Scholar

There is no subject of academic inquiry too obscure or niche for true scholars. Rather than study the complex workings of the human body or the complete history of military stratagems, some scholars choose to specialize in the alchemy of the common man: cooking. These culinarians procure rare and delicious ingredients, turning them into meals that empower themselves and their allies.

Starting at 3rd level, you can harvest deceased non-humanoid creatures for cooking ingredients so long as the creature has been dead for no longer than 24 hours. You can harvest 1 ingredient from a Small or Medium creature, 2 ingredients from a Large creature, and 3 ingredients from a Huge or larger creature. Harvesting an ingredient takes 1 minute. Your ability to cure, pickle, and otherwise preserve foodstuffs prevents ingredients you've harvested from going bad over time.

Also at 3rd level, cooking is considered a light activity for you. When you spend 1 hour cooking, which can be done as part of finishing a short or long rest, you can prepare 1 + your Intelligence modifier (minimum 1) meals, using an ingredient of your choice. Each meal takes 10 minutes to eat, after which the creature's maximum and current hit points increase by 2d8 + your scholar level, and it gains one benefit of your choice, based on the ingredient used in the making of the meal.

Once a creature has eaten a meal with this feature, it retains the benefits until it eats another meal created with feature or finishes a long rest. A meal that is not consumed within 8 hours of its creation grants no benefits after that time.

At 9th level, add the following options to the list of benefits you may select when using your Culinary Craft feature.

Also at 9th level, you have learned how to make do with whatever you have on hand. When you use your Culinary Craft feature you can choose to improvise instead of provide an ingredient. When you do, treat it as if you had used an ingredient from a creature with resistance to all damage types, a 20 in all ability scores, and a CR equal to your scholar level. Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a long rest.

At 13th level, when a creature's maximum and current hit points increase as a result of eating one of the meals you've prepared with your Culinary Craft feature, it gains additional maximum and current hit points equal to the CR of the creature the ingredient was harvested from.

At 20th level, when you cook a meal using your Culinary Craft feature you may choose to use two ingredients instead of one. When you do, you can choose two benefits instead of one. You may not choose the same benefit twice. To determine the additional maximum and current hit points granted by your Full Bellies, Full Hearts feature, add the CR of both creatures the ingredients were harvested from.

Some scholars dedicate their intellectual talents to the drafting of contracts, the forging of alliances, and the mastery of many languages. Driven by wanderlust and a desire to secure peace between people, diplomats use their education in linguistics, psychology, and statecraft to achieve their goals. As a result of their wide ranging practical experience and diverse interests, many diplomats are polymaths.

Starting at 3rd level, when you make an initiative roll you can use your reaction to call for end to hostilities. When you do, each creature of your choice who can hear you and shares a language with you must make a Charisma saving throw (DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Intelligence modifier). On a failed saving throw, the target becomes indifferent about creatures of your choice that it is hostile toward. This indifference ends if the target is attacked or harmed by a spell or if it witnesses any of its friends being harmed. After one minute, the target becomes hostile again unless the DM determines your actions have warranted ongoing indifference or another attitude would be more appropriate. You can use this feature again when you finish a short or long rest.

Also at 3rd level, when you speak to a creature you share a language with for one minute or more, you can choose to have them make a Wisdom saving throw (DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Intelligence modifier). If the creature fails this saving throw, it is charmed by you for one hour or until you or one of your allies deals damage to it or casts a spell that requires a saving throw on it, whichever happens first. After one hour, the creature remains friendly with you if you have done or said something worth maintaining friendship

You can choose to use this ability as an action and ignore requirement of a minute of conversation. If you do, you can't use this feature again until you finish a short or long rest.

At 9th level, your speed increases by 10 feet. Additionally, while you are traveling for an hour or longer, difficult terrain doesn't slow your group's travel and your group cannot become lost except by magical means.

Also at 9th level, you gain an Erudite Application of your choice. You do not need to meet the prerequisites for this Erudite Application and it does not count towards your number of Erudite Applications known.

You gain another Erudite Application of your choice that you do not need to meet the prerequisites for and which does not count towards your number of Erudite Applications known at 13th level.

At 13th level, no effect can cause you to have disadvantage on Wisdom (Insight) or Charisma ability checks. Additionally, your mind cannot be read against your will and magic that would determine if you are telling the truth or not always indicates that you are being truthful.

Starting at 20th level, your heart cannot be swayed to extremes. You are immune to being charmed and frightened. As an action, you can end a charmed or frightened effect on a creature within 30 feet of you that you share a language with.

Scholars who become physicians dedicate themselves to promoting health and wellbeing. Adventuring physicians are motivated to take their advanced medical knowledge into the field where they can keep heroes fightingg fit and administer lifesaving care to the downtrodden. Physicians take pride in their ability to knit wounds and cure disease without magic and are eager to share the secrets of their remedies and treatments with others.

Starting at 3rd level, you can use your bonus action to administer first aid to an adjacent creature. That creature can spend and roll a hit die to heal a number of hit points equal to the result of the hit die + their Constitution modifier + your Intelligence modifier.

Also at 3rd level, you gain a pool of physician points. This pool consists of a number of physician points equal to your level in this class. During a short rest you can spend any number of physician points to allow a creature you are treating to regain the same number of expended hit dice up to their maximum. You can also spend one hour and a physician point to remove a disease or poison of your choice from a creature you are treating. You regain all expended physician points when you complete a long rest.

