Artificer v2.1 (a.k.a. The Inventor)

A gnome sits hunched over a workbench in a room cluttered with every sort of tool, carefully drawing the final lines to an intricate rune. With a crackling hum of arcane energy, the completed rune flares with power, and she watches with a smile of pride as the golem comes to life and stands.

A troll growls in hunger as it looms over a dwarf, who slides a long, metal tube from a holster at his belt. With a thundering boom, a gout of energy erupts from the tube, and the troll's growls turn into shrieks of panic as it turns to flee.

With a thunderous crash of energy a figure lands in the middle of the battlefield. As the smoke clears, a towering presence stands amidst the war-torn battlefield clad in glowing mechanical plate mail. The glowing visor swivels to inspect the wreckage. It raises a gauntlet, and lightning crackles forth.

Makers of magic-infused objects, artificers are defined by their inventive nature. Like wizards, they see magic as a complex system waiting to be decoded and controlled through a combination of thorough study and investigation.

Artificers, though, focus on creating marvelous new magical objects. Spells are often too ephemeral and temporary for their tastes. Instead, they seek to craft durable, useful items.

Quick Build

You can make an artificer quickly by following these suggestions. For the Gadgetsmith or Thundersmith paths, make your highest attribute Dexterity, followed by Intelligence. For Golemsmith, Infusionsmith, or Potionsmith, Intelligence followed by Constitution or Dexterity, and for Warsmith or Fleshsmith, choose either Strength or Intelligence, with Constitution as your second highest attribute. Second, choose the Guild Artisan background.

Proficiencies

• Armor: Light armor, medium armor
• Weapons: Simple weapons, hand crossbows, heavy crossbows.
• Tools: Thieves’ tools, one other tool of your choice
• Saving Throws: Constitution, Intelligence
• Skills: Choose three from Arcana, Deception, History, Investigation, Medicine, Nature, Religion, Sleight of Hand

Equipment

You start with the following equipment, in addition to the equipment granted by your background:

• (a) a light crossbow and quiver of 20 bolts or (b) any two simple weapons.
• (a) scale mail, (b) leather armor, or (c) chain mail.
• thieves’ tools and a dungeoneer’s pack

Additional Retrofits

Your DM may let you expand this feature to do similar tasks, such as making a +1 Heavy Crossbow a +1 Light Crossbow, or may allow it to work with other magical armor or weapons (such as converting adamantine chainmail to an adamantine chain shirt).

Spell Slots

The artificer table shows how many spell slots you have to cast your artificer spells of 1st level and higher. To cast one of your Artificer spells, you must expend a slot of the spell's level or higher. You regain all expended spell slots when you finish a long rest.

Spells Known of 1st Level and Higher

You know three 1st-level spells of your choice from the artificer spell list. The Spells Known column of the Artificer table shows when you learn more Artificer spells of your choice.

Each of these spells must be of a level for which you have spell slots. For instance, when you reach 5th level in this class, you can learn one new spell of 1st or 2nd level.

Additionally, when you gain a level in this class, you can choose one of the Artificer spells you know and replace it with another spell from the Artificer spell list, which also must be of a level for which you have spell slots.

Spellcasting Focus

You can use an arcane focus as a spellcasting focus for your artificer spells. See chapter 5, "Equipment" in the Player’s Handbook for various arcane focus options.

Customizing Artificer Upgrades

The upgrades for each Artificer Specialization are presented in a list at the end of the Specialization, but invariably there will always be ideas for upgrades not included in that list. At the heart of an Artificer beats an unrelenting drive for creativity, after all! Feel free to consult your DM for potential custom upgrades.

Consult the Expanded Toolbox more ideas and playtesting content.

Magical or Mechanical?

One of the core debates that arises around an Artificer is if they are a "Magical Engineer" or what a magical engineer would even mean. Do they tinker with mechanics and gears or with magic and runes? The answer is, of course, whatever suits your world, game, and the vision of the player.

Gadgetsmith's Proficiency

When you choose this specialization at 1st level, you gain proficiency with nets, rapiers, whips, and tinker's tools.

