Craftsman

Craft an Arsenal of Magic Items

While most seasoned spellcasters will enchant a handful of magic items over the course of their careers, artisans belonging to the Guild of Arcane Maesters seek to become true masters of magic item creation. They rightly take seriously the forging of such powerful relics: each creation must be a masterwork in its own right to contain the potent magic woven into them. Despite laboring for months or even years to perfect their creations, seasoned maesters are always seen to be laden with dozens of magic items, attuned to a handful of rings, and carrying a Wand of Magic Missiles, just in case.

When you take the Attack action on your turn, you can replace one of the attacks with a casting of one of your Wizard cantrips that has a casting time of an action or with taking the Magic action to use a magic item that requires that action.

When a creature hits you with an attack roll, you can take a Reaction to end your Attunement to one magic item to create a shield of magical force. Until the start of your next turn, you have a bonus to AC equal to your Intelligence modifier, including against the triggering attack, potentially causing the attack to miss you. The number of magic items you can attune to is reduced by 1 until you finish a Short or Long Rest.

When you finish a Short Rest, you can recharge a number of magic items up to your Intelligence modifier that have charges or properties that recharge at the next dawn.

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

Build Invulnerable Armor

The Guild of Armigers devote their skills to the art of armor smithing, with the firm belief that the right plate in the right place can make a warrior invincible.

Your imposing, shining armor makes you a clear target for your foes. When you roll Initiative, you can challenge any number of creatures within 30 feet of yourself that can see you to battle. Each creature must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw (DC 8 plus your Strength or Dexterity modifier and Proficiency Bonus) or have Disadvantage on any attack roll against creatures other than you until the end of its next turn.

As a Bonus Action, you can fortify your armor against attacks. Until the start of your next turn, you gain a bonus to your AC equal to your Strength or Dexterity modifier (your choice, minimum of +1) and have Resistance to all damage.

You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Masterwork Bonus. You regain all expended uses when you finish a Long Rest.

When you use your Armored Slam, you deal an extra 2d10 Force damage, and a target that fails its saving throw against the slam has the Prone condition. Additionally, you regain one expended use of Armored Slam when you roll Initiative.

Craft Lethal Melee Weapons

Blade and bow, axe and mace: these are the tools with which the Guild of Bladeworkers aim to change the world. They believe that the right blade in the right hand can make a warrior unstoppable.

During your turn, your reach is 5 feet greater with any Masterwork Melee weapon that has the Two-Handed or Versatile property.

When a creature you can see within 5 feet of you makes an attack roll against you with a weapon, you can take a Reaction to attempt to disarm the attacker. The target makes a Strength saving throw (DC 8 plus your Strength or Dexterity modifier and Proficiency Bonus). On a failed save, it drops one item of your choice that it's holding. The object lands in a space you choose within 10 feet of the target. The target can replace the attack with one using a different weapon or an Unarmed Strike; otherwise the triggering attack misses.

When you make an attack roll with a Melee weapon and have Advantage on the roll, you can attempt a Vicious Strike. The attack roll instead has Disadvantage. If this attack hits, it scores a Critical Hit.

Design Dangerous Ranged Weapons

Craftsmen of the Calibarons' Guild believe that gunpowder is the single greatest invention ever created by mortals. A sword may let a skilled wielder lay low a giant, and magic may let the savvy and the blessed stand up to the gods, but only a gun will let a common man put a dragon in its place.

When you finish a Long Rest, you can use your Crafting Tools and materials worth 50+ GP to modify a Ranged weapon that has the Loading or Reload property. If it has Loading, it instead has Reload. If you use such a modified weapon that has Reload, a mechanical mechanism automatically reloads it from a belt or hopper of ammunition you are carrying (no action required).

Once per turn when you make a ranged attack roll, you can cow the target. That creature has Disadvantage on the next attack roll before the start of your next turn.

When you roll damage for an attack you make with a Masterwork Ranged weapon, you can treat any damage die as if it rolled half of the largest number on the die. For example, if you roll a 1-4 on a d10, you can treat the roll as a 5.

Build and Command Clockwork Minions

Masters of machinery, the tinkers and gearsmiths of the Clockworkers' Guild study and perfect the art of fashioning Constructs. Their designs are as elegant as they are functional, translating single ticking movements through a kaleidoscope of gears and pistons to create lifelike, even a seemingly intelligent, clockwork creatures. Nearly all Clockworkers are attended by a pair of their Construct servants that serve a dual purpose as attentive assistants and relentless bodyguards. Veteran Clockworkers, however, walk astride Constructs taller than themselves, great gear-driven golems of formidable strength.

