The Scholar

A
new Intelligence-based, skillful, non-magical
character class that requires preparation and
ingenuity to dominate. Playing a more support
oriented role, the scholar won't be laying out a The Scholar
lot of damage or be particularly adept at taking
damage either. However, their unique skill set Proficiency
will let their allies be the best that they can be. Level Bonus Features Discoveries
With three archetypes, the Tactician, the Physician, or the 1st +2 Critical Analysis (d6), -
Politician, they are masterful battlefield commanders, swift Expertise
field medics keeping their allies in top condition, and cunning
manipulators of the masses. Above all others, they are the 2nd +2 Discovery,Sage Advice
(one use)
2
masters of the mundane.
3rd +2 Lifelong Learning, Pursuit 2
The Pursuit of Knowledge 4th +2 Ability Score 2
Filler Text Improvement
5th +3 Critical Analysis (d8), 3
Creating a Scholar Renewed Alacrity
Filler Text 6th +3 Pursuit Feature 3
7th +3 Rapid Analysis 4
Quick Build 8th +3 Ability Score 4
You can make a scholar quickly by following these Improvement
suggestions. First make Intelligence your highest ability
score. Your next-highest score should be Dexterity or 9th +4 Lifelong Learning 5
Strength depending on whether you want to focus on melee 10th +4 Combat Analysis (d10), 5
weapons or on archery (or finesse weapons), or Charisma if Expertise
you plan on following the Politician pursuit. Second choose 11th +4 Pursuit Feature 5
the Sage background, or Noble if you plan on following the
Politician pursuit. 12th +4 Ability Score 6
Improvement

Class Features 13th

14th
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Sage Advice (two uses)
Unwaveringer Mind
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As a scholar, you gain the following class features.
15th +5 Critical Analysis (d12) 7
Hit points 16th +5 Ability Score 7
Hit Dice: 1d8 per scholar level Improvement
Hit Points at 1st Level: 8 + your Constitution modifier 17th +6 Pursuit Feature 7
Hit Points at Higher Levels: 1d8 (or 5) + your Constitution
modifier per scholar level after 1st 18th +6 Calculated Defenses 8
19th +6 Ability Score 8
Proficiencies Improvement
Armor: Light armor 20th +6 Genius Unbound 8
Weapons: Simple weapons, hand crossbows, heavy
crossbows
Tools: Any two
Saving Throws: Dexterity, Intelligence
Skills: Choose three from Arcana, History, Insight, Alternatively, you may start with 4d4 x 10 gp to buy your own
Investigation, Medicine, Nature, Perception, Performance, equipment.
Persuasion, Religion, and Survival.
Equipment
you start with the following equipment in addition to the
equipment gained by your background.
(a) any simple weapon or (b) a light crossbow and 20 bolts
(a) scholar's pack or (b) explorer's pack
a set of leather armor
any two tools of your choice

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 Critical Analysis
Starting at 1st level, your cunning mind allows you to quickly
analyze your surroundings to find an edge where it’s needed.
You may use your bonus action to analyze a target you can
see within 30 feet. When you analyze a target, you gain an
Analysis die, which is a d6. For the next minute, until you roll
the die, or until you use this feature again, you gain one of the
following benefits against the target, which you chose when
you analyze the target.
Weak Point. Once per turn, when you hit the target with a
weapon attack, you may roll your Analysis die and deal
additional force damage equal to the number rolled.
Administer Aid. While within 5 feet of the target, you may
use your action to roll your Analysis die, healing the target
that amount.
Reasoned Defense. When you make a saving throw from
an effect you can see caused by the analyzed target, you
may roll your Analysis die and add the number to your
saving throw. You can wait until after you roll the d20, but
must decide to use it before the DM resolves the action.
Measured Words. When you make a Deception,
Intimidation, Performance, or Persuasion check against
the target, you may roll your Analysis die and add the
number rolled to your check.
You may use this feature a number of times equal to your
Intelligence modifier (a minimum of once). You regain any
expended uses when you finish a long rest.
