The Definitive Alchemist

Contents
Preface 3 Discoveries 15
Alchemist 4 Grand Discoveries 20
Class Features ................................................................... 4 Construct Upgrades 22
Alchemist Class Table .............................................................. 5
Alchemy .......................................................................................5 25
Alchemical Field Specialisation .............................................7 Alchemist Spells and Formulae
Specialised Formulae ...............................................................7
Discoveries ................................................................................. 7 Extras 26
Always Busy ................................................................................7 Alchemical Creations ............................................ 26
Complex Formulae ....................................................................8 Alchemical Items .....................................................................26
Grand Discovery ........................................................................8 Poisons ......................................................................................28
Alchemical Field Specialisations 8 Healing Items ...........................................................................30
Multiclass Rules ..........................................................30
Field of Blight-Breaking ......................................8 Requirements ...........................................................................30
Precise Treatment .....................................................................8 Proficiencies ............................................................................ 30
Healing Infusions ...................................................................... 8 Alchemy, Spellcasting and Pact Magic ...............................30
Breath of Life ............................................................................. 9
Touch Injection .......................................................................... 9 Preservationist Discovery Options ...........31
Potent Healing ........................................................................... 9 Credits and Legal ....................................................... 31
Field of Blight-Making .......................................... 9
Refined Poisons .........................................................................9
Plague-Seeker ............................................................................9
Virulent Sickness ....................................................................10
Necrotising Fasciitis ...............................................................10
Malady and Bedlam ................................................................10
Field of Destruction ............................................... 10
Destructive Force ....................................................................10
Explosive Infusions .................................................................10
Rapid Bombardment ..............................................................11
Assured Destruction ...............................................................11
Overwhelming Destruction ...................................................11
Field of Mechanism ................................................... 11
Construct Ally .......................................................................... 11
Constantly Improving .............................................................12
Shared Infusions .....................................................................12
Empowered Attacks ............................................................... 12
Combat Prowess .....................................................................12
More Machines ........................................................................12
Field of Mutagenics ..................................................13
Mutagens .................................................................................. 13
Localised Mutation .................................................................14
Cognisant Mutagens ...............................................................14
Adaptive Mutagens ................................................................. 14
Splitting Mutation ...................................................................14
Field of Reanimation ...............................................14
Deathwatch .............................................................................. 15
Compliant Subjects ................................................................ 15
Stilled Blows ............................................................................15
Familiar Veils ........................................................................... 15
Living Undeath ........................................................................ 15

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Preface

T
he alchemist is a class beloved by a broad
selection of people for an equally broad
number of reasons. Testament to this are the
many creative and interesting versions of the
class that others have made according to their
own visions for bringing the alchemist forward
from its earlier roots, into this 5th edition of
the world's greatest roleplaying game.
Others have produced a variety of interpretations on this
class, and I encourage any budding alchemists to look to
some of those as well.
Each has their own approach to the very large task of
converting such a complex and varied class to the 5th edition
rule set, and I'll do my best to note the other conversions that
I've looked at in the past few months in the credits at the end
of this document.
This project began as my own attempt to create a conversion
for my own specific character build, which used options I
couldn't find adequately represented in other conversions.
Once I started, however, I realised I couldn't leave it at just
that. I wanted to do it properly, and capture everything, even
the possibilities that I wouldn't be using.
What I hope now to present with this work is a full and
complete class that manages to offer the choices needed to
truly capture as much of the original flavour of the alchemist
as possible - to present as much freedom to make a unique
character with unusual abilities as the original - while still
bringing it into the simplified style and balance of 5th edition.
It won't be perfect, and there will be some things that I just
could not find a place to fit in... but I hope to have made a
very solid attempt.
Whatever flavour of alchemist you would like to create, this
conversion should be able to cater to your desires, without
forcing any elements you don't want.
If even a small handful of people find it ideal for their
needs, then I'll count my time well spent.
-Erica

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Alchemist
A raging monstrosity of aberrant limbs and rippling flesh
tears into a pack of advancing demons, unconcerned for the
spears that pierce it. When the battle subsides, the behemoth
shudders and dissolves into the form of an exhausted halfling
who begins applying potions and salves to tend the wounds of
her allies before her own.
A mechanical beast dashes across the battlefield, weaving
through the orc forces as their crude weapons glance
ineffectively off its body. It skids to a halt, turning on the
attacking horde, and the grinning gnome at the controls pulls
a pair of levers, bathing his enemies in streams of acid and
ice.
An elven woman strides purposefully through a busy
market. Behind her, one by one, then in clusters, citizens
begin to retch and fall to the ground. Guards rush up, but a
noxious cloud billows out from the phials the woman
produces, driving them to their knees. Those that do reach
her recoil again, crying out in horror as their skin begins to
blacken at the touch. Behind her, the commoners begin to
rise once more, shambling after their new mistress in
mindless undeath as the elf smiles.
Alchemists follow a broad array of studies and
specialisations, united as a class by their understanding of
the hard sciences of the multiverse and how to manipulate
them. Their formulae achieve primarily through chemical
science what others must rely upon the arcane for, from
impressive self-augmentation to elixirs that can prolong,
preserve or even restore life, while their knack for making
bombs and other explosives can usually make up the
difference where potions might fail. Regardless of their field
of study, true alchemists all share a thirst for understanding,
and the drive towards making that next major breakthrough,
or ground-breaking discovery to further their art.
Not Exactly Magic
No matter their particular fields of study, most alchemists
rely heavily on their complex and esoteric formulae, precise
in their concoction, to achieve effects upon themselves and
those around them that range from the subtle to the fantastic.
While primarily based in the raw science of alchemy, most
true alchemists weave a small amount of arcane influence
into their work, whether they are aware of doing so or not.
This allows them to achieve effects with their draughts that
other lesser potion-makers can only marvel at and struggle to
comprehend.
Alchemists who become adventurers also develop a more
direct deterrent to those that would harm them, in the form
of alchemically catalysed explosives – each alchemist's
process and style of bomb-making is unique to them, and few
ever divulge their personal method, even to other alchemists.
A Thirst for Understanding
Not every hedge-witch or salve-maker who brews draughts
for their village is a true alchemist and few alchemists who
claim the title could ever be described as mundane potion-
makers.
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They tend to be peculiar and eccentric, driven by a need to
advance their own knowledge purely for the sake of
understanding, and to reach the pinnacle of mastery in their
chosen fields.
Some may content themselves to be instructors and
educators within organised guilds or societies, but it is
usually the desire to further their own studies and
capabilities that drives even the most closeted or hermetic of
alchemists into the life of adventure where they can put their
knowledge into stunning application.
Creating an Alchemist
As you create an alchemist character, consider how they
came to pursue the sciences, as opposed to, say, seeking
training as a wizard. Did they have a solitary mentor, or join
an established guild?
Consider your character's relationship and views on magic
and the arcane. Do they view it as just another field of study?
Do they spurn it as ephemeral or unreliable in contrast to the
true sciences? Are they aware that in preparing their own
formulae, they are also using hints of arcane energy, or are
they oblivious to this?
What drew your alchemist from study into adventure? Was
it the promise of more secrets and discoveries? Did they feel
the need to put their learning to a more practical field test?
Consider also what sorts of events led your alchemist to
pick the fields of study they specialise in – more than most
classes, the capabilities of different alchemists can be worlds
apart based on their fields of choice.
Quick Build
You can make an alchemist quickly by following these
suggestions. First, Intelligence should be your highest ability
score, followed by Constitution. Second, choose the guild
artisan or hermit background. Third choose the mending and
prestidigitation cantrips, along with the following 1st level
formulae for your formula book: armour of agathys,
comprehend languages, cure wounds, feather fall, identify,
and shield.
Alchemist
  Proficiency     Cantrips   —Spell  Slots  per  Spell  Level—
   Level    Bonus Features                                          Known 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th  Discoveries 
1st +2 Alchemy, Field Specialisation 2 2 — — — — —
2nd +2 Discoveries 2 3 — — — — 2
3rd +2 Always Busy 2 4 2 — — — 2
4th +2 Ability Score Improvement 3 4 3 — — — 2
5th +3 — 3 4 3 2 — — 3
6th +3 Field Specialisation Features 3 4 3 3 — — 3
7th +3 — 3 4 3 3 1 — 4
8th +3 Ability Score Improvement 3 4 3 3 2 — 4
9th +4 — 4 4 3 3 3 1 5
10th +4 Field Specialisation Features 4 4 3 3 3 2 5
11th +4 Complex Formula (6th) 4 4 3 3 3 2 5
12th +4 Ability Score Improvement 4 4 3 3 3 2 6
13th +5 Complex Formula (7th) 4 4 3 3 3 2 6
14th +5 Field Specialisation Features 4 4 3 3 3 2 6
15th +5 Complex Formula (8th) 4 4 3 3 3 2 7
16th +5 Ability Score Improvement 4 4 3 3 3 2 7
17th +6 Complex Formula (9th) 4 4 3 3 3 2 7
18th +6 — 4 4 3 3 3 3 8
19th +6 Ability Score Improvement 4 4 3 3 3 3 8
20th +6 Grand Discovery 4 4 3 3 3 3 8

Class Features Alchemy

As an alchemist, you gain the following class features. As an alchemist, you have a formula book containing the
initial alchemical concoctions you know how to make.
Hit Points The rules for your alchemy follow most of the same rules
Hit Dice: 1d8 per alchemist level for spellcasting as found in the chapter 10 of the Player's
Hit Points at 1st Level: 8 + your Constitution modifier Handbook, with a few noteworthy difference, described
Hit Points at higher Levels: 1d8 (or 5) + your Constitution below.
modifier per alchemist level after 1st
Formula Use
Proficiencies Alchemical principles are based first and foremost on
Armour: Light armour 'mundane' science, but true alchemists learn to weave
Weapons: Simple weapons together these founding principles with a certain amount of
Tools: Alchemist supplies, and your choice of either arcane practice, instilling their creations with power and
Herbalism kit or Poisoner's kit potency beyond the scope of simple chemical interactions.
Saving Throws: Intelligence, Constitution You keep the formulae used for creating these complicated
Skills: Choose three skills from Arcana, History, Insight, concoctions in a formula book, often recorded in a personal
Investigation, Medicine, Nature, and Perception code or cipher, with in-built pitfalls and misdirection to fool
and mislead those who attempt to read it without the proper
Equipment understanding.
You start with the following equipment, in addition to the Your formulae function much like the spells they emulate,
equipment granted by your background: enough that they are treated as spells for all other purposes.
Due to your method, however, your formulae are always
Leather armour and (a) a quarterstaff or (b) a dagger treated as having Somatic and Material components, and
A set of alchemist's supplies never have Verbal components, unless otherwise noted by a
(a) a scholar's pack or (b) an explorer's pack feature you later acquire.
A formula book
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 Cantrips
At first level, you know two cantrips of your choice from the
alchemist spell and formulae list. You learn additional
cantrips of your choice at higher levels, as shown in the
Cantrips Known column of the Alchemist table.
Your cantrips are not formulae; they follow their normal
component requirements, and may have Verbal components,
or lack Somatic or Material components, as listed in the spell.
These cantrips are not recorded in your formula book.
They might be primarily arcane in nature; spells in the
traditional sense that are simply memorised well enough to
let you cast them regularly without expending any real
energy, or you might use minor concoctions or small tinkered
devices to mimic the effects.
In addition to these cantrips, you also know the methods of
quickly assembling alchemically catalysed explosives, and
can keep the simple components for doing so on your person
at most times. You gain the alchemical bomb cantrip, which
does not count against your number of cantrips known.
Formula Book
At 1st level, you have a formula book which
contains six 1st level formulae of your
choice. This books serves as the repository
of all of the formulae you know, but does
not contain your cantrips, which are fixed
in your mind, or your personal bomb-
making methods, which few alchemists ever
record or share with anyone.
Preparing and Executing
Formulae
The Alchemist table shows how many
formula slots you have to use your
formulae of 1st level and higher. To use
one of these formulae, you must expend
a slot of the formula's level or higher.
You regain all expended slots when you
finish a long rest.
You prepare the list of formulae that
are available for you to use.
To do so, choose a number of formulae
from your book equal to your Intelligence
modifier + you alchemist level (minimum
of one formula). The formula must be of
a level for which you have alchemist
formula slots. You can change your list
of prepared formulae when you finish
a long rest.
Necessary Tools
Rather than a mystical crystal or a
magic staff, an alchemist uses their
alchemist supplies as the focus for
combining their formulae. You may not
use a spell component pouch in place
of the material components for any of
your formulae, however, you can use a
set of alchemist supplies as a
spellcasting focus.
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Alchemical Ability
Intelligence is the ability you use for your alchemist formulae.
You use your Intelligence whenever a formula refers to your
spellcasting ability. In addition, you use your Intelligence
modifier when setting the saving throw DC for an alchemist
formula you use, and when making an attack roll with one.
Alchemist save DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus + your
Intelligence modifier
Alchemist attack modifier = your proficiency bonus +
your Intelligence modifier
Long-Process Formulae
Some formulae can be executed using a longer process
which spares you the exertion of expending a formula slot.
