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Masters of invention, Artificers use ingenuity and magic to create extraordinary objects and devices. They see magic as a complex system waiting to be decoded and then harnessed in their inventions.

Artificers use a variety of tools to channel their arcane power. To cast a spell, an artificer might use alchemist's supplies to create a potent elixir, calligrapher's supplies to inscribe a sigil of power, or tinker's tools to craft a temporary charm. The magic of Artificers is tied to their tools and their talents, and few other characters can produce the right tool for a job as well as an artificer.

Artificers of Cantara

Artificers are a rare breed in the Isles, it is a craft that is relatively new and most are entirely unfamiliar with. The city of Breakstorm is the undisputed home of Artifice. With the city's numerous guilds dedicated to the craft, invention is prized, competition is fierce, and tinkerers thrive. The magical inventions of Artificers are not only the backbone of Breakstorm's economy, but keep the city safe as well.

Beyond the Thundering City, you are like to find only a few shops of Artifice or Alchemy in any major city. A particularly lucky town might have a single tinkerer who crafts handy trinkets for their community. Often those who have apprenticed in Breakstorm will take their trade abroad and set up shop where there is no competition, or turn their skills away from business and to more dangerous vocations. These tinkerers make useful members of adventuring parties, able to create and augment gear for tricky situations, brew specialty potions, or leverage their cunning technology in combat.

The House of Inspired Hands is a thriving temple to Thal as well as a community workspace in Freshport. Some learn Artifice at the arcane University of Arna Del Mor. Artificers are prized crew aboard the ships that can afford them. Callista's military engineers are often trained artificers. Particularly cunning Lamitese gangs make use of artificer's they've poached from the honest life. Tyr's royal court has a Ministry of Engineering that is responsible for the city's impressive infrastructure. You can even find some in Elksa-Din who have dedicated their craft to creating stunning works of art.

Imbued Technology

Unlike other archetypes of magic wielders, Artificer's don't cast spells but instead create magic items and devices to do wonderous things. Contrary to the notions of common folk, this isn't as simple as making a sword and casting an enchantment on it. Artifice is a technical, unintuitive craft that is often as much about feeling as it is science. It is achieved by layering techniques (that are by no coincidence like the verbal, material, and somatic components of spells) into the crafting process that imbue the finished product with the desired properties. For example, smelting silver thread into an ingot, tempering the steel in a forge of burning rosewood, and engraving the proper runes would all be part of making a specific magical contraption. This is what separates artifice and alchemy from smiths, glassblowers, and chemists.

These processes allow the artifcer to evoke spiritual energies and imbue them into the project. Thus these creations are typically called "infused" or "imbued" items.

Creating an Artificer

The most important consideration when creating an artificer is what kind of craftsperson they are. Are you an industrious inventor forging metals in a shop and imbuing them with magical potential? Are you an eccentric alchemist fussing over beakers and burners to concoct potions and elixirs? Are you a traveling tinkerer constructing useful gear out of whatever materials you can scrounge up? Consider whether you use your ingenuity to create or destroy, and what inspires your creativity and industry.

It is also important to consider where you learned your trade. Most artificers started as apprentices in Breakstorm, though some may have found other routes. Perhaps you were a student at a local workshop, or an acolyte at the House of Inspired Hands or some similar temple. Were you self taught after stumbling upon some strange manuals? Maybe you were simply a traditional smith who sought new ways of developing their craft and began to pick up some new tricks.

If you like, you may even want to come up with a niche for your character to really bring them to life. Much like a cobbler specializes in only making footwear or a brewer specializes in beer, most artificers aren't generalists and instead have found a niche for themselves. Perhaps you specialize in creating magical instruments, or forging enhanced armor. You could even be an alchemist who's passion is to distill enchanted liquors instead of traditional elixirs!

Quick Build

You can make an artificer quickly by following these suggestions. First, put your highest ability score in Intelligence, followed by Constitution or Dexterity. Second, choose the guild artisan background.

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Artificer

Artificer Specialist

• Alchemist
• Armorer
• Artillerist (Only available in campaigns where firearms are available)
• Battle Smith

Level	Prof. Bonus	Features	Infusions	Infused Items	Cantrips	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th
1st	+2	Magical Tinkering, Spellcasting	—	—	2	2	—	—	—	—
2nd	+2	Infuse Item	4	2	2	2	—	—	—	—
3rd	+2	Artificer Specialist, The Right Tool for the Job	4	2	2	3	—	—	—	—
4th	+2	Ability Score Improvement/Feat	4	2	2	3	—	—	—	—
5th	+3	Artificer Specialist feature	4	2	2	4	2	—	—	—
6th	+3	Tool Expertise	6	3	2	4	2	—	—	—
7th	+3	Flash of Genius	6	3	2	4	3	—	—	—
8th	+3	Ability Score Improvement/Feat	6	3	2	4	3	—	—	—
9th	+4	Artificer Specialist feature	6	3	2	4	3	2	—	—
10th	+4	Magic Item Adept	8	4	3	4	3	2	—	—
11th	+4	Spell Storing Item	8	4	3	4	3	3	—	—
12th	+4	Ability Score Improvement/Feat	8	4	3	4	3	3	—	—
13th	+5	—	8	4	3	4	3	3	1	—
14th	+5	Magic Item Savant	10	5	4	4	3	3	1	—
15th	+5	Artificer Specialist feature	10	5	4	4	3	3	2	—
16th	+5	Ability Score Improvement/Feat	10	5	4	4	3	3	2	—
17th	+6	—	10	5	4	4	3	3	3	1
18th	+6	Magic Item Master	12	6	4	4	3	3	3	1
19th	+6	Ability Score Improvement/Feat	12	6	4	4	3	3	3	2
20th	+6	Soul of Artifice	12	6	4	4	3	3	3	2

hit dice: 1d8 per artificer level

hit points at 1st level: 8 + your Constitution modifier

hit points at higher levels: 1d8 (or 5) + your Constitution modifier per artificer level after 1st

armor proficiencies: Light armor, medium armor, shields

weapon proficiencies: Simple weapons

tools: Thieves’ tools, tinker’s tools, one type of artisan’s tools of your choice

saving throws: Constitution, Intelligence

skills: Choose two from Arcana, History, Investigation, Medicine, Nature, Perception, and Sleight of Hand

