Alchemist

The Magic of Fusion

Alchemists have discovered through experimentation that when certain things are fused, interesting results occur. They learn different recipes for making things explode, burn, heal, and empower, as well as how to properly store them to keep from bowing themselves up at every turn. More experienced alchemists are capable of mixing their deadly chemicals faster and faster, until it only takes them a few minutes to create a batch of their concoctions.

This alone would not make people question their sanity, but the vast majority of alchemists like to take it one step farther. After fusing chemicals, the next step is fusing items. More specifically fusing other creature's DNA with their own. This is a taxing process, and an alchemist can only support a certain amount of foreign DNA in their system, but powerful alchemists can have as many as five of these so called augmentations.

Driving Curiosity

Curiosity is a powerful motivator for alchemists, and they hate being bored. It is this very curiosity that drives them to clear out previously discovered recipes to discover new ones. The loss of the knowledge doesn't matter to them because they don't care about knowledge. What an alchemist cares about is the path to find the knowledge, and that is where their curiosity plays a big role. When there is a cave, a fighter might wonder if there are dangerous creatures living in there, a rogue might wonder if there are traps, and a wizard might

wonder if they have enough energy to deal with any magical attacks. All of them would enter with a reasonable degree of caution. An alchemist however, if left unchecked, will walk straight into the cave just to see what would happen.

The Seven Founders

The science of potion making, as well as some fusion tactics have existed for millennia, however it was seven individuals who sheped the actual practice of alchemy. Each of the seven developed a certain part of the alchemical practice, and taught it to the others. Each of them kept the most potent parts of their discoveries to themselves however, but they passed them on to their successors, leading to the elemental paths, or alchemical focuses.

Most alchemists can tell you that each of the elemental paths follows the teachings of one of the seven founders by using the power of the correlating metal. More well versed scholars can tell you that the metal actually has no bearing on the powers, and the only reason that they are considered related is because of the founders fondnesses for said metals. What people don't know is that each of the seven founders was a metal-core photolith, who each had one of the 'fundamental metals' as their core.

Creating an Alchemist

When creating an alchemist character, think about your character's introduction to alchemy. How did your character come to learn alchemy? Did you act as aprentice to another alchemist who taught you his way of alchemy? Did you study at a school for alchemy, with different specialties taught as different subjects? Or maybe you watched someone using alchemy, and studied on your own to replicate what you saw?

Class Features

As an Alchemist, you gain the following class features

Starting Wealth

If you forgo this starting equipment, as well as the items offered by your background, you start with 5d4 × 10 gp to buy your equipment.

Recipe Book

An alchemists recipe book is where they store their formulas for concoction. Despite the name however, it is not actually a book. In fact, there is no writing at all, because an alchemist's recipe book is a vial of chemicals. The alchemists us a combination of chemicals to create certain scents which they can decode into recipes. They can only understand a certain amount of scents at a time, so when they decide to replace a recipe, they simply change what chemicals are in the vial.

Copper ♀

You have chosen to follow in the footsteps of Lady Venus 'Coppervial', and as such, you have a greater affinity for concoctions.

Colossus Slayer

Starting at 3rd level, your tenacity can wear down the most potent foes. When you hit a creature with a weapon Attack, you can deal an extra 1d8 damage to the creature if it’s below its hit point maximum. You can deal this extra damage only once per turn.

Improved critical

Also starting at 3rd level, your weapon attacks score a critical hit on a roll of 19 or 20.

Magical Attacks

Beginning at 6th level, you can channel some latent chemical powers to improve your attacks. Your unarmed strikes and katar attacks count as magical for the purpose of overcoming resistances and immunities to nonmagical attacks and damage.

Honed Instincts

By 10th level, your instincts are so honed that you have advantage on initiative rolls, and you can't be surprised while you are conscious.

In addition, when you are hit with a weapon attack, you may use your reaction to reduce the damage by an amount equal to your Constitution modifier.

Superior Critical

At 14th level, your weapon attacks score a critical hit on a roll of 18-20.

Improved Self

When you choose this focus at 3rd level, you gain 3 perfection points. Whenever you make an ability check, you may spend 1 perfection point to gain a bonus on the check equal to your proficiency bonus. You regain all expended perfectio0n points when you finish a long rest.

The maximum amount of perfection points you may have increases to 5 at 6th level, 7 at 10th level, and 10 at 14th level.

Chemical Fortitude

Also at 3rd level, you gain immunity to disease, as the chemicals and augmentations to your body give you a greater tolerance to foreign substances.

Greater Endurance

At 6th level, you gain the ability to heal yourself. As an action, you can regain hit points equal to your alchemists level by spending 1 perfection point.

Perfect Will

Beginning at 10th level, you are immune to the frightened condition.

Perfect Body

By 14th level, you have reached a greater state of being. You gain proficiency in all saving throws.

Additionally, whenever you make a saving throw and fail, you may spend 1 perfection point to reroll it and take the second result.

Lucky Touch

Starting at 3rd level, you can grant minor luck to others with a touch. You may cast the bless spell once at will, without requiring any components, by touching the target creatures. Once you do so, you must finish a short or long rest before doing so again.

In addition, when a creature you can see makes an ability check, you may add your proficiency bonus to the check. You can choose to do so after the roll is made, but before the result of the check is determined. Once you do so, you must finish a short or long rest before doing so again.

Lucky Self

By 6th level, you can occasionally alter fate in your favor. When you make an ability check or a saving throw, you can use this feature to add a d10 to your roll. You can do so after seeing the initial roll but before any of the roll's effects occur.

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

Aura of Luck

Beginning at 10th level, whenever you or a friendly creature within 20 feet of you must make a saving throw, the creature gains a bonus to the saving throw equal to your Intelligence modifier (with a minimum bonus of +1). You must be conscious to grant this bonus.

Master of Fate

At 14th level, whenever you make an ability check or a saving throw and fail, you may reroll it and take the second result.

Once you use this feature a number of times equal to your Intelligence modifier, you must finish a long rest before doing so again.

Shadow Initiate

Starting when you choose this focus at 3rd level, you gain proficiency in stealth, and you may double your proficiency bonus for stealth checks.

In addition, while you are hidden, creatures have disadvantage on saving throws against your concoctions.

Shadow Step

At 6th level, you gain the ability to step from one shadow into another. When you are in dim light or darkness, as a bonus action you can teleport up to 60 feet to an unoccupied space

Healing Salve

Starting at 3rd level, you can create a salve that can heal wounds. With this salve, you can restore a total number of hit points equal to your alchemist level × 5.

As an action, you can touch a creature and apply some of the salve to restore a number of hit points to that creature, up to the maximum amount remaining for the salve.

Alternatively, you can expend 5 hit points from the salve to cure the target of one disease or neutralize one poison affecting it. You can cure multiple diseases and neutralize multiple poisons with a single use of Healing Salve, expending hit points separately for each one.

This feature has no effect on undead.

Homonculus

Also at 3rd level, you create a homonculus. Whenever you finish a long rest and your alchemist’s supplies are with you, you can form this homunculus in an unoccupied space within 5 feet of you. If you already have a homunculus from this feature, you cannot create another one.

The homunculus is friendly to you and your companions, and it obeys your commands. See this creature’s game statistics in the Alchemical Homunculus stat block. You determine the homonculus's appearance, which includes wings and bits of alchemical equipment. Some alchemists prefer mechanical-looking birds, whereas others like winged vials or miniature cauldrons.

In combat, the homunculus shares your initiative count, but it takes its turn immediately after yours. 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 one of the actions in its stat block or to take the Dash, Disengage, or Help action.

If the mending spell is cast on it, it regains 2d6 hit points. If it dies, you may revive it at the end of your next long rest, provided it is within 5 feet of you and you have your alchemist's supplies with you.

Mutual Healer

Beginning at 6th level, whenever your homonculus uses it's action to heal one or more creatures, you may regain hit points equal to half the total number of hit points restored by

the homonculus (rounded down), provided you are within 30 feet of the homonculus.

Improved Homonculus

By 10th level, when your homonculus uses it's action to heal another creature, it can heal two creatures as part of the same action.

Mutual Potions

At 14th level, when you cast a spell or use a concoction that targets you, you can also affect your homonculus with the

Spellcasting

When you reach 3rd level, you learn the arts of arcane spellcasting. See chapter 10 of the phb for the general rules of spellcasting and chapter 11 for the wizard spell list.

Cantrips. You learn two cantrips of your choice from the Wizard spell list. You learn an additional Wizard cantrip of your choice at 10th level.

