The Alchemist

A dwarf gleefully watches as his chimera tears through the pack of kobolds before throwing his own explosive into the pack, its content primed to flush them out of their tunnels.

A human carefully measures out the distilled droplets that will be mixed into the token her companions will use to cross the ocean, the small talisman fitting within her palm, turning into a great ship when it touches water.

A weakly orc proves that there is more than one path to strength as he downs a concoction giving him the strength to push over a tree to form a bridge over a canyon.

Whether secreted away in a smoky basement laboratory or gleefully experimenting in a well respected school of magic, the alchemist is first and foremost a scientist who seeks to unravel the very nature of creation, dissecting it and then putting it together as talismans, potions or life itself.

Each alchemist's field of research allows them to express their soul, while the magnum opus that they'll one day create is as much a tool as it is a statement and a work of art.

Researchers and craftsmen of creation

To be an alchemist is to understand the forces and components that make up the material plane and to use this understanding to manipulate and combine them into new matter with wondrous effects, bound together with a little bit of the alchemist's own Viriditas.

The life force that resides in all things, according to most alchemist's model to explain creation and according to the same model are tied to the Anima Mundi, the living soul of all of creation. But to the layman, alchemy is something that happens in a lab but even the most novice alchemist can swiftly whip up potent concoctions and talismans in the field with scrounged up ingredients.

Alchemists learn early that to understand everything is simply too much and find an aspect that speaks to them or choose the most effective means of achieving their goals, focusing their research on a specific field.

Some focus on the fundamentals, others on the crafting of life and some on how to create very big explosions.

Magnum Opus

For the vast majority of its practitioners research into alchemy eventually stops or at least slows down when they master the art enough to make a living, becoming the potion peddlers, court doctors and village wisemen of the world. For the driven though, their art allows them to unlock deeper secrets of how aspects of the world works, allowing them to create a grand work, be it for the sake of science, as a powerful means to a goal or to make a statement of what they believe is the ideal form.

They are the ones often found in delving into dungeons for ancient secrets, traveling the world to gather unknown materials or thwarting invasions before the horde can reach their labs and ruin their carefully set up experiments.

For some, that drive will allow them to set foot in the garden of gods. Bringing true sentience to weapons, crystallize their life philosophy into a physical form or grasp a resemblance of the first primordal spark.

Creating an Alchemist

When creating an alchemist character, consider why you decided to study the art. Is it for the science itself, the tools it provides or perhaps simply to live up to parental expectations? Talk to your DM about what role and place alchemy has in the campaigns society. It might be a lost art or taught side by side with magic in academies. How did you learn to perform alchemy? In class, under an apprenticeship or maybe just self-taught from dusty old books found in your family's attic? What led you to take up the adventuring life? Did you learn all you could from studying and sought to expand your knowledge through implementation? Were your studies simply a tool, something to be used to achieve your goals, the knowledge a means to an end? Perhaps you were at risk of failing your classes and your teacher decided that life would be a better teacher to than books ever could be. Or did you stumble upon rumors of hidden knowledge that you're now seeking out with little care for why it became hidden in the first place?

Class Features

As an alchemist, you gain the following class features.

Alchemy Ability

Intelligence is your Alchemy ability for your Implement's potency, since the power of your Implements relies on your understanding of how to combine the ingredients. You use your Intelligence whenever an Implement refers to your alchemy ability. In addition. you use your Intelligence modifier when setting the saving throw DC for an Implement you use and when making an attack roll with one.

Learning new Recipes after the first Level

Each time you gain an Alchemist level, you can add one Implement of your choice to your recipe book. The Implement's reagent cost cannot exceed your Max Reagent Cost as shown on the Alchemist table. On your adventures, you might find instruction for other Implement that you can add to your recipe book (see the “Your recipe book” sidebar).

Ingredients gathering

The basis of alchemy is to gather the right ingredients for your Implements. During a short rest you can spend time gathering ingredients to prepare reagents, allowing you to recover a number of reagents point equal to your alchemist level.

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Alchemical Research

Starting at 2nd level, you learn how to further improve on basic Implements, allowing you to tailor them to your needs. When you reach this level and every level after it, you gain 3 research points. You can choose Implements you know when you level up and assign traits to them, paying the corresponding research point cost. Researched traits are permanently known and spent research points can not be recovered in any way.

A trait that has been researched for an Implement can be applied to it when you prepare it, increasing the reagent cost as listed in the trait description and adding the traits effect to the implement. You have to spend research points for each implement that uses a trait, even if the name of the trait is shared by several implements. The total reagent cost of a prepared Implement with applied traits cannot exceed the value in the Max Reagent Cost column on the alchemist table. You can prepare more than one of the same Implement (with various or no traits at all), each variant counting against your limit for how many Implements you can prepare.

Research points not spent during level up, can be spent during downtime, taking 1 week for each research point payed for the trait you wish to learn. You must spend at least 8 hours each day that you spend on researching the trait, though they do not have to be consecutive.

Field of research

At 3rd level, you begin your path down the field within alchemy that you will dedicate most of your research to, gaining new knowledge in the field of your choice, chosen from the list of available fields of research. Your choice grants you features at 3rd level and again at 6th, 10th and at 14th level.

Ability Score Improvement

When you reach 4th level, and again at 8th, 12th, 16th and 19th 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.

Journeyman Alchemist

Starting at 5th level, you learn how to give your implements lasting potency. Any implements that you can prepare can now also be crafted as a single use magical item, with a cost of 25 gp per reagent point cost and 2 days of work per reagent point. Implement with 0 reagent point cost, takes 1 day. You must spend at least 8 hours each day that you spend on crafting the implement, though they do not have to be consecutive.

The magical items crafted with this feature can be used by others. Tokens and Charms made in this way can be activated by others, using a keyword you provide.

The cost does not include the cost, if any, to gain access of an alchemy lab for the purpose and the workday assumes a fully equipped lab as determined at the DMs' discretion.

Improvised Alchemy

At 7th level, you learn how to mix in enhancing agents into your prepared implements when you use them in a swift, if inefficient process. As a bonus action you can expend 2 reagent point to apply a trait you have researched to a single use of the corresponding implement you have prepared. The total reagent cost may not exceed your normal limit. The chosen implement must be used before the end of your next turn to gain the benefit of the trait.

Magnum Opus, Stage Negredo

Beginning at 11th level, you start the process to craft your magnum opus, an object of great power matching your vision, which starts it's existence in the chaotic Negredo state. Choose a Magnum Opus from the available options and apply two of the available Negredo traits available of your choice to your Magnum Opus. You may remove a Negredo Trait and replace it with another Negredo Trait each time you level up.

