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Alchemist

Subclass featureEFAp. 122024Artificer

Craft Magic Elixirs and Potions

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

Tools of the Trade

You gain the following benefits.

Tool Proficiency

You gain proficiency with Alchemist's Supplies and the Herbalism Kit. If you already have one of these proficiencies, you gain proficiency with one other type of Artisan's Tools of your choice (or with two other types if you have both).

Potion Crafting

When you brew a potion using the crafting rules in the Dungeon Master's Guide, the amount of time required to craft it is halved.

Alchemist Spells

When you reach an Artificer level specified in the Alchemist Spells table, you thereafter always have the listed spells prepared.

Alchemist Spells

Artificer LevelSpells
3Healing Word, Ray of Sickness
5Flaming Sphere, Melf's Acid Arrow
9Gaseous Form, Mass Healing Word
13Death Ward, Vitriolic Sphere
17Cloudkill, Raise Dead

Experimental Elixir

Whenever you finish a Long Rest while holding Alchemist's Supplies, you can use that tool to magically produce two elixirs. For each elixir, roll on the Experimental Elixir table for the elixir's effect, which is triggered when someone drinks the elixir. The elixir appears in a vial, and the vial vanishes when the elixir is drunk or poured out. If any elixir remains when you finish a Long Rest, the elixir and its vial vanish.

Drinking an Elixir

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

Creating Additional Elixirs

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

When you reach certain Artificer levels, you can make an additional elixir at the end of each Long Rest: a total of three at level 5, four at level 9, and five at level 15.

Experimental Elixir

1d6Effect
1Healing. The drinker regains a number of Hit Points equal to 2d8 plus your Intelligence modifier. The number of Hit Points restored increases by 1d8 when you reach Artificer levels 9 (3d8) and 15 (4d8).
2Swiftness. The drinker's Speed increases by 10 feet for 1 hour. This bonus increases when you reach Artificer levels 9 (15 feet) and 15 (20 feet).
3Resilience. The drinker gains a +1 bonus to AC for 10 minutes. The duration increases when you reach Artificer levels 9 (1 hour) and 15 (8 hours).
4Boldness. The drinker can roll 1d4 and add the number rolled to every attack roll and saving throw they make for the next minute. The duration increases when you reach Artificer levels 9 (10 minutes) and 15 (1 hour).
5Flight. The drinker gains a Fly Speed of 10 feet for 10 minutes. The Fly Speed increases when you reach Artificer levels 9 (20 feet) and 15 (30 feet).
6You determine the elixir's effect by choosing one of the other rows in this table.
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