Alchemist

The study of mind-affecting alchemy is a delicate one, practiced only by a small number of alchemists, known as amorists. Often called "love doctors" by their clientele, amorists specialize in the brewing of potions that produce strong emotional responses in their drinkers. While love potions are by far their most popular product, amorists can also craft pungent pheromone bombs which can even soften the hearts of terrible monsters.

Starting at 6th level, you can add your Intelligence modifier to Charisma checks that you make.

Beginning at 10th level, you wear an aromatic mindaltering perfume which endears others to you. When a hostile creature within 5 feet of you makes an attack roll against you, it must make a Wisdom saving throw against you bomb save DC or have disadvantage on the attack roll. Once a creature succeeds on this saving throw, it is immune to this effect for 24 hours. Creatures which are immune to being charmed automatically succeed this save.

Starting at 18th level, during a long rest, you can spend 4 reagent dice to make an extremely potent potion of true love. This potion acts much like a philter of love, except that when you make the potion, you choose the creature the target regards as its true love, provided the target knows the creature or meets it within 24 hours of consuming the potion. Additionally, this effect lasts indefinitely, ended only when you make a new potion of true love, or the effect is removed with a remove curse spell or similar magic. When this potion's effects are ended on a target, it regards the creature it once loved with total disgust, and can never love that creature again.

Many practically-minded alchemists assume the role of the apothecary, for adventuring parties always needs a healer, and clerics might be in short supply. During their downtime, such alchemists have a marketable skill to depend upon for income and can do an indisputable amount of good with their knowledge. Apothecaries are constantly at work studying potions and herbology, preferring to learn how to mend the body, rather than destroy it.

Starting at 6th level, you've developed a chemical mechanism to deliver potions more effectively to distant allies. You can use your action to hurl a potion at a willing creature within 20 feet of you. The target gains the benefit as if they had drank the potion normally.

By 10th level, you've tested out your own tolerances to painkillers such that you can take a small measure regularly without ill effect. Whenever you drink a potion that has the effect of restoring your hit points (even if you already have all of your hit points), you gain advantage on saving throws until the end of your next turn.

Starting at 18th level, your medicines are potent enough to rouse the dead. By using your action to mix 500 gp worth of diamond dust into a potion of superior healing or a potion of supreme healing, you create a potion of raise dead. Pouring this concoction on a humanoid corpse that has been dead no longer than 10 days as an action causes the effect of the raise dead spell.

Research into alchemical alternatives to devices such as blasters or personal shield emitters is practiced by very few alchemists, more out of scientific curiosity rather than true innovative spirit. A select few, however, become true masters in energy manipulation. These so-called ionizers can bend most forms of energy to their will using sophisticated alchemical reactions.

By 6th level, you've learned an alchemical trick to channel excess heat away from a blaster, normalizing its temperature. Once per turn, you can use an action or a bonus action to supercool a blaster you touch. The next time this blaster would overheat within the next minute, it automatically cools down and stops being overheated. If you supercool a blaster that is overheated, it immediately stops being overheated.

You can use this ability a number of times equal to your Intelligence modifier and regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Starting at 10th level, you have discovered a way to deflect harmful projectiles by reverse engineering a plasma bomb. As a reaction when you would be hit by a ranged weapon attack that deals force, lightning, necrotic, or radiant damage, you can roll a d6. On a roll of 6, the attack misses you.

At 18th level, you create a fist-sized "discharge device" that can absorb, store, and redirect small amounts of any energy that hits you. When you use your Electromagnetic Shield feature, regardless of your roll, your discharge device gains 1 charge, to a maximum of 10. Charges last for 24 hours. As a bonus action on your turn, you can expend any number of stored charges and make a ranged attack roll against a target within 60 feet. On a hit, the target takes 1d8 force or radiant damage (your choice) for each charge expended.

While many mad bombers aren't actually mad, it takes a special kind of crazy to devote one's life to studying explosives. Most alchemists who specialize in this field are incorrigible pyromaniacs who take great pleasure in burning, blasting, and blowing things up. Mad bombers are always working to improve their bombs' effectiveness.

