Creating an Investigator

When creating an investigator the first thing you must ask is what you find more challenging as a condition. Emotions? a superior intellectual plot? The uncontrollable passions? The seek and bond of a nemesis of your caliber? The psyche of a creature? This is what drives your character, not to solve crimes and find clues but what is draw him towards the examination after the case is solved, after the mystery is unrevealed, thats the profit and the greater experience of something to help expand your abstract higher senses.

Class Features

As a Investigator, you gain the following class features

Equipment

You start with the following equipment, in addition to the equipment granted by your background:

• (a) simple weapon and a crossbow (b) a rapier and a crossbow

• (a) leather armor or (b) scale mail

• (a) a diplomats pack or (b) a scholars pack

Alternatively, you can ignore the equipment here and in your background, and buy 5d4 × 10gp worth of equipment from Chapter 5 of the Player's Handbook.

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HOBBY

An investigator's hobbies are either a interesting side job or a way to pursue their passion from a different perspective, free from that of one's who has devote his whole life to it and cannot escape the established archetype of his career, also sometimes are means to fulfill a purpose or a tool of asset to change the ruling authority or mindset of a culture, other times is just a pleasant distraction.

Alienist

A eccentric occupation, alienism is the art to understand the other's psyche, so much from outside as much from inside. Through detachment alienists try to find reason after they have experienced and felt through understanding their subject. In a world full of weird life forms is a total different practice than the one that does happen inside an established society and the latter is already a challenging and dangerous practice on itself.

Empathy At 3rd level you gain access to the empathy skill. Empathy is a unique skill that alienists have developed which allows them to feel as the other. This has the potential risk of getting mad but such thing are for the weak minded.

You can use empathy to gain an advantage in any investigation, insight, persuasion, and intimidation roll that you make against a target (with opposed ability checks) or in relation to the target. You must have collect information about the target and/or have spent at least 1 hour of social interaction with them or observation of him. After that you roll an empathy check of his cr x2 (the dm tells you if you succeed not the targets cr) if you fail you don't gain advantage on any roll and you may roll a madness check, if you succeed you may gain advantage in the next roll as mentioned above.

Also different types have different risks if you Haven't Familiarization with a type of creature then your untrained psyche collapses more easily as you attempt to empathize, the UnFamiliarity table show the penalties for attempts to such creatures.

Familiarization This is the feature that shows your empathy limit, at 3rd level if you have no familiarity with a creature type then you have unfamiliarity, this gives additional hardships in empathy rolls as mention above and as shown in the table bellow.

When you see a creature in battle you may as an action attempt a familiarity empathy roll, if you succeed you gain a special edge pool of your intelligence modifier that can be used only for actions against that creature or against actions that this creature makes and have as a specific target you. Such a roll can be happen only once per creature. If you have unfamiliarity with the type of the creature which you attempt this empathy roll you automatically fail in the roll and suffer the consequences of a failed empathy roll as normal. You may have only 1 familiarization edge pool at a time.

Integration By 6th level you have mastered the empathy aspect of psyche integration with the other. By spending 10 minutes with a creature, or a creature's body if its dead or disabled, you may roll an empathy roll (and be resisted at your dm's discretion) , If you succeed you have the benefits of a detect thoughts and he suffers the penalties of a zone of truth spell effect (with a area of effect around its body that moves with it ) as if he had failed the spell saving throws of both spells.

Bounty hunter

You are a methodical predator that happens to make money as you taking down your prey. Many classes can fulfill this role, for an investigator however as most challenges is a cat and mouse edition of chess with battleship. Offcourse this is also any other activity of unrevealing an active criminal or a group of criminals. The choice of this occupation has to do usually with two factors: 1st the hunt outside the skirts and the lone hunt or at least the active participation in a team that hunts or 2nd the physical exercise and the mentality of intelligence with instinctual alert that this type of hunt requires.

Predator senses Beginning at 3rd level you devote a lot of training to make yourself able to feel and thing as a predator with superior intellect. As the merging of mind and instincts progresses you gain extraordinary senses in the form of features as shown in the table above.

sharpened sensesAt 3rd level you gain advantage in perception and investigation rolls that involve smelling, hearing or vision.

Darkvision At 6th level you gain darkvision in 60 feet or if you have already darkvision add 60 feet to its current range.

Instint sights At 10th level you can see, smell and hear clearly everything in 1 mile as if it was next to you, apart from sight to focus in hearing and smelling something specific you must roll a dc 20 perception roll and succeed. Also you gain 10 feet of blindsight

True sight At 18th level you gain 30 feet truesight

Contract In 3rd level also you have make the right connections with an authority or a guild and you can find people to take a bounty give you information and provide you with provisions and a full payment afterwards. At the start of each contract you are provided with a pack of your choice and information from those in adventurirng gear on player's handbook.

After the contract is successful you gain a reward of 100 x cr gp of the target, this amount can be as higher or lower as 300 gold depending of the targets reputation or infamy and rumors that exist at dm's discretion.

Tracker After you reach 6th level you can train a small animal to help you hunt. This is as if you had cast the find familiar spell with small differences: the creatures type remains the same, you cant dismiss it in a pocket dimension, you can have other types such bugs.

