Masters of Innovation

Relentless in their pursuit of innovation, artificers are defined by their insatiable curiosity and willingness to push the limits of arcane invention, even at great risk to themselves. For most artificers, they stake their personal value on the fruits of their experimentation, and they see mastering the basics of their chosen craft as the first step toward true greatness.

Deep down, the goal of every artificer is the discovery of a new groundbreaking invention, magical or otherwise. Some artificers are engineers, students of science and warfare, who bring their considerable intellect to bear to construct deadly weapons augmented with magic. Others view themselves as artists, combining the rigid formulas of arcane magic with the artisanal touch of their own specialized tools and spells.

Fierce Rivalries

Almost every artificer has a rival, most often another artificer who they seek to outdo at every turn. These intense rivalries are the sole motivation of some artificers, and outdoing their rival is more valuable than any fame or riches they could gain from their discoveries. Many are willing to risk everything they have to achieve a new breakthrough before their rival.

By the same token, artificers with similar philosophies and aims often band together in loose artisan's guilds. They share insights and discoveries, hoping to keep ahead of rival guilds by pooling resources and working as a team. However, even when working together, most artificers are protective of any insights they think could lead to a groundbreaking discovery.

Hit Points

• Hit Dice: 1d8 per artificer level
• Hit Points at 1st Level: 8 + your Constitution modifier
• Hit Points at Higher Levels: 1d8 (or 5) + your Constitution modifier per artificer level after 1st

Proficiencies

• Armor: Light armor, medium armor, shields
• Weapons: Simple weapons, hand crossbows, (firearms)
• Tools: Tinker's tools, one type of artisan's tools.

• Saving Throws: Constitution, Intelligence
• Skills: Choose two from Arcana, History, Insight, Investigation, Medicine, Nature, Sleight of Hand.

Equipment

You start with the following equipment:

• a simple weapon and a set of artisan's tools of your choice
• (a) studded leather or (b) scale mail
• A light crossbow and 20 bolts
• Tinker's tools and a dungeoneer's pack

Quick Build

You can make an artificer quickly by using these suggestions. First, make Intelligence your highest ability score, followed by Dexterity. Second, choose the artisan background. Third, choose the enhanced defense and repeating shot Infusions.

Infusions

You have learned to imbue objects with your signature brand of magic in order to produce wondrous items. At 1st level, you learn two Infusions of your choice from the list at the end of this class. The Infusions Known column of the artificer table shows when you learn more Infusions of your choice.

At the end of a long rest, as long as you have tinker's tools, you can replace one Infusion you know with another Infusion of your choice, so long as you meet all of its prerequisites.

Infusing an Object

At the end of a long rest, you can use your tinker's tools to imbue an Infusion you know into a nonmagical object. To do so, you must be able to touch the object with your tools.

If the Infusion requires attunement, you can attune to the object the instant you infuse it, or you can forgo attunement so another creature can attune to it. To attune to the infused item later, you must follow the normal attunement process.

The Infusion remains in an item indefinitely. If you die, the Infusion vanishes after a number of days have passed equal to your Intelligence modifier (minimum of 1 day). Infusions vanish immediately if you give up your knowledge of one to learn another or imbue the Infusion into another object.

You can infuse multiple objects at the end of each long rest, up to one for each Infusion you know. Each Infusion can be in only one object at a time, and no object can bear more than one Infusion. If you transfer an Infusion to a new object, any previous instance of that Infusion immediately ends.

Replicate Magic Item

You can also use your Infusions to replicate magic items that you have studied. Over the course of a long rest, you can use tinker's tools to examine a magic item you can touch. At the end of that long rest, you can replace one of your Infusions Known with the knowledge of this magic item. After which, you can infuse an object with the properties of that magic item, following all the rules for your other Infusions.

You can use this feature to replicate any item of Common rarity. As you gain artificer levels you can use this feature to replicate items of increasing rarity: Uncommon at 5th level, Rare at 11th level, and finally Very Rare items at 17th level.

