Alternate Artificer

The most dangerous Specialization an artificer can pursue is that of the Aeronaut. Constantly carrying out dangerous trials in their pursuit of mechanical flight, these pioneering minds will risk anything to complete the perfect flying machine. No setback or injury can dampen the spirits of a true Aeronaut.

Your Flying Machine helps you to move with wondrous grace. When you are wearing your Flying Machine, you gain a bonus to all Dexterity ability checks and saving throws equal to your Intelligence modifier (minimum of +1).

You can attack twice, instead of once, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn. Moreover, if you use your action to cast a spell, you can make a weapon attack as a bonus action.

Your Flying Machine allows you to attack from unorthodox positions, catching enemies unaware. Whenever you make a ranged attack while flying at least 10 feet off the ground, the attack deals a bonus 1d8 damage on hit. You can forgo this bonus damage to instead make the attack with advantage.

You are a master Aeronaut, making expert use of your Flying Machine's maneuvering capability. While wearing your Flying Machine, you can take the Dash action as a bonus action.

Moreover, when you are forced to make a Dexterity saving throw to take half damage while you are wearing your Flying Machine, you instead take no damage if you succeed on your saving throw, and only half damage if you fail.

Alchemy is a delicate art, tip the ratio of ingredients too far out of line and the effects could be disastrous. Alchemists are experts at combining exotic reagents to produce a variety of materials and effects. From healing droughts that can heal a wound in moments, to sticky goo that explodes when it comes in contact with flame. With the right reagents and a bit of luck, Alchemists use their wondrous Elixirs to give life to their allies and leech it away from their foes.

The reagents included in your Elixirs increase their potency. Whenever an Elixir crafted by you or an Artificer spell cast by you deals acid, fire, necrotic, or poison damage, or it restores a creature's hit points, you can add your Intelligence modifier (minimum of +1) to one of the damage or healing rolls.

You include revitalizing additives in every Elixir you concoct. Whenever a creature willingly drinks one of your Elixirs, it also gains temporary hit points equal to your Artificer level.

You have become a master amongst Alchemist Artificers. You are immune to any effects produced by any Elixir you crafted unless you wish to be affected by that Elixir.

Finally, you can take the Use an Object action as a bonus action on your turn, and when you do so, you can expend a spell slot to create an Elixir as part of that bonus action.

For centuries chroniclers have sought the best way to store vast amounts of information. While most were satisfied with scrolls, the Archivists looked for something greater. In their research, they learned to store libraries worth of information in objects, awakening the first Artificial Minds. Working with these wondrous Minds, Archivists wield the limitless power of these arcane intelligences to drive their research forward.

The power of your Artificial Mind has grown, increasing its power against foes. If a creature fails its saving throw against Information Overload you can expend one spell slot to deal bonus psychic damage. This bonus is 2d8 for a 1st-level slot, and an additional 1d8 for each slot level higher than 1st.

Also, whenever you deal psychic damage with Information Overload or a spell cast through your Artificial Mind, you add your Intelligence modifier (minimum of +1) to the damage.

Your Artificial Mind lends you its mental capacity. When you are forced to make a Wisdom or a Charisma saving throw, or a Constitution saving throw to maintain your concentration, you add your Intelligence modifier (minimum of +1) to your roll, so long as you are holding your Artificial Mind.

You have become a master of Archivist artifice. As a bonus action, you can transform into pure information and teleport to an unoccupied space you can see within 60 feet, or to an unoccupied space within 5 feet of an object bearing one of your Infusions, so long as it is the same plane of existence.

Finally, when you cast an Artificer spell, you can choose for your Artificial Mind to concentrate on it for you, allowing you to concentrate on another spell. However, both spells must be Artificer spells, and their total level cannot exceed 5th-level.

If you make a saving throw to maintain concentration on two spells, you make one saving throw for both spells, but you do not gain the benefits from Improved Consciousness.

Of all the Specializations that an artificer can pursue, that of the Armorer is the most defensively-minded. With a focus on becoming a bastion of magics and metal, Armorers modify a set of armor to function as their second skin. They focus their signature magic through this armor to unleash potent attacks and generate formidable arcane defenses. An Armorer views their armor as an extension of their body, and as they refine their magical abilities, inventor and armor become one.

