Runesmith

A Runesmith is an Artificer that has narrowed their focus to working a specific language of magic - powerful Runes that can channel long lasting power. These Runes come in many shapes and forms, the lore behind from many sources.

A Runesmith can be a knight, his runes splashed with gleaming power across his armor, or a scholar lending their power to the companions, marking potent runes on their weapons before standing back, or even a strange tattooed mystic, their runes tattooed across their very body.

Runesmiths are not inherently good or evil, though their rigorous attention to detail and patience tend to make them more inclined to a Lawful perspective.

Damned Affinity

Additionally at 3rd level, magical items granted by this subclass that require attunement do not count against your attunement total if that item is cursed.

Extra Attack

Beginning at 5th level, you can attack twice, instead of once, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn.

Shrouded Soul

Starting at 14th level, the dark dealings have stained your soul, granting it a limited resistance to treading dark waters, a certain numbness. You become immune to bane, hex, bestow curse, and the frightened condition. Additional, you gain resistance to necrotic damage. You may have advantage or immunity to other minor curses at your DMs discretion.

Cursesmith Upgrades

9th Level Upgrades

Aspect of the Damned

Prerequisite: Curse Eater, 2 upgrades consumed

The powers you have pilfered for your soul have tainted it... naturally this gives you great power. In addition to the powers you have gained from your upgrades, selected two of the following powers to permanently gain:

• Aberrant Life: You no longer count as a humanoid creature, your creature type becomes aberration.
• Creature of Darkness: Your eyes become inky black pools. You can see normally in darkness, both magical and nonmagical, to a distance of 120 feet.
• Hungering Soul: Once per turn on your turn when you turn while you are grappling or grappled by another creature, you can inflict 1d8 necrotic damage on them as you sap their life force through the contact. Any healing they receive that turn is reduced by half.
• Physical Mutation: The darkness within warps your body, you can choose an unrestricted Fleshsmith upgrade (it must be one that effects your body).
• Unlife: You have found yourself in an odd half living state. You gain resistance to necrotic damage, and you no longer need to consume food.

Chain of Agony

You forge a 10 feet of non-magical chains into a set of magical chains. Choosing a command word, when you speak it while carrying the chains, they spring to life, wrapping around Large or smaller creature of your choice within 15 feet. The target creature must make a Dexterity saving throw, or become restrained on failure.

The target is restrained for 1d6 turns. For each turn it is restrained, it takes 1d4 * the number of turns it has been restrained necrotic damage. The creature can make an athletics or acrobatics check against your spell save DC to try to end the effect early.

The chains have an AC of 16, hit points equal to twice your Artificer level, and resistance to non-magical bludgeoning and piercing damage. If they are destroyed, a restrain creature is freed.

Once the chains have been used, they fall to the ground as mundane chains their magic does not recharge until you complete a short or long rest. Destroyed chains are restored to on completing a short or long rest.

Spell Eating Ring

You make a magical item that consumes magic around you. You can activate the item, casting counterspell or dispel magic against a target within 15 feet of you. Any spell you that is stopped or ended by the effect, you can choose to consume, restoring 1d4 hit points to you per level of the spell, or gain the effect of the spell stopped or ended yourself until the end of your next turn if it could effect a creature and had a duration other than instantaneous. A spell stolen in this way does not require concentration to maintain, but lasts only a number of turns equal to your Intelligence modifier or the spells duration, whichever is shorter.

Once you use this ability, you cannot use it again until you complete long rest.

Ring of Nightmares

Attunement, Cursed

You forge a ring of, well, pure evil. It can bring the horrifying nightmares to life in reality in a way that you don't quite understand, but is very effective. When you invoke a nightmare, you can cast hungar of hadar, rain of spiders, summon lesser demons, or enemies abound without expending a spell slot. Once you use the ring to invoke a nightmare, you cannot use it until you complete a long rest.

