Tattooist

Feeling constricted by the pathways of magic and science, you decided to take your pursuits in a different direction, blending the two disciplines into artistic endeavors. Driven by a need to leave your mark and a desire to express yourself through magical tattoos.

Tool Proficiency

3rd-level Tattooist feature

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

Tattooist Spells

3rd-level Tattooist feature

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

Tattooist Spells

Artificer Level	Spell
3rd	bless, illusory script
5th	barkskin, enhance ability
9th	bestow curse, glyph of warding
13th	death ward, stoneskin
17th	modify memory, skill empowerment

Tattoo Designs

3rd-level Tattooist feature

When you choose this archetype at 3rd level, you learn designs for tattoos that you can magically inscribe on a creature. Each tattoo takes 10 minutes to create and a creature can only benefit from one tattoo design at a time.

Designs. You learn four designs of your choice, which are detailed under “Designs” below. Three of these designs are permanent, while one can be swapped out for another on a long rest. You can have a number of tattoos active equal to 1 + proficiency bonus. You can use an action to remove a tattoo from an affected creature, allowing you to create a new design.

You learn two additional designs of your choice at 5th, 9th, and 15th level. Each time you learn new designs, you can also replace one permanent design you know with a different one.

Saving Throws.  If a tattoo requires the target to make a saving throw to resist the tattoo's effects. The saving throw DC is calculated as follows:

Design save DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Intelligence modifier.

Armor Design

While tattooed with this design you gain a +1 to your AC if you are not wearing armor.

This bonus increases to a +2 at level 9 and +3 at level 15.

Bonfire Design

Prerequisite: 5th level

While tattooed with this design you gain expertise in any skill of your choice (made when you receive the tattoo), you must be proficient in the skill in order to receive this benefit.

Book Design

While tattooed with this design you can read all writing, including coded writing.

Candle Design

While tattooed with this design you gain proficiency in any skill of your choice (made when you receive the tattoo).

Cloud Design

Prerequisite: 5th level

While tattooed with this design you can give yourself a flying speed of 30ft for 10 minutes. You can do this a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Eye Design

While tattooed with this design you gain darkvision out to a range of 60ft and can see through magical darkness.

Fist Design

Prerequisite: 5th level

While tattooed with this design you can add an extra 1d4 damage on your attacks, provided they use strength.

Foot Design

While tattooed with this design your jump distance is doubled and you gain an extra 10ft walking speed.

Heart Design

Prerequisite: 5th level

While tattooed with this design you gain temporary hp equal to your Intelligence modifier at the start of each of your turns.

Holding Hands Design

Prerequisite: 15th level

While tattooed with this design you gain advantage on a saving throw of your choice (made when you receive the design).

Mind Design

While tattooed with this design you can speak telepathically with a number of creatures up to your intelligence modifier.

Mirror Design

Prerequisite: 15th level

While tattooed with this design you can use your reaction to cause an enemy’s attack against you to be redirected to another target within range. You can use this design a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Mouth Design

While tattooed with this design you can speak and understand all spoken languages

Pedestal Design

While tattooed with this design you gain advantage on one ability check of your choice (made when you receive the design).

Plus Design

While tattooed with this design you gain a +1 to an ability score and your maximum for that score of your choice (made when you receive the design).

This bonus increases to +2 at 9 level and plus 3 at 15 level.

Potion Bottle Design

Prerequisite: 15th level

While tattooed with this design you can use a bonus action to heal yourself 1d10 + your Intelligence modifier. You can use this a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Shield Design

While tattooed with this design you gain resistance to a damage type of your choice (made when you receive the design).

Star Design

While tattooed with this design you can cast detect magic at will.

Swirl Design

Prerequisite: 15th level

While tattooed with this design you can cast polymorph targeting yourself once a day.

Tree Design

While tattooed with this design you can restore one usage of a spent resource (such as bardic inspiration or superiority dice). Once you use this feature, you can’t use it again until you finish a long rest.

Wave Design

While tattooed with this design you gain a swim speed of 30ft and are able to breath underwater.

Wing Design

While tattooed with this design you gain a bonus to initiative equal to half your intelligence modifier (rounded up).

Artistic Addition

5th-level Tattooist feature

You've learnt ways to use your inks to improve upon your magical spells. You are able to target an additional target with any spell cast that does not deal damage or heal in some way.

Pool of Ink

9th-level Tattooist feature

You can use an action to create a 30 ft pool of ink with you at the center. This pool moves with you and lasts for 1 minute. You can create this pool a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest. While the pool is active, you gain the following benefits:

• You can use a bonus action to target any creature standing within your pool with a design.
• The time it takes to tattoo a design is reduced to a bonus action.
• The area covered by your pool of ink is difficult terrain for any creature without a beneficial design. 

Debuff Designs

You can choose 4 debuff designs from the list below, which you can use on enemy creatures while your pool of ink is active.

Broken Armor Design

While tattooed with this design a creature developed a weak point where the tattoo appears. The affected creatures AC drops by 1. This reduction lasts until the end of your next turn.

Broken Shield Design

While tattooed with this design a creature becomes sensitive to certain stimuli. The affected creature gains vulnerability to a damage type (your choice when you mark the creature). This vulnerability lasts until the end of your next turn.

Bullseye Design

While tattooed with this design a glowing symbol appears on the creature. While affected by this design, a creature is unable to hide or gain any benefits of invisibility. This design lasts for 1 minute.

Chain Design

While tattooed with this design a creature becomes distracted by the lingering pain. The affected creature gains disadvantage on a saving throw of your choice until the design fades. This lasts until the end of your next turn.

Hourglass Design

While tattooed with this design a creature succumbs to lethargy. The affected creature can use either an action or a bonus action, not both and cannot take reactions until the end of its next turn.

Needle Design

While tattooed with this design a creature becomes bombarded by the pain of the tattoo needle. While the tattoo remains, the creature must make a constitution saving throw at the start of its turn, the creature takes 1d6 piercing damage, 1d6 psychic damage and 1d6 fire damage on a fail, or half as much on a success. This design lasts for 1 minute.

Question Mark Design

While tattooed with this design a creature becomes disorientated by appearance of the tattoo. The affected creature must move in a random direction to its full speed (if possible) and attack a random creature within reach. If no creature is within reach it takes no action this turn. This effect lasts until the end of its next turn.

Rope Design

While tattooed with this design a creature’s limbs become heavier and much harder to move. The creature’s movement speed is reduced by 20ft until the end of its next turn.

Shadow Design

While tattooed with this design a creature becomes paralyzed with fear and is unable to defend itself. The affected creature becomes frightened and while frightened in this way any melee attack that hits from within 5ft is an automatic critical hit until the end of its next turn.

Sword Design

While tattooed with this design a creature becomes momentarily weakened by exhaustion. The affected creature must subtract 1d4 from its next weapon attack.

Ink Mastery

15th-level Tattooist feature

You have been tattooing for so long, you can do it with little effort and do not feel the pain of the needle anymore:

• You gain resistance to piercing damage and fire damage.
• Creatures can benefit from 2 designs at once, though they must be different designs.
• Designs only take an action to tattoo.