Unchained Artificer

Masters of invention, Unchained Artificers use their ingenuity and arcane abilities in tandem to create magical objects with extraordinary abilities. They view the arcane arts as a complex, coded system waiting to be decoded and used to cast powerful spells and make magical inventions.

Sought After Lore

Every Unchained Artificer has a type of Lore they seek to enhance their understanding of and ability with their power. Some might seek ancient runes to carve into armor to empower it, while others might seek lore on a mythical material that lets them forge a weapon of ultimate power.

What drives your character to improve and adventure? Is it tales of a mythical forge that blesses any weapon made with unmatched power? Maybe it's a long-lost recipe for a mixture of metals that make any armor made from it impenetrable.

Multiclassing

Ability Score Minimum: Intelligence 13
When you gain a level in a class other than your first, you gain only some of that class's starting proficiencies.
Armor: light armor, medium armor, shields
Skills: One Skill of your choice.
Tools: One of your choice.

Creating an Unchained Artificer

When creating an Unchained Artificer, consider what they manifest their artifice with. Do they use Smith's Tools to conjure spectral tools with their magic? Or perhaps they use Alchemist's Supplies to sling out various magical chemicals with their Spells. What knowledge do they seek to uncover or disprove? These are things essential to the character of an Unchained Artificer

Class Features

• Hit dice: 1d8 per Unchained Artificer level.
  
• Hit Points at 1st Level: 8 + your Constitution modifier
  
• Hit Points at Higher Levels: 1d8 (or 5) + your Constitution modifier per Unchained Artificer level after 1st.

Equipment

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

• (a) Studded Leather Armor, a Dagger, Thieves' Tools, Tinker's Tools, a Dungeoneer's Pack, and 16 GP
• (b) 150 GP

Artificer Dedication

At 1st level, you choose which aspect of Artifice you wish to focus on.

Magical Tinkering

Also at 1st Level, you learn the Mending Cantrip if you do not already know it. If you do, you can choose another Cantrip from the Unchained Artificer spell list.

Additionally, as a Magic action while holding Tinker's Tools, you can create one item in an unoccupied space within 5 feet of yourself, choosing the item from the following list:

• Ball Bearings
• Basket
• Bedroll
• Bell
• Blanket
• Block and Tackle
• Bottle, Glass
• Bucket
• Caltrops
• Candle
• Crowbar
• Flask
• Grappling Hook
• Hunting Trap
• Jug
• Lamp
• Manacles
• Net
• Oil
• Paper
• Parchment
• Pole
• Pouch
• Rope
• Sack
• Shovel
• Spikes, Iron
• String
• Tinderbox
• Torch
• Vial

See the rules for the item in the 2024 Player's Handbook. The item lasts until you finish a Long Rest, at which point it vanishes.

You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Intelligence modifier (minimum of once), and you regain all expended uses when you finish a Short or Long Rest. You cannot have more objects created than your Intelligence modifier (minimum one created item). If you create a new item with this amount already created, the first item you created vanishes early.

Spellcasting

At 1st level, You have learned how to channel magical energy through objects. See the 2024 Player's Handbook for the rules on spellcasting. The information below details how you use those rules with Unchained Artificer Spells, which appear in the Unchained Artificer spell list found on page 25 of this document.

Tools Required. You produce your Unchained Artificer Spells through tools. You can use Thieves' Tools, Tinker's Tools, or another kind of Artisan's Tools with which you have proficiency as a Spellcasting Focus, and you must have one of those focuses in hand when you cast an Unchained Artificer Spell (meaning the spell has an "M" component when you cast it).

Cantrips. You know two Unchained Artificer cantrips of your choice. Acid Splash and Prestidigitation are recommended.

Whenever you finish a Long Rest, you can replace one of your cantrips from this feature with another Unchained Artificer cantrip of your choice.

When you reach Unchained Artificer levels 10 and 14, you learn another Unchained Artificer cantrip of your choice, as shown in the Cantrips column of the Unchained Artificer Features table.

Spell Slots. The Unchained Artificer Features table shows how many spell slots you have to cast your level 1+ spells. You regain all expended spell slots when you finish a Long Rest.

Prepared Spells of Level 1+. You prepare the list of level 1+ spells that are available for you to cast with this feature. To start, choose two level 1 Unchained Artificer Spells. Cure Wounds and Grease are recommended.

