that it readily absorbs the energy of a spell. The next spell of 3rd level or lower that targets the bearer of the spell snare is absorbed into the gem and has no effect. Only spells that affect a single target can be absorbed. Once the spell snare has absorbed a spell, its magic expires and the gem disintegrates. It requires no action to absorb a spell, but the gem must be held or worn openly.

A spell snare does not discriminate between harmful or beneficial spells, though a creature may temporarily stow or put down the gem to receive a beneficial spell. A creature can only benefit from one spell snare at a time, if one creature is carrying more than one active spell snare, they all will activate and be destroyed by the first spell to target the bearer.

At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a slot of 4th level or higher, the spell snare may absorb a spell of a level equal to or lower than the spell slot used to create it.

Break

4th-level transmutation (Artificer)

• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: Touch
• Components: V, S
• Duration: Instantaneous

You touch a construct or inanimate object and attempt to destroy it's structure. The target must make a Constitution saving throw. On a failed save, it takes 16d10 force damage, or half as much damage on a successful save. The damage can't reduce the target's hit points below 1.

Control Construct

5th-level enchantment (Artificer, Wizard)

• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: 60 feet
• Components: V, S
• Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute

You attempt to control a construct that you can see within range. It must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw or be dominated by you for the Duration. If you or creatures that are friendly to you are fighting it, it has advantage on the saving throw.

While the target is dominated, you have a telepathic link with it as long as the two of you are on the same plane of existence. You can use this telepathic link to issue commands to the construct while you are conscious (no action required), which it does its best to obey. You can specify a simple and general course of action, such as “Attack that creature,” “Run over there,” or “Fetch that object.” If the construct completes the order and doesn’t receive further direction from you, it defends and preserves itself to the best of its ability.

You can use your action to take total and precise control of the target. Until the end of your next turn, the construct takes only the actions you choose, and doesn’t do anything that you don’t allow it to do. During this time you can also cause the construct to use a reaction, but this requires you to use your own reaction as well.

Each time the target takes damage, it makes a new Wisdom saving throw against the spell. If the saving throw succeeds, the spell ends.

At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a 6th-level spell slot, the Duration is Concentration, up to 10 minutes. When you use a 7th-level spell slot, the dur⁠ation is concen⁠tration, up to 1 hour. When you use a spell slot of 8th level or higher, the dura⁠tion is concentr⁠ation, up to 8 hours.

Jump-start

5th-level transmutation (Artificer)

• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: Touch
• Components: V, S
• Duration: Instantaneous

You touch a construct that has broken within the last 10 days. That construct regains 1 hit point and resumes functioning. This spell does not repair any extreme damage such as a missing part, but it will cause the construct to start functioning again so it can then be repaired.

Vorpal Weapon

5th-level transmutation (Artificer)

• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: Touch
• Components: V, S
• Duration: Concentration, up to 1 hour

Until the spell ends, one weapon you touch becomes indescribably sharp, ignoring resistance to slashing damage, and deals double damage to objects and structures.

If the weapon has a modifier of less than +3 to attack and damage rolls, its modifier becomes +3 to attack and damage rolls for the duration of the spell.

Additionally if you roll a 19 or 20 on the dice when making an attack roll with the weapon, and the damage would leave a creature with 50 hit points or less, the creature dies.