Creating an Artificer

When creating an artificer character, think about your character's background and drive for adventure. Does the character have a rival? What drove your character down the path of being an artificer? Is it about curiosity and invention, or about the power their inventions bring? Did you character learn from another artificer, or receive a vision or flash of inspiration to learn their craft?

Consider how your character interacts with the world, and what they represent. Consult with your DM regarding guilds or societies your character might belong to.

Class Features

• 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

Artificer Specialization

At 1st level, you focus your craft on a particular specialization: Gadgetsmith, Golemsmith, Infusionsmith, Potionsmith, Thundersmith, Warsmith or Fleshsmith, each of which are detailed at the end of the class description. Your choice grants you features at 1st level and again at 3rd, 5th, and 14th level.

Magic Item Analysis

Starting at 1st level, your understanding of magic items allows you to analyze and understand their secrets. You know the artificer spells detect magic and identify, and you can cast them as rituals without material components.

Tool Expertise

Starting at 2nd level, your proficiency bonus is doubled for any ability check you make that uses any of the tool proficiencies you gain from this class.

Arcane Retrofit

Additionally at 2nd level, you gain the ability to retrofit magical gear. During a long rest you can perform a ritual using any +1/2/3 weapon (excluding artifacts and sentient weapons) to transfer the magic into an artificer weapon (a weapon created by subclass feature or upgrade). Eg: you can turn a +1 longsword and your impact gauntlet a +1 impact gauntlet. This includes weapon-like Upgrades that make attack and damage rolls (like a Warsmith's Force Blast).

You cannot transfer any properties from a magical weapon besides a bonus to attack and damage rolls, and the original weapon is destroyed.

Additionally, you can convert a set set of armor with a magical plus to AC to a lighter armor type.

Spellcasting

As part of your study of magic, you gain the ability to cast spells at 2nd level. The spells you learn are limited in scope, primarily concerned with modifying creatures and objects or creating items.

Specialization Upgrade

Starting at 3rd level, choose an upgrade from the list at the end of your specialization, and gain the benefits listed in the description of the Upgrade.

You select an additional Upgrade at 5th, 7th, 9th, 11th, 13th, 15th, 17th, and 19th level. You cannot select an Upgrade more than once, unless the Upgrade's description says otherwise. Whenever you level up, you can exchange one of your existing upgrades for another upgrade of the same level requirement as the replaced upgrade.

In any case an existing Upgrade is swapped out for a replacement Upgrade (either by a subclass feature or on level up), the new Upgrade is selected as if the Artificer is the level they were when they got that Upgrade slot. For example, if you replace your Stormforged Weapon and reselect all of your upgrades as a 5th level Artificer, you could select one 3rd level upgrade and one 5th level upgrade, or two 3rd level upgrades, but you would not be able to select two 5th level upgrades.

Ability Score Improvement

When you reach 4th, 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.

Arcane Reconstruction

At 6th level, you have mastered the knowledge of using magic to repair things. You learn the mending cantrip, and can cast it at will. Additionally, you learn the cure wounds spell. If you already know cure wounds you can select another spell from the Artificer spell list. When you cast cure wounds, it can heal constructs in addition to normally valid targets.

Cross Disciplinary Knowledge

At 6th level, you can expand on your knowledge across fields. You can craft one of the following: a Thundersmith's Stormforged Weapon, an Infusionsmith's Animated Weapon, Blasting Rod, or Infused Weapon, a Potionsmith's Alchemical Reagent Pouch and Alchemical Fire or Alchemical Acid, or an Unrestricted Gadgetsmith Upgrade.

If you select a Stormforged Weapon, you gain proficiency with that weapon and knowledge of how to make ammunition for it (if required). You cannot apply Infused Weapon to another weapon granted by this class.

If this selection is lost or destroyed, you can remake it following the rules for remaking the select item in subclass.

Wondrous Items Proficiency

At 7th level, your familiarity with the workings of magical items means that you can ignore class based restrictions on attuning to magical items.

Additionally, you can now attune to 4 magical items at once.

Improved Magical Crafting

At 10th level, your experience in creating your own wondrous invention makes you more adept at crafting a magic item than a normal spellcaster. Creating a magic item takes you half the time it would normally take.

Additionally, you can make 1 hour of progress toward crafting a magic item, scroll, or potion during a long rest.

Wondrous Item Recharge

Starting at 10th level, you can recharge a magic item that has charges or per rest uses, as long as those charges or uses can only be used to cast spells. To restore charges or uses, you perform a ritual that takes one minute and expends a spell slot of equal or higher level than a spell slot level of a spell cast by the item.

The number of charges or uses restored to the item is equal to the number of charges or uses required to cast that spell using the item once.

Study of Magic

At 11th level, your proficiency in the workings of magic has become so great you can cast detect magic and identify at will without expending a spell slot.

Additionally, you have advantage on all Intelligence (Arcana) checks to understand the workings of magical traps, effects, or runes.

Wondrous Item Mastery

Starting at 18th level you can use a magic item that would normally take an action as a bonus action instead.

Additionally, you can attune to 5 magical items at a time.