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

For example, if you know the 1st level spell shield, and you have a 1st-level and a 2nd-level spell slot available, you can cast shield using either slot.

Spells known of 1st level and Higher. You know three 1st-level Wizard spells of your choice, two of which you must choose from the evocation and transmutation spells on the wizard spell list.

The Spells Known column of the Tin Spellcasting table shows when you learn more wizard spells of 1st level or higher. Each of these spells must be an evocation or transmutation spell of your choice, and must be of a level you have the spell slots for. For instance, when you reach 7th level in this class, you can learn one new spell of 1st or 2nd level.

The spells you learn at 8th, 14th, and 20th level can come from any school of magic.

Whenever you gain a level in this class, you can replace one of the wizard spells you know with another spell of your choice from the wizard spell list. The new spell must be of a level for which you have spell slots, and must be an evocation and transmutation spell, unless you're replacing the spell you gained at 8th, 14th, or 20th level.

Spellcasting Ability. Intelligence is your spellcasting ability for your wizard spells, since you learn your spells through study and memorization. You use your Intelligence whenever a spell refers to your spellcasting ability. In addition, you use your Intelligence modifier when setting the saving throw DC for a wizard spell you cast and when making an attack roll with one.

Acid Bomb

explosive, 1 action

You may throw this bomb up to 60 feet, where it explodes with a corrosive liquid. Each creature within 20 feet of the bomb must make a dexterity saving throw. A target takes 12d4 acid damage on a failed save, or half as much on a success.

When you reach 12th level, the damage increases to 18d4.

Aquashock Grenade

explosive, 1 action

You may throw this grenade up to 60 feet, where it explodes with magically enhanced water. Each creature within 20 feet of the bomb must succeed on a dexterity saving throw or become drenched. A drenched creature has disadvantage on saves against effects that deal cold damage, and has vulnerability to lightning damage. In addition, drenched creatures gain exhaustion twice as fast from effects relating to extreme cold, and half as fast from effects relating to extreme heat.

A drenched creature can remove the condition by spending at least 5 minutes by a fire, changing clothes, or taking at least 20 points of fire damage.

When you reach 12th level, the radius increases by 20 feet.

Atrophy Paste

salve, l action

Make an unarmed strike using your Intelligence modifier instead of your Strength modifier. On a hit, the target is knocked prone as it's muscles are rendered temporarily ineffective for 1 minute, and the salve is expended. At the end of each of it's turns, the target can make a Constitution saving throw to end the effect on itself.

When you reach 12th level, a creature can only make the saving throw every other turn.

Blinding Paste

salve, l action

Make an unarmed strike using your Intelligence modifier instead of your Strength modifier. On a hit, the target is blinded as it's eyes cease to function for 1 minute, and the salve is expended. At the end of each of it's turns, the target can make a Constitution saving throw to end the effect on itself.

When you reach 12th level, a creature can only make the saving throw every other turn.

Breath in a Bottle

potion, 1 bonus action

When you drink this potion, you gain the ability to expel the liquid out of your mouth at a high velocity. Once within the next hour, you may use a bonus action to spray the liquid in a 30 foot cone. Each creature in the cone must make a dexterity saving throw, taking 5d8 damage on a failed save, of half on a successful one. You choose the damage type when you create this concoction from the following list: acid, cold, fire, lightning, piercing, and poison.

When you reach 12th level, the damage increases to 8d8.

Concussion Grenade

explosive, 1 action

You may throw this grenade up to 60 feet, where it explodes with a concussive blast of sound. Each creature within 20 feet of the bomb must make a constitution saving throw. On a failed save, a target takes 5d8 thunder damage and is deafened for 1 minute. On a successful one, a creature takes half damage, and isn't deafened.

When you reach 12th level, the damage increases to 8d8.

Corrosive Puddle

oil, 1 action

You may throw this disk up to 60 feet away, where it sprays acid across the ground in a 30 foot radius. A creature that enters the acid's area for the first time on a turn, or starts it's turn there takes 3d6 acid damage.

When you reach 12th level, the damage increases to 5d6.

Deafening Paste

salve, l action

Make an unarmed strike using your Intelligence modifier instead of your Strength modifier. On a hit, the target is deafened as it's ears cease to function for 1 minute, and the salve is expended. At the end of each of it's turns, the target can make a Constitution saving throw to end the effect on itself.

When you reach 12th level, a creature can only make the saving throw every other turn.