Curse: You cannot choose the nightmare invoked. When you invoke a nightmare, roll 1d4 (1: hungar of hadar, rain of spiders, 3 summoner lesser demons, 4 enemies abound)

11 Level Upgrades

Consuming Power

Attunement, Cursed

You create a worn magical item - such as a set of bracers, bands or a ring - that leverages a dark bargain. Souls for power... starting with bits of your own.

As a bonus action, you allow it feed its consumption from your own soul. You can decrease your Charisma ability score by up to your Proficiency modifier, increasing your Strength ability score by an amount equal to your decreased Charisma. You cannot increase your Strength beyond its normal maximum in this way. This lasts until you use an action to reclaim your Charisma from the item.

15th Level Upgrade

Amulet of Exiling

You forge a magical amulet that causes creatures to phase from reality to varying degrees of permanency. You can use this amulet to cast banish or blink without expending a spell slot. Once you use the amulet to cast a spell, you cannot use it to cast a spell against until you complete a short or long rest.

When you cast banish with this amulet, you can choose to target yourself, automatically failing the saving throw and sending yourself to a plane of dark energy. Each time you start your turn in this plane of dark energy, you can absorb some of it, regaining 2d8 hit points. You can end the effect at anytime reappearing in the material world. You can regain hit points up to twice your Artificer level in this way before spending time in the plane of dark energy provides no additional recover.

Shrouded Power

You allow the power of your artifact to leak out. Whenever you cast a spell of 1st level or higher, you gain the effect of shadow of moil for a number of turns equal to the level of the spell cast. This effect does not require concentration to maintain.

True Artifact

So long ago you forged great power. Now you realize its full potential. Your cursed weapon becomes a true artifact, any bonus to attack and damage rolls lower than +3 it has is replaced by a bonus of +3, it gains two additional properties from the following list:

• While attuned to this artifact, you are immune to disease.
• While attuned to this artifact, you can't be charmed or frightened.
• While attuned to this artifact, you can cast a 1st or 2nd level spell of your choice once per short rest without expended a spell slot (spell chosen when this upgrade is selected).
• While attuned to this artifact, you can treat a 1 on a Death Saving throw as a 20.
• While attuned to this artifact, one of your ability scores (chosen when this upgrade is selected) increases by 1, to a maximum of 24.

When you select this upgrade, you can a select the condition in which your weapon can be destroyed. Your weapon can no longer be permanently destroyed by any other means. This means can be absurd or implausible, but must be something potentially possible.

Cursesmith Spells

Artificer Spells

Additional Subclass Content

Special Weapons

The following at special weapons - these are not fundamentally part of the Artificer class or the Thundersmith subclass, but they are more magical items tailored to the subclass that they might find or craft.

These are one part suggestion, and one part example. Part of being an Artificer is boundless creativity, so don't feel constrained by what is presented here.

Lastly, not that these are not balanced out of the classes power budget - they are balanced against magic items by rarity, and would - either crafted or found in the world - be items that only exist at a DMs discretion.

Gadgetsmith

Antimagical Shackle. Prerequisite: 5th level Artificer

You create an antimagical shackle. When you are adjacent to a creature, as an action you can attempt to shackle them to yourself or a nearby object using these shackles. The you make a Dexterity (Sleight of Hand) check contested by a Strength (Athletics) or Dexterity (Acrobatics) check. On failure, they are shackled to the creature or object you attempted to shackle them to, and can move only by moving it if they are able to.

Additionally, while shackled by these shackles, they cannot teleport, planeshift, polymorph, shapechange, dematerialize, or turn into an amorphous form. As an action they can make a Strength saving throw against your spell save DC to break the shackles once shackled, otherwise these shackles last until you remove them.

This shackles have no effect on creatures immune to being grappled or restrained.

Conductive Lightning Prerequisite: Lightning Baton

If you make an attack against a target wearing metal armor or wielding metal weapons, the target takes the lightning damage from your baton attack regardless if you hit or miss, and your Lightning Baton gains a special attack. If you are under the effect of lightning charged, missed attacks that deal lightning damage also generate an arc of lightning from the spell.