You must provide food or find food for it and you can have a maximum of 2 familiars at any given time, if you take the ability to cast spells this feature doesn't allow you to cast spell in any way through your familiar. If you use any variation of the find familiar spell you loose access to the Tracker feature for as long this variation is in effect. The number of familiars is increasing to 3 at 10th level and 4 at 18th.

pursuit Beginning at 10th level when you have an active contract you can use your passive investigation instead of any social roll that is used for finding information about your target. Also if you came into conflict with your target you gain an edge pool of the rewards gp : 100. This pool can be used only for actions against your bounty and against actions from your bounty that he/she targets specific you with.

Unstoppable Starting at 18th level when you have a bounty you gain the following features

• You ignore difficult terrain and cannot be restricted anyway in areas you are searching for clues or have indications that your bounty is there.

• +10 feet movement

• an extra attack as part of the attack action if you have hit at least once your bounty this round.

• Ignore 4 exhaustion levels while you are in pursuit (still dying if you reach 6 total with the addition of the 4 levels you ignore)

DETECTIVE

All investigators are skilled and know how to investigate an connect the dots but since this is because of their inherent intellectual and unique perception few bother to developed with effort. Detectives go to a step beyond hobby and gifted nature become indistinguised. Your hobby is knowledge and the constant fact seeking and the master detailed discovery of facts, essential or not to a case or person, you cant just be satisfied by either a specifics facts or situation's details neither but a whole picture and global viewpoint of someone or a situation. There aren't just patterns neither just individuals neither those too exist and have connections, in a somewhat nihilistic and romantic viewpoint integration and merging there is the whole with patterns and thousand details just dressed up by philosophies and believes that don't really matter but add a factor when examining a subject.

Improvisation: Beginning at 3rd level you may use any tools or kits you are proficient with using instead of the tool small items provided they exist in your person or environment like a pin instead of thieves tools or a big helmet and a stick of wood instead of the cooks utensils, this ability doesn't gives you access to the materials you need to craft an item with as using grass and sand for cooking.

combined knowledge Beginning at 3rd level also you start to make connections deeper and more accurate combining information and experiences to see the bigger picture.

When more that one skill would give you information or details about a specific subject like an environment person or situation that you are present instead of rolling separate rolls you may roll with your Wisdom modifier + your proficiency or double your proficiency if you would add double your proficiency bonus to all skills involved with advantage and a +1 for each skill involved. For this feature to be in effect it must contain at least one knowledge skill or in later levels one of the skills that are indicated in the Detectives table. Opposed target may use a roll of whichever skill they choose as long as that would apply to oppose one of the skills that are being combined in your roll.

Mind's Eye's Awareness Starting at 6th level you become a master detective, one that perceives situations and elements connecting them into reality and facts.

After you have rolled a combined information about a person , even if its unknown or absent like a culprit in a crime, you may unreveal facts, behaviors and small detail. You may learn a number of your wisdom modifier times one of the following facts:

• a location he has been and if he had any kind of interaction

• the specifics of an interaction he had except the interacted subject

• the nature of a subject's identity the target had interaction with

• the identity of an object that the target used

• an object the target recently handled

• the specifics and nature of an object that participated in a situation that you know the target used an object

• the schedule, manerisms , customs or places that target uses or is used to in his daily life

• one bond the target has with a subject

• the nature of a bond you know the target has wit a subject

dungeoneer

Your hobby is to learn as much as you can about the settlements of any type of life, especially dangerous ones as well as to explore such places. You aren't a tactician neither a legend seeker or an explorer, you are a culture lover, a mix of sociologist and a biology scientist, you love to explore and learn everything about cuisines, hobbies, traits, warfare of all creatures and especially weird ones cause they are you kind of exotic taste.

dungeoneering At 3rd level you gain access to dungeoneering skill. This is a wisdom or intelligence skill and you can use it to find food and water in a dungeon, to understand the native environment's natives, outsiders presence in the area, or a creature that has passed recently as well the builders of a dungeon temple and general architectural knowledge. It can also be used to understand tactics of a specific races army , tactical and habitual buildings and areas and dietary. with lair encyclopedia you can recognize any type of creature that has a type of those shown in the dungeoneer table, and as also is shown there the number of types you known increases by your investigator level. When you cross a creature of that type you may roll a dungeoneer ability check to recognize its type and details about his kinds resistance and lore the dc is 10+its cr this takes +5 to dc if the creature isn't obviously exposed or if isnt wearing traditional clothes (or any clothes) as his culture further it has a +20 if it has changed form (like polymorph spell) and +15 if currently is possessing another creature.

architectural education Starting at 3rd level you have enough architectural knowledge, through different culture knowledges, to know how to navigate yourself, as if you were a native. After spending 1 hour on an environment or dungeon you know the exit of a dungeon, you never get lost and you know what's is in the next rooms in corridors from faculties.

lair training Beginning at 6th level when you are in a creatures native settlement from those of your Lair encyclopedia you ignore non magical difficult terrain, you recognize symbols and written speech as if you ve had comprehend language cast on you, and you can force march without issues. You also you gain +5 on any roll to investigate traps or against them on saving throws if they are part of the same culture that is living or has lived there.

your strength your weakness Starting at 10th level you have advantage on any creature you have recognized with your dungeoneering skill and is a member of your lair encyclopedia against its racial features and ability rolls.