At 9th level, your medical expertise has advanced to the point where you can restore the bodies of the recently deceased to life. This procedure takes 1 minute to complete and requires medical supplies worth 100 gold pieces, which the procedure consumes. The procedure can only affect a creature who has been dead no longer than 10 minutes. The creature returns to life with 1 hit point. This procedure cannot return to life a creature that has died of old age, nor does it restore any missing body parts. You can use this feature again when you complete a long rest.

Also at 9th level, you can use advanced medical science to end a debilitating condition. As an action you can apply one of the following benefits to a creature you touch:

You can use this feature again when you complete a short or long rest.

At 13th level, when you spend 5 minutes providing revitalizing clinical care to a creature, that creature can choose one of its features and regain the use of it if finishing a short or long rest would allow the creature to regain its use. You can use this feature again when you complete a short or long rest.

At 20th level, you can spend 10 minutes practicing preventative medical care on a number of creatures up to your Intelligence modifier (including yourself). Each treated creature gains temporary hit points equal to half their maximum hit points. While a creature has temporary hit points granted by this feature, they have resistance to nonmagical bludgeoning, piercing, poison, and slashing damage. You can use this feature again when you finish a long rest.

Although scholars are widely distinguished from other intellectuals by their pursuit of mundane topics, some focus their prodigious minds on esoteric topics. Ritualists study magic with the same methodical and scientific method that scholars approach all things. While these scholars are capable of less impressive feats of magic than more specialized casters, their astute observations of the Weave allow them to cast an unmatched variety of spells.

When you reach 3rd level, your intense study of the arcane laws and obscure mythologies of the multiverse allow you to cast spells and perform rituals. See chapter 10 of the Player's Handbook for the general rules of spellcasting and chapter 11 for the complete list of spells.

Also at 3rd level, you learn to create spell scrolls in half the time and at half the cost. The rules for scribing spell scrolls can be found in chapter 2 of Xanathar's Guide to Everything.

At 9th level, you can cast the protection from evil and good spell without expending a spell slot or providing the material components.

At 9th level, you add your Intelligence modifier to the damage you deal with cantrips.

At 13th level, you can cast any spell you know without expending a spell slot or providing material components. You can't use this feature again until you finish a long rest.

At 20th level, you can cast any spell you don't know by expending a spell slot of an equal or higher level than the spell. You can't use this feature again until you finish a long rest.

Scholars who become tacticians use their intellectual abilities to dominate the battlefield. With an authoritative tone and dynamic strategies, tacticians can turn an adventuring party into a well-oiled machine. Tacticians are the rare scholars who feel at home in a fight, excelling when leading their allies in combat.

At 3rd level, you adopt a particular style of fighting as your specialty. Choose one of the following options. You can't take a Fighting Style option more than once, even if you later get to choose again.

Also at 3rd level, when a creature hits with an attack benefitting from your Sage Advice, that creature adds your proficiency bonus to the damage they deal with the attack.

Starting at 9th level, you can use your bonus action to direct an attack from a creature who can hear you within 60 feet. If you do, that creature can use its reaction to make a weapon attack against an enemy of your choosing within range.

At 9th level, you can use a bonus action on your turn to command your allies to reposition. Each friendly creature you choose within 60 feet that can hear you can move up to their movement speed. This movement does not provoke opportunity attacks. You can use this feature again when you complete a short or long rest.

At 13th level, you're able to provide an opening for allies when you hit a creature with an attack. When you do, each friendly creature of your choice within 60 feet who can hear you have advantage on the first attack roll they make against that enemy until the start of your next turn. Once you use this feature, you must finish a short or long rest before you can use it again.

At 20th level, you can use an action on your turn to let out a rallying cry. Each friendly creature you choose up to a number equivalent to your Intelligence modifier within 60 feet that can hear you gains an additional action on its next turn. That action can be used only to take the Attack (one weapon attack only), Dash, Disengage, Hide, or Use an Object action. You can use this feature again when you finish a long rest.

Theologians study the dogmas and mythology of divine beings. Unlike most other scholars, an extensive familiarity with the prayers and practices of the religions of the multiverse gives theologians the ability to cast spells. Unlike clerics and paladins, theologians do not devote themselves to a single god or ideology. Instead, theologians honor and recognize all gods, performing daily devotions to and channeling the power of a variety of divine beings.

Starting at 3rd level, as part of finishing a long rest you can choose a divine domain (found in chapter 3 of The Player's Handbook) and offer a devotional to a deity associated with that domain. Until you use this feature again, domain spells associated with the divine domain you chose count as prepared for you, provided you have a spell slot equal to or higher than the level of the spell.

Additionally, you can use any book on the subject of theology worth 1 gp or more as a spellcasting focus for cleric spells.

Also at 3rd level, your dedicated study of the gods and the traditions of their worship allows you to cast spells. See chapter 10 of the Player's Handbook for the general rules of spellcasting and chapter 11 for the complete list of spells.

At 9th level, you gain resistance to radiant damage.

At 9th level, whenever you expend a spell slot to cast a cleric spell, a creature of your choice within 15 feet of you gains temporary hit points equal to your Intelligence modifier + the level of the spell slot expended.

Starting at 13th level, when a fey, fiend, or undead creature makes a saving throw against a spell you cast, you can use your reaction to give that saving throw disadvantage. Once you use this feature, you must finish a short or long rest before you can use it again.

At 20th level, you can cast the commune, dispel evil and good, or raise dead spell without expending a spell slot. Once you use this feature, you must finish a short or long rest before you can use it again.