The number of spells on your list increases as you gain Unchained Artificer levels, as shown in the Prepared Spells column of the Unchained Artificer Features table. Whenever that number increases, choose additional Unchained Artificer Spells until the number of spells on your list matches the number on the table. The chosen spells must be of a level for which you have spell slots. For example, if you're a level 5 Unchained Artificer, your list of prepared spells can include six Unchained Artificer Spells of levels 1 and 2 in any combination.

If another Unchained Artificer feature gives you spells that you always have prepared, those don't count against the number of spells you can prepare with this feature, but those spells otherwise count as Unchained Artificer Spells for you.

Changing Your Prepared Spells. Whenever you finish a Long Rest, you can change your list of prepared spells, replacing any of the spells there with other Unchained Artificer Spells for which you have spell slots.

Spellcasting Ability. Intelligence is your spellcasting ability for your Unchained Artificer Spells.

Unchained Artificer Subclass

At 1st level, you gain an Unchained Artificer subclass of your choice. A subclass is a specialization that grants you features at certain Unchained Artificer levels. For the rest of your career, you gain each of your subclass's features that are of your Unchained Artificer level or lower. You gain new Unchained Artificer Subclass features at Unchained Artificer levels 5, 10, and 15.

Magical Creation

At 2nd Level, you gain the ability to create magic items through arcane plans you've uncovered or created.

Plans Known. When you gain this feature, choose four plans to learn from the Magic Item Plans Table found on (Unchained Artificer Level 2+) table on page 28 of this document (see the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide for the items' descriptions). Bag of Holding, Cap of Water Breathing, Sending Stones, and Wand of the War Mage +1 are recommended. Whenever you gain an Unchained Artificer level, you can replace one of the plans you know with a new plan for which you qualify.

You learn another plan of your choice when you reach certain Artificer levels, as shown in the Plans Known column of the Artificer Features table. When you choose a plan to learn, you choose it from any Magic Item Plans table for which you qualify; your qualification is based on your Artificer level.

Creating an Item. When you finish a Long Rest, you can create one or two different magic items if you have Tinker's Tools in hand. Each item is based on one of the plans you know for this feature.

If a created item requires Attunement, you can attune yourself to it the instant you create it. If you decide to attune to the item later, you must do so using the normal process for Attunement.

When you reach certain Artificer levels specified in the Magic Items column of the Artificer Features table, the number of magic items you can create at the end of a Long Rest increases. Each item you create must be based on a different plan you know.

You can't have more magic items from this feature than the number shown in the Magic Items column of the Artificer Features table for your level. If you try to exceed your maximum number of magic items for this feature, the oldest item vanishes, and then the new item appears.

Duration. A magic item created by this feature functions exactly like the normal magic item, except its magic isn't permanent. When you die, the magic item vanishes after 1d4 days.

If an item that you created with this feature is a container, such as a Bag of Holding, and it vanishes, its contents harmlessly appear in and around its space.

Spellcasting Focus. You can use any Wand or Weapon created by this feature as a Spellcasting Focus in lieu of using a set of Artisan's Tools.

Transmute Equipment

Also at 2nd Level, when you finish a Long Rest, if you have GP equal to half of the cost of a Mundane weapon or set of armor (including a Shield), you can transmute that GP into the item. The GP is lost upon doing so. You can also create 10 pieces of non-magical Ammunition in this way, and the GP is lost upon creating that ammunition. Equipment created with this feature has a value of 0 GP, and thus cannot be sold.

You cannot use this Feature again until you finish a Long Rest.

Conjure Tool

At 3rd Level, as a Bonus Action, you can create a set of Artisan's Tools provided you have a free hand to hold them in. You can only have one set of Tools created with this feature at a time, and if you create a new set of tools, the previous set vanishes.

Ability Score Improvement

When you reach Unchained Artificer Level 4, and again at Unchained Artificer Levels 8, 10, 12, and 16, you gain the Ability Score Improvement Feat as well as one other feat of your choice for which you qualify.

Superior Magical Creation

At 6th Level, your Magical Creation Feature improves as follows:

Charge Magic Item. As a Bonus Action, you can touch a magic item within 5 feet of yourself that you created with Replicate Magic Item and that uses charges. You expend a level 1+ spell slot and recharge the item. The number of charges the item regains is equal to the level of spell slot expended.