Peerless Inventor

At 20th level, your mind is always thinking of new options and clever solutions. After a short or long rest, you can select and create a temporary version of an Upgrade from your subclass you are qualified to take but do not have. This upgrade must have a level requirement of 11th level or lower. You have this upgrade until you complete a short or long rest, which time you can select a temporary Upgrade with this feature again.

Gadgetsmith

A Gadgetsmith is an Artificer whose curiosity and inventive genius have run rampant. While other Artificers may spend their whole career perfecting a single-minded pursuit, a Gadgetsmith believes that quantity is at least as good as quality.

Quick footed and quicker witted, a Gadgetsmith is never caught without another trick up their sleeve. Their minds are always jumping ahead to solve the next problem with a clever gadget.

A Gadgetsmith can come from any walk of life, but usually exemplifies a curiosity and distaste for the suppression of knowledge or technology, usually favoring freedom to experiment, leaning toward more Chaotic behaviors.

Gadgetsmith Upgrades

5th Level Upgrades

Crossbow Spider

You modify a crossbow to be able to aim and fire on its own. As an action, you can deploy a tiny construct. Once deployed, the tiny construct can be fired as a bonus action making an attack from where it is deployed with a range of 30/120 feet. You make a ranged spell attack, and if the attack hits it deals 1d6 + your Intelligence modifier piercing damage. The construct becomes inactive after 1 minute has passed, or after it has fired 10 times.

Once you have activated it, you cannot activate it again until you complete a long rest. If it was not destroyed, you can activate it again early by expending a 1st level or higher spell slot (if it was destroyed, you cannot activate it again until repairing or recreating it during a long rest).

Binding Rope

You create a rope that is capable of animating and binding a target. As an action, choose a target creature within 30 feet. The target must make a Dexterity saving throw against your Spell Save DC or become restrained until the end of your next turn. If you are currently grappling the target, it makes the Dexterity saving throw with disadvantage. The rope can only restrain one target at a time.

9th Level Upgrades

Arcane Nullifier

You make a device that nullifies the arcane through means you assure everyone else you understand. As an action, you can use this device to cast dispel magic without expending a spell slot.

Once you use this gadget, you cannot use it again until you complete a short or long rest.

Phase Trinket

You create a magical gadget that manipulates ethereal magic. As an action, you can cast blink or dimension door using the gadget without expending a spell slot.

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

Stinking Gas

You make a more potent compound for your Smoke Bomb. When you use a Smoke Bomb, you can choose to cast stinking cloud rather than fog cloud, following the same rules. You cannot cast stinking cloud in this way again until you complete a short or long rest.

Stopwatch Trinket

You create a magical stopwatch that manipulates time magic. As an action, you can cast haste or slow using the stopwatch without expending a spell slot.

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

11th Level Upgrades

Flying Gadget

You build a device that allows you to fly, such as deployable artificial wings. You can activate this device as a bonus action, or as a reaction to falling. Whatever form it takes, when activated it gives you a flying speed of 30 feet.

Golemsmith

A Golemsmith is an Artificer that has committed themselves to creating a true work of artifice, forging a golem. A painstaking life ambition, they plan and design meticulously, even if in practice sometimes compromises on materials must be made.

Why a Golemsmith embarks on the quest to forge this artificial construct of life can vary. For many it is the pure pursuit of forging the perfect creation, while for others, it is simply so they do not have to carry around their loot, or to have a loyal companion to count on at all times.

A Golemsmith is rarely chaotic, as they are people of great care and discipline; those that are not would not have succeeded where they have, but some have been set on their path by such events that might drive them to interact chaotically with society as a whole.

Golem Chassis

When you create your golem, you can add one prefix to its type in the form which basic chassis you use for golem. For example, if you select Warforged, your golem becomes a Warforged Golem, and gains the Warforged modifications to its base statistics.

Intelligent Oversight

Starting at 3rd level, you can take the Help action as a bonus action when assisting your golem.

Additionally, when you take the Help action to aid an ally (including your golem) in attacking a creature, the target of that attack can be within 30 feet of you, rather than 5 feet of you, if the allied creature can see or hear you.

Autonomous Action

Starting at 5th level, you no longer need to spend your action or reaction to direct the golem to use its action or reaction, and it can act following mental commands communicated while it is within 60 feet of you.

If the Golem is not directed to take any action, it will take the Dodge action in combat.

Magical Nature

Additionally at 5th level, your golem's natural weapons count as magical for the purposes of overcoming resistance and immunity to nonmagical attacks and damage.

Perfected Design

Starting at 14th level, your golem can add your Intelligence modifier to all of its attack rolls, skill checks, and saving throws.

Golemsmith Upgrades

Warfare Routines.

You advance the control routines for your golem, allowing it to fight more effectively. Your Golem gains one Fighting Style of your choice from Archery, Dueling, or Great Weapon Fighting.

9th Level Upgrades

Powered Charge. You select this upgrade twice.