Firearms are virtually nonexistant in the Cantara Isles, though some rare examples may pop up in adventures after 1262. If your DM uses the rules on firearms in the Dungeon Master's Guide and your artificer has been exposed to the operation of such weapons, your artificer is proficient with them.

starting equipment:
You start with the following equipment, in addition to the equipment granted by your background:

• any two simple weapons


• a light crossbow and 20 bolts


• (a) studded leather armor or (b) scale mail


• thieves’ tools and a dungeoneer’s pack

Alternatively, you can ignore the equipment from your class and background, and start with 5d4 x 10 gp.

spellcasting:

You have studied the workings of magic and how to channel it through objects. As a result, you have gained the ability to replicate spells. You don't cast a spell by conventional means, instead by producing wonders through mundane items or outlandish inventions.

The Magic of Artifice

As an artificer, you use tools when you cast your spells. When describing your spellcasting, think about how you’re using a tool. For example, if you cast cure wounds using alchemist’s supplies, you could be quickly producing a salve. If you cast it using tinker’s tools, you might have a miniature device that binds wounds. The effect of the spell is the same either way.

Such details don’t limit you in any way or provide you with any benefit beyond the spell’s effects. You don’t have to justify how you’re using tools to cast a spell, but describing your spellcasting creatively is a fun way to distinguish yourself from other spellcasters

Tools Required

You produce your artificer spell effects through your tools. You must have a spellcasting focus — specifically thieves' tools or some kind of artisan's tool — in hand when you cast any spell with this Spellcasting feature. You must be proficient with the tool to use it in this way.

After you gain the Infuse Item feature at 2nd level, you can also use any item bearing one of your infusions as a spellcasting focus.

Cantrips

At 1st level, you know two cantrips of your choice from the artificer spell list. At higher levels, you learn additional artificer cantrips of your choice, as shown in the Cantrips column of the Artificer table.

When you gain a level in this class, you can replace one of the artificer cantrips you know with another cantrip from the artificer spell list.

Preparing and Casting Spells

The Artificer table shows how many spell slots you have to cast your artificer spells. To cast one of your artificer spells of 1st level or higher, you must expend a slot of the spell's level or higher. You regain all expended spell slots when you finish a long rest.

You prepare the list of artificer spells that are available for you to cast, choosing from the artificer spell list. When you do so, choose a number of artificer spells equal to your Intelligence modifier + half your artificer level, rounded down (minimum of one spell). The spells must be of a level for which you have spell slots.

For example, if you are a 5th-level artificer, you have four 1st-level and two 2nd-level spell slots. With an Intelligence of 14, your list of prepared spells can include four spells of 1st or 2nd Level, in any combination. If you prepare the 1st-level spell cure wounds, you can cast it using a 1st-level or a 2nd-level slot. Casting the spell doesn't remove it from your list of prepared spells.

You can change your list of prepared spells when you finish a long rest. Preparing a new list of artificer spells requires time spent in tinkering with your spellcasting focuses: at least 1 minute per spell level for each spell on your list.

Spellcasting Ability

Intelligence is your spellcasting ability for your artificer spells; your understanding of the theory behind magic allows you to wield these spells with superior skill. You use your Intelligence whenever an artificer spell refers to your spellcasting ability. In addition, you use your Intelligence modifier when setting the saving throw DC for an artificer spell you cast and when making an attack roll with one.

Spell save DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Intelligence modifier

Spell Attack modifier = your proficiency bonus + your Intelligence modifier

Ritual Casting

You can cast an artificer spell as a ritual if that spell has the ritual tag and you have the spell prepared.

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class features:

Magical Tinkering

1st-level artificer feature

You've learned how to invest a spark of magic into mundane objects. To use this ability, you must have tinker's tools or other artisan's tools in hand. You then touch a tiny nonmagical object as an action and give it one of the following magical properties of your choice:

• The object sheds bright light in a 5-foot radius and dim light for an additional 5 feet.
• Whenever tapped by a creature, the object emits a recorded message that can be heard up to 10 feet away. You utter the message when you bestow this property on the object, and the recording can be no more than 6 seconds long.
• The object continuously emits your choice of an odor or a nonverbal sound (wind, waves, chirping, or the like). The chosen phenomenon is perceivable up to 10 feet away.
• A static visual effect appears on one of the object's surfaces. This effect can be a picture, up to 25 words of text, lines and shapes, or a mixture of these elements, as you like.

The chosen property lasts indefinitely. As an action, you can touch the object and end the property early.

You can bestow magic on multiple objects, touching one object each time you use the feature, though a single object can only bear one property at a time. The maximum number of objects you can affect with the feature at one time is equal to your Intelligence modifier (minimum of one object). If you try to exceed your maximum, the oldest property immediately ends, and then the new property applies.

Infuse Item

2nd-level artificer feature

You've gain the ability to imbue mundane items with certain magical infusions. The magic items you create with this feature are effectively prototypes of permanent items.