You can attack twice, instead of once, whenever you take the Attack action. Also, when you use your action to cast a spell, you can make a Thunder Gauntlet attack as a bonus action.

Your Arcane Armor now counts as multiple individual items for the purposes of your Infusions: armor (chest piece), boots, helmet, and its Thunder Gauntlets (two individual weapons or gauntlets). Each of these items can bear one Infusion.

You have greatly improved your Arcane Armor's synergy with your signature artifice. Your total number of Infusions Known increases by 2, but both of these additional Infusion must be applied to pieces of your Arcane Armor.

You gain another one of these bonus Infusions at 15th level.

You have become a master of Armorer artifice. While wearing your Arcane Armor your walking speed increases by 10 feet, and you gain a flying speed equal to your walking speed.

Finally, your Thunder Gauntlets deal 2d8 damage on hit.

A combination of protector and medic, Battle Smith artificers are experts at defending others and repairing both material and personnel. To aid in their work, Battle Smiths construct and modify their Steel Defender, a one-of-a-kind companion.

You have improved the offensive capabilities of your Steel Defender. Choose one of the Minor Upgrades below:

Your Steel Defender now counts as multiple individual items for the purposes of Infusions: its torso (armor or cloak), legs (boots), head (helmet), and the limbs it uses for Rend attacks (gauntlet or melee weapon). Each item can bear one Infusion.

You can imbue your Steel Defender with wondrous abilities and features. Choose one of the Greater Upgrades below:

You imbue your Steel Defender with wondrous abilities and powers. Choose one of the Masterwork Upgrades below:

While most artificers are content with mechanical invention, some see biology, the science of living things, as an area rife with potential. Biomancers are those who use their talents to supplement their own anatomy and create life. Combining necromancy and transmutation magic, Biomancers see all living things as prototypes that can be magically evolved.

You can use the magic of your artifice to create a facsimile of life. You learn the Homunculus Servant Infusion, but it doesn't count against your total number of Infusions Known. However, you replace the required gem with 1 pound of organic matter, and the creature type of your Homunculus changes to a monstrosity.

Your Homunculus can heal others by grafting its flesh over wounds. As a bonus action, you order your Homunculus to touch a creature, sacrifice any number of its remaining hit points, restoring the same amount of hit points to the target.

You can attack twice, rather than once, when you take the Attack action on your turn. Moreover, you can cast one of your artificer cantrips in place of one of those attacks.

You have improved the process of creating your Homunculus. When you create a Homunculus Servant, you can choose for it to be Tiny, Small, or Medium in size, and it gains a single Modification of your choice without a level prerequisite.

At 15th level, your Homunculus' Modification can be any Modification with a prerequisite of 5th-level or lower.

You can use your arcane knowledge to forcefully rearrange your biology. As a bonus action, you can expend a spell slot to replace one of your Modifications with another Modification.

In addition, your walking speed also increases by 10 feet.

You have become a master of arcane biology. Whenever you target a creature with one of your Biomancer Spells, you can grant one target of that spell temporary hit points equal to your Artificer level + your Intelligence modifier.

Finally, during a long rest, you can forgo one of your own Modifications to instead use leatherworker's tools to modify one willing creature of your choice who you touch.

For those that pursue the magic of artifice, no area of study is too dangerous. Perhaps against their better judgment, some artificers choose to experiment with Chronomancy, the magic of time. Known as Chronothieves, these bold artificers are marked by their signature Chronometers, a wondrous object that they use to steal moments and adjust the flow of time.

Your understanding and control over time magic allows you to use your Chronometer more efficiently. When you use your action to use a Chronometer ability, you can use two abilities instead of one. They can be the same ability or different, and you can target multiple creatures or the same creature.

Your Chronometer also gains the abilities detailed below:

When a creature fails its saving throw against Decelerate, you can use Accelerate on another creature in range as part of the same action. Moreover, when a creature fails it's saving throw against Age, you can grant another creature in range temporary hit points equal to the necrotic damage dealt.

You have mastered the wondrous magic stored within your Chronometer. As an action, you can use your Chronometer to cast the time stop spell. Once you cast time stop in this way, you cannot do so again until you finish a long rest.

Starting at 17th level, you can expend a 5th-level spell slot to use your Chronometer to cast time stop this way again.

