Base Class: Artificer
While every Artificer tinkers with merging arcane magic and mechanical devices, an Mechanist specializes in using their knowledge of the arcane and the mechanical arts to assemble a device that can augment their own physical capabilities. This device—known as a Titan, or mech—enables the Mechanist to readily engage in physical combat, with the Titan providing the strength for their blows and helping to shield them from harm.
Titans vary greatly in appearance and form. Some are built like a hulking automaton, but with the addition of a cockpit canopy containing a control panel of buttons and levers. Others are mechanical suits of power armour, whose movements mimic those of the wearer and enhance them with magic and mechanical force.
Tool Proficiency
When you adopt this specialization at 3rd level, you gain proficiency with smith's tools. If you already have this proficiency, you gain proficiency with one other type of artisan’s tools of your choice.
Mechanist Spells
Starting at 3rd level, you always have certain spells prepared after you reach particular levels in this class, as shown in the Archanomechanist Spells table. These spells count as artificer spells for you, but they don’t count against the number of artificer spells you prepare.
Battle Hardened
When you reach 3rd level, your combat training and your experiments with mechanically assisted combat have paid off and you gain proficiency with martial weapons. You also learn the mending cantrip, which doesn’t count against your number of cantrips known.
Titanous Mechanics
By 3rd level, your tinkering has borne you an Titan, or "mech", which is a construct you can verbally command, or mount and control directly. You determine the Titan's appearance: it may have a fully enclosed chassis with a canopy atop with a seat and control panel, or it may be a hollow, close-fitting, suit of power armour; your choice has no effect on its game statistics. However all Titans have one similarity that are all powered by a large power source, one that maybe only its creator themself knows how to work, whether it be a large cluster of crystals that radiate off magical energy, a cobbled together battery that is recharged by the artificers magic or something else entirely, each creator has a special connection with the power source they use and has an in-depth knowledge on its benefits to their creation. However it is formed, it contains a space (referred to as its cockpit) which is the same size as you, from which it can be controlled by a creature (referred to as its pilot). It is friendly to you and your companions, and it obeys your commands. See this creature’s game statistics in the Mechanist's Titan stat block.
Might of the Master
Your Titan has hit points equal to five times your level in this class + your Intelligence modifier + the mech’s Constitution modifier. Its skill and saving throw bonuses increase by 1 whenever your proficiency bonus increases. When you reach 4th, 8th, 12th, 16th, and 19th level in this class, you can increase one of your Titan's ability scores of your choice by 2, or you can increase two ability scores of your choice by 1. You can’t increase your mech's ability scores above 20 using this feature.
Cockpit
The Titan has an interior space the same size as you, referred to as its cockpit. If the cockpit is unoccupied, any creature of this size or smaller which is within 5 feet of the mech can mount it and enter the cockpit by spending half their movement. While inside the cockpit, a creature has half cover from any threats external to the mech. Use the rules for mounted combat unless otherwise stated.
Pilotable
When you enter the cockpit of your Titan, you immediately take control of it (no action required). Any other humanoid creature mounted inside the cockpit of the Titan can spend their action to attempt to gain control of the mech. The creature must succeed on an Intelligence check with DC equal to 12 + your Intelligence modifier. On a success, the creature assumes control of the mech until the creature dismounts or is incapacitated. A creature controlling the mech from within its cockpit is referred to as its pilot. A pilot can not wield a shield or weapon while controlling the mech.
Mechanical Arms
The Titan has two arms. The primary arm can wield any simple or martial melee weapon which does not possess the two-handed or heavy property. The secondary arm can wield any melee weapon which possesses the light property. Its unarmed strikes deal bludgeoning damage equal to 1d6 + its Strength modifier. When a pilot commands the Titan to make an attack using a weapon with which the pilot is proficient, add the pilot's proficiency modifier to the attack roll, in addition to the mech's Strength modifier. Use the mech's Strength modifier for its weapon damage rolls.
Combat
With a pilot. The Titan shares initiative count with the pilot and takes its turn at the same time as the pilot. The archanomecha can take any action listed in its stat block in addition to those listed in the "Actions In Combat" section in chapter 9 of the Player’s Handbook. While it is being piloted it can also take a bonus action, using one of the options indicated in its stat block. However, the Titan can take an action, bonus action, and reaction only at the cost of its pilot's action, bonus action, and reaction, respectively. If the mech wields or carries an item which requires attunement, it gains the specified magical benefits of the item only if the pilot has attuned to the item.
Without a pilot. The Titan shares initiative count with you and takes its turn at the same time as you. You can verbally command the Titan where to move (no action required). The only action it takes on its turn is the Dodge action, unless you take a bonus action on your turn to verbally command it to take the Repair action described in its stat block or the Dash, Disengage, Help, Hide, or Search action. While it lacks a pilot, the mech can take one action and reaction each round, but no bonus action. If the mech wields or carries an item which requires attunement, it gains the specified magical benefits of the item if you have attuned to the item.
The Titan can take at most one action, bonus action, and reaction per round of combat, even if its controller changes during a round of combat.
Mendable
If the mending spell is cast on the Titan, it regains 2d6 hit points. If it has died within the last hour, you can use your smith's tools as an action to revive it, provided you are within 5 feet of it and you expend a spell slot of 1st level or higher. The Titan returns to life after 1 minute with all its hit points restored.
