Gadgeteer

Advance Your Artificial Intelligence

As a Futurist, you believe that artificial intelligence is the zenith of all invention. To engineer a perfect AI, one which is capable of inventing on its own merits, is to conquer limitless problems by proxy. After all, an advanced AI which doesn't degrade into a rogue intelligence could turn its vastly superior intellect to dramatically improving the world, innovating in ways organic minds couldn't imagine. Your experiments with neural networks and intelligence theory have steadily edged you closer to finding such an AI, and granted your AI companion newfound aptitude along the way.

When you roll Initiative, your AI examines one creature of your choice that you can see within 60 feet of yourself. You learn one of the following pieces of information: the target's Armor Class, its Immunities, its Resistances, its Vulnerabilities, or any spells that currently affect the target.

When a creature you can see makes an attack against you with a weapon that is Magical Technology, such as a Laser Sword or blaster, you can take a Reaction to command your AI to disable that technology. The attacker must succeed on an Intelligence saving throw against your Gadget save DC or the weapon is disabled until the end of the current turn. The attacker must use a different weapon or an Unarmed Strike or lose the attack.

When you make a D20 Test, you can treat a d20 roll of 9 or lower as a 10.

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 Long Rest.

Heal and Experiment on Your Allies

Cyber Surgeons are at the cutting edge of medical science, using serums infused with nanomachines and experimental biochemistry to do the impossible. Their mandate is not to heal, however, but to learn—a fact that many of their patients discover only after becoming unwitting lab rats for a new drug.

As a Magic action, you can drive a bolt into the torso of a creature within 5 feet of you that has died within the last minute and shock it back to life. That creature revives with 1 Hit Point and gains Temporary Hit Points equal to twice your Gadgeteer level. This feature can't return to life a creature that lacks a heart, a creature that has died of old age, or a creature that is missing vital organs.

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 two uses of your Bio-Serum (no action required).

When you use your Bio-Serum, you can give the target the effect of one of the following spells of your choice (no concentration required) in addition to the serum's normal effects: Blur, Enhance Ability, Enlarge/Reduce, Invisibility, Spider Climb. The effects of the spell end early for that creature if you use this feature on that creature again.

As a Magic action, you can activate a healing field in a 30-foot Emanation originating from you. You restore up to 100 Hit Points, divided as you choose among any number of creatures within the Emanation. A creature that regains 1 or more Hit Points from this feature has Advantage on D20 Tests until the start of your next turn.

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

Command a Swarm of Flying Drones

Most Gadgeteers tinker with drones at some point in their career; after all, they're compact, useful projects, with a limited number of moving parts. However, only Drone Jockeys arm themselves with a fleet of programmed drones. By linking the drones' sensors and Construct cores, they create a cunning swarm intelligence, distributed over the network as a whole. This swarm can act almost autonomously, scouting the area and defending the jockey with mechanical efficiency.

You have a second drone linked to your special Drone Controller. When you command your drone using the controller, you can command all of your drones connected to that controller at once, issuing the same commands or different ones.

When you reach Gadgeteer level 10, you gain a third drone linked to your controller.

When a creature hits you with an attack roll, you can take a Reaction to interpose one of your drones between the attacker and yourself. The attack hits the drone instead of you.

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

You've upgraded the drones connected to your special Drone Controller in the following ways.

Create Dazzling Holographic Distractions

Armed with a sophisticated projector, Hologrammers create vivid, photorealistic holograms to confound their foes. Most often, they are accompanied by a holographic decoy, following their every movement as if one crossed their eyes.

You gain the Magic Item (Flashbang) and Magic Item (Invisibomb) Gadgets, which don't count against your number of Gadgets. When you take the Attack action, you can replace one of your attacks with throwing a Flashbang or Invisibomb.

When your Illusory Decoy is destroyed, you can take a Reaction to expend 2 Hologram Points to deal 2d8 Radiant damage to the attacker and immediately create a new decoy.