Infusions Known

When you gain this feature, pick four Artificer Infusions to learn, choosing from the "Artificer Infusions" section at the end of the class's description. You learn additional infusions of your choice when you reach certain levels in this class, as shown in the Infusions Known column of the Artificer table.

Whenever you gain a level in this class, you can replace one of the Artificer Infusions you learned with a new one.

Infusing an Item

Whenever you gain a level in this class, you can replace one of the artificer infusions you learned with a new one. Whenever you finish a long rest, you can touch a nonmagical object and imbue it with one of your artificer infusions, turning it into a magic item. An infusion works on only certain kinds of objects, as specified in the infusion's description. If the item requires attunement, you can attune yourself to it the instant you infuse the item. If you decide to attune to the item later, you must do so using the normal process for attunement.

Your infusion remains in an item indefinitely, but when you die, the infusion vanishes after a number of days equal to your Intelligence modifier (minimum of 1 day). The infusion also vanishes if you replace your knowledge of the infusion.

You can infuse more than one nonmagical object at the end of a long rest; the maximum number of objects appears in the Infused Items column of the Artificer table. You must touch each of the objects, and each of your infusions can be in only one object at a time. Moreover, no object can bear more than one of your infusions at a time. If you try to exceed your maximum number of infusions, the oldest infusion ends, and then the new infusion applies.

If an infusion ends on an item that contains other things, like a Bag of Holding, its contents harmlessly appear in and around its space.

Artificer Specialist

3rd-level artificer feature

Choose the type of specialist you are: Alchemist, Armorer, Artillerist, or Battle Smith, each of which is detailed further on. Your choice grants you features at 3rd level and again at 5th, 9th, and 15th level.

• Alchemist
• Armorer
• Artillerist (Only available in campaigns where firearms are available)
• Battle Smith

The Right Tool for the Job

3rd-level artificer feature

You've learned how to produce exactly the tool you need: with tinker's tools in hand, you can magically create one set of artisan's tools in an unoccupied space within 5 feet of you. This creation requires 1 hour of uninterrupted work, which can coincide with a short or long rest. Though the product of magic, the tools are nonmagical, and they vanish when you use this feature again.

Ability Score Improvement/Feat

4th-level artificer feature

Whenever you reach a level that gives this feature you canchoose between these two options:

Ability Score Improvement. 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.

Feat. You can take a feat of your choice, as long as you meet it's prerequisites and qualify for it per the DM. You can take each feat only once, unless the feat’s description says otherwise.

Tool Expertise

6th-level artificer feature

Your proficiency bonus is doubled for any ability check you make that uses your proficiency with a tool.

Flash of Genius

7th-level artificer feature

You've gained the ability to come up with solutions under pressure. When you or another creature you can see within 30 feet of you makes an ability check or a saving throw, you can use your reaction to add your Intelligence modifier to the roll.

You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Intelligence modifier (minimum of once). You regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Magic Item Adept

10th-level artificer feature

You've achieved a profound understanding of how to use and make magic items:

You can attune to up to four magic items at once. If you craft a magic item with a rarity of common or uncommon, it takes you a quarter of the normal time, and it costs you half as much of the usual gold.

Spell-Storing Item

11th-level artificer feature

You can now store a spell in an object. Whenever you finish a long rest, you can touch one simple or martial weapon or an item that you can use as a spellcasting focus, and store a spell in it, choosing one 1st- or 2nd-level spell from the artificer spell list that requires 1 action to cast (you needn't have it prepared).

While holding the object, a creature can take an action to produce the spell's effect from it, using your spellcasting ability modifier. If the spell requires concentration, the creature must concentrate. The spell stays in the object until it's been used a number of times equal to twice your Intelligence modifier (minimum of twice) or until you use this feature again.

Magic Item Savant

14th-level artificer feature

At 14th level, your skill with magic items deepens more:

• You can attune to up to five magic items at once.
• You ignore all class, race, spell, and level requirements on attuning to or using a magic item.

Magic Item Master

18th-level artificer feature

You can now attune to up to six magic items at once.

Soul of Artifice

20th-level artificer feature

You've developed a mystical connection to your magic items, which you can draw on for protection:

• You gain a +1 bonus to all saving throws per magic item you are currently attuned to.
• If you're reduced to 0 hit points but not killed outright, you can use your reaction to end one of your artificer infusions, causing you to drop to 1 hit point instead of 0.

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subclass options:

Alchemist

An Alchemist is an expert at combining reagents to produce mystical effects. Alchemists use their creations to give life and to leech it away. Alchemy is the oldest of artificer traditions, and its versatility has long been valued during times of war and peace.

Tool Proficiency

3rd-level alchemist feature

You gain proficiency with alchemist's supplies. If you already have this proficiency, you gain proficiency with one other type of artisan's tools of your choice.

Alchemist Spells

3rd-level alchemist feature

You always have certain spells prepared after you reach particular levels in this class, as shown in the Alchemist Spells table. These spells count as artificer spells for you, but they don’t count against the number of artificer spells you prepare.

Artificer Level	Spells
3rd	healing word, ray of sickness
5th	flaming sphere, melf's acid arrow
9th	gaseous form, mass healing word
13th	blight, death ward
17th	cloudkill, raise dead

Experimental Elixir

3rd-level alchemist feature

Whenever you finish a long rest, you can magically produce an experimental elixir in an empty flask you touch. Roll on the Experimental Elixir table for the elixir's effect, which is triggered when someone drinks the elixir. As an action, a creature can drink the elixir or administer it to an incapacitated creature.