Master chef At 18th level your interest in foreign cultures takes a dark turn and its not enough just the knowledge and admiration of their culture. You gain proficiency with the cook's utensils and you can cook any creature without any harmful effect from that meal's consumption. Once per long rest if you ate a meal that has as main ingredient a creature you may once as an action mimic one of his features for 1 min. You can benefit only by one feature in such a way and you can't activate more than one either by eating different meals or some other consumption method.

You also gain immunity to acid and poison and you prolong your lifespan by double your normal lifespan.

Holistic

Your happiest hour is not when you solve crimes or examining scenes and conspiracy theories, thats trivial after all, neither is the consumption of any kind of indulgences, thats temporary. Your happiest moments is when you leave free your abstract mind to connect the dots and when you surrender yourself to the flow of existence, you don't care if that flow is a divine game or a game of chance, neither if its destiny, faith or will, you care about understanding it. Holistic investigators investigate what the existence brings in front of them, they are super optimistic but careful and always see connections that other people find stupid illogical or that are just like a card of the draw.

Intuition At 3rd level you gain access to the unique holistic skill of intuition, the power to see the connections and the greater scheme behind all causes and effects, the universal flow. The ability roll for intuition is your wisdom modifier + double your proficiency bonus ( because of expertise) + the overflow modifier . Overflow modifier is when your logical mind cant handle anymore the overflow of information that you can access through you abstract mind and is explained in the entropy feature. You can roll Intuition to find connections and direct yourself with a specific purpose. You can't however direct the outcome and this connections doesn't mean that will make sense or that it will fulfill your expectations.

Entropy Through the surrender to the flow you can effectively serve it and let it protect you. Beginning at 3rd level you can substitute rolls and stats with your intuition ability roll as indicated in the Holistic table.

• abilities : you can substitute any skill roll and instead of the usual skill ability roll or craft or tool you roll intuition.

• defence : you subbstitute your ac for 10+intuition roll modifier as a reaction to an attack

• saving throws: when you roll for saving throws instead of the usual saving throw you roll intuition.

• universal : you can now substitute any d20 roll with your intuition roll. Also you can substitute your damage outcome as you substitute your ac in a successful attack roll before resistances and reductions applied.

Overflow :Each time you use entropy add +2 to your dc for the next roll of intuition as -2 to ac when you use the Entropy's defence feature and - 2 to damage when you use the universal substitution for damage rolls. This is cumulative.

Nick of time You arrive when you must starting at 6th level. When you could alter a situations outcome with your presence you arrive at the right moment you may use the following features:

• When someone died in your absence from a lost saving throw (even death saving throw) or by being at 0 hp and his body does'nt miss a vital part like a heart or head , you can roll intuition and bring him to life the dc is 10 per hour that died, as much as you consider he wasn't dead just shocked
• When a creature you want to protect is surrounded by enemies through random word and gestures you taunt all the enemies. They run towards you and or attack you, if they are able, for 1 round and the creature gains +20 feet to speed and ignores attack of opportunities, The enemies gain no save but they gain +2 on any attack and damage rolls against you. -in a non combat situation you can turn the table, all the participants roll a saving throw versus 10+your wisdom modifier+ you proficiency bonus or become charmed for the duration of a conversation.
• You arrive in a situation before escalate to the worst, you can delay an outcome by your wisdom in hours, at your dm's discretion until you arrive, examples include a raid, a natural earthquake, a rituals completion etc Each use of those traits can be used once until you take a long rest and it adds an Overflow.

abstract mind You can use more efficient the flow and less random. Beginning at 10 level you may target a number of creatures that you can see equal to your intelligence modifier and each one must succeed a wisdom saving throw of 10+your wisdom modifier+ you proficiency bonus or fall prone and if they are able,

Intuition

Lets give an example:- Lets say that you need money to over up a debt and with intuition you start to looking for a way to get money this may or may not direct you somewhere that there is a lost pouch, it may or may not also direct you in a thug's nest or in something logical irrelevant like a ballet, in the ballet you may or may not find a lovestruck person by you, or a lost child, or go to prison through an accident and in prison may find a cell mate that is a horror and he dies of something and as he dies he gives you as his last words the location of his secret stash just in case his rivals found it.- The dm has full discretion to the dots but success guarantees you a progress. Usually the randoms event's and challenges are equal to a cr of challenges equal to your level, but again dm's has the final say and the only guarantee is that at some point and in some way the purpose will be fulfilled.

