Toxicant

In lands where poisons are legal and may be openly studied and sold, some alchemists obsess over the myriad ways that poisons and venoms can be applied and delivered. Known as toxicants, these deadly artists induce the production of deadly secretions within their own bodies in order to better inflict crippling conditions upon their foes.

Toxic Secretion (Ex)

At 1st level, a toxicant has learned to mimic creatures with the ability to secrete harmful toxins through the skin. Once per day, in a process that takes 10 minutes, the toxicant can create and imbibe a tincture that causes their skin to secrete a mild toxin. The toxicant is immune to this secretion, but any creature that hits them with a natural attack or unarmed strike must succeed at a Fortitude Save (DC = 10 + 1/2 the toxicant’s alchemist level + the toxicant’s Intelligence modifier). On a failed save, the target takes an amount of damage equal to the toxicant’s Intelligence modifier. At 4th level, a target that fails its save must succeed at a second save 1 round later or take the same amount of damage again. This effect repeats as long as the target continues to fail its saving throws, to a maximum number of rounds equal to 1 + 1 for every 4 alchemist levels the toxicant possesses (to a maximum of 6 rounds at 20th level).

This is a poison effect. The toxicant can suppress this secretion as a Standard Action, in which case it remains suppressed for 1 hour or until the toxicant reactivates it as a Standard Action.

At 3rd level and every 3 levels thereafter, the toxicant can choose a condition to have their toxin impose.

Once this choice is made, it can’t be changed. A creature that fails its save against the toxic secretion also gains these conditions until they succeed at a save against the secretion, or until the toxin’s duration ends.

At higher alchemist levels, the toxicant gains access to stronger conditions; some replace lower-level conditions, which must be selected first. The following conditions are available at the given alchemist levels: 3rd—bleed (1d6), Dazzled, Fatigued, or Sickened; 6th—Dazed or Shaken; 9th—Blinded (replaces Dazzled) or Staggered (replaces Dazed 12th—Exhausted (replaces Fatigued 18th—Stunned (replaces Exhausted and Staggered).

As a Swift Action, the toxicant can collect and concentrate this secretion into a poison they can deliver as a Touch Attack or apply to a weapon. Targets of such attacks must attempt saving throws as if they had touched the toxicant’s toxic secretion. The toxicant can do this a number of times per day equal to their alchemist level + their Intelligence modifier.

This ability replaces mutagen.

Toxic Digestion (Ex)

At 14th level, a toxicant can drink a poison as a Standard Action and suspend it within their own body. They are not affected by the poison, and don’t need to attempt saving throws against it. When the toxicant next uses their toxic secretion on a creature that attacks them with a natural or Unarmed Attack, they can expose the attacker to the digested poison (with that poison‘s normal duration, effects, and save DC) rather than their normal toxic secretion, even if the digested poison isn’t normally a contact poison. The alchemist can maintain only a single digested poison at a time. If they digest a new poison, any older digested poison is lost.

This ability replaces persistent mutagen.

Parent Class

Alchemist