The Artificer, Unchained

A gnome sits hunched over a workbench, carefully using a weather-worn set of spindly machining tools to tighten the screws of a four-legged machine. With one final turn, her creation shudders and springs to life, a low hum emitting from its body as the clockwork gears rumble into action. She beams with pride as her faithful servant leaps up from the bench to embrace its master.

A troll growls in hunger as it looms over a dwarf, who slides a long, metal tube from a holster at his belt. With a thunderous roar, a gout of flame erupts from the tube, and the troll’s growls turn into shrieks of panic as it turns to flee.

An elf scrambles up the castle’s wall, Baron von Hendriks’ men close behind her. As she clambers over the battlements, her suit of metal armor shimmers and shifts, blending her appearance with that of the dark stones and confounding her pursuers as she makes her escape.

Masters of invention, artificers use ingenuity and magic to unlock extraordinary capabilities in objects. They see magic as a complex system waiting to be decoded and then harnessed in their spells and inventions. You can find everything you need to play one of these inventors in the next few sections. Artificers use a variety of tools to channel their arcane power. To cast a spell, an artificer might use alchemist's supplies to create a potent elixir, calligrapher's supplies to inscribe a sigil of power, or tinker's tools to craft a temporary charm. The magic of artificers is tied to their tools and their talents, and few other characters can produce the right tool for a job as well as an artificer.

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 drove your character down the path of being an artificer? Is it about curiosity and invention, or about the power their inventions bring? Did you character learn from another artificer, or receive a vision or flash of inspiration to learn their craft?

Consider how your character interacts with the world, and what they represent. Consult with your DM regarding guilds or societies your character might belong to.

Class Features

As an artificer, you gain the following class features.

Optional Proficiency: Firearms

The secrets of creating and operating gunpowder weapons have been discovered in various corners of the multiverse. If your DM uses the rules on firearms in chapter 9 of the DMG (see "Adventuring Options") and your artificer has been exposed to the operation of such weapons, your artificer is proficient with them.

Starting Equipment

You start with the following items, plus anything provided by your background.

• (a) studded leather armor or (b) scale mail
• any two simple weapons of your choice
• a light crossbow and 20 bolts
• tinker's tools and a dungeoneer's pack

Alternatively, you may start with 5d4 × 10 gp to buy your own equipment.

Spellcasting

You have studied the workings of magic and how to channel it through objects. As a result, you have gained the ability to cast spells. To observers, you don't appear to be casting spells in a conventional way; you look as if you're producing wonders using mundane items or outlandish inventions.

Arcane Tinkering

At 1st level, you can invest a tiny spark of magic into mundane objects, the most common uses of which are to repair and to enchant.

Magic Item Analysis

At 1st level, your understanding of magical items allows you to understand their secrets. You learn the detect magic and identify spells. You always have these spells prepared, and they don't count against the number of artificer spells you can prepare each day.

When you cast identify as a ritual, you don't need to provide its costly material component, although you must still use a spellcasting focus to cast the spell.

Infuse Item

At 2nd level, you gain the ability to imbue mundane items with certain magical infusions. The magic items you create with this feature are effectively prototypes of permanent items.

Inventive Style

At 2nd level, you have developed a particular talent born from your experiments with prototype inventions. Choose one of the following options.

Artificer Specialization

At 3rd level, you choose an area of specialization from the list of available options, which forms the primary focus of your research and experiments. Your choice grants you features at 3rd level, and again at 6th, 10th, and 15th level.

Ability Score Improvement

When you reach 4th level, you can increase one ability score of your choice by 2, or you can increase two ability scores of your choice by 1. As normal, you can't increase an ability score above 20 using this feature.

If your DM allows the use of feats, you may instead take a feat.

Additionally, whenever you reach a level in this class that grants this feature, you can do one of the following, representing a change in your magical focus:

• Replace the option you chose for your Inventive Style with one of the feature's other options.
• Replace a number of your known artificer infusions with different ones you can learn, up to a number equal to your proficiency bonus.