Drain Magic Item. As a Bonus Action, you can touch a magic item within 5 feet of yourself that you created with Replicate Magic Item and cause the item to vanish, converting its magical energy into a spell slot. The slot is level 1 if the item is Common or level 2 if the item is Uncommon or Rare. Once you use this feature, you can't do so again until you finish a Long Rest. Any spell slot you create with this feature vanishes when you finish a Long Rest.

Transmute Magic Item. As a Magic action, you can touch one magic item within 5 feet of yourself that you created with Replicate Magic Item and transform it into a different magic item. The resulting item must be based on a magic item plan you know. Once you use this feature, you can't do so again until you finish a Long Rest.

Flash of Genius

At 7th Level, When you or a creature you can see within 30 feet of you fails an ability check or a saving throw, you can take a Reaction to add a bonus to the roll, potentially causing it to succeed. The bonus equals your Intelligence modifier (minimum of +1).

You can take this Reaction a number of times equal to your Intelligence modifier (minimum of once). You regain all expended uses when you finish a Long Rest.

Enhanced Attunement

At 9th Level, you can now attune to up to four magic items at once.

Spellbound Item

At 11th Level, whenever you finish a Long Rest, you can touch one Simple or Martial weapon or one item that you can use as a Spellcasting Focus, and you store a spell in it, choosing a level 1, 2, or 3 Artificer spell that has a casting time of an action and doesn't require a Material component that is consumed by the spell (you needn't have the spell prepared).

While holding the object, a creature can take a Magic action to produce the spell's effect from it, using your spellcasting ability modifier. If the spell requires Concentration, the creature must concentrate. Once a creature has used the object to produce the spell's effect, the object can't be used this way again until the start of the creature's next turn.

The spell stays in the object until it's been used a number of times equal to your Intelligence modifier (minimum of once) or until you use this feature again to store a spell in an object.

Attunement Savant

At 14th Level, your skill with magic items deepens, granting you the following benefits:

Additional Attunement. You can attune to up to five magic items at once rather than three.

Expanded Replication. When you learn a plan for your Magical Creation feature, you can now also choose from the Magic Item Plans (Unchained Artificer Level 14+) table. You can have no more than three Rare items created by Replicate Magic Item at a time.

Attunement Master

At 18th Level, your skill with magic items is perfected, granting you the following benefits:

Additional Attunement. You can now attune to up to five magic items at once.

Peerless Attunement. You ignore all class, species, spell, and level requirements on attuning to or using a magic item. If you lack a Class Feature or Species Feature required to use the item, you still cannot use the properties of that item that require that Class or Species Feature.

Refreshed Savant. When you finish a Short Rest, you regain one expended use of your Flash of Genius feature.

Epic Boon

At 19th Level, you gain an Epic Boon feat or another feat of your choice for which you qualify. Boon of Energy Resistance is recommended.

Master Artificer

At 20th Level, your master of artifice has granted you greater knowledge. Your Intelligence Score increases by 4, to a maximum of 26.

Soul of Artifice

At 20th Level, you have developed a mystical connection to your magic items, which you can draw on for aid. You gain the following benefits:

Cheat Death. If you're reduced to 0 Hit Points but not killed outright, you can disintegrate any number of Uncommon or Rare magic items created by your Replicate Magic Item feature. If you do so, your Hit Points instead change to a number equal to 20 times the number of magic items disintegrated.

Magical Guidance. When you finish a Short Rest, you regain all expended uses of your Flash of Genius if you have Attunement to at least one magic item.

Alchemist

An Alchemist is an expert at combining reagents to produce magical effects. Alchemists use their creations to give life and to leech it away.

Experimental Elixir

At 1st level, whenever you finish a Long Rest while holding Alchemist's Supplies, you can use that tool to magically produce elixirs equal to your Intelligence Modifier (minimum 1). For each elixir, roll on the Experimental Elixir table for the elixir's effect, which is triggered when someone drinks the elixir. The elixir appears in a vial, and the vial vanishes when the elixir is drunk or poured out. If any elixir remains when you finish a Long Rest, the elixir and its vial vanish.

Drinking an Elixir. As a Bonus Action, a creature can drink the elixir or administer it to another creature within 5 feet of itself.

Creating Additional Elixirs. As a Magic action while holding Alchemist's Supplies, you can expend one 1st-Level spell slot to create another elixir. When you do so, you choose its effect from the Experimental Elixir table rather than rolling.