You can execute any formula you know as a long-process
formula (using the rules for ritual casting, as found in chapter
10 of the Player's Handbook) if it has the ritual tag, and you
have the formula in you formula book. You don't need to have
the formula prepared.
Additionally, you can execute a formula that you have in
                                         your formula book but do not have
                                         prepared, even if it does not have the
                                         ritual tag. To do this, you must spend
                                       1 hour to execute the formula if it has a
                                       casting time of less than 1 hour, or
                                       double the listed casting time if the
                                      formula has a casting time of 1 hour or
                                     longer. You expend a formula slot as
                                     normal when you complete a formula
                                     using this method.
                                      You must have your formula book to
                                       hand for reference throughout the
                                           process in order to prepare and use
                                            a formula in this manner.
                               Learning Formulae of 1st
                               Level and Higher
                                          Each time you gain an alchemist
                                          level, you can add two formulae of
                                        your choice to your formula book for
                                      free. Each formula must be of an
                                    appropriate level for you to prepare.
                                    You may also come across other
                                     previously unknown formulae in the
                                      course of your adventures, or pick them
                                       up from other alchemists (see the
                                       "Your Formula Book" sidebar).
Field Specialisation
At 1st level, you decide which areas of the broader field of
alchemy you will dedicate yourself to focusing in. Choose two
disciplines from the fields of Blight-Breaking, Blight-Making,
Destruction, Mechanism, Mutagenics and Reanimation. This
decision will guide and shape the course of your career. Your
choices grant you features for each of your disciplines at 1st
level, and again at 6th, 10th and 14th level.
Specialised Formulae
Your specialisation choices allow you to learn a small number
of unusual formulae not available to alchemists of other
callings. They are added to the alchemist spell and formulae
list for you when you choose the appropriate specialisations.
These formulae may be learned when you gain a level in
the class or transcribed into your formula book if found
through other means. Once learned, these specialised
formulae always count as being prepared for you without
counting against number of formulae you can prepare each
day.
Discoveries
In the course of your studies and experiments, you
sometimes unravel especially interesting techniques or minor
breakthroughs that further augment your capabilities in the
field.
At 2nd level, you gain two of these discoveries, of your
choice. Your discovery options are detailed at the end of the
class description. When you gain certain alchemist levels, you
gain additional discoveries of your choice, as shown in the
Discoveries column of the Alchemist table.
Additionally, when you gain a level in this class, you can
choose to relinquish the use of one discovery you have
learned and replace it with a different discovery that you
could learn at that level.
Always Busy
Starting at 3rd level, you can craft alchemical items, potions
and poisons quickly and more effectively than others, and can
easily turn your focus to doing so whenever you have time to
spare.
The Alchemical Creations section at the end of the class
description provides tables, guidelines and suggestions for
some of the things you might create, and you may use this
feature to create other items at your DM's discretion. The
tables also list the cost of each item in raw materials, which
you expend at the end of a 1 hour crafting process. This
counts as light activity for you.
Creating alchemical items, poisons or healing items,
requires a DC15 skill check using the appropriate tools:
alchemist's supplies, poisoner's kit or herbalism kit,
respectively.
When crafting alchemical items, you produce 2 of the item
if you exceed the DC by 5 or more, and 3 if you exceed it by
10, at no additional material cost. Failing the check produces
nothing of value, but your skill with alchemy allows you to
avoid ruining any materials (You do not expend the listed
cost).
Your Formula Book
The formulae that you add to your formula book as you
gain levels reflect the research you do on your own, as well
as any intellectual breakthroughs you have about the
nature of the multiverse.
You may discover other formulae during your
adventures. You might decode the rambling jorunal
of a deranged and inspired wizard, for example, or
uncover an ancient cache of alchemical lore,
recorded by a lost civilisation.
Copying a Formula into the Book. When you find an
alchemist formula of 1st level or higher, you can add
it to your formula book if it is of a level that you are
capable of executing.
The process is far from simple, and usually
involves deciphering the unique transcribing method
of the original author, understanding the formula for
yourself, and then re-coding it into your own formula
book using your own notation. This takes 2 hours
and 50 gp per level of the formula you are
attempting to transcribe, after which it will be
recorded in your formula book, and you can prepare
and use it just as any of your other formulae.
Replacing and copying your formula book follows
the same rules that wizards must use for their
spellbooks.
You can copy spells from spell scrolls, or from
wizard spellbooks, as long as the spell is one you
could potentially learn the formula for. Wizards may
also learn spells from your formula book in the same
manner.
This cross-discipline process is more challenging
and takes longer; the cost of transcribing a formula
from a spell or a spell from a formula remains
unchanged, however it requires double the time it
would otherwise take.
The Book's Appearance. Your formula book is a
unique complilation of completed formulae, notes,
reasearch and ideas, with its own distinct style and
order. It might be well-orderd and perfectly laid out,
with neatly uniform script, or it might be a wild mess
of assorted paper scraps scribbled on at fervent
angles amidst strikes of inspiration. It might be well-
kept and carefully protected, bound with high-quality
decoration, or it might be ragged and worn, proudly
showing the weight of its travels for all to see.
Creating a poison or a healing item only ever yields a single
item on a success. On a failure you produce nothing of value
and some of the raw materials are ruined; you must still pay
half of the crafting cost in the attempt.
In addition to this, you can brew potions of your known
formulae. You can brew a potion of any formula of 3rd level or
lower which has a range of touch or self. The process takes
one hour per level of the formula you are brewing, and counts
as light activity for you.
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     You expend the appropriate formula slot when you finish
brewing a potion in this way. If the formula has a material
component with a listed gold value, that component must be
used in the brewing of the potion; if the material components
are consumed then they are consumed when you finish
brewing the potion. Any decisions about the formula's effect
(such as in protection from energy) are made when you brew
the potion.
A brewed potion retain its potency for up to 7 days. It takes
effect immediately when consumed, affects only the imbiber,
and last for the full duration without concentration
requirements.
Complex Formulae
At 11th level, your probing into increasingly complicated and
potent formulae results in the knowledge of a particularly
powerful, complex formula. Choose one 6th level formula
from the alchemist spell and formula list as this
breakthrough and add it to your formula book.
You do not prepare this formula in advance, however,
utilising it is a focus-intensive task. You can execute this
formula once without expending a formula slot, and you must
finish a long rest before you can do so again.
At higher levels, you learn more, increasingly powerful
formulae that you can use in this way: one 7th level formula
at 13th level, one 8th level formula at 15th level and one 9th
level formula at 17th level. You regain all uses of these
complex formulae when you finish a long rest.
You may scribe additional complex formulae into your book
          if you come across them during your adventures, if it
              appears on the alchemist spell and formula list and it
               is of a level for which you can execute complex
                 formulae.
               You can use any complex formulae you know,
                        however you may still only use one complex
                            formula of each level before finishing a long
                                       rest.
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Grand Discovery
At 20th level, you make a breakthrough that represents an
astounding and potentially world-changing discovery. Such a
breakthrough is the dream of many alchemists and the
driving force of their entire career. This achievement firmly
marks you as one of the greatest alchemists of your era.
Grand Discovery options are detailed at the end of the class
description.
Alchemical Field
Specialisations
Each alchemist comes to understand the basics of most
alchemical disciplines as they learn and progress, but
different fields of expertise appeal to each individual
alchemist, which in turn shapes their future studies.
The fields you chose to pursue will often have an impact on
how the rest of the world views you; some may see you
sought after by the common people or viewed with reverence
and respect, while other fields may lead to others treating you
with fear or mistrust. Regardless of these stigmas, any
alchemist may pursue any field of expertise, and none are
inherently good or bad. In the end, how you choose to wield
the knowledge you gain is what matters.
Field of Blight-Breaking
The field of Blight-Breaking is the catch-all school used to
denote those who dedicate themselves to the art of helping
and healing others. In taking this specialisation, you turn
your alchemy towards cures and restoratives, as well as
abjurative measures and preemptively bolstering those in
need.
Blight-Breaking Specialisation Formulae
Formula Level Formula
1st bless
2nd prayer of healing
3rd beacon of hope
4th aura of life
5th raise dead
Precise Treatment
At 1st level, you gain proficiency in the Medicine skill, and you
may use your Intelligence modifier instead of your Wisdom
modifier whenever making checks with the skill, if it is higher.
In addition, whenever you make an Intelligence (Medicine)
check related to diagnosing the source of an ailment, or to
stabilise a dying creature, you can add double your
proficiency bonus to the roll.
Healing Infusions
Also at 1st level, you are able to quickly extend the effective
life of your curative formulae so that they may benefit others
without your direct attention. As an action, you can give an
infusion of one of your formulae to another creature,
expending a formula slot when you do. It must be a formula
that restores hit points, grants temporary hit points, removes
   or protects against negative conditions, or reduces or
        negates damage.
    A creature carrying one of your infusions can use it at a In taking this specialisation a large portion of your focus as
later time of their choosing. When they do so, they use the an alchemist turns not only toward understanding and using
formula's normal casting time (for example, an ally carrying all manner of poisons and diseases, but also to improving
one of your absorb elements infusions could use their upon the building blocks that nature has already provided.
reaction at the appropriate time to gain the formula's
benefits). Blight-Making Specialisation Formulae
Any choices that a formula might offer are made by the Formula Level Formula
user when they gain its benefits, and they must maintain any 1st inflict wounds
concentration requirements. Any formula that requires an
attack roll or a saving throw uses your attack bonus and save 2nd blindness/deafness
DC. An infusion remains potent until you finish a long rest. 3rd slow
4th sickening radiance
Breath of Life
At 6th level, you begin to unlock the secrets of life and death, 5th contagion
sometimes reclaiming the fallen from the far side of that
brink in the process. As an action on your turn you can touch Refined Poisons
a creature that is at 0 hit points, causing them to regain hit When you chose this specialisation at 1st level, your
points up to half of their hit point maximum. familiarity with poisons lets you subtly improve them, often
If you instead touch a creature that has died within the last making them more tenacious and harder to resist. Any
minute, they are returned to life with one hit point. The poisons you make use your alchemist DC in place of their
revival closes any immediately mortal wounds, but it cannot original DC, unless the original DC of the poison is higher. In
restore destroyed or severed body parts, and it cannot revive addition, you can improve a poison you didn't make
a target that died of old age. If the creature is lacking organs personally in the same way if you hold it for 1 minute.
or body parts integral to its survival, the ability simply fails.
This revival is rough and taxing, both upon the target, and Plague-Seeker
upon you. If you attempt to return a creature to life in this Also at 1st level, you can obtain samples of any disease you
manner, you are unable to use any further formulae, except by come into contact with. When you do so, make a DC 12
long-process rituals, until you finish a long rest. The revived medicine check to avoid being exposed to the
creature suffers a -2 penalty to all attack rolls, ability checks disease yourself in
and saving throws until it finishes a long rest. the process.
A creature returned to life by this feature cannot benefit
from it again for seven days. Once you use this feature, you
can't use it again until you finish a long rest.
Touch Injection
At 10th level, you streamline the delivery of your healing and
curative formulae by way of a quick-delivery aid of your own
devising. You can use any formula that counts for your
Healing Infusions feature and has a casting time of one
action, as a bonus action instead.
You can use this feature a number of times equal to your
Intelligence modifier (minimum of one), and you regain all
expended uses when you finish a long rest.
Potent Healing
By 14th level, your specialisation in the healing arts yields
stronger results than other practitioners. Whenever you or an
ally rolls dice to determine the number of hit points restored
or temporary hit points granted by one of your formulae or
healing infusions, you may reroll any die that results in a 1 or
a 2. You must use the new result, even if it is another 1 or 2.
Field of Blight-Making
The field of blight-making is for the alchemist fascinated by
the creeping destructive nature of poisons and diseases.
Alchemists who specialise in this field are sometimes
treated with suspicion, however their knowledge can often
be used to weaken or debilitate with more subtlety, and
may at times save the many lives that pitched battle
and bloodshed would cost, even if it is viewed as
less honourable.

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     Whether you are exposed or not, you acquire a control
sample of the disease from which you learn the properties of
the disease and how to treat it, as well as the means and best
conditions by which the disease spreads, and how victims
may become exposed to it.
You can also use the sample to cultivate up to six preserved
doses for later use, as though you were crafting doses of a
poison. Any diseases you cultivate use your alchemist DC in
place of their original DC, unless the original DC is higher.
Carriers and other exposed victims cannot be used to acquire
further samples, and a control sample only remains viable for
three days once taken from its source.
Virulent Sickness
Beginning at 6th level, any damage dealt by poisons you make
or improve, or by diseases you spread, ignore resistance.
Creatures that are immune to the damage inflicted by your
poisons or diseases are unaffected.
Necrotising Fasciitis
From 10th level, you are able to fine tune and manipulate the
ways in which your poisons attack their victims. If a poison
you make or improve would inflict poison damage, you may
choose any number of the damage dice to deal necrotic
damage instead of poison damage. You may change the
distribution of poison and necrotic damage at any time up
until the poison is used or applied, or it otherwise leaves your
possession.
Malady and Bedlam
By 14th level, your ability to spread your poisons and diseases
endangers far more than a single target; they are merely
patient zero for your plagues. Whenever a creature fails its
initial save against any poison you make or improve, or any
disease you spread, it becomes a contagious carrier until the
affliction is removed, runs its course or they recover naturally.