Essential Tools

At 1st level, you've mastered the creation of the essential reusable tools for surviving the battlefield as a gadgeteer. You have the following items:

• Grappling Hook. As an attack or as an action, you may target a surface, object or creature within 20 feet. If the target is Small or Smaller, you can make a Strength (Athletics) grappling check to pull it to you and grapple it. Alternatively, if the target is Medium or larger, you can choose to be pulled to it, however, this does not grapple it. Attacks of opportunity generated by this movement have disadvantage.
• Smoke Bomb. As an action, you can use this to cast fog cloud centered on yourself without expending a spell slot. It lasts a number of rounds equal to your Intelligence modifier and does not require concentration. When you cast fog cloud in this way, you can set the radius at 5, 10, 15, or 20 feet.
• Gadgetsmith Weapon. Pick one of Impact Gauntlets, Lightning Baton, Repeating Crossbow, Ricocheting Weapon, or Shock Generator from the upgrade section. You receive this upgrade and it does not count against your upgrade total.

Additional Upgrade

At 3rd level, you've mastered the essential tools, and have begun to tinker with ways to expand your arsenal. The number of upgrades you have for your class level is increased by one.

Unrestricted Upgrades

Airburst Mine

You create a mechanical device capable of producing a devastating blast. You can use this device to cast shatter or thunderburst mine without expending a spell slot. Once used, the gadget cannot be used again until you complete a short or long rest.

Ricocheting Weapon

You create a ranged weapon enchanted or engineered to ricochet of its targets and return to your hand. You have proficiency in this weapon, and it has the Finesse, Thrown (30/90), and Special properties, and deals 1d8 bludgeoning, piercing or slashing damage (chosen at the time you select this upgrade). You can Arcane Retrofit this weapon.

Special: When this weapon is thrown you can target two creatures within 10 feet of each other, making a separate attack roll against each target; the damage dealt is halved for each target hit after the first.

This weapon returns to your hand after you make an attack with it using the Thrown property.

Belt of Adjusting Size

You create a belt with a creature size dial on it. While you are wearing this belt, you can use an action to cast Enlarge/Reduce on yourself without expending a spell slot. Once you use this gadget, you cannot use it again until you complete a short or long rest.

Element Eater

You create a device capable of absorbing incoming elemental damage. You can activate this device and cast absorb elements without expending a spell slot, but the gadget cannot be used again until you complete a short or long rest.

Enhanced Grappling Hook

You enhance your grappling hook, increasing its range to 30 feet. Additionally, the enhanced power of the grappling hook means that when pulling yourself to a Large or larger creature or object, you can drag one medium or smaller willing or grappled creature within 5 feet of you with you.

Fire Spitter

You create a gadget that creates a quick blast of fire. As an action, you can cast Aganazzar's Scorcher with this gadget without expending a spell slot, but the gadget cannot be used again until you complete a short or long rest.

Flashbang

You create a high luminary discharge device. As an action, you can target a point within 30 feet. Any creature within 20 feet of the targeted point must make a Dexterity saving throw or be blinded until the end of its next turn. Once you use this gadget, you cannot use it again until you complete a short or long rest.

Gravity Switch

You build a switch that turns off gravity. You can use it to cast fall^Artificer without expending a spell slot. Once you use this gadget, you cannot use it again until you complete a short or long rest.

Gliding Cloak

You make a cloak that allows you to glide when falling. When you fall more than 10 feet and aren't incapacitated, can spread this cloak to reduce your falling speed to 30 feet a round take no falling damage. While falling in this manner toward the ground under normal gravity, you can move horizontally 2 feet for every 1 foot you descend.

Impact Gauntlet

You create a magic weapon capable of amplifying the impact of your blows. You have proficiency in this weapon, and it has the Finesse, Light and Special properties. It deals 1d6 bludgeoning damage.

Special: When you make an attack roll, you can choose to forgo adding your Proficiency bonus to the attack roll. If the attack hits, you can add double your Proficiency bonus to the damage roll.

You can apply this upgrade up to 2 times, making a separate weapon each time.

Jumper Cable Prerequisite: Requires Shock Generator.

Once per turn, when dealing lightning damage with a cantrip from your Shock Generator, you can add you can add your Intelligence modifier to the damage dealt.

Additionally, as an action you can make a DC 10 Intelligence (Medicine) to revive an unconscious companion. If you succeed this check, they can regain consciousness with 1 hitpoint and a number of temporary hit points equal to your Artificer level, but they gain 1 level of exhaustion.

Lightning Baton

You create a baton that channels lightning, creating a magic weapon. You have proficiency in this weapon.

It has the Finesse and Light properties. It deals 1d4 bludgeoning damage and 1d4 lightning damage on hit. On an attack roll of 20 with this weapon, the target must succeed a Constitution saving throw against your spell save DC or become stunned until the start of your next turn.

You can apply this upgrade up to 2 times, making a separate item each time.