Experimental Elixir Table

Alchemical Savant

At 5th level, whenever you cast a spell using your Alchemist's Supplies as the Spellcasting Focus, you gain a bonus to one roll of the spell. That roll must restore Hit Points or be a damage roll that deals Acid, Fire, or Poison damage. The bonus equals your Intelligence modifier (minimum bonus of +1).

Additionally, whenever you create Elixirs, one of your Elixirs is always treated as if you rolled an 8, allowing you to choose an Effect as if the result had been any number between 1 and 7.

Restorative Reagents

At 10th level, you can incorporate restorative reagents into some of your works, granting the following benefits:

Fortify. Whenever a creature drinks an elixir you created with the Experimental Elixir feature, the creature gains Temporary Hit Points equal to 1d8 plus your Intelligence Modifier.

Restore. You can cast Lesser Restoration without expending a spell slot and without preparing the spell, provided you use Alchemist's Supplies as the Spellcasting Focus. You can do so a number of times equal to your Intelligence modifier (minimum of once), and you regain all expended uses when you finish a Long Rest.

Chemical Mastery

At 15th level, You gain the following benefits:

Alchemical Eruption. When you cast an Unchained Artificer spell that deals Acid, Fire, or Poison damage to a target, you can also deal 2d8 Force damage to that target. You can use this benefit only once on each of your turns.

Chemical Resistance. You gain Resistance to Acid damage and Poison damage and Immunity to the Poisoned Condition.

Chosen Chemicals. You now treat all Elixirs you create as if you had rolled an 8, allowing you to choose an Effect as if the result had been any number between 1 and 7 on all of your elixirs when you create them.

Conjured Cauldron. You can cast Tasha's Bubbling Cauldron as an Unchained Artificer Spell without expending a spell slot, without preparing the spell, and without Material components, provided you use Alchemist's Supplies as the Spellcasting Focus. Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a Long Rest.

Armorer

An Unchained Artificer who specializes as an Armorer modifies armor to function almost like a second skin. The armor is enhanced to hone the Unchained Artificer's magic, unleash potent attacks, and generate a formidable defense.

Infiltrator

You customize your armor for subtle undertakings. It has the following features:

Force Launcher. A gemlike node appears on your armor, from which you can shoot bolts of energy. The launcher counts as a Simple Ranged weapon with a normal range of 90 feet and a long range of 300 feet, and it deals 1d6 Force damage on a hit. Once on each of your turns when you hit a creature with the launcher, you can deal an extra 1d6 Lightning damage to that target.

Powered Steps. Your Speed increases by 5 feet.

Dampening Field. You have Advantage on Dexterity (Stealth) checks. If the armor would normally impose Disadvantage on such checks, it does not.

Extra Attack

At 5th level, you can attack twice, instead of once, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn. If you know a Cantrip, you can replace one of these attacks with a use of that Cantrip.

Expert Armorer

At 10th level, you gain the following benefits.

Armor Replication. You learn an additional plan for your Replicate Magic Item feature, and it must be in the Armor category. If you replace that plan, you must replace it with another Armor plan. In addition, you can create an additional item with that feature, and the item must also be in the Armor category.

Improved Aresnal. You gain a +1 to Attack and Damage rolls you make with the special weapon of your Arcane Armor model.

Armor Upgrades

At 10th level, you improve certain features of your Armor based on its Model.

Dreadnaught. When you use your Giant Stature, your size can increase to Huge and moving through Difficult Terrain doesn't cost you extra movement.

Guardian. When a creature within the range of your Flash of Genius Unchained Artificer Feature takes Damage from an Attack, you can expend a use of your Flash of Genius Feature to reduce that damage by 1d8 + Your intelligence modifier.

Infiltrator. As a Magic Action, you can force every creature of you choice within a 30-foot long, 5-foot wide line extending outwards from you as the point of origin to make a Dexterity Saving Throw against your Unchained Artificer Spell Save DC, taking 4d8 Force Damage on a failed save or half as much on a successful one. You must finish a Short or Long Rest to use this feature again.

Perfected Armor

At 15th level, Your Arcane Armor gains additional benefits based on its model, as detailed below.

Arcane Thrusters. You gain a Fly Speed equal to your Speed while wearig your Arcane Armor.

Dreadnaught. When you use your Giant Stature, your reach increases by 10 feet, your size can increase to Large, Huge, or Gargantuan (your choice), and you gain a Fly Speed equal to your Speed.