You can create additional experimental elixirs by expending a spell slot of 1st level or higher for each one. When you do so, you use your action to create the elixir in an empty flask you touch, and you choose the elixir's effect from the Experimental Elixir table.

Creating an experimental elixir requires you to have alchemist supplies on your person, and any elixir you create with this feature lasts until it is drunk or until the end of your next long rest.

When you reach certain levels in this class, you can make more elixirs at the end of a long rest: two at 6th level and three at 15th level. Roll for each elixir's effect separately. Each elixir requires its own flask.

d6	Effect
1	Healing: The drinker regains a number of hit points equal to 2d4 + your Intelligence modifier.
2	Swiftness: The drinker's walking speed increases by 10 feet for 1 hour.
3	Resilience: The drinker gains a +1 bonus to AC for 10 minutes.
4	Boldness: The drinker can roll a d4 and add the number rolled to every attack roll and saving throw they make for the next minute.
5	Flight: The drinker gains a flying speed of 10 feet for 10 minutes.
6	Transformation: The drinker's body is transformed as if by the alter self spell. The drinker determines the transformation caused by the spell, the effects of which last for 10 minutes.

Alchemical Savant

5th-level alchemist feature

You've developed masterful command of magical chemicals, enhancing the healing and damage you create through them. Whenever you cast a spell using your alchemist's supplies as the spellcasting focus, you gain a bonus to one roll of the spell. That roll must restore hit points or be a damage roll that deals acid, fire, necrotic, or poison damage, and the bonus equals your Intelligence modifier (minimum of +1).

Restorative Reagents

9th-level alchemist feature

You can incorporate restorative reagents into some of your works:

• Whenever a creature drinks an experimental elixir you created, the creature gains temporary hit points equal to 2d6 + your Intelligence modifier (minimum of 1 temporary hit point).
• You can cast lesser restoration without expending a spell slot and without preparing the spell, provided you use alchemist's supplies as the spellcasting focus. You can do so a number of times equal to your Intelligence modifier (minimum of once), and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Chemical Mastery

15th-level alchemist feature

You have been exposed to so many chemicals that they pose little risk to you, and you can use them to quickly end certain ailments:

• You gain resistance to acid damage and poison damage, and you are now immune to the poisoned condition.
• You can cast greater restoration and heal without expending a spell slot, without preparing the spell, and without providing the material component, provided you use alchemist’s supplies as the spellcasting focus. Once you cast either spell with this feature, you can't cast that spell with it again until you finish a long rest.

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Armorer

An artificer who specializes as an Armorer modifies armor to function almost like a second skin. The armor is enhanced to hone the artificer's magic, unleash potent attacks, and generate a formidable defense. The artificer bonds with this armor, becoming one with it even as they experiment with it and refine its magical capabilities.

Tools of the Trade

3rd-level armorer feature

You gain proficiency with heavy armor. You also gain proficiency with smith's tools. If you already have this tool proficiency, you gain proficiency with one other type of artisan's tools of your choice.

Armorer Spells

3rd-level armorer feature

You always have certain spells prepared after you reach particular levels in this class, as shown in the Armorer Spells table. These spells count as artificer spells for you, but they don't count against the number of artificer spells you prepare.

Artificer Level	Spells
3rd	magic missile, thunderwave
5th	mirror image, shatter
9th	hypnotic pattern, lightning bolt
13th	fire shield, greater invisibility
17th	passwall, wall of force

Arcane Armor

3rd-level armorer feature

Your metallurgical pursuits have led to you making armor a conduit for your magic. As an action, you can turn a suit of armor you are wearing into Arcane Armor, provided you have smith's tools in hand.

You gain the following benefits while wearing this armor:

• If the armor normally has a Strength requirement, the arcane armor lacks this requirement for you.
• You can use the arcane armor as a spellcasting focus for your artificer spells.
• The armor attaches to you and can’t be removed against your will. It also expands to cover your entire body, although you can retract or deploy the helmet as a bonus action. The armor replaces any missing limbs, functioning identically to a body part it is replacing.
• You can doff or don the armor as an action.

The armor continues to be Arcane Armor until you don another suit of armor or you die.

Armor Model

3rd-level armorer feature

You can customize your Arcane Armor. When you do so, choose one of the following armor models: Guardian or Infiltrator. The model you choose gives you special benefits while you wear it.

Each model includes a special weapon. When you attack with that weapon, you can add your Intelligence modifier, instead of Strength or Dexterity, to the attack and damage rolls.

You can change the armor's model whenever you finish a short or long rest, provided you have smith's tools in hand.

Guardian.

You design your armor to be in the front line of conflict. It has the following features:

• Thunder Gauntlets. Each of the armor's gauntlets counts as a simple melee weapon while you aren't holding anything in it, and it deals 1d8 thunder damage on a hit. A creature hit by the gauntlet has disadvantage on attack rolls against targets other than you until the start of your next turn, as the armor magically emits a distracting pulse when the creature attacks someone else.
• Defensive Field. As a bonus action, you can gain temporary hit points equal to your level in this class, replacing any temporary hit points you already have. You lose these temporary hit points if you doff the armor. You can use this bonus action a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Infiltrator

You customize your armor for subtle undertakings. It has the following features:

• Lightning Launcher. A gemlike node appears on one of your armored fists or on the chest (your choice). It counts as a simple ranged weapon, with a normal range of 90 feet and a long range of 300 feet, and it deals 1d6 lightning damage on a hit. Once on each of your turns when you hit a creature with it, you can deal an extra 1d6 lightning damage to that target.
• Powered Steps. Your walking speed increases by 5 feet.
• Dampening Field. You have advantage on Dexterity (Stealth) checks. If the armor normally imposes disadvantage on such checks, the advantage and disadvantage cancel each other, as normal.