Arcane Armament

At 5th level, your strikes are fueled by the magic enchanting your weapons. When you take the Attack action on your turn and attack with a magic weapon, you can make one additional attack with that weapon as part of the same action.

You ignore this benefit if you already have a feature, like Extra Attack, that lets you attack more than once when you take the Attack action on your turn.

Tool Expertise

At 5th level, choose two of your tool proficiencies. Your proficiency bonus is doubled for any ability check you make that uses either of the chosen proficiencies.

At 13th level, you can choose another two tool proficiencies to gain this benefit.

Flash of Genius

Starting at 7th level, you gain the ability to come up with solutions under pressure. When you or another creature you can see within 30 feet of you makes an ability check or a saving throw, you can use your reaction to add your Intelligence modifier to the roll.

You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Intelligence modifier (a minimum of once). You regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Magic Item Adept

When you reach 9th level, you achieve a profound understanding for how to use and craft magic items. You can now attune to up to four items at once (rather than three).

In addition, if you craft a magic item, you make four times as much progress as normal per day, and it costs you half as much of the usual gold to acquire the necessary amount of materials.

Spell-Storing Item

At 11th level, you learn how to store a spell in an object. Whenever you finish a long rest, you can touch one simple or martial weapon or one item that you can use as a spellcasting focus, and you store a spell in it, choosing a 1st-level spell from the artificer spell list that requires 1 action to cast (you needn't have it prepared).

While holding the object, a creature can take an action to produce the spell's effect from it, using your spellcasting ability modifier. If the spell requires concentration, the creature must concentrate. The spell stays in the object until it's been used a number of times equal to twice your Intelligence modifier (minimum of twice) or until you use this feature again to store a spell in an object.

Starting at 18th level, you can store a 2nd-level spell in the item, and any 1st-level spell stored in the item is produced as a 2nd-level spell.

Magic Item Savant

At 14th level, your skill with magic items deepens further. You can attune to up to five magic items at once, and you ignore all class, race, spell, and level requirements on attuning to or using a magic item.

Flexible Infusions

At 17th level, you can quickly retrofit your infused items to adapt to changing conditions. As an action, you can touch an item bearing one of your artificer infusions and end that infusion, replacing it with another artificer infusion of your choice that you know. You must follow any requirements for infusing an item, as normal.

Once you use this feature, you can't do so again until you finish a long rest.

Soul of Artifice

At 20th level, you develop a mystical bond with your magic items which protects you from harm. You can attune to up to six magic items at once, and you gain a +1 bonus to all saving throws per magic item you are currently attuned to.

Additionally, if you're reduced to 0 hit points but not killed outright, you can use your reaction to end one of your artificer infusions, causing you to drop to 1 hit point instead.

Artillerist

An Artillerist specializes in using magic to hurl energy, projectiles, and explosions on a battlefield. This destructive power is valued by armies in the wars on many different worlds. And when war passes, some members of this specialization seek to build a more peaceful world by using their powers to fight the resurgence of strife. The world-hopping gnome artificer Vi has been especially vocal about making things right: "It's about time we fixed things instead of blowing them all to hell."

Fortified Position

Starting at 15th level, you're a master at forming well-defended emplacements using your Eldritch Cannon:

• You and your allies have half cover while within 10 feet of a cannon you create with Eldritch Cannon, as a result of a shimmering field of magical protection that the cannon emits.
• You can now have two cannons active at the same time. You can create two with the same action (but not the same spell slot), and you can activate both of them with the same bonus action. You determine whether the cannons are identical to each other or different. You can't create a third cannon while you have two.

Battle Smith

Armies require protection, and someone has to put things back together if defenses fail. A combination of protector and medic, a Battle Smith is an expert at defending others and repairing both materiel and personnel. To aid in their work, Battle Smiths are accompanied by a steel defender, a protective companion of their own creation. Many soldiers tell stories of nearly dying before being saved by a Battle Smith and a steel defender.