Guardian. When a Huge or smaller creature you can see ends its turn within 30 feet of you, you can take a Reaction to magically force that creature to make a Strength saving throw against your spell save DC. On a failed save, you pull the creature up to 25 feet directly to an unoccupied space. If you pull the target to a space within 5 feet of yourself, you can make a melee weapon attack against it as part of this Reaction. You can take this Reaction a number of times equal to your Intelligence modifier (minimum of once), and you regain all expended uses when you finish a Long Rest.

Infiltrator. Any creature that takes Lightning damage from your Lightning Launcher glimmers with magical light until the start of your next turn. The glimmering creature sheds Dim Light in a 5-foot radius, and it has Disadvantage on attack rolls against you, as the light jolts it if it attacks you.

Perfected Weapons. The special weapon of your Arcane Armor model now deals 2d6 Force Damage.

Artillerist

An Artillerist specializes in using magic to hurl energy, projectiles, and explosions on a battlefield.

Fortified Position

At 15th level, you're a master at forming well-defended emplacements using your Eldritch Cannon. You gain the following benefits.

Double Firepower. You can now have two cannons at the same time, and you can create two with the same Magic action. (If you expend a spell slot to create the first cannon, you must expend another spell slot to create the second.) You can activate both of them with the same Bonus Action, ordering them to use the same activation option or different ones. You can't create a third cannon while you have two.

Shimmering Field Projection. You and your allies have Half Cover while within 10 feet of your Eldritch Cannon. If you have two active Eldritch Cannons, and you and your allies are within 10 feet of both of your Eldritch Cannons, this is three-quarters cover instead.

Battlesmith

A Battlesmith Unchained Artificers create advanced constructs that aid them in battle, and can modify weapons to better suit their combat skills.

Steel Defender

At 1st level, Your tinkering has borne you a companion, a Steel Defender. You determine the defender's appearance and whether it has two legs or four; your choices don't affect the defender's game statistics.

The defender is Friendly to you and your allies and obeys you. It vanishes if you die.

The Defender in Combat. In combat, the defender acts during your turn. It can move and take its Reaction on its own, but the only action it takes is the Dodge action unless you take a Bonus Action to command it to take an action. If you have the Incapacitated condition, the defender acts on its own and isn't limited to the Dodge action.

Restoring or Replacing the Defender. If the defender has died within the last hour, you can take a Magic action to touch it and expend a spell slot. The defender returns to life after 1 minute with all its Hit Points restored.

Whenever you finish a Long Rest, you can create a new defender if you have Smith's Tools in hand. If you already have a defender from this feature, the first one vanishes.

Steel Defender

Medium Construct

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• Armor Class 13 + Your Intelligence Modifier
• Hit Points 5 + 5 times your Unchained Artificer Level (the Defender has a number of Hit Dice [d8s] equal to your Unchained Artificer Level)
• Speed 40 ft.
• Proficiency Bonus Equal to your Proficiency Bonus

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

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• Damage Immunities Poison
• Condition Immunities charmed, exhaustion, poisoned
• Senses Darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 10
• Languages understands the languages you know.

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Steel Bond. Add your Proficiency Bonus to any ability check or saving throw the defender makes.

Actions

Force-Empowered Rend. Melee Attack Roll: Bonus equals your spell attack modifier, reach 5 ft. Hit: 1d8 + 2 plus your Intelligence modifier Force damage.

Repair (3/Day). The defender, or one Construct or object it can see within 5 feet of it, regains a number of Hit Points equal to 2d8 plus your Intelligence modifier.

Reactions

Deflect Attack. Trigger: A creature the defender can see within 5 feet of it makes an attack roll targeting a different creature. Response: The triggering creature makes the attack roll with Disadvantage.

Extra Attack

At 5th level, you can attack twice, instead of once, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn. If you know a Cantrip, you can replace one of these attacks with a use of that Cantrip.

Steel Sidekick

At 5th level, you can forgo one of your attacks when you take the Attack action to command your Steel Defender to take the Force-Empowered Rend action.

Arcane Jolt

At 10th level, when either you hit a target with an attack roll using a Melee Weapon or Unarmed Attack or your Steel Defender hits a target, you can channel magical energy through the strike to create one of the following effects.

Destructive Energy. The target takes an extra 2d6 Force damage.

Restorative Energy. Choose one creature or object you can see within 30 feet of the target. Healing energy flows into the chosen recipient, restoring 2d6 Hit Points to it.

You can use this energy a number of times equal to your Intelligence modifier (minimum of once), but you can do so no more than once per turn. You regain all expended uses when you finish a Long Rest.