Legend scholar

You are fascinated by artifacts and masterpieces of magical items or any kind of items, you don't bother to learn in detail all the knowledge or techniques behind their construction but you devote yourself to find them and learn how to use them.

appraise Starting at 3rd level you gain access to the appraise skill this is an intelligence based skill used for 2 purposes : 1st to identify the value of an item in general and in a specific area. 2nd to identify properties and features of a magic item as follows : roll a appraise skill for the following uses and the following dc as shown in the appraise table.

always focused Beginning at 3rd level you have advantage on knowledge checks about magical items that involve specific characteristics or actions as indicated in the Legend Scholar table.

see the past Beginning at 6th level you can connect deeply with an items existence. You can roll an investigation roll while you are attuned to an item and relive significant moments of its existence or from previous owners it had the dc is 10 + 5 for each 100 years the moment happened. You can use this ability o number of times equal to your intelligence modifier per item.

the right path Starting at 10th level you can ignore class and racial restrictions about attuning and using magical items.

Mythical practice Reaching 18th level you are a master to bonding and bypass dangerous of any magical items. You ignore cursed magical items negative abilities, you may attune to an extra magical item and your dc for the see in the past feature changes to 10+1 for each 100 years the moment had happened , additionally you may use the see the past feature a number of times of double your intelligence modifier.

Mixer Brewer

You like mixing things and experiment with that. Part alchemist and part crafter of liquids and recipes you found enjoyment in mixing and understanding ingredients.

MixingAt 3rd level you gain the specialized expertise for mixing. that means that under the mixing you gain expertise for Alchemist’s supplies, Brewer’s supplies and Cook’s utensils. Mixing gives access to transfer and integrate properties of one type of crafting to another and as well making unique crafts. From example you could make a soup ale without any of the soup's ingredients go bad as if it was pure ale or a chocolate flavored healing potion. The use for these mixing tools crafts can be used as a unified craft roll that is called mixing. You still need to have access to each individual's craft's tools you are using its properties in the use of the mixing skill. For example in the soup ale you still need to have access to both the Cook’s utensils and Brewer's supplies for you to attempt this unique craft.

Potions You are part alchemist as the mixer brewer. You don't search the Philosopher's stone and you don't go in such a depth in your researchers but you learn some things as you evolve in Mixing brewing.

Starting at 3rd level along the experiments you do you gain some good surprises and later you are in good control of the pace. Provided that you spent 10 gp per your investigator level each month you produce potion brews of potions as per the Potions feature shows in the Mixer Brewer table.

You must at least devote 8 hours in one day per month to produce that amount and in cases that the potions requires more than a month to be produced then if you don't spent the require amount of hours per day per month the brew goes bad and you don't make the potion. Potions are categorized through their rarity and can be any potion with that rarity from any book material that is used for your campaign (such as the dmg), you don't choose what kind of potion you produce that way but your dm's through randomness or whim or in any of your dm's that works in a mysterious way do it for you. However After you have made a type of potion you may spent an additional amount of half its value each month to make an additional type of that potion.

Fringe taster Starting at 6th level you can mix all your artisan tool's you are proficient with in the mixing. For example you can make a leather armor with caramel properties and smell with Leatherworker’s tools and Cook’s utensils with a mixing roll. The same rules as your starting mixing artisan tool's are applied. Additional by spending 1 hour in a long rest you can mix potions by sacrificing already potion in your possession and make a new potion with all the properties ( for example by sacrificing a potion of climbing and a potion of healing you make one new potion (you can add chocolate flavor if you wish) that heals you and provide you with the benefits of a climbing potion as if you had drink the 2 potions separately. )

exploding mixing Beginning at 10 level you can turn any nonmagical consumable craft you have made into a exploding device, you do that by injecting if its a non liquid or by adding a powder and shaking it if its a liquid as a bonus action, you can then throw it as a thrown weapon with the special tag that does a damage or effect as described in the exploding mix table without you ability modifier. Your dc if its required a saving throw for this is 8 + your intelligence modifier + your proficiency bonus

Mixing potions

for example if your gm provide you with a potion of climbing (common, dmg) through this feature then when you spent the next month's money you (say 30 gold if you are 3rd level investigator/2 level rogue (10x3 ) ) you add 25 gold to that expenses (50 for common item) and you have another random potion plus a potion of climbing (with the examples above 55 (25 from the potion of climbing and 30 from your months standar expenses) ).

networker

You have great ambition or a great plan thats simple: total domination. While others try to make a name for themselves or are trapped in behaviors of idealism, you serve a pure purpose and you make it a reality by changing and manipulating the already formed society. If the purpose is an ideal or pure lust for power and domination the means are the same and all means are justified.

Networking Beginning at 3rd level you gain access to the unique intelligence skill of networking, the art of creating non pyramidial structures of organization. You use this role to recognize in habitual areas structures of organizations as well as individuals and tactics that use. You can also use it to made one such structure and to conceal it as well, but most importantly to find the right persons that will fit in specific groups. To perceive a structure's tactics is usually opposed by their leader deception, to recognize an individual it works as an insight roll and opposed by the targets deception roll or if has some sort of recognizable feature associated with a group as a knowledge roll. To make a group or connect it with another group you roll networking and it takes +10 dc if you wish to conceal and remain unnoticed and anyone that investigates it takes +15 on his dc to connect the dots.

connections Also at 3rd level you can scout and build your reputation, infamy or just your touch with to any place you pass by making contacts that are called connections. After you take a long rest in a place and spend 3 hours of scouting you are considered native to a cycle of your choice. You can then learn informations or by paying a courier to bring them to you and to keep in touch with the locals if you are away.

