Collecting various ingredients to combine into works of chemical reaction that border on magic. Some locals whisper that perhaps you are druid, or a mage of some sort, but it's just science. You may have worked in your own shop, served as apprentice to an older, more experienced alchemist, or just tinkered on your own until you learned your way around the ways of chemicals and cooking with fire.

Skill Proficiencies: You gain proficiency in arcana, nature, and your choice of medicine or survival.

Tool Proficiencies: You gain proficiency with Alchemist's Supplies and your choice of Herbalism Kit or Poisoner's Kit.

Languages: You gain proficiency in two languages of your choice, as you sometimes have to journey outside of your home to find the ingredients you need for your experiments.

Equipment: You start with Alchemist's Supplies, your choice of an Herbalism Kit or Poisoner's Kit, a set of common clothes, several books on alchemy including recipes and studies, and a pouch containing 5 gp.

Suggested Characteristics

Alchemists pride themselves on making more effective concoctions, you will always strive and spend your spare time trying to make yours more effective.

d8	Personality Trait
1	I have an insatiable thirst for knowledge.
2	I've been called a tad bit crazy.
3	I'm not the best around other people.
4	I refuse to lead, I'm more of a follower.
5	I will not follow, only lead.
6	I will not let others think me a fool.
7	I will do anything for more research.
8	I don't like being looked at. In fact, that bush is givin' me the stink eye...

d6	Ideal
1	Goodwill. If you don't use your knowledge to help others, then why do you even have it? (Good)
2	Money. I don't care what I'm being told to do; if you can pay, I can do it. (Neutral)
3	Power. I got into the trade for one reason; the feeling of the foolish being destroyed by my concoctions. (Evil)
4	Ethics. There are certain lines that science was never meant to cross. (Lawful)
5	Freedom. Laws restrict and corrupt the pure, free-flowing fount of knowledge. (Chaotic)
6	Knowledge. I simply want to unlock the secrets of chemicals and how they work. It's a passion of mine. (Any.)

d6	Bond
1	My family is impoverished, and I send money I make from my work back to them.
2	I never forget the faces of my customers, and consider them to be friends.
3	I have a rival who is a greater alchemist than I. I constantly seek to best them.
4	My notes on my greatest discovery were stolen, and I must find them before they fall into the wrong hands.
5	I have a great interest in teaching, and am constantly seeking out new students.
6	The one who taught me my trade still lives; I respect them above all else, and will defend them to the death if they require it.

d6	Flaw
1	My creations have been used for unspeakable evils. I can never forgive myself.
2	All of my work with my chemicals may or may not have ever so slightly addled my mind a tiny bit.
3	Ever since I got this job, I've been suffering from violent, destructive intrusive thoughts.
4	I've developed an addiction to one of my substances, and I need to make it whenever possible.
5	I have severe chemical burns from working on a chemical that required use of (X component here). I refuse to work with it, and have a phobia of it.
6	I don't do well in groups, and will go off on my own without asking others first.