artificer subclass - Illusion Smith, formerly the Forgemaster

# Illusion smith
The customer is always right as they say and anything an artisan can do to ensure it is as they say will ensure the client sings their praises when they brag to their friends about it. The Artificer specialisation of Illusion smiths origins lie with the hybridisation of Illusion and Transmutation magic. the specialisation was very popular and prevalent in Cyre, the home of house cannith, with many of the wonder's of the capital of metrol being just as much illusion as real. This strange but effective combination of Transmutation and Illusion schools of magics' practitioner's typically use the magic that they developed to rapidly prototype magic weaponry for their customer.

Illusion smiths typically worked on projects that they were specifically commissioned for due to a desire to have a clear idea of what they would get. The demands placed upon them to make weapons that perfectly suited the customer was such that simply measuring the user and examining their usage of prior weaponry could only go so far. Thus the idea of creating illusory weapons that could give the customer an idea of what they might be purchasing became popular.

As of 998YK, the discipline of Illusion smithing has taken a severe hit due to the deaths of many of it's core practitioners in the mourning, many of whom were members of house Cannith by blood or not. However the talents and advantages of such magic has been acknowledged within the house and the wider khorvairan community and thus due to house Cannith's neutrality in the war, the techniques have spread to all of the five nations.

The techniques of the Illusion Smiths have proved popular in some circles and due to a century of war, the discipline has evolved differently within each of the five nations. Such is the variety within the five nations that many of the finest Illusion Smiths in each of the five nations have developed their own techniques and have even monetised it for their own gain or have made use of it in furthering their own aims.

### Illusion smith Features
Artificer level | features
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3rd | Tools of the Trade, Weapon Empathy, Illusory Infusion Weapon
5th | Extra Attack
9th | Superior Illusory Weapon
15th| Divergent Sensibilities

### Tools of the Trade
When you adopt this specialization at 3rd level, you gain proficiency with blacksmiths tools. If you already have this proficiency, you gain proficiency with one other type of artisan's tools of your choice.

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### Weapon Empathy
When you reach 3rd level, your ability as a creator of weapons has resulted in you accumulating great knowledge of weapons, which grants you the following benefits:
* you gain proficiency with martial weapons
* you have advantage on intelligence (history) checks to recall or discover information about a weapon or weapons that you have seen or can see.

### Crafted Illusion
At 3rd level, your abilities as a creator of real things and an experimenter in the creation of uncanny illusions that come close to the real thing, has resulted in an exceptional ability to create temporary objects. As an action, you can conjure up inanimate objects in your hands. The object or objects can be any mundane object or objects that you could make with a set of tools you are proficient with, weighs no more than 20lb, isn't so bulky that it can't be carried with two hands, isn't edible or consumable by a humanoid and costs no more than 20gp or is a simple or martial weapon/s. You can change the object or objects superficial appearance at will. The object is not visibly magical. This object disappears after 1 hour or if you use this feature again.

### Illusory Infusion Weapon
At 3rd level, you learn techniques related to illusion and transmutation magic that enable you to create  prototypes of weapons that are called infusion weapons.

When you use your action to use the Crafted Illusion feature and are carrying smith's tools, you can as part of that action choose an infusion you know and apply it to a weapon or weapons you create as long as they fulfill the infusion's requirements.

Once you create an infusion weapon, you can't do so again until you finish a long rest or you expend a spell slot of 1st level or higher on this feature. You can have only one infusion weapon at a time. You may apply a weapon infusion to a crafted illusion even if you have already applied the chosen infusion to a weapon as part of your infuse item feature. an infusion applied to an infusion weapon does not count towards your infused items limit.

If the infusion requires for you to attune to it to make use of it's features, you must have a free attunement slot and you attune to the infusion weapon immediately after creating it but you may elect to not do so. If an infusion has charges that power a feature of the infusion, they instead draw upon a shared pool of points equal to your Intelligence modifier which refreshes at the end of a long rest.

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### Extra Attack
At 5th level, you can attack twice, rather than once, whenever you take the attack action on your turn.

### Superior Illusionary Weapons
At 9th level you learn how to use your artificer infusions to enhance a weapon to a degree surpassed by few others. When you expend a spell slot of 2nd level or higher making an Infusion Weapon, you can apply a second simultaneous infusion to your Infusion Weapon creating a Superior Infusion Weapon. 
* If both infusions require attunement, they count as one magic item for the purposes of attunement. 
* If the infusion provides a static bonus to attack and damage rolls, you combine them up to a maximum of +2. At 14th level you may combine the chosen infusions' static bonus to attack and damage to a maximum of +3.

### Divergent sensibilities
At 15th level, your skills as an Illusion smith have reached their peak and you follow in the footsteps of your master and culture. you gain one of the following features of your choice.

#### Aundairan Techniques and Power
Your expertise in manipulating magic for practical effects has resulted in you being exceptionally efficient at crafting and using infusion weapons and powering them from your own internal reserves. you gain the ability to create a superior infusion weapon once per long rest without expending a spell slot.

