Investigator

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 story of every magic item their care, as well how to use them in dire situations.

By 6th level, you've secured a handful of priceless relics with rare and delicate enchantments. You can use one of the following relics, and regain the ability to use this feature when you finish a short or long rest.

Starting at 10th level, you maintain a vault of magic items, secured in an extradimensional space with an elaborate locking mechanism. You can produce one of these items, and change your selection each day when you finish a long rest.

The item is your choice of the following: 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.

By 14th level, you've secured the crown jewel of your collection: a lich's phylactery. Though the original owner's soul has been expelled from this accursed artifact, it retains many of its unique 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. You can expend one or more of these charges to use the following abilities:

Though most investigators fill their grimoires with hard-won knowledge borne from encounters with the supernatural threats, some prefer to do bookkeeping instead. Such archivists accrue knowledge, not trinkets, by spending untold hours digging through disparate tomes of occult knowledge and compiling them into encyclopedic texts on the supernatural. Through their research, archivists become academic masters of the arcane, and priceless reservoirs of obscure knowledge.

By 6th level, you've mastered the difficult theory behind arcane propagation. When you cast a spell which forces a creature to make a saving throw to resist its effects, you can give one target of the spell disadvantage on its first saving throw against the spell.

Once you use this ability, you can't use it again until you finish a short or long rest.

Starting at 10th level, you can identify any arcane effect from memory. Whenever you witness a spell being cast or investigate a magical effect, you can always identify the spell that was cast, the magic item responsible, or the monster which produced the effect. However, this ability fails to identify spells, magic items, and monsters which are utterly unique or are otherwise not recorded in arcane texts.

At 14th level, you can effortlessly duplicate spells you see in the world. You can copy any ritual spell you see being cast into your grimoire.

Moreover, you can precisely copy the exact motions of a spell's casting to duplicate its effect. When you see a spell of 5th level or lower being cast, you can use your action and spend 1 use of your Rushed Incantation feature as an action to cast the spell yourself without spending a spell slot. The spell must have a casting time of 1 action, must not have expensive spell components, and must have taken place within the last minute to use this ability.

Once you duplicate a spell in this way, you can't duplicate it again until you finish a long rest.

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 seem to be lurking behind every corner. It's one big coincidence after another. But when you ask the right questions and pull on the most innocuous threads, you start uncovering the biggest mysteries: the ones They don't want you knowing about.

It's hard to tell who They even are, apart from the fact 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.

Starting at 6th level, your manic predictions of the future pay off in conventionally dangerous situations. Whenever you ready an attack, you have advantage on the attack roll.

Beginning at 10th level, you can predict never- before-witnessed phenomena. Any time the GM would disallow other characters to make an Intelligence check to understand something because the knowledge in question has no precedent, is too obscure, or is simply unsupported by the available information, they can allow you to make an Intelligence check to understand it anyway.

By 14th level, you're so adept at avoiding people that you can always keep them at arm's length. Whenever a hostile creature enters your reach, you can use your reaction to move up to half your movement speed without provoking opportunity attacks. Additionally, you are always under the effects of the nondetection spell.

Though the study of magic is diverse and wonderous, it contains innumerable 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 quantamancy are among the few graced with names at all. When a sinister (or merely curious) arcanist pulls on one of these volatile threads of knowledge, they open a Pandora's box of unpredictable effects; the results are usually catastrophic. Using such dangerous arcana leaves lasting scars on people and objects, metaphysical reverberations from 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 usually coordinate in clandestine groups to triangulate new threats and ensure isolated ones are contained indefinitely. With some luck, these organizations can remain obscure footnotes for generations, further sheltering their secrets from curious eyes.

Starting at 6th level, whenever you score a critical hit on a melee attack against a creature, the target is stunned until the beginning of your next turn.

At 10th level, with a blinding flash, you can overwrite the memories of those around you. You can cast the modify memory spell once as an action, targeting 3 creatures within range, without using a spell slot or spell components. You must modify the memories of each creature affected by the spell in the same way.

Once you use this ability, you can't use it again until you finish a long rest.

By 14th level, you can leverage a powerful quarantine procedure to keep others safe from dangerous artifacts. As an action, you can create a pocket dimension that is an exact duplicate of your surroundings at the moment of using this ability—complete with duplicates of all the structures and 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.

The pocket dimension lasts for 10 minutes, and ends early if it no longer contains living creatures or you use your action to end it. All creatures and objects inside the pocket dimension are deposited as near as possible to their corresponding locations in the real world when this effect ends.

Once you use this ability, you can't use it again until you finish a long rest.