Any creature that comes into direct contact with the victim
while they are a carrier must immediately succeed on a
Constitution saving throw against your alchemist DC or be
afflicted as though they were the original target.
This saving throw is separate from any save that the poison
or disease may then require. If they succeed on the saving
throw, they are not afflicted and are immune to contracting
that particular dose of poison or disease for seven days. A
creature that is afflicted but then recovers or is cured also
gains this immunity.
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Field of Destruction
The field of destruction is for alchemists who focus on the
destructive capabilities of their personal bomb-making
techniques, blending an otherwise simple science into an art
form of devastating results. In taking this specialisation, a
large portion of your study turns towards the ways in which
you can improve your bombs, and your capacity for using
them.
Destruction Specialisation Formulae
Formula Level Formula
1st chaos bolt
2nd shatter
3rd fireball
4th vitriolic sphere
5th destructive wave
Destructive Force
At 1st level, your bomb-making process focuses less on flash
and more on physical destruction. Your alchemical bomb
cantrip now deals force damage instead of fire damage. Any
damage that your bombs deal against objects is automatically
treated as a critical hit.
Explosive Infusions
Also at 1st level, you can infuse the explosive catalysts and
other necessary components of your bombs into a liquid
substance you have access to. As an action, you can create
such an infusion using a potion, one of your own brewed
formulae or any other suitable single drink (such as a mug of
ale or glass of wine).
When infused in this manner the explosive remains potent
for up to 8 hours, after which it harmlessly falls inert. It does
not damage or adversely affect the liquid into which you
infuse it, however an identify spell will reveal that the drink
has been tampered with, and a dispel magic spell will
neutralise the explosive.
If you infuse one of your brewed formulae using this
feature, the other effects of the formula last only for a single
round, regardless of the formula's original duration. If it is not
used before the explosive catalyst falls inert, the original
formula is also rendered inert at that time.
Anyone who drinks one of your infused explosives must
immediately make a Constitution saving throw, or take
damage as though from a critical hit with your alchemical
bomb cantrip, including any other effects that trigger on a
critical.
You can only keep one infused explosive active at a time; if
you infuse a second explosive, the first one immediately falls
inert. You can automatically neutralise your own infused
explosive as a bonus action when you are holding it; if you do
so with one of your own brewed formulae, it returns to full
strength, and is undamaged.
Rapid Bombardment
Beginning at 6th level, your bomb-making finesse allows you
to make and use your bombs more rapidly than most.
Immediately when you use your alchemical bomb cantrip as
an action on your turn, you can use a bonus action to use an
additional alchemical bomb. You can use this feature a
number of times equal to your Intelligence modifier, and you
regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.
Assured Destruction
Beginning at 10th level, the potency of your bombs is hard to
resist. Whenever a creature succeeds on a saving throw
against your alchemical bomb (including your Explosive
Infusions), the creature still takes half the cantrip's damage,
but suffers no additional effects.
Overwhelming Destruction
At 14th level, you are sometimes able to ensure that your
bombs attain their maximum destruction potential. Once on
your turn when you hit a creature with your alchemical bomb,
or cause a creature to make a saving throw with it, you can
choose to have the bomb deal its maximum damage to all
affected targets. You can use this feature twice, and regain all
expended uses when you finish a short or long rest.
Field of Mechanism
The field of Mechanism is for alchemists who seek to
augment their capabilities with the creation of intricate
marvels of construction and engineering. Some mechanists
even manage to take this a step further, instilling a spark of
genuine sentience into their most advanced creations. In
taking this specialisation, much of your focus turns towards
enhancing and improving your construct allies. You are still
an alchemist overall, but a large part of your study, research
and experimenting is channelled into this adjacent discipline.
Mechanism Specialisation Formulae
Formula Level Formula
1st alarm
2nd knock
3rd tiny servant
4th fabricate
5th animate objects
Construct Ally
When you take this specialisation at 1st level, you understand
the principles behind the creation of mechanical constructs,
and you complete a construct of your own to serve and assist
you as a loyal ally.
Your construct can be of any size large or smaller, and of
any functional configuration of your choosing. If it is of an
appropriate size and configuration to act as a mount,
it may serve as one.
Statistically, your construct has an Intelligence of 3, and
when you complete its construction you may allocate its other
ability scores as you choose, using scores of 18, 16, 12, 10
and 6. It has proficiency in Constitution saving throws, and
two additional saving throws of your choice from Strength,
Dexterity, Wisdom and Charisma. It also gains proficiency in
three skills of your choice.
If your construct's base Dexterity is 18 or more, it begins
with a speed of 40 feet. If its base Dexterity is less than 10 its
speed begins at 20 feet, otherwise its speed begins at 30 feet.
It benefits from the Constructed Nature feature, meaning
that it does not require air, food, drink or sleep. It also has
damage immunity to poison, and resistance to bludgeoning,
piercing and slashing from nonmagical attacks that aren't
adamantine, as well as condition immunities to charmed,
exhaustion, frightened, paralysed, petrified and poisoned. In
addition, it benefits from darkvision, out to a range of 120
feet.
It can understand one language that you know of your
choice, though it cannot speak. You do, however, share a mild
emotive bond with your construct as long as it is within 100
feet of you, allowing it to convey impressions, emotions and
sensations to you at a primitive level.
Your construct starts with a d8 hit die, initial hit points
equal to 8 + its Constitution modifier and a proficiency bonus
of 2. It grows and gains levels with you, increasing its
proficiency bonus and hit points in the normal manner
whenever you gain an alchemist level.
Whenever gaining an alchemist level would grant you an
Ability Score Improvement, your construct also gains one,
though it cannot increase its Intelligence in this way. If you
use the optional Feats rule, it may choose to take a feat for
which it qualifies instead (again, this excludes taking feats
which would increase its Intelligence). Alternatively, it may
forgo a statistical improvement or feat and instead select an
upgrade from the list of construct upgrades, detailed at the
end of the class descrition.
Your construct cannot wear armour, and instead has a
natural AC equal to 11 + its Dexterity modifier + its
proficiency bonus. If it has humanoid hands it may be able to
wield weapons, at your DM's discretion, though it cannot
attune to magic items; otherwise its natural attack is melee,
has a reach of 5 feet, and deals your choice of bludgeoning,
piercing or slashing damage (decided upon creation) equal to
1d6 + either its Strength or Dexterity modifier + its
proficiency bonus.
Some of your constructs possible upgrades
or features may compel creatures to make
saving throws. Unless the feature denotes
a specific DC, it uses your alchemist DC
for these, representing the skill and
efficiency with which you have built your
construct and given it these abilities.
Your construct rolls initiative for itself
and acts on its own turn, though you
determine its actions, behaviour and
attitudes etc. If you are absent or
unconscious, your construct can continue
to act on its own.
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     Most healing spells and formulae will have no effect on
your construct, however, it may spend hit dice during short
rests, representing repair work that you carry out in that
time. It regains half of its maximum hit dice when you finish
a long rest.
Your construct regains all of its hit points when you finish a
long rest as long as you spend at least one hour of your rest
performing repairs in a way that counts as light activity for
you.
If your construct is reduced to 0 hit points, it breaks down
and becomes unconscious. It does not make death saving
throws in this state but is damaged to the point that it will
require 8 hours of intensive work and the expenditure of 50
gold to cover materials to repair to a functional condition.
Even if its body is destroyed or impossible to recover, you
can rebuild your construct from whatever elements you do
recover, or even from scratch through the same process. If
you wish to do so, you are able to capture whatever spark of
sentience or personality your construct possessed when it
fell, and instil it into the new body without complication.
Constantly Improving
When you complete your construct at 1st level, you may
choose one upgrade that your construct qualifies for from the
list of construct upgrades. You may choose additional
upgrades to add to your construct from the same list when
you reach 6th, 10th and 14th level. Unless otherwise noted,
you cannot take a single upgrade more than once.
Optional Rule: Time and Money
As an optional rule, you may pursue further upgrades to your
construct during your down time if you have the time and
resources to do so. You may select and add an additional
upgrade, applying it to your construct after the expenditure of
1000 gp multiplied by the number of upgrades your construct
already possesses from your class progression as an
alchemist, over a period of full working days equal to the
same number. The maximum number of extra upgrades you
can apply is equal to your contruct's level divided by 2 (round
down).
This optional rule allows you to create a stronger
construct, and affects the balance of the class. Be sure to talk
with your DM about this option before using it in your game.
Shared Infusions
Beginning at 1st level, when you are within 5 feet of your
primary construct, you can target it with formulae normally
restricted to a range of self.
Empowered Attacks
Starting at 6th level, your construct's attacks (excluding
attacks made with nonmagical wielded weapons) count as
magical for the purpose of overcoming resistance and
immunity to nonmagical attacks and damage.
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Combat Prowess
At 10th level, your construct grows more adept at assisting
you in combat. You gain one of the following features, of your
choice:
Stalwart Defender: When a creature within 5 feet of your
primary construct is the target of an attack, it can use its
reaction to interpose itself, redirecting the attack towards
itself instead.
Aggressive Assailant: When a hostile creature within your
primary construct's reach makes an attack against you or any
of your allies, it can use its reaction to immediately make a
melee attack against them. On a hit, the target takes damage
as normal, and a large or smaller creature must make a
Strength saving throw, or be knocked prone.
More Machines
By 14th level, you have further refined your construct-building
artifice, and complete a secondary ally to assist and
accompany you. This second construct lacks the spark of true
sentience that sets your main companion apart, but is more
specialised in function. It begins with the proficiency bonus
of a 14th level creature (+5), and grows following all the same
rules as your primary construct with the following
differences:
Its size is Tiny
It has an Intelligence of 1, a Constitution of 10 and other
ability scores of 18, 14, 8 and 6, to be allocated as you
choose when you complete its construction.
Its hit die is a d4, with its initial hit points equal to 36
(13d4 +4)
It does not gain any additional Ability Score
Improvements when you gain alchemist levels.
It may begin with either a flying speed or a swimming
speed equal to its walking speed.
It gains skill expertise in one skill, instead of basic
proficiency in three.
It cannot attack, but may take other actions as normal.
It can follow simple instructions, but lacks the intelligence
to adapt or extrapolate from them, or to interpret what it
sees or hears.
If it is destroyed, or if you wish to change its specialisation,
you can rebuild your smaller construct over the course of
one hour, at a cost of 20 gold.
This secondary construct receives one construct upgrade
when you complete it at 14th level, but it may not select any
that grant it attacks of its own or increase its Intelligence. It
gains a second when you reach 19th level.
You can only maintain one of these smaller constructs at a
time; if you later build one with a different specialisation, you
are presumed to cannibalise your existing one in the process.
The new construct can have up to the same number of
construct upgrades as the construct it is replacing.
Field of Mutagenics
The field of mutagenics is for alchemists who focus on
modifying and augmenting their own bodies in a variety of
ways. It covers everything from adapting to unusual
environments, to growing new limbs or appendages, to
turning themselves into terrible beasts of war and
destruction. In taking this specialisation, a large portion of
your focus as an alchemist is turned towards your unique
mutagenic concoctions.
Mutagenics Specialisation Formulae
Formula Level Formula
1st cause fear
2nd enlarge/reduce
3rd gaseous form
4th guardian of nature
5th telekinesis
Mutagens
Beginning at 1st level, you understand the process of making
mutagenic concoctions, tailored specifically to interact with
your own physiology and ineffective or dangerous for anyone
else to use. You can use your action to take a mutagen,
causing your body to change and mutate in aberrant and
often unsettling ways (of your own description if desired),
growing stronger, swifter, or simply stranger. The process is
taxing on your body, and you can can only use this feature
twice, regaining expended uses when you finish a short or
long rest.
The transformation lasts for a number of hours equal to
half your alchemist level (rounded down, minimum of 1 hour).
You lack the capacity to revert the mutation voluntarily,
however you automatically revert if you fall unconscious, drop
to 0 hit points or die.
While under the effects of a mutagen, the following rules
apply.
Your AC, speed, and ability scores change to match the
statistics of a creature you choose that has a challenge
rating of 1 or lower. Starting at 3rd level, you can choose a
creature that has a challenge rating as high as your
alchemist level divided by three. The referenced creature
may be of any type, excluding Fey, Fiend, Celestial,
Construct or Undead. If any of your physical ability scores
(Strength, Dexterity or Constitution) are already higher
than the referenced creature, you retain your own. Your
mental ability scores (Wisdom, Intelligence and
Charisma) are reduced to a maximum of 6, even if the
referenced creature's would be higher. You retain all of
your skill and saving throw proficiencies in addition to
gaining those of the referenced creature.
You do not physically become the creature whose
statistics you take and so you do not gain any of its extra
movement types unless you already possess them, nor do
you gain any of its special abilities, extra senses, or
legendary or lair actions. You do, however, gain all of the
creature's listed actions, including multi-attack if it has it.
You use the referenced creature's attack bonus for these,
unless your own bonus would be higher.
Your size changes to match the size of the referenced
creature, to a maximum size of huge and a minimum size
of tiny. You retain your original type, but you gain the
monstrosity type in addition, and may potentially be
affected by effects that target them.
