Dungeons & Dragons 5e Class Features: Artificer
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Artificer
Hit Points
Proficiences
Overview & Creation
Every artificer is defined by a specific craft. Artificers see mastering the basic methods of a craft as the first step to true progress, the invention of new methods and approaches. Artificers are arcane engineers, students of invention and warfare who craft deadly firearms, ingenious gadgets, magical armor, and mechanical beings that they can augment with magic. All artificers are united by their curious and inventive nature. To an artificer, magic is an evolving art with a leading edge of discovery and mastery that pushes further ahead with each passing year. Artificers value novelty and discovery. This penchant pushes them to seek a life of adventure. A hidden ruin might hold a forgotten magic item or a beautifully crafted mirror perfect for magical enhancement. Artificers win respect and renown among their kind by uncovering new lore or inventing new methods of creation.
Class Features
Artificer Specialization
At 1st level, you focus your craft on a particular specialization: Gadgetsmith, Golemsmith, Infusionsmith, Potionsmith, Thundersmith, Warsmith or Fleshsmith, each of which are detailed at the end of the class description. Your choice grants you features at 1st level and again at 3rd, 5th, and 14th level.Magic Item Analysis
Starting at 1st level, your understanding of magic items allows you to analyze and understand their secrets. You know the artificer spells detect magic and identify, and you can cast them as rituals without material components.Tool Expertise
Starting at 2nd level, your proficiency bonus is doubled for any ability check you make that uses any of the tool proficiencies you gain from this class.Specialization Upgrade
Your expert craftsmanship allows you to improve, modify, or add to your specialization's features.. Starting at 3rd level, choose an upgrade from the list at the end of your specialization, and gain the benefits listed in the description of the Upgrade. You select an additional Upgrade at 5th, 7th, 9th, 11th, 13th, 15th, 17th, and 19th level. You cannot select an Upgrade more than once, unless the Upgrade's description says otherwise. Whenever you level up, you can exchange one of your existing upgrades for another upgrade of the same level requirement as the replaced upgrade. In any case that a specialization allows an Upgrade to be swapped out, Upgrades must always be selected as if the Artificer is the level they were when they got that Upgrade slot. For example, if you replace your Stormforged Weapon and reselect all of your upgrades as a 5th level Artificer, you could select one 3rd level upgrade and one 5th level upgrade, or two 3rd level upgrades, but you would not be able to select two 5th level upgrades.Ability Score Improvement
When you reach 4th level, and again at 8th, 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.Arcane Reconstruction
At 6th level, you have mastered the knowledge of using magic to repair things. You learn the mending cantrip, and can cast it at will. Additionally, you learn the cure wounds spell. If you already know cure wounds you can select another spell from the Artificer spell list. When you cast cure wounds, it can heal constructs in addition to normally valid targets.Cross Disciplinary Knowledge
At 6th level, you can expand on your knowledge across fields. You gain one the following features: Stormforged Weapon, Infused Armament, Alchemical Reagents Pouch and Alchemical Fire or Alchemical Acid, or an unrestricted Gadgetsmith Upgrade. If you select a Stormforged Weapon that requires ammunition, you gain the knowledge required to make the ammunition. If this selection is lost or destroyed, you can remake it following the rules for remaking the select item in subclass.Wondrous Items Proficiency
At 7th level, your familiarity with the workings of magical items means that you can ignore class based restrictions on attuning to magical items. Additionally, you can now attune to 4 magical items at once.Improved Magical Crafting
At 10th level, your experience in creating your own wondrous invention makes you more adept at crafting a magic item than a normal spellcaster. Creating a magic item takes you half the time it would normally take. Additionally, you can make 1 hour of progress toward crafting a magic item, scroll, or potion during a long rest.Wondrous Item Recharge