Extra Attack

5th-level armorer feature

You can attack twice, rather than once, whenever you take the attack action on your turn.

Armor Modifications

9th-level armorer feature

You've learned how to use your artificer infusions to specially modify your Arcane Armor. That armor now counts as separate items for the purposes of your Infuse Items feature: armor (the chest piece), boots, helmet, and the armor's special weapon. Each of those items can bear one of your infusions, and the infusions transfer over if you change your armor's model with the Armor Model feature. In addition, the maximum number of items you can infuse at once increases by 2, but those extra items must be part of your Arcane Armor.

Perfected Armor

15th-level armorer feature

Your Arcane Armor gains additional benefits based on its model, as shown below.

Guardian. When a Huge or smaller creature you can see ends its turn within 30 feet of you, you can use your reaction to magically force the creature to make a Strength saving throw against your spell save DC, pulling the creature up to 30 feet toward you to an unoccupied space. If you pull the target to a space within 5 feet of you, you can make a melee weapon attack against it as part of this reaction.

You can use this reaction a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, and you regain all expended uses of it when you finish a long rest.

Infiltrator. Any creature that takes lightning damage from your Lightning Launcher glimmers with magical light until the start of your next turn. The glimmering creature sheds dim light in a 5-foot radius, and it has disadvantage on attack rolls against you, as the light jolts it if it attacks you. In addition, the next attack roll against it has advantage, and if that attack hits, the target takes an extra 1d6 lightning damage.

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Artillerist

An Artillerist specializes in devices that hurl energy, projectiles, and explosions on a battlefield. Whether with precision or broad destructive potential, they can significantly augment a group's power. And when war passes, some members of this specialization seek to build a more peaceful world by using their powers to fight the resurgence of strife. "It's about time we fixed things instead of blowing them all to hell."

Tool Proficiency

3rd-level artillerist feature

You gain proficiency with woodcarver's tools. If you already have this proficiency, you gain proficiency with one other type of artisan's tools of your choice.

Artillerist Spells

3rd-level artillerist feature

You always have certain spells prepared after you reach particular levels in this class, as shown in the Artillerist Spells table. These spells count as artificer spells for you, but they don’t count against the number of artificer spells you prepare.

Artificer Level	Spells
3rd	shield, thunderwave
5th	scorching ray, shatter
9th	fireball, wind wall
13th	ice storm, wall of fire
17th	cone of cold, wall of force

Eldritch Cannon

3rd-level artillerist feature

Also at 3rd level, you've learned how to create a magical cannon. Using woodcarver's tools or smith's tools, you can take an action to magically create a small or tiny eldritch cannon in an unoccupied space on a horizontal surface within 5 feet of you. A small eldritch cannon occupies its space, and a tiny one can be held in one hand. Once you create a cannon, you can't do so again until you finish a long rest or until you expend a spell slot to create one. You can have only one cannon at a time and can't create one while your cannon is present.

The cannon is a magical object. Regardless of size, the cannon has an AC of 18 and a number of hit points equal to five times your artificer level. It is immune to poison damage and psychic damage. If it is forced to make an ability check or a saving throw, treat all its ability scores as 10 (+0). If the mending spell is cast on it, it regains 2d6 hit points. It disappears if it is reduced to 0 hit points or after 1 hour. You can dismiss it early as an action.

When you create the cannon, you determine its appearance and whether it has legs. You also decide which type it is, choosing from the options on the Eldritch Cannons table. On each of your turns, you can take a bonus action to cause the cannon to activate if you are within 60 feet of it. As part of the same bonus action, you can direct the cannon to walk or climb up to 15 feet to an unoccupied space, provided it has legs.

Turret	Activation
Flamethrower	The cannon exhales fire in an adjacent 15-foot cone that you designate. Each creature in that area must make a Dexterity saving throw against your spell save DC, taking 2d8 fire damage on a failed save or half as much damage on a successful one. The fire ignites any flammable objects in the area that aren't being worn or carried.
Force Ballista	Make a ranged spell attack, originating from the cannon, at one creature or object within 120 feet of it. On a hit, the target takes 2d8 force damage, and if the target is a creature, it is pushed up to 5 feet away from the cannon.
Protector	The cannon emits a burst of positive energy that grants itself and each creature of your choice within 10 feet of it a number of temporary hit points equal to 1d8 + your Intelligence modifier (minimum of +1).

Arcane Firearm

5rd-level artillerist feature

You know how to turn a wand, staff, or rod into an arcane firearm, a conduit for your destructive spells. When you finish a long rest, you can use woodcarver's tools to carve special sigils into a wand, staff, or rod and thereby turn it into your arcane firearm. The sigils disappear from the object if you later carve them on a different item. The sigils otherwise last indefinitely.

You can use your arcane firearm as a spellcasting focus for your artificer spells. When you cast an artificer spell through the firearm, roll a d8, and you gain a bonus to one of the spell's damage rolls equal to the number rolled.

Explosive Cannon

9th-level artillerist feature

Every eldritch cannon you create is more destructive:

• The cannon's damage rolls all increase by 1d8.
• As an action, you can command the cannon to detonate if you are within 60 feet of it. Doing so destroys the cannon and forces each creature within 20 feet of it to make a Dexterity saving throw against your spell save DC, taking 3d8 force damage on a failed save or half as much damage on a successful one.