Special: If your opponent is wielding a metal weapon, you can deliver a extra powerful shock through to attempt to make them drop the weapon. As an attack, instead of making an attack roll, the target makes a Constitution saving throw, taking 2d4 + your intelligence modifier lightning damage and dropping their weapon on a failed save. When you make this special attack, your Lightning Baton becomes a Club until the end of your next turn.

Death Ray Prerequisite: 17th level Artificer

You build a death ray, as Artificers do. As an action, you can cast finger of death without expending a spell slot. Once you use this gadget, you cannot use it again until you complete a long rest.

Flames and Fury Prerequisite: Fire Spitter

Sometimes the world needs more fire, and you've developed ways to accommodate the world on that need. Tinkering with things of a more violtile nature has given you insight into more ways to burn and explode things with your spell slots at the following levels:

Multipurpose Investigation Tool

You build a tool with a suite of gizmos and widgets for optimal examination. While using this device, you gain proficiency in Intelligence (Investigation) checks. If you already have proficiency in Intelligence (Investigation) you can add twice your proficiency bonus.

Perfected Aerodynamics Prerequisite: Boomerang of Hitting

You upgrade your Boomerang, adding better spin and weight. You can throw it with greater precision from a wider range of angles. Targets can only get cover from your attacks made with the Boomerang if they have cover from all directions.

Additionally, the maximum range you can bounce it to another target becomes 20 feet, and throwing range becomes 60/180.

Spring Action Dagger

You create a dagger capable of being deployed with sudden and brutal efficiency. You have proficiency in this weapon, and it has the Finesse, Light, and Thrown (30/90) properties. It deals 1d4 piercing damage. This weapon can be concealed as something else; a creature searching you will only determine it a weapon by making an Intelligence (Investigation) check with a DC equal to your Spell Save modifier.

Special: The first time you attack a creature with this dagger, you have advantage on the attack roll. When thrown, it's damage die becomes a d8.

Once thrown, another dagger can be equipped as your Spring Action Dagger as a bonus action.

Steelweave Nets

You thread your nets with metal reinforcement, making them tougher and more conductive. The net gains an AC of 15 and resistance to slashing damage. Whenever a creature restrained by the net takes Lightning damage, it takes an additional 1d6 lightning damage.

When a net is turned into a Steelweave Net, only you have proficiency with it. You can have a number of them equal to your Intelligence modifier, replenishing your supply over the course of a long rest by forging normal nets into Steelweave Nets.

Trick Shots

At the end of a short or long rest, you can add one of the following effects to a piece of ammunition or thrown weapon, turning it into a trick shot.

• Special Tip: You can select a different damage type for the attack from bludgeoning, piercing, slashing, acid, cold, fire, or lightning.
• Bouncing: You can attack a target out of line of sight of with it if you know their location by bouncing it off a surface. They have the benefit of half cover instead of full cover.
• Ricochet: If you hit an attack roll with it, you can make another attack roll against another target within 10 feet of the first as part of the same attack.
• Smoke Shot: You can use the arrow do deploy your smoke bomb feature on impact at a point or target.
• Arcane Trick: You can imbue a cantrip or 1st level spell you know into the arrow, casting it on impact where the arrow lands. If the spell has a target, the target of the attack is the target. If it has an area of effect, that is centered on the arrow.

You can only have one modified shot at a time, and it is expended on use.

Golemsmith

Ether Heart

You install a magical ether heart into your golem, because that seems like a good idea. Your golem gains 2 charges. It can use 1 charge to cast any first level spell you know. These changes are restored at the end of a long rest.

Ever Watching Sentry

Your engineer your golem to remain constantly vigilant. It gains Proficiency in Perception and Darkvision (60 feet). While doing tasked with nothing else during a extended respite (such as during a long rest), it gains the benefits of the Alert feat.

Magical Construct Prerequisite: 5th level Artificer.

