Scholar

Scholars who choose the Explorer pursuit exemplify curiosity and adaptability. Often experts in anthropology, archaeology, or zoology, the cutting edge of their research always lies in the field. Whether plumbing the depths of an ancient ruin, making contact with an unknown people, or discovering exotic plants and animals on a remote isle, the explorer comes armed with the worldly knowledge to best handle the situation.

At 3rd level, you can recalibrate and refocus your mind to adapt to the task and environment at hand by drawing upon past studies and your own insights. You learn one additional practicum for which you meet the requirements. Whenever you finish a short or long rest, you can replace this bonus practicum with another for which you meet the requirements.

At 6th level, you can add half your proficiency bonus, rounded down, to any ability check you make that doesn't already include your proficiency bonus.

At 13th level, you learn the fool me once gambit. When you take damage, you can expend an insight die and use your reaction to reduce the damage by the amount rolled and gain one of the following benefits for 1 minute:

At 18th level, you can use an action to replace the bonus practicum granted by the adaptable feature with another one for which you meet the requirements. You can't use this feature again until you finish a long rest.

The Inventor pursuit is taken up by scholars who are creators at heart. More than mere artisans, Inventors draw upon their intellect and a broad array of tools and disciplines to create things which are wholly new.

At 3rd level, you complete your first invention, and you complete additional inventions at 6th, 13th, and 18th level.

For each invention, choose either a clockwork companion, combat device, improved tool, skill aid, or weapon. Each invention type is detailed at the end of the pursuit description with instructions for determining its capabilities. When you gain a level in this class, you can change the properties of one of your inventions, but not its type.

As devices on the cutting edge of technology, your inventions require you to perform regular maintenance to remain in working order. You can perform this maintenance on all of your inventions during a long rest. Though you must maintain your own inventions, you can teach another creature with an Intelligence score of 7 or higher how to properly use an invention of yours during a short rest.

The nature and description of your inventions are up to you and your DM to determine. Be creative, but make sure that you and your DM understand the logic of the creation.

Beginning at 6th level, you can spend 1 minute improvising a set of artisan's tools, a disguise kit, navigator's tools, thieves' tools, or a piece of adventuring gear from materials found nearby. An item improvised in this way can be used once before it breaks.

At your DM's discretion, an area may not be furnished with enough materials to replicate certain items. Alternatively, the materials you find may be of sufficient quality that the item does not break after use, and the improvised item can be maintained alongside your inventions.

You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Intelligence modifier (minimum of 1), and you regain all uses at the end of a long rest.

At 6th level, you can create your second invention.

At 13th level, you learn the field repair gambit. As an action, you can expend an intellect die to either attempt to reset or repair an invention so that it can be used again, or use your ingenuity feature.

To succeed, you must pass a DC 15 Intelligence ability check, adding the intellect die to the roll.

At 13th level, you can create your third invention.

At 18th level, you can create your fourth invention.

At 18th level, choose one of your inventions to become your masterpiece. You perfect its design and no longer need to maintain it during a long rest. You can spend 8 hours making a copy of the invention if you have the requisite materials.

Scholars who choose the Philosopher pursuit walk varied paths. Some are teachers or advisers. Some are leaders in their own right. What they share in common is that above all they are devoted to the study of their fellow humanoids, and particularly to how they think.

Beginning at 3rd level, your understanding of the sapient mind gives you an instinctive measure of defense in combat. You gain a bonus to your AC equal to your Wisdom modifier as long as you are wearing light or no armor.

At 6th level you learn the forceful presence gambit. While conversing with a creature that isn't hostile to you, you can expend an intellect die as part of a Deception, Intimidation, or Persuasion ability check you make to interact with that creature. Add the intellect die to your ability check roll, and if you beat the creature's opposing Wisdom (Insight) check the creature becomes charmed by you if you rolled Deception or Persuasion, or frightened of you if you rolled Intimidation. This condition lasts as long as you remain in the creature's presence, and for 10 minutes afterward. The charmed condition ends early if you or your companions do anything harmful to the target.

Beginning at 13th level, when you make a Charisma ability check using a skill in which you are proficient, you can add your Intelligence modifier instead of your Charisma modifier to the roll.

Starting at 18th level, you can use the forceful presence gambit as an action even if the target is hostile. Additionally, when you use the sage advice gambit you can treat an intellect die roll lower than your Intelligence modifier as your Intelligence modifier.