Mechanical Arm

You create a mechanical arm, giving you an extra hand. This mechanical arm only functions while it is mounted on gear you are wearing, but can be operated mentally without the need for your hands. This mechanical arm can serve any function a normal hand could, such as holding things, making attacks, interacting with the environment, etc, but does not give you any additional actions.

Crossbow Spider

Tiny, unaligned

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• Armor Class 10
• Hit Points 5
• Speed 15 ft., climb 15 ft.

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
2 (-4)	14 (+2)	10 (+0)	1 (-5)	1 (-5)	1 (-5)

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• Damage Immunities poison
• Condition Immunities charmed, exhaustion, frightened, paralyzed, petrified, poisoned
• Senses passive Perception 5
• Languages —

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Actions

Fire Crossbow. Ranged Weapon Attack: your spell attack modifier to hit, range 30/120 ft., one target you can see. Hit: 1d6 + your Intelligence modifier piercing damage.

Lightning Generator Prerequisite: Requires Shock Generator

You upgrade your shock generator with additional lightning capabilities. You can cast lightning lure at-will using it, and can overload it to cast lightning bolt without expending a spell slot. Once you overload it, you cannot use it to cast lightning bolt again until you complete a short or long rest.

Additionally, once per turn when dealing Lightning damage with a spell, you can add your Intelligence modifier to one roll of the damage dealt.

Golemsmith's Proficiency

When you choose this specialization at 1st level, you gain proficiency with smith's tools and tinker's tools.

Mechanical Golem

Starting at 1st level, you forge a mechanical golem to carry out your orders and protect you. The golem is under your control, and understands the languages you speak, but does not speak.

The Golem obeys your commands as best it can. On your turn, you can verbally command the construct where to move (no action required by you) and take an action, which requires your action to do. Additionally, you can use your reaction to direct it to take a reaction. The Golem acts on your commands during your turn. If you issue no command to your Golem, it takes no actions.

Your Golem's Proficiency increases when yours
does. If the golem is killed, it can be returned to
life via normal means, such as with the revivify
spell.

In addition, over the course of a long rest,
you can repair a slain servant if you have
access to its body. It returns to life with half
(rounded down) its maximum hit point at the
end of the rest during which you repaired it.
If the servant is beyond recovery, you can
reproduce the construct exactly as it was, with four
days of work (eight hours each day) and 100 gp of raw materials.

Over the course of a short rest, you can restore
hit points equal to your Intelligence modifier +
your Artificer level to your golem, or repair it to
full health during a long rest

The base statistics of your golem are as follows:

Warforged

Your golem is roughly humanoid, and comes with the robust flexibility and options that this form provides. Its base strength becomes 16(+3) and it gains proficiency in shields, simple weapons, and martial weapons.

Its natural weapon is: Slam: +5 (Strength + Proficiency) to hit, reach 5ft., one target. Hit 1d4 + 3 (Strength) bludgeoning damage.

Quadrupedal

Your golem takes on a quadrupedal design. Larger and more sturdy, it is more suitable to launch into the fray or carry its creator. Its base size becomes Large, its base Strength and Constitution become 16(+3), its natural armor becomes 16, and its speed becomes 35 ft.

Its natural weapon is: Bite: +5 (Strength + Proficiency) to hit, reach 5ft., one target. Hit 1d10 + 3 (Strength) piercing damage.

Winged

Your Golem is modeled off a flying creature. Smaller and lighter than most golems, it is kept aloft by intricate wings. Its base size becomes Small and it gains a flying speed of 30 ft.

Its natural weapon is: Talon: +4 (Strength + Proficiency) to hit, reach 5ft., one target. Hit 1d8 + 2 (Strength) slashing damage.

Launcher

Your Golem becomes akin to a mobile turret, taking the frame of a ballista or other launching device. Its base Dexterity becomes 16(+3) and its speed becomes 25 ft.

Its natural weapon is: Shoot +5 (Dexterity + Proficiency) to hit, reach 60/240ft., one target. Hit 1d10 + 3 (Dexterity) piercing damage.

Specialized

Your Golem defies all expectations, its design fueled by your own rampant creativity. A little less robust and stable, it is far more extensible to your visionary plans. Your Golem starts with the basic statistics, but you can select 2 free upgrades that do not count against your upgrade total.

Its natural weapon is: Slam: +4 (Strength + Proficiency) to hit, reach 5ft., one target. Hit 1d8 + 2 (Strength) bludgeoning damage.

Unrestricted Upgrade

Arcane Barrage Armament.

You install an mounted armament to your golem, taking whatever form is most appropriate, charged with arcane power. As an action, the golem can cast magic missile without expending a spell slot. When cast this way, it has no Verbal or Somatic components.

