Savant

Specializing in the study of forgotten civilizations, ancient places, and uncharted lands, 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 forgotten, they tend to feel a sad kinship with the civilizations they study and go to great lengths not to destroy or offend their memory. For an Archaeologist, the best way to improve the present is to learn from both the mistakes and innovations of the past.

You are well acquainted with dangerous situations. Starting at 6th level, the target of your Adroit Analysis cannot target you with opportunity attacks. Also, when a creature targets you with an opportunity attack, you can use your reaction to impose disadvantage on its attack roll.

In addition, when you are forced to make a saving throw to resist the effects of a trap, you gain a bonus to your roll equal to your Intelligence modifier (minimum of +1). If a trap allows you to take only half damage on a success, you instead take no damage if you succeed, and only half damage if you fail.

You study every myth, legend, and folk tale you find, knowing that each story is based on a grain of truth. Starting at 13th level, if you observe a person, place, or object for at least 1 hour, you can mystically recall information about the target as if you had cast legend lore on it. The target does not need to be of legendary importance for you to gain information.

Starting at 17th level, you only need to observe a person, place, or object for 1 minute in order to use this feature.

Your exposure to the magical effects has caused you to develop an innate arcane ward. At 17th level, you gain resistance to damage from spells and magical effects.

Also, once per day when you finish a short rest, you can cause one magic item to regain all of its expended charges.

The savants known as Culinarians put their great intellects to work in the science of food and drink. Ever the adventurers, 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?

Beginning at 6th level, you can expend an Intellect Die as an action to create a Morsel from your Cook Book. Morsels you prepare this way have their duration reduced to 10 minutes.

In addition, when you use your action to eat a Morsel, feed a Morsel to another creature, harvest a sample, or prepare a Morsel, you can make a weapon attack as a bonus action.

Your Recipes invigorate your allies along with their normal benefits. Starting at 13th level, creatures that eat one of your Morsels gain temporary hit points equal to your savant level.

You are a master monster chef and can cook with anything, anywhere. Starting at 17th level, during the course of a long rest, you can use your cook's utensils to prepare a monstrous feast for a number of creatures equal to your savant level.

Any creature that eats a portion of this meal gains the benefits listed below until the end of their next long rest:

Engineers combine their brains and brawn to lay waste to their foes. Using their knowledge of architecture and military science they design fortifications and undermine the weak points in enemy defenses. Given enough time and access to resources, a determined Combat Engineer can wreak havoc on all but the most formidable defensive structures.

Beginning at 6th level, you can employ your understanding of design to reinforce structures, armor, and shields. As part of a long rest, you can modify a suit of armor, shield, or a Large or smaller object you touch. Until the end of your next long rest, the object you reinforced gains resistance to all bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage from nonmagical attacks.

When you reach 13th level in this class you can reinforce two items during each long rest, and three at 17th level.

You can highlight critical weak points for your allies. Starting at 13th level, when you use Potent Observation to enhance an attack that deals bludgeoning, piercing, or slashing damage, you can expend an Intellect Die to force the target to make a Constitution saving throw in place of the bonus damage. On a failed save, it suffers the corresponding Sapping Strike effect until the beginning of your next turn.

You have discovered a combination of chemicals capable of producing massive explosions. Beginning at 17th level, you can produce mundane explosives. At the end of each long rest, you produce a satchel of explosives with a number of charges equal to your Intelligence modifier (minimum of 1).

As an action on your turn, you can expend one or more charges, and throw an explosive at a point within 60 feet. Each creature within 15 feet must a Dexterity saving throw. They take 3d12 thunder damage per charge on a failed save, and half as much on a successful one. The area within 15 feet becomes difficult terrain until cleared away. Explosives from this feature deal maximum damage to nonmagical structures.

Some savants are compelled by fate to venture into the world. Known as Explorers, these auspicious voyagers have a desire to experience everything they can. Often throwing caution to the wind, these intrepid geniuses are never truly satisfied with what they have, always wanting something more. Often chosen by fate, Explorers find success where others fail, and can overcome obstacles that can seem insurmountable.

