You’ve devoted your life to uncovering the mechanisms that make the world work—both magical and mundane. Whether dissecting creatures, designing intricate machinery, or distilling volatile potions, your combination of intellect and precision drives your discoveries. You see the world as a system to be understood, improved, or re-imagined.
- Ability Scores: Increase your Intelligence, Dexterity, or Constitution with a 1:1:1 or 2:1 split.
In Character Builder: Choose 2 ability scores improvement from the granted feat and manually add one more during the ability score section
- Feat:
Choose one 1st-level feat that reflects your experimental training, such as:
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Crafter
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Skilled
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Magic Initiate
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- Skill Proficiencies: Investigation, Sleight of Hand
- Tool Proficiencies: Tinker’s Tools and one other Artisan’s Tool or Alchemist’s Supplies of your choice
- Languages: Common and one other language of your choice
- Equipment: Tinker’s tools, a small notebook of observations, a vial of mysterious material, a set of common clothes, and a pouch containing 10 gp.
Your trained mind notices structure and flaw in everything you study.
When you spend at least 1 minute examining a mechanism, alchemical compound, or arcane device, you can often discern its purpose or a potential weakness.
The DM may grant you advantage on one Intelligence (Investigation) or Dexterity (Tinker’s Tools) check related to analyzing or repairing complex objects.
Spell List
You gain the cantrip mending
| Spell Level | Spells |
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| Cantrip | mending |
Suggested Characteristics
| d6 | Personality Trait |
|---|---|
| 1 | I can’t resist taking apart anything intricate or unusual. |
| 2 | I describe emotions as if they were measurable phenomena. |
| 3 | Every failure is an experiment in progress. |
| 4 | I keep a meticulous notebook detailing every observation. |
| 5 | I’m convinced there’s a logical explanation for everything—even miracles. |
| 6 | I talk to my inventions as though they’re alive. |
| d6 | Ideal |
|---|---|
| 1 | Knowledge. The world’s mysteries exist to be understood. (Neutral) |
| 2 | Innovation. Progress demands bold experiments. (Chaotic) |
| 3 | Innovation. Progress demands bold experiments. (Chaotic) |
| 4 | Service. My discoveries should benefit others. (Good) |
| 5 | Power. Knowledge is control, and I will wield it. (Evil) |
| 6 | Freedom. Curiosity should never be restrained. (Chaotic Good) |
| d6 | Bond |
|---|---|
| 1 | My mentor’s unfinished research guides my every step. |
| 2 | I’m chasing a discovery that will immortalize my name. |
| 3 | A rival once stole my idea; I’ll surpass them through brilliance. |
| 4 | My first invention nearly killed me—I must perfect it. |
| 5 | I owe my career to a benefactor I can never repay. |
| 6 | My lab is my sanctuary, and I’ll defend it fiercely. |
| d6 | Flaw |
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| 1 | I take dangerous risks in the name of discovery. |
| 2 | I forget to eat or sleep when pursuing an idea. |
| 3 | I struggle to explain my thoughts in simple terms. |
| 4 | I’m dismissive of ideas that aren’t mine. |
| 5 | I obsess over details that don’t truly matter. |
| 6 | I’d rather experiment first and ask questions later. |
You study the living world in its natural habitats—cataloging, dissecting, and documenting the intricate relationships between creatures, plants, and ecosystems. From steaming jungles to frozen tundras, you’ve learned that life adapts in astonishing ways, and you record every detail with precision. Your training blends scientific rigor with practical fieldwork, making you both an observer and participant in nature’s grand experiment.
Your familiarity with living systems lets you make rapid, informed observations about unfamiliar organisms.
When you spend at least 1 minute observing or examining a living creature, remains, or plant, you can ask the DM one of the following questions, which they must answer truthfully, though briefly:
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What environmental conditions does it thrive in?
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What seems to be its primary defense or weakness?
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What role does it play in the surrounding ecosystem (predator, symbiotic, invasive, etc.)?
Additionally, when making an Intelligence (Nature) or Wisdom (Medicine) check to identify, handle, or stabilize a living creature, you may add your proficiency bonus twice instead of once. You can use this benefit a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, regaining all uses after a long rest.
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