Prowling at the edge of darkness, detectives chase down clues and pull on threads to unravel conspiracies which 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 man's last moments at a murder scene, but no matter what the mystery, you know that there is always an explanation.

By 6th level, you can turn your skills at reconstructing events towards anticipating the next likely moment of a fight. As a bonus action, you can examine the movements of a creature you can see within 30 feet. You can choose to add 1d4 to your next attack roll targeting that creature before the start of your next turn, or you can choose to subtract 1d4 from the creature's next attack roll against you before the start of your next turn.

At 10th level, you are so accustomed to uncovering the truth that you can sense the intents behind someone's voice. You can tell if a creature that you can hear speaking is charmed, possessed, or otherwise enchanted to speak against their will, and you have advantage on any ability check you make to determine if you hear a lie.

Starting at 14th level, you can use your action to examine a creature you can see within 30 feet, taking note of innumerable details and making a lengthy string of logical deductions. For the next minute, you have advantage on Intelligence and Charisma checks you make to interact with this creature, and you have advantage on attack rolls against them.

Once you use this ability, you can't use it again until you finish a short or long rest.

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 those 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.

Beginning at 6th level, when you use the Attack action, you can make one weapon attack as a bonus action. You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Intelligence modifier (a minimum of once) and regain all expended uses when you finish a short or long rest.

Starting at 10th level, whenever you deal damage to a creature with a weapon attack, it can't regain hit points until the start of your next turn. Additionally, when you reduce a creature to 0 hit points, it can't be raised as an undead creature nor be returned to life for 7 days.

Starting at 14th level, you can use your Exploit Vulnerability feature twice on your turn, but can't use it against the same target more than once.

Just as noble investigators shield the world from sinister supernatural forces, infernal agents prowl the darkness enacting schemes to further supernatural goals. Though actual devils oversee many infernal agents, just as many count themselves as operatives of vampires, lycanthropes, ominous eldritch forces, and chaos itself. Their rationale and motives might vary, but all infernal agents seek to disrupt the status quo that other investigators protect, casting them in stark contrast and as bitter enemies.

Starting at 6th level, you can capitalize on your foes' setbacks. Once per turn, you can deal an extra 2d6 damage to one creature you hit with an attack if you have advantage on the attack roll.

By 10th level, you can flawlessly conceal the evidence of your misdeeds. Whenever you commit a murder, robbery, vandalism, or similar crime, you can spend 10 minutes hiding evidence at the scene. You can choose to remove all evidence connecting you to the crime, attempt to conceal the crime itself, or compose the crime scene to imply a specific conclusion.

By 14th level, you can set up the perfect crime by planning out its every detail. On your turn, you can choose a creature or object you can see within 60 feet and use your action to plan. The next attack roll or ability check you make to enact this plan has advantage. If you spend 1 minute planning a course of action, you have advantage on the next three attack rolls or ability checks you make enacting your plan.

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 of the faith, you are tasked with rooting out heresy, exorcising demons, and stamping out any sign of the occult, and 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.

At 6th level, you gain the ability to infuse your weapon strikes with divine energy. Once on each of your turns when you hit a creature with a weapon attack, you can cause the attack to deal an extra 1d6 radiant damage to the target.

Starting at 10th level, you command a mastery of divine magic seldom seen among the clergy. You can use your Opportunistic Piety feature three times, and regain all expended uses when you finish a short or long rest.

By 14th level, as an action, you can emblazon a creature you can see within 60 feet with a mark of religious condemnation. The target must succeed on your choice of a Constitution or Wisdom saving throw or be marked for the next minute. While marked, the creature can't regain hit points or have advantage on any attack roll or ability check. Additionally, whenever the creature takes an action, it takes 2d6 radiant damage as the mark burns with radiant light.

Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a long rest.

Though not all kid sleuths are literally juvenile, they are all amateur detectives with a knack for solving tricky crimes. Assisted by their ubiquitous talking 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 it 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.

Starting at 6th level, you prefer to flee from monsters and bad guys until you can pin down their methods, identities, and motives. Attacks of opportunity against you have disadvantage.

By 10th level, you've discovered that you can cover a lot more ground if you split up. If you are further than 60 feet from your allies (excluding your animal sidekick), you can't be surprised. Furthermore, if you drop to 0 hit points while further than 60 feet from your allies, you drop to 1 hit point instead and can use your reaction to move up to your movement speed.

Once you use this feature to avoid dropping to 0 hit points, you can't use it again until you finish a long rest.

At 14th level, as a reaction when you see a hostile creature within 15 feet attack one of your allies, you can impose disadvantage on the attack roll.

