Alchemist

You came to the City to be at the forefront of your art. You may approach alchemy through scientific principals, occultist texts, or as a discipline of magic. Regardless, your practice is founded upon observation and understanding.

Skill Proficiency: Nature, Investigation

Tool Proficiency: Two Alchemy Tools

Caustic Defense

You can replicate the effects of the Poison Spray cantrip. If you are a spellcaster, you learn the cantrip and use your spellcasting ability to cast it. Otherwise, your spellcasting ability for this cantrip is Intelligence.

(Optional) Starting Wizard Spells

Alchemist’s Spellbook

Burning Hands, Charm Person, Comprehend Languages, Detect Magic, Identify, Sleep

(Optional) Trait Tables

Personality Traits

d6	Personality Trait
1	I judge a person by the quality of what they’re wearing.
2	I’m prone to daydreaming.
3	I have a near religious reverence for art.
4	I have great respect for simple and practical tools.
5	I have an unorthodox sense of aesthetics.
6	I divide the world into the useful and the useless.

Ideals

d6	Ideal
1	Skill. I take great pride in my craft and dedicate myself to its improvement.
2	Value. I’m looking to make things that can be sold for large sums of money.
3	Respect. I want to become a big name in my craft.
4	Warfare. I’m mainly interested in the military applications of my craft.
5	Progress. I want my inventions to be found in every household someday.
6	Joy. I craft because the act of doing so brings me happiness.

Bonds

d6	Ideal
1	Patron. I am sponsored by a well-to-do individual or organization.
2	Rival. Another artisan has wronged me, and I’ll see them ruined for it.
3	Merchant. I sell my own crafts and have several repeat customers.
4	Guild. I belong to a community of like-minded craftsmen.
5	Devotee. My work is religious in nature, and I am affiliated with a specific deity.
6	Apprenticeship. I recently graduated from an apprenticeship to a great craftsman.

Flaws

d6	Ideal
1	Aesthetic. My crafts have an unorthodox and unpopular appearance.
2	Elitist. I dislike those that can’t appreciate good art.
3	Mercantile. I see the world in profits and losses.
4	Dangerous. I build things that perhaps shouldn’t be made.
5	Oblivious. I’m too focused, often at the expense of my surroundings.
6	Superiority. I’m loathe to admit quality in things I didn’t create.