Savant

Specializing in the study of forgotten civilizations, uncharted lands, and ancient places, Archaeologists bring the light of knowledge to the dark and deadly places of the world. Doing their best to uncover the wisdom of ages long past, they often tend to feel a sad kinship with the civilizations they study and go to great lengths not to destroy or offend their memory.

You are well acquainted with danger. Whenever you make a Dexterity saving throw, or an ability check related to a trap, you add one roll of your Intellect Die to the result of your roll.

Also, if you use your action to use a magic item, potion, or scroll you can make one weapon attack as a bonus action.

You constantly study every myth, legend, and folk tale you come across. If you observe a person, place, or object for at least 10 minutes, you mystically recall information about it as if it were the target of a legend lore spell.

The target of this feature does not need to be of legendary importance in order for you to gain information. Though, if there is no relevant lore about the target you learn nothing.

Finally, when you use a magic item, you use your Intellect save DC for its effects unless the item's save DC was higher.

Your familiarity with ancient magic has given you insight into its workings. You gain resistance to all damage from spells.

Also, when you finish a short rest, you can touch one magic item that normally regains its charges at dawn, and it regains expended charges equal to your Intelligence modifier.

The savants known as Culinarians put their great intellects to work in the science of food and drink. Ever the adventurer, they leave their kitchens behind, venturing out into the world in a lifelong search for new wondrous and exotic ingredients. What strange and exciting recipes will you come to discover?

As an action, you can touch one of your Morsels with cook's utensils and change it to a Morsel of another Recipe.

Also, when you use your action to eat or feed a Morsel to a creature, you can make one weapon attack as a bonus action.

Your Recipes invigorate your allies along with their normal benefits. A creature that eats one of your Morsels also gains temporary hit points equal to your Savant level.

You are a master monster chef and can cook with anything, anywhere. Over the course of 1 hour, which can be during a short or long rest, you can use cook's utensils and any foods to prepare a monstrous feast that can feed yourself and a number of other creatures equal to your Savant level.

If a creature spends 10 minutes eating its meal, it is instantly cured of any poisons, diseases, or any other hostile condition that is effecting it, and for 24 hours, it is immune to both the frightened and poisoned conditions, and it adds one roll of your Intellect Die to any ability check or saving throw it makes that uses its Wisdom or Constitution.

Excelling at unraveling mysteries, conspiracies, and secrets, Investigators possess an uncanny ability to read the intent of others. They often spend their lives working to thwart those who deceive the innocent and take advantage of the common trust. Their considerable minds and eye for the truth stand in the way of thieves, shapeshifters, and corrupt politicians.

Your intuition grants you a heightened sense for openings in your foe's defenses. When you use Calculated Flourish and cause the attack to miss, you can force the attacker to make a Dexterity saving throw against Rough & Tumble as part of the same reaction, instead of moving.

Also, whenever your Focus fails the saving throw against Rough & Tumble, you can choose for it to take bludgeoning damage equal to one roll of your Intellect Die.

Finally, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn, you can make one unarmed strike attack as a bonus action.

You have become familiar with the criminal elements of society. You have advantage on Charisma checks while you are communicating with another creature in Thieves' Cant.

You also master the Secrets & Whispers Scholarly Pursuit, If you have already mastered this Scholarly Pursuit you can instead master your choice of Perfect Recall or Traditions.

Your gaze sees through the most intricate deceptions and conspiracies. You instantly detect the presence of illusions and shapeshifters, and you are instantly aware if your Focus is lying to you.

Also, if your Focus fails its saving throw against Rough & Tumble, you can cause it to be stunned for the duration in place of the normal effects.

Your sense for truth has reached near-supernatural levels. You gain Truesight out to a 30-foot radius.

Also, when you hit your Focus with an attack, or use Potent Observation against your Focus, you can cause the attack to become a critical hit. You can only do so once between each short or long rest.

The savants known as Mentors put their great intellects to work in the science of food and drink. Ever the adventurer, they leave their kitchens behind, venturing out into the world in a lifelong search for new wondrous and exotic ingredients. What strange and exciting recipes will you come to discover?

You can target two creatures, instead of just one, whenever you use an action on your turn to take the Help action.

Your calming presence allows others to truly relax. Creatures that complete a short rest with you have advantage on any Hit Die rolls they make to regain their hit points. They also gain a number of temporary hit points equal to your Savant level.

Your life experience and extraordinary intuition can give you mystical insights into the world around you. You can spend 1 minute meditating on a question you have, or a question that another creature has asked you. At the end of the meditation, you mystically intuit the answer to the question as if you had cast the commune spell. However, unlike commune, you can only intuit an answer if it is known to another mortal being.

Once you gain an answer to a question using this feature, you must finish a long rest before you can do so again.

