Background: Alchemist
You spent years studying transmutation and elixirs. You scoured manuscripts, studied scrolls, and studied as an apprentice. Your efforts have made you an expert in the nature of the human body, metals or other materials that your study focused on.
- Skill Proficiencies: You gain proficiency in Arcana plus your choice of one from among Nature, Medicine, or History
- Tool Proficiencies: Alchemist's tools
- Languages: One of your choice
- Equipment: Alchemist's Supplies, a glass bottle, a component pouch, a small knife, the first small item you successfully transmuted, a set of common clothes, and a pouch containing 10 gp
Specialty
Alchemists come in many varieties. Consider what type of alchemical creations you have focused on or what your goal as an alchemist might be. To determine the nature of your alchemical interest, roll a d8 or choose from the options in the table below.
| d8 | Specialty | d8 | Specialty |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Poison | 5 | Transmutation |
| 2 | Medicine | 6 | Distilling/Brewing |
| 3 | Explosives | 7 | Philosopher's Stone |
| 4 | Elixirs | 8 | Generalist |
Feature: Discerning Eye
Long hours spent mixing ingredients has increased your ability to recognize and appreciate the rarest components. You can find rare ingredients in merchants stalls and caravans, though they may not even be aware of their value, and you always get the highest quality ingredients. You're also more likely to recognize rare or useful ingredients in the wild or on the bodies of slain monsters.
Suggested Characteristics
Alchemists have an interest, almost an obsession, with the very nature of things. Some alchemists have a great respect for nature, others feel it can only be improved on, others become obsessed with mastering it.
| 1d8 | Personality Trait |
|---|---|
| 1 | I have never been called humble, but my work speaks for itself. There is no need to brag. |
| 2 | I’ve mastered the art of turning lead to gold — or I like to boast that I have. |
| 3 | I feel that alchemy should never be practiced for personal gain. Helping others is the reward in itself. |
| 4 | There’s nothing I like more than a good puzzle. |
| 5 | There's nothing I like more than a good drink. |
| 6 | I scrutinize everything, living or inanimate, looking for ways to improve and perfect. Whether they like it or not. |
| 7 | I'm convinced that people are going to steal my secrets. |
| 8 | I often get lost in my own thoughts and contemplation, becoming oblivious to my surroundings. |
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