Specialization

At 1st level, choose one of the following Specializations that best represents the arcane research and inventions of your artificer: Alchemist, Armorer, Battle Smith, Forgewright, or Wandslinger, each of which is detailed at the end of the class.

Your Specialization grants features at 1st level, and again when you reach 3rd, 5th, 9th, and 15th level in this class.

Spellcasting

At 2nd level, you can use your tools and your signature brand of magic to produce strange and wondrous spell effects from objects and tools that you imbue with arcane power.

Alchemist

Alchemy is a delicate art, tip the ratio of ingredients too far out of line and the effects could be disastrous. Alchemists are experts at combining exotic reagents to produce a variety of materials and effects. From healing droughts that can heal
a wound in moments, to sticky goo that explodes when it comes in contact with flame. With the right reagents and a bit of luck, Alchemists use their wondrous Elixirs to give
life to their allies and leech it away from their foes.

Alchemical Elixirs

3rd-level Alchemist feature
As your knowledge of alchemy has grown, you have learned to create potent Elixirs that mimic certain spell effects:

Elixir Infusions. Your total number of Infusions Known increases by one, but this extra Infusion must be from the list of Elixir Infusions at the end of this Specialization.

Your total number of Infusions Known increases by one again 9th level and at 15th level in this class. Both of these additional Infusions must also be chosen from the list of Elixir Infusions at the end of this Specialization.

Creating an Elixir. At the end of each long rest, you can use alchemist's supplies to create individual Tiny vials that contain a copy of each Elixir you know, without expending a spell slot. Elixirs produce the effect of their spell at its lowest level and become unusable at the end of your next long rest.

As an action, you can create another vial of an Elixir you know by expending the spell slot listed in its description. An Elixir can be used as part of the same action you create it.

Using an Elixir. As an action, any creature can drink an Elixir, administer an Elixir to a creature within its reach, or throw an Elixir at a point within 30 feet. When thrown, an Elixir produces its spell effect at the point of impact. If an Elixir spell requires concentration, the creature that drinks
it must concentrate on the effect. Your Elixir spells use your artificer spell save DC and spellcasting modifier.

For example, if you learn the create minor elixir Infusion and choose grease and sleep, at the end of each long rest you prepare an elixir of grease, and an elixir of sleep. Creatures can then use these Elixirs to produce the spell effects.

Potent Potions

5th-level Alchemist feature
Whenever one of your Elixirs or an artificer spell cast by you deals acid, fire, necrotic, or poison damage, or restores hit points to a creature, you can add your Intelligence modifier (minimum of +1) to one of the damage or healing rolls.

Restorative Reagents

9th-level Alchemist feature
You include revitalizing additives in all the Elixirs you create. When a creature uses one of your Elixirs on themselves or restores a creature's hit points with one, the target of the Elixir gains temporary hit points equal to your artificer level.

     Master Alchemist

        15th-level Alchemist feature
        You have become a master among Alchemist artificers.
    You gain resistance to both acid and poison damage, and
             you are immune to the poisoned condition.

                     Moreover, you can create a copy of any Elixir
                    you know as a bonus action on your turn. You
                   must still expend a spell slot and follow all other
                  rules for creating an Alchemical Elixir.

             Create Minor Elixir

                     Prerequisite: 3rd-level Alchemist artificer
                      Each time you select this Infusion, choose two
                      Elixir effects to learn from the table. To produce
                   an additional minor elixir, you must expend a
                 spell slot of 1st-level or higher.

Create Greater Elixir

Prerequisite: 5th-level Alchemist artificer
Each time you select this Infusion, choose one Elixir effect to learn from the table below. To produce an additional greater elixir, you must expend a spell slot of 2nd-level or higher.

Create Advanced Elixir

Prerequisite: 9th-level Alchemist artificer
Each time you select this Infusion, choose one Elixir effect to learn from the table below. To produce additional advanced elixirs, you must expend a spell slot of 3rd-level or higher.

Tools of the Trade

1st-level Armorer feature
You gain proficiency with smith's tools and heavy armor. If you are already proficient with smith's tools, you instead gain proficiency with another set of artisan's tools of your choice.