You have a way of finding what you are looking for when all hope seems lost. Beginning at 6th level, you can expend an Intellect Die while using your navigator's tools to gain the effects of either the find traps, locate animals or plants, or locate object spell (your choice) for up to 1 hour.

When you reach 13th level in this class you can use this feature to gain the effects of the find the path spell.

Your determination to grasp success from the jaws of defeat allows you to bend the fates of those around you. Beginning at 13th level, when a creature within 60 feet that you can see makes an attack roll, ability check, or saving throw, you can use your reaction to grant them advantage on their roll.

If you use this reaction on an attack roll and the attack hits, you can use Potent Observation as part of the same reaction.

You can use this special reaction a number of times equal to your Intelligence modifier (minimum of once), and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

You can will success when the outcome seems impossible. Starting at 17th level, when you, or a creature you can see within 60 feet, makes an ability check or saving throw, you can choose to use your Intelligence score in place of the d20 roll. You must choose to use this feature before you, or the target, rolls the d20 for the ability check or saving throw.

You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Intelligence modifier (minimum of once), and you regain all expended uses of it when you finish a long rest.

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

You have a heightened sense of danger and can use your reflexes to dodge incoming blows. Starting at 6th level, when a creature you can see targets you with an attack, you can impose disadvantage on their attack roll as a reaction.

If the triggering attack misses, you can make one weapon attack against the attacker as part of the same reaction.

Your line of work has granted you a unique familiarity with the underbelly of the civilized world. At 6th level, you learn to speak, read, decode, decipher, and write in Thieves' Cant.

Also, once you spend a long rest in a settlement, you have advantage on any checks you make to gather information on that settlement, its culture, factions, or important figures.

Your gaze uncovers even the most well-hidden secrets and conspiracies. At 13th level, you gain the following benefits:

Your eye for the truth has reached near-supernatural levels. At 18th level, you gain Truesight in a 60-foot radius. Though, you cannot see into the Ethereal Plane within this range.

Also, when you, or a creature you can see, hits the target of your Adroit Analysis with a weapon attack, you can use your reaction to turn that attack into an automatic critical hit.

Once you use this reaction, you must complete a short or long rest before you can use it again.

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.

Starting at 6th level, you can train others to survive in the wild. At the end of each short or long rest, you, and a number of creatures equal to your Intelligence modifier (minimum of 1 creature), gain one of the following features until the end of your next short or long rest.

Starting at 13th level, you can tame almost any wild creature. As an action, you can force a beast, plant, or monstrosity that can hear you within 30 feet to make a Wisdom saving throw against your Naturalist save DC or be charmed for 1 hour.

While charmed, the creature is friendly to you and your allies and shares your turn in combat. As a bonus action, you can issue a simple command to the creature, which it does its best to obey. Once it completes a command it will defend itself to the best of its ability until you command it again.

Each time the creature takes damage, it can repeat the Wisdom saving throw, ending the charm on a success. If you are within 30 feet of the creature and it can hear you, you can use your reaction to impose disadvantage on its saving throw.

You can only have one creature charmed in this way at a time. Attempting to charm a second creature ends the effect for the first. You may use this feature a number of times equal to your Intelligence modifier (minimum of once), and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

You have become a leading authority on the natural world and can maneuver with comfort in any environment. Upon reaching 17th level, you gain the following benefits:

While most savants are welcomed as honored guests at great places of learning, those who devote themselves to the study of forbidden knowledge are often persecuted for their studies. Known as Occultists, these reclusive intellectuals spend their lives collecting bits of obscure and forgotten lore. The more strange and sinister, the greater their desire to understand it.

In your research you have unearthed fragments of forbidden knowledge that imbue you with strange abilities. At 6th level, you learn two Eldritch Invocations from the warlock class. If an Invocation has a level prerequisite, you can learn it if your savant level is equal to the prerequisite warlock level. If the Invocation has a cantrip or Pact Boon as a prerequisite, you can select it only if you meet the prerequisite.

Each time you gain a level in this class, you can replace an Invocation you know with another Invocation of your choice.