While Concentrating on Hypnotic Pattern, Major Image, Mislead, or Silent Image, you can replace one of your attacks with the illusion lashing out against a creature you can see within 30 feet of the spell's image. The target makes a Wisdom saving throw against your Gadget save DC. On a failed save, it takes 3d6 plus half your Gadgeteer level (round down) Psychic damage and has Disadvantage on the next saving throw it makes before the end of your next turn. On a successful save, it takes half as much damage only.

Leap Through Dimensional Portals

Gadgeteers with an expertise in dimensional portals are known as Jumpers. Brandishing their signature portal devices, Jumpers can create and hop between portals in a blink of an eye. As their mastery over portal technology grows, they can enhance and manipulate their portals, teleporting themselves and others wherever they please.

As a Magic action, you can create a circular portal next to a Large or smaller creature you can see within 60 feet of yourself. The target must succeed a Dexterity saving throw against your Gadget save DC or be pulled into the portal and be transported to a harmless demiplane for 1 minute. The portal then closes behind it. At the end of each of its turns, the target can repeat this saving throw, reappearing in the space if left or in the nearest unoccupied space if that space is occupied on a success.

If the target succeeds its initial saving throw, the portal remains open until the end of your next turn. The portal floats inches from the ground and is perpendicular to it. A creature that is pushed into the portal is transported to the harmless demiplane as if it failed a saving throw.

Once you use this feature to create a portal, you can't use it again until you finish a Short or Long Rest.

When you or an ally goes through one of your Slip Gate portals, you can choose one of the following additional effects.

When you take the Attack action, you can replace one of your attacks with attempting to teleport an enemy you can see within 60 feet of yourself. The target must succeed on a Charisma saving throw against your Gadget save DC or be teleported to an unoccupied space of your choice within 60 feet of yourself and have the Prone condition.

Perfect Your Body Through Cybernetic Grafts

Nearly all Gadgeteers strive for perfection in their work, but Mastermakers take this goal to a logical extreme: using the technology at their disposal, they seek to engineer away their own biological defects. By grafting Gadgets and technology onto their bodies (and making liberal use of vect components), Mastermakers gradually become hybrids of living beings and machines. They are stronger, tougher, and more agile than their counterparts, but many would argue that their techniques are too extreme—too unnatural—no matter what the results.

You gain special Android Skin and Voice Changer grafts, which don't take up External and Internal graft slots respectively. When you finish a Short or Long Rest, you can change the appearance of the Android Skin.

When you are hit by an attack roll, you can take a Reaction to ensure that one of your installed grafts absorbs the brunt of the damage. The damage dealt to you is reduced by an amount equal to your Gadgeteer level plus your Intelligence modifier. The chosen graft is temporarily damaged. You can't use that graft or remove it from its body slot until you repair it when you finish a Long Rest. You can't choose your special Android Skin or Voice Changer when using this feature.

By installing a Construct core into your head, you gain the following benefits.

Manipulate Quantum Dynamics with Gadgets

Gadgeteers at the forefront of physics often become Quantum Mechanics, creating devices to explore and exploit the paradoxical nature of tiny, fundamental particles. Through this arsenal of quantum tools, they can change the trajectory of blaster bolts, tunnel through solid matter, and manipulate probability in their favor.

You can activate a quantum tunneling device as a Bonus Action. Until the end of your turn, you have Resistance to all damage and can move through occupied spaces as if they were Difficult Terrain. If you end your turn in such a space, you are shunted to the last unoccupied space you were in.

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 Long Rest.

When you take damage, you can take a Reaction to activate a Feline Waveform Collapser. Roll a d20. If the die rolls a 10 or higher, you take no damage.

Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a Short or Long Rest. If you roll a 9 or lower on the d20, this use of the feature isn't expended.

As a Magic action, you can attempt to entangle yourself with a creature you can see within 30 feet of yourself. The target must succeed on a Charisma saving throw against your Gadget save DC or be linked to you for 1 minute. While linked, you have Resistance to all damage. Each time you take damage, the linked creature takes the same amount of damage. The Entanglement ends early if you have the Incapacitated condition, if the linked creature dies, if the linked creature is ever more than 30 feet away from you, or if you dismiss it (no action required).

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