Artificer

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.

Quick Build

You can make an Artificer quickly by following these suggestions. First, make Intelligence your highest ability score, followed by Constitution. Second, choose the Cloistered Scholar background.

Proficiencies

Armor: Light armor, Medium armor, Shields
Weapons: Simple wepaons, firearms (SCoC)**
Tools: thieves' tools, tinker's tools, one type of artisan's tools of your choice
Saving Throws: Constitution, Intelligence
Skills: Choose any three skills.

Equipment

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

• (a) any two simple weapons of your choice or (b) a flintlock rifle (SCoC)
• (a) a light crossbow and 20 bolts or (b) a flintlock pistol (SCoC) and 20 rounds of ball ammo (SCoC)
• (a) studded leather armor or (b) scale mail
• thieves' tools and a dungeoneer's pack

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

**If your GM allows firearms, you are proficient with firearms.

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.

Artificer Specialist

At 3rd level, you choose the type of specialist you are, each of which is detailed at the end of the class's description. Your choice grants you features at 5th level and again at 9th and 15th level.

Specialization Spells

Starting at 3rd level, you always have certain spells prepared after you reach particular levels in this class, as shown in the Specialization Spells table. These spells count as artificer spells for you, but they don't count against the number of artificer spells you prepare.

Tool Proficiency

When you adopt this specialization at 3rd level, you gain proficiency with alchemist's supplies. If you already have this proficiency, you gain proficiency with one other type of artisan's tools of your choice.

Experimental Elixir

Beginning at 3rd level, whenever you finish a long rest, you can magically produce two experimental elixirs. Roll on the Experimental Elixir table for the elixirs' effect, once for each elixir. The effect is triggered when a creature drinks the elixir. As an action, a creature can drink the elixir or administer it to an incapacitated creature.

Creating an experimental elixir requires you to have alchemist's supplies on your person, and any elixir you create with this feature lasts until it is drunk or until the end of your next long rest.
When you reach certain levels in this class, you can make more elixirs at the end of a long rest: three at 6th level and four at 15th level. Roll for each elixir's effect separately.

You can create additional experimental elixirs by expending a spell slot of 1st level or higher. The number of elixirs created is equal to the level of the spell slot expended. When you do so, you use your action to create the elixir, and you choose the elixir's effect from the Experimental Elixir table.

Alchemical Savant

At 5th 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 the spellcasting focus, you gain a bonus to one roll of the spell. That roll must restore hit points or be a damage roll that deals acid, fire, necrotic, or poison damage, and the bonus equals your Intelligence modifier (minimum of +1).

Restorative Reagents

Starting at 9th level, you can incorporate restorative reagents into some of your works:

• Whenever a creature drinks an experimental elixir you created, the creature gains temporary hit points equal to 2d6 + your Intelligence modifier (minimum of 1 temporary hit point).
• You can cast lesser restoration without expending a spell slot and without preparing the spell, provided you use alchemist's supplies as the spellcasting focus. You can do so a number of times equal to your Intelligence modifier (minimum of once), and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Specialization Spells

Starting at 3rd level, you always have certain spells prepared after you reach particular levels in this class, as shown in the Specialization Spells table. These spells count as artificer spells for you, but they don't count against the number of artificer spells you prepare.

Tools of the Trade

At 3rd level, you gain proficiency with heavy armor. You also gain proficiency with smith's tools. If you already have this tool proficiency, you gain proficiency with one other type of artisan's tools of your choice.

Arcane Armor

At 3rd level, your metallurgical pursuits have led to you making armor a conduit for your magic. As an action, you can turn a suit of armor you are wearing into Arcane Armor, provided you have smith's tools in hand.

You gain the following benefits while wearing this armor:

• If the armor normally has a Strength requirement, the arcane armor lacks this requirement for you.
• You can use the arcane armor as a spellcasting focus for your artificer spells.
• The armor attaches to you and can't be removed against your will. It also expands to cover your entire body, although you can retract or deploy the helmet as a bonus action. The armor replaces any missing limbs, functioning identically to a limb it replaces.
• You can doff or don the armor as a bonus action. The armor continues to be Arcane Armor until you don another suit of armor or you die.

Armor Model

Also at 3rd level, You can customize your Arcane Armor. When you do so, choose one of the following armor models: Guardian or Infiltrator. The model you choose gives you special benefits while you wear it.

Each model includes a special weapon. When you attack with that weapon, you can add your Intelligence modifier, instead of Strength or Dexterity, to the attack and damage rolls.