In the world of Eberron, Battle Smiths played a key role in House Cannith's work on battle constructs and the original warforged, and after the Last War, these artificers led efforts to aid those who were injured in the war's horrific battles.

Steel Defender

Medium construct, unaligned

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• Armor Class 12 + PB (natural armor)
• Hit Points 2 + your Intelligence modifier + five times your artificer level (the defender has a number of Hit Dice [d8s] equal to your artificer level)
• Speed 40 ft.

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
14 (+2)	12 (+1)	14 (+2)	4 (-3)	10 (+0)	6 (-2)

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• Damage Immunities poison
• Condition Immunities charmed, exhaustion, poisoned
• Senses darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 10
• Languages understands the languages you speak
• Proficiency Bonus (PB) equals your bonus

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Bond of Steel. You can add your proficiency bonus to any ability check or saving throw the defender makes.

Vigilant. The defender can't be surprised.

Actions

Force-Empowered Rend. Melee Weapon Attack: your spell attack modifier to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 1d8 + PB force damage.

Repair (3/Day). The magical mechanisms inside the defender restore 2d8 + PB hit points to itself or one construct or object within 5 feet of it.

Reactions

Deflect Attack. The defender imposes disadvantage on the attack roll of one creature it can see that is within 5 feet of it, provided that the attack roll is against a creature other than the defender.

Arcane Jolt

At 6th level, you've learned new ways to channel arcane energy to heal. When either you hit a target with a magic weapon or your steel defender hits a target, you can choose one creature or object you can see within 30 feet of the target. Healing energy flows into the chosen recipient, restoring 2d6 hit points to it.

You can use this energy a number of times equal to your Intelligence modifier (a minimum of once), and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Union of Steel

Starting at 10th level, your defender exudes magical power while you are nearby. While you and your steel defender are within 5 feet of each other, when one of you hits with a weapon attack, you can have the attack deal an extra 1d6 force damage. You can use this benefit no more than once per turn.

Improved Defender

At 15th level, your defender becomes more powerful, as does the arcane energy flowing between the two of you:

• Your steel defender's size becomes Large, and its Hit Dice become d10s.
• The healing of your Arcane Jolt increases to 4d6.
• Whenever your steel defender uses its Deflect Attack reaction, the attacker takes force damage equal to 1d6 + your Intelligence modifier.

Forge Knight

Artificers who swear allegiance to kingdoms and empires find ready work as weapon smiths, forging and maintaining the land's weapons for a steady supply of warriors. Some of the finest smiths among them prove their worth as Forge Knights, masters of the ancient traditions who create mystical weapons the likes of which are seldom seen but universally feared. No self-respecting Forge Knight is found far from their most prized creation: the Artifice Weapon, which draws out the deepest arcane powers that linger within the artificer and is bound to their very soul.

Bolstering Magic

Beginning at 6th level, you can draw on your latent magic to bolster yourself or a companion. As an action, you touch a creature (which can be yourself) and confer one of the following benefits of your choice to that creature:

• For 10 minutes, the creature can roll a d4 whenever making an attack roll or an ability check and add the number rolled to the d20 roll.
• The creature regains one expended spell slot, the level of which equals half your proficiency bonus (rounded up) or lower (the creature's choice). Once a creature receives this benefit, that creature can't receive it again until after a long rest.

You can take this action a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Spirit Reclamation

At 10th level, you learn to draw the magic power of your arsenal back into yourself in times of crisis. When you are reduced to 0 hit points but not killed outright, you can break your bond with your artificer weapon to drop to 1 hit point instead and gain temporary hit points equal to half your hit point maximum. These temporary hit points disappear when you bond with a new artifice weapon.

Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a long rest.

Perfected Weapon

At 15th level, you learn how to empower your artifice weapon to its fullest potential. When you finish a long rest, you can imbue one of the following properties of your choice into your artifice weapon, which it retains until the end of your next long rest.

Bloodshed. Your attacks with the weapon deal an extra 1d8 damage and score a critical hit on a roll of 19 or 20.