Behind every great musician, every standing ovation, every sold-out concert, there is most often Composer who put quill to parchment and penned the notes. These great minds are unlike other bards and entertainers, Composers take a more cerebral approach to music. They are masters of patterns and repetition, and when they apply their analytical mind to a problem it is only a matter of time before they find a solution.

Whenever you use your action to produce a Raucous Blast or Ringing Strike with your Apparatus, you can produce two of those effects. Moreover, if you use your action to cast a spell, you can produce one of those effects as a bonus action.

Whenever you deal thunder damage with your Apparatus you can expend a spell slot to knock the target back with a burst of thunderous sound. It is knocked back 10 feet for a 1st-level slot, plus another 10 feet for each slot level above 1st. This distance is halved for each size the target is above Large.

As an action, you can play a note on your Apparatus to cause a number of creatures of your choice (up to your Intelligence modifier) within 30 feet of you to resonate with undetectable vibrations for 1 hour. The next time one of these creatures is hit by a melee attack, its attacker takes 2d8 thunder damage and cannot take reactions until the start of its next turn.

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

You have mastered the theory and applications of musical artifice, a true virtuoso. You gain the following benefits:

While most artificers focus on developing a single invention, Dungeoneers use their ingenuity to weaponize the mundane. They use basic adventuring gear to construct defensive traps, puzzles, and structures that can repel all but the hardiest of adventurers and monsters. Dungeoneers will set out for an adventure to analyze the traps that guard tombs and temples.

You can attack twice, instead of once, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn. Moreover, you can take the Use an Object action in place of one or both of these attacks.

Finally, damage dealt by your Dungeoncraft Objects counts as magical for overcoming resistances and immunities.

You have a unique way of making things work. When you cast a Dungeoneer Spell, you can replace the material component with a Dungeoncraft Object in place of expending a spell slot, but this Dungeoncraft Object is consumed by the spell.

You can cast each Dungeoncraft Spell this way once, then you must complete a long rest before you can do so again.

You are a deadly master of dungeon design. You can spend 10 minutes using mason's tools to produce the effect of passwall or wall of stone without expending a spell slot. When you cast the spells in this way, they do not require your concentration, but the structures turn to ash at the following dawn.

Finally, creatures have disadvantage on all saving throws made to resist the effects your Dungeoncraft Objects.

Where most artificers develop objects of wondrous power, those known as Enhanced bring their great intellect to bear by modifying their own bodies. They replace and improve their own limbs with arcane enhancements, forever striving to create a more perfect self. Enhanced artificers are known for their impressive, and deadly, combat Enhancements.

You find it easier to innovate and invent when working with your own body. Your number of Infusions Known increases by 1, but this bonus Infusion must be applied to part of your body with your Modular Physique feature.

Your total number of Infusions Known increases by 1 again at 10th and 15th level, but both of these additional Infusions must also be applied to part of your body with your Modular Physique feature as well.

You can attack twice, instead of once, when you take the Attack action. Also, when you use your action to cast a spell, you can make one Hidden Blade attack as a bonus action.

Your modifications perform better than the original parts. For each part of your body (including your Hidden Blade) bearing an Infusion you gain a +1 bonus to Strength, Dexterity, and Constitution-based ability checks (maximum of +5), and your walking speed increases by 5 feet (maximum of 25 feet).

The damage of your Hidden Blade also increases to 2d10.

You have finally achieved the goal of all Enhanced Artificers, ascension beyond your mortality. You gain the benefits below:

While most artificers are primarily inventors that take up a life of adventure to test experiments in the field, those known as Forgewrights seek out battle for its own sake. Reveling in the thrill of combat, they combine their innovation with their skill as warriors to forge their signature Arcane Armament.

When you hit a target with your Arcane Armament you can expend a spell slot to deal additional force damage to the target. The extra damage is 2d6 for a 1st-level spell slot, plus 1d6 for each spell level higher than 1st, to a maximum of 6d6.

You can attack twice, instead of once, whenever you take the Attack action. Moreover, if you use your action to cast a spell, you can make an Arcane Armament attack as a bonus action.

The magic of your Arcane Armament empowers its strikes. Whenever you hit with an Arcane Armament attack you can deal a bonus 1d8 force damage on hit. Each time you attack with your Arcane Armament, you can forgo this potential bonus damage to instead make your attack with advantage.