Once used, this armament cannot be used again until the Artificer completes a short or long rest.

When the Golemsmith reaches 5th level, the level of the magic missile spell cast increases to 2nd level. It increases again at 11th level (to 3rd) and 17th level (to 4th).

Arcane Resonance.

You craft a magical essence connector and install it into your golem's core, allowing you and it to share certain magical effects. You can make any spell you cast that targets only you also target your golem.

Defender Protocol.

You build in a protocol response into your golem to defend its master. The golem gains the Protection fighting style.

5th Level Upgrade

Cloaking Device.

You install an Arcane Cloaking device on your Golem. Your golem can use this device to cast invisibility on itself without expending a spell slot.

Once used, this device cannot be used again until the Artificer completes a short or long rest.

Expanded Frame.

You enlarge your golem, increasing its size category by one if possible, up to a maximum size of Large. If your golem is Large after taking this upgrade, it gains advantage on Strength checks and Strength saving throws and your golem's maximum hit points become 5 + ([Golem's Constitution Modifier + 6] * Artificer Level).

During the process, you can determine if your golem will have the appropriate physiology to serve as a mount. You can take this upgrade multiple times, but cannot make a golem larger than Large.

Iron Fortress. Prerequisite: Medium or Larger Golem, Golem Constitution of 18.

You extend your golems shielding and stationary stability. Your Golem now counts as three quarters cover for creatures within 5 feet (as long as it is between them and the attacker) or riding it. Additionally, it cannot be moved against its will while in contact with the ground.

Shielding Bond

After studying the arcane fundamentals of Shield Golems, you have gained insight on how they shield their controllers, and can implement it in your own golem. Your golem gains the ability to cast warding bond without expending a spell slot. When cast in this method, it does not require material components.

Once the golem casts warding bond in this way, it cannot use this feature to cast it again until it completes a short or long rest.

Infusionsmith's Proficiency

When you choose this specialization at 1st level, you gain proficiency with jeweler's tools and calligrapher's supplies.

Your knowledge of infusion magic gives you a natural affinity for scribing spell scrolls. Creating a magic spell scroll only takes you half the time and material cost it would normally take.

Infused Armament

Starting at 1st level, you can infuse a powerful armament to take into battle. At the end of a long rest, select one of the Infusions below. The infusion lasts until the end of your next long rest.

Spell Manual

At 3rd level, you have a Spell Manual containing two 1st-level wizard spells of your choice. Your Spell Manual is the repository of any non-Artificer spell you know.

You cannot cast these spells and they do not count against your spells known, but when you would learn a new Artificer spell, you can select that spell from a spell in Spell Manual instead of the Artificer spell list, at which point you can cast it as normal. You can choose to scribe any Artificer spell you can cast into the Spell Manual, as if copying from a written spell.

Learning Spells of 1st Level and Higher

Each time you gain an artificer level, you can add one wizard Spell of your choice to your Spell Manual for free. Each of these spells must be of a level for which you have Spell Slots, as shown on the Artificer table.

On your adventures, you might find other Spells that you can add to your Spell Manual. For each level of the spell, the process takes 2 hours and costs 50 gold pieces.

Benefits of Flexibility?

If you choose to have an Animated and Infused weapon, you can attack twice with either, but will limit yourself to being able to only attack one target if you solely rely on the animated weapon. If you animate two weapons, you can split your attacks like normal using one to attack a different creature. Alternatively, you can animate a short range heavy weapon and a long range light weapon giving you more options at different ranges, but limiting your ability to target multiple targets at any optimal range.

Unrestricted Upgrades

Animated Archer

You master animation enchantments allowing you to use your Animate Weapon feature on a ranged weapon and a quiver of ammunition. An animated ranged weapon hovers near you, and can target anything inside the weapon's normal range with a ranged spell attack.

This attack deals weapon damage + your intelligence modifier on hit. The weapon requires ammunition, and can carry up 30 pieces of ammunition at a time, after which it needs to be reloaded as an action.

Arcane Armament

You master armoring yourself with magical enchantments. You learn the mage armor spell. While under the effect of mage armor, you can add your Intelligence modifier to your AC instead of your Dexterity modifier. You can only do this if you are not adding your Intelligence modifier to your AC from another source. Additionally you gain resistance to force damage.

Loyal Weapon

You can cast the returning weapon spell without expending a spell slot, but if you cast it on a second weapon with this feature, the spell immediately fades from any previous use of this feature.

Magical Wand of...

