Investigator

Wield a Museum's Worth of Powerful Arcane Trinkets

Festooned with magical trinkets from every corner of the globe, Antiquarians have a tool for every occasion: silver arrowheads for lycanthropes, heartwood stakes for vampires, blessed relics for fiends, and so on. As they expand their collections from piles of trinkets to veritable museums, they become adept historians and arcanists, familiar with the stories of every magic item in their care, as well as how to use them in dire situations.

You've secured a handful of priceless relics with rare and delicate enchantments. Once you use one of the following relics, you can't use this feature again until you finish a Short or Long Rest.

When you finish a Long Rest, you can magically produce a magic item. When you do so, all magic items previously created by this feature vanish. If a magic item you produce requires Attunement, you can attune yourself to it the instant you produce it. You can produce the following magic items: a Carpet of Flying, a Cloak of the Bat, a Flame Tongue, Gauntlets of Ogre Power, an Instant Fortress, a Ring of Regeneration, a Ring of Telekinesis, a Sun Blade, or a Wand of Wonder.

You've secured the crown jewel of your collection: a lich's soul jar, or "phylactery." Though the original owner's soul has been expelled from this accursed artifact, it retains many of its magical properties.

This magic item is always attuned to you and doesn't count against your total number of attuned magic items. It has 5 charges and regains 1d4 + 1 expended charges daily at dawn. While wearing the soul jar, you can expend one or more charges to use the following abilities.

Expand Your Rituals Through Ancient Lore

Though most Investigators fill their grimoires with hard-won knowledge borne from encounters with supernatural threats, some prefer to do bookkeeping instead. Such Archivists seek to accumulate knowledge, more so than trinkets, by spending untold hours digging through disparate tomes of occult secrets and compiling them into encyclopedic texts. Through their research, Archivists become academic masters of the arcane and priceless reservoirs of obscure knowledge.

When you cast a spell that forces a creature to make a saving throw, you can give one target of the spell Disadvantage on saves against the spell.

Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a Short or Long Rest. You can also restore your use of it by expending a use of your Rushed Incantation (no action required).

You can identify any arcane effect from memory. Whenever you see or hear a spell being cast or investigate a magical effect, you can identify the spell that was cast, the magic item responsible, or the creature that produced the effect without an ability check. This feature fails to identify spells, magic items, and creatures that are utterly unique or are otherwise not recorded in arcane texts.

You can effortlessly duplicate spells you see or hear, granting you the following benefits.

Unravel Far-Reaching, Incredulous Conspiracies

The world is full of stuff that doesn't add up. A natural disaster strikes and they talk about theoretical weather patterns. People forget days at a time and they say some medical jargon about their brains. And nobody seems to notice the folks dressed in black who lurk behind every corner. It's one big coincidence after another. But when you ask the right questions and pull on the right threads, you start uncovering the biggest mysteries: the ones They don't want you to know about.

It's hard to tell who They even are, apart from the fact that They're massively influential and have deep pockets. They have agents everywhere, watching and waiting. What are their goals? What are they working so hard to keep secret? You can't be totally sure, but you have a few good theories.

When you take the Ready action, you have Advantage on D20 Tests you make for the Reaction. You can only use this feature when the trigger is in response to another creature's action or movement after the end of your turn.

When you finish a Short or Long Rest, choose one skill. You gain proficiency in that skill if you lacked it and Expertise with it. This proficiency and Expertise lasts until you use this feature to choose a different skill.

Your ability to avoid others grants you the following benefits.

Contain and Conceal Anomalous Magic Artifacts

Though the study of magic is diverse and wonderous, it contains mysteries better left unexplored. Such topics in magic are seldom studied, for their very existence poses an existential threat to the multiverse itself: chronomancy, protomancy, and quantumancy are among the few graced with names at all. When a sinister (or merely curious) arcanist pulls on one of these threads of knowledge, they open a Pandora's box of unpredictable effects. The results are usually catastrophic. Such dangerous arcana leaves lasting scars on people and objects, metaphysical reverberations of the terrible secrets at their source.

As their title implies, Containment Specialists are tasked with tracking, isolating, and containing exotic magic and its artifacts. Their job is hazardous and challenging, but is of critical importance to the multiverse at large. Containment Specialists often coordinate in clandestine groups to triangulate new threats and ensure isolated ones remain indefinitely contained. With some luck, these organizations can remain obscure footnotes for generations, further sheltering their secrets from curious eyes.

When you use your Exploit Weakness and the target has the Magic Resistance trait, that trait doesn't function until the start of your next turn.

With a blinding flash, you can overwrite the memories of those around you. You can cast Modify Memory as an action targeting up to 3 creatures within range without a spell slot or components. You must modify the memories of each creature affected by the spell in the same way.

Once you use this feature, you can't do so again until you finish a Long Rest.

You can leverage a powerful quarantine procedure to keep others safe from dangerous artifacts. As a Magic action, you can create a pocket dimension that is an exact duplicate of your surroundings at the moment you use this feature—complete with duplicates of all the structures and nonmagical items therein—and transport creatures you choose within its area to the dimension. You decide the exact area of the duplicate dimension, as long as its total space fits within a 150-foot Cube.

While in the pocket dimension, you can only affect and be affected by other creatures in that dimension. You can't see creatures and objects outside the pocket dimension. Objects taken from the pocket dimension vanish upon leaving it.

If a creature leaves the bounds of the pocket dimension it appears in the corresponding space on the plane it left. If it appears in an occupied space, it is shunted to the nearest unoccupied space and takes 4d6 Force damage.

The pocket dimension lasts for 10 minutes, and ends early if you have the Incapacitated condition, the pocket dimension contains no creatures, or you dismiss it (no action required). When the pocket dimension ends, all creatures and objects are returned to the plane they left in their corresponding locations.

Once you use this feature to create a pocket dimension, you can't do so until you finish a Long Rest.

Investigate and Hunt Down Rogue Constructs

Blaster in hand and badge in pocket, your job is to hunt down renegade androids—especially the troublesome Version 13 units—that prowl through human megacities wearing perfect human facades. Your best tools are reliable detection, high firepower, and a knack for unpicking mysteries, which has made you a foremost expert in killing Constructs of all stripes. Whenever an N-Virus outbreak threatens a world, a few Decommissioners are pulled from their gumshoe duties to stem the tide and take down the most lethal units in the wave. And whenever a rogue AI gets its virtual hands on a superweapon, your Datapad starts to buzz.

You can spend 10 minutes modifying a weapon with the Blaster property with aftermarket components to improve its stopping power. This blaster remains improved until you use this feature to modify a different blaster. The blaster's damage dice each increase by one step (d4 → d6 → d8 → d10 → d12, to a maximum of 1d12).

You can take an action to hack a Construct within 5 feet of you. The Construct makes a Wisdom saving throw against your spell save DC. A Construct with a Challenge Rating greater than your Investigator level automatically succeeds on this save. If it fails, you can perform one of the following operations.

When you use your Finisher with a blaster against an enemy that is Bloodied, you may kill it instantly with a well-placed shot. If the enemy has fewer Hit Points than three times your Investigator level after taking damage, it drops to 0 Hit Points.

Chase Down Clues and Crack the Mystery

Prowling at the edge of darkness, Detectives chase down clues and pull on threads to unravel conspiracies that bring darkness into the world. Sometimes, this requires that you infiltrate a cult's secret meetings, other times it calls on you to reconstruct a person's last moments at a murder scene. No matter what the mystery, however, you know that there is always an explanation.

As a Bonus Action, you can examine the movements of a creature you can see within 30 feet of yourself. Until the start of your next turn, you can add 1d6 to attack rolls you make against the target, and the target subtracts 1d6 from all its attack rolls against you. Once you use this Bonus Action on a target, you can't use it on that target again until you finish a Short or Long Rest.

Your sleuthing experience grants you the following benefits.

You can use your Predictive Intuition on a target an unlimited number of times.

Slay Vampires, Werewolves, and Other Terrible Creatures

An Exterminator suffers no monster to live. Trained in the art of slaying Aberrations, Fiends, and Undead, you stand against evil where others falter, and draw your blade before others recognize a threat. Grand schemes and plots are less important than retribution against monsters which stalk the night, and your thirst for such retribution is unquenchable. There is always another werewolf to be slain, another vampire to be staked, another demon to be banished; people rarely thank you, but you find satisfaction enough in your work.

As a Bonus Action, you can make one attack with a weapon or an Unarmed Strike.

You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Intelligence modifier (minimum of once). You regain one expended use when you finish a Short Rest, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a Long Rest.

Your monster-killing expertise grants you the following benefits.

You can use your Exploit Weakness twice on your turn, but can't use it against the same target more than once.

Bargain with Fiends for Infernal Powers

The Infernum are Investigators in league with Fiends, either willingly to pursue nefarious ends or unwillingly as the result of an infernal bargain. Each is given a set of enigmatic goals and a fiendish overseer (often an Imp), then left entirely to their own devices. Many search and scrounge for a solution to their fiendish bargain or opt for malicious compliance, delivering upon their infernal directives while undermining their broader schemes. Others, however, revel in their dark alliance, gleefully hoping to climb the fiendish ranks.

When you finish a Long Rest, you can strike one of the following bargains with your infernal masters. You can also discuss new bargains with your GM. The bargain lasts until you finish a Long Rest.

You add Geas to your grimoire for free. When you cast the spell using this feature, you can modify its casting to draft a binding contract. Instead of giving a verbal command, you write a legal contract that can contain up to 10 commands and conditions. You can include clauses that end the spell early or extend its duration to a maximum of 90 days. Instead of targeting a creature that you can see within range, the spell targets any creature that signs the contract within the duration.

A creature that willingly signs the contract as a Utilize action automatically fails its saving throw against the spell, whether or not the creature understands the nature of the contract.

You can take a Magic action to shape-shift your Fiendish Familiar into one of the following forms: Barbed Devil, Incubus, Succubus, or Vrock. It remains transformed for 1 minute or until you end it (no action required). While transformed, your familiar can attack.

Once you use this feature, you can't do so again until you finish a Long Rest.

Drive Out Fiends and Root out Heresy

The church has long been the first line of defense against the tide of impending darkness. Yet, the clergy's stubborn devotion to righteousness impedes them where it counts: you must sometimes be willing to do evil to counter evil. That's where the inquisition comes in.

As a righteous Inquisitor, you are tasked with rooting out heresy, exorcising demons, and stamping out any sign of the occult, and you are offered clemency for any action you take in the defense of the greater good. You may investigate anyone or anything you deem to be in line with the forces of evil, for you alone are a holy blade in the dark, the arbiter of your church.

Once on each of your turns when you take the Attack action and hit a creature with a weapon, you can cause the target to take an extra 1d8 Necrotic or Radiant damage (your choice).

You can use your Holy Trinkets three times without expending a use of your Trinkets. You regain these uses when you finish a Long Rest.

As a Bonus Action, you can emblazon a mark of condemnation upon a creature you can see within 60 feet of you. The target must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw against your spell save DC or be marked for 1 minute. While marked, the target takes 6d6 Radiant damage at the start of each of its turns, can't regain Hit Points, and can't have Advantage on D20 Tests. A marked target can repeat its saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.

Once you mark a creature using this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a Long Rest. You can also restore your use of it by expending a use of your Rushed Incantation (no action required).

Solve Mysteries with Your Talking Animal Sidekick

Though Kid Sleuths are not all literally youths, they are all amateur detectives with a knack for solving tricky crimes. Assisted by their ubiquitous animal sidekicks, Kid Sleuths will happily dive into the details of a grim crime scene to emerge with a handful of clues and a lead on the bad guy. These sleuths generally prefer to run away from trouble, rather than engage head-on, since mysteries only get harder to solve with more dead bodies, but they are more than capable of defending themselves if backed into a corner.

When you use your Exploit Weakness, you can immediately move up to half your Speed without provoking Opportunity Attacks. Alternatively, you can choose one ally you can see within 30 feet of you who can see or hear you. The ally can take a Reaction to move up to half its Speed without provoking Opportunity Attacks.

When your familiar takes the Dash, Disengage, or Hide action, you gain the benefits of that action on your next turn. You must be Heavily Obscured or behind Three-Quarters Cover or Total cover, and you must be out of any enemy's line of sight to gain the benefits of the Hide action.

Whenever an enemy within 30 feet of yourself makes an attack roll against one of your allies, you can take a Reaction to impose Disadvantage on that roll.

Foretell the Future and Commune with the Dead

As conduits between the living and dead, Mediums offer an essential glimpse past the veil of mortality. Using their auguries, seances, and divinations, Mediums can retrieve morsels of information from the afterlife to settle debts between the living or dead, and to assist ongoing investigations. This information, however cryptic, can point an interested party toward clues or evidence that only the deceased are able to provide.

Once per turn when you deal damage with a weapon, you can replace one of the damage dice with a foretelling roll.

As a Magic action, you can receive a hint from beyond. The GM gives a one-word hint pertaining to your best course of action, a fruitful line of inquiry, or some other useful direction.

Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a Long Rest. You can also restore your use of it by expending a use of your Rushed Incantation (no action required).

You can take a Bonus Action to cast True Seeing without a spell slot or components. When you cast the spell with this feature, you have Advantage on the first attack you make on each of your turns for the duration of this spell.

Once you use this feature, you can't do so again until you finish a Long Rest.

Infiltrate, Assassinate, and Lie with Aplomb

Infiltration, disguise, and lying through their teeth: these are the principal skills of a Spy. A talented Spy rarely needs to draw a dagger to silence someone, for their honeyed words and agreeable disposition are all that is needed to draw out someone's secrets. Of course, when they do strike, it is decisive and without warning. Such skills are invaluable for governments and organizations of all types, used for stealing confidential information, sabotage, monitoring persons of interest, and everything in between.

When you deal damage during the first round of combat, you can deal extra Force damage to the target if the target hasn't taken a turn yet or if you have Advantage on the attack roll against the target. The Force damage equals your Investigator level.

As a Magic action, you can assume the identity of a Humanoid or a corpse of a Humanoid that you touch that has been dead for no longer than 24 hours. An illusion causes your appearance to perfectly match the target, including clothing, armor, weapons, and other belongings. If the target is a corpse, you resemble the Humanoid as it appeared in life. Additionally, the corpse, its blood, clothing, and other physical evidence of its death, become magically invisible for 8 hours.

To discern that you are disguised, a creature must take the Study action to inspect your appearance and succeed on an Intelligence (Investigation) check against your spell save DC.

Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a Short or Long Rest. You can also restore your use of it by expending a use of your Rushed Incantation (no action required).

You can cast Glibness without a Material component. You can also cast it once without a spell slot, and you regain the ability to cast it in this way when you finish a Long Rest. For the spell's duration, you can take the Influence action as a Bonus Action.

Manipulate Time to Solve Mysteries

Time Operatives are agents from the future bestowed with a series of cryptic goals and a well of chronomantic magic. Some operatives hail from far-off utopias or crumbling apocalypses, while others simply receive a message across space and time and dedicate themselves to its mission. To prevent paradoxes, these Time Operatives receive only the barest clues pertaining to their mission. They know only the gravity of the situation, and that it is inherent upon them to change the course of history.

When you make a D20 Test and fail, you can take a Bonus Action to rewind time to the moment before the attempt. Reroll the D20 Test and you must use the new roll.

You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Intelligence modifier (minimum of once). You regain all expended uses when you finish a Long Rest.

You can take the Magic action to cast your senses up to 24 hours back in time at your current location. You can see and hear this location as if you were there, but the past appears dreamlike and shadowy. While perceiving the past, you can look in any direction, but you can't move or speak. This glimpse into the past lasts for 10 minutes, but it ends early if you dismiss it (no action required).

When you finish a Short Rest or reduce an enemy to 0 Hit Points, you regain a use of your Borrowed Time.