Alchemist

Brew Love Potions and Charm Your Foes

The study of mind-affecting alchemy is a delicate one, practiced only by a small number of Alchemists, known as Amorists. Often called "love doctors" by their clientele, Amorists specialize in the brewing of potions that produce strong emotional responses in their drinkers. While love potions are by far their most popular product, Amorists can also craft pungent pheromone bombs that can even soften the hearts of terrible monsters.

You can take the Influence action as a Bonus Action.

You wear a mind-altering perfume that endears others to you. When an enemy within 5 feet of you makes an attack roll against you, it must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw against your Alchemist save DC or either choose a new target or lose the attack. A creature that takes damage from you is immune to this feature for 1 hour.

When you use your Pheromone Bomb, you can expend 1-4 Reagents to improve it. Choose a number of benefits equal to the number of Reagents expended.

Heal the Sick and Wounded

Many practically minded Alchemists assume the role of the Apothecary, for adventuring parties always need a healer and Clerics are often in short supply. During their downtime, such Alchemists have a marketable skill to depend upon for income and can do an indisputable amount of good with their knowledge. Apothecaries constantly study potions and herbology, preferring to learn how to mend the body, rather than destroy it.

When a creature regains Hit Points as a result of drinking one of your potions, it can instead replace up to half of the die rolled with the highest possible number for each die.

Whenever you drink a potion that has the effect of restoring your Hit Points (even if you already have all of your Hit Points), you have Advantage on saving throws until the end of your next turn.

Your medicines are potent enough to rouse the dead. By using a Magic action to mix diamond dust worth 1,000 GP+ into a Potion of Superior Healing or a Potion of Supreme Healing, you create a Potion of Resurrection. This potion doesn't become inert after 24 hours.

Manipulate Energy to Defeat Your Foes

Ionizers specialize in the transfer of energy. In the most benign applications, they design heatsinks and cooling systems to improve cutting edge technology. However, they also deal in destructive ends, designing lasers, energy shields, and especially blasters. With a few thermodynamic tricks, they command plasma in all its forms.

You've learned an alchemical trick to channel heat from one object to another. As a Bonus Action, you can expend 1 Reagent to use Overheat and Supercool.

When you are hit by a ranged attack that deals Force, Lightning, Necrotic, or Radiant damage, roll a d6. On a roll of 6, the attack misses you, regardless of its roll.

You create a fist-sized device that can absorb, store, and redirect small amounts of energy. When you use your Electromagnetic Shield feature, regardless of your roll, your discharge device gains 1 charge, to a maximum of 10. Charges last for 24 hours. As a Bonus Action, you can expend any number of stored charges to force a target within 60 feet of you to make a Dexterity saving throw against your Alchemist save DC. A creature takes 1d10 Force damage for each charge expended on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.

Blow Things Up

While many "Mad Bombers" aren't actually mad, it takes a special kind of crazy to devote one's life to studying explosives. Most Alchemists who specialize in this field are incorrigible pyromaniacs who take great pleasure in burning, blasting, and blowing things up. Mad Bombers are always working to improve their bombs' effectiveness.

When you prime a Bomb, you can set a duration for its detonation, which can be any number of rounds (any increment of 6 seconds) up to 10 minutes. The Bomb detonates using the Bomb's Explode property at the end of your turn after this duration. If a creature is in the area of more than one Bomb's explosion simultaneously, the creature is only affected by one Bomb of your choice.

Choose one damage type from among Acid, Cold, Fire, Lightning, or Thunder whenever you finish a Short or Long Rest. You have Resistance to that damage type until you choose a different one with this feature.

Whenever you expend a number of Reagents equal to your Proficiency Bonus to empower a Bomb, you gain 2 additional Reagents which you can immediately expend to further empower the Bomb beyond the normal maximum of Reagents.

Mutate Yourself to Adapt to Any Situation

The study of alchemy is fundamentally the study of transformation. All Alchemists transmute mundane materials into magical substances—potions, elixirs, and bombs—yet some take it one step further. You have discovered the secrets of the mutagen, the keystone of transmutation, which allows you to transform your very body, gaining supernatural strength or speed, sprouting additional limbs or claws, or thickening your skin into a stony aegis.

You can take a Bonus Action and expend 1 Reagent to inject an ally within 5 feet of you with a Mutagen of your choice. A creature can only be under the effect of one Mutagen at a time. Once you have injected another creature with a Mutagen, you can't do so again until the original Mutagen ends.

Whenever you inject yourself with a Mutagen, you can also gain one of the following mutations of your choice.

Choose Strength, Dexterity, or Constitution. The chosen ability score increases by 2, and your maximum for this score increases to 22. When a Mutagen is applied to that ability score, its maximum increases to 25. You can change this ability score increase when you finish a Long Rest.

Brew Bottled Ooze Minions

Unsurprisingly, Oozes, jellies, and slimes are a fascinating subject for Alchemists who wish to figure out how inanimate chemicals can form together and rise up in a moving, hungry mass. The answer to this question may very well be at the heart of alchemy itself. Alchemists who choose to research slimes in depth are called Ooze Ranchers, for they breed and keep numerous slimes upon which to experiment.

Whenever you brew potions, you can spend 2 Reagents to create a Bottled Ooze, which contains a Gray Ooze. This item retains potency until you finish a Long Rest, after which it becomes inert.