The circle you make contact with it has a variety of information to give you that considers an area as indicated on the networker table.

profits and prices Starting at 6th level you can use your contacts in many ways. You can use them for the following acts:

• To find a buyer for a magical or hard to sell item or product.
• To find a seller for a specific minor magical item or product with a rarity of uncommon at this level, rare on 10 level and very rare in 18th -To find shelter and connections in a place you know anyone before you arrive -to establish a false identity -to start a business of trading legal or otherwise

your turf beginning at 10th level when you have spent 8 or more hours (resting hours and idle actions doen't count) in a habitual area as big as a town you gain the following benefits:

• ignore nonmagical difficult terrain
• +5 to any abilities rolls
• your level in temporary hit points
• +5 edges when you roll initiative
• you cannot be surprised

Kingpin Starting at 18 th level you become a mastermind evil or not. You gain if you wish a alternate identity as the head of your organization and get +10 on disguise rolls and deception rolls when you use it to opposed rolls from actions that trying to see through it. More importantly you gain the following benefits:

• a second of command of a level equal to your level-5. Its always on your hideout or building of operations and cannot be used as an adventuring companion.
• a number of guards equal to your level.
• profits of 1000 gp per month
• +5 on any social rolls when someone is aware of who you are.

Occultist

Your hobby is the arcane and divine secrets. While you don't bother to learn how to use it properly you try to become a master of its understanding and how to be protect by it.

esoterica Beginning at 3rd level you gain use of the unique intelligence based skill esoterica. With esoterica you can cast a scroll as an action and a successful roll of **20 + the scroll's level casting **

ritualistic caster Also at 3rd level you gain the ability to cast spells as rituals with the ritual tag, your spell casting ability is intelligence and the speak with dead spell, zone of truth and legend lore spells gain the ritual tag for you. You gain a spell book for that purpose and you can cast spells or a level or lower as the Occultist table indicates, your spellbook starts with 1 spell of your choice and you add 1 additional when you take an occultist feature, you can add ritual tagged spells as normal for spells and spellbooks,

magic user Starting at 6th level you count as wizard for attuments purposes on magic items.

warding Beginning at 10th level you may spend 100 gp to make an occultist's bag. By spending 10 minutes on an location you may ward an area of 100 feet or smaller by drawing symbols. While warded this area counts as an antimagic field and no creature may have advantage on rolls against you or a number of allies equal to your intelligence modifier inside the warding area. The ward may be broken by someone if its perceived with a wisdom (perception roll) against your deception, and as an action with an arcane roll with dc equal to your investigator level+ your intelligence modifier

for each of your ritualistic sigils. your ritualistic sigils are five one to the center and 4 in the edges of the area , each broken sigil reduces the area affected by one quarter.

You may have only one such a bag at a time and it contains materials for 5 sigils when you make it.

master occultist You ve become a master of arcane manipulation even if you will never be a caster. Starting at 18th level as a reaction when a creature targets you with spell you forfeit your saving throw roll if it has one, and roll an esoterica roll opposed by the caster's arcana roll, if you succeed you may either redirect the spell on the caster (as if he had targeted himself) or cancel its effects and damage and cast a spell from your ritualistic spells of equal or less level, you must spend an edge to use this feature.

Rising star

Indulgences and passions are not enough for you, Aesthetic and the recognition for it is more important. Royalism and any form of power lies into the skills of he individual and the acting to fulfill the play, offcourse if this means that you intend to influence, destroy or expose the stupidity of the current political situation, to awaken and help people or to fix injustices or even if that is just the means to enjoy the privileges of the few, thats totally on your ideals and you as a person.

pedigree Born into nobility or recognized as such or even with forgery create one has little meaning since you now are rising star into the powerplay stage of your area. Starting at 3rd level you gain a status and additional funds per month as shown in the rising star table. Depending on the current form of power and authority this opens new doors and maybe even forgives certain acts.

favors also beginning at 3rg level you gain access to the unique skill of etiquete, this equals to 10+ your charisma modifier + double your proficiency bonus, is never used to roll to an act or to oppose a roll, Its used as passive perception to determine your pedigree's income and to ask a favor from someone of lower status, you don't need offcourse to keep your end of the bargain since you are of higher status but that doesn't mean that once in a while someone wouldn't be daring enough to try to punish you for it.

When you ask for a favor someone of lower status your dm sets an opposed skill and rolls versus your passive etiquete skill. If he fails you have a bargain, offcourse he isn't obligated to roll for every creature its in his discretion, this isn't a god's power to awe and dominate others. A good indication is when someone to roll or not is when someone would roll a social skill to oppose you.

servants You have gained enough prestige to have your own mansion, title, and a number of servants as a reward for your efforts, be either heroic, political or romantic in nature. Starting at 6th you have a Mansion, you may work the details with your dm, and a number of servants equal to your level, this are not combat (you may offcourse hire henchmen spending your gold) oriented or skilled artist servants but they can still cook, maintain your mansion and help you with your daily life.

Royal swordmanship Duels and secret martial styles are additional gains that the upper class or royalship has, while not strong as someone trained in the field is a powerful trait for duels as sport. Starting at 10th level you gain proficiency with all martial weapons, heavy armors shields and one exotic weapon of your choice, choose up to your intelligence a number of weapons and you gain the following feature when you holding them:

• If there is no other creature or medium sized object (walls count) in 5 foot of you than the target of your attack or a creature other than you in 5 foot of your targets attack then you may either take the dodge action and attack him as part of the dodge action or take the attack action and make a weapon attack and a shove attack as part of each weapon's attack.

Royal asset You are ready to rule the kingdom or to be lost for your rest of your life into intoxications and passion pursuits without any social cost. If you however decide to continue your adventuring life or do a noble quest now and then or be the target of your enemies, starting at 18th level a creature before kills (if for example you are bleeding or attacks with a lethal weapon) he must roll a charisma save versus your etiquete, if he fails he tries to render you unconscious instead to profit by kidnapping you to sell you in a rival kingdom of that you belong, ask for money or use you for political reason. Offcourse in a case that those are not in the best interest of the creature he is immune to that feature (likely if its an aberrant, a beast or a ancient lich etc) You also gain a palace and your number of servants changes to 100.

Shadowcrafter

You have practised so much with ideas and hypothetical scenarios that through arcane studies you have discovered a way to make them into somewhat realities, ephemeral as the action itself.

shadowcrafting Starting add your 3rd level you gain access to shadowcraft, This can be used only in total darkness. Using this feature it creates a link to shadowfell and gives you access to create any kind of objects provided that you are proficient in the particular tools or kit that required normally for that objects craft. you gain access to shadow material for shadow crafting, the material is weightless and absorbs all light but it dissipates in your intelligence modifier + half your investigator level hours, half that time if exposed to bright light or radiant damage. You gather the material and takes 1 minute per cubic meter but the craft roll for the item is instant. You may create only tiny and small items using that skill and you cant create magical or unique objects (like art or improvised weapon), shadows only mimic after all.

Shadowblade: You have a work on progress a work that is your connection with the shadofell itself, as you level up it evolves until it reach perfection. Shadowblade is a unique weapon that you are proficient with and you must attune to gain access to it. It takes 24 to be made and in the end of that time you become attuned to it. If you can't or at some point you loose this attune then the weapon dissipates in 1 hour and is absorbed to shadowfell as material, then you must make a new one if you want to have access to it again. While attuned to shadowblade you gain acess to the following features and in later levels as shown in the shadowcrafter table.

simple weapon: As long as you are attuned to your shadowblabbe you can summoning it at your hand as an interaction with an object if it's away from your person it dissipates into shadows, Your shadowblade its a light weapon melee with the finesse property and does 1d8 + your dexterity modifier necrotic damage. It can be used as a thrown weapon with 30/60 range

nice form: You are a bit closer to your ideal form of the shadowblade and no more it needs to be bound totally to the mimicry of others forms. you can as a reaction to transform the blade into a shield or into a nine tails like whip with shadowlike tendrils. Also in either form it gains +1 bonus to attack and damage or provide you with +1 to ac (your choice), you can swap those bonus by switching form

masterpiece: Your shadowblade is complete and its bonuses gain +1 each, additionally when you make 2 or more successful attacks with it in your turn you may as part of the second attack make a shove attack

Ideal into form: Now your shadowblade is in a ideal legendary form, its bonuses raise to +3, it gains an additional reach of 5 foot, its damage raises by one die and gains an additional split form of 2 shadowblades without reach and with 1d6+ dexterity each damage, additionally it can be used as tools for any craft you are proficient with.

apprentice crafter starting at 6th level you can create items with your shadowrafting of medium or smaller size that last for half the normal time.

shadow shortcut Beginning at 10th level you may sacrifice some or all of your movement to teleport an equal distance, usable only once per turn.

the creator Beginning at 18th level you have become a master shadowcrafter, you may create crafts of large or smaller size, your shadow shortcut is usable at will and you have a permanent Mordenkainen's Magnificent Mansion spell effect accessible by creating a door in any total darkness area, additionally you may travel to shadowfell by creating a different door but you can't return if the door is destroyed.

vigilante

Justice is not always present in laws and the ruling authority or the punishment its not fit the crime, either way you must take matters into your own hands instead of have faith in rules made by lower intellect men.

Hidden Identity You gain proficiency with the disquise kit and create a number of identities up to half your intelligence modifier, while you are in this identities you choose a background for each one and gain its feature when using the identity associated with that background, also when using one of those identities for people to make the connection with your normal or other personas they must have met them and must succeed on a investigation roll with a dc of 10+your intelligence + double your proficiency bonus.

Parkour through intense training and coordination of body and mind you have discovered an effective way to make your body a tool flexible and endurable to move you to any place possible. As shown in the vigilant table you gain the following feature at their respective levels.

jump by running at least 10 feet before jump you may triple your jumping distances.