Your Analysis die changes when you reach certain levels in
this class: to 1d8 at 5th level, to 1d10 at 10th level, and to
1d12 at 15th level.
Expertise
At 1st level, choose two of your skill proficiencies, or one of
your skill proficiencies and one of your tool proficiencies, or
two of your tool proficiencies. Your proficiency bonus is
doubled for any ability check you make that uses either of the
chosen proficiencies.
At 10th level, you can choose another two proficiencies (in
skills or tools) to gain this benefit.
Discovery
As you adventure, your studies have helped you discover new
practices you can apply to your skills.
At 2nd level, you master two discoveries of your choice.
Your discovery options are detailed at the end of the class
description. When you gain certain scholar levels, you gain
additional discoveries of your choice, as shown in the
Discoveries column of the Scholar table.
Additionally, when you gain a level in this class, you can
choose one of the discoveries you know and replace it with
another discovery that you could learn at that level.
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Sage Advice
When you reach 2nd level, you may spread your knowledge
and experience to those around you, guiding them towards
success. You spend 1 minute advising your companions.
When you do so, choose a skill you are proficient with and a
number of friendly creatures up to your Intelligence modifier
within 30 feet of you who can hear you and who can
understand you. Once within the next hour, the next time
each creature would make a skill check of the chosen skill,
they may add their proficiency modifier to the roll, or double
their proficiency if they are already proficient.
Once you’ve used this feature, it cannot be used again until
you complete a short rest. Starting at 13th level, you can use
it twice before a rest, but a creature can only benefit from it
once at any one time.
Lifelong Learning
For a scholar, learning never stops. At 3rd level, you gain two
skill or tool proficiencies, or one skill and one tool proficiency.
You learn two more proficiencies at 9th level. These can be
two skill or tool proficiencies, or one skill and one tool
proficiency.
Pursuit
At 3rd level, you dedicate your studies towards a particular
pursuit of your choice: physician or tactician, detailed at the
end of the class description. The pursuit you choose grants
you features at 3rd level, and again at 6th, 11th, and 17th
level.
Ability Score Improvement
When you reach 4th level, and again at 8th, 10th, 12th, 16th,
and 19th level, you can increase one ability score of your
choice by 2, or you can increase two Ability Scores of your
choice by 1. As normal, you can’t increase an ability score
above 20 using this feature.
Renewed Alacrity
Beginning at 5th level, you regain all of your expended uses of
Critical Analysis when you finish a short rest or long rest.
Rapid Analysis
Starting at 7th level, when you roll initiative and are not
surprised, you may use your reaction to use your critical
analysis feature.
Unwavering Mind
When you reach 14th level, you gain proficiency in Wisdom
saving throws.
Calculated Defenses
When you reach 18th level, whenever you must make a saving
throw from an effect you can see, you gain a bonus to the
saving throw equal to your Intelligence modifier.

Genius Unbound
When you reach 20th level, when you roll initiative and don't
have any uses of your critical analysis feature, you regain one
use.
Pursuits
Your pursuit is the culmination of your studies from well
before you set out as an adventurer.
Physician
Medicinal masters of the mundane, medicating moderately
murderous marauders.
Bonus Proficiencies
Starting at 3rd level, when you select this pursuit, you gain
proficiency in the Medicine skill and Alchemist Supplies
Field Medic
At 3rd level, when you analyze a target to administer aid, you
may do so at will, requiring no action.
Additionally, when you roll your analysis die to administer
aid, the creature regains additional hit points equal to your
Intelligence modifier.
Healing Elixir
Also at 3rd level, you may spend 1 minute to concoct a
healing elixir in a simple vial by using your alchemist
supplies. The elixir retains its potency for 8 hours.
As an action, a creature may drink the elixir or administer
it to another creature. The drinker regains hit points equal to
twice your Analysis die + your Scholar Level.
You can use this feature a number of times equal to your
Intelligence modifier, after which you cannot use this feature
again until you complete a long rest.