You always know the direction to your Magnum Opus if you're more than 100 feet away from it, and may craft a new one if it is destroyed or you can not recover your current one, in a process that takes 1 week. You must spend at least 8 hours each day that you spend on crafting the implement, though they do not have to be consecutive. A lost Magnum Opus loses all power, upon the creation of a replacement.

Magnum Opus, Stage Albedo

At 15th level, Your Magnum Opus enters the purified Albedo State and grants you even greater power. Apply one of the available Albedo traits of your choice to your Magnum Opus. You may remove an Albedo Trait and replace it with another Albedo Trait each time you level up.

Magnum Opus, Stage Citrinitas

At 18th level, Your magnum opus enters the transformative Citrinitas State. Apply one of the available Citrinitas traits of your choice to your Magnum Opus. You may remove a Citrinitas Trait and replace it with another Citrinitas Trait each time you level up.

Magnum Opus, Stage Rubedo

When you reach 20th level, Your Magnum Opus enters the final Rubedo State. Apply one of the available Rubedo traits of your choice to your chosen Magnum Opus.

Multiclassing and the Alchemist

If your group uses the optional multiclassing rule, here's what you need to know if you choose to take a level in the Alchemist class.

Ability Score Minimum. As a multiclass character, you must have at least a 13 in both Intelligence and Constitution to take a level in this class, or to take a level in another class if you are already an Alchemist.

Proficiencies. If alchemist isn't your initial class, here are the proficiencies you gain when you take your first level as a alchemist: simple weapons, alchemist tool.

Field of Animus Materia

Alchemists who focus their studies on Animus Materia unlock the secret behind bestowing motion and intelligence to matter. At first, their research manifests in minor objects moving on their own, soon living armaments aid them in battle until finally their potions start resembling primordial life.

Field of Synthesis

Synthesis, along with the gathering of the right ingredients, is the very foundation of alchemy and those who focus on this basis gain a subtle but important understanding of it, that can be widely applied. Alchemists who study the core of the craft learn how to make the most of their alchemical Implements, squeezing every bit of power out of them and stabilizing their potential.

Universal Implement

At 14th level, you learn how to craft an implement that stays in an ever changing unstable state, its true form not fixed until the moment it is used. When you finish a long rest, you can prepare an universal Implement by choosing its type from Grenade, Potion, Charm, Token or Oil. As a bonus action you can turn an universal Implement into any Implement of the chosen type that is in your recipe book with a reagent cost no higher than 5 and you can use it as if you had prepared it. You can only have one universal Implement of each type prepared at a time and each one counts as prepared implement, even if it's exact property have not been decided yet.

The Alchemist by William Fettes Douglas

Field of Phlogiston

"Noooo, Alchemy is an esoteric art and expression of self. You can't just solve everything with explosives!"

"Haha. Problems go KABOOOOM!"

Advanced explosives

At 14th level, your mastery of your craft allows you to create complex explosives others dare not dream off. You reduce the reagent cost of a grenade Implement by 2 whenever you apply at least 1 trait to it.

This cannot reduce the cost to less than the Implement's base cost. For example, a grenade Implement with a base cost of 3 reagent points with a trait that raises its reagent point cost by 1 will still cost 3 reagent points to use.

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Field of Alchemical Archery

Few epitomize alchemy as a tool to attain a means, as those who take up the bow and the arrow and learn how to craft implements in the form of arrows, allowing a precise and safe delivery of both harm and healing over a distance. Many of them a practical lot who cares little for esoteric philosophy who still somehow have a lot to say on how alchemy should be used.

Aid from afar.

At 14th level, your training in archery and alchemy allows you to provide unparalleled support from afar. When a potion with the "Robust container" trait lands in a creature's space, that creature can use its reaction to pick up the potion and consume it.

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Additionally, you can apply the "Warhead" trait to any grenade Implement. If the Implement does not require an alchemy attack roll, you can designate a point of impact you can see within 120 feet of you, in which case the arrows damage is not added to the damage, even if you designate a space with a creature.

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Field of Abiogenesis

As a student of Abiogenesis, you seeks to unlock the secret behind creating life from matter and shaping it to your desire. The chimera that you craft as much a companion as it is a living laboratory and perhaps a vision of perfection made flesh and as you find a purpose for it's existence, perhaps you'll also find a purpose for your existence.

Magnum Opus

Philosopher's Stone

A choice is the transmutation of the self.

It is an act that as much are defined by who you are

As it is defined by who it makes you.

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The Philosopher's Stone represents your belief on how alchemy should be approached and perhaps a reflection of how life itself should be approached, crystallized into a physical shape and aiding you in your craft. You might choose to have it make your implements last for longer, representing a belief in steady progress. You could choose to have it make your implement more impactful, similar to your own forceful approach to problems. Or maybe all that matters is sheer optimization, which also speaks volume of who you are.

Your Philosopher's Stone might resemble an uncut gem with its colour representing its stage, be part of a valuable necklace or the pommel stone of your staff. It grants you the following benefits, as long it is in your possession.

• You recover additional reagent points during a short rest equal to your intelligence modifier (minimum of 1).
• You may prepare an additional implement. If you lose possession of your Philosopher's Stone, then remove the implement with the highest reagent cost from your prepared list.

At certain levels, you choose additional traits for your Philosopher's Stone, applying the chosen effect as longs as it is in your possession.

Negredo Trait

• A coin a day: You can turn one rock into a piece of silver. Once you use this feature, you can’t use it again until you finish a long rest.
• Illuminating: You can cause your Philosopher's Stone to shed bright light in a 30-foot radius and dim light for an additional 30 feet (requiring no action).
• Ageless: While the Philosopher's Stone is in your possession, you no longer age.
• Dowsing Stone: You can spend an action and use your Philosopher's Stone to determine the direction of north or the direction of a place you have visited, if it's within 10 miles of your current location.

Albedo Trait

• Stoicheion Element: At the end of a short or long rest, you can change the type of any Implement you have prepared that does fire, lightning, acid, or cold damage to one of the four mentioned.
• Potion from a Stone: When you choose this trait, decide on a Potion Implement that you can prepare with a max reagent cost of 4. You can use that implement without having it prepared and without spending reagent points. Once you use this Implement this way, you can’t do so again until you finish a short rest. You may change the Implement in a process that takes 1 week. You must spend at least 8 hours each day that you spend on modifying your Philosopher's Stone, though they do not have to be consecutive.
• Lucky Charm: When you are forced to make a saving throw you can use your reaction to gain advantage on the saving throw. Once you use this feature, you can't do so again until you finish a long rest, unless you use your bonus action to expend 5 reagent points.