Detachment. You have resistance to psychic damage, and you can't be charmed or frightened. In addition, if you score a critical hit with this weapon against a creature's astral body, you can cut the silvery cord that tethers the target to its material body, instead of dealing damage.

Precaution. The first time you attack with the weapon on each of your turns, you can transfer some or all of the weapon's bonus to your Armor Class, instead of using the bonus on any attacks that turn. For example, at 15th level you could reduce the bonus to your attack and damage rolls to +1 and gain a +1 bonus to AC. The adjusted bonuses remain in effect until the start of your next turn, although you must hold the weapon to gain a bonus to AC from it.

Potioneer

A potioneer is a disciple of arts both immutable and ephemeral, an artificer who takes pride in magical mixtures and harness the power of alchemical reactions to create potent elixirs. From healing draughts that can mend a wound in moments, to clinging goo that traps enemies in their tracks, an alchemist strives to always, quite literally, have a solution to any situation.

Potioneer's Stimulant

At 3rd level, you learn to transmute a substance to keep its drinker alert and ready for battle. As an action while you have alchemist's supplies on your person, you can touch a willing creature (which can be yourself) and give it a bonus to the next initiative roll it makes. This bonus equals your Intelligence modifier (minimum of +1). The benefit ends immediately after the roll or if you use this feature again.

Alchemical Formulations

Starting at 3rd level, you can create special potions known as alchemical formulations, which have a wide array of effects. Whenever you finish a long rest, you can touch a number of empty flasks and magically produce alchemical formulations of your choice in them, up to a number equal to your proficiency bonus. Choose an effect from the Alchemical Formulations table for each flask, or roll to randomly generate the formulation's effect. The formulations needn't be the same for every flask, but a flask can hold only one of your formulations at a time.

Creating a formulation requires you to have alchemist's supplies on your person, and any formulation you create with this feature lasts until its effect is triggered or until the end of your next long rest.

You can create additional alchemical formulations by expending a spell slot of 1st level or higher for each one. When you do so, you use your action to create the formulation in an empty flask you touch.

As an action on your turn, you can trigger the effect of one of your alchemical formulations. After you gain the Arcane Armament feature at 5th level, you can trigger one of your formulations in place of making a weapon attack as part of the Attack action. If a formulation requires a saving throw, the save DC equals your spell save DC.

Your alchemical formulations are tailored for your use, and some of their effects are too delicate to be handled by others. Unless noted otherwise in its description, an alchemical formulation can't be triggered by creatures other than you.

Alchemical Savant

At 6th level, you develop masterful command of magical chemicals, enhancing the healing and damage you create through them. Whenever you cast a spell using your alchemist's supplies as a spellcasting focus, you gain a bonus to one roll of the spell. The roll must restore hit points or be a damage roll that deals acid, cold, fire, necrotic, or poison damage, and the bonus equals your Intelligence modifier (minimum of +1). This benefit also applies to the healing and damage rolls of your Alchemical Formulations.

Chemical Tolerance

By 10th level, your exposure to harmful chemicals now poses little risk to you, and you are capable of spreading this protection to others. You gain the following benefits:

• Whenever a creature drinks an alchemical formulation you created, the drinker gains temporary hit points equal to 2d6 + your Intelligence modifier (minimum of 1 temporary hit point).
• You gain resistance to acid and poison damage, and you are immune to the poisoned condition.

Potion Master

At 15th level, your unparalleled skill allows you to seamlessly blend chemistry with magic. When you roll healing or damage for one of your Alchemical Formulations, you roll an additional number of dice equal to the level of the spell slot used to create the formulation (or 1 additional die if it was created without a spell slot).

Folding Armor

Prerequisite: 10th level
Item: A suit of armor (requires attunement)

A creature gains a +1 bonus to Armor Class while wearing this armor.

As an action while wearing the armor, a creature can choose to doff it by dismissing the armor into an extradimensional space. The armor remains in the space until the creature uses an action to summon it, instantly donning the armor as it materializes around their body. If the armor is in the extradimensional space when the infusion ends, it appears in the unoccupied space nearest to the creature.