While under the effects of a mutagen, you assume the hit
points, hit point maximum and hit die of the referenced
creature. When you revert to your normal form, except as
a result of dropping to 0 hit points, you return to the
number of hit points you had before you mutated. If you
revert as a result of dropping to 0 hit points you remain at
0 and fall unconscious.
While under the effects of a mutagen you cannot cast or
concentrate on spells, or use your formulae, and your
ability to speak becomes faltering at best, if you retain it at
all (your choice).
You retain the benefits of any features from your class,
race or other sources and may use them if your mutated
form is capable of doing so. You may also choose to retain
or relinquish any special senses, such as darkvision, that
your original form may have.
You choose whether your equipment falls to the ground,
merges into your transformation, or continues to be worn.
If worn, equipment functions as normal, however your DM
will decide whether it is practical for your mutated form to
wear or use a piece of equipment, based on your new
shape and size. Your equipment doesn't change size or
shape to match your new form, and any equipment that
cannot be worn must either fall to the ground or merge
with you. Equipment that merges with your new shape
has no effect until you revert.
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 Localised Mutation
Also at 1st level, you can partake of a milder, more precise
and less taxing mutagenic formula to enhance your
capabilities without invoking a full transformation. As an
action, you gain the effects of the alter self spell, which last
for the duration without requiring concentration. You can
dismiss the mutation at any time, no action required.
You cannot use this feature while under the effects of a
mutagen but you may choose to retain any extra abilities you
have as a result of this feature, such as a swimming speed, if
you use a mutagen while they are still in effect. If you do, it
lasts for the full duration of the mutagen.
You can use this feature a number of times equal to your
Constitution modifier, and regain all expended uses when you
finish a long rest.
Cognisant Mutagens
At 6th level, you improve your mutagenic concoction to allow
its physical transformations without hampering your mental
acuity. You retain your own mental statistics when taking a
mutagen, and may choose to take on the mental ability scores
of the referenced creature if they are higher. Your ability to
talk is unimpaired so long as you retain the physical ability to
do so.
You still cannot cast spells or use your formulae, but you
may maintain concentration on on-going effects, and use any
actions that are a part of them while transformed. You also
retain the wherewithal needed to prepare a mixture to
immediately revert your form, which you can do as an action.
In addition to these improvements, your attacks while
transformed count as magical for the purposes of overcoming
resistance and immunity to nonmagical attacks and damage.
Adaptive Mutagens
Beginning at 10th level, in addition to its normal effects,
when you use a mutagen, you take on the referenced
creature's additional senses (such as darkvision) and
movement types (such as a swimming speed) as well as its
damage resistances and vulnerabilities. If the referenced
creature has immunity to a damage type, you gain only
resistance. If you already share a special sense with the
referenced creature, you use the stronger version.
In addition, if the referenced creature has any condition
immunities, you gain advantage on saves you make to resist
those conditions while you are transformed.
Splitting Mutation
At 14th level, the repeated exposure to your mutagenic
concoctions has left a lingering malleability to your form,
leaving it ready to change and reshape itself in a moment,
with quite unexpected results.
As a reaction when you would take piercing or slashing
damage, you can avoid the damage by splitting your form in
two, creating two identical duplicates of yourself which
appear within 5 feet of your original position.
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All of your weapons, items, gear and equipment is split
between these two bodies as you choose, though only your
physical body is duplicated.
The two bodies are statistically identical and have access
to all of your features and abilities, excluding this feature, as
though they were functionally you. You perceive through both
sets of senses simultaneously and take independent turns for
both of them, on the same initiative.
Each body has half of your current hit points at the time of
splitting, and your hit points become the sum of the
remaining hit points of both bodies when the effect ends. You
remain in this state until the end of your next turn, at which
point you choose one body to become the persistent you,
while the other collapses into a mass of loose biological
material and dissolves.
If one of your bodies is reduced to 0 hit points, it collapses
and dissolves and the effect ends immediately. If both bodies
are reduced to 0 hit points at the same time (such as both
being hit by a fireball spell), you choose which body dissolves
and which one remains. When the effect ends, all belongings
that were on the dissolving body return to your remaining
body if it is within 100 feet.
You can use this feature a number of times equal to your
Constitution modifier with no adverse effects. If you use this
feature again before you finish a long rest, you must expend
one of your alchemist hit dice immediately upon using it (you
do not regain hit points), and you take 2d6 necrotic damage
when the effect ends. This damage ignores resistance and
immunity.
Field of Reanimation
The field of reanimation is one that suffers much malign from
the common people, arcane practitioners, the religious
devout and even sometimes from other alchemists.
Sometimes this is well justified, but often it is not. This field
covers those alchemists who work with the animation of
flesh, bone and other once-living material, those who seek to
mimic or replicate the qualities and benefits of death-like
states, and also those who study the darker aspects of true
necromancy.
In taking this specialisation you understand that a good
deal of your focus will involve working with and around the
dead, and that many you meet may find this objectionable.
Reanimation Specialisation Formulae
Formula Level Formula
1st false life
2nd Nystul's magic aura
3rd life transference
4th blight
5th negative energy flood
Deathwatch
When you choose this specialisation at 1st level, you gain the
insight necessary to know how near to death the creatures
near you are. As an action, you can focus this awareness to
learn the condition of up to six creatures, bodies or other
entities you are aware of within 30 feet of you. You learn
whether each is alive, dead, undead, or none of these (such as
a construct, or an illusion). If a creature is alive, you know if it
is close to death (at or below 1/5 of its maximum hit points).
This ability foils feign death, but fails to overcome other
spells or magic items that give false information about a
target, or deceive others about its nature.
Compliant Subjects
Also at 1st level, your focus on the states of death allows you
to extend your alchemical pursuits to targets bereft of life.
You are able to devise formulae for any spell that would target
a corpse, pile of bones or other formerly-living matter (such
as animate dead or gentle repose), but not those that deal
with actual souls (such as raise dead or revivify). You may
learn or transcribe these formulae as normal and they count
as alchemist formulae for you.
Stilled Blows
Beginning at 6th level, your alchemical studies and your own
mental discipline allow you to render localised areas of your
body temporarily as though dead, reducing natural reactions
and minimising the trauma you suffer. As a reaction when
you suffer a critical hit, you can turn that hit into a normal hit
instead. Any effects triggered by a critical hit are also
cancelled.
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 long rest.
Familiar Veils
At 10th level, you are more cordially acquainted with the veil
of death than most, and you can remain calm even upon the
precipice of it. If you would drop to 0 hit points and don't die
outright, you can make a DC 15 Intelligence saving throw. If
you succeed, you hang onto consciousness, and drop to 1 hit
point instead. This feature fails automatically if you are
already on 1 hit point when you would drop to 0. In addition
to this, you have advantage on any death saving throw you
make if you already have one or more death saving throw
failures.
Living Undeath
At 14th level, your knowledge of death, undeath and
reanimation allow you to alter and improve your physiology,
granting you many of the benefits of undeath, while you still
remain among the living. You gain resistance to necrotic and
poison damage, as well as advantage on saves against
becoming poisoned or paralysed. You no longer need to sleep,
and can gain the benefits of a long rest by spending all 8
hours doing light activity. Finally, if you die, your body
undergoes the processes of death more slowly, doubling the
time limit for spells and abilities that would return you to life.
   Discoveries
       If a discovery has prerequisites, you must meet them to
          learn it. You can learn a discovery at the same time that
             you meet its prerequisites. A level prerequisite refers
                 to your levels in the alchemist class.
           If a discovery grants you access to new formulae or
                adds formulae to your alchemist spell and formula
                 list, they count as alchemist formulae for you. If you
                   later relinquish a discovery that grants you access
                   to new formulae, you lose the ability to learn or
                    execute them unless you can do so through other
                     means.
                Advanced Apparatuses
                     Prerequisite: Mechanism Field Specialisation
                      feature
                       You devise tools capable of emulating flashier
                        spells and their effects. Witch bolt, pyrotechnics
                         and storm sphere are added to the alchemist
                          spell and formula list for you. You immediately
                           learn the formulae for witch bolt and you can
                            use it once without expending a formula slot
                             using this feature. You must finish a long rest
                             before you can use witch bolt with this
                             feature again.
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 Alchemical Fortification
Prerequisite: 6th level, Reanimation Field Specialisation
feature
The alchemical processes you use to animate the dead
further augment and fortify them. Any undead you create
using your alchemist formulae or features gain the benefits of
the false life spell (at base level) when first animated. In
addition to this, they gain a bonus to their attack and damage
rolls equal to your spellcasting ability modifier if they do not
already benefit from this, and their attacks count as magical
for the purpose of overcoming resistance and immunity to
nonmagical attacks and damage.
Alchemical Gastronomy
You delve into the science of food and nourishment. Purify
food and drink, create food and water and hero's feast are
added to the alchemist spell and formula list for you. You
immediately learn the formulae for purify food and drink, and
can use it once without expending a formula slot using this
feature. You must finish a short rest before you can use purify
food and drink with this feature again.
Arcane Sight
You gain knowledge of the detect magic formula. It always
counts as prepared for you without counting against the
number of formula you can prepare each day and you can use
it at will without expending a formula slot.
Bedlam Bombs
Prerequisite: 7th level
You devise formulae for evoking delusion and disorientation
among those affected. You learn the formulae for confusion,
and can execute it using your alchemist formula slots.
Additionally, you are able to infuse this confusing agent into
your bombs. Whenever you use your alchemical bomb
cantrip as an action on your turn, you may expend an
alchemist formula slot of 4th level or higher to forgo dealing
damage and have the bomb take on the effects of the
confusion spell instead. You must still concentrate to
maintain the effect.
When used in this way, the confusion effect conforms to
the range, coverage and targeting of your bomb, regardless of
the slot used to infuse the effect.
Bedroll-side Manner
Prerequisite: Blight-Breaking Field Specialisation feature
You make a habit of tending to the injuries and ailments of
those around you whenever time permits.
Whenever you or any friendly creature nearby regain hit
points at the end of a short rest by spending one or more hit
die, each of those creatures regains an additional 1d6 hit
points, and they may treat any roll of 1 on any of the hit die
they spend as a 2 instead.
In addition to this, if you or any friendly
creature makes a save to fend off any
form of poison or disease at
the end of a short or long
rest, they may make
the save with
advantage.
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Bone Puppet Bombs
Prerequisite: 9th level, Reanimation Field Specialisation
feature
You know how to pack your bombs with shards of
alchemically treated bone, primed to animate dead flesh at
the moment of expiration. When you use your alchemical
bomb cantrip you can designate it as a bone puppet bomb.
Any medium or smaller creature that you kill with a bone
puppet bomb rises under your control as an undead on its
next turn, as though by the animate dead spell, for 1 minute.
A bone puppet bomb cannot affect undead or constructs.
Botanical Expertise
Prerequisite: 5th level
You gain a deeper understanding of botanical life forms and
your alchemy allows you to gain information from plants and
influence their growth.
You learn the formulae for entangle, speak with plants and
plant growth. You can use entangle and speak with plants
once each without expending an alchemist spell slot, and
must finish a long rest before you can do so using this feature
again.
Break Enchantments
Prerequisite: 5th level
You gain knowledge of the dispel magic and remove curse
formulae. You can use them once each without expending a
formula slot and must finish a long rest before you can do so
again.
Additionally, you can expend a formula slot of 3rd level or
higher when you use another formula or your alchemical
bomb cantrip to empower it with one of these effects, in
addition to any other effects and applying before them. Dispel
magic used in this way functions at the level of the slot
expended to empower the formula or bomb.
Chromatic Bombs
When you use your alchemical bomb cantrip, you can choose
acid, cold, fire, lightning, thunder or poison as the type of
damage it deals. You can make this choice each time you use
a bomb.
Clockwork Intermediary
Prerequisites: 7th level, Mechanism Field Specialisation
feature
You fashion a small collection of tiny flying constructs that
can serve as intermediaries for your formulae, potions and
poisons. As an action on your turn, you can use a potion or
one of your formulae on a willing creature you can see within
30 feet. In the case of a formula, you do this as part of the
same action used to execute the formula.
A formula used with this feature affects only the
targeted creature,
even if it would otherwise be able to affect multiple targets.
You may not use a formula with this feature if the spell it
emulates has a range of self (such as disguise self).
You can also use your intermediaries to deliver poisons,
and must hit with a melee spell attack to do so. Hit or miss,
the dose of poison is expended in the attempt.
Colloids and Vapours
You devise formulae for fog cloud, sleep and grease, and add
them to your formula book. You can use each of them once
without expending an alchemist spell slot. You must finish a
long rest before you can use them again with this feature.
Decoded Rituals
You are now able to better decode magical rituals and
simulate them with your alchemical processes.
Choose one 1st level spell from any spell list that has the
ritual tag and add it to your formula book. You can perform
this spell as a long-process formula as long as you have your
formula book to reference from.
You may add any other ritual spells you find to your formula
book, using the normal rules for transcribing them. Once
entered into your book, they are treated as alchemist
formulae for you, however, you can't use these formulae
except as a long-process formula, unless they also appear on
the alchemist formula list, or you learn to cast them through
some other means.