Improved Defenses

At 15th level, your Arcane Jolt and Steel Defender have become more powerful, granting these benefits.

Improved Jolt. The extra damage and healing of your Arcane Jolt both increase to 4d6.

Fortified Defender. Your Steel Defender gains a +2 bonus to Armor Class.

Improved Deflection. Whenever your Steel Defender uses its Deflect Attack, the attacker takes Force damage equal to 1d4 plus your Intelligence modifier.

Bodysmith

A Bodysmith Unchained Artificer treats their own body as a canvas, their tools a brush (though not literally). They modify their bodies with artifice, enhancing their natural abilities. Some use mechanical parts, even entire limbs, to enhance their bodies, while others create biological modifications such as extra limbs or new organs that protect them from poisons.

Extra Attack

At 5th level, you can attack twice, instead of once, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn. If you know a Cantrip, you can replace one of these attacks with a use of that Cantrip.

Enhanced Durability

At 10th Level, when you would take damage from a Melee Weapon Attack or Unarmed Strike you can use your reaction to roll 1d8 plus your Intelligence Modifier plux half of your Unchained Artificer Level (rounded down) and reduce the damage taken by the amount rolled. If you reduce this damage to 0, you can immediately make a Melee Weapon Attack or Unarmed Strike against the creature that attacked you as part of the same reaction.

Immutable Body

At 15th level, the changes to your body are now extensive. If you are targeted by a spell or effect that would alter your form, such as Polymorph, you can choose to treat yourself as immune to its effects.

Additionally, you have advantage on Death Saving Throws.

Shared Modifications

At 15th level, at the end of a Long Rest, you can give up one of your Modifications to grant another creature within 5 feet of you the following benefits:

• The creature has resistance to poison damage and advantage on saving throws against the poisoned condition.
• The creature gains +1 AC.
• The creature gains a number of Temporary Hit Points equal to 4 x your Intelligence Modifier.
• The creature has advantage on death saving throws.

This lasts until the creature finishes a Long Rest, at which point you recover the lost Modification.

Cartographer

Cartographers are the premier navigators and reconnaissance agents. Using their creations, Cartographers can highlight threats, safeguard their allies, and carve portals to distant locations.

Ingenious Movement

At 10th level, when you use your Flash of Genius, you or a willing creature of your choice that you can see within 30 feet of yourself can teleport up to 30 feet to an unoccupied space you can see as part of that same Reaction.

Superior Atlas

At 15th level, your Adventurer's Atlas improves, gaining the following benefits.

Safe Haven. When a map holder would be reduced to 0 Hit Points but not killed outright, that creature can destroy its map. The creature's Hit Points instead change to a number equal to twice your Artificer level, and the creature is teleported to an unoccupied space within 5 feet of you or another map holder of its choice.

Unerring Path. If you are one of the map holders for your Adventurer's Atlas, you can cast Find the Path without expending a spell slot, without preparing the spell, and without needing spell components. Once you use this benefit, you can't use it again until you finish a Long Rest.

Unshakeable Mind. While at least one map created with your Adventurer’s Atlas still exists, taking damage can’t cause you to lose Concentration on your Unchained Artificer spells.

Reanimator

Reanimators defy the laws of nature in pursuit of gruesome experiment. These grim Unchained Artificers stitch together servants from disparate corpses, use foul magic to strengthen the living, and transform the art of necromancy into a terrifying science.

Reanimated Companion

Small Undead

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• Armor Class 13 + Your Intelligence Modifier
• Hit Points 5 + 5 times your Unchained Artificer Level (the Companion has a number of Hit Dice [d8s] equal to your Unchained Artificer Level)
• Speed 30 ft.
• Proficiency Bonus Equal to your Proficiency Bonus

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

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• Damage Resistances Necrotic, Poison
• Damage Immunities Lightning
• Condition Immunities charmed, exhaustion, poisoned
• Senses Blindsight 60 ft., passive Perception 10
• Languages understands the languages you know.

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Death Burst. When the companion dies, it explodes. All creatures within a 10-foot emanation centered on the companion must make a Dexterity Saving Throw against your Spell Save DC. On a failure, they take Necrotic Damage equal to a number of d6s equal to your Proficiency Bonus.

Lightning Absorption. Whenever the Companion is the target of a source of Lightning Damage, it re gains a number of Hit Points equal to the Lightning Damage dealt.