When a hostile attacker the creature can see hits it with an attack roll, the creature can use its reaction to summon the armor from its extradimensional space and don it. The creature's AC changes to incorporate any bonuses granted by the armor, if any, potentially causing the attack to miss. Once it uses this reaction, the creature can't do so again until it finishes a long rest.

Gloves of Storing

Prerequisite: 6th level
Item: A pair of gloves

While wearing the gloves and holding an object that weighs no more than 20 pounds and can be held in one hand, you can use a bonus action to store that object inside the glove's extradimensional space. When an object is stored inside the extradimensional space, you can use a bonus action to summon it back into your empty hand. You can only store a single object in each glove's extradimensional space, for a total of two items between the pair.

The gloves' weight is negligible, regardless of their contents. If a glove is pierced or torn, it ruptures and is destroyed, and any object stored within is lost in the Astral Plane.

Placing a glove inside an extradimensional space created by a bag of holding, portable hole, or similar item instantly destroys both items and opens a gate to the Astral Plane. The gate originates where the one item was placed inside the other. Any creature within 10 feet of the gate is sucked through it to a random location on the Astral Plane. The gate then closes. The gate is one-way only and can't be reopened.

Homunculus Servant

Item: A gem or crystal worth at least 100 gp

You learn intricate methods for magically creating a special homunculus that serves you. The item you infuse serves as the creature's heart, around which the creature's body instantly forms. You determine the homunculus's appearance. Some artificers prefer mechanical-looking birds, whereas some like winged vials or miniature, animate cauldrons.

The homunculus is friendly to you and your companions, and it obeys your commands. See this creature's game statistics in the Homunculus Servant stat block, which uses your proficiency bonus (PB) in several places.

In combat, the homunculus shares your initiative count, but it takes its turn immediately after yours. It can move and use its reaction on its own, but the only action it takes on its turn is the Dodge action, unless you take a bonus action on your turn to command it to take another action. That action can be one in its stat block or some other action. If you are incapacitated, the homunculus can take any action of its choice, not just Dodge.

The homunculus regains 2d6 hit points if the mending spell is cast on it. If you or the homunculus dies, it vanishes, leaving its heart in its space.

Mind Sharpener

Item: A suit of armor or a set of robes

The infused item can send a jolt to the wearer to refocus their mind. The item has 4 charges. When the wearer fails a Constitution saving throw to maintain concentration on a spell, the wearer can use its reaction to expend 1 of the item's charges to succeed instead. The item regains 1d4 expended charges daily at dawn.

Nullifying Weapon

Prerequisite: 6th level
Item: A simple or martial weapon

This magic weapon grants a +1 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with it.

The weapon has 4 charges. When the wielder hits a creature with a weapon attack, they can expend 1 charge to negate all of that creature's damage resistances until the end of the creature's next turn, including for that hit. The weapon regains 1d4 charges daily at dawn.

Radiant Weapon

Prerequisite: 6th level
Item: A simple or martial weapon (requires attunement)

This magic weapon grants a +1 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with it. While holding it, the wielder can take a bonus action to cause it to shed bright light in a 30-foot radius and dim light for an additional 30 feet. The wielder can extinguish the light as a bonus action.

The weapon has 4 charges. As a reaction immediately after being hit by an attack, the wielder can expend 1 charge and cause the attacker to be blinded until the end of the attacker's next turn, unless the attacker succeeds on a Constitution saving throw against your spell save DC. The weapon regains 1d4 expended charges daily at dawn.

Repeating Shot

Item: A simple or martial weapon with the ammunition property (requires attunement)

This magic weapon grants a +1 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with it when it's used to make a ranged attack, and it ignores the loading property if it has it.

If you load no ammunition in the weapon, it produces its own, automatically creating one piece of magic ammunition when you make a ranged attack with it. The ammunition created by the weapon vanishes the instant after it hits or misses a target.