Climb gain a climb speed equal to your speed if you have already a climbing speed add 10 to your movement. you always jump even vertically as if you ve had a jumping start.

No obstacles ignore difficult terrain and gain a swimming and burrow speed equal to your movement

MMa parkour You may be occupy the same tile as a creature of your size or bigger without a penalty and you dont provoke attack of opportunities

Gadgets

Starting at 6th level you gain proficiency with the tinkers and smiths tools, you can use them to make minature gadgets and small items of the following, you may with your dm's discretion work with him/her to make additional such items:

smoke bomb you can throw an egg or oval shaped like object made of glass that when it breaks creates a smoke screen.

grappling crossbow this hand crossbow has a metallic cord linked to a metallic bolt and when it hits a wall a mechanism can instantly draw you to the surface as a bonus action.the range is 200 feet.

hand gauntlets these spiky leather gloves alow you to inflict 1d4+dexterity modifier slashing damage with unarmed strikes.

Vanish Starting at 10th level you may use stealth as a reaction and even when someone see you if you use your smoke bomb or if you are in dim light and has no darkvision.

Gliding cape You may use feather fall when you fall from more than 40 feet height.

all are tools Beginning at 18th level you see only mean to use. You gain the following benefits:

• triple your speed movement bonus when using the dash action.
• When using a thrown weapon it returns to you if there are objects (other than the floor) between 20 feet of you and the target
• Gain 60 feet darkvision or +30 if you already have darkvision
• you can move your full speed without disadvantage when you are stealhty
• when you are grappling a creature you may use it as a strength weapon that deals 1d4 for each size category above tiny plus your strength modifier.

TALENTS

PRACTICED TALENTS

All shadows meet in darkness prerequisites: shadowcrafter ,18th level When you are at shadowfell you can always craft a door to your home plane or your Mansion or from your mansion to your home plane, home plane is consider the plane to which you are native, you can also use demiplane spell when you are in your mansion.

Calm spotter You may add your intelligence modifier instead of your dexterity or strength modifier to determine your attack and damage rolls, you choose one weapon that this talent applies when you take this talent and another at 11th level. You may take it an additional times for extra wepons.

Careful calculations You may choose when you roll initiative for the duration of the combat to take edges when an attack that targeted you misses instead of when taking damage. At 10th level you also gain edge when a spell targets you and miss a saving throw, at 15th you may take edge when you heal and at 20 you take edge when both an attack miss you or hits you.

Control the body You ignore the 1st level of exhaustion at 5th level and an additional one for every 5 thereafter levels (2 at 10th 3 at 15th 4 at 20th) you still die at 6 levels of exhaustion, you also take advantage on saving throws that would cause you to take exhaustion levels

Controlled chance prerequisite: holistic , luck feat You gain 1 additional luck point, at 15th level you may use a result of 10+intuition roll modifier instead of roll an additional dice when using a luck point.

Cover artist You ignore non magical difficult terrain at 6th level you also no leaving any traces when walking at 11th level you leave no traces at all times and at 15th level you may cover up a scene and remove all your traces except blood for you or another person that participated by 1 taking hour of activity.

Defensive calculations When you take the dodge action you take an edge this increases to 2 at 11 level and you instead of that may take edges equal to half your intelligence modifier (rounded down) at 17 level.

Dietary You gain extra hit points equal to your investigator level when you get this talent and 1 when you gain a level afterwards.

Digger prerequisite: dungeoneer You gain proficiency with the masons tools if you haven't already.

At 10thlevel you gain a burrow movement equal to your movement, in 15 you may even dig stone and in 20th you may dig through any nonmagical material

Dream of a burden *prerequisite: rising star 20th level You gain a significant amount of land ownership and you become the next heir to rule the kingdom. Offcourse this means that you become also the target of many others in line but hey you may become king or queen before that, work the details with your dm how this is happening and why.

Escape artist You take +5 to any rolls to break a grapple and to pick a lock from bounds that restrain you at 6th level you may attempt an escape roll even if you hold no tools on you at 11th level you escape automatically from any nonmagical restrains, at 15th level you can't be restrained by any means and at 17th level you may even return with an action to the exact location you were from an effect that transported you before one hour or less.

feign mastery You may use your feign death feature as a reaction to cancel any spell that targets you after rolling your saving throw (if any) but before you see if its a success or a fail. after you loose your feign death feature's use using feign mastery talent the first time that you are reduced unconscious or tto 0 hp or less you return to 1 hp, you cannot use this feature until you take a long rest.

Focused on offense You may take an additional edge talent.

Full dodge When you take the dodge action you have advantage to saving throws if you can perceive the source until the start of your next turn

Gold contract prerequisite: bounty hunter When you take a contract you may make a persuasion and an intimidation roll.If you succeed on persuasion roll you add a gold bonus of your charisma modifier x 100 gold pieces and if you succeed on the intimidation no one beyond your level would take this contract. I you succeed on both you gain an additional 1000 gp if you complete the bounty before a number of days equal or lower to your intimidation roll.