Arcane Gauntlet

1st-level Armorer feature
You can forge for yourself a wondrous weapon of war known as an Arcane Gauntlet. At the end of a long rest, you can use smith's tools to create an Arcane Gauntlet, choosing for it to be a Lightning Cannon or Thunder Gauntlet. It is a simple weapon only usable by you, and you use your Intelligence, in place of Strength or Dexterity, for its attack and damage rolls.

You can only have one Arcane Gauntlet at a time. Creating a second causes the magic of the first to immediately dispel.

Lightning Cannon. Your Arcane Gauntlet gains the ranged (90/300) property. On hit, it deals 1d6 lightning damage, and once per turn, when you hit with a Lightning Cannon attack, you can cause it to deal an additional 1d6 lightning damage.

Thunder Gauntlet. Your Arcane Gauntlet remains a melee weapon. On hit, it deals 1d8 thunder damage, and any target hit by this Gauntlet has disadvantage on attack rolls against targets other than you until the start of your next turn.

Tools of the Trade

1st-level Battle Smith feature
You gain proficiency with smith's tools
and in heavy armor. If you are
proficient in smith's tools,
you gain proficiency in
another set of artisan's
tools of your choice.

Steel Defender

1st-level Battle Smith feature
You have created for yourself a faithful construct, known as a Steel Defender. It is friendly to you and your allies and obeys your orders. Your Steel Defender's game statistics are found in the Steel Defender stat block on the following page, which uses your proficiency bonus (PB) in multiple places.

In combat, your Steel Defender acts during your turn. It can move and use its reaction on its own, but it only uses the Dodge action on its turn unless you use your bonus action to order it to take an action in its stat block, or another action. If you are incapacitated, your Steel Defender acts on its own.

If your Steel Defender has died within the last hour, you can touch it with your smith's tools and expend an artificer spell slot to return it to life with its maximum hit points.

At the end of a long rest, you can magically create a new Steel Defender with your smith's tools. When you do so, any previous Steel Defenders are immediately rendered inert.

Upon its creation, you choose the shape of your Steel Defender, which can affect its abilities in and out of combat:

Humanoid. Your Steel Defender is the size of a Medium humanoid creature. It is proficient with shields, and it has humanoid hands that it can use to perform basic tasks.

Quadruped. Your Steel Defender resembles a Large beast
                                    of your choice. Its speed increases by 10
                                                              feet, and it can be ridden
                                                                  as a mount by you as if
                                                                   it was a trained mount.

Steel Defender

Medium or Large construct, neutral

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• Armor Class 12 + PB (natural armor)
• Hit Points 5 + five times your artificer level
  (the Steel Defender has a number of Hit Dice [d10s] equal to your artificer level)
• Speed 30 ft.

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
16 (+3)	12 (+1)	14 (+2)	4 (-3)	10 (+0)	6 (-2)

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• Damage Immunities poison
• Condition Immunities charmed, exhausted, poisoned
• Senses darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 10 + PB
• Languages understands the languages you speak

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Might of the Master. You add your PB to any ability check or saving throw the Steel Defender makes.

Vigilant. The Steel Defender cannot be surprised.

Actions

Rend. Melee Weapon Attack: your Intelligence modifier + PB to hit, reach 5 ft., one target you can see. Hit: 1d8 + PB force damage.

Repair. The Steel Defender can expend one of its Hit Dice to restore 1d10 +PB hit points to itself or to one construct or object within 5 feet of it.

Battle Smith Spells

2nd-level Battle Smith feature
You learn certain spells at the artificer levels noted in the table below. These don't count against your total number of Spells Known and can't be switched upon gaining a level.

Battle Ready

3rd-level Battle Smith feature
You have trained to stand alongside your Steel Defender in battle. You can use your Intelligence, in place of Strength or Dexterity for attack and damage rolls you make with magic weapons, or any weapon that bears one of your Infusions.

Infusion Bearer

5th-level Battle Smith feature
You have designed your Steel Defender to bear your most potent Infusions. Your Steel Defender can bear any Infusion that is meant for boots, cloaks, gauntlets, helms, or suits of armor. Though, it can only bear one Infusion at a time.