When you finish a Long Rest, you can use your Crafting Tools and materials worth 25+ GP to affix one of the following attachments to a suit of armor or one of your Clockwork Constructs, or to replace an attachment with another one. Each armor or Construct can have one attachment at a time.

A dead man's switch is integrated into each of your constructs. When one of your Clockwork Constructs drops to 0 Hit Points, it detonates in a 5-foot Emanation. Each creature within the Emanation makes a Dexterity saving throw (DC 8 plus your Intelligence modifier and Proficiency Bonus), taking 6d6 Fire damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a failed save.

You can place a Weapon Enchantment on each of your Clockwork Constructs' integrated weapons. Your Constructs gain the benefits of this enchantment and have Advantage on attack rolls.

Look Sharp, Dress Sharper

The Courtiers' Guild works less with steel and more with fabric and lace. Dressmakers, tailors, hatters, and accessorists, these craftsmen specialize in making their wealthy clientele look their very best. No other craftsperson possesses a keener eye for fashion or a swifter needle and thread, and few can pass as easily in royal attire as a well-dressed courtier.

You can add all the customizations of your Customize Armor feature to a suit of Masterwork armor. Only you gain the benefits of these customizations on this suit of armor.

When you reach Craftsman level 13, you can also apply every enchantment of your Armor Enchantment feature to a suit of Masterwork armor.

You can stitch wounds together as neatly as fabric. As a Bonus Action, you can stitch the wounds of a willing creature within 5 feet of you, causing it to regain Hit Points equal to 1d10 + your Craftsman level.

You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Masterwork Bonus. You regain one expended use when you roll Initiative and all expended uses when you finish a Short or Long Rest.

When you use the Bonus Action of your Glow-Up, you can inspire each ally that you can see within 30 feet of you that is wearing an item with a Cosmetic Enchantment. Each creature gains Heroic Inspiration and Temporary Hit Points equal to your Craftsman level.

Superheat Your Weapons and Strike with Explosions

To Craftsmen of the Forgeknights' Guild, heat is not merely integral to forging, curing, and welding gear, it is a weapon in its own right. The swing of a white-hot blade bites not only with steel, but with flame. A Forgeknight carries the intensity of a forge with them, storing it in their armor and building it up in their weapons, before unleashing it in a scorching blast.

Using your Customize Weapon, you can add the Explode property to any weapon that deals Fire damage. This property uses the following rules.

When a creature within 5 feet of you hits you with a melee attack roll, you can take a Reaction to deal 2d10 Fire damage to the attacker. You must be wearing Masterwork armor to use this Reaction.

While holding your Portable Forge, you can cast Fireball, centered on yourself, without a spell slot or components (DC 8 plus your Intelligence modifier and Proficiency Bonus). You take no damage from this spell.

You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Masterwork Bonus. You regain one expended use when you finish a Short Rest, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a Long Rest.

Conjure Weapons and Armor from Hardlight

Ill content to work with materials like steel, wood, or cloth, Craftsmen of the Luminaries' Guild have developed tools to shape light itself into their creations. Hardlight stands among the most versatile materials ever to be discovered: it is light, pliant, and strong, but best of all, it can be conjured whole cloth into brilliant, glowing objects. Originally, its use was limited to only arcanists, but with the invention of the hardlight projector, nonmagical artisans can fashion this material into weapons and armor that appear in the blink of an eye.

As a Bonus Action, you can raise a defensive wall of hardlight. You can make the wall up to 60 feet long, 20 feet high, and 1 foot thick. If the wall cuts through a creature's space when it appears, the creature is pushed to one side of the wall (you choose which side). The wall is translucent and persists for 1 minute or until you dismiss it (no action required).

The wall has AC 15, 50 Hit Points, and Immunity to Poison and Psychic damage. Reducing it to 0 Hit Points causes the entire wall to dissolve in a flash of light.

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

Your Radiant Shell improves, granting you the following benefits.

When you deal damage with a weapon, you can expend a number of Temporary Hit Points up to your Craftsman level to enhance the strike. The target takes an extra 1d8 Force damage for every 5 Temporary Hit Points expended.

Pilot an Enormous Crab Tank

For centuries, the pinnacle of mechanized vehicles was the Apparatus of the Crab, a singular device capable of exploring inhospitable environments, from the sea floor to lava-strewn volcanic fields. However, ambitious Craftsmen from the Mechanauts' Guild have drawn up designs for a new vehicle, mightier and more customizable than the old apparatus. This device is a walking tank, equipped with savage fists, scuttling legs, and climate control enhancements—a vehicle to dwarf all others, a true feat of engineering.