Citrinitas Trait

• Extended Alchemy: Reduce the Reagent cost of any prepared implement by 1 if the implement has the Long Lasting or the Extended trait applied to it.
• Empowered Alchemy: Reduce the Reagent cost of any prepared implement by 1, if the implement has the Empowered trait applied to it more than 1 time.
• Synergetic Alchemy: Reduce the Reagent cost of a prepared implement by 1, if the implement has two different traits applied, that increase reagent cost.

Rubedo Trait

• Prima Materia: You gain a number of additional reagent points equal to your alchemist level.
• Overcharged implement: The Max Reagent Cost of your Implements increases by 1
• Cogito, ergo id est: You can choose an Implement you know and treat one of the available traits as if you had researched it for the purpose of preparing implements, increasing the reagent cost as usual. You can change your choice to a different Implement or trait at the end of a short rest.

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Fuel of the Fire of Creation.

"Prometheus they say brought god's fire down to man

And we've caught it, tamed it, trained it since our history began

Now we're going back to Heaven just to look Him in the eye

And there's a thunder 'cross the land and a fire in the sky."

"Fire in the sky" by Jordin Kare.

In the beginning there was only darkness. Then came fire, scraping away at the edges of shadows and since then, man's existence has been a continued struggle to spread the first fire to banish all darkness. Of course, there are those alchemist who care little for philosophy and for them the attempt to create a fuel that can bring forth a resemblance of the first great spark is merely to get a powerful means to an end.

The fuel a potent ingredients with a multitude of properties to burn away impurity, hold back the cold and light up in the dark. And in the hand of many alchemist, a key ingredient to create very explosive concoction. Your fuel for the fire of creation might take the form of black powder kept in an animal horn that you with regularity refill, a carefully padded bottle with a slow moving liquid that never seems to run dry, or a wood-like substance that regrows when you whittle tinder from it. As long as it is in your possession, it grants you the following benefits:

• You can add your Intelligence modifier to the damage of any grenade type implements you have prepared.
• When you use a grenade or potion Implement that does damage, you can change its type to fire.

At certain levels, you get to choose traits for the fuel to the fire of Creation, applying the chosen effect while it is in your possession.

Sentient Weapon

"The time one is alive, is merely a part of ones entire existence."

It is not the end that matters but rather the struggle. While an alchemist may find peace with themselves, knowing that the struggle will not be over even after they are gone, they might not be content with not leaving something behind for those who follow. This Magnum Opus is a means of continuing your vision even after you are gone and a powerful companion and weapon while you're still around.

A Sentient Weapon can take the shape of a simple, anonymous sword that merely cuts very well, an elaborated staff covered in jewelry worth a duchy or a book from which daggers materialize to strike your foes.

To create your Sentient Weapon, first choose one of the following weapon stat blocks and choose either Piercing, Slashing or Bludgeoning for its damage type.

Next, decide upon it's mental state by assigning 15, 14 and 11 to Intelligence, Wisdom and Charisma and assign proficiency in one of the following: Persuasion, Intimidation or Deception. Lastly, choose it's alignment and Special Purpose.

A Sentient Weapon can communicate by transmitting emotions to you or its wielder and can see and hear up to 30 feet. Its proficiency bonus is +2 or equal to it's wielder, whichever is highest. It counts as a magical weapon for the purpose of overcoming resistance and immunity. You are considered proficient with your Sentient Weapon and can lend it to others to use, for as long as you are willing. Creatures other than you must attune to it to gain its benefits.

Additionally, you gain the following benefits while the Sentient Weapon is in your possession:

• You gain +5 bonus on your passive perception.
• You can use an action and spend reagent points to animate it for 1 minute, giving it a flying speed of 30 feet, additional damage equal to your proficiency bonus and allowing you to use a bonus action to make an Alchemy Attack against a target within its range. If the weapon has the two-handed property you spend 6 reagent points, otherwise you spend 3 reagent points to use this feature.

At certain levels, you get to choose traits for your Sentient Weapon, applying the chosen effect immediately.

Citrinitas Trait

In addition to the chosen trait, the Sentient Weapon now acts a +2 weapon.

• Alchemical Power: Choose a grenade implement you can prepare with a max reagent cost of 5. As a reaction to a hit with the Sentient Weapon, the wielder can activate the effect of the grenade implement as if they had used the grenade implement targeting the hit creature. The wielder is immune to the grenade's effect. If the Sentient Weapon is animated, the effect is cast from its location. Once this feature is used twice, it can't be used again until the wielder finishes a short rest. The Intelligence score of the Sentient Weapon also increases by 1.
• Enhancing Weapon: Choose a potion implement you can prepare with a duration and a max reagent cost of 5. As a bonus action, the wielder can bestows the implements effect upon themselves or a willing creature next to them. If the Sentient Weapon is animated, then it can bestow the implements effect upon a willing creature next to it as a bonus action. If Sentient Weapon is animated, the effect is cast from its location. Once this feature is used twice, it can't be used again until the wielder finishes a short rest. The Wisdom score of the Sentient Weapon also increases by 1.
• Channelizing power: Choose a charm implement you can prepare with a max reagent cost of 5. The wielder can activate the effect of the charm implement as an action or as a reaction to a hit with the Sentient Weapon. If Sentient Weapon is animated, the effect is cast from its location. Once this feature is used twice, it can't be used again until the wielder finishes a short rest. The Charisma score of the Sentient Weapon also increases by 1.

Rubedo Trait

In addition to the chosen trait, the Sentient Weapon now acts a +3 weapon.

• Alchemical Might: Choose a grenade implement you can prepare with a max reagent cost of 9. As a bonus action, the wielder of the Sentient Weapon can launch a bolt of energy, as if they had used the chosen implement. If the weapon is animated, then the bolt is launched from the weapon's location. Once this feature is used, it can't be used again until the wielder finishes a short rest. The Intelligence score of the Sentient Weapon also increases by 1.
• Empowering Weapon: Choose a potion implement you can prepare with a duration and a max reagent cost of 9. As a reaction to rolling initiative, the wielder can bestow the implements effect upon themselves or a willing creature within 5ft of them. If the Sentient Weapon is animated, it can bestow the implement's effect upon a willing creature within 5ft of it. Once this feature is used, it can't be used again until the wielder finishes a short rest. The Wisdom score of the Sentient Weapon also increases by 1.
• Channelizing Might: Choose a charm implement you can prepare with a max reagent cost of 9. The wielder can activate the effect of the charm implement as an action or as a reaction to a hit with the Sentient Weapon. If the Sentient Weapon is animated, the effect is cast from its location. Once this feature is used, it can't be used again until the wielder finishes a short rest. The Charisma score of the Sentient Weapon also increases by 1.

The Laws of Alchemy

Applicable traits:

• Flash freeze. A targeted water surface freezes in a 10 feet radius and becomes solid difficult terrain for 1 minute.