Fortified Position

15th-level artillerist feature

You've become a master at forming well-defended emplacements using Eldritch Cannon:

• You and your allies have half cover while within 10 feet of a cannon you create with Eldritch Cannon, as a result of a shimmering field of magical protection that the cannon emits.
• You can now have two cannons at the same time. You can create two with the same action (but not the same spell slot), and you can activate both of them with the same bonus action. You determine whether the cannons are identical to each other or different. You can't create a third cannon while you have two.

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Battle Smith

Armies require protection, and someone has to put things back together if defenses fail. A combination of protector and medic, a Battle Smith is an expert at defending others and repairing both materiel and personnel. To aid in their work, Battle Smiths are accompanied by a steel defender, a protective companion of their own creation. Many soldiers tell stories of nearly dying before being saved by a Battle Smith and a steel defender.

Tool Proficiency

3rd-level battle smith feature

You gain proficiency with smith's tools. If you already have this proficiency, you gain proficiency with one other type of artisan's tools of your choice.

Battle Smith Spells

3rd-level battle smith feature

You always have certain spells prepared after you reach particular levels in this class, as shown in the Battle Smith Spells table. These spells count as artificer spells for you, but they don’t count against the number of artificer spells you prepare.

Artificer Level	Spells
3rd	heroism, shield
5th	branding smite, warding bond
9th	aura of vitality, conjure barrage
13th	aura of purity, fire shield
17th	banishing smite, mass cure wounds

Battle Ready

3rd-level battle smith feature

When you reach 3rd level, your combat training and your experiments with magic have paid off in two ways:

• You gain proficiency with martial weapons.
• When you attack with a magic weapon, you can use your Intelligence modifier, instead of Strength or Dexterity modifier, for the attack and damage rolls.

Steel Defender

3rd-level battle smith feature

By 3rd level, your tinkering has borne you a faithful companion, a steel defender. It's friendly to you and your companions, and it obeys your commands. See its game statistics in the Steel Defender stat block, which uses your proficiency bonus (PB) in several places. You determine the creature's appearance and whether it has two legs or four; your choice has no effect on its game statistics.

In combat, the defender shares your initiative count, but it takes its turn immediately after yours. It can move and use its reaction on its own, but the only action it takes on its turn is the dodge action, unless you take a bonus action on your turn to command it to take another action. That action can be one in its stat block or some other action. If you are incapacitated, the defender can take any action of its choice, not just dodge.

If the mending spell is cast on it, it regains 2d6 hit points. If it has died within the last hour, you can use your smith's tools as an action to revive it, provided you are within 5 feet of it and you expend a spell slot of 1st level or higher. The steel defender returns to life after 1 minute with all its hit points restored.

At the end of a long rest, you can create a new steel defender if you have smith's tools with you. If you already have a defender from this feature, the first one immediately perishes. The defender also perishes if you die.

Extra Attack

5rd-level battle smith feature

You can attack twice, rather than once, whenever you take the attack action on your turn.

Arcane Jolt

9th-level battle smith feature

You've learned new ways to channel arcane energy to harm or heal. When either you hit a target with a magic weapon attack or your steel defender hits a target, you can channel magical energy through the strike to create one of the following effects:

• The target takes an extra 2d6 force damage.
• Choose one creature or object you can see within 30 feet of the target. Healing energy flows into the chosen recipient, restoring 2d6 hit points to it.

You can use this energy a number of times equal to your Intelligence modifier (minimum of once), but you can do so no more than once on a turn. You regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Improved Defender

15th-level battle smith feature

Your Arcane Jolt and steel defender become more powerful:

• The extra damage and the healing of your Arcane Jolt both increase to 4d6.
• Your steel defender gains a +2 bonus to armor class.
• Whenever your steel defender uses its Deflect Attack, the attacker takes force damage equal to 1d4 + your Intelligence modifier.

Artificer Infusions

Artificer infusions are extraordinary processes that rapidly turn a nonmagical object into a magic item. The description of each of the following infusions details the type of object that can receive it, along with whether the resulting magic item requires attunement.

Some infusions specify a minimum artificer level. You can't learn such an infusion until you are at least that level.

Unless an infusion's description says otherwise, you can't learn an infusion more than once.

Arcane Propulsion Armor

Prerequisite: 14th-level Artificer

Item: A suit of armor (requires attunement)

The wearer of this armor gains these benefits:

• The wearer's walking speed increases by 5 feet.
• The armor includes gauntlets, each of which is a magic melee weapon that can be wielded only when the hand is holding nothing. The wearer is proficient with the gauntlets, and each one deals 1d8 force damage on a hit and has the Thrown property, with a normal range of 20 feet and a Long Range of 60 feet. When Thrown, the gauntlet detaches and flies at the attack's target, then immediately returns to the wearer and reattaches.
• The armor can't be removed against the wearer's will.
• If the wearer is missing any limbs, the armor replaces those limbs—hands, arms, feet, legs, or similar appendages. The replacements function identically to the body parts they replace.

Armor of Magical Strength

Item: A suit of armor (requires attunement)

This armor has 6 charges. The wearer can expend the armor's charges in the following ways:

• When the wearer makes a Strength check or a Strength saving throw, it can expend 1 charge to add a bonus to the roll equal to its Intelligence modifier.
• If the creature would be knocked prone, it can use its reaction to expend 1 charge to avoid being knocked prone.

The armor regains 1d6 expended charges daily at dawn.

Boots of the Winding Path

Prerequisite: 6th-level Artificer

Item: A pair of boots (requires attunement)

While wearing these boots, a creature can teleport up to 15 feet as a bonus action to an unoccupied space the creature can see. The creature must have occupied that space at some point during the current turn.

Enhanced Arcane Focus

Item: A rod, staff, or wand (requires attunement)

While holding this item, a creature gains +1 bonus to spell attack rolls. In addition, the creature ignores half cover when making a spell attack.