Minor Upgrade

5th-level Battle Smith feature
You have improved the offensive capabilities of your Steel Defender. Choose one of the Minor Upgrades below:

Minor Arcanum. You imbue your Steel Defender with a 1st-level artificer spell with a casting time of one action. As a bonus action, you can order your Steel Defender to cast the imbued spell at 1st-level, using your spellcasting modifier.

Your Steel Defender has a number of charges of the spell equal to your Intelligence modifier (minimum of 1), and it regains all expended charges when you finish a long rest.

Martial Offense. The damage of your Steel Defender's Rend becomes 1d10, and when you command it to take the Rend action it can make two Rend attacks instead of one.
It can replace either Rend attack with a grapple or shove.

Adjustable Upgrades

9th-level Battle Smith feature
You can adjust your Steel Defender's Upgrades to face the challenges at hand. Each time you finish a long rest, you can use your smith's tools to replace one of your Steel Defender's Upgrades with another Upgrade gained at the same level.

Greater Upgrade

9th-level Battle Smith feature
You can imbue your Steel Defender with wondrous abilities and features. Choose one of the Greater Upgrades below:

Limited Sentience. You improve the cognitive abilities of your Steel Defender. Its Intelligence score becomes a 10. It also gains proficiency with a set of tools of your choice and learns to speak, read, and write two languages of your choice.

Modular Construction. Your Steel Defender can bear up to two Infusions, though the Infusions must be meant for different types of objects. For example, your Steel Defender could be infused with an Infusion meant for a suit of armor and an Infusion meant for a helm, but not two Infusions that are both meant to be used on suits of armor.

Reinforced Plating. You improve the structure of your Steel Defender. It gains resistance to bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage from all non-magical attacks.

Masterwork Upgrade

15th-level Battle Smith feature
You imbue your Steel Defender with wondrous abilities and powers. Choose one of the Masterwork Upgrades below:

Arcane Ward. Creatures of your choice within 15 feet of your Steel Defender are resistant to damage from spells.

Self-Destruct. You embed a powerful arcane explosive in your Steel Defender. As a bonus action, you can order your Steel Defender to self-destruct, destroying itself and forcing creatures within 20 feet to make a Dexterity saving throw. Creatures take force damage equal to your Steel Defenders remaining Hit Dice on a failed save, or half as much damage on a success. Once this feature is used, your Steel Defender cannot be revived until the end of your next long rest.

Major Arcanum. You imbue your Steel Defender with a 3rd-level artificer spell with a casting time of one action. As a bonus action, you can order your Steel Defender to cast the imbued spell at 3rd-level, using your spellcasting modifier.

Your Steel Defender has a number of charges of the spell equal to your Intelligence modifier (minimum of 1), and it regains all expended charges when you finish a long rest.

Tools of the Trade

1st-level Forgewright feature
You gain proficiency with martial weapons and smith's tools. If you're already proficient with smith's tools, you instead gain proficiency with another set of artisan's tools of your choice.

Arcane Armament

1st-level Forgewright feature
Over the course of 1 hour, which can be during a short or long rest, you can use smith's tools to transform one melee weapon you touch into your Arcane Armament. While you wield your Arcane Armament, you gain the benefits below.

You can only have one Arcane Armament at a time, and enchanting a second causes the magic of the first to end.

• You can use your Intelligence, in place of Strength or Dexterity, for attack and damage rolls with the weapon.
• The weapon gains both the thrown (20/60) and returning properties. After you make a thrown weapon attack with your Arcane Armament, it instantly returns to your hand.
• It counts as a magical weapon if it was not already.

Forgewright Spells

2nd-level Forgewright feature
You learn certain spells at the artificer levels noted in the table below. These don't count against your total number of Spells Known and can't be switched upon gaining a level.

Forge of War

3rd-level Forgewright feature
Your signature artifice enhances the power of your weapon. Any weapon attacks you make with your Arcane Armament score a critical hit on a roll of 19 or 20 on the d20.