Reagent Cost Increase: 0

Research cost to unlock: 1

• Chilling. A creature hit by the grenade, have its speed is reduced by 10 feet until the start of your next turn.

Reagent Cost Increase: 0

Research cost to unlock: 1

• Slippery. The ground within the 5 feet radius of the target becomes difficult terrain until the start of your next turn. A creature standing in this area when it appears or moves onto it for the first time on its turn must succeed on a Dexterity saving throw or fall prone.

Reagent Cost Increase: 1

Research cost to unlock: 1

Applicable traits:

• Life Finder You can now specify a creature type and size or a specific type of creature and size, for the rod to point toward. For example large aberration, or small griffon

Reagent Cost Increase: 1

Research cost to unlock: 1

• Way finder. You can now specify a location that you're familiar with, if it's within range.

Reagent Cost Increase: 1

Research cost to unlock: 1

• Expanded: The range increases with an additional 1 mile. This trait can be taken multiple times.

Reagent Cost Increase: See "Stacking Trait Reagent Cost increase" table.

Research cost to unlock: 0

Applicable traits:

• Enlarged the radius of the bright light and dim light increases with an additional 10 feet. The trait can be taken multiple times.

Reagent Cost Increase: See "Stacking Trait Reagent Cost increase" table.

Research cost to unlock: 0

• Burning out You can spend an action to have the gem burn itself out with a sudden powerful flash. All creatures within the bright light except for yourself, must make a dexterity saving throw to avert their eyes. On a failed save, they are blinded until the end of your next turn. The gem immediately crumble to dust afterward.

Reagent Cost Increase: 2

Research cost to unlock: 1

• Image of light: You can spend an action to have the gem create the image of an object, a creature, or some other visible phenomenon that is no larger than a 15-foot cube. The gem most be within the cube. The image is purely visual; it isn't accompanied by sound, smell, or other sensory effects and can not move.

Physical interaction with the image reveals it to be an illusion, because things can pass through it. A creature that uses its action to examine the image can determine that it is an illusion with a successful Intelligence (Investigation) check against your spell save DC. If a creature discerns the illusion for what it is, the creature can see through the image.

Reagent Cost Increase: 0

Research cost to unlock: 1

Applicable traits:

• Purifying You can now use poisonous or spoiled raw meat and vegetable, and get edible ration.

Reagent Cost Increase: 1.

Research cost to unlock: 1.

• Invigorating The ration made by the Mystery Pot grants temporary hit points when consumed, equal to your Int bonus + your Proficiency Bonus, that last until the end of your next long rest.

Reagent Cost Increase: 1.

Research cost to unlock: 1.

Applicable traits:

• Corrosive. A non-magical object hit by this implement takes the same damage it took again at the start of its next turn if it isn’t being worn or carried.

Reagent Cost Increase: 0

Research cost to unlock: 1

Walking Bag

[Type:Token][Base Reagent cost: 2]

Casting time: 1 minute

Range: 30 feet

Duration: 1 hour

This bag shaped token grows to small size when used and can hold up to 500 pounds for its duration. If more weight is placed in it, the bag ruptures, ending the duration, and everything in the bag spills out to the ground. The Bag is immobile while you are within 20 feet of it. If you move more than 20 feet away from it, the bag follows you so that it remains within 20 feet of you. It can move across uneven terrain, up or down stairs, slopes and the like, but it can’t cross any obstacles or elevation change requiring hands. If you move more than 100 feet from the bag (typically because it can’t move around an obstacle to follow you), it topples over and spills it content, ending it's duration.

Sleeping Gas

[Type:Grenade][Base Reagent cost: 2]

Casting time: 1 minute

Range: 30 feet

Duration: 1 Minute

This grenade sends creatures into a magical slumber. Roll 5d8; the total is how many hit points of creatures this spell can affect. Creatures within 20 feet of a point you choose within range are affected in ascending order of their current hit points (ignoring unconscious creatures). Starting with the creature that has the lowest current hit points, each creature affected by this spell falls unconscious until the spell ends, the sleeper takes damage, or someone uses an action to shake or slap the sleeper awake. Subtract each creature’s hit points from the total before moving on to the creature with the next lowest hit points. A creature’s hit points must be equal to or less than the remaining total for that creature to be affected. Undead and creatures immune to being charmed aren’t affected by this spell.

Applicable traits:

• Long lasting. The recipe's effect last an additional hour. The trait can be taken multiple times.

Reagent Cost Increase: See "Stacking Trait Reagent Cost increase" table.

Research cost to unlock: 0

• Enlarged. The clouds radius extend an additional 60 feet radius. The trait can be taken multiple times.

Reagent Cost Increase: See "Stacking Trait Reagent Cost increase" table.

Research cost to unlock: 0

• Torrential. The clouds unleash a torrential rain, blocking sight like heavy fog for any creature below it.

Reagent Cost Increase: 1

Research cost to unlock: 1

Applicable traits:

• Enlarging. You also gain the benefits of the Enlarge effect of the "Enlarge / Reduce spell"

Reagent Cost Increase: 1

Research cost to unlock: 1

• Strengthening. Your Strength also becomes 21 for the duration of the recipe.

Reagent Cost Increase: 8

Research cost to unlock: 3

Applicable traits:

• Long lasting. The potion's effect last an additional hour. The trait can be taken multiple times.

Reagent Cost Increase: See "Stacking Trait Reagent Cost increase" table.

Research cost to unlock: 1

• Dolphin's grace. You also gain a swim speed of 30 feet for the duration of the potion.

Reagent Cost Increase: 1

Research cost to unlock: 1

• Low Impact. The effects of the potion is not overwritten by the effect of other potions with a duration.

Reagent Cost Increase: 1

Research cost to unlock: 1

Applicable traits:

• Lightning reflex. You gains a +2 bonus to AC, and has advantage on Dexterity saving throws for the potions duration.

Reagent Cost Increase: 2

Research cost to unlock: 2

• Lightning Speed. You also gains an additional action on each of your turns for the potions duration. That action can be used only to take the Attack (one weapon attack only), Dash, Disengage, Hide, or Use an Object action.

Reagent Cost Increase: 3

Research cost to unlock: 3

• Accelerated. You also deal an additional 2d6 damage, when you hit with a melee attack or a thrown ranged attack for the potions duration if you have moved at least 10 feet in a straight line before performing the attack.

Reagent Cost Increase: 2

Research cost to unlock: 2

Applicable traits:

• Spicy You can exhale fire one additional time. The trait can be taken multiple times.

Reagent Cost Increase: See "Stacking Trait Reagent Cost increase" table.

Research cost to unlock: 1

• Blast furnace: The fire now affects everybody in a 5 feet wide and 30 feet long line.