You gain one of the following upgrades of your choice. Whenever you finish a Long Rest, you can replace the chosen option with another one.

When you take damage while you're piloting the apparatus, you can take a Reaction to eject yourself and any other creature inside of the apparatus. Each ejected creature lands in a space of its choice that it can see within 30 feet of the apparatus.

You gain one of the following upgrades of your choice. Whenever you finish a Long Rest, you can replace the chosen option with another one. You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Masterwork Bonus. You regain one expended use when you finish a Short Rest and all expended uses when you finish a Long Rest.

Build Unpredictable Equipment Out of Scrap

Most Craftsmen do their best work in precisely arranged workshops with plenty of tools and space, using only the best materials. The Scrappers' Guild, however, have learned to be far more pragmatic and flexible with their tools, materials, and workspaces, allowing them to forge deadly gear out of little more than a box of sheet metal and a roll of vent tape.

Your experience in breaking things grants you the following benefits.

When you are hit by an attack while wearing Masterwork armor, you can take a Reaction to cause the attack to break your armor instead of dealing damage. The attack automatically misses you. While your armor is broken, it provides no bonus to AC. You can repair this armor over the course of 1 minute.

When you build a scrap weapon, its damage die increases by two steps (d4 → d6 → d8 → d10 → d12, to a maximum of 1d12). If the weapon has two damage dice, each die increases by one step. When the weapon breaks, you can decrease its damage die by one step, to a minimum of 1d4, instead of breaking it.

Charge Your Weapons with Electricity

From the earliest days of life, storms (and particularly lightning) have struck the creatures caught in them with awe and terror. The Thunderlords' Guild, by contrast, draws wild inspiration from the majesty of nature, and seeks to, quite literally, capture lightning in a bottle.

Using your Customize Weapon, you can add the Jolt property to any weapon, even one that doesn't deal Lightning damage. You gain the following benefit with any weapon that has the Jolt property.

As a Bonus Action, you can store an electric charge in a suit of Masterwork armor you are wearing until the end of your next turn. If a creature hits you with a melee attack while your armor is charged, it takes 3d6 Lightning damage and the armor is no longer charged.

As a Bonus Action, you can expend 3 Charge Points to create a 1-foot diameter ball of electrified plasma in an unoccupied space within 5 feet of you. The ball lasts for 1 minute or until you use this feature again or dismiss it (no action required).

The ball emanates an electric field in a 5-foot Emanation. When a creature enters the Emanation for the first time on a turn or begins its turn there, you can choose for metallic weapons it is carrying to gain an electric charge until the end of the creature's turn. Whenever a creature deals damage with a charged weapon, it deals an extra 1d6 Lightning damage.

At the start of each of your turns, the ball moves up to 15 feet in a direction you choose.

Deploy a Minefield of Lethal Traps

Craftsmen are no strangers to turrets, bombs, and clockwork mechanisms, but members of the Trappers' Guild raise this to a level of artistry. Given enough time and resources, a trapsmith can veritably blanket a room in dangerous implements, setting the stage to slay an intruder in a half-dozen unique ways. While the traps do the dirty work, the trapsmith is free to lounge about some distance away, enjoying a cold beverage and dreaming up new, dangerous designs.

You can conceal one of your traps over the course of a minute. A creature that takes a Search or Study action can detect a concealed trap with a successful Wisdom (Perception) or Intelligence (Investigation) check, respectively, against your Traps save DC. When a concealed trap activates, its damage dice are doubled.

You can take a Reaction when an enemy moves within 5 feet of you to move up to your Speed without provoking Opportunity Attacks and deploy one trap in an unoccupied space at any point during the movement.

You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Masterwork Bonus. You regain all expended uses when you finish a Long Rest.

You can take a Utilize action to deploy up to three traps.

Sculpt Elegant Weapons from Solid Ice

Many Craftsmen are accustomed to extreme cold, but only a few have learned the ephemeral art of ice-crafting. The Guild of Wintercarvers specializes in sculpting ice into majestic and dangerous forms and working with supercooled material that possesses strange, unconventional properties.

Using your Customize Weapon, you can add the Numb property to any weapon, even one that doesn't deal Cold damage. Additionally, when you use the Numb property, you can also use one of the following properties if the weapon also possesses it: Sap, Slow, or Topple.

When you take damage while you're wearing Masterwork armor, you take a Reaction to coat yourself with ice. Until the start of your next turn, your Speed is 0 and can't increase and you have Resistance to all damage, including the triggering damage.

You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Masterwork Bonus. You regain all expended uses when you finish a Long Rest.

Your Winter Core supercools your weapons, improving the following mastery properties when you use them.