Finally, you regain all expended uses of your Astute Advice feature whenever you complete a short or long rest.

Your advice is legendary and is desired throughout the land. Creatures of your choice within 15 feet of you gain a bonus to all ability checks and saving throws equal to your Intelligence modifier (minimum of +1), so long as they can hear you.

Moreover, whenever you target an allied creature with the Help action or Astute Advice, you can grant it temporary hit points equal to your Intelligence modifier (minimum of 1).

Lastly, you regain the use of your Mystical Intuition feature whenever you complete a short or long rest.

The Naturalist's classroom begins at the edges of civilization. They study the natural balance of ecosystems and will go to any lengths to maintain that balance. A true Naturalist is a protector of the wild and an expert at predicting the weather, identifying toxic and medicinal plants, and tracking animals.

You are a master tracker of wild creatures and any that would threaten them. You can designate a creature as the Focus of your Adroit Analysis by analyzing signs of its passing, such as tracks or marks, even if you can't see the creature. Creatures also remain your Focus even if they become hidden from you.

You also master the Physical Fitness Scholarly Pursuit. If you have already mastered this Scholarly Pursuit, you instead master your choice of either Falconry or Perfect Recall.

Your knowledge allows you and your companions to thrive in the wild places of the world. If you are in an environment that is detailed in your Journal, you and up to ten other creatures that travel with you gain the following benefits:

Your knowledge of the wild does not stop with the mundane. You can add specific dragons, giants, oozes, and undead to your Naturalist's Journal. For example, you could add notes on a young blue dragon, fire giant, or ghast to your Journal.

Your cutting-edge understanding of the natural world also grants your Naturalist's Journal the following extra benefits:

As an action on your turn, you can force one beast, plant, or monstrosity within 30 feet to make a Wisdom saving throw against your Intellect save DC, so long as it can hear you. On a failure, it is charmed by you for 1 hour. Creatures that have an Intelligence score equal to half your Savant level or higher automatically succeed on this saving throw.

While a creature is charmed, it is friendly to you and your allies. As a bonus action, you can issue a verbal command to the creature, which it does its best to obey on its next turn. Once it completes your command it defends itself to the best of its ability until you command it again with a bonus action.

If the creature takes damage, it repeats its Wisdom saving throw at the beginning of its next turn, ending this charm on a success. When it does so, you can use a reaction to shout at it and subtract one roll of your Intellect Die from its roll.

Once a creature succeeds on its saving throw against this feature it is immune to it for 24 hours. You can only have one creature charmed in this way, and charming another creature ends this effect for any other charmed creatures.

Once you successfully charm a creature you must complete a short or long rest before you can use this feature again.

Your knowledge of the natural world surpasses that of nearly all other scholars. You can add specific creatures of any type, except for constructs and humanoids, to your Journal. Also, the duration of Call of the Wild increases to 8 hours, and creatures detailed in your Journal have disadvantage on their initial save to resist Call of the Wild.

Finally, you have advantage on attack rolls against any creatures detailed in your Journal.

Orators are true masters of linguistics and the spoken word. These wordsmiths use nothing but their wit and mastery of rhetoric to rebuff their foes and empower their allies. With utmost confidence, they stride boldly into hostile situations, confident that they can win anyone with their eloquence.

Unlike others who rely on their charm to cajole, Orators are able to embolden their allies and win over their foes with nothing but well-reasoned logic and convincing rhetoric.

Your masterful grasp of logic allows you to resist all but the strongest mind-altering effects. You have advantage on any saving throw you are forced to make to resist enchantment spells, and you are immune to the charmed condition.

Also, whenever you use Uplifting Remark, the creature can roll the Intellect Die twice and use the higher result.

You can bend the masses to your will with your words. If you speak to a group of creatures who can hear and understand you for 1 minute, you can choose to inspire or persuade a number of creatures in that crowd equal to your Savant level, as detailed below. Once you do so, you must finish a short or long rest before you can use this ability on a crowd again.

Your absolute mastery over the spoken word allows you to bend all but the strongest creatures to your will. When you force a creature to make a saving throw to resist one of your Rhetorical Superiority abilities or Peerless Rhetoric, it has disadvantage on the roll if both its Intelligence and Wisdom scores are lower than your Intelligence score.

Philosophy is considered by many to be the purest Discipline a savant can pursue. They expend their genius pondering the deep questions of existence; the purpose of life, the nature of the planes, and the relationship between mortals and gods. Through the study of the multiverse, Philosophers try to perfect their knowledge of the multiverse.

Your resolute sense of purpose bolsters your Words of Power. You can speak your Words of Power at any creature that can hear you within 30 feet, instead of just your current Focus.

