Alchemist

An alchemist is one who strives to learn about the world through the building blocks that make it up. That might be the beautiful flowers that grow outside your window, the oozing spit of a wild dragon, or the glowing remains of an undead skeleton. Whatever the source, an alchemist seeks to turn these building blocks into something useful.

As an adventurer, your tastes lean towards a more practical side, potions of health and mana, or maybe something to boost your combat ability, or to help you run away instead. You provide much-needed support to yourself, and maybe your fellow adventurers. Because your potions are done in the field rather than the lab, they also tend to expire a little more quickly.

Alchemists generally favor Intelligence for crafting their potions, but an alchemist might also want a high Acuity to find the materials they seek on their own, or Cunning if they often trade and bargain for their materials. An alchemist sometimes starts life as a Sage for access to other research, or they may have started as an Outlander when they lived in the wilds collecting goods. A Criminal background would have given an alchemist the contacts they need to get some less than legal goods.

You start with the following equipment, in addition to any other starting equipment:

• alchemist’s supplies

• (a) an explorer’s pack or (b) an herbalism kit

As an Apprentice, you gain the use of a sophisticated hypodermic needle, allowing you to more quickly administer potions. For 2 Action Points, you can inject a potion into yourself or a willing creature within 5 feet of you, granting the benefits of the potion as if it were drank normally. You can inject a potion into an unwilling creature with a successful melee attack.

As a Journeyman, you’ve discovered a radical necromantic workaround: restoring life with direct electricity to the heart. For 6 Action Points, you can spend 1 reagent and drive a bolt into the torso of a creature that has died within the last minute and shock it back to life. That creature returns to life with 1 Health. This feature can’t return to life a creature that lacks a heart, a creature that has died of old age, or a creature that is missing vital organs.

Once you use this ability, you can’t use it again until you finish a short or long rest.

As a Magister, when you brew potions, you can distill those you have already brewed, recovering the reagents stored within. You can convert brewed potions into reagents and you can choose to expend those reagents to create new potions. You can’t gain more than your maximum number of reagents using this ability.

At Legendary rank, you gain 1 extra general skill rank to use.