Furthermore you can restore your reserves of power that you use to power your infusion weapon with by expending a spell slot as an action. When you expend this spell slot, you recover a number of charges equal to the spell slot level divided by 2 rounded up. for example if you expend a 3rd level spell slot, you recover 2 charges for powering your infusion weapon.

#### Brelish flexibility and deceit 
Your experience as a brelish artificer with the deceit and corruption that pervades brelish society has lead to you being quick on the draw and very broad minded on how you use what knowledge you pick up.

When you create an infusion weapon, you may make one attack with your infusion weapon as part of that action and if the attack hits, the infusion weapon deals an additional 3d6 damage of the same type as the weapon.

You also gain an additional two infusions known and one infused item. Both infusions known must be infusions that can be applied to weapons.

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#### Cyran Sensibilities
Your expertise in crafting illusory replicas of weapons has given you the ability to create enduring illusions of weapons with your arcane power. At the end of a long rest you may conjure forth a weapon as though you were creating a Superior Infusion Weapon, however unlike other infusion weapons this one has no duration and does not require you to expend a spell slot to create it. Such an infusion weapon is known as a Master Infusion Weapon. 
			
If the Master Infusion Weapon has features that require the expenditure of charges to use, the attuned user instead uses a pool of charges derived from the weapon which are equal to your intelligence modifier. These charges are restored when the attuned user finishes a long rest. 
			
You may change the form and infusions of your master infusion weapon at the end of a long rest by breaking it, returning it to nothingness. If you die whilst you have a Master Infusion Weapon, the weapon does not disappear nor does it lose the magic you imbued it with as a normal infused item would. All other normal rules of a Superior Infusion Weapon apply.

#### Karnarthi Martial Might
Your culture's focus on martial exploits has resulted in a focus on sustained and consistent lethality of your infusion weapons. When you create an infusion weapon, your weapon deals an extra 1d8 damage of the same type as the weapon when ever you attack with it. Furthermore when you roll a 1 on a damage die for an attack you make with your infusion weapon, you may reroll the die and must use the new roll, even if the new roll is a 1.

#### Thranish Flame and Faith
your culture's expectations has lead to very practical applications of your skills as an artificer. When you hit a creature with your infusion weapon, you can channel your magic to create one of the following effects:
* the creature that you attacked takes an extra 2d4 radiant damage.
* choose yourself or one creature that is carrying an object with one of your infusions and is within 60ft of yourself. healing energy flows into the chosen recipient, restoring 2d4 hitpoints to them.

you may use this feature a number times equal to you intelligence modifier per short rest.

#### Emiya Style Heroism (or Insanity)
Your capacity to make weapons has moved on from the humble simplicity of cottage industry to that of full blown factory. when you take the attack action, you can attack three times instead of once. Furthermore when you choose to take the attack action you can choose to make a ranged weapon attack and launch a weapon you rapidly created in mid air at a foe for each attack. on a hit the weapon deals 1d12 magical piercing, bludgeoning, or slashing damage (your choice). If you have an infusion weapon at the time, you add it's bonus to hit and damage to your attack and damage rolls you make when you use this feature.

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## optional extras: Infusions

extra [Artificer Infusions](https://www.gmbinder.com/share/-MBnzAmdYgvlhLa8C69V "title") can be found at the GMbinder link that are intended to be used to widen the variety of the Illusion smith subclass' weapon infusion options. the infusion options are almost exclusively weapons however there are a number of other concepts included and the document will be continually updated with additional options as time goes by.

### An idea for improving the alchemist artificer

the following is gained at 3rd level when an artificer character chooses the alchemist subclass. this feature could also be added to artificer subclasses that have features that require considerable spell slot expenditure to gain the benefit of and don't scale the benefit relative to the spell slot expended.

#### Artificers's Recovery
At 3rd level, You have learned to regain some of your magical energy through methods of your own devising.  Once per day when you finish a short rest, you can choose expended spell slots to recover. The spell slots can have a combined level that is equal to your highest artificer spell slot level.

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##### Attribution
 Made by Thellton  
 Publicly Published version 3  
 all rights to intellectual property belong to their respective owners
 
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## design notes

### Weapon Empathy
originally this feature granted an INT substitution for weapon attack and damage rolls. it was pointed out that it was a potential hex blade in the making which I agreed with and have since changed to what it is now. If anybody is wondering why I think this subclass (and truthfully all artificers) do not need INT for weapon attack and damage, the reason is that the artificer in general has so many options for enhancing their real chance to hit with either infusions or spells such that it is a bit ridiculous. I would argue that a standard human (not Vhuman) with a point buy array of 11,14,14,14,14,14 with 11 being strength can work very easily for an artificer unlike any other class.

### Artificer's Recovery
This is a feature that I came up with recently as a potential endurance fix for artificer's subclasses whose subclass features require spell slots and are exceptionally draining of said spell slots in order to gain optimal value and utilisation of those spell slots. in essence it's fundamentally a fix intended for the Alchemist Subclass first and foremost however I thought I'd try altering the forgemaster, which is what this subclass concept used to be called, into something a little bit more spell slot hungry.

### lack of subclass unique spells
I originally provided a list of spells however I decided to can the subclass bonus list as it just was an annoying case of duplication of function

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