Delayed Destruction
Prerequisite: 13th level, Destruction Field Specialisation
feature
Your work with increasingly complex formulae allow you to
build delays into some of your destructive and harmful
concoctions. Freezing sphere, delayed blast fireball and
symbol are added to the alchemist spell and formula list for
you. The first time you take this discovery, you can
immediately learn one of these formulae, of your choice.
Destructive Bombs
Prerequisite: 5th level, Destruction Field Specialisation
feature
Any creature that takes damage from your alchemical bomb
takes an additional 1d6 damage. When you roll damage for
your alchemical bomb you can reroll any result of 1 on the
die, and you must use the new roll even if it is another 1.
Disorienting Bombs
Your bombs have a particularly concussive effect. Whenever
you deal damage to a creature with your alchemical bomb
cantrip as a result of a critical hit, that creature must make a
Constitution saving throw or be stunned until the end of its
next turn.
Diverse Studies
You gain proficiency in the Medicine and Nature skills.
Efficient Resting
You know how to get the most out of brief rest periods. You
learn the formula for catnap and it counts as an alchemist
formula for you. You can use the formula at will, without
expending a formula slot or needing to prepare it, if you
target only yourself.
Enervating Methods
Prerequisites: Blight-Making Field Specialisation feature
Studies into the diverse ways of weakening your foes lets you
add ray of sickness, ray of enfeeblement and elemental bane
to your alchemist spell and formula list. You immediately
learn the formula for ray of sickness and can use it once
without expending a formula slot. You must finish a long rest
before you can use ray of sickness with this feature again.
Feral Mutations
Prerequisite: Mutagenics Field Specialisation feature
Your mutagens make you appear even more bestial,
abominable or aberrant, increasing the degree to which your
body reshapes and reforms itself during your mutations.
When you use a mutagen, you can choose to gain any of the
innate traits the referenced creature possesses, such as Pack
Tactics or Flyby, with the exception of the Innate
Spellcasting trait, or any trait that grants another form of
spellcasting capability.
This discovery does not allow you to gain legendary
actions, lair actions or legendary resistance.
Flicker Vertigo
Prerequisite: 5th level
Studies into the effects of light and sound on the perception
and psyche of others allow you to devise methods of
reproducing the effects of colour spray and fear. These
formulae are added to your formula book.
You can use colour spray three times without expending a
formula slot or needing to prepare it and you can use fear
once without expending a formula slot. You regain all
expended uses of this discovery when you finish a long rest.
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 Healing Bombs
Prerequisite: Blight-Breaking
Field Specialisation feature
When you use an action on your turn to
use your alchemical bomb, you can choose
to forgo damage and instead build the
bomb as a dispersal aid for one of your
formulae. When you do so, you expend a formula slot
to give the bomb the effect of the formula you use; it must be
a formula that is valid for your Healing Infusions feature,
must have the effect of restoring hit points or granting
temporary hit points and it must not have any effect that
deals damage.
On a hit, the bomb deals no damage. Instead, the primary
target gains the full benefit of the formula you used, while the
secondary targets receive hit points or temporary hit points
equal to the minimum possible result (For example, a target
hit with a cure wounds bomb, using a second level slot, would
receive hit points equal to 2d8 + your spellcasting ability
modifier, rolled as normal, while a creature in the splash
radius would gain hit points equal to 2 + your spellcasting Inured to Ailment
ability modifier). Prerequisite: 9th level, Blight-Making Field Specialisation
A willing creature targeted by a healing bomb is treated as feature
having an AC of 10, unless their AC is already lower. Constant exposure to the most virulent diseases and toxins
Helping Hands you can find or make have rendered you impervious to their
Prerequisite: Mutagenics Field Specialisation feature effects. You gain immunity poison damage, the poisoned
condition and all disease.
You permanently grow up to two additional limbs. These
extra appendages can be of any form or aesthetic appearance Levelling Bombs
you choose; they could be arms nearly identical to your
existing ones, or they might be gruesome tentacles. Any huge or smaller creature hit directly by your alchemical
Regardless of appearance the limbs retain the rough bomb must make a Strength saving throw, or be knocked
proportions of your existing limbs, though they may emerge prone by the blast. Any large or smaller secondary targets
from anywhere on the core of your body. must make a Strength saving throw, or be knocked prone as
The limbs do not grant you any extra attacks or abilities, well.
however they are prehensile and fully under your control, and
can be used to hold items, manipulate objects or even wield Martial Bomber
equipment. Prerequisites: 5th Level
If you choose, you can retain these limbs, or their You study to become more martially proficient than most
equivalent approximation, when you use one of your alchemists. You gain proficiency with medium armour, and
mutagens. The limbs may be difficult to hide under your one martial weapon of your choice that does not have the
existing clothing, and your equipment may need to be two-handed property.
specifically modified or tailored to accommodate them. When you use an action on your turn to use your
alchemical bomb cantrip, you can use a bonus action to make
Impressive Physique a weapon attack with a weapon you are holding.
Prerequisite: Mutagenics Field Specialisation feature
Your mutagens only ever improve upon your existing vigour Master Medic
and vitality. When you use a mutagen, you now add your own Prerequisite: 5th level, Blight-Breaking Field Specialisation
hit point maximum to the hit point maximum of the feature
referenced creature, and this total becomes your new hit More than just a battle medic, your dedication to the healing
point maximum while you are transformed. You also add your sciences and your alchemist training make you a one-person
current hit points to the hit points of the referenced creature field hospital and your ability to preserve life can at times pull
when calculating your mutation's new hit points. back even those supposedly in the hands of the gods.
Mass healing word, mass cure wounds and resurrection
Intermediary Eyes are added to the alchemist spell and formula list for you.
Prerequisite: 15th level You immediately learn the formula for mass healing word
You develop the means to create a silent, invisible sensor and it always counts as prepared for you without counting
which you can use to view remote locations. You add the against the number of formulae you can prepare each day.
formula for arcane eye to your formula book. It counts as an
alchemist formula for you and you can use it at will without
expending a formula slot or having it prepared.

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Master of Creation
Prerequisite: 15th level
Your work with increasingly complex formulae probes the
boundaries of life and its creation. Create homunculus,
simulacrum and clone are added to the alchemist spell and
formula list for you.
The first time you take this discovery, you can immediately
learn one of these formulae, of your choice.
Not Even the Sky
Prerequisite: 14th level
You gain a set a of wings, or other flight-enabling equipment,
which grant you a flying speed equal to your current speed.
They may take any form or style that is suitable to your
chosen fields of study and personal dispositions, as
appropriate: a mutagenics specialist may grow new limbs,
while a mechanist might construct a compact mechanical
apparatus. Aesthetically, they need not even be actual wings.
Regardless of how the wings appear, they can be
manifested or dismissed as a bonus action. You can't
manifest your wings while wearing armour that is not able to
accommodate them, and lighter clothing may be torn or
damaged by their appearance if it is not.
Pervasive Fumes
Prerequisite: 5th level, Blight-Making or Destruction Field
Specialisation feature
You devise air and cloud-based dispersal methods for your
harmful and destructive compounds. Stinking cloud, cloudkill
and incendiary cloud are added to the alchemist spell and
formula list for you.
You immediately learn the formula for stinking cloud, and
may learn or transcribe the other two using normal methods.
Pheromonal Enticement
You gain proficiency in the Deception and Persuasion skills.
Preservationist
Prerequisite: 5th level, Reanimation Field Specialisation
feature
Experiments with death, undeath and preservation have
furnished you with a variety of tiny creatures, well preserved
and ready to spring to un-life upon release.
As an action you can produce and open one or more
preservation jars and release the creatures inside into
unoccupied spaces within 30 feet of you. Each creature can
be of any type, excluding constructs, whose size is tiny.
Whatever type it may have been in life each creature
produced now also counts as undead.
Choose one of the following options for what you produce:
One tiny creature of challenge rating 2 or lower
Two tiny creatures of challenge rating 1 or lower
Four tiny creatures of challenge rating 1/2 or lower
Eight tiny creatures of challenge rating 1/4 or lower
You make the choice for how many creatures you wish to
produce, while your DM determines exactly what creatures
they are. The creatures remain animate for up to 1 hour, or
until they are reduced to 0 hit points.
The summoned creatures are friendly to you and your
companions. Roll initiative for the summoned creatures as a
group, which has its own turns. They obey any verbal
commands that you issue to them (no action required by you).
If you don't issue any commands to them, they defend
themselves from hostile creatures, but otherwise take no
actions.
Your DM should have the creatures' statistics, though a
brief list of possible options is supplied at the end of the class
description, to assist. You can use this ability once, and must
finish a long rest before you can produce any more creatures.
Secure Measures
You value your security, and devise methods to maintain it.
You learn the formulae for alarm and arcane lock. They are
added to the alchemist spell and formula list and you can use
each of these formulae once without expending a formula
slot. You must finish a long rest before you can do so using
this feature again.
Selective Bombs
You can exclude creatures that would otherwise be in range
from the damage and effects of your alchemical bomb, up to a
number of targets equal to your Intelligence modifier.
Spider Bombs
Prerequisite: Mechanism Field Specialisation feature
You can build your bombs with the ability to sprout an array
of tiny mechanical limbs and send them scuttling towards
their targets beyond the reach of your throwing arm.
Whenever you use your alchemical bomb cantrip to target
an unoccupied space, you can choose to have the bomb
unfold and walk up to an additional 30 feet before exploding
on a different unoccupied space.
The bomb can travel in any direction and can fit through
gaps as small as half a foot across. It can climb walls, though
it spends 2 feet of movement for every 1 foot of climbing. It
can also swim, though it does not have a swimming speed.
The Right Tools
You refine your skill at crafting and preparing alchemical
items. Any alchemical items you craft use your alchemist DC
in place of the item's original DC, unless the original DC of
the item is higher. In addition, you can improve an alchemical
item you didn't make personally in the same way if you hold it
for 1 minute.
Toxic Bombs
Prerequisite: Blight-Making Field Specialisation feature
You make your bombs with less focus on causing direct
harm, and more upon facilitating the dispersal of your toxins.
When you use an action on your turn to use your alchemical
bomb cantrip, you can choose to load it with a dose of a
poison or disease. When you do so,
the bomb deals no damage.
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     Instead, each creature within range of the bomb's explosion
must make a Constitution saving throw, or be afflicted as
though they were the primary target of the poison or disease
you used. This saving throw is separate from any save that
the poison or disease may then require. If they succeed on
the saving throw, they avoid being properly exposed and are
not afflicted.
Wide Bombs
The radius of your alchemical bomb is increased to 10 feet,
and you add your Intelligence modifier to the primary
damage of the attack as well.
Wide Spray Reactions
Prerequisite: Destruction Field Specialisation feature
You devise improved delivery methods for exposing those
before you to your harmful formulae. Burning hands, conjure
barrage, cone of cold and prismatic spray are added to the
alchemist spell and formula list for you.
You immediately learn the formula for burning hands and
can use it once without expending a formula slot using this
feature. You must finish a long rest before you can use
burning hands with this feature again.
Grand Discoveries
You choose one grand discovery to make when you reach
20th level. Some grand discoveries require specialisation in a
particular field, representing pinnacles of those schools,
while others do not fall under any specific school and could
be discovered by any alchemist.
Agile Mind
Your ability to refresh and restore your mental energy, as well
as order your vast learning to efficiently recall the knowledge
you need when you need it, reaches an unparalleled pinnacle.
When you finish a short rest, you are able to recover up to
10 levels worth of expended formula slots (for example, you
could recover a 4th level slot and two 3rd level slots, two 5th
level slots, or all of your 1st and 2nd level slots).
You can use this ability once, and must finish a long rest
before you can use it again.
In addition to this, whenever you finish a long rest, you are
now able to relinquish the use of one discovery that you know
and replace it with another discovery for which
you qualify, just as you have been able
to do previously upon gaining a level.
If you do this, you must wait 7 days
before you can change your
discoveries again.
Bombing Expert
Your attain true perfection of your
bombing technique such that few
can ever hope to avoid your
unerringly calculated strikes.
Whenever you use your alchemical
bomb cantrip, you can add your
Intelligence modifier to the attack
roll and save DC of the bomb.
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Dedicate of Life
Prerequisite: Blight-Breaking Field Specialisation feature
Few can preserve or restore life as steadfastly as you, and
your break throughs in the mastery of healing and medicine
let you close wounds, cure sickness and restore breath where
others might abandon hope. Whenever you would roll one or
more dice to restore hit points with one of your formulae, you
instead restore the highest number possible.
In addition to this, you learn the formulae for mass heal
and true resurrection; they are added to your formula book
and count as alchemist formulae for you.
Dedicate of Unlife
Prerequisite: Reanimation Field Specialisation feature
Constant treading of the veil between life and death have
awakened you to the realisation that the veil itself is less of a
line and more of a grey space. If you ever die, except as a
result of old age, your body revives as an undead on your next
turn, with current hit points equal to half your hit point
maximum.
You retain your memories, personality and sense of self, as
well as your alignment and all of your skills, abilities and
class features.
You are undead, and are susceptible to turning and other
effects that target undead, and you gain immunity to
exhaustion as well as the frightened, paralysed and poisoned
conditions. You also gain immunity to necrotic and poison
damage, as well as resistance to bludgeoning, piercing and
slashing damage from nonmagical weapons.