Intellectual Movement Your ac is calculated By 10+ Intelligence modifier + wisdom modifier when you are not wearing armor or hold a shield. you gain +1 bonus to ac at 11th level and +2 at 17th level

Instant tactics prerequisite: Alienist Hobby When you create an edge pool from your familiarization feature and you spend edges against to or from actions relative to the creature you ve gained the familiarization edge pool,

backgrounds

Variant Bohemianism Artist: Nouveau haute bohème alternate feat

You have not made your lifestyle in acceptance of your rising but you have chosen it by declining your upper class colleagues materialistic addictions. When using the beat feature to socialize or gain materials, shelter and shelter you use your upper class raising and find all those in the upper class of a civilized environment by people of the same class.

Variant Bohemianism Artist:Frugality LifeStyle

You don't decline materialism or engage poverty totally instead you engage in the right allegation of profit and spending without need or desire for any luxury, you never buy expensive items or engage in luxurious lifestyles but you can also add to the beat feature uses the ability to find in 1/4 of the normal price regular resources or items of need.

Variant Bohemianism Artist: Zen Boheniasm

Instead of art you prefer pure spiritualism as your anchor of existential attitudes. When using the beat feature you can find trainers instead of materials and make a few friends and admirers instead of just socializing in all parts of a civilized environment.

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Dandy

Appearances may or may not be everything. An empty shell with a nice aesthetic maybe it will never be whole, but it looks damn good and has value on his outside. However your goal is both, to have a deeper and outside rich and flamboyant aesthetic value, appearance is the extrovert manifestation of ones value and ethics is the inside aesthetic value of ones existence. Good manners or badass behavior is both accepted but respected gentleman behavior is required on top of that, after all if you understand the value of behaviorism you can't accept anything else but be polished in manners as anything else shining on you.

Skill proficiencies: Persuasion, Perception

Tool Proficiency: disguise kit, one gaming set

Equipment: Entertainer's Pack, clothes aristocratic (the latest fashion of nobility), 2 vials of different perfumes, a book, a diary, a walking stick, a set for taking care and styling your hair, expensive shoes, a fan, a wig of fine quality, a couple of silk tissues,2 costumes, a hat, 1 gp

Variant : Dandy Bohemianism

You can find style in the lowest places, with nothing you make miracles, if you have access to materials even if there are garbage you may dress youself in style, consider that you may found a disguise kit for free in any such place, you can't use that for disguises, just for styling.

Variant : Philosophical Aesthetician

You are not fulfilled without a strong philosophy behind your aesthetics, while not so intense on your outlook you prefer a modest but specific style with a deep philosophical view, more common way to express with fine detail to stylish that show your deep and intellectual life approach. When using your aesthetical prowess feature you may not attract the same extreme goodwill attitude of other people but you are always given space to express yourself, usually as much space as a monologue from the protagonist of a dramatic stage play.

Variant : Muscadin

You are old fashioned, you mannerism comes from the seed of a necessity of ethical code from the worst animal like gangs. You are a civilized criminal while others are pure brutal beasts to survive. Your appearance is full of heavy makeup and intense shadows and eyelashes, provocative and intimidating you inspire disgust but is so intimating that no one would usually express it. While using your Aesthetical prowess you are not forgiven so easily and you dont inspire respect, you instead inspire fear and awe and you can find lackeys and create gangs and information brokers from nothing.

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Medium

Either by traditional training in rituals either by inheritance of your racial sensitive nature or by touching too many times the pass to the other side you have a connection with the unseen and fate.

Skill proficiencies: Insight, Perception

Tool Proficiency: GlassBlowers tools, a gaming set of cards, quija or something similar

Equipment: Tools for omen prediction or communication tools with the other side examples are: a set of runes, a crystal ball, a deck of normal or tarrot or taroka cards, bones ect, a cloak, a cowl, a coat, a costume, traveling and common clothes, mantles, 30 gp

Variant Feature: Omen reader

Your connection is with the heavy predictable action reaction of established emotional patterns and the will of higher forces. From time to time you get visions about significant changes in established order of the world or a specific nation sized or bigger area. You can also while taking a long rest to perceive omens about a random aspect of a specific individuals life.

Variant Feature: Astral connection

Your connection is to understand and absorb the tendencies and the established archetypes of those around you. When a being is emotionally aroused you get and you succeed on an insight roll against him you take additional information about his fears, hopes and dreams.

Variant Feature: Psychometry

Your connection is with a place's resonance of ethereal and astral kind. You may roll a insight roll on a place and gain information about its history and a specific even that you are aware of, the longer away the hardest to get information, the more significant to the current time the event is the easier.

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Ressurectionist

A common occupation in these times, you ressurect the dead not through magic but with a shovel. Similar its not to raise them and conquer the world with your minions but to sell them and make good pouches of coins from them. Not always a legal or noble education but makes good money.

Skill proficiencies: Medicine, Perception

Tool Proficiency: Gravidigger's tools (used to minimize the damage and carriage of a dead body,) , Forgery tools, Thieves tools

Equipment: All kits you are proficient with, rugs and cheap clothes, a shovel and a carriage