Stitcher

The stitcher is not limited in the materials they use to make their creations. The stitcher incorporates flesh and bone into its creations and commands the energies of life and death. The stitcher blurs the lines between the animate and inanimate, weaving the two together in an often disturbing way.

Tool Proficiency

3rd-level Stitcher feature

You gain proficiency with surgery kit. If you already have this proficiency, you gain proficiency with one other type of artisan’s tools of your choice.

Stitcher Spells

3rd-level Stitcher feature

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

Stitcher Spells

Artificer Level	Spell
3rd	inflict wounds, healing word
5th	gentle repose, ray of enfeeblement
9th	animate dead, mass healing word
13th	blight, death ward
17th	raise dead, mass cure wounds

Skilled Surgeon

3rd-level Stitcher feature

Your surgical experiments and curiosity have paid off in two ways:

• You may add your intelligence modifier to medicine checks.
• You have advantage when using your surgical kit to harvest body parts from creatures.

Stitched Golem

3rd-level Stitcher feature

Your macabre experiments have borne you a twisted companion, a stitched golem. Made from scavenged flesh and bone, it is a horrific sight to others but to you it is a beautiful creation. It is friendly to you and your companions, and it obeys your commands. See this creature’s game statistics in the stitched golem stat block, which uses your proficiency bonus (PB) in several places. You determine the creature’s appearance and whether it has two legs or four; your choice has no effect on its game statistics.

In combat, the golem shares your initiative count, but it takes its turn immediately after yours. It can move and use its reaction on its own, but the only action it takes on its turn is the Dodge action, unless you take a bonus action on your turn to command it to take another action. That action can be one in its stat block or some other action. If you are incapacitated, the golem can take any action of its choice, not just Dodge.

If the mending spell is cast on it, it regains 2d6 hit points. If it has died within the last hour, you can use your surgery kit 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 stitched golem returns to life after 1 minute with all its hit points restored.

At the end of a long rest, you can create a new stitched golem if you have your surgery kit with you. If you already have a stitched golem from this feature, the first one immediately perishes. The golem also perishes if you die.

Command Creations

5th-level Stitcher feature

When you use a bonus action to command a creature under your control, you may issue an additional command. 

Life Pulse

9th-level Stitcher feature

You've learned new ways to channel life force to harm or heal. When either you hit a target with a magic weapon attack or your stitched golem hits a target, you can channel magical energy through the strike to create one of the following effects:

• The target takes an extra 2d6 necrotic damage.
• Choose one creature or object you can see within 30 feet of the target. Healing energy flows into the chosen recipient, restoring 2d6 hit points to it.

You can use this energy a number of times equal to your Intelligence modifier (minimum of once), but you can do so no more than once on a turn. You regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Improved Stitched Golem

15th-level Stitcher feature

Your Life Pulse and stitched golem become more powerful:

• The extra damage and the healing of your Life Pulse both increase to 4d6.
• Your stitched golem gains a +2 bonus to Armor Class.
• Whenever your stitched golem uses its Deflect Attack, the attacker takes force damage equal to 1d4 + your Intelligence modifier.