The Physician pursuit is chosen by scholars who wish to apply their minds to the art of healing. They use their extensive and specialized knowledge to accomplish feats of healing and restoration usually only possible with magic.

At 3rd level, you gain the ability to tailor your treatments to suit the circumstances at hand. You can only use one of the options below on a single treatment.

At 6th level, you gain the preventative medicine gambit. When an ally you can see fails a saving throw, you can use your reaction and expend an insight die to add it to your ally's saving throw, possibly turning it into a success.

The ally must be within 5 feet of you to gain this benefit, and you can move up to half your speed as part of your reaction to reach this distance.

If the saving throw was triggered by an area effect, and your movement takes you into the affected area, you suffer any effects as if you were in the area at the moment the saving throw was triggered.

Starting at 13th level, you can spend 8 treatment points and use your medical kit to create a solution infected with a natural disease. The solution is clear, odorless, and flavorless and can be poured into a drink or on to food. Alternatively, is can be coated onto a weapon or piece of ammunition that deals piercing or slashing damage. In either case, the solution loses its potency after 1 hour. The solution is sufficient to infect one creature.

Once infected, either by ingestion or by taking damage from a coated weapon, a creature is afflicted with a nonmagical equivalent of the contagion spell. The save DC for resisting the effects of the solution is the same as your gambit save DC.

When you create the solution, you choose which disease it inflicts from the diseases listed in the *contagion* spell.

At 18th level, once per day when you finish a short rest, you can recover a number of expended medicine points equal to half your scholar level.

Planar Sages stand furthest apart among scholars who follow their various pursuits. The study of planes beyond the Prime Material carries the inherent danger of encountering otherworldly creatures with great powers. To survive these encounters, a Planar Sage must draw upon not just lore, but magic of all types, from the arcane to the divine.

When you reach 3rd level, you augment your knowledge with the ability to cast spells. See chapter 10 of the Player's Handbook for the general rules of spellcasting. The Planar Sage's spell list is at the end of the pursuit description.

At 6th level, you learn the planes hunter gambit. When you target a celestial, elemental, fey, fiend, or undead creature with an attack, you can expend an intellect die and add it to the attack roll. Alternatively, if you cast a spell or use a scholar feature that forces a creature of one of those types to make a saving throw, you can expend an intellect die and subtract it from the creature's saving throw.

In either case, you must expend the intellect die before the attack or saving throw is rolled.

When you reach 13th level, you add the plane shift spell and one other spell from the list below to your spellbook. You can cast each of these spells once without using a spell slot. You must finish a long rest before you can do so again.

Choose one of the following: dispel evil and good, planar binding, forbiddance, or planar ally.

When your reach 18th level, you add either the astral projection or gate spell to your spellbook. You can cast this spell once without using a spell slot. You must finish a long rest before you can do so again.

Scholars of the Tactician pursuit have focused their minds on the art and skill of combat. By honing their techniques and studying their enemies, Tacticians become formidable presences on any battlefield.

At 3rd level, you adopt a particular fighting style 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.

At 6th level, you learn the study foe gambit. You can expend an intellect die as a bonus action to begin studying a creature you can see. You analyze its movements and fighting style in order to avoid its attacks.

For 1 hour, the studied creature has disadvantage on attack rolls that target only you. When the creature attempts to take an action, you can use your reaction to make a weapon attack against it, adding your intellect die to the attack roll. If the attack hits, the creature loses its action for the turn, including any resources it spent as part of the interrupted action, such as a spell slot. Whether you hit or miss, your study foe effect ends immediately.

The study foe effect also ends early if you are incapacitated or if you use this gambit on a different creature.

Beginning at 13th level, you can use an action to enter an observant state that allows you to analyze the battlefield. For the duration, whenever you or an ally that can see and hear you takes the attack action, you can point out an opening, allowing the target to take one additional attack as part of that action. Additionally, on your turn you can use a bonus action to command an ally that can see and hear you to use its reaction to attack a creature within range. Attacks granted by this feature are made with advantage.

The observant state ends after 1 minute, or after you've granted a number of attacks equal to your Intelligence modifier (minimum of 1). Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a long rest.

Starting at 18th level, when you roll initiative and have no intellect dice remaining, you regain one intellect die.