Artificer

Tapping into the forgotten craft called alchemy, you create wondrous inventions which bind magical effects into potions, elixirs and salves. These magical draughts are easy to give to allies, who can use them directly, and the alchemist can mix powerful reagents into their own draughts to empower the effects.

At 6th level, you are always able to scrape together the materials for your signature recipe. Choose any Artificer spell as your signature recipe. You may use any wondrous invention to cast your signature recipe spell instead of the spell associated with the wondrous invention. The signature recipe spell is cast as if using a spell slot equal to the invention's level, and the invention level must be greater than or equal to the signature recipe spell level. You may change your signature recipe whenever you level up.

At 10th level, you have cracked the fundamentals of alchemy. Once per long rest, over the course of an hour, you can transmute gold into any non-magical item, or any non-magical item into gold. You can transmute up to 50gp of value, consuming the transmuted material.

At 10th level, you've learned to make exceptionally potent reagents. When you use potent reagents, you can apply up to two potent reagents effects per each use. (If the same potent reagent effect is selected twice, effects that say first or second should be treated as if they say first and second, or second and third).

At 14th level, your mastery of alchemy allows you to create a philosopher's stone. The stone requires 8 hours of work to create, and 200gp of materials. As long as you possess the stone, you gain the following benefits:

You create artificial life by merging metal and magic. Specializing in engineering allows you to use bring mechanical creations to life, power those creations with your own inventions, and gives you a mastery over metal.

Beginning at 6th level, you can inspect and maintain the party's weapons and armor to keep them ready for battle.

At the end of any short or long rest, choose weapons or armor for a number of creatures equal to your Intelligence modifier. Creatures for which you choose weapons get +2 to weapon attack and damage rolls until after the next time they deal damage with a weapon attack. Creatures for which you choose armor get +1 to AC until after the next time they take damage from an attack against AC.

These bonuses increase to +3 for weapons and +2 for armor at the 14th level.

At 6th level, you can energize your constructs with the power from your wondrous inventions. As an action, you can expend an invention to charge a construct within 30 feet of you with the magical energy in the device.

The target gains temporary hit points equal to four times the level of the wondrous invention. The target may use its reaction to move up to its movement speed and make an attack. If the attack hits, it does extra lightning damage equal to 1d6 plus 1d6 per level of the invention.

At 6th level, you may choose a duodrone as the form of your familiar.

Beginning at 10th level, as an action, you can destroy a number of constructs you control of total CR less than your artificer level to distribute their remaining hit points to any number of other constructs you control. All creatures must be within 60 feet of each other and you.

At 10th level, you may choose a tridrone as the form of your familiar.

Beginning at 14th level, if you deal lightning damage to a creature, constructs under your control gain advantage on attacks against that creature until your next turn. Also, when you use power transfer, the construct gets advantage on its next attack this turn.

At 14th level, you may choose a quadrone as the form of your familiar.

At 14th level, the bonuses from your Primed for Battle feature increase to +3 for weapons and +2 for armor.

The questing artificer searches out artifacts in the wild, eager to discover and master new treasures. Where other artificers look to create their own inventions, the artificer discovers wondrous inventions that have been lost or buried deep in forgotten dungeons. They are ready to face the dangers in finding new treasures, and use their own inventions in creative ways.

Starting at 6th level, you can attack twice, instead of once, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn.

At 6th level, you can use Spontaneous Innovation an additional time between each rest.

At 6th level, you may repair an additional item from your Wondrous Discoveries feature.

At 10th level, you can deploy a wondrous invention as a trap. If you spend a minute, you can set up a wondrous invention to trigger given particular circumstances. Follow the rules for triggering from the glyph of warding spell. The invention must have a cast time of 1 action or less. You can only have one invention set up this way at a time.

At 10th level, you may repair an additional item from your Wondrous Discoveries feature.

At 14th level, you can modify your inventions on the fly to get out of a tight spot. Once per long rest, you can use a wondrous invention in one of two unconventional ways:

Alter. You may expend an invention to cast any spell in the Artificer spell list that shares a school of magic with the invention's spell and is at least 1 spell level lower than the invention's level.

Enhance. You can use one invention to power up another. Choose two of your inventions. Use one of them to cast its spell as if using a spell slot equal to the combined invention levels. Both are expended. If the inventions combined level is higher than your current Max Invention Level (as shown in the Artificer table) the spell is cast as if using a spell slot equal to your current Maximum Invention Level.

At 14th level, the Exceptional Innovation feature grants two additional uses of Spontaneous Innovation each long rest instead of one.

At 14th level, you may repair an additional item from your Wondrous Discoveries feature.

You push the field of magic artifice in new directions, specializing in a field of research and developing upgraded inventions to master that field, pushing the boundaries of science, magic and invention.

Beginning at 6th level, you have learned to modify your wondrous inventions to push them to their limit. You can now improve your inventions with upgrades, which are detailed which are detailed in the list that follows.

Choose three upgrades from the list and add them to your inventions. You can choose an additional upgrade at 10th level and another at 14th level.

You may have at most one of each upgrade, and each wondrous invention can have only one upgrade. You may move one upgrade from an invention to another one or change to a different upgrade over a long rest.

Augmentation Upgrade. As an action, you can change one of the damage types of an augmented invention. Choose acid, cold, fire, lightning, or thunder damage. For the next hour, if this wondrous invention would do one damage type in that list, it does the chosen damage type instead. If the invention would do multiple damage types, choose which type is being replaced when you use the action.