Also, your total number of Infusions Known increases by 1. However, this bonus Infusion must be applied to your Arcane Armament, and can be applied even if it was a magic weapon.

Arcane Jolt

5th-level Forgewright feature
When you hit a target with your Arcane Armament you can expend a spell slot to deal additional force damage to the target. The extra damage is 2d6 for a 1st-level spell slot, plus 1d6 for each spell level higher than 1st, to a maximum of 6d6.

Extra Attack

5th-level Forgewright feature
You can attack twice, rather than once, when you take the Attack action on your turn. Moreover, you can cast one of your artificer cantrips in place of one of those attacks.

Improved Arcane Jolt

9th-level Forgewright feature
The magic of your Arcane Armament empowers its strikes. Each time you hit a creature with a weapon attack with your Arcane Armament you deal an additional 1d6 force damage.

This force damage does not count against the maximum amount of damage you can deal with your Arcane Jolt feature.

Master Forgewright

15th-level Forgewright feature
You have become a master among Forgewright artificers and can extend the power within your Arcane Armament to allies. As an action, you can hold aloft your Arcane Armament and, choose a number of weapons equal to your Intelligence modifier (minimum of 1) within 30 feet, one of which can be your Arcane Armament. For the next minute these weapons
          deal an additional 1d6 force damage on hit.

            Once you use this feature you must finish a long rest
          before you can use it again. If you have no uses of this
          feature left, you can expend an artificer spell slot of
          3rd-level or higher to use this feature again.

Tools of the Trade

1st-level Wandslinger feature
You gain proficiency with woodcarver's tools. If you are already proficient with woodcarver's tools, you instead gain proficiency with another set of artisan's tools of your choice.

Arcane Sidearm

1st-level Wandslinger feature
You have constructed for yourself a Wandslinger's signature weapon. At the end of a long rest, you can use woodcarver's tools to craft an Arcane Sidearm. It resembles a Tiny object of your choosing, though its appearance has no effect on its abilities. Many Wandslingers craft Sidearms that resemble delicate wands, ornate rods, or even eldritch cannons.

Your Arcane Sidearm is a simple weapon with the ranged (120/300) property, and you use your Intelligence, instead of your Dexterity, for its attack and damage rolls. On hit, it deals force damage equal to 1d10 + your Intelligence modifier.

When you gain the Spellcasting feature at 2nd level, your Arcane Sidearm can be used as a spellcasting focus by you.

You can only have one Arcane Sidearm at a time. Creating another Arcane Sidearm renders that magic of the first inert.

Quickdraw

1st-level Wandslinger feature
You have honed your reflexes so that you can nearly always strike first. When you roll initiative and are not surprised or incapacitated, you can use your reaction to make one attack with your Arcane Sidearm, or another magic wand, rod, or staff that you are holding before any other creatures act.

Wandslinger Spells

2nd-level Wandslinger feature
You learn certain spells at the artificer levels noted in the table below. These don't count against your total number of Spells Known and can't be switched upon gaining a level.

Arcane Duelist

3rd-level Wandslinger feature
You have begun to master the signature abilities of an arcane duelist. As a bonus action on each of your turns, you can use your Arcane Sidearm to use one of the abilities listed below.

If one of these abilities forces a creature to make a saving throw, it does so against your artificer Spell save DC.

Spell Slinger

5th-level Wandslinger feature
You wield your Arcane Sidearm with deadly skill. When you use your action to make an attack with your Arcane Sidearm, you can make two attacks instead of just one. These
attacks can target two targets or the same target.

As you gain artificer levels, the number of Arcane
Sidearm attacks you make as part of a single action
increases: at 11th level (3), and 17th level (4).

Expert Duelist

9th-level Wandslinger feature
The amount of lightning or thunder damage dealt,
or temporary hit points granted by all three Arcane
Duelist bonus action features increases by 1d6.