If you are reduced to 0 hit points while in this state, your
body crumbles into dust and you cannot be returned to life by
any means other than a true resurrection or wish spell.
While you remain an undead, you can be returned to life by
means of any other form of resurrection so long as your body
is still within the prescribed time limit, and ignoring any
caveats against such spells targeting undead.
Eternal Youth
You unlock the secrets of youth and longevity, and you stop
ageing altogether. While you can still be killed, you will never
die of old age, or suffer its frailties. Over time, you can even
reverse or accelerate the ageing process in yourself.
Whenever you finish a long rest, you can add or subtract up
to 10 years from your physical age and appearance, making
                       yourself older or younger as you desire.
                       You can push yourself as far as achieving a
                             physically aged and elderly appearance,
                                  though you retain the mental faculties,
                                      vigour and physical capabilities of a
                                        person in their prime. When reducing
                                         your age, you cannot make yourself
                                          any younger than the threshold of
                                         puberty for your race.
Gravitational Catalysts
Prerequisite: Destruction Field Specialisation feature
Your research into destructive agents allows you to finally
realise understanding of the true nature of physical matter in
the multiverse, and you discover how to evoke a small-scale
gravitational collapse through chemical means.
As an action, you can unleash this catalyst on a point you
choose within 60 feet of you. A collapse occurs, creating a
sphere 2 feet in diameter which devours all light and matter
at its centre and drags at everything around it.
A creature caught in the centre of the collapse must make
a Constitution saving throw, taking 20d6+60 force damage on
a failure, or half as much on a success.
The sphere then explodes violently. Any creature within 5
feet of the sphere, excluding creatures exposed to the initial
save, must make a Constitution saving throw, taking 10d6+30
force damage on a failure, or half as much on a success.
Objects and structures within range of the collapse and
subsequent explosion take damage as though failing the save,
while artefacts and other particularly powerful magic items
remain unharmed.
This ability is one of pure science and alchemy; it is
unaffected by antimagic zones and other forms of magical
disruption.
You can use this ability once, and must finish a long rest
before you can use it again.
Nothing to Hyde
Prerequisite: Mutagenics Field Specialisation feature
Consistent use of your mutagenic formulae has left a
permanent mark on you, and a breakthrough in the
refinement of your draughts lets you treat yourself to
permanently augment your body, even when not under their
effects.
You gain resistance to bludgeoning, piercing and slashing
damage from nonmagical attacks, as well as resistance to
one other damage type of your choice from acid, cold, fire,
lightning, poison or thunder.
Overbearing Intelligence
You discover how to further heighten your own mental
faculties to levels that surpass those of any mere mortal. Your
Intelligence score increases by 4. Your maximum for score for
Intelligence also increases by 4.
Sight All-Seeing
You make a breakthrough that allows you to foil any and all
impediments to your vision; nothing fools your sight now.
You gain immunity to the blinded condition and
truesight out to a range of 60 feet.
In addition to this, you may add double your
proficiency bonus to any Wisdom (Perception)
or Intelligence (Investigation) checks you
make that rely on sight.
Soul of Mechanism
Prerequisite: Mechanism Field Specialisation feature
You are more in tune with your construct allies than any other
that came before you, and your own essence begins subtly to
change in compliment to the creations you have surrounded
yourself with.
Whenever you would take damage or suffer a hostile effect,
you can use your reaction to temporarily gain all of the
damage resistances, damage immunities and condition
immunities of your primary construct until the beginning of
your next turn. Alternatively, if you are within 5 feet of your
primary construct at the time, it can use its reaction to impart
these benefits to you instead.
Touch of Death
Prerequisite: Blight-Making Field Specialisation feature
You become the ultimate vessel of pestilence, poison and
blight. You discover how to safely inoculate yourself with all
manner of diseases and poisons, turning yourself into the
epicentre of your own epidemics.
As an action, you can apply a dose of a poison or disease to
yourself. You suffer no ill effects from it, and you become a
contagious carrier for it, as per your Malady and Bedlam
feature. This ability works even if you are already immune to
poison or disease.
Any creature that risks contracting a poison or disease
from you as a result of this feature makes their initial save
with disadvantage.
You may be a carrier of any number of diseases and
poisons, and each one remains active within you for its full
duration, as though you were suffering its full effects.
You can choose to end any or all poison and disease effects
that you are currently carrying whenever you finish a short or
long rest.
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Construct Upgrades
If a construct upgrade has prerequisites, you must meet them
to select it. You can take a construct upgrade at the same
time that you meet its prerequisites. A level prerequisite
refers to your level in this class.
Body Upgrades
Body upgrades alter your construct's base form substantially,
changing its visual appearance and in most cases greatly
altering its weight or sturdiness. You can only have one body
upgrade at a time per construct.
If you later take a different body upgrade, it replaces that
construct's current one, and you may reassign the previous
body upgrade to a new non-body upgrade choice the next
time you finish a long rest.
Body: Adamantine Construction
Your construct uses adamantine for the majority of its body
and framework. This drastically increases your construct's
weight, making it more solid and sturdier, but less subtle.
Its strength is increased by 2, to a maximum of 20, but it
always has disadvantage on Dexterity (Stealth) checks, and
its speed is reduced by 5 feet.
It gains immunity to bludgeoning, piercing and slashing
damage from nonmagical attacks that aren't adamantine, any
critical hit against your construct becomes a normal hit, and
any damage it takes is reduced by 3.
Body: Bio-Organic Construction
Your construct is partially organic, becoming a fusion of
mechanical science and alchemy.
Its natural instincts improve, increasing its Wisdom by 2, to
a maximum of 20.
It loses its immunity to poison damage, and the poisoned
condition, but it can now receive healing from spells and
other effects that restore hit points which would normally not
affect constructs.
Body: Mithral Construction
Your construct has a primarily mithral framework and body
structure. This decreases its weight significantly and helps
improve its nimbleness and reaction times, though its raw
strength suffers.
Increase its Dexterity by 2, to a maximum of 20, and reduce
its Strength by 2.
In addition, your construct always has advantage on
Dexterity saving throws against effects it is aware of.
Body: Spellwork Construction
Many small crystal prisms, set into precious metals treated to
deflect and resist arcane energy give your construct a
resplendent and alluring appearance and a sense of striking
presence.
Its Charisma is increased by 2, to a maximum of 20. The
precious metals that make up the majority of its framework
are not as physically sturdy as other materials: its AC is
reduced by 2 and it loses its resistance to bludgeoning,
piercing and slashing damage when you take this upgrade.
In exchange however, it gains resistance to damage from
spells and advantage on all saving throws against magic.
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Other Upgrades
Unless otherwise noted, you can not select an upgrade more
than once. Some upgrades are only available to your primary
construct, as mentioned in their prerequisites, but most are
available to either you main or secondary construct.
All-Around Senses
Prerequisite: 9th level
Improvements to your construct's sensory capabilities grant
it blindsight and tremorsense out to a range of 60 feet.
All-Terrain Upgrade
You better equip your construct to more easily handle a
variety of different terrain environments. When you take this
upgrade, your construct gains a swimming, climbing or
burrowing speed equal to its current speed.
If you take this upgrade at 7th level or higher, you may
choose for it to gain a flying speed.
You can select this upgrade multiple times, gaining a new
movement type each time you do so.
Elemental Exoproofing
You integrate elemental proofing into your construct's design.
Choose one of the following damage types: acid, cold, fire,
lightning, or thunder. Your construct gains resistance to that
damage type.
If you take this upgrade at 14th level or higher, you can
select a damage type to which it already has resistance, and
your construct gains immunity to that damage type instead.
You can select this upgrade multiple times, gaining
resistance (or immunity) to a different damage type each time
you do so.
Emergency Systems
Prerequisite: 8th level
You devise a number of automatic sub-systems for your
construct that work rapidly to repair damage it has taken if it
should fall to a critical condition.
The first time your construct would be reduced to 0 hit
points, it can use its reaction to trigger this feature and
endure on 1 hit point instead.
Once activated, your construct is considered to be
concentrating on the effect, as though on a spell, and it can
maintain this for up to 1 minute. While concentrating, your
construct will not break down even if it is reduced to 0 hit
points, and it regenerates 10 hit points at the start of each of
its turns.
It must still make Constitution saving throws to maintain
its concentration, such as when it takes damage,
and it breaks down immediately if its concentration
ends while it is on 0 hit points.
Once triggered, this
feature can't be used
again until you
finish a long
rest.
Extended Vaporiser
Prerequisite: 4th level
You fit your construct with an
advanced dispersal system, designed
to work with your bombs. As an action
on your turn, when you are within 5 feet
of your construct, you can load it with an
alchemical bomb rather than throwing it.
The bomb does not detonate, but is instead stored within
the construct. When your construct is carrying one of your
bombs, it can use its action to unleash it as a 15 foot cone, or
a 30 foot long, 5 foot wide line, which you must decide when
you load the bomb.
All targets in the area of effect must succeed on a Dexterity
saving throw, or take the full effects of the bomb as though
they were the primary target. If the bomb is not used before
the beginning of your next turn it falls inert and is harmlessly
ejected.
When you reach 12th level, or if you are at 12th level or
higher when you first take this upgrade, you automatically
improve the range of the dispersal system, to a 30 foot cone
or 60 foot long, 5 foot wide line.
Your construct can use this feature a number of times
equal to your Intelligence modifier, and it regains all
expended uses when it finishes a short or long rest.
Extra Attack
Prerequisite: 5th level
Whether through extra attacking limbs, enhanced reflexes or
some other means, you upgrade your construct to be capable
of attacking more frequently. Whenever it takes the Attack
action on its turn, your construct can attack twice instead of
once.
You can take this upgrade multiple times: a second time
once you reach 11th level, and a third once you reach 20th
level. Each time you take this upgrade, it adds one additional
attack, to a maximum of four attacks.
Fly By Enhancement
Prerequisite: Dexterity 16 or higher, a flying speed
Your construct's nimbleness in the air is improved to the
point where it is difficult for foes to find an opportunity to
strike at it. While flying, opportunity attacks provoked by your
construct are made at disadvantage, and it does not provoke
one at all if it enters and leaves a hostile creature's range on
the same turn.
Heavy Blows
Prerequisite: Strength 14 or higher
Your construct is capable of striking with enough force to
repel foes or knock them down with ease. Whenever it hits a
creature no more than one size larger than it with a melee
attack, it can choose to impart one of the following effects on
that target:
It must succeed on a Dexterity saving throw or be
knocked prone.
It must succeed on a Strength saving throw or be pushed
up to 15 feet away.
It must succeed on a Constitution saving throw or be
unable to take reactions until the end of your construct's
next turn.
Improved Reach
You enhance your construct's attacking capabilities,
increasing the range of its melee attacks by 5 feet. If your
construct possesses a ranged attack option, attacking at long
range no longer imposes disadvantage on its ranged attack
rolls.
Internal Controls
Prerequisite: Your construct must be at least one size larger
than you
You modify your construct to contain a small internalised
compartment which can serve as a cockpit, and can
comfortably (if compactly) hold a single creature of one size
smaller than the construct itself. The compartment is air and
water-tight when sealed, but provides sufficient breathable air
for 8 hours in hostile conditions. A creature in the cockpit
has total cover from attacks and effects outside the construct,
though they are also considered restrained.
Only you know how to open and close the entry to the
cockpit, unless you instruct another, and in most
circumstances, unless otherwise instructed, you are the only
one whom your construct will allow to make use of this
feature. You can enter or exit the cockpit using a bonus action
and five feet of movement.
While inside with the entrance sealed, you have access to
the controls necessary to take direct control of your
construct's movements and actions. Its initiative changes to
match yours and you take your turns together. You can use an
action on your turn to use any of your construct's available
actions in place of your own. It can still use its own actions
without your direct input, taking its own turn as well.
An unwilling or hostile creature restrained in the cockpit
does not have access to these controls, nor can it release
itself easily without knowledge of the method. As an action on
its turn, it may make an opposed Strength (Athletics) check
against the construct in an attempt to burst free by force,
exiting prone into an unoccupied space within 5 feet of the
construct on a success.
If the cockpit is burst open in this way, it cannot be sealed
properly again until you finish a long rest, during which time
it can be repaired.
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 Not So Artificial
Prerequisite: 14th level, only available to your primary
construct
The spark of sentience instilled in your construct magnifies
and expands under your guidance and tutelage, into a fully
fledged intelligence. Your construct's Intelligence increases to
13 and it loses its immunity to the frightened and charmed
conditions, its mind now fully formed and capable.
In exchange, it gains proficiency in Intelligence saving
throws, and it gains the ability to attune to one magic item of
its own. It also learns all of the languages you know and at
your DM's discretion it may also learn to speak them.
Finally, choose one class other than alchemist for which it
meets the multiclass requirements. Your construct gains the
first level features of that class, making all necessary choices
and selections that entails, as though it had gained a level in
that class.
It does not gain any extra proficiencies or equipment from
this (For example, choosing barbarian would grant it access
to the Rage feature, and also Unarmoured Defence as an
alternate option for calculating its AC, but it would not gain
proficiency with shields, or a d12 hit die).
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Ranged Targeting
You enhance and modify your construct's natural attacks to
include more options for attacking from range. Your
construct gains an additional attack option when attacking
without a wielded weapon. This attack is ranged, has a range
of (80/320), and deals piercing damage equal to 1d6 + its
Dexterity modifier + its proficiency bonus.