Reagent Cost Increase: 1

Research cost to unlock: 1

• Curving Flame.: You can target a creature, even if other creatures are in between you and the target. If the potion have the Blast Furnace trait, then you can choose which creatures in the line is affected.

Reagent Cost Increase: 1

Research cost to unlock: 1

• Low Impact. The effects of the potion is not overwritten by the effect of other potions with a duration.

Reagent Cost Increase: 2

Research cost to unlock: 2

Applicable traits:

• Elemental Resistance For the duration, the willing creature you apply the oil to also has resistance to one damage type of your choice, chosen when you apply the oil: acid, cold, fire, lightning, or thunder.

Reagent Cost Increase: 9

Research cost to unlock: 1

• Toughening The oil also grants temporary hit points equal to your level.

Reagent Cost Increase: 1

Research cost to unlock: 1

Applicable traits:

• Animated The statue now patrols in a small area, alerting you to anything within 100 feet of it's initial placement.

Reagent Cost Increase: 1

Research cost to unlock: 1

• Frightful howl All creatures who hears the alarm, except for those designated to not trigger the alarm, must make a wisdom save or become frightened by the statue until the end of their next turn if they fail.

Reagent Cost Increase: 1

Research cost to unlock: 1

• Aggressive: You can use a reaction after being alerted by the statue, or use a bonus action for up to 1 minute after you have been alerted, to command the statue to attack a creature within 30 feet of the statue. Roll an alchemy attack roll and on a hit, deal 3d8 magical piercing damage. The duration ends immediately afterward.

Reagent Cost Increase: 1

Research cost to unlock: 1

Applicable traits:

• Enduring oil All surfaces within the area of effect ignites and stay on fire for a number of rounds equal to your proficiency bonus. A creature other than you that starts in the fire, takes 1d8 fire damage.

Reagent Cost Increase: 1

Research cost to unlock: 1

• Phoenix Fire. You can choice a number of creatures equal to your proficiency bonus within the area of effec, to be immune to the fire damage from this implement and instead regain hit points equal to half of the damage. This works with the enduring oil trait.

Reagent Cost Increase: 2

Research cost to unlock: 2

• Empowered. The damage increases by an additional 1d8. This trait can be taken multiple times.

Reagent Cost Increase: See "Stacking Trait Reagent Cost increase" table.

Research cost to unlock: 0

Applicable traits:

• Recorded You can implant a message within the stone, that will be uttered when a trigger condition is met. the message must be 25 words or less, though it can be delivered over as long as 10 minutes but otherwise is delivered as if you had used the ventriloquest stone normally. Finally, determine the circumstance that will trigger the implement to deliver your message.

The triggering circumstance can be as general or as detailed as you like, though it must be based on visual or audible conditions that occur within 30 feet of the implement. For example, you could instruct the stone to speak when any creature moves within 30 feet of the object or when a silver bell rings within 30 feet of it.

The implements duration also chances to until dispelled.

Reagent Cost Increase: 1

Research cost to unlock: 1

• Sonic Boom The implement duration becomes instantaneous and produces a burst of thunderous sound that can be heard up to 100 feet away. Each creature in a 10 foot radius of where you threw the implement must make a constitution saving throw. A creature takes 3d6 thunder damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. If the implement also have the Recorded trait, then you can choice a condition for it to deal damage, but it's duration is reduced to 1 hour.

Reagent Cost Increase: 0

Research cost to unlock: 1

• Mimicry The implement can now produce any sound that you have heard, including voices.

Reagent Cost Increase: 1

Research cost to unlock: 1

Applicable traits:

• Nerve steeling You also gain advantage to Int, Wis and Cha saving throw while under the effect of the potion.

Reagent Cost Increase: 2

Research cost to unlock: 1

• Muddled Mind. Attempts to read your mind while under the effect of the potion, now only give garbled nonsense.

Reagent Cost Increase: 1

Research cost to unlock: 1

• Pain numbering: The first instance of damage you take in a round while under the effect of the potion, is reduced by your proficiency bonus.

Reagent Cost Increase: 2

Research cost to unlock: 1

Applicable traits:

• Rugged bark: The tree can be climbed as easily as a ladder.

Reagent Cost Increase: 1

Research cost to unlock: 1

• Up sized: The tree trunk increases by 5 feet diameter, it's height by 15 feet and it's branches by 5 feet in radius. The trait can be taken multiple times.

Reagent Cost Increase: See "Stacking Trait Reagent Cost increase" table.

Research cost to unlock: 1

• Long lasting: The tree last an additional hour. The trait can be taken multiple times.

Reagent Cost Increase: See "Stacking Trait Reagent Cost increase" table.

Research cost to unlock: 0

• Animated: You can use a bonus action to move the tree 20 feet and perform a melee attack with it using your INT modifier and proficiency bonus, dealing 2d6 + int modifier damage.

Reagent Cost Increase: 2

Research cost to unlock: 2

Applicable traits:

• Empowered Increase the number of dolls by one, each one can be giving a different task with the same bonus action. The trait can be taken multiple times.

Reagent Cost Increase: See "Stacking Trait Reagent Cost increase" table.

Research cost to unlock: 0

• Long lasting. The recipe's effect last an additional hour. The trait can be taken multiple times.

Reagent Cost Increase: See "Stacking Trait Reagent Cost increase" table.

Research cost to unlock: 0

• Semi-autonomous: The doll no longer falls inert when it's more than 60 feet away from you, and you can now give it a string of task that it to the best of it's ability will do, starting with the first task giving and moving on to the next when that is completed.

Reagent Cost Increase: 2

Research cost to unlock: 1

• Grenade holder.: You can now spend an action and pay the reagent cost of a prepared grenade implement to give it to the doll. The doll can now move 30 feet and can with a bonus action be commanded to move toward a location or a creature you can see, and it will then use the grenade (costing no action) when it is at at the designated location or next to the target. The doll makes a ranged alchemy attack using your stats if the grenade must be thrown, otherwise the point of impact is centered on the doll. You can also spend 1 minute giving a doll detailed instructions for where to go or who to seek out before it uses the grenade and it will attempt to follow your instructions to the best of it's ability.

Reagent Cost Increase: 0

Research cost to unlock: 2

Applicable traits:

• Specialized The potion's ability to remove diseases when you drink it can be removed to reduce the Reagent cost by 1.

Reagent Cost Increase: -1

Research cost to unlock: 0

• Antidote: The potion also removes the poison condition when you drink it.

Reagent Cost Increase: 1

Research cost to unlock: 1

• Sense restoring.: The potion also removes the blinded and deafened condition.

Reagent Cost Increase: 1

Research cost to unlock: 1

• Cramps removal: The potion also removes the paralyzed condition.