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 with the living or and assist ongoing investigations. This information, however cryptic, can point an interested party toward clues or evidence which only the deceased might be able to provide.

By 6th level, the spirits of the dead guide your hand when you would falter. You can reroll an attack roll or ability check you make, and must use the new roll.

Once you use this ability, you can't use it again until you finish a short or long rest.

Starting at 10th level, you can open your perceptions to receive a hint from beyond the pale. The GM answers with 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 ability, you can't use it again until you finish a long rest.

By 14th level, your connection to the afterlife allows you to see all. You can use your bonus action to cast the spell true seeing without using a spell slot or spell components.

Once you use this ability, you can't use it again until you finish a long rest.

Vampires, demons, lycanthropes, and aberrations all have one thing in common: they are all magical threats, best combated through magical means. To meet these foes on a level playing field, occultists indulge in arcana, filling their grimoires with magical secrets and mastering a handful of spells. Occultists are the most likely investigators to cavort with warlocks, borrow tricks from wizards and magicians, and dabble in dark magic to defeat their foes.

Starting at 6th level, you can use your magical cunning to rip your foes asunder. You can cast a cantrip as a bonus action instead of dealing additional damage with your Exploit Vulnerability feature.

Starting at 10th level, supernatural creatures can no longer escape your detection. You can see creatures and objects that are invisible or ethereal, and you can see the original form of shapechangers or creatures whose form has been altered by magic. Additionally, you can immediately detect if a creature you can see is possessed.

Starting at 14th level, when you use your Exploit Weakness feature against a creature, you can cast the spell bestow curse on that creature as a bonus action, without using a spell slot or spell components; the targeted creature has disadvantage on its saving throw against this spell.

Once you use this ability, you can't use it again until you finish a short or long rest.

Infiltration, disguise, and lying through their teeth: these are the principle skills of a spy. A talented spy rarely ever 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 decisively and without warning. Such skills are invaluable for governments and organizations of all varieties, for stealing confidential information, sabotage, monitoring persons of interest, and everything in between.

By 6th level, you always endeavor to kill your target in one strike. When you make an attack roll against a creature that is surprised or hasn't taken a turn in combat yet, you can maximize your weapon's damage die.

Starting at 10th level, your roguish smile grants you incredible leeway. Whenever you fail a Charisma (Deception) or Charisma (Persuasion) check, you can reroll the check, and must use the results of the new roll.

Once you use this ability, you can't use it again until you finish a long rest.

By 14th level, you can rapidly exchange identities with a corpse. When you reduce a humanoid creature to 0 hit points, you can assume the creature's appearance, as per the disguise self spell. The creature's body, as well as its blood, clothing, and other physical evidence of its death, become invisible for 8 hours. You can also use this ability as an action to touch the corpse of a humanoid creature which has been dead no longer than 1 day, assuming its appearance and causing the body to become invisible.

Once you use this ability, you can't use it again until you finish a long rest.

The end of all things has been foretold: soon, a horrific event will claim millions of lives. When such a disaster looms, a special pocketwatch is delivered from the future, promoting whoever receives it to an operative—one dedicated to preventing it. The pocketwatch is suffused with chronomantic energies, empowering anyone who holds it.

To avoid paradoxes, no clues can be sent backwards in time with the pocketwatch. Only a short message detailing the gravity of the situation can be sent. Therefore, it is inherent upon the time operative to solve the mystery and save the future from certain doom.

By 6th level, you can use other timelines as a backup when yours isn't optimal. Whenever you roll damage for a weapon attack, you can choose to reroll the damage, replacing the damage die with a die one step smaller (a d10 becomes a d8, a d8 becomes a d6, etc.). You can't use this ability to reroll a weapon with a d4 damage die.

Starting at 10th level, you can use your action to cast your senses backward in time, viewing your location as it was 24 hours prior. While viewing the past, you are blind and deaf with regard to your own senses. The past appears dreamlike and shadowy, but you are able to discern detail and hear conversation as normal, and any special senses you possess (such as darkvision) also work as normal.

While perceiving the past, you can look in any direction, but you cannot move or speak and are unable to sense your present surroundings. You can end this effect on your turn (no action required).

Beginning at 14th level, when you use your Exploit Weakness feature against a creature, you can use your pocketwatch to steal moments from the target, which must make a Constitution saving throw against your spell save DC. On a failed save, the creature freezes in place until the end of its next turn. For the duration, time doesn't pass for the creature: it is stunned and can't speak.

Once you use this ability, you can't use it again until you finish a long rest.