Though this attack may use some form of ammunition, you
are presumed to be able to produce it from excess materials
as part of normal maintenance that you perform on your
construct.
Skill Improvement
Your construct gains proficiency in one skill or tool of your
choice. If you choose a tool proficiency you are able to
integrate the tool into its construction at the same time if you
have a set of the tools available to do so.
If you select a skill or tool with which it is already proficient
it gains expertise instead and can add double its proficiency
bonus to checks made with the skill or tool.
You can select this upgrade multiple times, gaining
proficiency or expertise in a different skill or tool each time.
Speed Enhancement
You enhance your construct's motor functions to be more
efficient, with a higher response rate. Its speed increases by
10 feet, and it can now take the Dash action as a bonus
action.
Subversive Tactics
Prerequisite: 15th level
You fit your construct with the means to turn itself invisible.
As an action, your construct and anything it is wearing or
carrying turns invisible, as though by the invisibility spell and
following the spell's limitations, duration, break conditions
and concentration requirements. It can do this a number of
times equal to your Intelligence modifier, and regains
expended uses when it finishes a long rest.
Alchemist Spells Detect Thoughts Far Step Regenerate
and Formulae Dragon's Breath Greater Restoration Teleport
Enhance Abilities Legend Lore Plane Shift
Cantrips (0 Level) Flame Blade Mislead Sequester
Alchemical Bomb Gust of Wind Seeming
Blade Ward Invisibility Skill Empowerment 8th Level
Create Bonfire Lesser Restoration Animal Shapes
Friends Locate Animals or Plants 6th Level Antimagic Field
Frostbite Locate Object Contingency Antipathy/Sympathy
Guidance Mirror Image Eyebite Control Weather
Light Misty Step Globe of Invulnerability Glibness
Magic Stone Pass Without Trace Heal Holy Aura
Mending Protection From Poison Investiture of Flame Mind Blank
Poison Spray See Invisibility Investiture of Ice Telepathy
Prestidigitation Shadow Blade Investiture of Stone
Primal Savagery Skywrite Investiture of Wind 9th Level
Resistance Spider Climb Primordial Ward Astral Projection
Shocking Grasp Warding Wind Tenser's Transformation Foresight
Thunderclap True Seeing Invulnerability
True Strike 3rd Level Wind Walk Power Word Heal
Aura of Vitality Shapechange
1st Level Blink 7th Level Time Stop
Absorb Elements Feign Death Crown of Stars True Polymorph
Armour of Agathys Fly Etherealness
Comprehend Languages Haste
Cure Wounds Leomund's Tiny Hut
Detect Evil and Good Melf's Minute Meteors
Detect Magic Nondetection New Spell Descriptions
Detect Poison and Disease Protection from Energy The following new spell appears on the alchemist spell and
Disguise Self Sending formula list.
Divine Favour Spirit Guardians
Expeditious Retreat Tongues Alchemical Bomb
Feather Fall Vampiric Touch
Evocation cantrip
Goodberry Water Breathing Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 60 feet
Healing Word Water Walk Components: S, M (your bomb-making supplies)
Heroism Duration: Instantaneous
4th Level
Identify You rapidly assemble, prime and throw an alchemically
Jump Aura of Purity catalysed explosive, targeting either a creature or an
Longstrider Death Ward unoccupied space of your choice within range. If targeting a
Mage Armour Fire Shield creature, make a ranged spell attack against the target. On a
Protection from Freedom of Movement hit, the target takes 1d6 fire damage as the bomb explodes,
Greater Invisibility and all creatures within 5 feet of the target take fire damage
    Evil and Good equal to your spellcasting ability modifier.
Sanctuary Locate Creature If you target an unoccupied space, all creatures within 5
Shield Otiluke's Resilient Sphere feet of the space must make a Dexterity saving throw, or take
Shield of Faith Polymorph fire damage equal to your spellcasting ability modifier, as
Zephyr Strike Shadow of Moil though they were secondary targets of the bomb.
Stoneskin The bomb's potency increases when you reach higher
2nd Level
levels. At 5th level, the main target takes an extra 1d6 fire
5th Level
damage and the fire damage to the secondary targets
Aid increases to 1d6 + your spellcasting ability modifier. Both
Alter Self Antilife Shell damage rolls increase by 1d6 at 11th level and at 17th level.
Barkskin Circle of Power
Blur Dispel Evil and Good
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Alchemical Creations
The three tables below list some samples of alchemical
items, potions and poisons that you may be able to make.
Some, such as potions of healing, you will simply be able to
make more easily or more rapidly than non-alchemists, while
other items may require the knowledge and understanding
only available to a practising alchemist.
The making of alchemical items always requires the use of
your alchemist supplies, while the making of potions of
healing, and other curatives in the Healing Items table
require the use of a herbalism kit.
Making poisons requires the use of a poisoner's kit, and
some poisons may require access to rare or difficult to obtain
substances as well. Your DM will determine how difficult to
acquire various types of reagents are for your game: you may
be able to acquire these from contacts or legitimate
merchants, or it may require some more direct hunting.
The tables below should serve as a useful and functional
list of examples but creative alchemists may be able to create
other items, potions, oils or poisons at your DM's discretion.
Use the entries here as a guide, rather than an exhaustive list.
Alchemical Items
Items in this category provide a variety of unusual effects,
some of which have special rules or require explanation.
Acid. A simple phial of acid, as found in the Player's
Handbook. An alchemist using this is considered proficient
with the attack roll.
Alchemist's Fire. A flask of alchemist's fire, as found in
the Player's Handbook. An alchemist using this is considered
proficient with the attack roll.
All-Purpose Lubricant. A phial of this substance looks
thick and dark in large quantities, but pours smoothly and is
clear when applied. In a process that takes 10 minutes, you
can cover a medium or smaller creature with a single phial of
the slippery substance, or half that time with the target or
another creature assisting. Larger creatures require an
additional phial of lubricant for each size category above
medium to gain any benefit. A creature coated in this manner
gains all the benefits of the freedom of movement spell for 1
hour. Alternatively, you can pour a phial of lubricant onto a 10
foot area of solid ground, where it will act as the grease spell
(DC 13) for an hour.
Choking Powder. Resembling a fine sand, this dust
scatters and vaporises when thrown, creating a suffocating
cloud that affects targeted creatures rapidly, but does not
linger. You can use an action to throw the powder up to 30
feet, where it immediately disperses. Any creatures within 10
feet must immediately make a DC 15 Constitution saving
throw or become unable to breath, sneezing and coughing
uncontrollably. A creature affected in this way is
incapacitated and suffocating. While it remains conscious, an
affected creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of its
turn, ending the effect on a success. Regardless of success or
failure, the effect ends after three rounds and any creatures
rendered unconscious by the powder immediately stabilise at
that time. Creatures that do not need to breath are unaffected
by the powder.
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Climbing Draught. A draught that bears a faintly fruity
scent, but tastes quite bitter. Drinking this grants you a
climbing speed equal to your current speed for 1 hour, as well
as giving you advantage on any ability checks made to climb
or to maintain your grip or balance.
Desiccation Powder. A small pot containing one unit of a
fine brown powder. When sprinkled on a body of water, it can
convert up to 15 cubic feet of water into a small pellet that fits
in the palm of your hand. It can be retained in this form
indefinitely, and returns to water again when the pellet is
deliberately crushed. As an action, you can scatter a unit of
desiccation powder on a creature made mostly of liquid, such
as a water elemental or an ooze, within 5 feet of you. The
creature must make a DC 13 Constitution saving throw,
taking 10d6 necrotic damage on a failure, or half as much on
a success.
Elemental Proofing Draught. Drinking this draught
grants you resistance to one damage type for an hour. The
draught bears small motes of the elemental energy it protects
against, suspended in a cloudy, opalescent syrup. The
damage type is decided when an alchemist produces the
draught, and they can choose from acid, cold, fire, lightning or
thunder.
Enlarging Draught. When you drink this draught, you gain
the “enlarge” effect of the enlarge/reduce spell for 1 hour. The
colour of the draught shifts on its own, filtering from blue to
red rapidly, then slowly back to blue.
Fade Dust. A small pouch containing a faintly shimmering
dust. The pouch holds enough dust to apply to a single
medium or smaller creature or object, who then benefits
from invisibility as per the invisibility spell, for up to ten
minutes.
Flash Freeze. A phial of freezing agent that fills a small
area with numbing cold and rime upon shattering. As an
action you can throw the phial to a point within 20 feet,
shattering it against a hard surface or object in the process.
Any creature within 5 feet of the point must make a DC 12
Constitution saving throw, of have their speed halved
(minimum of 5 feet) for 2d4 rounds. The phial can also be
used to freeze a 5 foot cube of water, which remains frozen
until it thaws naturally.
Glitter Bomb. A small explosive that bursts into a wide-
scattering, clinging spread of colourful, glittering motes. As
an action, you can throw the bomb to a point you choose
within 30 feet, where it detonates and acts at the faerie fire
spell (DC 12), with the exception that affected creatures do
not shed light. Affected creatures and objects are coated by
the glittery substance for up to 1 minute, no concentration
required, but may use an action on their turn to attempt a DC
12 Dexterity check to remove the glitter. Completely
submerging in water will also remove the effect.
Holy Water. A flask of holy water, as found in the Player's
Handbook. An alchemist using this is considered proficient
with the attack roll.
Reducing Draught. When you drink this draught, you gain
the “reduce” effect of the enlarge/reduce spell for 1 hour. The
colour of the draught shifts on its own, filtering from red to
blue rapidly, then slowly back to red.
Alchemical Items
Item Save DC Cost
Acid None 25 gp
Alchemist's Fire Dexterity 10 25 gp
All-Purpose Lubricant Dexterity 13 50 gp
Choking Powder Constitution 15 100 gp
Climbing Draught None 25 gp
Dessication Powder Constitution 13 75 gp
Elemental Proofing Draught None 50 gp
Enlarging Draught None 50 gp
Fade Dust None 50 gp
Flash Freeze Constitution 12 75 gp
Glitter Bomb Dexterity 12 50 gp
Holy Water None 25 gp
Reducing Draught None 50 gp
Smoke-Stick None 50 gp
Sun Rod None 15 gp
Swimming Draught None 50 gp
Tanglefoot Bag Strength 15 100 gp
Thunderstone Constitution 13 50 gp

    Smoke-Stick. A short rod coated in an alchemical
substance, and a thin layer of wax which can be easily
removed. As an action you can remove the wax, exposing the
substance to air and causing the stick to generate profuse
amounts of smoke in a 10-foot-radius sphere centred on
itself. You can carry the stick with you, or throw it to a point
you choose within 30 feet as part of the same action. The
smoke is breathable, but spreads around corners and the
area within it is heavily obscured. A moderate wind (at least
10 miles per hour) will disperse the smoke, however the stick
will continue to generate smoke for up to 30 minutes unless
it is submerged in a liquid or otherwise starved of air. Once
activated it cannot be resealed or preserved.
    Sunrod. A short rod with a small crystal at one end. Lightly
tapping the crystal will cause it to begin shedding bright light
in a 20 foot radius and dim light for an additional 20 feet for
up to one hour, or until you tap the crystal again. The light
continues to function under water and in other hostile
environments usually unsuitable for torches. The rod has
seven charges. Tapping the crystal expends one charge,
regardless of how long it remains lit for, and the rod can
regain one charge for every two hours it spends exposed to
natural sunlight. If you ever expend the rod's last charge, roll
a d20. If you roll a 1, the internal reaction in the rod's crystal
shorts out and the rod loses its ability to recharge, ceasing to
function.
    Swimming Draught. A draught that has a strong, briny
scent, but tastes like fresh water. Drinking this grants you a
swimming speed equal to your current speed for 1 hour, as
well as giving you the ability to breathe under water for the
duration. This does not hinder your ability to breathe normal
air.
Tanglefoot Bag. A thin cloth bag containing sticky, binding
agents that expand rapidly when struck. As an action you can
throw the bag at a creature or object, treating it as an
improvised thrown weapon. Make a ranged attack roll; an
alchemist is considered proficient with this attack. On a hit
the target must make a DC 15 Strength saving throw, or be
restrained by the expanding substance for up to 1 minute. A
restrained creature can use its action to make a Strength
check against the same DC, freeing itself on a success.
Thunderstone. A reactive stone about the size and weight
of a sling bullet, treated to respond to impacts with a
deafening sound burst. As an action you can throw the stone
to a point within 20 feet, shattering it against a hard surface
or object in the process. Any creature within 10 feet of the
point must make a DC 13 Constitution saving throw, or be
deafened by the thunderous boom, which can be heard up to
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Poisons
Not all poisons deal direct harm to their victims. They can
vary greatly in their duration and effects. The following
section contains a broad selection of poisons, and describes
their specific rules individually.
Poisons vary in their delivery method, and most must be
administered as described to cause their intended effects.
As a general rule, ingestion poisons must be consumed
fully, though your DM may allow reduced effects for partial
doses.
Contact poisons require contact with the skin of the victim,
but many can also be delivered via injury in a pinch.