Your constructs magical nature extends to it's natural weapons. Your constructs weapons are considered magical for the purpose of overcoming resistance to nonmagical bludgeoning, piercing and slashing damage, and it can add +1 to it's attack and damage rolls.

This increases to a +2 at 14th level.

Reciprocity

Prerequisite: 5th level Artificer

If you use your bonus action to take the Help action to grant your golem advantage on attacking a creature, your golem can take the Help action as a bonus action to take the Help action to grant you advantage on attacking a creature.

Soul Puppet

You bind your soul to your golem. Your consciousness is transferred to the golem, and you gain complete control of the golem, retaining both its action your and your own, but you are only able to take any action the golem could take with its action.

Your golem's mental stats are replaced by your mental stats, and your golem gains all of your spell slots, attunement slots, and class features. Your former body dies and cannot be resurrected, unless a wish or similar magic returns your soul to your body.

Razor Claws Prerequisite: Quadrupedal, Incompatible with Warfare Routines.

Your golem's gains two additional natural weapons that deal 1d8 slashing damage, and have the Light property. Additionally, your golem gains the Two Weapon Fighting Fighting Style from the Fighter Class (as below).

• Two Weapon Fighting. When you engage in two-weapon fighting, you can add your ability modifier to the damage of the second Attack.

Trample Prerequisite: Quadrupedal Golem.

When your golem moves more than 10 feet toward a target before making an attack, the target must succeed in a Strength saving throw of a DC equal to 8 + your Golems Strength modifier + your Golem's Proficiency modifier, or be knocked prone. If the target is knocked prone, the golem can make on additional attack against the target as a bonus action.

Infusionsmith

Enchanted Garmets

You enchant your clothes, granting you several benefits over mundane not-enchanted clothes:

• You can cast prestidigitation targeting only your own clothes.
• You cause them to change style or color as an action, keeping the new style or color until your take them off or enchant a new set.
• They do not get wet unless you will them to, keeping you dry.
• You can ignore the environmental effects of extreme heat or cold.

Investiture of Soul Prerequisite: 19th level Artificer.

When you cast animate object spell, you can expend a hit die. If you do it no longer requires concentration, and lasts until the objects created are destroyed or you complete a long rest. If you cast animate objects again while you still have animated objects active, the previous spell immediately ends.

Loyal Weapon

You can cast the weapon of throwing spell as a first level 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.

Spinning Blades

As an action, instead of attacking with your Animated Weapons, you cause them to whirl through the air in place. This has the effect of cloud of daggers, but does not require concentration and ends at the start of your next turn. For each animated weapon you have you can pick a different 5 foot cube, or send them to the same spot. For each weapon sent the same spot, the spell level of the effect is increased by one.

Translocation Binding Prerequisite: 5th level Artificer.

As a bonus action while attacking with an Animated Weapon or a weapon under the effect of weapon of throwing, you can expend a first level spell slot and teleport to it before it returns to you. You can invoke this even if the attack misses the target.

Potionsmith

Collateral Damage Prerequisite: Explosive Reaction Incompatible with Shaped Charges

Your explosive reaction now deals half damage to creatures that pass the saving throw against it.

Carrier Familiar

Prerequisites: Homunculus Familiar, 9th level Artificer

You utilize your Familiar to deliver your instant reactions. As an action, you can hand off a semi-stablized instant reaction to your familiar. Until the end of your familiar's next turn, it can use your Instant Reaction as it's action, targeting a point within 10 feet of it or dropping it up to 20 feet before it takes effect.

You take this chance to improve your familiar's delivery capabilities, granting it the Flyby feature of an Owl if does not have the feature, and 5 feet of increased movement speed to its fastest movement speed if it already does.

Dragon Draught Instant Reaction

As an action you quaff a vial of highly reactive liquid, allow you to immediately belch a blast of devastating elemental energy. You can select between cold, fire, acid, or lightning. Cold and fire effect a 10 foot cone. Lightning and Acid effect at 15 foot line. Creatures in that area have to make a Dexterity saving throw against your Spell Save DC, or take 1d8 damage of the elemental type chosen.