Starting at 10th level, you can recharge a magic item that has charges or per rest uses, as long as those charges or uses can only be used to cast spells. To restore charges or uses, you perform a ritual that takes one minute and expends a spell slot of equal or higher level than a spell slot level of a spell cast by the item. The number of charges or uses restored to the item is equal to the number of charges or uses required to cast that spell using the item once.Study of Magic
At 11th level, your proficiency in the workings of magic has become so great you can cast detect magic and identify at will without expending a spell slot. Additionally, you have advantage on all Intelligence (Arcana) checks to understand the workings of magical traps, effects, or runes.Wondrous Item Mastery
Starting at 18th level you can activate a magic item that would normally take an action as a bonus action instead. Additionally, you can attune to 5 magical items at a time.Peerless Inventor
At 20th level, your mind is always thinking of new options and clever solutions. You can select and create temporary version of an Upgrade from your subclass you are qualified to take but do not have with a level requirement of 11th level or lower as an action. You have this upgrade until you complete a short rest. You cannot select another temporary Upgrade in this fashion until you complete a short or long rest.Starting Equipment
Spellcasting
As part of your study of magic, you gain the ability to cast spells at 2nd level. The spells you learn are limited in scope, primarily concerned with modifying creatures and objects or creating items. Spell Slots The artificer table shows how many spell slots you have to cast your artificer spells of 1st level and higher. To cast one of your Artificer spells, you must expend a slot of the spell’s level or higher. You regain all expended spell slots when you finish a long rest. Spells Known of 1st Level and Higher You know three 1st-level spells of your choice from the artificer spell list. The Spells Known column of the Artificer table shows when you learn more Artificer spells of your choice. Each of these spells must be of a level for which you have spell slots. For instance, when you reach 5th level in this class, you can learn one new spell of 1st or 2nd level. Additionally, when you gain a level in this class, you can choose one of the Artificer spells you know and replace it with another spell from the Artificer spell list, which also must be of a level for which you have spell slots.
Subclass Options
| Level | Proficiency Bonus | Features | Spells Known | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | Upgrades |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | +2 | Artificer Specialization, Magic Item Analysis | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| 2nd | +2 | Spellcasting, Tool Expertise | 3 | 2 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| 3rd | +2 | Artificer Specialist Feature, Specialization Upgrade | 4 | 3 | -- | -- | -- | -- | 1 |
| 4th | +2 | Ability Score Improvement | 4 | 3 | -- | -- | -- | -- | 1 |
| 5th | +3 | Artificer Specialist Feature | 5 | 4 | 2 | -- | -- | -- | 2 |
| 6th | +3 | Arcane Reconstruction, Cross Disciplinary Knowledge | 5 | 4 | 2 | -- | -- | -- | 2 |
| 7th | +3 | Wondrous Item Proficiency | 6 | 4 | 3 | -- | -- | -- | 3 |
| 8th | +3 | Ability Score Improvement | 6 | 4 | 3 | -- | -- | -- | 3 |
| 9th | +4 | -- | 7 | 4 | 3 | 2 | -- | -- | 4 |
| 10th | +4 | Improved Magical Crafting, Wondrous Item Recharge | 7 | 4 | 3 | 2 | -- | -- | 4 |
| 11th | +4 | Study of Magic | 8 | 4 | 3 | 3 | -- | -- | 5 |
| 12th | +4 | Ability Score Improvement | 8 | 4 | 3 | 3 | -- | -- | 5 |
| 13th | +5 | -- | 9 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | -- | 6 |
| 14th | +5 | Artificer Specialist Feature | 9 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | -- | 6 |
| 15th | +5 | -- | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 | -- | 7 |
| 16th | +5 | Ability Score Improvement | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 | -- | 7 |
| 17th | +6 | -- | 11 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 8 |
| 18th | +6 | Wondrous Items Mastery | 11 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 8 |
| 19th | +6 | Ability Score Improvement | 12 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 9 |
| 20th | +6 | Peerless Inventor | 12 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 9 |
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