You create a new Wand that you can infuse with a spell of 1st level or higher that you have recorded in your Spell Manual. This wand does not require attunement, but can only be used by you. The spell must be of a level that you can cast as an Artificer (as of when you would get this upgrade). This wand has three charges.

You can expend a charge to cast the selected spell at its base level. The wand regains all charges at the end of a long rest.

You can select this upgrade multiple times, selecting a different spell each time you take this upgrade.

Skilled Animation

You manage to make the magic of your Animated Weapons so potent that attacks made with them gain a fighting style. Attacks made with one handed melee weapons gain Dueling, attacks made with two-handed melee weapons gain Great Weapon Fighting, and attacks made with ranged weapons gain Archery.

Detonate Armament Prerequisite: Arcane Armament.

As a reaction to taking damage, you can end the effect of mage armor to cast thunder step without expending a spell slot. When you cast thunder step in this manner, it deals force damage instead of thunder damage.

Once you do this, you cannot use this ability again until the end of your next short or long rest.

Potionsmith's Proficiency

When you choose this specialization at 1st level, you gain proficiency with Blowguns, Alchemist’s supplies and Herbalism kit.

Your knowledge of alchemy gives you a natural affinity for brewing potions. Creating a potion through normal crafting takes you only half the time and cost it would normally take.

Alchemical Reagents Pouch

At 1st level, you've acquired a pouch of useful basic reagents, much as a wizard might carry a component pouch. You've tucked away things that will come in handy, and can retrieve them as part of using an ability that might require them. As long as you have this pouch on, you use the potionsmith's features. This pouch is considered as alchemy supplies for the purposes of crafting.

If you lose your reagent pouch, you can spend 50 gold pieces to reacquire the various stocks you need, or spend 1 full day gathering them from a natural environment without expense.

Instant Reactions

At 1st level, you know how to get instant reactions to occur without the niceties of grinding, simmering and brewing required for more refined concoctions.

Moreover, you know enough ways to do these that with just a few standard supplies, you can get these results out of a wide range of things you can gather in almost any locale and a pinch from your reagent pouch.

Pick three instant reactions from the following: Alchemical Acid, Alchemical Fire, Fortifying Fumes, Healing Draught, and Poisonous Gas. These reactions do not count against your maximum Upgrades known.

Alchemical Infusions

At 3rd level, you have discovered the secrets to drastically bypass the alchemical brewing process, crafting potent magical effects through the direct infusion of the potion with your own magic. When you finish a short or long rest and have an empty vial on your person, you may choose one or more the following spells and use spell slots to cast them.

On Creativity and Catapults

While as per the feature, you can only accurately throw the vial containing an Infused Potion 30 feet, the trigger merely specifies that the effect takes place where it breaks.

If you can find another way to deliver the vial, such as the catapult spell on the artificer spell list... or, well, an actual catapult, you can apply these methods as well.

Empowered Alchemy

Starting at 5th level, when you deal damage, grant temporary hit points, or restore health with an instant reaction or alchemical infusion on your turn, you can add your Intelligence modifier to the damage dealt or health restored.

Infusion Expertise

Starting at 14th level, when you create an Alchemical Infusion at end the end of a short or long rest, the first alchemical infusion you create does not require a spell slot to infuse, and you can select an alchemical infusion that you would otherwise not have a spell slot of high enough level for when making this infusion.

Potionsmith Upgrades

Healing Draught Instant Reaction

As a bonus action, you can produce a combination that will provide potent magical healing. After creating the draught, you or another creature can use their action to consume it or administer it to a creature within 5 feet before the start of your next turn. The draught restores 1d8 hit points. A creature can benefit from a number of these healing draughts equal to their Constitution modifier (minimum 1), after which they provide no additional benefit until they complete a long rest.

Secrets of Flight

You learn the secrets of infusing the ability to escape the shackles of gravity into your Alchemical Infusions. You can add the following spells to your list of available spells for alchemical infusions:

You can create one infused potion of feather fall at the end of a long rest without expending a spell slot.

Aroma Therapies.

You expand your alchemical knowledge to be able to produce incense and simmering reagents that grant effects to those that inhale their fumes. If creatures spend a long rest inhaling fumes from a concoction you devise with this feature, creatures regain an extra 2d4 hit dice, recover from 1d4 levels of exhaustion and are cured of any non-magical diseases they are suffering from.

Thundersmith's Proficiency

When you choose this specialization at 1st level, you gain Proficiency with tinker's tools and smith's tools.

If your weapon requires ammunition, you gain the knowledge of how to forge them, and create them with smithing tools during a long rest. You can create up to 50 rounds of ammunition during a long rest, with materials costing 1 gold piece per 10 rounds.