You also learn another Channel Divinity of your choice, chosen from any cleric Divine Domain. You can cast each Channel Divinity you know once per short or long rest.

Your words are laced with dark occult power. Starting at 13th level, the bonus damage from Potent Observation becomes necrotic, and when you deal necrotic damage in this way you gain temporary hit points equal to the necrotic damage dealt.

In addition, you learn one additional Eldritch Invocation of your choice from the warlock class (for a total of three).

At 17th level, you unearth the forbidden magic of the evil eye. You add the eyebite spell to your Occult Tome. As an action while holding your Tome, you can cast eyebite without having to expend a spell slot. You can cast eyebite this way a number of times equal to your Intelligence modifier (minimum of 1), and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

When you cast eyebite you can expend one of your Intellect Dice to impose disadvantage on the target's saving throw.

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, Orators embolden their allies and win over their foes with well-reasoned logic.

Your masterful grasp of logic and rhetoric allows you to better resist mind-altering effects. Starting at 6th level, you have advantage on any saving throws to resist enchantment spells, and you are immune to the charmed condition.

Additionally, when you use your action to use a rhetorical ability, you can make one weapon attack as a bonus action.

You are able to bend the masses to your will with nothing more than your words. At 13th level, you gain the rhetorical abilities listed below. You can use each ability once, and you cannot use it again until you finish a short or long rest.

If you were speaking to any of the creatures for at least 1 minute before using this action, and they were not hostile towards you, they have disadvantage on their saving throw.

Your absolute mastery over the spoken word allows you to bend all but the strongest creatures to your will. Beginning at 17th level, when you force a creature to make a saving throw to resist the effects of one of your rhetorical abilities, 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 their study of the multiverse, a Philosopher looks to perfect their knowledge of the cosmos and their place in it.

Your sense of purpose and willpower are unyielding. Starting at 6th level, when you make an Intelligence or Wisdom saving throw to take only half damage from a spell, you can spend an Intellect Die to take no damage if you succeed on your saving throw, and only half damage if you fail your saving throw.

You also gain proficiency in Charisma saving throws.

You have learned to manipulate the world with more potent Words of Power. At 13th level, you learn the greater Words of Power below. You must concentrate on the effects of these Words of Power as if you were concentrating on a spell:

Your willpower rivals that of the most powerful extraplanar beings. Starting at 17th level, you are under the effects of protection from evil and good while you are conscious.

Moreover, when an aberration, celestial, elemental, fey, fiend, or undead creature forces you to make a saving throw, you gain a bonus to your roll equal to your Intellect Die.

Physicians bring their considerable intellect to bear healing the sick and tending to the wounded. They spend their lives studying anatomy and the inner workings of mortals, and they use this knowledge to keep their allies in top condition. Using their medical training, they offer aid to those who don't have access to the luxury of divine or arcane healing magic.

You can move across the battlefield unscathed. Starting at 6th level, when you use your action to stabilize a creature, restore hit points, or grant temporary hit points, you gain the benefits of the Dodge action until the start of your next turn.

Additionally, when you use a Combat Medic action on your turn, you can make one weapon attack as a bonus action.

Starting at 13th level, you use your knowledge of medicine to perform wondrous feats. As an action, you can touch a willing creature and use one of the abilities listed below. You can use the abilities below a combined number of times equal to your Intelligence modifier (minimum of once), and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Your medical knowledge is without peer. Beginning at 17th level, whenever you restore hit points or grant temporary hit points to a creature, it gains the maximum possible amount of hit points, in place of rolling.

Also, any creature that expends a Hit Die while within 30 feet of you treats their Hit Dice as its maximum possible 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 innate power of your Runes has grown. Beginning at 6th level, any object inscribed with one of your Runes counts as magical for as long as the magic of the inscribed Rune lasts.

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, allowing it to 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. Beginning at 13th level, creatures that bear an object inscribed with one of your Runes gain a bonus to their saving throws equal to your Intelligence modifier (minimum of +1).