You improve your golem's charging speed, increasing its movement speed by 5 feet. If your golem's speed is 40 feet or more after taking this upgrade, it gains the ability to use a Forceful Slam after moving 20 feet or more in a straight line toward it before attacking; if the attack hits, the target must make a Strength saving throw with a DC of 8 + the golem's proficiency + the golem's strength modifier, being knocked prone on.

Infusionsmith

An Infusionsmith is, in some ways, perhaps the most quintessential type of Artificer. While other Artificers may delve into mechanics and tinkering, an Infusionsmith is an artificer that tinkers with magic itself.

These are cutting edge of magical engineering, understanding the principle applications of magic. An Infusionsmith would have ground to stand on in calling a wizard an impulsive spell slinger, for these are the artificers that work their magic through careful and meticulous method, laying down magic they may not use for hours, or painstakingly crafting a long lasting enchantment.

An Infusionsmith can be a magical swordsman, a wandslinger, or bookish supporting character with a bag full of tricks that never quite runs dry. Some will stand within a maelstrom of animated blades while others will plink away with a crossbow that seems unerringly accurate, but their common theme is using their prowess of infusion to make themselves formidable.

Infuse Magic

Additionally at 3rd level, you can use your Spell Manual to infuse magic items, such as wands, storing the power for later use. In a special ritual taking 1 minute, you can expend a spell slot to cast a spell as normal, but the spell does not take effect, and is stored in the item for later use.

Subsequently, any creature holding the item with an Intelligence of 6 or higher that is aware there is magic infused in it can expend the stored magic to cast the spell.

The spell uses your spellcasting modifiers, but is in all other ways treated as if the creature holding it cast the spell. The magic infused in the item fades if you complete a long rest without expending the stored spell.

Extra Attack

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

Empowered Infusions

Additionally at 5th level, your Infused Armament grows more powerful. If Infuse or Animate a weapon, you can Infuse or Animate an additional weapon (having two infused weapons, two animated weapons, or one of each). If you have multiple animated weapons, you can attack the same or different targets with them.

If you cast a spell using an item from Infuse Magic or from a wand (from the Magical Wand upgrade or a normal wand), you can cast the cantrip with your Blasting Rod as a bonus action.

Infused Focus

Starting at 14th level, you can anchor a powerful spell into an item. When you cast a concentration spell, you can anchor it to an item (such as a staff, wand or weapon), and do not need to maintain concentration. The spell lasts a number of rounds equal to your intelligence modifier, after which the spell ends.

Once you use this ability, you must complete a short or long rest before using it again.

9th Level Upgrades

Potionsmith

A potionsmith is an artificer who has pursued the secrets of alchemy. While many a village has an apothecary grinding odd herbs and roots into potent (or not so potent) concoctions, the careful process of mixing and brewing is just one way to achieve results. Through the use of the intricate secrets of the craft and direct infusions using magical rituals, a potionsmith can come up with explosive results in the blink of an eye... sometimes literally.

An potionsmith can be a scholar who has delved into the knowledge the world has to offer or an explorer that has unlocked the secrets of the wilderness. Their knowledge could come from being friends of the fey, or from unfettered access to the royal library. As such, potionsmith's can be good or evil, lawful or chaotic.

When you cast spells in this way, the spell does not take effect immediately, but is infused into the potion.

If the spell grants an effect or restores health, the creature will gain the effect of the spell when the potion is consumed as an action. The potionsmith can consume the contents themselves particularly quickly due to practice as a bonus action if they choose to, or administer it to another willing creature as an action.

You can accurately throw a vial up to 30 feet, dealing no inherent damage, but breaking the vial in impact. If the spell has an area of effect, that area of effect takes place when the vial is broken, with the effect centered on where the vial breaks.

If the spell has a persistent effect that requires concentration, it does not require concentration to maintain, but its duration is shortened to a number of rounds equal to your Intelligence modifier.

A spell that does not require concentration lasts its normal duration. An infused potion loses its potency if it is not used by the end of your next long rest.

You can gain additional spells for your Alchemical Infusions through your Alchemist upgrades.

Frostbloom Reaction Instant Reaction (upgrade only)

You develop an endothermic reaction, a devastating localized cold snap that creates an instant bloom of ice. Targeting a point within 20 feet, as an action, you cause the area to erupt in frost.

The area within 5 feet of the target point becomes difficult terrain until the end of your next turn, and any creature in the area must make a Dexterity saving throw against your Spell Save DC, or be caught by the ice taking 1d6 cold damage; a creature entirely in the area of effect that fails also becomes restrained until the end of their next turn. They can use their action to make a Strength saving throw to break free of the ice early.

The damage increases by 1d6 when you reach 5th level (2d6), 11th level (3d6), and 17th level (4d6).

This Upgrade counts as a new Instant Reaction, and all rules for Instant Reactions apply to it.

Poisoner's Proficiency.

You delve into the secrets of the darkest secrets of herb lore, learning the potent secrets of poison. You gain Proficiency in Poisoner’s Kits; if you already have proficiency in them, you gain expertise in them and can add twice your proficiency to ability checks using them. Additionally, during a long rest, you can create one of the three following poisons.