You have become a master Forgewright and can extend the power of your Arcane Armament to others. As a bonus action, you can flood a number of weapons equal to your Intelligence modifier (minimum of 1) within 30 feet, one of which can be your Arcane Armament, with raw power. For 1 minute, these weapons deal a bonus 1d8 force damage on hit.

Once you use this feature you must finish a long rest before you can use it again. If you have no uses left, you can expend a spell slot of 3rd-level or higher to use it again.

You have dedicated your great intellect to the development of a one-of-a-kind weapon of war, the Arcane Firearm. Marked by this signature weapon, you enter the fray with the swagger and guile only found in one kind of Artificer, the Gunslinger.

You can attack twice, instead of once, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn. Moreover, if you use your action to cast a spell, you can make one Arcane Firearm attack as a bonus action on that turn.

You have improved your Firearm for efficient use in combat. You ignore the Loading property of your Arcane Firearm, but you must use your bonus action to reload it. You can make up to six attacks with your Firearm before you must reload.

You can imbue your Arcane Firearm's attacks with additional explosive magic. Once per turn when you hit a target with an attack from your Arcane Firearm, you can expend a spell slot to cause that attack to deal bonus force damage to the target.

This bonus damage is 2d6 for a 1st-level spell slot, plus an additional 1d6 force damage for each slot level above 1st.

You always seem to shoot first. You can add your Intelligence modifier (minimum of +1) to your initiative rolls. Also, if you roll initiative and are not surprised or incapacitated, you can use a reaction to make one attack with your Arcane Firearm.

Your skill with your Arcane Firearm is nearly supernatural in battle. You can use a bonus action on your turn to steady your breathing, granting you advantage on any attacks you make with your Arcane Firearm until the end of your current turn.

Finally, once per turn when you make an attack with your Arcane Firearm with advantage, you can forgo the advantage to instead make one additional Arcane Firearm attack. You cannot gain advantage on this bonus attack.

Junker Artificers specialize in the creation of hulking constructs known as Rigs. Climbing inside of their signature Rig, these Artificers lay waste to any foes who stand against them and tower over their allies. Junkers set out on the path of adventure to push their Rig to its limits in an effort to endlessly improve upon its design.

You can attack twice, instead of once, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn. Moreover, if you use your action to cast a spell, you can make one Arcane Firearm attack as a bonus action on that turn.

Your Junker now counts as multiple individual items for your Infusions: its armor (torso), boots (legs), helmet (head), and the limbs it uses for Slam (melee weapon or gauntlet). Each of these individual items can bear one of your Infusions.

The power of your Rig knocks foes off their feet. When your Rig hits a target equal to its size or smaller with its Slam, it can choose to knock it back 10 feet in a straight line, where it must succeed on a Strength saving throw or fall prone.

You have improved your Rig so that it rivals the great titans of legend, marking you as a master of Junker artifice. Your Rig now uses the Titanic Rig stat block.

While some artificers spend their lives perfecting one solitary creation, Machinist artificer value quantity over quality. They are known for creating their signature Automatons, small clockwork men that are created for a single, but temporary purpose. Armed with their tools, and an army of strange and wondrous servants, Machinists are ready for any challenge.

Your ability to control your signature Automatons has greatly increased. You can have two Automatons active at once, and you can use a single bonus action to order both Automatons to move and use the action determined by their Model.

When you reach 15th level in this class, you can have up to three Automatons active at once, and you can issue orders to all three Automatons with a single bonus action.

Your ability to design complex constructs has grown. When you create an Automaton it gains the benefits of twoModels of your choice from the list at the end of this Specialization.

Moreover, your Automaton's attacks count as magical for the sake of overcoming resistances and immunities.

Your signature magic provides quantity of Automatons over quality. When you expend a spell slot to create an Automaton, you create a number of inactive Automatons equal to the level of the spell slot you expended. You cannot use this feature to surpass the limit on your total number of Automatons.

You are a master Machinist and have become but one among many with your army of Automatons. When you are forced to make a saving throw or are hit by an attack, you can use your reaction to instantly switch places with an active Automaton within 60 feet, causing that Automaton to become the target of the triggering effect or attack.

Finally, your Automatons are resistant to all non-magical bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage.