Actions

Dreadful Swipe. Melee Attack Roll: Bonus equals your spell attack modifier, reach 5 ft. Hit: 1d8 + 2 plus your Intelligence modifier Necrotic damage, and the target can't take Opportunity Attacks until the start of its next Turn.

Mend Flesh (3/Day). The Companion regains a number of Hit Points equal to 2d6 plus your Intelligence modifier.

Strange Modifications

At 5th level, Whenever you create a Reanimated Companion, it gains one of the following options of your choice; choose when you create the companion.

Arcane Conduit. You can cast spells as though you were in the companion’s space, but you must use your own senses. Once per turn, when you cast an Unchained Artificer spell from the Evocation or Necromancy schools and deal damage while your companion is within 120 feet of you, you can add your Intelligence modifier to one damage roll of that spell.

Ferocity. When you command your companion to take the Dreadful Swipe action, the companion can use it twice.

Improved Reanimation

At 10th Level, you experiment and alter your companion further. Whenever you create a Reanimated Companion, it gains one of the following options of your choice; choose when you create the companion.

Bloated. The companion becomes Large or Medium (your choice). Whenever it hits a Large or smaller creature with its Dreadful Swipe action, that creature can also be pushed up to 10 feet away from the companion. Additionally, you can add your Intelligence modifier to the damage dealt by the companion’s Death Burst.

Gaunt. The companion’s Speed increases to 45 feet, and it gains a Climb Speed equal to its Speed. It can climb difficult surfaces, including along ceilings, without needing to make an ability check. In addition, whenever a creature of your choice starts its turn within a 10-foot Emanation originating from your companion, the creature must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw against your spell save DC or have the Frightened condition until the start of its next turn.

Moist. The companion gains a Swim Speed equal to its Speed. In addition, whenever the companion is hit by an attack roll from a creature within 10 feet of it, the attacker takes Acid damage equal to your Intelligence modifier.

Promethean Reanimation

At 15th level, You have mastered the science of revivification, granting you the following benefits.

Facilitated Revival. When you cast Revivify or Raise Dead, the cost of any Material components needed for that spell is halved.

Improved Companion. The damage of your Reanimated Companion’s Death Burst is increased by 2d6. Necrotic damage dealt by your companion ignores Resistance and Immunity.

Life Transfer. You can siphon the animating magic of your companion to bolster yourself. When you take damage, you can take a Reaction to cause your Reanimated Companion to drop to 0 Hit Points. The companion immediately dies (triggering its Death Burst trait), and you regain a number of Hit Points equal to your Unchained Artificer level.

Cantrips (Level 0 Unchained Artificer Spells)

Air Burst (SCoC)
Acid Splash
Blade Ward (MCoC)
Booming Blade (TCE)
Control Flames (XGE)
Create Bonfire (XGE)
Dancing Lights
Elementalism
Encode Thoughts (GGR)
Fire Bolt
Frostbite (XGE)
Green-Flame Blade (TCE)
Gust (XGE)
Light
Lightning Lure (TCE)
Mage Hand
Mending
Message
Minor Illusion
Mold Earth (XGE)
Poison Spray
Prestidigitation
Produce Flame
Ray of Frost
Resistance
Shape Water (XGE)
Shocking Grasp
Spare the Dying
Sword Burst (TCE)
Telekinetic Fling (XUA25PU)
Thorn Whip
Thunderclap
True Strike

Level 1 Unchained Artificer Spells

Absorb Elements (XGE)
Acid Knife (MCoC)
Acid Wave (MCoC)
Alarm
Armor of Agathys
Catapult (XGE)
Color Spray
Comprehend Languages
Corrosive Rebuke (MCoC)
Create or Destroy Water
Cure Wounds
Detect Magic
Detect Poison and Disease
Disguise Self
Earth Tremor (XGE)
Ensnaring Strike
Entangle
Expiditious Retreat
Farie Fire
False Life
Feather Fall
Fog Cloud
Gift of Alacrity (MCoC)
Grease
Heroism
Identify
Illusory Script
Jump
Lightning Knife (MCoC)
Longstrider
Magic Missile
Magnify Gravity (EGW)
Purify Food and Drink
Sanctuary
Shocking Rebuke (MCoC)
Shower of Sparks (MCoC)
Silent Image
Sleep
Snare (XGE)
Spellfire Flare (FRHoF)
Tasha's Caustic Brew (TCE)
Tenser's Floating Disk
Toxic Knife (MCoC)
Toxic Rebuke (MCoC)
Toxic Surge (MCoC)
Unseen Servant (MCoC)
Zephyr Strike (XGE)