• Contact poison. You can apply this to a melee weapon or up to ten pieces of ammunition, that weapon or ammunition deals an additional 1d4 and poison damage; the weapon can deal poison damage 10 times before the poison wears off.
• Ingested poison. This a simple flavorless powder. If a creature consumes a full dose of this poison before the end of your next long rest, after one minute has passed they must make a Constitution saving throw with disadvantage against your spell save DC or take a number of d10 equal to your Artificer level in poison damage, and become poisoned until they complete a long rest.
• Inhaled poison. This poison can be used to modify your poisonous gas reaction. You can use this dose of poison to make your poisonous gas instant reaction have a radius of 20 feet and deal twice as much damage on a failed save.

A poison that has not been used by the time you complete your next long rest loses its potency and has no effect if used.

9th Level Upgrades

Thundersmith

A Thundersmith is an Artificer who harnesses the primal force of elemental power, channeling its power into their great creation: a weapon of unmatched devastation. Spectacular and terrible, these weapons bring fear to their foes and awe to their allies.

Why an Thundersmith bends their mind to the task of making such a thing - some are coldly analytical about the destruction it causes, seeking to continually improve it, tweaking it for ever more optimized destruction, while others view it merely as a tool, a means to an end, while others still reveal in the crash of thunder that heralds the terrifying force of their weapon.

While some may look at these weapons as the dawn of a new age, in truth wielding them is a tricky and arcane art no simpler than making them, something only the one who forged the device will every truly master, each weapon a unique piece of devastating art.

Lightning Pike

You create a charged blade and stick it to the end of a pole, making it slightly more unwieldy, but giving it devastating reach. This weapon deals Lightning damage when applying Thundermonger.

Thundermonger

At 3rd level, the elemental power of your weapon is so powerful its strikes deal bonus thunder damage.

When you hit a target with your Stormforged Weapon, you can deal an extra 1d6 thunder damage. After discharging this bonus damage, you cannot deal this bonus damage again until the start of your next turn.

This extra damage increases by 1d6 when you reach certain levels in this class: 5th level (2d6), 7th level (3d6), 9th level (4d6), 11th level (5d6), 13th level (6d6), 15th level (7d6), 17th level (8d6), and 19th level (9d6).

Devastating Blasts

Beginning at 5th level, when you miss an attack with your Thundering Weapon, you can apply Thundermonger damage to the target creature you missed, but it deals only half the bonus damage. Dealing damage this way counts as applying Thundermonger damage.

Unleashed Power

Starting at 14th level, when rolling damage for Thundermonger or your Stormforged Weapon, you can expend a spell slot to reroll a number of the damage dice up to your Intelligence modifier (minimum of one) and maximize a number of dice equal to the level of the spell slot expended. You must use the new rolls.

Thundersmith Upgrades

Point Blank. Prerequisite: Hand Cannon

Being within 5 feet of a hostile creature doesn't impose disadvantage on your ranged attack rolls. Additionally, can use your Hand Cannon when making opportunity attacks.

9th Level Upgrades

Elemental Swapping. You upgrade the firing chamber for more adaptable damage. When you take the attack action with your Stormforged Weapon you can adjust the firing chamber, causing any bonus damage granted by Thundermonger to deal fire, cold, acid, or lightning damage instead of thunder damage. Alternatively, you can use a Vial of Holy Water to cause your next Thundermonger bonus damage to deal radiant damage.

Mortar Shells. Prerequisite: Stormforged weapon with the Ammunition property.

You build a secondary fire mode allowing you to fire your cannon like a mortar. Pick a target point within range, and make an attack roll. Apply the attack roll to all creatures within a 5 foot radius of the target point. Creatures hit take weapon damage plus half of Thunder monger bonus damage. Dealing damage this way counts as applying Thundermonger damage for the turn.

Creatures do not benefit from cover against this fire mode unless they have overhead cover as well.

Ride the Lightning. Prerequisite: Lightning Burst

When you use the Lightning Burst ability, you can opt to expend a spell slot of the first level or higher to infuse yourself into the burst of power. When you do so you are teleported up to 60 feet in the direction of the Lightning Burst (ending early if the Lighting Burst is blocked by an obstacle). You can stop anywhere along the path of the Lighting Burst, but the Lightning Burst will stop where you do.

Shock Harpoon Prerequisite: Harpoon Reel

After hitting a creature with the Harpoon fire mode, you can use a bonus action to deliver a shock. If you have not dealt Thundermogner damage since the start of your turn, you can deal damage equal to your Thundermonger bonus damage as lightning damage. This counts as discharging your Thundermonger damage. Additionally, the target must make a Constitution saving throw against your spell save DC or be stunned until the end of its next turn.

Once used, the Harpoon must be reeled in before this can be used again.

Synaptic Feedback.

You install a feedback loop into your cannon, allowing you to siphon some energy from your Stormforged Weapon to empower your reflexes.

Whenever you deal Lightning damage with your Stormforged Weapon your walking speed increases by 10ft and you can take the Dash or Disengage actions as a bonus action. This effect lasts until the end of your turn.