Stormforged Weapon

Starting at 1st level, you harness the power of elemental power of thundering storms to create a powerful weapon. This weapon requires attunement and you are proficient with it while attuned. and you can only be attuned to one Stormforged Weapon at a time. If you have multiple Stormforged Weapons, you can change which one you are attuned to during a long rest.

If you lose your Stormforged Weapon or wish to create additional ones, you can do so over the course of three days (eight hours each day) by expending 200 gold pieces worth of metal and other raw materials. When you make a new Stormforged Weapon, you can make the same or different type, and select the same or different upgrades.

Select one of the following and consult the Thunder Powered Weapon table for its statistics.

Stormcharged vs. Thundermonger

A common question is why does the Stormcharged Property exist and how does it interact with Thundermonger? Functionally, the stormcharged property (like the previous loading property) has no effect on a single classed Thundersmith, it just exists to make Stormforged Weapons interact better with Extra Attack for multiclassing and Cross Disciplinary Knowledge.

Unrestricted Upgrades

Silencer. Incompatible with Echoing Boom.

You upgrade your Stormforged Weapon with a sound dampening module. Your Stormforged Weapon loses the Loud property. Additionally, you can expend a 2nd level spell slot to overcharge the Silencer, casting the spell silence.

Massive Overload. Prerequisite: Storm Blast or Lightning Burst

Before taking a shot, you can expend a 3rd level or higher spell slot to use Storm Blast or Lightning Burst at the same time as making an attack; in this case the Storm Blast or Lightning Burst is powered by the spell slot and does not count as applying Thundermonger for that turn. The direction of this secondary ability is the same as your attack.

Doing this damages your Stormforged Weapon and you must spend an action to repair it before you can fire again. You must have the secondary ability unlocked as an upgrade to use it.

Warsmith's Proficiency

At 1st level, you gain proficiency with heavy armor, tinker's tools and smith's tools.

Warplate Gauntlet

At 1st level, when you take this specialization, you construct a Warplate Gauntlet. This is a specialized Wondrous Item that only you can attune to. When you create a Warplate Gauntlet, you can add one of the following upgrades to it: Power Fist, Force Blast, or Martial Grip. This upgrade does not count against your upgrade total. You can make multiple gauntlets with different upgrades, but can only be attuned to one at a time.

If you lose your Warplate Gauntlet, you can remake it during a long rest with 25 gold worth of materials, or can scavenge for materials and forge it over two days of work (eight hours a day) without the material expense.

While wearing a Warplate Gauntlet, you can engage Artificial Strength.

Warsmith's Armor

At 3rd level, you've attained the knowledge of forging and arcane tinkering sufficient to create a set of armor that augments and expands your abilities from a standard, non-magical, set of heavy armor using resources you've gathered. This process takes 8 hours to complete, as well as a place to forge and incorporates a Warplate Gauntlet (they do not require separate attunement).

While wearing your armor, your Strength ability score increases by 2, and your maximum Strength ability score becomes 22.

You can create a new set of armor by forging it from a set of gathered and purchased materials in a process that takes 2000 gold pieces and eight hours.

You can create multiple sets of armor, but you can only be attuned to one of them at a given time, and you can only change which one you are attuned to during a long rest. If you create a new set of Warplate, you can apply a number of Upgrades equal to the value on the class table, applying each at the level you get it on the class table.

When you create your armor, you can create a heavy plated Warplate, a magically enhanced set of gear, Warsuit, or you can integrate your changes directly into your body as an Integrated Armor.

What Does Your Armor Look Like?

Nothing in this document specifies the visual appearance of your armor beyond the type of armor, but it very likely does not look like a standard set of armor. Consider what the visual differences are - are you enhancements more mechanical in nature or more magical in nature? Does it have geared joints, glowing runes, or both?

Consider how your setting might react to someone standing around in such armor. In all but the highest magical settings, such a set of armor is likely to attract some curiosity or concern.

Unrestricted Upgrades

Accelerated Movement You can apply this upgrade twice.

You reduce the weight of your armor by 15 lbs. While wearing your armor your speed increases by 10 feet. This applies to all movement speeds you have while wearing your armor.

Lightning Projector

You gain the ability to unleash lightning energy. While wearing your Warplate Gauntlet, you can cast shocking grasp, and gain access to the following spells at the following levels while wearing your Warplate Gauntlet:

Level 9 Upgrades

Ether Reactor

You construct an ether reactor that feeds your armor, powering its upgrades with arcane energy. The Ether Reactor has 6 charges, and can be used to power upgrades that cast spells, even upgrades that would normally only recharge after a rest can cast instead using charges, spending 1 charge per level of the spell you are casting. You can cast spells at a higher level by expending more charges. It regains all charges at the end of a long rest.