Level 2 Unchained Artificer Spells

Acid Blade (MCoC)
Acidic Ray (MCoC)
Aid
Air Bubble (AAG)
Alter Self
Arcane Lock
Arcane Vigor
Borrowed Knowledge (SCC)
Blur
Cloud of Daggers
Continual Flame
Cordon of Arrows
Cordon of Bullets (SCoC)
Darkness
Darkvision
Deryan's Helpful Homunculi (FRHoF)
Dragon's Breath
Earthbind (XGE)
Eliminster's Elusion (FRHoF)
Enhance Ability
Electrify (SCoC)
Enlarge/Reduce
Find Traps
Gentle Repose
Heat Metal
Homonculus Servant (MCoC)
Immovable Object (EGW)
Invisibility
Kinetic Jaunt (SCC)
Knock
Lesser Restoration
Levitate
Magic Mouth
Magic Weapon
Maximilian's Earthen Grasp (XGE)
Misty Step
Nystul's Magic Aura
Pass Without Trace
Protection from Poison
Pyrotechnics (XGE)
Rope Trick
See Invisibility
Silence
Skywrite (XGE)
Sparking Blade (MCoC)
Sparking Ray (MCoC)
Spider Climb
Spray of Cards (BMT)
Toxic Blade (MCoC)
Toxic Ray (MCoC)
Vortex Warp (SCC)
Warp Sense (SatO)
Web
Wristpocket (EGW)

Level 3 Unchained Artificer Spells

Acid Sphere (MCoC)
Antagonize (BMT)
Ashardalon's Stride (FTD)
Blink
Cacophonic Shield (FRHoF)
Call Lightning
Conjure Barrage
Conjure Constructs (FRHoF)
Corrosive Touch (SCoC)
Counterspell (MCoC)
Create Food and Water
Daylight
Dispel Magic
Elemental Weapon
Erupting Earth (XGE)
Fly
Glyph of Warding
Haste
Hypnotic Pattern
Intellect Fortress (XUA25PU)
Life Transference (XGE)
Lightning Arrow
Lightning Bolt
Lightning Sphere
Major Image
Nondetection
Protection from Energy
Pulse Wave (EGW)
Revivify
Sending
Slow
Stinking Cloud
Thunder Step (XGE)
Tongues
Toxic Sphere (MCoC)
Water Breathing
Water Walk

Level 4 Unchained Artificer Spells

Acid Rain (SCoC)
Acid Shield (MCoC)
Arcane Eye
Confusion
Fabricate
Freedom of Movement
Gate Seal (SatO)
Gravity Sinkhole (EGW)
Greater Invisibility
Leomund's Secret Chest
Mordenkainen's Faithful Hound
Mordenkainen's Private Sanctum
Otiluke's Resilient Sphere
Stone Shape
Stoneskin
Storm Shield (MCoC)
Storm Sphere (XGE)
Summon Construct
Toxic Shield (MCoC)
Venomous Stinger (SCoC)
Vitriolic Sphere

Level 5 Unchained Artificer Spells

Animate Objects
Bigby's Hand
Circle of Power
Cloudkill
Conjure Volley
Create Spelljamming Helm (AAG)
Creation
Destructive Wave
Greater Restoration
Legend Lore
Mislead
Passwall
Planar Binding
Seeming
Skill Empowerment (XGE)
Swift Quiver (MCoC)
Telekinesis
Teleportation Circle
Temporal Shunt (EGW)
Transmute Rock
Wall of Force (MCoC)
Wall of Stone

Appendix B: Magic Item Plans Tables

Magic Item Plans (Unchained Artificer Level 9+)

*You can learn this option multiple times and must select a different item each time; each item selected counts as a different plan.

Magic Item Plans (Unchained Artificer Level 14+)

*You can learn this option multiple times and must select a different item each time; each item selected counts as a different plan.

Appendix C: Revised Magic Items

Magic items are presented in alphabetical order.

Appendix E: Revised Magic Items

Magic items are presented in alphabetical order. These Options are revised from the Unchained Artificer (2024) Unearthed Arcana.

Appendix F: New Magic Items

Magic items are presented in alphabetical order. These Options are from my Unchained Artificer (2014)'s new Infusions.

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