You have worked in a town or a city as an Alchemist. Maybe working for the ruler of the settlement or for yourself trying to earn a living. Working with chemicals and potions has given you a large array of knowledge of how to make such concoctions. Using these skills you can make potions, deadly poisons, or primitive explosives.

Skill Proficiencies: Nature and Medicine

Tool Proficiencies: Alchemist's Supplies

Languages: one language of your choice

Equipment: Alchemist's supplies, 3 books on alchemical formula, a belt pouch with 10 GP and common clothes

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.

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 a specific component. 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.