At 6th level, you've learned how to set bombs to explode on a delay. When you take the Use an Object action to prime a bomb and throw it, you can set a duration for its detonation, which can be any number of rounds (any increment of 6 seconds) up to one minute. Following this duration, the bomb detonates at the end of your turn.

Starting at 10th level, you have developed an elemental plating to protect you from hazardous energies. You gain resistance to your choice of acid, cold, fire, or lightning damage and can change your selection whenever you finish a long rest.

Beginning at 18th level, you can craft the dreaded black powder bombs. By replacing your bomb's explosive reagent with a charge of black powder, you can change it into a black powder bomb. A black powder bomb has d12 damage dice.

The study of alchemy is fundamentally the study of transformation. All alchemists transmute mundane materials into magical substances: potions, elixirs, and bombs, yet some take it one step further. You have discovered the secrets of the mutagen, the very keystone of transmutation, which allows you to transform your very body, gaining supernatural strength or speed, sprouting additional limbs or claws, or thickening your skin into a stony aegis.

At 6th level, you've created a formulation of your mutagens generic enough to safely be injected into others. You can use your action and spend a reagent die to inject a willing creature within 5 feet of you with a mutagen of your choice. A creature can only be under the effect of one mutagen at a time. Once you have injected another creature with a mutagen, you can't do so again until the original mutagen ends.

Starting at 10th level, whenever you inject yourself with a mutagen, you can choose one of the following additional mutations:

By 18th level, your mutagens have permanently altered your biology. Choose Strength, Dexterity, or Constitution. This ability score increases by 2 and its maximum becomes 22. Once you have chosen an ability score, this selection can't be altered.

Unsurprisingly, oozes, jellies, and slimes are a fascinating subject of subject for alchemists who wish to piece together how inanimate chemicals can form together and rise up in a moving, hungry mass. The answer to this question may very well be at the heart of alchemy itself. Alchemists which choose to research slimes in depth are called ooze ranchers, for they breed and keep numerous slimes to experiment upon.

Starting at 6th level, you've learned a clever alchemical trick for condensing oozes into denser states and storing them in stasis for later use. Whenever you brew potions, you can spend 2 reagent dice to create an Ooze Bottle.

By 10th level, your experiments with ooze alchemy has resulted in injecting yourself with a measure of ozoplasm, a fundamental substance which composes oozes and slimes. As a result, you can move through any space as narrow as 1 inch wide without squeezing (though your equipment does not similarly compress). Moreover, you take no additional damage from critical hits.

Beginning at 18th level, you've solved the major problem preventing large oozes from being bottled: you just needed a much larger bottle. You have one ooze jug, which functions like an Ooze Bottle, but contains a larger ooze. You can only have one ooze jug at a time and it can only contain one ooze at a time. You can fill it with the following oozes when you brew potions:

For every alchemist that has devoted his or her life to healing the sick and infirm, there is another with a darker calling. Commonly called poisoners or venomsmiths, these alchemists are masters in the art of crafting deadly and debilitating poisons. Whether employed by an assassin's guild or performing assassinations themselves, a venomsmith's presence is usually accompanied by untimely death.

Beginning at 6th level, you are adept at applying poisons without being seen. You have advantage on Dexterity (Sleight of Hand) checks you make to add ingested poisoned to food or drink, to apply poison to a weapon you are holding without being seen, or to place a vial of poison on another person without them noticing.

By 10th level, by administering yourself small doses of various poisons and toxins, you have developed immunity to their ravages. You have immunity to poison damage and to being poisoned.

Starting the 18th level, whenever a creature within 5 feet of you hits you with a melee attack, you can use your reaction to unleash a spray of poisonous vapor. The attacker must make a Constitution saving throw against your bomb save DC or be poisoned for 1 minute. While poisoned, the creature takes 1d10 poison damage at the start of each of its turns. A poisoned creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.