When you reach certain levels in this class, the hit points
regained by drinking the elixir increase by 1 Analysis die at
7th level (3x), and increase by 1 die again at 11th level (4x),
15th level (5x), and 19th level (6x).
Remove Toxins
Starting at 6th level, when you administer aid to a creature,
you can instead cure one disease or condition affecting it.
The condition can be blinded, deafened, paralyzed, or
poisoned.
Tend the Wounded
At 6th level, you can tend to your allies to assist in recovering
their wounds. During a short rest, if you or any friendly
creature you can touch regain hit points at the end of the
short rest, each of those creatures regain additional hit points
equal to your Analysis die.
Resuscitate
By 11th level, you have learned medical practices capable of
even bringing back the dead. When you administer aid to a
creature who has died since your last turn, you may bring
them back to life with 1 hit point remaining.
A creature can only be revived this way once before they
finish a short or long rest.
Panacea
At 17th level, you have developed a cure-all miracle solution: a
panacea. When you administer aid to a creature, by using
rare medicinal herbs and oils worth 100 gp, which are
consumed, you can instead cure the target of one debilitating
effect. You can reduce the targets exhaustion level by one, or
end one of the following effects on the target:
One effect that charmed or petrified the target.
One curse or magical effect on the creature.
Any reduction to one of the target's ability scores.
One effect reducing the target's hit point maximum.
Politician
Master manipulators of the masses.
Bonus Proficiencies
Starting at 3rd level, when you select this pursuit, you gain
proficiency with the Persuasion and Deception skills.
Charming Personality
At 3rd level, your silvered tongue and honey laced words
carry with them an almost unnatural charming effect. When
you speak to a creature that is the target of your measured
words analysis for the full duration, you can make a
Charisma (Persuasion) check contested by the target's
Wisdom (Insight) check. The check automatically fails if you
or your companions are fighting the target or any of its
companions. If the check succeeds, the creature is charmed
by you for as long as it remains within 60 feet of you and for 1
hour thereafter. The effect ends early if you or any of your
companions damage the target or any of its companions. If
the check fails, the creature is not charmed and becomes
immune to this effect for the next 24 hours.
Overwhelming Charm
At 6th level, while a creature is charmed by your Charming
Personality feature, you may also attempt to make a
suggestion to them, as if under the effects of the suggestion
spell. You may only use this feature once before finishing a
short or long rest.
Taunt
At 6th level, you can issue a taunt to a creature call their
attention to you. As an action, you taunt a creature within 60
feet that can see or hear you that has been targeted by your
critical analysis. Until the end of your next turn, the creature
has disadvantage on all attacks made against creatures other
than you. During this time, if the creature hits you with an
attack, you may use your reaction to roll your Analysis die,
reducing the damage by the amount rolled. The effect then
ends.
Call to Victory
Starting at 11th level, you can call out to your allies,
beckoning them to victory. As an action, choose a number of
allies up to your Intelligence modifier within 60 feet who can
hear you and who can understand you. Each of those
creatures gains one Analysis die.
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 Once, until the end of your next turn, a creature may roll their
die and add the number rolled to one ability check, attack roll,
or saving throw it makes. The creature can wait until after it
rolls the d20 before deciding to use the Analysis die, but must
decide before the DM says whether the roll succeeds or fails.
Once the Analysis die is rolled, it is lost. A creature can have
only one Analysis die at a time.
Once you use this feature, you cannot do so again until you
finish a long rest.
Beguiling Presence
Beginning at 17th level, your charm radiates about you in a
30ft aura. Humanoids within your aura have their attitude
regarding you increased by one step (per DMG pg.244).
Hostile creatures become indifferent to you, indifferent
creatures become friendly, and friendly humanoids are
charmed by you. Creatures who are immune to the charmed
condition are immune to your aura.
The effect ends for a creature that you have attacked or
cast a spell that affects it, or if it sees you attack or cast a
spell that affects any of it's allies.