If your Ether Reactor has no charges left, you can overdraw your Ether Reactor for one last burst of power, but your armor is temporarily immobilized and your speed while wearing your armor becomes zero for a number of rounds equal to the level of the spell cast. Once you do this, you cannot do this again until you complete a long rest.

Heads Up Display Prerequisite: Arcane Visor, Sentient Armor

You can delegate displaying and tracking things in your sight to your Sentient armor, granting you the following benefits:

• When a creature attempts to take the Hide action against you, you can make an active Wisdom (Perception) check to contest its Dexterity (Stealth) check as a reaction.
• When making an Dexterity saving throw against an attack you can see, you can make an Intelligence saving throw instead.
• When a creature hits you with a ranged attack roll, you can cast true strike as a reaction targeting that creature.

Brute Force Style

The strength imparted by your armor gives the force of blows the devastating power of a more skilled combatant. You can select a Fighting Style from Duelist, Great Weapon Fighting, or Two Weapon Fighting and gain the effect of that Fighting Style while wearing your armor.

Phase Suit Prerequisite: Warsuit

You gain the ability to cast misty step and blink while wearing your Warsuit. Additionally, as an action, you can become intangible, and move through creatures or objects until the end of your turn. If you end your turn inside a creature or object, you are forced to the nearest unoccupied location, taking 10 force damage for each foot you are forced to move. Once you become intangible using this upgrade, you cannot do so again until you complete a short or long rest.

Level 11 Upgrades

Cloaking Device Prerequisite: Active Camouflage

If you do not move during your turn with active camouflage engaged, you can use your reaction to take the Hide action using an Intelligence (Stealth) check. You make this check with disadvantage if you are within 5 feet of another creature or you attacked during your turn.

You can overload your camouflage to cast greater invisibility without expending a spell slot. Once you do this, you cannot do this again until you complete a long rest.

Lightning Rod Prerequisite: Lightning Channel

Whenever you cast lightning charged^Artificer, you can treat the spell as if it was cast by a spell slot one level higher.

Fleshsmith Proficiency.

When you choose this specialization at 1st level, you gain proficiency in the Medicine skill, as well as proficiency with Leatherworker's tools (it's best if you don't think about the details on that one too much...)

Additionally, you can make all Medicine checks as Intelligence (Medicine) check. When you take an Intelligence (Medicine) check to stabilize a creature, they regain 1 hit point.

Thesis of Flesh

At first level, you select an approach to your work, a specialization to your art form. Select one the following options:

Unrestricted Upgrades

Adorable Critter

You experiment on creating an adorable critter. You create - or modify - a CR 0 tiny creature. This creature serves as a familiar as per the find familiar spell, and you can resuscitate it (or rebuild it, as necessary) at the end of a short or long rest should anything untoward happen to it.

You can use your bonus action to make your adorable critter cast primal savagery as a first level caster using its reaction. You can do this a number of times equal to your Intelligence modifier. It uses your Spell Attack modifier. It regains all uses of this after completing a long rest.

Better Eyes You can select this Upgrade multiple times.

Your eyes did not see everything you wanted them to, so you replace them with eyes that do. You gain a benefit to your vision, selecting one of following enhancements: Blindsight (10 feet), Darkvision (60 feet), the ability to see clearly twice as far as your natural vision range, or proficiency in the Perception skill. If you select this upgrade again, you must select a different benefit.

Dissection

If you are holding a melee finesse weapon you have proficiency with, as an action you can make an Intelligence (Medicine) ability check against a creature within reach with a DC equal to its armor class. If you succeed the check, you can deal damage to that creature equal to your weapons damage dice plus your Intelligence modifier. On a roll of 20, the roll weapon damage dice are doubled.

If you could normally make more than one weapon attack as part of the Attack action, you can deal a number of additional dice equal to the number of attacks you could normally make as part of an attack action when taking this action (for example, if you have the Extra Attack feature and take this action with a dagger, you would deal 2d4 + your Intelligence modifier damage).

Secondary Life Organs

Realizing the fragility of mortal life, you modify yourself with additional necessary functions. When you make a Death Saving Throw, you can replace the results of that roll with a 20.

Once you do this, you cannot do this again until you complete a long rest.