The damage increases by 1d8 when you reach 5th level (2d8), 11th level (3d8), and 17th level (4d8).

Extra Zest

You've mastered a twist for infusion. Whenever a consumed potion restores health, it restores an additional 1d4 hit points per level of the spell slot used to infuse it. Whenever a thrown potion deals damage, it deals an additional 1d4 damage of its primary damage type to creatures effected by it.

Flaming Grease

You tweak your grease formula to be flammable, as grease should be. When you cast grease or use it to make an Alchemical Infusion, the effect becomes flammable. If the area of effect is hit with 1 or more point of fire damage, the all creatures in the area of effect take 2d4 fire damage. The grease burns for 2 turns after being set on fire.

Additionally, you can use the grease spell or Alchemical Infusion to coat a weapon; when ignited, that weapon deals 2d4 additional fire damage until the grease burns away (2 turns).

Mutation Mixture Prerequisite: 13th level Artificer

You concoct an infused potion that warps your body, rapidly and temporary mutating it in extreme ways. You gain the polymorph spell as an option for Alchemical Infusion, and when when you consume this Infused Potion, the duration of the potion is one hour, though it can be ended early with an action.

A creature cannot undergo the effect of this Infused Potion again until the complete a long rest.

Napalm Preqrequisite: Alchemical Fire

Targets that fail their saving throw against your Alchemical Fire Instant Reaction take an additional 1d4 damage at the start of their turns for one minute. They can end the effect early with an action to put it out, or spend all of their movement to fall prone and roll, ending the effect.

Stablizing Agent

You introduce a new compound to your instant reactions that temporary stablizes them. When you use an Instant reaction, you can give it a timer of 0 to 3 rounds. The instant reaction is treated a small clump of components until that point; if undisturbed (it can be moved or thrown, but any creature that touches it can intentionally deactivate it if they know what it is), it will trigger the effect of the instant reaction where it is when the number of specified rounds have passed.

If set to 0 rounds, it will trigger the effect at the end of your turn.

Goodlent Pellets

You devise a nutritionally complete and revitalizing compound. You can use your alchemy to expend a first level spell slot to cast goodberry, but any berries generated taste distinctly bland.

Warsmith

Assume Control Prerequisite: Emergency Protocol, 9th level Artificer

You expanded the control available to your armor's sentience. You can set conditions when your armor will take control of your movement and actions. It can act following these directions after the triggering event occurs for a number of rounds equal to your Intelligence modifier. While acting in this mode, it can take any action you could take, but can only cast spells granted by Upgrades. It uses your ability scores.

The triggering event can by a preset condition, a verbal command, or a specified time. Your armor is immune to the charmed, blinded and frightened conditions, and does not suffer from exhaustion, ignoring these effects if you are under them.

If you have Warplate, it can control your warplate even if you are not wearing it for these turns, gaining it's own movement of 20 feet and actions for the duration.

Once these are expended, it cannot control your armor until you complete a long rest.

Barrier Capacitor Prerequisite: 11th level Artificer; Incompatible with other Capacitors

You can store up arcane energy, discharging it in the form of a protective barrier. As an action you can cast wall of force without expending a spell slot or charges. You can use an action to reorient or move the wall up to your movement speed, but the movement is not strong enough to cause any damage.

If a creature would be moved by the barrier it can make a Strength check against a Spellcasting ability check, stopping the wall on a successful check.

Once you use this upgrade, you cannot use it again until you complete a long rest.

Contingent Response Prerequisite: Sentient Armor

Choose a spell of 1st level spell that you can cast, that has a casting time of 1 action, and that can target you. You cast that spell, expending a spell slot, but the spell doesn't come into effect. Instead, it takes effect when a certain circumstance occurs.

The spell takes effect immediately after the circumstance is met for the first time, whether or not you want it to, and then contingency ends.

You can only have one spell prepared to go off in this way. Preparing a new one immediately ends the effect of the last one.

Extendable Arms Prerequisite: Integrated Armor

As a bonus action, you can extend your arms reach until the end of your turn. Your melee weapon attacks gain the reach property until the end of your turn.

Hyperspace Arsenal Prerequisite 19th level, Requires: Recall.

You expand the pocket dimension to store multiple sets of Wargear, as well as up to 100 lbs of weapons or items. As a bonus action, you can conjure and equip any weapon or item stored in the pocket dimension. Additionally, you can swap out your attuned Wargear for another set of Wargear with this upgrade in the pocket dimension during this bonus action, instantly unattuning to the set you were wearing and attuning to the new set. Once you swap your Wargear using this feature, you cannot do so again until you complete a short or long rest.

Powered Nervous System Prerequisite: Integrated Armor; Resistance: Lightning

Once per turn when you take or deal lightning damage, you gain a d4. You can add this d4 to your next attack roll or saving throw before the end of your next turn. You can only have one d4 from this ability at a time. If you gain another d4 while you already have one, you immediately roll it and gain temporary hit points equal to the amount rolled.

Iron Constitution Prerequisite: Integrated Armor

You gain resistance to poison damage and advantage against the poisoned condition.

Large Suits

Some players will want to build a larger suit, the Piloted Golem option below allows you to do that. The player and the DM should give some consideration to the consequences of being a large sized creature. It has advantages but considerably drawbacks that should not be ignored.

Large weapons are not defined in the Player's Handbook for 5e, so what a Large weapon will be (if anything) is up to your DM.

The Dungeon Master's Guide provides guidance for doubling a Large weapon's damage dice on page 278 when discussing monster's weapons, but other DMs opt for a more modest increase akin to the spell enlarge of just having large weapons deal 1d4 additional damage.

Piloted Golem Prerequisite: Warplate, Incompatible with Collapsible. Prerequisite: 9th level Artificer

You enlarge your Warplate, turning it into a piloted mechanical golem. Your size category when wearing the armor increases by one.

You have advantage on Strength saving throws and Strength checks against creatures the same size as you or smaller than you.

Ablative Armor Prerequisite: Piloted Golem

You leverage your Warplate's increased size to load it up with some redundant layers of armor to protect you. At the end of a short or long rest, you gain temporary hit points equal to your Intelligence modifier + Artificer level.

Self-Repair Matrix Prerequisite: Ablative Armor

At the start of each turn, if you have no temporary hit points, you gain temporary hit points equal your proficiency modifier.

Shield Arm. Prerequisite: Piloted Golem

You integrate a shield into one of your armor's arms. You have proficiency with that shield, and can deploy it as a bonus action. It requires the use of that arm while deployed. When shove a medium or smaller creature, you can shove it by slaming it with the attached shield causing it to take damage equal to your Strength modifier.

Fleshsmith

Fleshsmith Additional Upgrades

Acid Gland

Prerequisite: 5th level Artificer

Realizing that putting something that oozes acid inside yourself could not possible go wrong, you do just that. You gain a pool of d4s equal to your Constitution modifier. As a bonus action, you can expend an amount of these d4s, adding them to the next damage roll you make with a natural weapon before the end of your turn. The pool of d4s recharge at the end of a short or long rest.

Additionally, you learn the acid spray cantrip. When casting it using this upgrade, it does not require verbal or somatic components and you can use your Constitution as your spell casting modifier for it instead of your Intelligence modifier. You can expend the d4s granted by Acid Gland on the damage roll of acid spray, following the same restrictions as natural weapons.

Amalgamated Form

Prerequisite: 9th level Artificer

You modify yourself to gain a racial ability of another race. This can be used to gain one physical trait of a playable race, both in form and function. For example, adding the lower body of centaur may give you their movement, hooves, and poor climbing ability.

This can include physiology and physical traits, including natural weapons, movement speed, physical senses, or special properties relating to physical features. Select a trait from the following table:

Adaptive Response

Prerequisite: 15th level Artificer

You attain full mastery of your body and its functionality, able to detect when it malfunctions. As a reaction to failing a saving throw against becoming paralyzed, blinded, deafened, poisoned or infected by a disease as the result of failing a constitution saving throw, you can end the effect, even if you would normally not be able to take reactions due to the effect..

