Switchboard Operator

A subclass that is focused on support and communications.

Always Connected

3rd-Level Switchboard Operator feature
Upon reaching 3rd level, you gain proficiency in Cartographer’s Tools and learn two languages. If you already have proficiency in Cartographer’s Tools, you can gain proficiency in another set of artisan’s tools.

Switchboard Operator Spells

3rd-Level Switchboard Operator Feature
You always have certain spells prepared after you reach particular levels in this class, as shown in the Switchboard Operator Spells table. These spells count as artificer spells for you, but they don’t count against the number of artificer spells you prepare.

Switchboard Operator Specialist Spells

ARTIFICER LEVEL	SPELLS
3rd	Comprehend Languages, Speak with Animals
5th	Locate Animals or Plants, Locate Object
9th	Counterspell, Slow
13th	Dimension Door, Locate Creature
17th	Geas, Rary's Telepathic Bond

Arcane Headset

3rd-Level Switchboard Operator Feature
Upon taking this subclass, you gain a specialized headset to go with your attire.

You are able to communicate with anybody that has a Sending Stone, Earring of Message, similar items, communicators and telepathy as long as they are within 5 miles of you.

You can summon it as a Bonus Action and despawn the Arcane Headset as a Free Action.

At 5th level, when you create your Arcane Switchboard, the range increases to five times your Artificer level in miles.

At 15th level, while you have your Arcane Switchboard, the range is two-hundred fifty times the sum of your Artificer Level, proficiency bonus and Intelligence Modifier in miles.

Arcane Switchboard

3rd-Level Switchboard Operator Feature
Taking this subclass, you have the second part of the set that you can create on a long rest. If it gets destroyed, it requires 500 GP, a long rest and DC 20 Tinker’s Tools check.

With the Switchboard, you are able to communicate telepathically to anybody as long as you share one language with them.

During a long rest while you have the Arcane Switchboard, you can connect yourself to a number of targets with Sending Stones, Earrings of Message, similar items or communicators or Telepathy equal to your Intelligence Modifier.

While connected, your allies have the following benefits:

• You are able to swap your senses with theirs as a Bonus Action, and swap their senses with yours as an Action. Making yourself blinded and deafened in the process.
• They are able to communicate with yourself and any creature connected to you within a similar range as your Arcane Headset or 50 miles (whichever is higher).
• They are able to use Sending at will with the amount of words increased to 100 and the Message cantrip.

Stay on the Line

5th-Level Switchboard Operator Feature
Beginning at 5th level, you have to make sure to do what you can to keep the line up.

• Those connected to your Arcane Switchboard can be granted your Flash of Genius and able to cast spells that can heal or buff onto them.
• Those within 15 feet of you have advantage on Death Saving Throws.
• As an Action, those you are connected within the respective range, for one turn, you learn where their location is.

Emergency Line

9th-Level Switchboard Operator Feature
Reaching 9th level, you have to make sure your allies are okay.

• As an Action or Bonus Action, you can teleport an ally you can see towards you. If use a Bonus Action, it is 15 ft. while 30 ft. if use an Action.
• Those connected to your Arcane Switchboard gain a bonus to Death Saving Throws equal to your Intelligence Modifier. If they succeed in their Death Saving Throws, they regain 5 hit points and if they succeed with a critical success, they also gain temporary hit points equal to your Artificer Level.
• Those connected to your Arcane Switchboard, you can teleport to them or they can teleport to you. If you decide to teleport to them, it is an Action or a Reaction when the ally hits 0 hit points, you have an amount of uses equal to your Intelligence Modifier before needing a long rest. If they decide to teleport to you, it requires an Action and it is only them, they are only able to do this once per long rest.

Hang On

15th-Level Switchboard Operator Feature
Gotta be pretty knowledgeable on the field, and it shows when you hit 15th level.

• You have proficiency in History and have advantage on checks to recall information up to a month ago quickly. If you have the Keen Mind feat, you are able to recall information up to a number of years equal to your Intelligence Modifier quickly.
• You learn an additional cantrip from any spell list and two languages of your choice.
• You know and are able to cast Legend Lore with no spell slot an amount of times equal to your Intelligence Modifier or Proficiency Bonus (whichever is higher and at minimum of 2), regaining two uses on a long rest. If you have the spell slots, you can cast the spell with them.