You can change the armor's model whenever you finish a short or long rest, provided you have smith's tools in hand.

Guardian. You design your armor to be in the front line of conflict. It has the following features:

• Thunder Gauntlets. Each of the armor's gauntlets counts as a simple melee weapon while you aren't holding anything in it, and it deals 1d8 thunder damage on a hit. A creature hit by the gauntlet has disadvantage on attack rolls against targets other than you until the start of your next turn, as the armor magically emits a distracting pulse when the creature attacks someone else.

• Artificial Muscles. While wearing this armor, you count as one size larger when determining your carrying capacity and the weight you can push, drag, or lift and have advantage on Strength (Athletics) checks made to resist being grappled.

• Defensive Field. As a bonus action, you can gain temporary hit points equal to your level in this class, replacing any temporary hit points you already have. You lose these temporary hit points if you doff the armor. You can use this bonus action a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Specialization Spells

Starting at 3rd level, you always have certain spells prepared after you reach particular levels in this class, as shown in the Specialization Spells table. These spells count as artificer spells for you, but they don't count against the number of artificer spells you prepare.

Tool Proficiency

When you adopt this specialization at 3rd level, you gain proficiency with woodcarver's tools. If you already have this proficiency, you gain proficiency with one other type of artisan's tools of your choice.

Eldritch Cannon

At 3rd level, you learn how to create a magical cannon. Using woodcarver's tools or smith's tools, you can take an action to magically create a Small or Tiny eldritch cannon in an unoccupied space on a horizontal surface within 5 feet of you. A Small eldritch cannon occupies its space, and a Tiny one can be held in one hand.

Once you create a cannon, you can't do so again until you finish a long rest or until you expend a spell slot of 1st level or higher. You can have only one cannon at a time and can't create one while your cannon is present.

The cannon is a magical object. Regardless of size, the cannon has an AC of 18 and a number of hit points equal to five times your artificer level. It is immune to poison damage and psychic damage, and all conditions. If it is forced to make an ability check or a saving throw, treat all its ability scores as 10 (+0). If the mending spell is cast on it, it regains 2d6 hit points. It disappears if it is reduced to 0 hit points or after 1 hour. You can dismiss it early as an action.

When you create the cannon, you determine its appearance and whether it has legs. You also decide which type it is, choosing from the options on the Eldritch Cannons table. On each of your turns, you can take a bonus action to cause the cannon to activate if you are within 60 feet of it. As part of the same bonus action, you can direct the cannon to walk or climb up to 15 feet to an unoccupied space, provided it has legs.

Specialization Spells

Starting at 3rd level, you always have certain spells prepared after you reach particular levels in this class, as shown in the Specialization Spells table. These spells count as artificer spells for you, but they don't count against the number of artificer spells you prepare.

*** Found in Smug's Compendium of Changes. If your GM does not allow the use of Firearms, you instead learn Cordon of Arrows

Tool Proficency

When you adopt this specialization at 3rd level, you gain proficiency with smith's tools. If you already have this proficiency, you gain proficiency with one other type of artisan's tools of your choice.

If your GM allows the use of Firearms, you instead gain proficiency with Gunsmith's Tools (SCoC).

Battle Ready

When you reach 3rd level, your combat training and your experiments with magic have paid off in two ways:

• You gain proficiency with martial weapons.
• When you attack with a magic weapon, you can use your Intelligence modifier, instead of Strength or Dexterity modifier, for the attack and damage rolls.

Steel Defender

By 3rd level, your tinkering has borne you a faithful companion, a steel defender. It is friendly to you and your companions, and it obeys your commands. See this creature's game statistics in the steel defender stat block, which uses your proficiency bonus (PB) in several places. You determine the creature's appearance and whether it has two legs or four; your choice has no effect on its game statistics.

In combat, the defender 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 defender can take any action of its choice, not just Dodge.

If the mending spell is cast on it, it regains 2d6 hit points. If it has died within the last hour, you can use your smith's tools as an action to revive it, provided you are within 5 feet of it and you expend a spell slot of 1st level or higher. The steel defender returns to life after 1 minute with all its hit points restored.

At the end of a long rest, you can create a new steel defender if you have your smith's tools with you. If you already have a steel defender from this feature, the first one immediately perishes. The defender also perishes if you die.

Extra Attack

Starting at 5th level, you can attack twice, instead of once, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn. Moreover, you can cast one of your cantrips in place of one of those attacks.

Arcane Jolt

At 9th level, you learn new ways to channel arcane energy to harm or heal. When either you hit a target with a magic weapon attack or your steel defender hits a target, you can channel magical energy through the strike to create one of the following effects:

• The target takes an extra 2d6 force damage.
• 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.

Arcane Propulsion Armor

Prerequisite: 14th level, A suit of armor that lacks a magical bonus to armor class

The wearer of this armor gains these benefits:

• The wearer's walking speed increases by 5 feet.
• The armor includes gauntlets, each of which is a magic melee weapon that can be wielded only when the hand is holding nothing. The wearer is proficient with the gauntlets, and each one deals 1d8 force damage on a hit and has the thrown property, with a normal range of 20 feet and a long range of 60 feet. When thrown, the gauntlet detaches and flies at the attack's target, then immediately returns to the wearer and reattaches.
• The armor can't be removed against the wearer's will.
• If the wearer is missing any limbs, the armor replaces those limbs—hands, arms, feet, legs, or similar appendages. The replacements function identically to the body parts they replace.

Enhanced Defense

Prerequisite: A suit of armor or a shield that lacks a magical bonus to armor class

A creature gains a +1 bonus to Armor Class while wearing (armor) or wielding (shield) the infused item.

The bonus increases to +2 when you reach 10th level in this class.

Enhanced Arcane Focus

Prerequisite: A rod, staff, or wand that lacks a magical bonus to spell attack rolls or spell save DC (requires attunement)

While holding this item, a creature gains a +1 bonus to spell attack rolls. In addition, the creature ignores half cover when making a spell attack.

The bonus increases to +2 when you reach 10th level in this class.

Enhanced Weapon

Prerequisite: A weapon that lacks a magical bonus to attack or damage rolls

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

The bonus increases to +2 when you reach 10th level in this class.

Radiant Weapon

Prerequisite: 6th level, A weapon that lacks a magical bonus to attack or damage rolls

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

Prerequisite: A weapon with the ammunition property that lacks a magical bonus to attack or damage rolls (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 the weapon lacks ammunition, it produces its own, automatically creating one piece of magic ammunition when the wielder makes a ranged attack with it. The ammunition created by the weapon vanishes the instant after it hits or misses a target.

Arcane Translator

Prerequisite: 6th level, a helmet (requires attunement)

A creature wearing this helm can read all writing and understand all spoken language, but cannot write or speak any language it does not already know.

Arcane Visor

Prerequisite: a helmet (requires attunement)

A creature wearing this helm can cast the Detect Magic spell at will.

A creature wearing this can cast Identify without expending a spell slot or material components. It can't do so again until it finishes a long rest unless it expends a 1st-level spell slot to do so.

Defender's Saddle

Prerequisites: 6th level, Battle Smith

Your Steel Defender counts as Large for the purpose of being a mount for you.

Enhanced Alchemy Flasks

Prerequisites: 6th level, Alchemist Specialization

When you prepare your elixirs at the end of a long rest, you may roll 2d6 for each elixir you make and choose whichever of the two results you want.

Enhanced Movement

Prerequisites: 6th level, Artillerist Specialization

Your Eldritch Cannon is premanently under the effects of the Spider Climb spell.

Flamethrower

Prerequisite: N/A

You may cast the Burning Hands spell as an artificer spell without material components. You can't do so again until you finish a long rest unless you expend a 1st-level spell slot to do so.

Reactive Armor

Prerequisites: 6th level, Armorer Specialization

When you take damage from a Melee Attack, you can use your reaction to cause the attacker to take damage equal to that dealt by the weapon associated with your current armor model; 1d8 Thunder for Guardian, 1d6 Lightning for Infiltrator.

You may use this infusion a number of times equal to your Proficiency Bonus, and regain all uses at the end of a Long Rest.

Web Shooter

Prerequisite: 6th level

You may cast the Web spell as an artificer spell without material components. You can't do so again until you finish a long rest unless you expend a 2nd-level spell slot to do so.

Art (In Order)

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• Reza Ilysa
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• mucuzi
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1.01

• Armorer's Armor can now be donned or doffed as a Bonus Action, bringing it in line with Armoured Hero's Transformation.

1.02

• Alchemist's elixirs now scale with higher levels.
• Replicate Magic Item has a revised version. It now allows you to create any Magic Item of a specific tier based on your Artificer level with a laundry list of restrictions to prevent it being too powerful.

1.03

• Fixed Formatting.
• Added art for Alchemist.

1.04

• Can now choose any three skills instead of two from a list.

1.05

• New Feature - Master of Artifice