Thunder Jump

Build a quick release for the arcane thundering energy that fills your Stormforged Weapon. As an action you can channel it to cast thunder step without expending a spell slot. This counts as discharging your Thundermonger damage.

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

11th Level Upgrades

Backblast

After dealing Thunder damage on your turn, you can cast thunder clap as a bonus action. You can do this a number of times equal to your Intelligence modifier, regaining all uses after a long rest.

Blast Radius

Your Devastating Blasts now deals half your weapon damage (including your modifier) in addition to half your Thundermonger damage when you apply it to a missed target that is within 30 feet of you.

Stabilization

Being prone no longer causes you to have disadvantage when making a ranged weapon attack with your Stormforged Weapon. If neither you nor a target creature has moved since you last made a ranged weapon attack against them, you have advantage on ranged weapon attacks against them.

15th Level Upgrades

Warsmith

A Warsmith is an Artificer that has turned their wondrous talent of invention to a singular goal: making themselves a juggernaut of war. The reasons behind this could be benevolent or nefarious. Some Warsmiths seek to turn their invention into a machine of death and terror; others become the arbiter of justice and order, and others still perhaps merely seek to refine their craft in pursuit of pure innovation.

Because few individuals would pursue such a wondrous invention without a driven purpose to their endeavor, Warsmiths tend to be Lawful, usually driven to their actions by a greater purpose they seek the power to accomplish, be it righting the wrongs of the world, or bringing it to heel beneath their ironshod boot.

Design Note:

Warsmiths & Magical Armor

By the rules laid out here, using magical armor as a base for your Warsmith's armor has no additional effect. This is intentionally the rules-as-written rules, but there is certainly some flexibility here. Personally in my games, I allow it use magic armor as the base armor with the following considerations:

• Using Adamantine or Mithral, the properties carry over to the Warsmith's armor.
• Using +1/+2/+3 armor carries over, but counts as taking a free "Armor Class" upgrade for each +1 the armor has, meaning that upgrade cannot be taken to make the armor +4 or better.
• Armor of Resistance carries over, counting as taking "Resistance" upgrade for that damage type for free.

Other cases can be handled on a case by case basis. Consult with your DM and work something out that would be reasonable to combine making receiving magic armor a cool bonus, but not something that breaks the game!

Extra Attack

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

Fully Customized Gear

Starting at 14th level, you've mastered the customization of your Warsmith's armor. You can add one additional upgrade to your armor that does not count against your Upgrade total.

Additionally, during a long rest, you can now swap out any one upgrade for any other upgrade of the same level, so long as you don't have an upgrade that requires the upgrade you are removing as a prerequisite, or an incompatible upgrade.

Warsmith Upgrades

Lightning Channel

You are able to funnel your suits' power into your attacks. You can use this upgrade to cast lightning charged^Artificer as a bonus action without expending a spell slot. Once used, this upgrade cannot be used until you complete a short or long rest.

Additionally, you can apply the damage from lightning charged on your Force Blast ranged spell attacks.

Level 15 Upgrades

Iron Grip Prerequisite: Iron Muscle. Incompatible with Integrated Attack.

You improve your grip strength and control of one of your gauntlets beyond the limits of flesh. While wearing your suit, you gain the following benefits:

• You can wield Large sized weapons without a penalty as a medium sized creature.
• You can wield a medium sized two-handed weapon in one hand.
• One handed weapons you wield count as if being wielded with two hands.
• You can wield a lance as if mounted while not being mounted.

Phase Engine Prerequisite: Warsuit

When you are attacked, you can use your reaction to become intangible, causing that attack to miss if it is a nonmagical attack, or to have disadvantage if it is a magical attack. Once you do so, you cannot do so again until you complete a short or long rest. This upgrade is refreshed every time you teleport or enter the ethereal plane.

Heavy Plating Prerequisite: Warplate

You install special heavy plating, giving you resistance to bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage from non-magical sources while wearing your Warplate.

Recall.

When not being worn you can hide your Warsmith's armor in a pocket dimension. As an action you can magically summon the armor and don it. You can use a bonus action to return the armor to the pocket dimension.

While in the pocket dimension the armor cannot be affected by other abilities and cannot be interacted with in any way.

Sun Cannon.

You install a sun cannon into your Warsmith's armor, allowing you to unleash devastating solar laser blasts. As an action, you can cast sunbeam without expending a spell slot.

Once you use this ability, you can not use it again until you complete a long rest.

Virtual Interface. Prerequisite: Sentient Armor

When you use Artificial Strength to raise your Strength ability score, you no longer lower your Intelligence ability score below your natural maximum (not counting Sentient Armor).

Fleshsmith

A Fleshsmith is the sort of person that makes people uncomfortable. Even when encountered in the most ideal circumstances, they simply have the sort of gaze that makes one think they may be thinking "how could I improve that" as they look at you.

A particular path of Artificer that has turned their creative talents... inward. They seek to understand and improve the limitations of flesh. All too frequently they place a slightly different value on aesthetic than others might, tending to find beauty primarily in efficiency.

A Fleshsmith tends to be more eccentric than inclined to any particular alignment, though even the most benevolent one may find that the only reason their activities wouldn't be illegal is that no one considered them possible.

Fleshsmith Upgrades

Extra Arm & Perfection of Form

When attacking with a Perfection of Form with an extra arm, you can make an attack with a weapon held in that arm. You only make a weapon attack with two hands if you have two or more extra arms to use for it.

One Enhancement

Note that unless otherwise specified, an upgrade can be take only once. In this case, all the enhancements are effectly mutually exclusive.

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Empowered Relentless Attacks:

Your Empowered Relentless attack will deal either the natural weapon die of the natural weapon, or the weapon die of a weapon held in an extra arm. This can be a two handed weapon only if you have two extra arms.

Field Surgery

Some say that not all medical problems require surgery. Not you. As an action, you can repair a body to its natural limits far more quickly than its natural limits. You can repair a willing creature within 5 feet, allowing them to expend hit dice up to half Artificer level (rounded up). Each hit dice spent is rolled as normal, but you can add the higher value of their Constitution modifier or your Intelligence modifier.

Fix Flesh

Your expertise in the working of flesh makes you an artisan of fixing broken creatures. When you cast cure wounds you restore an additional amount of health equal to your Intelligence modifier.

Forbidden Knowledge

You deliver into the arcane mechanics of how bodies work. Otherwise known as Necromancy. You learn additional spells as shown on the table below:

Horrifying Abomination Prerequisite: At least 5 upgrades modifying your body.

The perfect form you have crafted intimidates inferior beings. You gain proficiency in Intimidation skill, and you are already proficient in it, you can add twice your proficiency bonus.

Massive Mutation

You develop a method to suddenly mutate. As an action, you can become a large sized creature. Any creature that witnesses this must make a Wisdom Save against your Spell Save DC or become frightened of you until the end of their turn.

While you are large, your attack deals additional 1d4 damage with your natural weapons and weapons sized for medium creatures, and you have advantage on Strength (Athletics) checks. You can revert to normal size as bonus action.

You can spend a number of rounds equal to your Constitution modifier + Intelligence modifier as a large creature before you must revert and can not become large until you complete a short or long rest. After a short or long rest, you regain all rounds of duration you can remain as a large creature.

Zombie Critter?! Prerequisite: Adorable Critter

If your Adorable Critter dies, it comes back to life at the end of its next turn. It can do this a number of times equal to your Intelligence modifier, and regains all lives after you complete a long rest and repair or rebuild it.

Artificer Spell List

Appendix A: Artificer Spells

Returning Weapon

1st-level transmutation

• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: Self
• Components: V, S, M (A magic item that casts a spell).
• Duration: 8 hours.
• Classes: Artificer

You touch a weapon granting it the throwing 20/60 property. If it already has the thrown property, it's range increases by 10/30. It also gains the "returning" property. After being thrown it automatically reappears in the throwers hand.

Seeking Projectile

1st-level transmutation

• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: Touch
• Components: V, S
• Duration: Concentration, up to 10 minutes

You touch a piece of ammunition or weapon with the thrown property imbuing it with the property of seeking its target. When a ranged attack roll is made with that weapon, the attack roll can add your spell casting modifier to the value on the dice. If that makes the value on the die a 20 or more, the attack is a critical hit as if a 20 was rolled. After making the attack roll, the spell ends.

Unburden

1st-level transmutation

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

A creature you touch no longer suffers the penalties to movement speed or to their Dexterity (Stealth) checks while wearing medium or heavy armor, and is no longer encumbered from carry weight unless they are carrying more than twice the weight that would encumber them.

2nd Level Spells

3rd Level Spells

4th Level Spells

5th Level Spells

Multiclassing

Should you want to multiclass into Artificer, the prerequisites and proficiencies are listed below:

• Prerequisite: 13 Intelligence.
• Proficiencies gained: Arcana skill, light armor.

For the purpose of multiclassing and spell slots, add half your Artificer levels rounded down when calculating your Spell Slots on the multiclassing spells slots table (like Paladin or Ranger).

Feats

While an Artificer can get a lot of mileage from the existing feats, this is an additional select with two things in mind. First, they are feats that may more directly play on what an Artificer will find themselves gravitating to in the course of play, and second feats that leverage the new mechanics introduced by the Artificer.

You can see from feats like Magic Initiate or Martial Adept that leveraging other class features can be a core part of expanding your character through feats, and a feat is a perfect way to dabble in a bit of Artifice without fully walking the path of Gond.

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• Golemsmith Image 2: Wizards of the Coast.
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Class Features

The following are extended options for the base class that are either new changes be considered for the base class (maked as Playtest) or being considered for inclusion as Variant Class Features.

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 tatooed 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.

Rune of Proficiency

A mark that imbues competency and manipulates ability. It has the following effects:

• Weapon: Any creature wielding this weapon gains proficiency with it, and the affected creature can add +1 to attack rolls made with it.
• Armor: Any creature wearing this armor (or holding in the case of a shield) gains proficiency with it. If the armor has a strength requirement, it is reduced to 10.
• Active (Master): In a surge of skill, the next time the affected creature would add their proficiency bonus to an attack roll, they can add your intelligence modifier as well.

Rune of Warding

A stalwart rune that wards off harm. It has the following effects:

• Weapon: If the affected deals damage with this weapon on their turn, they gain 1d4 temporary hit points.
• Armor: Damage taken by the affected creature is reduced by 1.
• Active (Master): The affected creature gains 1d4 + your intelligence modifier temporary hit points; the creature already has temporary hit points greater than this, the amount increases by your intelligence modifier. |

Runic Flare

Starting at 3rd level, you can activate a rune as a bonus action. You can do this a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, and regain all uses when complete a short or long rest.

Extra Attack

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

You can use Runic Flare in place of either or both attacks.

Twin Flares

Starting at 14th level, the first time during your turn you use your Rune Flare feature, you can cause the Active effect of any two Runes or Glyphs

Runesmith Upgrades

Animate Inscription

You mark special inscription on yourself or an item in your position to represent a familiar. You can spend a hit die to give it life and cast find familiar using this rune. When you cast find familiar in this way it does not require a spell slot or require material components, and the casting time is one action.

Arcane Glyph

Learn how to translate a spell you know with a target of self into a glyph that can marked on a creature or piece of armor. As a special 1 minute ritual your can expend a spell slot of the spells level and mark this glyph on a creature. This glyph has no passive effect, but when activated with an action, it casts the stored spell as if the creature the glyph was marked on cast the spell.

Alternatively, the a creature marked with this glyph or wearing armor marked with this glyph that is aware of it's presence can use this glyph to cast the spell marked within as if they cast the spell stored using a magical item.

The glyph immediately fades after the spell has been cast (the spell lasts as normal). The glyph fades when the Runesmith that marked it completes a long rest.

Channel Magic

You can cast a spell of range Touch on a creature marked by one of your Runes, wearing armor marked by one of your Runes, or wielding a weapon marked by one of your Runes, regardless of the distance between you.

Glyph of Absorption

You learn the glyph of absorption spell.

Glyph of Fire

You learn the glyph of fire spell.

Glyph of Frost

You learn the glyph of frost spell.

Glyph of Gravity Prerequisite: 13th level Artificer.

You learn the glyph of gravity spell.

Glyph of Nullification Prerequisite: 9th level Artificer.

You learn the glyph of nullication spell.

Glyph of Translocation Prerequisite: 5th level Artificer.

You learn the glyph of translocation spell.

List of Glyphs

Glyph of Absorption

1st level abjuration(glyph)

• Casting Time: 1 bonus action.
• Range: 5 feet.
• Components: S
• Duration: 1 minute.

You draw an ethereal mark in the air at a point within range. Creatures within 10 feet of this glyph have resistance to all damage, but this glyphs damage equal to the damage those creature's take (after resistance). The Glyph has 10 hit points. If the glyph is destroyed, it fades without detonating and the spell ends.

As an action, you can detonate the glyph. Any creature within 15 feet of this glyph must make a Dexterity saving through, or take Force damage equal to half the amount of damage the Glyph has absorbed. After using this action, the spell ends.

The spell ends early if you until you deactivate it with a bonus action.

At Higher Levels When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 2nd level or higher, the glyph absorbs 5 additional hit points for each slot level above 1st

Glyph of Fire

1st level evocation(glyph)

• Casting Time: 1 bonus action.
• Range: 5 feet.
• Components: S
• Duration: 1 minute.

You draw an ethereal mark in the air at a point within range. Any creature that starts their turn within 5 feet of this glyph takes 1 fire damage.

As an action, you can force all creatures within 15 feet of this glyph must make a Dexterity saving through, taking 3d6 fire damage on failure, or half as much on success. After using this action, the spell ends.

The spell ends early if you until you deactivate it with a bonus action.

Glyph of Frost

1st level evocation(glyph)

• Casting Time: 1 bonus action.
• Range: 5 feet.
• Components: S
• Duration: 1 minute.

You draw an ethereal mark in the air at a point within range. The area within 5 feet of this Rune becomes difficult terrain.

As an action, you can force all creatures within 15 feet of this glyph must pass a Constitution saving through, or take 1d8 cold damage and become restrained, or half as much damage on success. After using this action, the spell ends.

The spell ends early if you until you deactivate it with a bonus action.

Glyph of Gravity

4th level transmutation(glyph)

• Casting Time: 1 bonus action.
• Range: 5 feet.
• Components: S
• Duration: 1 minute.

You draw an ethereal mark in the air at a point within range. Within 30 feet of this Glyph, moving away from it is requires twice as much movement, and any creature that ends its turn within 30 feet of it is pulled 10 feet closer to it if there is space available.

As an action, you can force all creatures within 30 feet of this Glyph to make a Strength saving throw or be flung 40 feet away from this Glyph, taking 4d6 damage and falling prone. After using this action, the spell ends.

The spell ends early if you until you deactivate it with a bonus action.

Glyph of Nullification

3rd level abjuration(glyph)

• Casting Time: 1 bonus action.
• Range: 5 feet.
• Components: S
• Duration: 1 minute.