Reagent Cost Increase: 1

Research cost to unlock: 1

Applicable traits:

• Empowered: The Charm deals an additional 1d8 damage unless it's Creatures and Objects made of glass, in which case it deals an additional 2d8 damage. The trait can be taken multiple times.

Reagent Cost Increase: See "Stacking Trait Reagent Cost increase" table.

Research cost to unlock: 0

• Sympathetic resonance.: The Charm deals double damage to object and buildings.

Reagent Cost Increase: 1

Research cost to unlock: 1

• Focused: The Area of effect turns into a 30-foot line and damage increases by 1d8.

Reagent Cost Increase: 0

Research cost to unlock: 1

• ultrasound: The Charm can only be heard by creatures with Blindsight, if it's a blindsight that can nullified by being deafened, such as that of grimlocks and bats.

Reagent Cost Increase: 1

Research cost to unlock: 1

Applicable traits:

• Long Lasting The duration increases by 24 hour The trait can be taken multiple times.

Reagent Cost Increase: See "Stacking Trait Reagent Cost increase" table.

Research cost to unlock: 1

• Roc Shape: The token can instead of being used to deliver a message, be thrown 5 foot into the air, where it turns into an enormous, bird with the shape and colour of your choice. The bird has the Statistics of a roc, but it obeys your simple commands and can't Attack. It can carry up to 500 pounds while flying at its maximum speed (16 miles an hour for a maximum of 144 miles per day, with a one-hour rest for every 3 hours of flying), or 1,000 pounds at half that speed. The bird disappears after flying its maximum distance for a day or if it drops to 0 Hit Points. You can dismiss the bird as an action.

Reagent Cost Increase: 5

Research cost to unlock: 3

• Harassing.: The token can instead of being used to deliver a message, turn into a small bird with the statistics of an owl that acts under your command (costing no action) on your turn.

Reagent Cost Increase: 0

Research cost to unlock: 1

Applicable traits:

• Semi-autonomous. The blade automatically seeks out the nearest hostile creature on the turn it appear to make an attack and on each following turn repeats the action on your turn (no action required). You can spend a bonus action to manually direct the blade.

Reagent Cost Increase: 2

Research cost to unlock: 3

• Embued. The animated weapon gains a +1 magical bonus on damage and to-hit roll and count as magical for the purpose of overcoming damage resistance and immunity.

Reagent Cost Increase: 1

Research cost to unlock: 2

Part 5 | Implement List

• Steel Wind. You can spend an action to launch the blade with explosive force, sending it flying against a target within 120 feet, or within 240 feet if it also have the Speedy trait. Roll a Melee Alchemy attack as part of the action when it ends it's movement within 5 feet of the target and on a hit, increase the damage it deals for this action to 6d6 + your Alchemy ability modifier.

Reagent Cost Increase: 2

Research cost to unlock: 2

• Speedy. The summoned weapon can move up to 60 feet during your turn.

Reagent Cost Increase: 1

Research cost to unlock: 1

Stolchion Oil

[Type:Oil][Base Reagent cost: 3]

Casting time: 1 minute

Range: Touch

Duration: 1 hour

Choose either either fire, cold, acid or lightning element when you prepare this implement. The oil can coat one melee weapon, granting it an additional 1d6 bonus damage of the chosen element for the duration

Applicable traits:

• Arcane: The oil also makes the coated weapon count as magical for the purpose of overcoming resistance and immunity for it's duration.

Reagent Cost Increase: 1

Research cost to unlock: 1

• Long Lasting The duration increases by 1 hour. The trait can be taken multiple times.

Reagent Cost Increase: See "Stacking Trait Reagent Cost increase" table.

Research cost to unlock: 1

• Illuminating. The oil makes the weapon light up like a torch for the duration. The light can be suppressed by stoving away the weapon.

Reagent Cost Increase: 0

Research cost to unlock: 1

• Water repelling. The oil removes the disadvantage for fighting with a weapon underwater without swimming speed.

Reagent Cost Increase: 1

Research cost to unlock: 1

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Applicable traits:

• Self-maintained The implement can be released in the air and left floating in your space when you use it, continuing to apply it's effect even if you move away from the space. You must still spend a bonus action to maintain the effect of the charm.

Reagent Cost Increase: 1

Research cost to unlock: 1

• Passage wind: You can use minute to attune the charm to a ship and then toss the token up and suspend it 10 feet in the air behind the ships sails, where it will create a wind strong enough to fill the sails of one ship, increasing its speed by 5 miles per hour for 8 hours.

Reagent Cost Increase: 0

Research cost to unlock: 1

Applicable traits:

• Controlled buoyancy You can now stop your movement at any time, can choice not to get blown away by strong winds and can decide to not move after taking damage.

Reagent Cost Increase: 1

Research cost to unlock: 1

• Inner Warmth. You can spend a bonus action after drinking the potion to levitate up to 20 feet up or down and most afterward spend a bonus action every round to maintain this effect, including to stay still at the same elevation. The potion duration ends immediately at the end of any round, that you did not do so.

Reagent Cost Increase: 1

Research cost to unlock: 1

• Rolling with the blow: You gain resistance to Bludgeon, Piercing and Slashing damage, but still get pushed back as if you had taken the full damage. You do not benefit from this trait, if you used Controlled buoyancy to stand still after taking damage.

Reagent Cost Increase: 2

Research cost to unlock: 2

Applicable traits:

• Martial The Stone Ram no longer have disadvantage on its attack roll, nor does all attack roll against it have advantage.

Reagent Cost Increase: 1

Research cost to unlock: 1

• Giant. The Stone Ram now grows to large size and deals an additional 2d4 damage.

Reagent Cost Increase: 1

Research cost to unlock: 1

• Arcane: The Stone Ram's attacks now count as magical for the purpose of overcoming damage resistance.

Reagent Cost Increase: 1

Research cost to unlock: 1

Applicable traits:

• Empowered: The grenade deals an additional 1d6 lightning damage. The trait can be taken multiple times.

Reagent Cost Increase: See "Stacking Trait Reagent Cost increase" table.

Research cost to unlock: 0

• Jumping Bolt: The lightning no longer affect all creatures in a 20-foot-radius sphere centered on the point of impact and instead hits up to 3 creatures of your choice, which all must be within 20 foot of the point of impact or of each others. The number of affected creatures are chosen when the grenade is thrown.

Reagent Cost Increase: 0

Research cost to unlock: 1

• Magnetizing: Creatures wearing metal armor or made of metal that have taken damage from the grenade, reduces their movement speed by 15 feet until the end if your next turn.