Master Wandslinger

15th-level Wandslinger feature
You have become a master of Wandslinger
artifice. You gain the benefits listed below:

• When you use your action to make an
  Arcane Sidearm attack, you can cast
  an artificer spell of 1st-level or higher
  as a bonus action on that turn.
• When you cast an artificer spell
  and use your Arcane Sidearm as
  the spellcasting focus, you can
  choose for that spell to deal
  force damage in place of its
  normal damage type.
• As a reaction when you, or
  a creature within 10 feet
  is targeted by a spell, you
  you can grant all creatures
  within 10 feet of you
  three-quarters cover
  against that spell.
• You can choose for
  your Arcane Duelist
  bonus actions to
  deal force damage
  in place of their
  normal damage.

Arm Launcher

Item: A glove or gauntlet
This tiny magical launcher can be loaded with a Tiny
object, including but not limited to; ball bearings, a vial of acid, or holy water. As a bonus action, the wearer can activate the launcher and make a ranged weapon attack at a target up to 20 feet away. The launcher can be reloaded as an action.

Enhanced Arcane Focus

Item: A rod, staff, or wand (requires attunement)
This item grants the user +1 bonus to spell attack rolls, and they can ignore half cover when making spell attacks.

This bonus increases at 11th level (+2) and 17th level (+3).

Enhanced Defense

Item: A suit of armor or a shield
This item grants the user +1 bonus to their armor class while wearing (armor) or wielding (shield) this infused item.

This bonus increases at 11th level (+2) and 17th level (+3).

Enhanced Weapon

Item: A simple or martial weapon
This magic weapon grants the user a +1 bonus to any attack and damage rolls they make with this infused weapon.

This bonus increases at 11th level (+2) and 17th level (+3).

Featherweight Belt

Item: A belt or cloak (requires attunement)
When worn, this magic belt reduces the user to one-tenth
of their weight without decreasing their physical abilities.

At 11th level, it reduces the wearer to one-hundredth of their weight without decreasing their physical abilities.

Featherweight Weapon

Item: A heavy or two-handed weapon (requires attunement)
This magic weapon loses the heavy property if it had it. If it did not have the heavy property, it gains the light property.

At 11th level, this weapon grants a +1 bonus to its attack and damage rolls. This bonus increases to +2 at 17th level.

Goggles of Clearsight

Item: A pair of goggles or glasses
While wearing these goggles, the wearer can see through areas that are lightly obscured by magical or mundane phenomena without disadvantage on Perception checks.

In addition, the wearer no longer suffers the negative effects of the Sunlight Sensitivity trait, and they have advantage on saving throws to resist becoming blinded.

Power Whip

Item: A whip or chain
This magic weapon grants a +1 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with it, and its damage die becomes a 1d8.

This bonus increases at 11th level (+2) and 17th level (+3).

Repeating Shot

Item: A ranged weapon (requires attunement)
This magic weapon ignores the loading property if it has it. If you load no ammunition into the weapon it produces its own, creating magic ammunition when you make a ranged attack. The ammunition vanishes after it either hits or misses.

At 11th level, this weapon grants a +1 bonus to its attack
     and damage rolls. This bonus increases to +2 at 17th level.

        Returning Weapon

             Item: A weapon with the thrown property
             After making a ranged attack this magic weapon,
           regardless if the attack hits or misses its target, it
        instantaneously returns to its wielder's hand.

At 11th level this weapon grants a +1 bonus to its attack and damage rolls. This bonus increases to +2 at 17th level.

Homing Weapon

Prerequisite: 5th-level artificer
Item: A weapon with the ranged or thrown property
The wielder of this magic weapon ignores the disadvantage
           imposed when attacking at the weapon's long range.

            At 11th level it gains a +1 bonus to its attack and
                 damage rolls. This bonus becomes +2 at 17th level.

                 Immovable Boots

                        Prerequisite: 5th-level artificer
                     Item: A pair of boots (requires attunement)
       When the wearer is standing on a flat surface, it can use an action to activate the boots, magically fixing the wearer in place. Until the wearer uses an action to deactivate the boots, they do not move, even if they are defying gravity.

A creature can use an action to make a DC 30 Strength check, separating the boots from the surface on a success.