Moreover, if you speak a Word of Power at your Focus, it takes additional psychic damage equal to one roll of your Intellect Die on a failed save, and half as much psychic damage on a successful save.

Your ever-deepening understanding of the nature of reality grants you knowledge of more potent Words of Power. You learn the Words of Power listed below, and you can speak each of them once between each short or long rest.

Your willpower rivals that of powerful extraplanar beings. You are always under the effect of protection from evil and good.

Also, whenever a creature takes psychic damage from one of your Words of Power, it takes additional psychic damage equal to your Intelligence modifier (minimum of +1).

Physicians use their considerable intellect to heal the sick and tend to the wounded. They spend their life studying anatomy and the inner workings of mortal creatures, and use this knowledge to keep their allies in top shape. Using their medical training, they offer aid to those who don't have access to the luxury of divine or arcane healing magic.

You have learned to move about the field of battle unscathed to better administer aid. You can take the Dash or Disengage action as a bonus action on each of your turns.

Also, whenever you use your action to use a Combat Medic ability, you can make one weapon attack as a bonus action.

Your techniques push allies to their physical limit. When you use a Combat Medic ability you can empower it as described below. You can use an empowered ability on each individual creature once with no negative effects for it. However, each subsequent time you use an empowered ability on a creature before it finishes a long rest, it gains 1 level of exhaustion.

You can perform legendary feats of medicine. You can use two empowered Combat Medic abilities on each individual creature between each a long rest with no negative effects.

Also, if you roll an Intellect Die as part of a Combat Medic ability, you add your Intelligence modifier to your total roll.

Legends say that rune magic is the most ancient arcane art to be mastered by mortals. Savants who dedicate their lives to the study of these Runes are known as Rune Scribes. They learn all they can about these ancient sigils that embody the fundamental magic of creation. The magic of Runes is rarely used, and jealously guarded by those who can wield its power.

The power imbued within your Runes has grown. Your Runic objects count as magical for as long as the Rune is inscribed.

Also, during the course of a short rest, you can perform a short 10-minute ritual to reawaken the magic of a Rune that has already been Invoked for the day, and it can be Invoked one additional time before the end of your next long rest.

Your Runes offer a measure of protection to those that bear them. If a creature bearing at least one of your Runic objects is forced to make a saving throw to resist the effects of a spell or another magical effect, they gain a bonus to their roll equal to your Intelligence modifier (medium of +1).

Moreover, each time you finish a long rest, you can replace one Rune you know with another Rune of your choice.

You can draw on the magic of your Runes to protect yourself in times of great need. When you are reduced to 0 hit points but not killed outright, you can draw on the power of a Runic object within 60 feet of you, instantly dispelling the Rune and any of its effects, and you fall to 1 hit point instead of 0.

All successful monarchs, conquerors, and revolutions have a master strategist that is responsible for their success in war. Known as Tacticians, these intelligent leaders are always one step ahead of their foes and have a plan for every eventuality. They know the strategies that lead to victory, and those that end in ruin. Alone, a Tactician is no threat, but with powerful allies, they become a force capable of toppling an empire.

You can attack twice, instead of once, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn. Moreover, you can take the Dash, Disengage, or Help action in place of one of these attacks.

Your genius allows you to control the flow of each battle from the outset. When you roll initiative, you can issue an Order to one creature before any other creatures have a chance to act.

Also, when another creature that can hear you makes an attack against your Focus, you can use Potent Observation to add a roll of your Intellect Die to its attack roll. You can do so after it rolls, but before you know if its attack hits.

Your words inspire heroism in your allies. Whenever you issue an Order to a creature you can grant it temporary hit points equal to your Intelligence modifier (minimum of 1).

Bending their impressive intellect toward the study of music, Virtuosos are known for the impressively complex music they write and perform. These masterful composers know how to manipulate the emotions of their listeners with themes, and, with the right sequence of notes, they can fill a listener with feelings of sorrow, anger, indifference, or absolute adoration.

You have woven threads of disarming music into your Theme. If a creature under the influence of your Theme attacks you, it must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw or attack another target of its choice within range. If there isn't another target in range its attack misses. Any creature that succeeds on this saving throw is immune to this effect for 24 hours.

Additionally, whenever you use your action to begin your Theme or your bonus action to continue the Theme, you can target one creature under its influence with a burst of sound, forcing it to make a Constitution saving throw. On a failure, it takes thunder damage equal to two rolls of your Intellect Die.

The strength and beauty of your Theme has increased, and it now affects any creature within 60 feet that can hear it.

Also, whenever you use a Wondrous Theme reaction, you can grant one creature under the influence of your Theme temporary hit points equal to your Intelligence modifier.

Your musical genius and the complexity of your compositions is without peer. You gain the following additional benefits: