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Magical Tinkering

At 1st level, you learn how to invest a spark of magic in mundane objects. To use this ability, you must have thieves’ tools, tinker’s tools, or other artisan’s tools in hand. You then touch a Tiny nonmagical object as an action and invest it with one of the following magical properties of your choice:

• The object sheds bright light in a 5-foot radius and dim light for an additional 5 feet.
• Whenever tapped by a creature, the object emits a recorded message that can be heard up to 10 feet away. You utter the message when you bestow this property on the object, and the recording can be no more than 6 seconds long.
• The object continuously emits your choice of an odor or a nonverbal sound (wind, waves, chirping, or the like). The chosen phenomenon is perceivable up to 10 feet away.
• A static visual effect appears on one of the object’s surfaces. This effect can be a picture, up to 25 words of text, lines and shapes, or a mixture of these elements, as you like.

The chosen property lasts indefinitely. As an action, you can touch the object and end the property early.

You can give the magic of this feature to multiple objects, touching one object each time you use the feature, and a single object can bear only one of the properties at a time. The maximum number of objects you can affect with the feature at one time is equal to your Intelligence modifier (minimum of one object). If you try to exceed your maximum, the oldest property immediately ends, and then the new property applies.

Spellcasting

You have studied the workings of magic, how to channel it through objects, and how to awaken it within them. As a result, you have gained a limited ability to cast spells. To observers, you don't appear to be casting spells in a conventional way; you look as if you're producing wonders through various items.

Infusions

At 2nd level, you gain the ability to imbue mundane items with magical infusions. The magic items you create with this feature are effectively prototypes of permanent items.

Artificer Specialist

At 3rd level, you choose the type of specialty you wish to pursue: Alchemist, Archivist, Battle Smith, or Wandcarver, all of which are detailed at the end of the class’s description. Your choice grants you features at 3rd, 6th, and 14th level.

Tool Expertise

At 3rd level, your proficiency bonus is doubled for any ability check you make that uses your proficiency with a tool.

In addition, when you make a check with any tool with which you have proficiency, you may use your Intelligence modifier in place of another ability.

Finally, if you craft any non-magical item, or a magic item in the wondrous item category, it takes you a quarter of the normal time, and it costs you half as much of the usual gold.

Abiliy Score Improvement

When you reach 4th level, and again at 8th, 12th, 16th, and 19th level, you can increase one ability score of your choice by 2, or you can increase two ability scores of your choice by 1. As normal, you can't increase an ability score above 20 using this feature.

Combat Gadgets

Starting at 5th level, when you cast a cantrip with your action, you can make a single weapon attack with a magic weapon as a bonus action.

Superior Attunement

Over time, your understanding of magical objects has expanded and increased. At 7th level, you can attune to up to four magic items, instead of three.

At 15th level, you can attune to up to five magic items, and you ignore any class restriction that a magic item has for you to attune to it.

The Right Cantrip for the Job

At 10th level, you gain the ability to make sure you have the right magical tool for a job. Whenever you finish a short or long rest, you can replace one of the artificer cantrips you know with another cantrip from the artificer spell list.

Catalyst Casting

When you reach 18th level, you learn how to store a spell in an object for repeated use. Whenever you finish a long rest, you can touch one simple or martial weapon or an item that you can use as a spellcasting focus and store a spell in it, choosing one 1st- or 2nd-level spell from the artificer spell list that requires 1 action to cast (you don't need to have the spell prepared). With the object in hand, a creature can take an action to produce the spell’s effect from it, using your spellcasting ability modifier.

The spell stays in the object until it has been used a number of times equal to twice your Intelligence modifier (minimum of twice) or until you use this feature again.

Soul of Artifice

At 20th level, your understanding of magical items is unmatched, allowing you to mingle your soul with items linked to you. You gain a +1 bonus to all saving throws for every magical item to which you are currently attuned.

Artificer Specialists

Artificers pursue many disciplines. Here are specialist options you can choose from at 3rd level.

Alchemist Spells

Starting at 3rd level, you always have certain spells prepared after you reach particular levels in this class, as shown in the Alchemist Spells table. These spells count as artificer spells for you, but they don't count against the number of artificer spells you prepare.

Gnostic Concoction

Starting at 3rd level, you can create magically-infused concoctions to aid you in your adventures. At the end of a long rest, if your alchemist's supplies are with you, you can touch one or more vials or flasks and invest them with an artificer spell of a level that you can cast -- even one you don't have prepared -- that has a casting time of 1 action, has a range of self or touch, and targets a single creature. You must provide any material components required by the spell. Concoctions last until used, or until you finish a long rest.

You can make any number of concoctions, as long as the cumulative total of spell levels doesn't exceed your Intel-ligence modifier. For example, with an Intelligence score of 16, you can create three potions infused with 1st-level spells, and at higher levels, you can create a potion infused with a 2nd-level spell, as well as a potion infused with a 1st-level spell, or a single potion infused with a 3rd-level spell.

You don't expend spell slots to make these concoctions.

A concoction made through this feature uses your spellcasting ability, and your spell save DC if needed. When a creature uses a concoction, the spell effect lasts for the duration, and a creature doesn't need to maintain concentration if an effect normally requires it.

Alchemical Expertise

At 6th level, your command of magical chemicals has become masterful. When you cast a spell using your alchemist’s supplies as the spellcasting focus, you gain a bonus to one roll of the spell. That roll must restore hit points or be a damage roll that deals acid or poison damage, and the bonus equals your Intelligence modifier (minimum of +1).

In addition, you can cast lesser restoration without using a spell slot, provided you use alchemist’s supplies as the spellcasting focus. You can do so a number of times per day equal to your Intelligence modifier (minimum of once).

Chemical Panacea

The fumes that waft from your work have slowly seeped into your own body and transformed you. Starting at 14th level,

you gain resistance to acid and poison damage, and you are immune to the poisoned condition.

In addition, you can cast greater restoration once without expending a spell slot and without providing the material component, provided you use alchemist's supplies as the spellcasting focus. You regain the ability to do so when you finish a long rest.

Archivist

What are the best ways to access vast amounts of informa-tion? That question has occupied chroniclers and librarians for centuries. Scrolls and books were the finest information-storing methods for a long time, but the first Archivists imagined something greater: sharing information wtihout the need of tomes or scrolls. What library could match a mental network able to access and distribute information instantly? Working towards this goal, Archivists have become masters of storing and sharing knowledge. Of all artificers, archivists are on the cutting edge of arcane science.

Mental Network

At 6th level, you’ve learned how to use your artifices to access minds, both to communicate and to harm.

You can communicate telepathically with anyone carrying an item bearing one of your artificer infusions. That person can also communicate telepathically with you as long as they have the item. This two-way communication can even cross planar boundaries.

In addition, if you can telepathically communicate with another creature, or have affected a creature with a spell from the Archivist Spells list during your turn, you can use your bonus action to cause psychic damage to that creature equal to your Intelligence modifier.

Infoportation

At 14th level, as an action, you can teleport to an item bearing one of your artificer infusions, where you physically reappear.

If your destination is within 30 feet, you can take this action an unlimited number of times. Teleporting further than 30 feet can be done once, after which you must finish a long rest to teleport any distance again. You can also teleport by expending a spell slot of 2nd level or higher.

Battle Smith

Armies require protection, and someone has to put things back together if defenses fail. A combination of protector and medic, a Battle Smith is an expert at defending others and repairing both materiel and personnel. To aid in their work, Battle Smiths are sometimes accompanied by an iron defender, a protective construct of their own creation. Many soldiers tell stories of nearly dying before being saved by a Battle Smith and their iron defender.

Wandcarver

Artificers whose expertise extends beyond enchantment, into engineering the very gears of war, are spoken of in awe and fear as the humble and deadly Wandcarvers.

Wandcarver Spells

Starting at 3rd level, you gain the cantrip arcane bolt (described at the end of this document). You always have it prepared, but it doesn't count against your total number of artificer cantrips.

In addition, you always have certain spells prepared after you reach particular levels in this class, as shown in the Wandcarver Spells table. These spells count as artificer spells for you, but they don't count against the number of artificer spells you prepare.

Focus Prototype

At 3rd level, you learn innovative methods for carving focuses, and investing these tools with new magic.

You gain a unique focus prototype that you've carved in your spare time, which only you can use.

Each kind of prototype augments your casting of arcane bolt; this augment depends on the form of your prototype.

Rod. You gain a +2 bonus to damage rolls with arcane bolt.

Staff. While wielding this focus with two hands, you gain a +2 bonus to attack rolls you make with arcane bolt, and the range of the cantrip is doubled.

Wand. When you roll a 1 or 2 on a damage die for arcane bolt, you can reroll the die, and you must use the new roll, even if the new roll is a 1 or a 2.

If you lose your prototype, you can craft a new one at the end of your next long rest. You can craft additional prototypes using the crafting rules from Tools of the Trade.

Focused Power

By 6th level, you now regularly experiment with channeling different types of magic through focuses. Whenever you finish a long rest and your woodcarver’s tools are with you, you can touch any wooden focus, including your prototype, and invest it with one artificer cantrip of your choice -- even one you don't know -- that has a casting time of 1 action. As an action, you can cast that cantrip through that focus, using your spellcasting ability. The focus loses this magic when you finish your next long rest. Only you can use the focus's magic.

In addition, when you cast a cantrip or spell through your prototype, one damage roll gains a bonus equal to your Intelligence modifier (minimum of +1) .

When you reach 14th level in this class, you can invest a focus with two cantrips at the end of a long rest.

Wandslinger

At 14th level, you no longer have disadvantage while making a ranged spell attack at a creature within 5 feet of you while using a wand as a spellcasting focus for that attack.

In addition, when a creature that you can see attacks you, you can use your reaction to cast a cantrip with a casting time of 1 action that targets that creature immediately after its attack. You must be holding a focus to cast this cantrip.

Primary Attack

Your construct gains one of the following attacks, which are considered magical for overcoming resistances:

Acidic Spittle. Ranged Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, range 30 ft., one target both of you can see. Hit: 1d6 + 2 acid damage.

Flamethrower. Ranged Weapon Attack: Save DC 13 (Dexterity), range 15-foot cone. Failed Save: 1d8 + 2 fire damage. The fire ignites any flammable objects in the area that aren't being worn or carried.

High Pitch. Spell Effect: Save DC 13 (Wisdom), range 60 ft., one target both of you can see. Failed Save: 1d4 + 2 psychic or thunder damage, and until the start of your next turn, the next attack against the target has advantage.

Iron Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target both of you can see. Hit: 1d8 + 2 piercing damage.

Unique Ability

Your construct also has special abilities, determined by your specialty. If an ability requires a rest to regain its uses, you and the construct must both rest to recharge the ability.

Arcane Ballista (Wandcarver specialty)

Ballista (3/Short Rest) . Ranged Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, range 120 ft., one target you can see. Hit: 2d8 force damage, and the target is pushed up to 5 feet away.

Detonate. The magic powering the construct explodes. The construct drops to 0 hit points, and each creature within 10 feet of the construct must make a Dexterity saving throw. On a failed save, the creature takes 4d6 force damage and knocked prone; on a successful save, the creature takes half the damage and isn't knocked prone.

Fortification. One creature that you designate within 5 feet of your construct benefits from half cover.

Companions at Higher Levels

When you reach higher levels, your companion benefits from some of your newly acquired features as well.

Artificer Infusions

Artificers have invented numerous magical infusions that rapidly create magic items. To the untrained, artificers seem like wonderworkers, accomplishing in hours what others needs weeks, months, or years to complete.

The description of each infusion tells you the type of item that can receive it. The description also tells you if the resulting magic item requires attunement.

Some infusions specify a minimum artificer level. You can't learn such an infusion until you are at least that level.

Unless an infusion's description says otherwise, you can't learn any infusion more than once.

Wondrous Invention (8th-Level Artificer)

Wondrous Invention (12th-Level Artificer)

Wondrous Invention (16th-Level Artificer)

Wondrous Invention (16th-Level Artificer)

Multiclassing

When you advance in level, and at your DM's discretion, you may take the option to multiclass into an Artificer. You must meet the following prerequisites to qualify for an Artificer.

Artificer Spell List

Conjure Construct

4th-level conjuration

• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: 60 ft.
• Components: S, M (tinker's tools and 10 gp of materials)
• Duration: Concentration, up to 1 hour

You instantly build one or more constructs that appear in unoccupied spaces that you can see within range. Choose one of the following options for what appears:

• One construct of challenge rating 2 or lower
• Two constructs of challenge rating 1 or lower
• Four constructs of challenge rating 1/2 or lower
• Eight constructs of challenge rating 1/4 or lower

Each construct falls apart when it drops to 0 hit points or when the spell ends.

The constructs are friendly to you and your companions. Roll initiative for the summoned creatures as a group, which has its own turns. They obey any verbal commands that you issue to them (no action required by you). If you don't issue any commands to them, they defend themselves from hostile creatures, but otherwise take no actions.

The GM has the creatures' statistics.

At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a 5th-level spell slot, you choose one of the options above, and twice as many constructs appear for that option.

Information Overload

divination cantrip

• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: 30 ft.
• Components: M (a crystal shard, a piece of bone, or a seed)
• Duration: Instantaneous

As an action, you can try to overload the thoughts of one creature you can see that is within range, magically transmitting a jumble of information from your subconscious. Unless the target succeeds on an Intelligence saving throw against your spell save DC, the target takes 1d8 psychic damage, and the next attack roll against it before the end of your next turn has advantage, since it is temporarily too distracted to defend itself well.

Whenever you deal damage with this feature, you can expend a spell slot to deal extra damage to the target. The extra damage is 2d8 for a 1st-level spell slot, plus 1d8 for each spell level higher than first.

At Higher Levels. This spell's damage increases by 1d8 when you reach 5th level (2d8), 11th level (3d8), and 17th level (4d8) in this class.

Shield of Artifice

1st-level conjuration

• Casting Time: 1 bonus action
• Range: 60 ft.
• Components: V, S, M (a square inch sheet of tin)
• Duration: Concentration, up to 10 minutes

A shimmering field appears and surrounds a creature of your choice within range, granting it half cover for the duration.

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