Reagent Cost Increase: 1

Research cost to unlock: 1

Applicable traits:

• Empowered: The grenade deals an additional 1d6 magical piercing damage. The trait can be taken multiple times.

Reagent Cost Increase: See "Stacking Trait Reagent Cost increase" table.

Research cost to unlock: 0

• Remote Triggered: You can as a reaction make the grenade explode, dealing it's effect, when a creature moves into or within 20 feet of where it's been thrown, if the grenade have not yet blown up.

Reagent Cost Increase: 1

Research cost to unlock: 1

• Enlarged: The grenade's area of effect expands by an additional 5 feet radius. The trait can be taken multiple times.

Reagent Cost Increase: See "Stacking Trait Reagent Cost increase" table.

Research cost to unlock: 0

Applicable traits:

• Poisonous Creatures that fails their constitution save are also inflicted with the poison condition for 1 hour and can make a save to end the effect at the end of their turn.

Reagent Cost Increase: 1

Research cost to unlock: 1

• Flammable: The cloud can be ignited by any open flame, removing the cloud immediately. All creature within the cloud when it ignites must make a Dexterity Saving throw, taking 8d6 damage if they fail and half if they succeed.

Reagent Cost Increase: 1

Research cost to unlock: 1

• Enlarged. The clouds radius extends an additional 10 feet radius. The trait can be taken multiple times.

Reagent Cost Increase: See "Stacking Trait Reagent Cost increase" table.

Research cost to unlock: 0

Applicable traits:

• Empowered: The potion deals an additional 1d6 cold damage. The trait can be taken multiple times.

Reagent Cost Increase: See "Stacking Trait Reagent Cost increase" table.

Research cost to unlock: 0

• Slippery. The surface within the cone becomes difficult terrain for 1 minute. Each creature standing in its area when it appears must succeed on a Dexterity saving throw or fall prone. A creature that enters the area or ends its turn there must also succeed on a Dexterity saving throw or fall prone.

Reagent Cost Increase: 1

Research cost to unlock: 1

• Enlarged. The Cone's range extends an additional 10 feet radius. The trait can be taken multiple times.

Reagent Cost Increase: See "Stacking Trait Reagent Cost increase" table.

Research cost to unlock: 0

Applicable traits:

• Empowered: The grenade deals an additional 1d6 bludgeon damage. The trait can be taken multiple times.

Reagent Cost Increase: See "Stacking Trait Reagent Cost increase" table.

Research cost to unlock: 0

• Enlarged The cone extends for an additional 10 feet. The trait can be taken multiple times.

Reagent Cost Increase: See "Stacking Trait Reagent Cost increase" table.

Research cost to unlock: 0

• Water Jet: The cone is replaced with a 120 feet long and 10 feet wide line and the damage on a failed save is now 7d6 and half on a success. The Enlarged trait increases the length with an additional 20 feet.

Reagent Cost Increase: 0

Research cost to unlock: 1

Applicable traits:

• Expanding Sound Waves The cone is replaced with a 30 feet radius centered on you.

Reagent Cost Increase: 1

Research cost to unlock: 1

• Enlarged The cone extends for an additional 10 feet, or the sphere extends for an additional 5 feet radius if it also have the Expanding sound waves trait. The trait can be taken multiple times.

Reagent Cost Increase: See "Stacking Trait Reagent Cost increase" table.

Research cost to unlock: 0

• Selective hearing You can exclude a number of creatures within the charms area of effect, equal to your proficiency bonus.

Reagent Cost Increase: 1

Research cost to unlock: 1

Applicable traits:

• Long Lasting The duration last an additional hour. The trait can be taken multiple times.

Reagent Cost Increase: See "Stacking Trait Reagent Cost increase" table.

Research cost to unlock: 0

• Enlarged The bell can fit an additional 2 medium sized creature. The trait can be taken multiple times.

Reagent Cost Increase: See "Stacking Trait Reagent Cost increase" table.

Research cost to unlock: 0

• Sonic Monitoring You can now make a perception check to listen for any sound being made within 60 feet of the bell, when it is buried in the ground.

Reagent Cost Increase: 1

Research cost to unlock: 1

• Ambush You can now dismiss the bell as a reaction, when it exits the ground into an empty space where it can fit.

Reagent Cost Increase: 1

Research cost to unlock: 1

Applicable traits:

• Enlarged Increase the number of cubes of a section of stone that can be shaped increases by one. The trait can be taken multiple times. Taking the trait 4 times, also makes it possible to affect a Stone Object of size Large.

Reagent Cost Increase: See "Stacking Trait Reagent Cost increase" table.

Research cost to unlock: 1

• Precise: Finer Mechanical Details is now possible.

Reagent Cost Increase: 1

Research cost to unlock: 1

• Distant: The range increases by 30 feet. The trait can be taken multiple times.

Reagent Cost Increase: See "Stacking Trait Reagent Cost increase" table.

Research cost to unlock: 2

Applicable traits:

• Spell Storing The mirror now absorbs a spell that you successfully save against, allowing you to spend an action to cast the spell, using it's original DC. You must do so within 1 minute, or else the absorbed spell is wasted.

Reagent Cost Increase: 3

Research cost to unlock: 3

• Multi-faceted. The mirror now grants advantage against an additional spell, before it's duration ends. This trait can be taken multiple times.

Reagent Cost Increase: See "Stacking Trait Reagent Cost increase" table.

Research cost to unlock: 2

• Convex: The mirror now grants advantage against spells with an Area of Effect and on a succesfull save nullify the spell completely on you and an area within 5 feet of you. If the Mirror also have the Spell Storing trait, then the spell you cast have all of it's Area of Effect dimension reduced to 10 feet, if it normally exceeds it.

Reagent Cost Increase: 1

Research cost to unlock: 2

Applicable traits:

• Miniature village You can now create the illusion of creatures and structures within the cube, who'll act in a natural manner according to your specifications.

Reagent Cost Increase: 2

Research cost to unlock: 1

• Storm in a bottle. The weather within the cube can be changed to what is possible for the season and climate. You could for example not make it snow during the summer, but you could create a stormy downpour. The weather is not an illusion, but it's effect on the terrain could be. For example, snow will create the illusion of a snow-covered forest, even if the snow is actually piling up on a road.

Reagent Cost Increase: 2

Research cost to unlock: 1

• Expanded: The cube increases in size by an additional 150 feet on all dimensions. This trait can be taken multiple times.

Reagent Cost Increase: See "Stacking Trait Reagent Cost increase" table.

Research cost to unlock: 0

Applicable traits:

• Moisture manipulating You now also control the water in the air above the water and can make it rain or storm, or create a light or a heavy fog.