You draw an ethereal mark in the air at a point within range. Creatures within 5 feet of this glyph have resistance to Force damage.

As an action for the duration of the spell, you can cause the glypg to form a globe of invulnerability centered on the glyph, which lasts until the start of your next turn, at which point the spell ends.

The spell ends early if you until you deactivate it with a bonus action.

Glyph of Translocation

2nd level conjuration(glyph)

• Casting Time: 1 bonus action.
• Range: 5 feet.
• Components: S
• Duration: 1 minute.

You draw an ethereal mark in the air at a point within range.

As an action for the duration of the spell, you instantly teleport a willing creature of your choice within 120 feet (of you) to the closest free space next to this Glyph (your choice if multiple free spaces are available). If you expend a higher level spell slot, the number of creatures you can teleport increased by 1 for each level above 2nd, at which point the spell ends.

The spell ends early if you until you deactivate it with a bonus action.

Cursemith

A Cursesmith's power is invariably marked by the dark decisions they've made; some ignore this lingering darkness, pursuing the heights of power their reckless creation allows. Others leverage the twisted side effects themselves, believing there are no mistakes, only opportunities. Darker still are those that truly embrace the darkness of their twisted creations, becoming twisted creations themselves.

A Cursesmith is not always evil, but they walk a path that dangles precariously over evil, making it an easy thing to fall into. They may be Lawful, but the laws they respect are rarely those of normal mortal society that might get in the way of their dark delving.

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.

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 shot to 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 shot, casting it on impact where the shot lands. If the spell has a target, the target of the attack is the target.

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.

Infuse Elements

You can infuse elements with your magic temporarily, granting you limited control of them. You learn the cantrips control flames, mold earth, and shape water.

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.

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 returning weapon, 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 by the creature that consumed it as an action.

A creature cannot undergo the effect of this Infused Potion again until they 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.

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

Adaptable Armor

You integrate deployable hooks and fins into your armor, augmenting its mobility. While wearing your armor you gain a climbing speed equal to your walking speed, and you can move up, down, and across vertical surfaces and upside down along ceilings, while leaving your hands free.

Additionally, you gain a swim speed equal to your walking speed.

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.

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.

Searing Shell Prerequisite: Resistance: Fire

As a bonus action, you can heat your armor to searing temperatures. Anything grappling, restraining, or otherwise holding onto you within 5 feet takes Fire damage equal to your Intelligence modifier. You can end this at the start of your turn (no action required). Whenever you end your turn with this active, you take 1 fire damage that cannot be resisted.

You can fully ignite your armor and cast fire shield without consuming a spell slot. When cast with this upgrade, you can only select the fire damage option. Once you cast it in this way, you cannot cast it again until you complete a long rest.

Vice Grip

You upgrade the arm that your warplate gauntlet is installed with crushing power. If a creature ends turn while grappled by your Warplate Gauntlet, it takes damage equal to your Strength modifier.

Suit Specific Upgrades

Warsuit

The following are upgrades intended to flesh out the lighter armor approaches of Warmsith, focused on the Warsuit specialization (and it's Warskin Light Armor counterpart).

Wire Acrobatics Prerequisite: Grappling Reel

You can take your movement using your grappling reel instead of using it as an attack or action; you can only move yourself when using the grappling reel in this way.

Attacks of opportunity generated by movement with your grappling reel are made with disadvantage.

Warplate

Warplate is in many ways the "default assumption" of the Warsmith offering strong defensive options; the following are the options exclusive to it:

Sentient Armor Upgrades

The following an experimental branch of upgrades that expands the capabilities of sentient armor.

Assume Control Prerequisite: Emergency Protocol, 9th level Artificer

You expanded the control available to your armor's sentience. You can set additional conditions when your armor will take control of your movement and actions, and can maintain this control of up to a 1 minute.

While acting in this mode, it can take any action you could take (including attacking), 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, frightened, paralyzed, and poisoned conditions, and does not suffer from exhaustion, ignoring these effects if you are under them.

If you have Warplate, it can act in this way even when you are not wearing it (or dead). When doing so, it uses the game statistics of animated armor with the following modifications:

• It has an intelligence of 12.
• It can cast any spells that come from Upgrades with a DC equal to your spell save DC.

This counts as a use of your Emergency Protocol, and it cannot control the armor again (in either way) until you complete a short or long rest.

In non-combat situations in which you are not wearing your armor, it can exert a lesser control of the armor to move it about and perform simple tasks. During this time it has the statistics of an unseen servant, though it looks like your suit of armor. It's ability to do this is not limited, but it takes 1 minute to assume this kind of control of your armor, and it can only do so while you are not wearing it.

Contingent Response Prerequisite: Sentient Armor

Choose a spell of 2nd level or lower 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.

Telepathic Uplink Prerequisite: Sentient Armor

You can communicate with your armor as long as you are attuned to it, and it is on the same plane of existence as you. As an action, you can see through your armors visor and hear what it hears until the start of your next turn. During this time, you are deaf and blind with regard to your own Senses.

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.

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