Replicate Magic Item

Using this infusion, you replicate a particular magic item. You can learn this infusion multiple times; each time you do so, choose a magic item that you can make with it, picking from the Replicable Magic Items tables below. A table's title tells you the level you must be in the class to choose an item from the table. Alternatively, you can choose the magic item from among the common magic items in the game, not including potions, scrolls, or tattoos.

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

Class Changes

As the most recently published class, the artificer is characterized by a notable difference in the function of its class features in comparison to the original classes, as much of its functionality revolves around its use of the Infuse Item feature. With this in mind, the alterations presented in this document are intended to bring the class more in line with the philosophies of the original classes, particularly in regards to being an Intelligence-based counterpart to the paladin and ranger.

Proficiencies. The artificer now also gains proficiency with hand crossbows, heavy crossbows, and nets.

Starting Equipment. The artificer starts with tinker's tools, rather than thieves' tools.

Spellcasting. The artificer gains their third cantrip at 7th level, rather than 10th level.

Arcane Tinkering. This feature incorporates the benefits of Magical Tinkering (renamed as Spark of Enchantment), and provides additional ways to enchant a suitable object. The feature also grants the mending cantrip for free (as the Spark of Repair ability).

Magic Item Analysis. This is a new feature, intended to reflect the artificer's intrinsic connection to magic items.

Infuse Item. Instead of granting two new known infusions every 4 levels, this feature now grants one new known infusion every 2 levels until 18th level; the total number of known infusions at 20th level remains the same.

Inventive Style. This is a new feature, akin to the Fighting Style of other martial-inclined classes, which provides the artificer with a means of customizing its personal utility in and out of combat.

Artificer Specialization. The artificer's choice of subclass now provides features at 3rd, 6th, 10th, and 15th level, rather than at 3rd, 5th, 9th, and 15th level. The Alchemist specialization has been renamed to Potioneer, and a new subclass, the Forge Knight, has been added.

Ability Score Improvement. The artificer can swap out their chosen Inventive Style, or replace a large number of their known artificer infusions at once, each time they gain this feature from this class.

Arcane Armament. This is a new feature, intended to act as a replacement the Extra Attack features of the martial-inclined subclasses (which received the feature at 5th level) and as a counterpart to those features on the paladin and ranger, and to equalize the artificer's damage scaling regardless of subclass choice.

Tool Expertise. Previously, this feature was gained at 6th level, and doubled the proficiency bonus of all the artificer's tool proficiencies. Instead, the artificer gains this feature twice (once at 5th level and again at 13th level), and it provides its benefit to two of the artificer's tool proficiencies each time, bringing it in line with the Expertise features of other classes.

Magic Item Adept. The artificer now gains this feature at 9th level, instead of 10th level (when the artificer instead gains a new specialization feature).

Spell-Storing Item. When the artificer gains this feature, it can only use 1st-level spells, instead of 1st- or 2nd-level spells, for its effect. At 18th level, the artificer regains the ability to use 2nd-level spells with this feature, and also sets the level of any 1st-level stored spell to 2nd level.

Flexible Infusions. This is a new feature, designed so that an artificer at the highest tier of play can reliably call upon a much-needed infusion at a critical moment.

Soul of Artifice. This feature incorporates the benefits of the Magic Item Master feature (which artificers previously received at 18th level).

Battle Smith

The changes to the Battle Smith specialization are listed below.

Tools of the Trade. Renamed from Tool Proficiency, the battle smith now also gains proficiency with martial melee weapons.

Battle Smith Spells. At 5th level, the battle smith gains access to the spell hold person, instead of branding smite. At 9th level, they gain access to beacon of hope, instead of aura of vitality. At 13th level, they gain access to death ward, instead of aura of purity. At 17th level, they gain access to steel wind strike, instead of banishing smite.

Steel Defender. The steel defender's AC equals 12 + the battle smith's proficiency bonus, rather than 15. The defender has no skill or saving throw proficiencies, but it gains the Bond of Steel trait, which allows the battle smith to add their proficiency bonus to any ability check or saving throw the defender makes. This brings the defender more in line with the "companion" subclasses of other classes.