The bonus increases to +2 when you reach 10th level in this class.

Enhanced Defense

Item: A suit of armor or a shield

A creature gains a +1 bonus to Armor Class while wearing (armor) or wielding (shield) the infused item.

The bonus increases to +2 when you reach 10th level in this class.

Enhanced Weapon

Item: A simple or martial weapon

This magic weapon grants a +1 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with it.

The bonus increases to +2 when you reach 10th level in this class.

Helm of Awareness

Prerequisite: 10th-level Artificer

Item: A helmet (requires attunement)

While wearing this helmet, a creature has advantage on initiative rolls. In addition, the wearer can’t be surprised, provided it isn’t incapacitated.

Homunculus Servant

Item: A gem or crystal worth at least 100 gp

You learn intricate methods for magically creating a special homunculus that serves you. The item you infuse serves as the creature's heart, around which the creature's body instantly forms.

You determine the homunculus's appearance. Some artificers prefer mechanical-looking birds, whereas some like winged vials or miniature, animate cauldrons.

The homunculus is friendly to you and your companions, and it obeys your commands. See this creature's game statistics in the Homunculus Servant stat block, which uses your proficiency bonus (PB) in several places.

In combat, the homunculus shares your initiative count, but it takes its turn immediately after yours. It can move and use its reaction on its own, but the only action it takes on its turn is the Dodge action, unless you take a bonus action on your turn to command it to take another action. That action can be one in its stat block or some other action. If you are incapacitated, the homunculus can take any action of its choice, not just Dodge.

The homunculus regains 2d6 hit points if the mending spell is cast on it. If you or the homunculus dies, it vanishes, leaving its heart in its space.

Mind Sharpener

Item: A suit of armor or robes

The infused item can send a jolt to the wearer to refocus their mind. The item has 4 charges. When the wearer fails a Constitution saving throw to maintain concentration on a spell, the wearer can use its reaction to expend 1 of the item's charges to succeed instead. The item regains 1d4 expended charges daily at dawn.

Radiant Weapon

Prerequisite: 6th-level Artificer

Item: A simple or martial weapon (requires attunement)

This magic weapon grants a +1 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with it. While holding it, the wielder can take a bonus action to cause it to shed bright light in a 30-foot radius and dim light for an additional 30 feet. The wielder can extinguish the light as a bonus action.

The weapon has 4 charges. As a reaction immediately after being hit by an attack, the wielder can expend 1 charge and cause the attacker to be blinded until the end of the attacker's next turn, unless the attacker succeeds on a Constitution saving throw against your spell save DC. The weapon regains 1d4 expended charges daily at dawn.

Repeating Shot

Item: A simple or martial weapon with the ammunition property (requires attunement)

This magic weapon grants a +1 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with it when it's used to make a ranged attack, and it ignores the loading property if it has it.

If you load no ammunition in the weapon, it produces its own, automatically creating one piece of magic ammunition when you make a ranged attack with it. The ammunition created by the weapon vanishes the instant after it hits or misses a target.

Repulsion Shield

Prerequisite: 6th-level Artificer

Item: A shield (requires attunement)

A creature gains a +1 bonus to Armor Class while wielding this shield.

The shield has 4 charges. While holding it, the wielder can use a reaction immediately after being hit by a melee attack to expend 1 of the shield's charges and push the attacker up to 15 feet away. The shield regains 1d4 expended charges daily at dawn.

Returning Weapon

Item: A simple or martial weapon with the thrown property

This magic weapon grants a +1 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with it, and it returns to the wielder’s hand immediately after it is used to make a ranged attack.

Replicate Magic Item

Using this infusion, you replicate a particular magic item. You can learn this infusion multiple times; each time you do so, choose a magic item that you can make with it, picking from the Replicable Items tables. A table's title tells you the level you must be in the class to choose an item from the table. Alternatively, you can choose the magic item from among the common magic items in the game, not including potions or scrolls.

In the tables, an item's entry tells you whether the item requires attunement. See the item's description in the Dungeon Master's Guide for more information about it, including the type of object required for its making.

If you have Xanathar's Guide to Everything, you can choose from among the common magic items in that book when you pick a magic item you can replicate with this infusion.

2nd-Level Artificer

Item	Attunement
Alchemy Jug	No
Armblade	Yes
Bag of Holding	No
Cap of Water Breathing	No
Goggles of Night	No
Prosthetic Limb	Yes
Rope of Climbing	No
Sending Stones	No
Wand of Magic Detection	No
Wand of Secrets	No

6th-Level Artificer

Item	Attunement
Boots of Elvenkind	No
Cloak of Elvenkind	Yes
Cloak of the Manta Ray	No
Eyes of Charming	Yes
Gloves of Thievery	No
Lantern of Revealing	No
Pipes of Haunting	No
Ring of Water Walking	No
Wand Sheath	Yes

10th-Level Artificer

Item	Attunement
Boots of Striding and Springing	Yes
Boots of the Winterlands	Yes
Bracers of Archery	Yes
Brooch of Shielding	Yes
Cloak of Protection	Yes
Eyes of the Eagle	Yes
Gauntlets of Ogre Power	Yes
Gloves of Missile Snaring	Yes
Gloves of Swimming and Climbing	Yes
Hat of Disguise	Yes
Headband of Intellect	Yes
Helm of Telepathy	Yes
Medallion of Thoughts	Yes
Periapt of Wound Closure	Yes
Pipes of the Sewers	Yes
Quiver of Ehlonna	No
Ring of Jumping	Yes
Ring of Mind Shielding	Yes
Slippers of Spider Climbing	Yes
Ventilating Lungs	Yes
Winged Boots	Yes