You can draw on the magic of your Runes to protect yourself when in need. Starting at 17th level, when you are reduced to 0 hit points but not killed outright, you can draw on the latent power of one of your inscribed Runes, instantly dispelling the Rune and any of its effects, to fall to 1 hit point instead.

Most successful monarchs, conquerors, and revolutions have a master strategist that is responsible for their success on the battlefield. Known as Tacticians, these intelligent leaders are always one step ahead of their enemies and strive to have a plan for every eventuality. They know the strategies that lead to glorious victory, and those that end in utter ruin. Alone, a Tactician is no threat, but with powerful allies to command, they become a formidable force, capable of toppling empires.

Your position as a leader doesn't allow you to succumb to your base instincts. Starting at 6th level, you have advantage on saving throws to resist the effects of enchantment spells, and you are immune to the frightened condition.

In addition, when you use your action to issue an Order, you can make one weapon attack as a bonus action.

Your genius allows you to coordinate multiple allies. Starting at 13th level, when you use your action to issue an Order, you can issue the same Order to another creature within range.

Your Orders inspire heroic action in your allies. Beginning at 17th level, when you spend an Intellect Die to grant the target of an Order temporary hit points, you add your Intelligence modifier (minimum of 1) to the temporary hit points.

Also, when you use your action to issue an Order, you can target up to three creatures in range with the same Order.

Masters of the tactile sciences, Tinkers put their minds to work creating mechanical creations. They are constantly on the lookout for a new tool to master, an old process they can improve, or inspiration for an innovative new invention. The mind of a Tinker is especially elastic, even compared to other savants. These masters of learning move through life assured they are always on the cusp of a new breakthrough.

You are able to master anything that you put your mind to. Beginning at 6th level, if you use Expert Student to gain proficiency in a skill or tool that you are already proficient with you gain Expertise with that skill or tool, which means you add double your proficiency to any checks you make with that skill or tool. You must learn each skill or tool proficiency from a separate example in order to gain Expertise.

Starting at 6th level, you construct a mechanical servant to assist you. As an action you can use your tinker's tools and expend 2 Inventive Sparks and 10 gold worth of mechanical parts to create a Mechanical Servant which functions as if you had cast find familiar with the following changes:

Your inventive skills have greatly improved. Starting at 13th level, over the course of 1 hour, you can destroy one of your Spark of Invention items, regaining any Inventive Sparks used in its creation, and immediately use those Sparks to create another Wondrous Item of your choice. You can use this feature during the course of a short rest.

You cannot use this feature to destroy a Wondrous Item if you have expended any of that Wondrous Item's charges.

Beginning at 17th level, you construct a fleet of mechanical guardians to protect you. As an action, you can grasp your tinker's tools and expend 2 Inventive Sparks to cast animate objects at 5th-level without expending a spell slot.

For each additional Inventive Spark you expend, you upcast animate objects by one level, to a maximum of 9th-level.

Wheelwrights are a curious subset of savants obsessed with mechanical transportation. Excellent allies to have on a long journey, these mechanical minds are know for their signature Clockwork Cycles that are used for transport and combat.

You have become accustomed to fighting and journeying on board your Clockwork Cycle. You gain the following benefits:

You can maneuver your Clockwork Cycle in any environment. While mounted on your Cycle, you can ignore difficult terrain imposed by magical and mundane effects, and opportunity attacks that target you, your Cycle, or any other creature mounted your Cycle are made at disadvantage.

Also, when you move within 5 feet of a friendly creature while mounted on your Cycle, they can use their reaction to mount your Cycle behind you so long as there is room.

You have improved your Clockwork Cycle to the point where it can briefly take flight. When you move at least 20 feet in a straight line on your Cycle, it gains a temporary flying speed equal to its remaining speed for that turn. This flying speed can only be used to move in a straight line, and it can't hover

When your Cycle lands on the ground after flying with this flying speed, you can force any creature within 5 feet of the point you land to make a Dexterity saving throw. They take bludgeoning damage equal to three rolls of your Intellect Die + your Intelligence modifier on a failed save, and half as much bludgeoning damage on a success.