Class Features

As an Alchemist, you gain the following class features

Proficiencies

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• Armor: Light armor
• Weapons: Simple lightweapons, simple vibroweapons, and tranquilizer rifle
• Tools: Alchemist’s kit, Poisoner’s kit

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• Saving Throws: Charisma, Wisdom
• Skills: Choose two from Deception, Insight, Intimidation, Lore, Medicine, Nature, and Persuasion

Equipment

You start with the following equipment, in addition to the equipment granted by your background:

• (a) a simple vibroweapon or (b) a simple lightweapon
• (a) a tranquilizer rifle or (b) a simple vibroweapon
• (a) a scholar's pack or (b) a technologist's pack
• A combat suit, an alchemists kit, and a vibrodagger

Variant: starting wealth

In lieu of the equipment granted by your class and background, you can elect to purchase your starting gear. If you do so, you receive no equipment from your class and background, and instead roll for your starting wealth using the criteria below:

Class	Funds
Alchemist	8d4 x 100 cr

Force powers known

You learn 5 force powers of your choice, and you learn more at higher levels, as shown in the Force Powers Known column of the alchemist table. You may not learn a force power of a level higher than your Max Power Level, and you may learn a force power at the same time you learn its prerequisite.

Force points

You have a number of force points equal to your alchemist level x 2, as shown in the Force Points column of the alchemist table, + your Wisdom or Charisma modifier (your choice). You use these force points to cast force powers. You regain all expended force points when you finish a long rest.

Max Power Level

Many force powers can be overpowered, consuming more force points to create a greater effect. You can overpower these abilities to a maximum level, which increases at higher levels, as shown in the Max Power Level column of the alchemist table.

You may only cast force powers at 4th and 5th-level once. You regain the ability to do so after a long rest.

Forcecasting ability

Your forcecasting ability varies based on the alignment of the powers you cast. You use Wisdom for light side powers, Charisma for dark side powers, and Wisdom or Charisma for universal powers (your choice). You use this ability whenever a power refers to your forcecasting ability. Additionally, you use this ability modifier when setting the saving throw DC for a force power you cast and when making an attack roll with one.

Force save DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus + your forcecasting ability modifier

Force attack modifier = your proficiency bonus + your forcecasting ability modifier

Abate

As an action, choose one creature you can see within 60 feet of you to make a Charisma saving throw. On a failed save, the creature can’t take reactions until the end of your next turn.

APATHY

As an action, choose one creature you can see within 60 feet of you to make a Charisma saving throw. On a failed save, until the end of your next turn, the creature becomes indifferent toward one creature of your choice that it is hostile towards. This indifference ends if the target is attacked or harmed by the creature to which it is indifferent. When the hex ends, the creature becomes hostile again, unless the GM rules otherwise.

BECKON FAMILIAR

You can cast the find familiar force power as an action without expending force points. Once you cast this power in this way, you can’t do so again for 1 minute. You must have the Familiar feature to choose this hex.

BLEEDING

As an action, choose one creature you can see within 60 feet of you to make a Constitution saving throw. On a failed save, each time this creature takes damage, it loses an additional 1d4 hit points. This effect lasts until the end of your next turn.

CHARM

As an action, choose one creature you can see within 60 feet to make a Wisdom saving throw. On a failed save, the creature is charmed by you until the end of your next turn. When the hex ends, the creature knows it was charmed by you.

DIRE FAMILIAR

As an action, you can bolster your summoned familiar. For 1 minute, your familiar’s current and maximum hit points are increased by an amount equal to twice your Alchemist level, and it gains a bonus to its damage rolls equal to your Charisma or Wisdom modifier. You can cast other hexes while this hex is in effect. Once you cast this hex, you can’t cast it again until your familiar is dismissed, or until its duration expires. You must have the Familiar feature to choose this hex.

DISORIENT

As an action, choose one creature you can see within 60 feet of you to make a Constitution saving throw. On a failed save, whenever the target makes an attack roll before the end of your next turn, it must roll a d6 and subtract the number rolled from the attack roll.

DOOMWARD

As an action, choose one friendly creature other than yourself that you can see within 60 feet of you. If the creature drops to 0 hit points before the end of your next turn and doesn’t die outright, it drops to 1 hit point instead. This hex then ends and can’t be used to target the same creature again until you finish a short or long rest.

DUPLICITY

As an action, you can create an illusory duplicate of yourself, composed of shadowstuff, to confuse your enemies. When a creature attacks you, roll any die. On an odd number, the attack strikes the duplicate and misses, regardless of its roll, and the hex ends. On an even number, the attack targets you as normal. This effect lasts until the end of your next turn.

EVIL EYE

As an action, choose one creature you can see within 60 feet of you that can see you to make a Wisdom saving throw. On a failed save, the creature is frightened of you until the end of your next turn.

FORTUNE

As an action, choose one friendly creature other than yourself that you can see within 60 feet of you. The creature has advantage on saving throws until the end of your next turn.

GO UNSEEN

As an action, you and your familiar become invisible (as per the force camouflage). The effect ends at the end of your next turn, or if you or your familiar attack or cast a power. Once you cast this hex, you can’t cast it again for 1 minute.

HOBBLE

As an action, choose one creature you can see within 60 feet of you to make a Strength saving throw. On a failed save, the creature’s speed is reduced to 10 feet until the end of your next turn. If the creature is flying, it falls, unless it has the ability to hover or it is being held aloft by the force.

KNOWING

As an action, you open your third eye and become intuitively aware of your surroundings. You have advantage on Wisdom (Insight) checks until the end of your next turn. Additionally, choose one of the following pieces of information:

• If a creature can speak a language
• If a creature is at or below half its hit point maximum
• What a creature’s lowest ability score is

You learn that piece of information for each creature within 30 feet of you. You can only learn one of these things about a creature, even if you cast this hex more than once.

MIRE

As an action, you can transform the ground within 30 feet of where you cast this hex into murky swamp, which is difficult terrain. You and your familiar can move without penalty in this area. This effect lasts until the end of your next turn.

Alchemical Creation

You can brew consumables with your bubbling alchemist's kit using raw components scavenged from nature. To this end, you have a pool of alchemy points equal to half your alchemist level, rounded down. You regain all expended alchemy points when you finish a long rest. You can spend 10 minutes and expend any number of alchemy points to brew consumables. These consumables retain potency for 24 hours, after which they become inert. The consumable types available for you to brew are given on the Alchemical Creations table below.

Undeath Studies

Undeath Studies are associated with hexes that cause pain and suffering, and powers that give rise to undeath. Harnessing such a craft can lend you great power, but inevitably carries a cost. Darkness cannot be contained, after all; it merely seeps forth from wherever it is kept.

HEX: BLOOD CURSE

Starting when you choose this craft at 3rd level, you can mark a creature with a sinister blood curse. As an action, choose one creature you can see within 60 feet of you to make a Constitution saving throw. On a failed save, this creature is on the brink of death until the end of your next turn. If the creature at any point in this duration is missing any of its hit points and has fewer hit points than twice your alchemist level, it immediately drops to 0 hit points.

ARCANE BLOODLETTING

Also at 3rd level, you can impel your force powers with a measure of your own blood. When you cast a power that has a casting time of 1 action, you can choose to lose 5 hit points to change the casting time to 1 bonus action for this casting.

You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Charisma modifier (a minimum of once). You regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

DEATHSEEKER

At 6th level, you can see those near death shrouded in a crimson aura. Even in heavily obscured conditions, you can detect the location of creatures within 60 feet of you that are missing half of their hit points. This sense can penetrate most barriers, but it is blocked by 1 foot of stone, 1 inch of common metal, a thin sheet of enhanced barriers, or 3 feet of wood or dirt.

Additionally, you have advantage on ability checks you make to track a creature you or your familiar has damaged within the last 24 hours.

HEMOMANTIC RECOVERY

Beginning at 10th level, you can perform a blood ritual to bolster your force points. Once per day when you finish a short rest, you can spend Hit Dice to recover expended force points regaining an amount equal to the amount rolled. You do not regain any hitpoints from this roll.

SANGUINE

By 14th level, you can wield your own blood like a vicious lash. Once per round, when you cast a force power that deals damage to a creature that is under the effect of your hex, you can choose to lose hit points to increase the amount of damage dealt. For every 5 hit points you lose, you can deal an extra 2d8 necrotic damage to the creature, to a maximum of 6d8 damage. This feature only applies to a hostile creature that is the sole target of your hex.

HEX: ELDER TONGUE

Starting when you choose this craft at 3rd level, you know the speech of the forest. As a bonus action, you can attune yourself to the forest, granting you the ability to speak with beasts and plants in a limited manner until the end of your next turn. Most beasts and plants lack the intelligence to convey or understand sophisticated concepts, but could relay what they have seen or heard in the recent past.

While you can speak with them, you have advantage on all Charisma checks you make to influence beasts and plants.

PRIMAL ALLY

Also at 3rd level, whenever you summon your familiar, you conjure one that is hardier than normal. Add three times your alchemist level, instead of twice your alchemist level, to your familiar’s hit point maximum.

TWIN FAMILIAR

By 6th level, when you summon your familiar, you can divide its spirit into two bodies. When summoned in this way, your familiar is two identical creatures that share a single pool of hit points. Your twin familiars act on subsequent turns. You can use your bonus action to command one twin to attack and your action to command the other to attack. A power or feature that targets or dismisses your familiar affects both twins.

VITAL NOURISHMENT

By 10th level, you exude an aura of the natural studies that restores and reinvigorates life around you. When you finish a long rest, plant life within 120 feet of where you finished your long rest grows as if a month had passed with abundant food, water, and other necessities. If the plants would produce fruits, berries, or vegetables, the plants grow enough food to feed six creatures for one day.

Additionally, choose up to six creatures you can see at the end of the rest. Those creatures each gain temporary hit points equal to half your alchemist level + your Charisma or Wisdom modifier. You can also end one disease affecting each creature, or end one of the following conditions: blinded, deafened, paralyzed, or poisoned.

SACRIFICIAL FAMILIAR

At 14th level, whenever you are targeted by a melee attack while your familiar is within 5 feet of you, you can use your reaction to command it to dive in the way of the attack, causing the attack to target your familiar instead.

You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Charisma or Wisdom modifier (a minimum of once). You regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

HEX: HALLUCINATION

Starting at 3rd level, you can infect the minds of other creatures. As an action, choose one creature you can see within 60 feet of you to make a Wisdom saving throw. A creature that is immune to being charmed automatically succeeds on this saving throw. On a failed save, the target’s perspective of the world distorts into a horrific and alien place. The creature takes a −1 penalty to all attack rolls and ability checks it makes. At the start of each of the creature’s turns while affected by this hex, this penalty increases by 1, up to a maximum penalty of −5. This effect lasts until the end of your next turn.

FALSE AUTHORITY

By 6th level, as an action, you can wrap yourself in an illusory air of expectation. Any creature that can see you perceives you as a figure of authority. A factory worker might see you as a guild master, whereas a soldier might see you as a captain. The changes perceived by a viewer fail to hold up to physical inspection. This illusion lasts for 1 hour or until you end it on your turn (no action required). To discern that you are disguised, a creature can use its action to inspect your appearance and must succeed on an Intelligence (Investigation) check against your forcecasting save DC. Once you use this feature, you can’t use it again until you finish a short or long rest.

DECEITFUL TRANSPOSITION

Starting at 10th level, you can use your bonus action to create an illusory disguise over two creatures within 60 feet of you, making it seem as if they have teleported and switched places. The disguise makes it seem that the creatures are in one another’s spaces, moving all sounds, smells, and other effects caused by each creature to their appropriate points of origin. Creatures under the effect of this disguise don’t perceive any part of the illusion.

