Base Class: Artificer
With their magic these artificers create works of art with peerless skill, as well as give them literal life-like qualities.
Tool Proficiency
When you adopt this specialization at 3rd level, you gain proficiency with your choice of calligrapher's supplies or painter's supplies.
Arcane Artist Spells
3rd-level Arcane Artist feature
Starting at 3rd level, you always have certain spells prepared after you reach particular levels in this class, as shown in the Arcane Artist Spells table. These spells count as artificer spells for you, but they don’t count against the number of artificer spells you prepare.
Arcane Artist Spells
| Artificer Level | Spell |
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3rd |
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5th |
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9th |
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13th |
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17th |
Arcane Inks
3rd-level Arcane Artist feature
At 3rd level, you can draw the likeness of a creature and animate it to fight for you. While you are using your calligrapher's or painter's supplies as a spellcasting focus, as an action, you can expend a spell slot to quickly sketch the outline of and animate a creature you have seen before in an unoccupied space you can see within 5 feet of you. You can animate one creature with a challenge rating equal to or less your artificer level divided by 2, rounded down. The spell slot you expend depends on the challenge rating of the creature you animate, as shown in the Arcane Art table.
Arcane Art
| Spell Slot Expended | Max. CR |
|---|---|
| None | 0 |
| 1st | 1 |
| 2nd | 2 |
| 3rd | 4 |
| 4th | 6 |
| 5th | 8 |
The creature is also considered a construct, and disappears after 1 hour, when you use this feature again, if it is reduced to 0 hit points, or you lose your concentration (as if concentrating on a spell). The creature can't cast any spells, or inflict any diseases, and if the creature has any legendary or lair actions, they can't be used. The drawn creature is friendly to you and your companions. Roll for initiative for the drawn creature, which has its own turns. They obey any verbal command that you issue them (no action required by you). If you don't issue any commands to them, they defend themselves from hostile creatures, but otherwise take no actions. The DM has the creature's statistics.
Constructive Inks
3rd-level Arcane Artist feature
Also from 3rd level onwards, while you are using your calligrapher's or painter's supplies as a spellcasting focus, as an action, you can quickly sketch the outline of an inanimate object and solidify it in your hand or on the ground in an unoccupied space that you can see within 5 feet of you. This object can be no larger than 3 feet on a side and weigh no more than 10 pounds, and its form must be that of a nonmagical object that you have seen. The object is visibly magical. The object disappears after 1 hour, when you use this feature again, or if it takes or deals any damage.
Explosive Inks
5th-level Arcane Artist feature
At 5th level, whenever a creature you have animated with your Arcane Inks feature or an object you have solidified with your Constructive Inks feature disappears, you can choose one creature within 5 feet of it. That creature must succeed on a Dexterity saving throw or take your choice of 2d8 fire or acid damage. This damage increases to 3d8 at 9th level, and 4d8 at 15th level.
Line Work
9th-level Arcane Artsist feature
From 9th level onwards, whenever a creature you have animated with your Arcane Inks feature makes an attack roll, it can use your proficiency bonus and intelligence modifier for it's attack and damage rolls.
Living pigment
15th-level Arcane Artist feature
At 15th level, you can cast simulacrum once without expending a spell slot, provided you use your calligrapher's or painter's supplies as the spellcasting focus. You can't do so again until you finish a long rest. When you cast the spell in this way, the simulacrum is made of ink and paint instead of ice and snow.