At the end of a long rest, you can create a new Titan if you have your smith’s tools with you. If you already have an Titan from this feature, the first one immediately perishes.
Spellcasting Focus
While you are piloting your Titan, you can use it as a spellcasting focus for your artificer spells. When you cast spells in this way, spells which would originate from the caster originate from the mech instead. When you cast a spell which affects all creatures within an area except for the caster, such as thunderclap, they affect neither you nor the mech.
Once you reach 11th level, you may use your Spell-Storing Item feature to store a spell in your mech. When a spell is stored in the mech, its pilot can use their action to produce the effects of the spell. If the spell requires concentration, the pilot must concentrate on it.
Share Spells
When you use your Titan as a spellcasting focus and cast an artificer spell targeting yourself, you can choose to have the spell also affect your mech.
Titan Infusions
Some artificer infusions which affect items can also be used to infuse your Titan. If you know one of these infusions, listed below, you can use it to infuse your Titan. If you imbue it with one of your artificer infusions, the Titan counts towards the number of objects you can infuse. An Titan can bear no more than one magical infusion at a time.
Mechanical Inventor
You are always striving for ways to improve your Titan.
When you reach 5th level, you develop two designs which can be used to improve your mech, choosing from the Titan Designs section at the end of this subclass's description. You learn two additional designs of your choice when you reach 9th level, and two more once you reach 15th level.
Whenever you gain a level in this class, you can replace one of the Titan designs you learned with a new one.
Titan Designs
The Titan designs are presented below, in order of prerequisite level. If a design specifies a minimum artificer level, you can’t learn such a design until you are at least that level in this class.
When you learn a new Titan design, you can incorporate it into your Titan the next time you complete a long rest, provided you have your smith's tools with you. You can integrate all the designs you know into the same Titan.
Each design you know is optional, and can be omitted from your archanomecha if you choose not to utilize it. For example, if you know the Giant Mech design, you can choose whether to build a giant Titan or a standard Titan.
Extra Mech Attack
When you spend your action to command your Titan to make a weapon attack, it can make two attacks instead of one.
Reinforced Plating
Your Titan gains a +1 bonus to its Armor Class. The bonus increases by one when you reach 9th level (+2), 13th level (+3), and 17th level (+4) in this class.
Spell-cannon Attachment
Whenever you cast an artificer spell using your Titan as a spellcasting focus, you gain a bonus of 1d8 to one of the spell’s damage rolls.
Enhanced Repair
Prerequisite: 9th level
When the mending spell is cast on your Titan, or it uses its Repair action on itself, it recovers additional hit points equal to your Intelligence modifier (minimum of 1). Also, your Titan can use its Repair action once more each day.
When you reach 15th level in this class, you gain one further use of the Titan's Repair action.
Giant Mech
Prerequisite: 9th level
You can create a giant Titan.
- The size of your Titan increases from Medium to Large.
- Its Strength and Constitution scores increase by 1, to a maximum of 21.
- It can wield any melee weapon in its primary arm, and any weapon without the two-handed or heavy property in its secondary arm.
- The damage of its unarmed strike increases to 1d8 + its Strength modifier.
- The cockpit of the giant Titan is elevated 10 feet off the ground. If a creature piloting the mech is dismounted, they fall 10 feet (1d6 bludgeoning damage). Melee combatants at ground level need at least a 10-foot reach to directly engage with a creature inside the cockpit.
Shocking Strike
Prerequisite: 9th level
When your Titan hits a target with a weapon attack or unarmed strike at your command, you can channel electrical energy through the attack. The target creature makes a Constitution saving throw against your spell save DC. On a failed save, the creature takes an additional 2d8 lightning damage and is stunned until the end of your next turn. On a successful save, the creature takes half as much damage and isn't stunned. The target has disadvantage on the save if they are wearing armor made of metal.
Once you use this feature, you must finish a short or long rest before you can use it again. Starting at 15th level, you can use it twice before a rest, but only once on the same turn.
Recurrent Memory Module
Prerequisite: 15th level
Your archanomecha's Intelligence score increases by 2.
If you have used your Spell-Storing Item feature to store a spell in your archanomecha, as a bonus action you can verbally command it to use its action to produce the effect of the stored spell whenever it does not have a pilot. If the spell requires concentration, the archanomecha must concentrate on it.
If a pilot of your archanomecha commands it to produce the stored spell and the spell requires concentration, they can choose whether to use their own concentration or the archanomecha's concentration.
Invulnerable Plating
Prerequisite: 17th level
Your archanomecha gains resistance to bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage from nonmagical weapons.
Static Pulse
At level 9 you empty the Titan's energy core for a short time, expelling a 30ft field of electrical energy around it.
Any creatures within 30ft of the Titan must make a Constitution saving throw against your Spell Save DC. Any creature that is within the Titan's cockpit is immune to this effect. On a failure creatures are stunned until your next turn and they take damage of a number of d8's equal to your level, i.e 9d8 at level 9, 12d8 at level 12 etc. On a success the creatures take half damage and are not stunned.
You can empty your Titan's once per long rest, this changes a 15th level when you can empty the core twice per long rest.
Prolific Inventor
When you reach 15th level, you learn two additional designs for your Titan.
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