An Ooze produced by your Bottled Oozes uses your Intelligence modifier plus your Proficiency Bonus for its attack rolls. If the Ooze forces a creature to make a saving throw, it uses your Alchemist save DC.

Whenever you are targeted by an attack while an allied Ooze is within 5 feet of you, you can take a Reaction to command it to move in the way of the attack, causing the attack to target it instead.

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

Whenever you create a Bottled Ooze, choose Acid, Cold, Fire, Lightning, Poison, or Thunder damage. The Ooze has Immunity to that damage. Whenever it is subjected to that damage type, it takes no damage and instead regains a number of Hit Points equal to half the damage dealt.

Splash Paint Everywhere to Support Your Allies

One of the lesser-known duties of Alchemists is synthesizing new and increasingly vibrant pigments from mundane and magical materials—in many cases, creating new colors from whole cloth. Alchemists that specialize in this field are called Pigmentists. An artful and imaginative lot, they seek to brighten the world with their newly-invented hues, or failing that, simply splatter it with marvelous combinations of paint.

You mix your paint with conjuration magic. Once on each of your turns, you can use 10 feet of your movement to enter any area of wet paint within 5 feet of you, emerging from another area of wet paint of the same color within 60 feet of you. Both areas of paint must be at least the same size as you and must have been coated within the last minute.

Whenever you brew a potion, you can add a pigment from the Magical Pigments table. When a creature drinks this potion, they also gain the benefits of a Potion of Resistance of the corresponding damage type for 1 minute.

Your Paint Bombs are improved in the following ways:

Use Acoustics to Shape the Battlefield

The explosive force of an Alchemist's Bomb isn't just fire—it is a wave that can be shaped and focused. Alchemists who realize this and pursue the science of waves are deemed Resonators for their oft-revisited subject, resonant frequencies. Perhaps such frequencies are at the center of all alchemical pursuits, for with the right frequencies, a Resonator can warp explosions, concuss dragons, and vibrate steel to pieces.

You have discovered that every material has a resonant frequency, a specific tone that compromises its structural integrity. As a Magic action, you can choose one type of solid material, such as wood, glass, metal, or stone, and begin playing the material's resonant frequency through your Playback Device. You can stop playing a resonant frequency on your turn (no action required).

When you take this action and at the start of each of your turns while playing the frequency, objects made of the specified material within 15 feet of you that aren't being worn or carried take Force damage equal to 1d8 plus your Intelligence modifier. Constructs or Elementals made predominantly of a single material, such as metal or stone, and components of objects, such as the metal lock of a door, can also be damaged by a resonant frequency.

As a Bonus Action, you can throw a concussive explosive at your feet. Each Large or smaller creature of your choice within 10 feet of you can't make Opportunity Attacks until the start of your next turn.

When you prime a Bomb and use its Explode property, you can spend 4 Reagents to create a reverb explosion. If the Bomb deals damage, all if its damage dice decrease by 1 step (d12s → d10s → d8s → d6s → d4s, to a minimum of d4s). At the start of your next turn, the explosion occurs again with the same area and damage, but its damage dice are decreased by a further 1 step.

Cripple Your Foes with Deadly Poisons

For every Alchemist that devotes their life to healing the sick, another hears a darker calling. Commonly called poisoners or Venomsmiths, these Alchemists are masters in the art of crafting deadly and debilitating poisons. Whether employed by an assassin's guild or performing assassinations themselves, a Venomsmith's presence is usually accompanied by untimely death.

You have a specially-designed needle ring for poisoning others. You can use a Bonus Action to deal 1 Piercing damage to a creature within 5 feet of you, subjecting the creature to contact and injury poisons on the ring. You have Advantage on Dexterity (Sleight of Hand and Stealth) checks made to conceal and use this ring.

By administering small doses of poisons and toxins to yourself, you have Immunity to Poison damage and the Poisoned condition.

Whenever a creature within 5 feet of you hits you with a melee attack, you can take a Reaction to unleash a spray of poisonous vapor. The attacker must succeed on a Constitution saving throw against your Alchemist save DC or have the Poisoned condition for 1 minute. While it has the condition, the creature takes 1d10 Poison damage at the start of each of its turns. The creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.

Harvest Monsters and Attach Grafts

A small number of renegade Alchemists elect to experiment on themselves, modifying their anatomy or even outright attaching new body parts. These experimenters are often considered unethical and dangerous, even by other Alchemists, and those that practice them are branded Xenoalchemists for their efforts. As Xenoalchemists progress in their studies, they invariably stumble upon the dangerous practice of alchemical necromancy, which allows them to imbue life upon amalgamations of body parts.

You can take the Study action to examine a creature as a Bonus Action. You learn the target's creature type and make a DC 15 Intelligence check using a skill from the Examine Specimen table, corresponding to the target's creature type. If you succeed, you learn one of the following pieces of information of your choice about the target: its AC, Immunities, Resistances, and whether it is Bloodied.

Whether you succeed or fail, you can't use this feature again to target that creature or another creature of its specific kind (such as humans or unicorns) until you finish a Short or Long Rest.

You've augmented your body with reanimated organs that persist after your death. If you are reduced to 0 Hit Points but not killed outright, you can drop to a number of Hit Points equal to your Alchemist level.

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

Your research into necromancy has culminated in golem stitched together from discarded body parts. This golem uses the Alchemy Golem stat block.