Inhaled poisons cover fume- and vapour-based poisons as
well, and just holding your breath is generally ineffective
against them, as they often directly affect nasal membranes,
tear ducts and other parts of the body.
For most poisons a single dose is intended for only a single
creature or use; the exception to this is injury poisons, for
which a single does can be used to coat either a melee
slashing or piercing weapon, effective for one successful
strike, or up to three pieces of ammunition, each of which can
deliver their poison once with no decrease in potency. Coated
weapons dry out after 1 minute if left exposed to air, but can
preserve their potency for up to 1 hour after coating if they
are kept in a moderately well-sealed sheath or quiver.
    Assassin’s Blood (Ingested). A creature subjected to this
poison must make a DC 10 Constitution saving throw. On a
failed save, it takes 6 (1d12) poison damage and is poisoned
for 24 hours. On a successful save, the creature takes half
damage and isn't poisoned.
Black-hand Oil (Contact). A creature subjected to this
poison must succeed on a DC 11 Constitution saving throw
or be poisoned for 1 hour. The poisoned creature has
disadvantage on any Strength or Dexterity saving throws that
involve the use of the affected area as the contact zone turns
black and swells slightly, causing a persistent, nagging
discomfort.
Crawler Mucus (Contact). A creature subjected to this
poison must succeed on a DC 13 Constitution saving throw
or be poisoned for 1 minute. The poisoned creature is
paralysed. The creature can repeat the saving throw at the
end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a
success.
Daydream Drops (Contact). A creature subjected to this
poison must succeed on a DC 10 Constitution saving throw
or be poisoned for 1 minute. The poisoned creature has
disadvantage on any saving throws to maintain
concentration, and must make a DC 10 Constitution saving
throw to maintain their concentration at the beginning of
each turn if they are concentrating.
Drow's Favourite (Injury). This poison is typically made
by the drow, and requires a complete lack of sunlight to be
prepared properly. A creature subjected to this poison must
succeed on a DC 13 Constitution saving throw or be
poisoned for 1 hour. If the saving throw fails by 5 or more, the
creature is also unconscious while poisoned in this way. The
creature wakes up if it takes damage or if another creature
takes an action to shake it awake.
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Ether's Essence (Inhaled). A creature subjected to this
poison must succeed on a DC 15 Constitution saving throw
or become poisoned for 8 hours. The poisoned creature is
unconscious. The creature wakes up if it takes damage or if
another creature takes an action to shake it awake.
Green Dragon's Sigh (Inhaled). The strength of this
poison depends on the maturity of dragon from which it
came. If the sample came from a young green dragon, a
creature subjected to this poison must succeed on a DC 14
Constitution saving throw or take 28 (8d6) poison damage or
half as much on a success. If the sample came from an adult
green dragon, the DC is 17 and the damage increases to 42
(12d6), while a sample from an ancient green dragon yields a
poison with a DC of 19 and damage of 63 (18d6).
Lingering Rose (Contact). A creature subjected to this
poison must succeed on a DC 16 Constitution saving throw
or be poisoned for 24 hour. The affected area itches
incessantly, and most instinctive behaviours (such as rubbing
or scratching) only worsen the sensation. For the first 12
hours, the affected area spreads outwards to cover the rest of
the victim's body, then recedes again for the remaining 12
hours unless removed sooner.
Malice (Inhaled). A creature subjected to this poison must
succeed on a DC 15 Constitution saving throw or become
poisoned for 1 hour. The poisoned creature is blinded.
Midnight Tears (Ingested). A creature that ingests this
poison suffers no effect until the stroke of midnight. If the
poison has not been neutralised before then, the creature
must succeed on a DC 17 Constitution saving throw, taking
31 (9d6) poison damage on a failed save, or half as much
damage on a successful one.
Othur Fume (Inhaled). A creature subjected to this poison
must succeed on a DC 13 Constitution saving throw or take
10 (3d6) poison damage, and must repeat the saving throw at
the start of each of its turns. On each successive failed save,
the character takes 3 (1d6) poison damage. After three
successful saves, the poison ends.
Pale Tincture (Ingested). A creature subjected to this
poison must succeed on a DC 16 Constitution saving throw
or take 3 (1d6) poison damage and become poisoned. The
poisoned creature must repeat the saving throw every 24
hours, taking 3 (1d6) poison damage on a failed save. Until
this poison ends, the damage the poison deals can’t be healed
by any means. After seven successful saving throws, the
effect ends and the creature can heal normally.
Purple Worm Poison (Injury). A creature subjected to
this poison must make a DC 19 Constitution saving throw,
taking 42 (12d6) poison damage on a failed save, or half as
much damage on a successful one.
River Red (Injury). A creature subjected to this poison
must succeed on a DC 10 Constitution saving throw, or take
3 (1d6) poison damage and become poisoned for 1 minute.
The poisoned creature takes an extra 1d6 damage any time it
takes any piercing or slashing damage.
Serpent Venom (Injury). A creature subjected to this
poison must succeed on a DC 11 Constitution saving throw,
taking 10 (3d6) poison damage on a failed save, or half as
much damage on a successful one.
Poisons
Item Delivery Save Additional
                                       Method          DC        Supplies                                                                                        Cost
Assassin's Blood Ingest 10 None 50 gp
Black-hand Oil Contact 11 Alchemist's supplies 50 gp
Crawler Mucus Contact 13 Sample from a Carrion Crawler 70 gp
Daydream Drops Contact 10 None 50 gp
Drow's Favourite Injury 13 Sample of assorted Underdark flora 70 gp
Ether's Essence Inhale 15 Alchemist's supplies 100 gp
Green Dragon's Sigh Inhale 14/17/20 Sample from a young or older Green Dragon 300/500/700 gp
Lingering Rose Contact 16 Sample of common broad-leaved plants 85 gp
Malice Inhale 15 Sample of herbs which grow in cold climates 85 gp
Midnight Tears Ingest 17 Sample from a rare plant that produces only one flower a 500 gp
year
Othur Fume Inhale 13 Samples from a variety of plants and animals that are not 160 gp
commonly sought, but are not rare in themselves
Pale Tincture Ingest 16 Sample of vampire dust 85 gp
Purple Worm Poison Injury 19 Sample from a Purple Worm 700 gp
River Red Injury 10 None 50 gp
Serpent Venom Injury 11 Sample from a common venomous snake 70 gp
Swift-Acting Poison Ingest 13 Herbalism Kit 70 gp
Taggit Oil Contact 13 Sample from an amphibian that dwells in hot climates 130 gp
Tension Inhale 10 None 50 gp
Torpor Ingest 15 Alchemist's supplies 200 gp
Truth Serum Ingest 11 Alchemist's supplies 50 gp
Wyvern Poison Injury 15 Sample from a Wyvern 400 gp

    Swift-Acting Poison (Ingested). This poison is made
specifically to resemble a standard potion of healing, or
another beneficial potion, and stands up to any scrutiny short
of magical identification. A creature that drinks this poison
immediately takes 10 (3d6) poison damage and must make a
DC 13 Constitution saving throw or be poisoned. The
poisoned creature takes 10 (3d6) poison damage at the start
of each of its turns. It can repeat the saving throw at the end
of each of its turns, reducing the damage taken on its
subsequent turns by 1d6 each time it succeeds. After 3
successes the poison ends.
    Taggit Oil (Contact). A creature subjected to this poison
must succeed on a DC 13 Constitution saving throw or
become poisoned for 24 hours. The poisoned creature is
unconscious. The creature wakes up if it takes damage.
    Tension (Inhaled). A creature subjected to this poison
must succeed on a DC 10 Constitution saving throw or
become poisoned for 1 minute. The poisoned creature is also
frightened, and regards all creatures it can see as enemies,
and as sources of its fear. The poison creates brief but acute
paranoia, accompanied by mild hallucinations.
A creature immune to the frightened condition is still
poisoned if it fails the save and it still experiences the
hallucinations, but it recognises them as false and ephemeral
and is otherwise unaffected.
Torpor (Ingested). A creature subjected to this poison
must succeed on a DC 15 Constitution saving throw or
become poisoned for 4d6 hours. The poisoned creature is
incapacitated.
Truth Serum (Ingested). A creature subjected to this
poison must succeed on a DC 11 Constitution saving throw
or become poisoned for 1 hour. The poisoned creature can’t
knowingly speak a lie, as if under the effect of the zone of
truth spell.
Wyvern Poison (Injury). A creature subjected to this
poison must make a DC 15 Constitution saving throw, taking
24 (7d6) poison damage on a failed save, or half as much
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 Healing Items
Healing Items
Item                          Healing Other Effects           Cost
Antitoxin — Advantage against poison 40 gp
Curative Ointment 2d8+2 Advantage against ongoing poison and disease 180 gp
Immuno-Booster — Advantage against disease 40 gp
Potions of healing
  potion of healing 2d4+2 — 40 gp
  potion of greater healing 4d4+4 — 160 gp
  potion of superior healing 8d4+8 — 4400 gp
  potion of supreme healing 10d4+20 — 16000 gp
Troll Styptic 1d4 Regenerate for 3 rounds, Constitution save to avoid poisoning 100 gp

The items in this category generally restore hit points or Multiclassing

provide another beneficial effect.
Antitoxin. A creature that drinks this phial of liquid gains
advantage on saving throws against poison for 1 hour. It
confers no benefit to undead or constructs.
Curative Ointment. Applying this ointment to a creature
and allowing them to inhale its vapours immediately restores
2d8 +2 hit points, and grants them advantage on saves
against any ongoing poison or disease effects they may be
affected by for 8 hours. It confers no benefits to undead or
constructs.
Immuno-Booster. A creature that drinks this phial of
liquid gains advantage on saving throws against disease for 1
hour. It confers no benefit to undead or constructs.
Potion of Healing. A creature that drinks this phial of red
fluid regains hit points equal to an amount dictated by the
quality of the potion, listed in the Healing Items table.
Regardless of the grade of potion, they have no effect on
undead or constructs.
Troll Styptic. A rough and painful form of quick, battlefield
healing, useful when magical healing is unavailable. When
          this salve is applied to a creature's wounds, it
               immediately regains 1d4 hit points, and regenerates
                 1d4 hit points at the beginning of each of its turns
                        for the next 3 rounds. When the salve is applied,
                                     the creature must make a DC 12
                                          Constitution saving throw or become
                                               poisoned for 1 minute. Removing
                                                   the poisoned condition does not
                                                     interfere with the regeneration.
                                                         It has no effect on undead or
                                                           constructs.
The following section provides the requirements, benefits
and other important information for those wishing to
multiclass as an alchemist.
Multiclass Prerequisites
Class Ability Score Minimum
Alchemist Intelligence 13
Multiclass Proficiencies
Class Proficiencies Gained
Alchemist         Light armour, alchemist supplies
Spellcasting and Pact Magic
Though alchemists rely only partially on the arcane to
produce their formulae, they nevertheless are considered full
spellcasters for multiclassing purposes. Add all of your levels
in the alchemist class to any other spellcasting class levels
you have when determining your available spell slots.
Spells that you learn from other spellcasting classes can be
transcribed into your formulae book using the normal means,
if those spells also appear on the alchemist spell and formula
list. If you have levels in the wizard class, you may transcribe
between your formula book and spell book as well.
If you have spell slots of 6th level or higher, you may use
these to execute your alchemist formulae of 1st to 5th level,
however these slots cannot grant you additional uses of your
complex formulae.
If you have the Pact Magic class feature, you can use the
spell slots you gain from the Pact Magic feature to execute
alchemist formulae you have prepared and you can use spell
slots gained from the Alchemy feature to cast warlock spells
you know.

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Preservationist Options
The following table provides a list of creatures suitable for
use with the preservationist discovery.
Preserved Creatures
CR          Creatures
CR 0 Badger (MM), Bat (MM), Cat (MM), Chwinga (ToA), Crab (MM), Cranium Rat (VGtM), Crawling Claw (MM), Frog
(MM), Hawk (MM), Lizard (MM), Owl (MM), Quipper (MM), Rat (MM), Raven (MM), Scorpion (MM), Sea Horse
(MM), Spider (MM), Tressym (SKT), Weasel (MM)
CR 1/8 Flying Snake (MM), Neogi Hatchling (VGtM), Poisonous Snake (MM), Slaad Tadpole (MM), Stirge (MM)
CR 1/4 Oblex Spawn (MToF), Pixie (MM), Pseudodragon (MM), Sprite (MM), Velociraptor (VGtM)
CR 1/2 Gazer (VGtM)
CR 1 Faerie Dragon (Red, Orange or Yellow)(MM), Imp (MM), Quasit (MM), Quickling (VGtM), Vargouille (VGtM)
CR 2 Faerie Dragon (Green, Blue, Indigo or Violet)(MM), Intellect Devourer (MM), Will-o'-Wisp (MM)

Credits
This document was produced using The Homebrewery, an excellent tool created by Scott Tolksdorf.
Most of my understanding of the tool came from the very helpful guides created by AeronDrake and QalarValar. The image
blending stains provided by each of these two were also immensely helpful.
In examining other alchemist options, I read alchemist and artificer classes and subclasses presented by Asa Wheatley, Alex
Bloor, Tribality and Cody Faulk. No parts of any of their works were explicitely used, but close similarities and similar inspirations
may exist.
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