Tactician
A master of the battlefield, she commands her allies through
clever positioning and fierce, timely strikes. It is the strong
who win the fights, but it is the cunning generals who
command them that win the war.
Bonus Proficiencies
Starting at 3rd level when you select this pursuit, you gain
proficiency in the History skill, medium armor, and shields.
Precise Strikes
At 3rd level, when you make an attack against a target subject
to your weak point analysis, you can choose to use your
Analysis die on the attack roll or the damage roll. You can
choose to use this feature before or after the roll is made, but
before any effects of the roll are applied.
Commander's Strike
Beginning at 6th level, when you take the Attack action on
your turn, you can forgo one of your attacks and use a bonus
action to direct one of your companions to strike. When you
do so, choose a friendly creature who can see or hear you and
expend one use of your critical analysis feature. That creature
can immediately use its reaction to make one weapon attack,
adding your analysis die to the attack’s damage roll.
Force Multiplier
At 6th level, whenever you roll an analysis die to add to a
damage roll, you can roll two dice instead of just one, adding
both to the roll.
All-out Attack
At 11th level, you can call out to your allies to initiate an all-
out attack against a creature you have analyzed. You may
expend the analysis die as an action to choose a number of
allies up to your Intelligence modifier within 30 feet who can
see or hear you. Until the end of your next turn, they each
gain the benefit of your weak point analysis feature.
Once you’ve used this feature, it cannot be used again until
you finish a long rest.
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Locked-On
Starting at 17th level, when you analyze a target for their
weak point, you may maintain your analysis as if keeping
concentration on a spell. If you do, you benefit from the
feature until you analyze a different target, lose
concentration, or after the normal duration passes.
Discoveries
The discovers are presented in alphabetical order. If a
discovery requires a level, you must be that level in this class
to learn the discovery.
Adaptive
Prerequisite: 7th level
When the target of your Critical Analysis dies, you may use
your reaction to analyze a new target within range without
expending a use.
Analytic Offense
Prerequisite: 5th Level
When you hit a creature with a weapon attack, it takes
additional damage equal to your Intelligence modifier.
Arcane Amateur
Choose one 1st-level spell from the Wizard spell list. You
learn that spell and can cast it at its lowest level. Once you
cast it, you must finish a long rest before you can cast it
again. Your spellcasting ability for this spell is Intelligence.
Clever Applications
You become proficient in Improvised Weapons. Additionally,
when you make an attack with an improvised weapon, it
deals 1d6 damage instead.
Contingency Plan
Prerequisite: 9th level, Tactician Pursuit
When a creature you have analyzed attacks you and scores a
critical hit, you may expend your Analysis die to treat the
attack as a normal hit instead.
Critical Success
Prerequisite: 15th level
When you would roll your Analysis die, you can choose to
take the maximum result. If you were to roll multiple die, it
only applies to one. You can’t do so again until you finish a
short or long rest.
Developed Resistance
Prerequisite: 9th level
You gain resistance to poison damage and advantage on
saving throws against poison.
Discerning Eyes
Prerequisite: 5th level
You have advantage on saving throws against illusions and on
Intelligence checks to discern them from reality.

Dungeoneer
You have advantage on Perception (Wisdom) checks and
Investigation (Intelligence) checks to locate any secret doors
or traps.
Extra Attack
Prerequisite: 5th level
You can attack twice, instead of once, whenever you take the
Attack action on your turn.
Fighting Style
Prerequisite: Tactician Pursuit
You adopt a particular style of fighting as your specialty.
Choose one of the options available to the Fighter class. You
can’t take a Fighting Style option more than once, even if you
later get to choose again.
Hamstring
When you damage a creature with your weak point analysis,
you may also reduce their speed by 10 feet until the end of
your next turn.
Hardened Mind
Prerequisite: 15th level
You gain resistance to Psychic damage.
Lingering Advice
Prerequisite: 7th level
When you use your Sage Advice feature, the targeted
creatures retain the benefit from your instruction for the full
duration.