Death Lotion

salve, l action

Make an unarmed strike using your Intelligence modifier instead of your Strength modifier. On a hit, the target takes 1d4 acid damage at the start of each of it's turns for 1 minute, and the salve is expended. This effect ends if the creature moves through running water, or is doused in water.

When you reach 12th level, the damage increases to 2d4.

Flashbang

explosive, 1 action

You may throw this bomb up to 60 feet, where it causes an explosion of light. Each creature within 10 feet of the bomb must make a constitution saving throw, or be blinded and deafened as if by the Blindness/Deafness spell. A creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of it's turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.

Breath Weapon

You can use your action to exhale destructive energy. It deals damage in an area according to the table. When you use your breath weapon, all creatures in the area must make a saving throw, the type of which is determined by the table. The DC of this saving throw is 8 + your Constitution modifier + your proficiency bonus. A creature takes 2d6 damage on a failed save, and half as much damage on a successful one. The damage increase to 3d6 at 6th level, 4d6 at 11th, and 5d6 at 16th level. You may use your breath weapon a number of times equal to your Constitution modifier. You regain expended uses on a short or long rest.

Carapace

You have a chitinous carapace that prevents you from wearing armor. Your constitution modifier is added to your ac.

Claws

You have claws on your hands. Your unarmed strikes now deal a base of 1d6 slashing damage, and you have advantage on ability checks related to climbing.

Crab Pincers

You have a pair of crab arms growing from your shoulders. You may make unarmed strikes with them, dealing 1d6 plus your Strength modifier piercing damage, and grappling a creature on a hit if the creature is your size or smaller (escape DC 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Strength modifier).

Extra Arms

You have 1 extra pair of arms which give you these benefits. When you take the attack action, you may make another attack as a bonus action, and you can benefit from two shields at a time. You also count as one size larger when determining your carrying capacity and the weight you can push, drag, or lift.

Infrared Vision

You gain darkvision out to 60 feet. If you already have darkvision, the radius of it increases by 60 feet.

Lizard Tail

You have a lizard tail that helps you swim. You have a swimming speed of 60 feet, and advantage on checks made in relation to swimming. You may also make an unarmed strikes with it, dealing 1d6 plus your Strength modifier bludgeoning damage.

Magical Saliva

You saliva can produce a wonderful effect. Up to 3 times per day, you can touch one creature with your saliva. The target receives one of the following magical benefits of your choice:

Aquatic. The target can breath underwater for 10 minutes.

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 Intelligence modifier (minimum of 1).

Resilience. The target gains a number of temporary hit points equal to 2d6 + your Intelligence modifier.

Manticore Tail

You have the tail of a manticore, and can shoot your tail spikes from it. The tail is a ranged attack with range 100/200 feet, and on a hit, it deals 1d8 + your Dexterity modifier piercing damage. You have twenty-four tail spikes. Used spikes regrow when you finish a long rest.

Protected Ears

You cannot be deafened.

Quickened Pace

You base walking speed increases by 30 feet.

Scorpion Stinger

You have a scorpion tail that you can use to attack with. Treat the tail as an unarmed strike, and on a hit, a target takes 1d6 + your Strength modifier piercing damage, and 1d6 poison damage + your Intelligence modifier.

Shaded Eyes

You cannot be blinded.

Sixth Sense

You gain blindsight out to 30 feet. If you already have blindsight, the radius of it increases by 30 feet. You must be able to hear for your blindsense to work.

Spider Legs

You have a set of spider legs growing out of your back. While walking with the spider legs, you have a climbing speed of 60 feet, and can ignore movement restrictions of webs.

Supertraction

Your feet are more like crane claws. You cannot wear normal footwear, and while barefoot, you may ignore non-magical difficult terrain.

All-Seeing Eyes

You gain truesight out to 60 feet.

Elastic Skin

You can cast the Enlarge/Reduce spell at will, targeting yourself. You do not need to concentrate on the spell, it lasts until you die, and it isn't treated as a spell.

Face-Changer

You can cast the Alter Self spell at will. You do not need to concentrate on the spell, it lasts until you die, and it isn't treated as a spell.

Keen Mind

You gain a +6 to Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma. Alternatively, you may choose to gain a +2 bonus to all three.

Top Shape

You gain a +6 to Strength, Dexterity, or Constitution. Alternatively, you may choose to gain a +2 bonus to all three.