Reagent Cost Increase: 1

Research cost to unlock: 1

• Mud Mover: The flute now also works on other kind of liquids like quicksand or lava, but only on one type of liquid at a time and only on a cube up to 10 feet on each side if it's not water and the whirlpool effect most fit within the cube.

Reagent Cost Increase: 1

Research cost to unlock: 1

• Water Golem: You can now also use an action to form a water golem of any shape you desire, with the stats of a water elemental of CR 5. You can direct the water golem to obey your commands, with the same bonus action needed to maintain the golem. The golem disappear if you use an action to activate another effect of the flute, and if you later bring it back within the flutes duration, then it returns with the same amount of hitpoints it had when it disappeared. The flute shatters, ending it's duration immediately, if the Water Golem is reduced to 0 hitpoint.

Reagent Cost Increase: 1

Research cost to unlock: 3

Applicable traits:

• Empowered: The damage increases by an additional 1d10. This trait can be taken multiple times.

Reagent Cost Increase: See "Stacking Trait Reagent Cost increase" table.

Research cost to unlock: 0

Applicable traits:

• Expanding bands All medium sized or small creature within 5 feet of the target must take a Dexterity saving throw or be restrained in the same manner as the target. A successful Strength check to break the bands only frees one creature and the Implement isn't destroyed until every creature restrained by it is freed.

Reagent Cost Increase: 2

Research cost to unlock: 1

• Crushing Tightness: The Implement deals 3d6 bludgeon damage at the beginning of the turn of a restrained creature.

Reagent Cost Increase: 2

Research cost to unlock: 2

• Spherical Hold: The outer rings of the iron bands form a sphere causing the target to move 60 feet down a slope at the beginning of its turn if it is on one. The target can also be pushed with an Strength (Athletics) check by a creature within 5 feet of it, causing it to move 5 feet it for every point the result exceeds 8.

Reagent Cost Increase: 1

Research cost to unlock: 1

Applicable traits:

• Enlarged Increase the number of squares for the floor plan by one. This trait can be taken multiple times.

Reagent Cost Increase: See "Stacking Trait Reagent Cost increase" table.

Research cost to unlock: 1

• Long lasting. The Implement's effects last for an additional 24 hours. This also applies when you expend reagent points to extend the duration of an existing tent.

Reagent Cost Increase: 0

Research cost to unlock: 1

Applicable traits:

• Sustained fortitude You gain advantage on Constitution saving throws to avoid exhaustion for the potions duration, whenever you perform a Forced March.

Reagent Cost Increase: 1

Research cost to unlock: 1

• Invigorating. You can spend a number of Hit Dice equal to your proficiency bonus to regain hit points as part of the same action when you drink this potion.

Reagent Cost Increase: 2

Research cost to unlock: 2

• Fortifying: You gain advantage on your next Constitution saving throw made within the potions duration and after making one, you regain the advantage after a short rest.

Reagent Cost Increase: 2

Research cost to unlock: 2

Applicable traits:

• Lively The bell floats in the spot where you used it and rings again on it's own at the beginning of your next turn, healing up to 6 creatures of your choice in a 60 feet radius for 1d8 hitpoints. This trait can be taken multiple times, Each time making it repeat this effect for an additional round.

Reagent Cost Increase: See "Stacking Trait Reagent Cost increase" table.

Research cost to unlock: 0

• Pure Tone. A creature can immediately make a saving throw to attempt to end a negative effect, the first time they are healed by the bell.

Reagent Cost Increase: 3

Research cost to unlock: 2

• Uplifting tone: A creature healed by the bell on the turn you use it, adds 1d4 to all attack rolls ability checks and saving throw, until the end of their next turn.

Reagent Cost Increase: 3

Research cost to unlock: 2

Applicable traits:

• Distant Door The door no longer creates a passage, but instead connects to an existing door of your choice on the same plane, that have been prepared in advance. Preparing a door takes 1 year of work and 15000 gp worth of material to install the door on a flat surface. The work can be stopped and resumed and can also be done by other alchemist knowing this recipe. Connecting to an already prepared door another alchemist have made, requires having studied the door for a week.

Reagent Cost Increase: 0

Research cost to unlock: 1

• Camoflaged. The doors are disguised to match the surrounding surface and sound within the passage does not escape while the doors are closed. A creature can uses its action to attempt to find the door, using investigation or perception against your Alchemy save DC.

Reagent Cost Increase: 1

Research cost to unlock: 1

Feature: Journeyman Alchemist cost and crafting time.

The cost and crafting time for the Journeyman Alchemist feature have been balanced around the Xanathar's guide's number for crafting a healing potion. It might be prudent for individual tables to consider altering the numbers to fit their campaign if they use different numbers than the ones found in Xanathar's guide, or to alter cost and/or crafting time, based on how much gold the party have access to, or how much downtime is available.

Creating your own implements and traits

The base implement cost is balanced around an implements spell level equivalent if it was a spell, using the spell point variant rule. For example, if the effect of an implement would be considered the equivalent of a level 4 spell, then the Reagent Cost would be 6.

The alchemist recipe list intentionally does not get any implements which have a higher Base Reagent cost than 7, to balance the flexibility of what is essentially a spell point system, against access to high level spell equivalent, except through the application of traits that improves on the baseline effect of implement, or alters it in a thematically fitting way. Implements with the base effect of level 6 or level 7 spells equivalent could be considered, but level 8 and 9 spell level equivalent should be avoided.

Implements that grants the same effect as a spell that requires concentration should under normal circumstances not have access to the "Low Impact" trait, and have a spell level equivalent in Base Reagent cost that's 1 or 2 level higher than the equivalent spell or require the use of a bonus action to continue to keep it going. See "Potion of Alacrity" as an example, which have a Reagent Cost of 7 when it grants all of the features of a haste spell. This makes it the equivalent of a level 5 spells if using spell point system.

Implements that instantaneously deals damage, except for those with a base cost of 0, should do 1 die less damage than the equivalent spell level, to balance the flexibility of being able to use high cost implements more often. See the "Bottled Lightning" implement which is a fireball equivalent, that does 1d6 less damage at its base cost.

Field of Synthesis feature: Recycled Ingredients.

If an alchemist does not get significant use out of the recycled trait, then consider increasing the number of implements it can be applied to from 1, to Half of the Proficiency Bonus rounded down.

Sentient Weapon stat increase from traits

It should not break balance to have the Alchemist decide for themselves which trait is increased, when the Sentient weapon gains an Albedo, Citrinitas and Rubedo trait, instead of locking the stat increase to the chosen trait.

Alchemist and Adventuring days

The Alchemist is balanced around the concept of adventuring day, where there are 6-8 resource draining encounter between each long rest including, but not limited to combat encounters. They'll be slightly behind in a game where a long rest can be expected between each fight, and slightly ahead the more often short rest are available.

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