Arcane Jolt. The battle smith gains this feature at 6th level, instead of at 9th level. In exchange, the feature's ability to inflict damage has been removed in order to be reincorporated into the 10th-level feature (see below).

Union of Steel. This is a new feature, intended to replace the extra-damage effect of the previous version of Arcane Jolt (then a 6th-level feature).

Improved Defender. The steel defender's size increases to Large, and its Hit Dice change accordingly. In addition, as Arcane Jolt no longer provides an option to deal damage, neither does the feature's improved effect deal additional damage.

Potioneer

Renamed from the Alchemist, the changes to the Potioneer specialization are listed below.

Tools of the Trade. Renamed from Tool Proficiency, the potioneer now also gains proficiency in the Medicine skill.

Potioneer Spells. At 3rd level, the potioneer gains access to the spell fog cloud, instead of ray of sickness. At 5th level, they gain access to blindness/deafness, instead of Melf's acid arrow. At 9th level, they gain access to slow, instead of mass healing word. At 13th level, they gain access to greater invisibility and polymorph, instead of blight and death ward. At 17th level, they gain access to mass cure wounds instead of raise dead.

Potioneer's Stimulant. This is a new feature, designed to be the potioneer's counterpart to the Battle Ready feature of other specializations at 3rd level.

Alchemical Formulations. Renamed from Experimental Elixir, this feature has been altered in several ways in order to address serious and persistent issues with the subclass's abilities relative to other subclasses.

The potioneer can now produce a number of elixirs (now formulations) between long rests equal to their proficiency bonus, rather than one (and later two or three), and they choose which formulation to create from the feature's table instead of rolling randomly. Creating formulations by expending spell slots now requires 1 minute to accomplish, rather than an action. Formulations can now be triggered in a manner that varies by formulation; some can only be triggered by the potioneer, who can also trigger their formulations during the Attack action starting at 5th level.

Alchemical Formulations: Table. There are 12 formulations to choose from, rather than 4. Healing is now Healing Elixir, Swiftness is now Quicksilver Cocktail, Resilience is now Durable Draught, and Boldness is now Fortifying Solution.

Alchemical Savant. The potioneer gains this feature at 6th level, instead of 5th level, and its effect also applies to their Alchemical Formulations where suitable.

Chemical Tolerance. Renamed from Restorative Reagents, the potioneer no longer gains access to the spell lesser restoration or its associated benefits, and instead gains resistance to acid and poison damage, and immunity to the poisoned condition (as with the 15th-level feature Chemical Mastery, which has been replaced; see below).

Potion Master. This is a new feature, which replaces Chemical Mastery entirely and increases the potency of the potioneer's Alchemical Formulations which involve rolling dice.

Artificer Infusions

The list of artificer infusions has been changed, as detailed below.

New Infusions. The artificer can now choose from the following additional infusions, to give them a greater variety of options: Bane Weapon (6th-level), Folding Armor (10th-level), Gloves of Storing (6th-level) and Nullifying Weapon (6th-level).

Existing Infusions. The infusion Helm of Awareness has been renamed to Vigilance Visor, and can now also be applied to a pair of eyeglasses.

Replicable Magic Item. The 6th-level table for this infusion now includes the magic items boots of springing and striding (previously 10th-level) and folding boat. The 14th-level table now includes periapt of proof against poison, ring of X-ray vision, and wand of enemy detection.

Art Credits

The artists below are credited in alphabetical order. Where possible, an art credit includes the website where the artist's work can be found, and the pages on which their illustrations appear.

• Artist unknown (pg 5)
• Chris Rahn (© RahnArt; pg 18)
• Jesper Ejsing (© Jesper Ejsing Illustration; cover)
• Paizo (© Paizo; pg 12)
• Wizards of the Coast (© Wizards; pg 2, 8, 10, 16, 17, 19)

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