Subdermal Plating

Exoskeletons are bulky, and endoskeletons just don't offer enough protection, so you compromise. You gain natural armor granting you a base AC of 16 + your Dexterity modifier (maximum 2).

9th Level Upgrades

Custom Spells

1st Level Spells

Imbue Luck

2nd-level abjuration

• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: Touch
• Components: V, S
• Duration: 1 hour

You touch a weapon or worn item and imbue luck into it. If imbued on a weapon, for the duration, on an attack roll, the wielder can roll an additional d20 (they can choose to do this after they roll, but before the outcome is determined). The creature can choose which of the d20s is used for the attack roll.

If imbued into a worn item, they can roll a d20 when attacked, then choose whether the attack uses the attacker's roll or theirs.

With either use, the spell immediately ends upon rolling the extra d20.

Lightning Charged

2nd-level evocation

• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: Touch
• Components: V, S, M (a piece of once used lightning rod)
• Duration: 10 minutes

You channel lightning energy into a creature. The energy is harmless to the creature, but escapes in dangerous bursts to other nearby creatures.

Every time that creature strikes another creature with a melee attack, a spell with a range of touch, is struck by another creature with melee attack, or ends their turn while grappling or being grappled by another creature, they deal 1d6 Lightning damage to that creature.

Once this spell has discharged 6 times (dealing up to 6d6 damage), the spell ends.

At Higher Levels: The spell can discharge damage 2 additional times (dealing 2d6 more total damage) before the spell ends for each slot level above 2nd.

Thunderburst Mine

2nd-level abjuration

• Casting Time: 1 minute
• Range: Touch
• Components: V, S, M (Any tiny nonmagical item, which is destroyed by the activation of the spell)
• Duration: 8 hours

You can set a magical trap by infusing explosive magic into an item. You can set this item to detonate when someone comes within 5 feet of it, or by a verbal command using your reaction (one or more mines can be detonated).

When the magic trap detonates, each creature in a 10-foot-radius sphere centered on the item must make a Constitution saving throw. A creature takes 3d8 thunder damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. If a creature is in the area of effect of more than one thunderburst mine during a turn, they take half damage from any subsequent effects of the mines.

A magical mine must be set 5 feet or more from another mine, and cannot be moved once placed; any attempt to move it results in it detonating unless the Artificer that set it disarms it with an action.

Dispel Construct

3rd-level abjuration

• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: 60 feet
• Components: V, S
• Duration: Instantaneous

You can attempt to purge the magic animating a construct within range, rendering it inert. The target must succeed on a Constitution saving throw, or be reduced to zero hit points. If the target has more than 100 hit points remaining, it makes this roll with advantage.

Fireburst Mine

3rd-level abjuration

• Casting Time: 1 minute
• Range: Touch
• Components: V, S, M (Any tiny nonmagical item, which is destroyed by the activation of the spell)
• Duration: 8 hours

You can set a magical trap by infusing explosive magic into an item. You can set this item to detonate when someone comes within 5 feet of it, or by a verbal command using your reaction (one or more mines can be detonated).

When the magic trap detonates, each creature in a 20-foot-radius sphere centered on the item must make a Dexterity saving throw. A creature takes 5d8 fire damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. If a creature is in the area of effect of more than one fireburst mine during a turn, they take half damage from any subsequent effects of the mines.

A magical mine must be set 5 feet or more from another mine, and cannot be moved once placed; any attempt to move it results in it detonating unless the Artificer that set it disarms it with an action.

Repair

4th-level transmutation

• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: Touch
• Components: V, S
• Duration: Instantaneous

You touch a construct or inanimate object, causing it to regain 10d6 hit points. This causes any parts or material that has broken away from the construct or object to reattach, repairing it to the condition it was in before losing those hit points.

If the construct or object damaged state is the result of age, you can instead repair to the condition it was in 10d6 years ago, if it was previously in a better condition during that time (the condition can only improve or not change).

At Higher Levels: The hit points restored increases by 2d6 (or the years restored) for each slot above 4th.

Vorpal Weapon

5th-level transmutation

• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: Touch
• Components: V, S
• Duration: Concentration, Up to 1 hour

You touch a weapon and imbue it with power. Until the spell ends, the weapon becomes indescribably sharp, ignoring resistance to slashing damage, and gains the Siege property, dealing double damage to inanimate objects such as structures. If a weapon has a modifier of less than +3 to attack and damage rolls, its modifier becomes +3 to attack and damage rolls for the duration of the spell.

Additionally, if a critical strike of this weapon would leave a creature with less than 50 hitpoints, the target creature is decapitated, killing it.

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