Linguist
You learn two additional languages
Martial Training
Prerequisite: Tactician Pursuit
You gain proficiency in Martial weapons
Master's Advice
Prerequisite: 15th level
When you use your Sage Advice feature, the first time each
targeted creature makes the chosen skill check, they gain an
additional +10 bonus to the roll.
Medical Genius
Prerequisite: Physician Pursuit
When you make a Medicine skill check, you may use your
Intelligence modifier instead of your Wisdom modifier.
Monstrologist
Prerequisite: 7th Level
Choose one type of creature from the following list:
aberrations, celestials, constructs, dragons, elementals,
fiends, or giants. You have advantage on Intelligence checks
to recall information about the chosen creature type and may
use your Intelligence modifier when making a Survival skill
check to track them. You can chose this discovery multiple
times, each time choosing a different creature.
Mortician
You may use your Critical Analysis feature to examine a body
that has died within the last 7 days. At the DM’s discretion,
you are able to accurately determine the cause of death. This
may require additional checks, such as determining a spell,
type of poison, or bite marks of a creature.
Physical Conditioning
Your hit point maximum increases by 1 for every level you
have in the scholar class, and increases by 1 again whenever
you gain a level in this class.
Rapid Response
Prerequisite: 7th level, Physician Pursuit
When you use your action to administer aid, you can dash as
a bonus action.
Reliable Words
Prerequisite: 12th Level, Politician Pursuit
When you make a social skill check in a skill you are
proficient in, treat any roll 9 or lower as if you had rolled a 10.
Resolute
Prerequisite: 9th level
You have advantage against charm effects.
Sound Reasoning
Prerequisite: Politician Pursuit
You may use your Intelligence modifier instead of your
Charisma modifier when you make a Persuasion skill check.
Tactical Retreat
Prerequisite: Tactician Pursuit
When you take the dash action, opportunity attacks made
against you are made at disadvantage.
Targeted Analysis
The target of your Critical Analysis feature does not gain the
benefits of the dodge action against your attacks and spells.
Theoretical Advice
Prerequisite: 12th level
When you use your Sage Advice feature, you may choose a
skill you are not proficient in. When you do, targeted
creatures add half their proficiency bonus (rounded down)
instead.
Toxicologist
Prerequisite: Physician
When you brew a healing elixir, you may instead brew a
deadly neurotoxin instead. The liquid is clear and odorless
and may be coated onto a weapon or piece of ammunition
that deals piercing or slashing damage. If a creature ingests
the poison or is damaged by a poisoned weapon, it must
make a Constitution save against a save DC of 8 + your
Proficiency + your Intelligence modifier. On a failure, the
creature takes poison damage equal to the number of hit
points one of your elixirs would normally heal, taking half
damage on a success. Constructs and Undead take no
damage.
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While wearing no armor and not wielding a shield, your AC Special thank goes to /u/wdalright & /u/coolgamertagbro on
equals 10 + your Dexterity modifier + your Intelligence reddit for their take on the Scholar class. Both revisions were
modifier. hugely inspirational to the development (and several
wonderful naming conventions for abilities). I highly
Universal Language recommend check them out here and here.
You can communicate simple ideas with any creature with an I also appreciate my fellow players and DM-Wife for review,
Intelligence of 6 or more through basic expressions and playtests, and ideas.
gestures.
Urgent Care Changelog
Prerequisite: 5th level, Physician Pursuit last updated 6/8/17 - 1:53pm CST
You may drink a potion or administer a potion to an ally as a
bonus action. Minor grammar and typo fixes
Well Learned
Gain proficiency in two skills or two tools, or one skill and
one tool.
Zoologist
Choose one type of creature from the following list: beasts,
fey, humanoids, monstrosities, or undead. You have advantage
on Intelligence checks to recall information about the chosen
creature type and may use your Intelligence modifier when
making a Survival skill check to track them. You can chose
this discovery multiple times, each time choosing a different
creature.

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