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

Brimstone Bladder

Prerequisite: 5th level Artificer

Why should dragons have all the fun? You can now exhale fire. You gain a pool of d12s equal to your Artificer level. As an action, you can exhale a cone of fire, expending d12s from this pool equal to your Proficiency modifier. Creatures in a 30 foot cone make a Dexterity saving throw, taking Fire damage equal to the d12s expended on a failure, and half as much damage on a successful saving throw.

You gain resistance to fire damage.

Devouring Maw

Prerequisite: 9th level Artificer

Due to the inefficiency of having only one intake port, you build an additional one, properly equipped with razor sharp fangs and a special property. This maw becomes a natural weapon that deals 1d10 piecing damage.

If you hit with an attack with this maw, you can chose to make a Grapple check against the target as a bonus action. Targets grappled by this maw take 1d4 piercing and 1d4 acid damage at the start of their turn.

Attacks with this Maw are made with advantage against targets it is Grappling, but it cannot attack other creatures while grappling a creature.

You can take apply a Fleshcrafted Enhancement to this Maw instead of Extra Fangs when taking that upgrades; this Maw can have a different upgrade than your Extra Fangs if you have both.

Soul Eater

Prerequisite: Extra Fangs or Devouring Maw

When you kill a creature with a CR of 1/4 or higher with your Extra Fangs or Devouring Maw, it consumes part of the soul of the creature, nourishing you with its essence. You regain an expanded spell slot equal to half the creatures CR (minimum first level spell slot).

Once you've benefited from this nourishment, you must take a short or long rest before you can benefit from it again. If you have no spell slots remaining, you can benefit from this nourishment again even without resting.

Extra Quills

Do you know what monsters never eat? Hedgehogs. You become more like a hedgehog. When you are attacked by a melee attack or are the target of a grapple attempt, you can use your reaction to deal 1d6 piercing damage to the attacking creature. You can do this a number of times equal to your Constitution modifier, and regrow all expended quills (regaining all uses of the ability) after you complete a long rest.

Alternatively, you as sometimes the best defense is a good offense, you can expend a use of quills as a ranged weapon attack with a range of 20/60, dealing 1d8 piercing damage on hit.

Dogmatic Persistence

Your idealogical conviction in your Thesis is such that you gain an additional 2 uses of it (for Perfection of Form) or an addition two d8s (for Perfection of Mind).

Prehensile Feet

You tinker with your appendages, improving their flexibility and configuration. You gain a climbing speed equal to your walking speed. If you are prone or otherwise supported without your feet, your foot can count as a free hand for the purposes of grappling.

Feats

Additional Items

Uncommon

Tiny Catapult

Wondrous Item, Uncommon

This is a tiny vividly detailed figurine of a catapult. It has 4 charges. While holding this catapult, you can expend a charge to cast the catapult spell. It regains 1d4 charges at dawn.

When you cast catapult in this way, it does not require verbal or somatic components, but you must be holding the catapult.

Rare

Tube of Dropping

Wondrous Item, Rare

This strange 1 foot long tube is 4 inches wide. While holding this tube vertically, anything you drop through it appears 20 to 50 feet above a point of your choosing within 100 feet. You need to have a line of sight to the target point or some point in vertical space above the target where the item would appear.

You can drop items or magical effects through the tube as long as they don't have require a line of sight to an effected creature (you cannot see the target location through the tube). Any living creature passing through the tube suffers from the effect of confusion for 1d6 turns. Only things that are completely within the tube when they would exit out of the bottom of it are transported through it.

Backgrounds

Many an Artificer could hail from a background from Far Traveler to Cloistered Scholar, there here are some additional backgrounds which be what lead to your character embarking on their unique exploration of the depths of magical engineering.

Notable Homebrew

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