Mechanics channel an overwhelming obsession with arcane motors to construct powerful mechanical vehicles. Marked by their unquenchable need for speed, these Artificers draw on their adventuring experiences to construct and improve on a wondrous Autocycle, their one-of-a-kind motorized invention.

Once per turn, when you are riding your Autocycle and move within 5 feet of another creature, you can force it to make a Dexterity saving throw. On a failed save, it takes fire damage equal to 1d10 + your Intelligence modifier and that creature cannot target you with an opportunity attack on this turn.

Your Autocycle can now bear up to two Medium creatures (or three Small creatures), and up to 100 lbs. of cargo.

Your Autocycle and your ability to drive it have increased. You gain the following benefits while riding on your Autocycle:

You are a master of arcane motorization, and have upgraded your Autocycle into a vehicle of mythic ability. Your Autocycle gains a flying speed equal to its walking speed and can hover. Creatures riding on your Autocycle also cannot be targeted by opportunity attacks while the Autocycle is moving.

Finally, the damage of your Afterburn feature increases to 2d10, and you can use it whenever you move past a creature on your turn. However, you can only force each creature to make this saving throw once per turn.

Though all artificers have their quirks, Puppeteers tend to be the strangest subset of arcane inventors. They dedicate their research and intellect towards mastery of manipulation and control of other creatures through the use of their Marionette Strings. Often found literally pulling the strings from behind the scenes, these strange artificers prefer to empower their allies rather than risk their own lives on the front lines.

The magic and your skill with your Arcane Strings grows. You gain the following additional Arcane String features:

Your ability to manipulate others via your Arcane Strings is truly a marvel. You gain one additional reaction each round, but it can only be used to use an Arcane Strings ability. An effect can only trigger one of your reactions.

Additionally, the range of your Arcane Strings, and all of their abilities, increases to 60 feet.

You are an unquestioned master Puppeteer. You can use your Arcane Strings to cast the Otto's Irresistible Dance spell. Once you do so, you cannot cast it again until you finish a long rest.

Starting at 17th level, you can expend a 5th-level spell slot and use your Arcane Strings to cast Otto's Irresistible Dance again.

Most Artificers focus their creativity on mechanical or arcane inventions, but those known as Reanimators use their unique abilities to raise their defeated enemies as Thralls. Instead of improving themselves, they use necromantic artifice to make use of the abilities of their Thralls had in life, now in undeath.

You can preserve the dead for later use. When you cast gentle repose on a creature that you could raise as a Thrall, you can transform it into a small Trinket, which lasts for the duration.

At any point, you can use your Reanimated Thrall ritual on one of these Trinkets to raise that creature within as a Thrall.

You can attack twice, instead of once, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn. Moreover, you can forgo one of these attacks to order your Thrall to make a single attack.

You can raise some of the most powerful mortal creatures to serve you as Thralls. You can raise Aberrations, Dragons, and Giants as your Thralls, so long as the creatures are within the Challenge Rating limited detailed in Reanimated Thrall.

You can keep your Thralls alive so long as your power lasts. If your Thrall is reduced to 0 hit points but isn't killed outright, you can use your reaction to expend a spell slot. The Thrall is instead reduced to a number of hit points equal to 10 times the level of the spell slot.

This feature cannot cause a your Thrall to exceed its hit point maximum.

Wandslingers use their ingenuity and artistic minds to craft wondrous arcane weapons. What they lack in flexibility and subtlety, they make up for in overwhelming arcane firepower. Wandslingers are marked by their signature Arcane Sidearm. For some, these are intricately carved wands or staffs, and for others, they are expertly crafted runic iron cannons.

You wield your Arcane Sidearm with deadly skill. Whenever you use a Spell Slinger action, you can produce two effects from your Arcane Sidearm instead of one. These effects can target multiple targets or the same target.

The number of Spell Slinger effects you can produce from your Arcane Sidearm with a single action increases again at certain Artificer levels: at 10th level (3) and 15th level (4).

Also, when you use your action to cast an Artificer spell, you can produce one Spell Slinger effect as a bonus action.

You add your proficiency bonus to initiative rolls, and when you roll initiative and aren't surprised or incapacitated, you can use your reaction to use one Spell Slinger effect.

Your skill with your Arcane Sidearm marks you as a master amongst Wandslingers. You gain the benefits listed below: