Wild Alchemist

A DnD 5E Player-Class

by Aile the Alien

 

Unstable Brews

You love to concoct new mixtures! Fire-bombs and flash-bangs for your enemies, and smoke-bombs to escape? Make yourself stronger? Tiny? Huge? Anything is possible, even if it sometimes blows up in your face!

Overview

Your reckless potion brewing gives you the following traits:

• Hit Dice: D6
• Proficiencies:
  • simple weapons
  • light armor, medium armor (to help with the explosions!)
  • alchemists' supplies, glassblower's tools, healer's kit
  • intelligence and constitution checks
• Starting Skills: two from animal handling, acrobatics, arcana, athletics, history, investigation, insight, medicine, nature, religion, survival
• Starting Equipment:
  • a club, sling and quarterstaff
  • an explorer's pack or scholar's pack
  • alchemists' supplies, glassblower's tools, healer's kit and herbalism kit
  • an alchemical grenade (this document), potion of healing, or oil of slipperiness

Leveling

(PB is proficiency bonus, EP is elixir potency, AP is alchemy-point bonus or penalty, and +SoF stands for ability-score improvement, or taking an optional feat.)

Level	PB	EP	AP	Misc
1	2	1	-2	Combustible Character, Wondrous Elixirs
2	2	1	0
3	2	1	2
4	2	1	4	+SoF
5	3	1	6
6	3	1	8
7	3	1	10
8	3	1	12	+SoF
9	4	2	14
10	4	2	16
11	4	2	18
12	4	2	20	+SoF
13	5	2	22
14	5	2	24
15	5	2	26
16	5	2	28	+SoF
17	6	3	30
18	6	3	32	The Bones
19	6	3	34	+SoF
20	6	3	36

Combustible Character

Whether by absorption of so many chemicals, or deliberate sabotage to thwart enemies, your body is highly volatile and will erupt in flames if you suddenly become unconscious or die. (Normal sleep is gradual and safe.) When reduced to 0 HP, you blast flames in a small radius, and when you die the explosion deals triple the fire damage in the smaller radius in addition to a much larger size of thunder / bludgeoning damage. The dexterity check for the initial fire explosion is 20, and the secondary explosions are 15.

Level	Initial Fire Damage	Fire Radius	Explosion Non-Fire Damage	Explosion Radius
5	1d4	5	2d8	25
10	2d4	10	3d8	30
15	4d4	15	4d8	35
20	8d4	20	5d8	40

Wondrous Elixirs

These are the elixirs you've been perfecting the longest. Highly potent, other potions pale in comparison. They just...have some side-effects... When quaffed, you must succeed on an INT/IWS/CHA saving throw, and the DC of the elixir's addiction is 15; After this save, the DC increases by 1. (The maximum DC is 28 and minimum is 8.) If you fail the quaffing save, you are affected by The Rage instead of the normal effect, and the DC increases by 1 again. Their effects are long-lasting (unless you become unconscious), but you may choose to end them early. Ending the effects early is a free action in combat but ends your turn, and you must succeed on the addiction DC. (Failing to end them early has no extra effect; Succeeding reduces the addiction DC by 2; The elixirs wearing off in time reduces the DC by 1.) After their effects end, your must succeed vs the DC again; If you fail, you gain a level of exhaustion. You can only be affected by one elixir at a time, but always brew enough to have one ready to go. No other character can safely quaff these elixirs, since the recipe is still experimental. If you are highly stressed, reduced to 1/4 HP, or under the effects of a full moon, etc, you must save against the addiction DC or else be immediately affected by The Rage. If you drink a normal healing potion or gain temporary HP (not from an elixir) at maximum HP, the addiction DC is reduced by 1.

The Rage

 

This effect is as The Mister, but only lasts ten minutes, can't be voluntarily ended early, and has additional effects. You deal an additional PB damage in melee, and your attacks count as magical and silvered for overcoming resistances. You gain 10 feet of movement speed, but may not use ranged combat or cast spells, and you lose concentration on existing spells. Every round you must attack, and move closer if none are in range. If you end your turn without attacking, you smash nearby objects, the ground or yourself, and take PB + STR damage. If you reach 1/3 HP, you fall unconscious, gain a level of exhaustion, and the addiction DC increases by 1.

The Bones

(Prerequisite: level 18)

You've ingested so many of these elixirs in your experiments that they've absorbed into your very bones, giving your bones supernatural abilities. Once per day, you can feel the weather changing - re-roll any die for yourself, friend or foe, and choose the result. You can heal from any disease in 1d20 days, and be cured of any curse in 3d20 days. You can even regrow lost parts, much as a lizard - hands or feet in 1d6 days, arms or legs in 1d10 days, your head or body below your head in 1d20 days, or regrow yourself from a sliver of bone in 2d20 days!

Alchemy Overview

How many? How big?

Every long rest, you may spend alchemy-points to brew potions, grenades or elixirs. (You must be able to afford them in a single expenditure.) Your points total is your INT plus (or minus) AP bonus (or penalty) at that level.

Quality	Pounds	Single	Triple	Half-Dozen	Baker's Dozen
Simple	1	3	7	12	20
Tricky	2	6	14	24	-
Complex	3	12	21	-	-
Masterful	4	24	-	-	-

Slippery Chemicals

Roll a dexterity check of 10 when crafting potions or alchemical grenades. If you fail, you splash yourself and are effected or it explodes.

Volatile Brews

Your concoctions are inherently unstable. Roll the given die per potion at the end of the day - on a one it explodes, and on a two it simply turns to sludge.

Conventional Chemistries

Peculiar Potions

Grenade, Shock and Awe

This bomb affects creatures within a radius of 20 feet, knocking them unconscious for 10 rounds, or blinding and deafening them for 1. (Roll when crafting. One pound.)

Grenade of Sticky Webbing

This grenade explodes into sticky webbing, trapping creatures.

Grenade (Stinking Cloud)

This grenade causes creatures to gag and choke on a failed save, for a minute.

Haste, Potion of

You move at incredible speed, for a minute.

Purify Food and Drink, Powders of

Powdered chemicals used to purify food and drink as the spell, but only enough for one medium creature's day's rations. It is rendered bitter, bland or sour, but otherwise safe; The water may be filtered with cloth and sand, to reduce the taste.

Stoneskin, Potion of

You gain resistance to blunt, slashing, and piercing damage for an hour.

Complex

Masterful