14th-Level Artificer

Item	Attunement
Amulet of Health	Yes
Arcane Propulsion Arm	Yes
Belt of Hill Giant Strength	Yes
Boots of Levitation	Yes
Boots of Speed	Yes
Bracers of Defense	Yes
Cloak of the Bat	Yes
Dimensional Shackles	No
Gem of Seeing	Yes
Horn of Blasting	No
Ring of Free Action	Yes
Ring of Protection	Yes
Ring of the Ram	Yes

Resistant Armor

Prerequisite: 6th-level Artificer

Item: A suit of armor (requires attunement)

While wearing this armor, a creature has resistance to one of the following damage types, which you choose when you infuse the item: acid, cold, fire, force, lightning, necrotic, poison, psychic, radiant, or thunder.

Spell-Refueling Ring

Prerequisite: 6th-level Artificer

Item: A ring (requires attunement)

While wearing this ring, the creature can recover one expended spell slot as an action. The recovered slot can be of 3rd level or lower. Once used, the ring can't be used again until the next dawn.

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Statblocks

Steel Defender CR: —

Medium construct,

Armor Class: 15 (natural armor)

Hit Points: 2 + your Intelligence modifier + five times your artificer level (the defender has a number of Hit Dice [d8s] equal to your artificer level)

Speed: 40 ft

STR

14 +2

DEX

12 +1

CON

14 +2

INT

4 -3

WIS

10 +0

CHA

6 -2

Saving Throws: Dex +1 plus PB, Con +2 plus PB

Skills: Athletics +2 plus PB, Perception +0 plus PB x 2

Damage Immunities: poison

Condition Immunities: charmed, exhaustion, poisoned

Senses: darkvision 60ft., passive perception 10 + (PB x2)

Languages: understands the languages you speak

Challenge Rating: —

Vigilant. The defender can't be surprised.

Actions

Force-Empowered Rend. Melee Weapon Attack: your spell attack modifier to hit, reach 5 ft., one target you can see. Hit: 1d8 + PB force damage.
Repair (3/day). The magical mechanisms inside the defender restore 2d8 + PB hit points to itself or to one construct or object within 5 feet of it.

Reactions

Deflect Attack. The defender imposes disadvantage on the attack roll of  one creature it can see that is within 5 feet of it, provided the attack roll is against a creature other than the defender.

Homunculus Servant CR: —

Medium construct,

Armor Class: 13 (natural armor)

Hit Points: 1 + your Intelligence modifier + your artificer level (the defender has a number of Hit Dice [d4s] equal to your artificer level)

Speed: 20 ft , fly: 30 ft

STR

4 -3

DEX

15 +2

CON

12 +1

INT

10 +0

WIS

10 +0

CHA

7 -2

Saving Throws: Dex +2 plus PB

Skills: Perception +0 plus PB x 2, Stealth + 2 plus PB

Damage Immunities: poison

Condition Immunities: exhaustion poisoned

Senses: darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 10 + (PB x 2)

Languages: understands the languages you speak

Challenge Rating: —

Evasion. If the homunculus is subjected to an effect that allows it to make a Dexterity saving throw to take only half damage, it instead takes no damage if it succeeds on the saving throw, and only half damage if it fails. It can't use this trait if it's incapacitated.

Actions

Force Strike. Ranged Weapon Attack: your spell attack modifier to hit, range 30 ft., one target you can see. Hit: 1d4 + PB force damage.
Channel Magic. The homunculus delivers a spell you cast that has a range of touch. The homunculus must be within 120 feet of you.

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Artificer Spell List

Cantrips (0 Level)

Acid Splash

Booming Blade*

Create Bonfire**

Dancing Lights

Fire Bolt

Frostbite**

Green-Flame Blade*

Guidance

Light

Lightning Lure*

Mage Hand

Magic Stone**

Mending

Message

Poison Spray

Prestidigitation

Ray of Frost

Resistance

Shocking Grasp

Spare the Dying

Sword Burst*

Thorn Whip

Thunderclap**

1st Level

Absorb Elements**

Alarm (ritual)

Catapult**

Cure Wounds

Detect Magic (ritual)

Disguise Self

Expeditious Retreat

Faerie Fire

False Life

Feather Fall

Grease

Identify (ritual)

Jump

Longstrider

Purify Food and Drink (ritual)

Sanctuary

Snare**

Tasha’s Caustic Brew*

2nd Level

Aid

Alter Self

Arcane Lock

Blur

Continual Flame

Darkvision

Enhance Ability

Enlarge/Reduce

Heat Metal

Invisibility

Lesser Restoration

Levitate

Magic Mouth (ritual)

Magic Weapon

Protection from Poison

Pyrotechnics**

Rope Trick

See Invisibility

Skywrite** (ritual)

Spider Climb

Web

3rd Level

Blink

Catnap**

Create Food and Water

Dispel Magic

Elemental Weapon

Flame Arrows**

Fly

Glyph of Warding

Haste

Intellect Fortress*

Protection from Energy

Revivify

Tiny Servant**

Water Breathing (ritual)

Water Walk (ritual)

4th Level

Arcane Eye

Elemental Bane**

Fabricate

Freedom of Movement

Leomund’s Secret Chest

Mordenkainen’s Faithful Hound

Mordenkainen’s Private Sanctum

Otiluke’s Resilient Sphere

Stone Shape

Stoneskin

Summon Construct*

5th Level

Animate Objects

Bigby’s Hand

Creation

Greater Restoration

Skill Empowerment**

Transmute Rock**

Wall of Stone