A creature can use its action to examine a force enhanced disguised creature and make an Intelligence (Investigation) check against your forecasting save DC. On a success, the creature can see both illusory creatures for what they are.

This illusion lasts for 1 minute, and it ends early if one of the illusory creatures takes damage, or if one of the creatures performs any physical interaction that reveals itself to be an illusion.

Once you use this feature, you can’t use it again until you finish a short or long rest.

WAKING NIGHTMARE

By 14th level, you can warp everything a creature sees into a hellscape, full of terrible creatures that wish them harm. When a creature fails its saving throw against your Hallucination hex, you can further distort its mind, causing it to lose the ability to distinguish friend from foe, regarding all creatures it sees as enemies until the hex ends. Whenever the hexed creature chooses a target for an attack, power, or other effect, it must choose the target at random from among the creatures it can see within range. The hexed creature must always use its reaction to make an opportunity attack, if a creature provokes one.

This effect ends after 1 minute. Once you use this feature, you can’t use it again until you finish a long rest.

HEX: IMPERIL

Starting at 3rd level, you know how to strip away your foes’ elemental defenses. As an action, choose one creature you can see within 60 feet of you to make a Constitution saving throw, and choose any one damage type. On a failed save, the creature loses resistance to the chosen damage type until the end of your next turn, or is treated as only having resistance, if it has immunity to that damage type.

CONVOLUTE ENERGY

At 6th level, whenever you cast a power that deals acid, cold, fire, lightning, or force damage, you can gain resistance to that damage type until the end of your next turn.

INVULNERABILITY

Beginning at 10th level, when an attacker that you can see hits you with an attack, you can use your reaction to briefly become all but invulnerable. The damage you take from the attack is reduced by 50.

Once you use this feature, you can’t use it again until you finish a long rest.

ELEMENTAL ANNIHILATION

Starting at 14th level, when you cast a force power that deals acid, cold, fire, lightning, or force damage, you can expend another force slot of equal or higher level to maximize the damage dealt.

Once you use this feature, you can’t use it again until you finish a long rest.

BONUS PROFICIENCIES

Beginning when you choose this craft at 3rd level, you gain proficiency with all martial vibroweapons that lack the Heavy or Special property.

HEX: MALEVOLENCE

Also at 3rd level, you have learned a secret hex associated with the profane rites of long-forgotten alchemists. You can use your bonus action to shroud yourself with an evil smog until the end of your next turn. Your concentration on this hex can’t be broken as a result of taking damage. You gain the following benefits:

• Your Armor Class equals 12 + your Dexterity modifier + your Charisma modifier, as long as you aren’t wielding a shield.
• When you make an attack with a melee weapon that lacks the Heavy or Special property, you can use your Charisma modifier, instead of Strength or Dexterity, for its attack and damage rolls.
• Whenever you take damage from a creature you can see that is within 5 feet of you, you can use your reaction to make a melee weapon attack against that creature.

CACKLING KILLER

At 6th level, when you use your Cackle feature, you can attack twice, instead of once, if you take the Attack action on that turn.

SOULSWORD FAMILIAR

Starting at 10th level, as a bonus action, you can draw the essence of your familiar into your weapon, manifesting in a cloak of green flame. Your familiar is dismissed, and can’t be resummoned until you finish a short or long rest. Until your familiar is resummoned, this weapon deals an extra 1d8 fire damage on a hit.

SHRIEKING STRIKE

Starting at 14th level, your accursed magic has seeped into your weapon. Once per turn, when you hit a creature with a melee weapon attack, you can perform a shrieking strike. The target must succeed a Wisdom saving throw against your forcecasting save DC or be frightened of you until the end of your next turn.

You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Charisma modifier (a minimum of once). You regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

HEX: TASSEOGRAPHY

Starting when you choose this craft at 3rd level, you can see glimpses of the future in your tea leaves. As an action, choose a friendly creature you can see within 60 feet of you, roll a d20, and record the number rolled. Until the end of your next turn, you can replace any attack roll, saving throw, or ability check made by the creature with this foretelling roll. You must choose to do so before the roll. Once you replace a roll in this way, this hex ends.

TEA CEREMONY

Also at 3rd level, you can conjure up enough tea for you and your allies whenever you take a short or long rest. A creature who drinks this tea loses one additional level of exhaustion during that rest.

SHAPES AND OMENS

By 6th level, you can see deeper glimpses into the future through your tea leaves. When you finish a long rest, you can examine the shape of your tea leaves. The GM tells you a shape that hints at future events. For example, if you see a Mythosaur in your visions, you might encounter a Mandalorian on the following day. If you see a serpent, you might encounter a lair or a monster.

HERBAL REMEDY

At 10th level, you can cast the improved restoration power without using a force slot or force points. Once you use this feature, you must finish a short or long rest before you can use it again.

INVIGORATE

By 14th level, as a bonus action, you can give yourself or a friendly creature you can see within 5 feet of you a temporary rush of energy by drinking an energizing cup of tea. On the target’s next turn, the target can take one additional action. Once you use this feature, you must finish a long rest before you can use it again.

TALISMAN OF PROTECTION

At 6th level, you can craft an alchemical talisman that wards off harm. Creating a talisman takes 1 hour of work, which can be performed over the course of a short rest. You can only have one of these talismans at a time; crafting a new talisman causes the previous one to become mundane. Any creature wearing the talisman can add a d4 to all saving throws it makes.

BENEVOLENT SURGE

At 10th level, when you, your familiar, or one of your allies you can see within 30 feet of you takes damage, you can use your reaction to cause that creature to regain hit points equal to 1d10 + your Charisma or Wisdom modifier.

Once you use this feature, you must finish a short or long rest before you can use it again.

WITCH'S GIFT

Starting at 14th level, when you cast a force power or hex that restores a creature’s hit points, that creature gains a +3 bonus to its Armor Class until the end of your next turn.

Force powers

The force powers below are presented in alphabetical order.

Lesser Condor Dragon

Medium beast, unaligned

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• AC 13 (natural armor)
• Hit Points 16 (3d8 + 3)
• Speed 20 ft., fly 40 ft.

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
15 (+2)	10 (+0)	13 (+1)	4 (-3)	11 (+0)	6 (-2)

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• Skills Perception +3
• Senses darkvision 30 ft., passive Perception 12
• Languages -
• Challenge 1 (200 XP)

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Actions

Multiattack. The dragon can make two attacks with its claws.

Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 10 (2d6 + 2) kinetic damage.

Claws. Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 7 (1d8 + 2) kinetic damage.

Skeleton

Medium undead, lawful evil

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• Armor Class 13 (armor scraps)
• Hit Points 13 (2d8 + 4)
• Speed 30 ft.

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
10 (+0)	14 (+2)	15 (+2)	6 (-2)	8 (-1)	5 (-3)

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• Damage Vulnerabilities Force
• Damage Immunities Poison
• Condition Immunities Exhaustion, Poisoned
• Senses darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 9
• Languages understands all languages it spoke in life but can't speak
• Challenge 1/4 (50 XP)

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Actions

Vibrosword. Melee Weapon attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: (1d6 + 2) piercing damage.

Shortbow. Ranged Weapon attack: +4 to hit, reach 80/320 ft., one target. Hit: (1d6 + 2) piercing damage.

Zombie

Medium undead, neutral dark

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• Armor Class 8
• Hit Points 22 (3d8+9)
• Speed 20 ft.

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
13 (+1)	6 (-2)	16 (+3)	3 (-4)	6 (-2)	5 (-3)

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• Damage Immunities Poison
• Condition Immunities Poisoned
• Senses darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 8
• Languages -
• Challenge 1/4 (50 XP)

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Undead Fortitude If damage reduces the zombie to 0 hit points, it must make a Constitution saving throw with a DC of 5 + the damage taken, unless the damage is energy or from a critical hit. On a success, the zombie drops to 1 hit point instead.

Actions

Bite. Melee weapon attack: +3, Reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 4 (1d6+1) Kinetic damage plus 2 (2) Necrotic damage.