Bifurcation Upgrade. If a bifurcated invention would cast a spell that has a single area of effect, you may instead create two areas of effect within range. The dimension of each of the areas of effect is divided by half, rounded down to the nearest 5 feet increment. The areas may overlap, but the effect of the spell is not doubled in overlapping areas.

Charging Upgrade. Costs 1 Invention Point. As an action, you can charge this wondrous invention. Once charged, the invention can be used with a bonus action. If the charged invention is not expended within 30 seconds, it backfires, expending the invention. As an action, you can deactivate the charge without expending the invention.

Efficiency Upgrade. If you would use an efficient invention to cast a spell with the ritual tag, you may increase the cast time of the spell by 10 minutes. If you do so, the wondrous invention is not expended.

Empowered Upgrade. Costs 1 Invention Point. You may use an empowered invention as if using a spell slot one level higher than its invention level. When used in this way, it has a 10% chance to overload and instead cast the spell as if using a spell slot two levels higher, but you take 1d8 force damage plus an additional 1d8 force damage if the invention level is 5th or greater.

Flexible Upgrade. When you upgrade to a flexible invention, choose a second spell of equal or lower level than the invention level, and third spell if all three share a school of magic. When you use this invention, you may cast any one of the spells, expending the use of the invention as normal. You may choose this upgrade multiple times.

Reliability Upgrade. A reliability upgrade allows you to change the range of potential damage of your invention. As a bonus action, you can change all the damage dice of your invention with another from the same row in this table:

Stability Upgrade. Costs 1 Invention Point. When you use a stable invention to cast a spell with concentration and you lose concentration due to taking damage, you can keep the effect of the spell until the end of your next turn.

Starting at 10th level, you're approaching mastery in your field of research. When you make an ability check related to your•field of research, your proficiency bonus is doubled if you are using a skill that you're proficient in. Here are some examples of what falls into a field of research:

Biology. Your study of biology lets you understand the physiology of creatures and plant life.

Geology. Your study of geoscience gives you insight into natural phenomenon like weather patterns and geologic events.

Physics. Your study of physics provides insight into the movement and interaction of objects in motion, as well as light and sound.

At 10th level, you may choose an additional upgrade from your Wondrous Development feature.

At 14th level, your extensive repertoire of inventions gives you special insight to the relationship between magic and your inventions. Depending on the nature of your inventions, you can have a deep knowledge in one school of magic (depth), experience with all of them (breadth), or both.

You can gain access to up to two new upgrades as long as you meet the requirements listed below. They do not count against your total number of upgrades. You can achieve both breadth and depth if you meet all the requirements. Cantrip inventions do not count towards achieving breadth or depth.

Breadth. If you have five wondrous inventions which are each a different level and different school of magic, you have a breadth of knowledge across multiple schools of magic. You gain access to the Regenerative Upgrade.

Depth. If you have five wondrous inventions of different levels which all share a school of magic, you have a depth of knowledge in that particular school of magic. You gain access to the Resonant Upgrade.

At 14th level, you may choose an additional upgrade from your Wondrous Development feature.

The rune smith's wondrous inventions are runes, which seal magic into objects built for combat. They wield spell infused weapons and wear rune covered armor.

At 6th level, when you strike a foe with a weapon with offensive runes, you can expend the rune to cause a special magic effect instead of casting the rune's spell. The magic effect depends on the expended rune's school of magic. The DC for a saving throw from this effect is equal to 10 plus the invention level. You can use this feature once per round.

Abjuration. The target takes an extra 1d8 force damage per invention level, and you gain temporary hit points equal to your Intelligence modifier plus twice the invention level.

Conjuration. The target takes an extra 1d8 thunder damage per invention level, and you teleport a number of feet equal to 10 times the spell level.

Divination. The target takes an extra 1d6 psychic damage per invention level. You see a brief vision of future dangers and gain a foretelling roll of 10 plus the invention level. It lasts until it is used or you take a short rest. You can replace a saving throw roll you make with that foretelling roll. A new foretelling roll replaces an unused roll.

Enchantment. The target takes an extra 1d8 psychic damage per invention level and must succeed at a Wisdom saving throw or be paralyzed for a turn.

Evocation. The target takes an extra 1d12 fire damage per invention level, and must succeed at a Strength saving throw or be pushed up to 5 feet per spell level.

Illusion. The target takes an extra 1d6 psychic damage per invention level, and it sees illusory duplicates of you. It must succeed at a Wisdom saving throw or until the end of your next turn, it has disadvantage on attacks against you, and you have advantage on attacks against it.

Necromancy. The target takes an extra 1d8 poison damage per invention level, and must succeed at a Constitution saving throw or take another 1d8 poison damage per invention level at the start of its next turn.

Transmutation. The target takes 1d10 damage per invention level, and you transform your weapon. Until the end of your next turn, it deals either piercing, bludgeoning, or slashing damage, and has an additional melee range of 5 feet per invention level.

At 6th level, you can also forge offensive runes onto melee weapons.

At 10th level, you can attack twice whenever you take the Attack action on your turn while you wield a weapon with an unexpended offensive rune.

Additionally, damage dealt by any weapon with an unexpended combat runes counts as magical.

At 10th level, when you use Runic Rebuke to active a rune, you can use Aether Discharge with the attacking creature as the target instead of casting the rune's spell. If a defensive rune on another creature is activated in this way, they count as "you" for the purposes of the Aether Discharge.

Beginning at 14th level, whenever you expend a defensive rune, you gain temporary hit points equal to the rune's invention level. Whenever you expend an offensive rune, your next attack before the end of your next turn deals bonus force damage equal to the rune's invention level.