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  Alchemist
  

  
  

  
  Description
  You specialize in explosions and other violent alchemical reactions. 
  
  
  Applications
  You start with the formulas for two 1st-level alchemical bombs in your formula book, in addition to your other formulas. When throwing an alchemical bomb with the splash trait, you can deal splash damage to only your primary target instead of the usual splash area.
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

Intellectual Characteristics

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• Alaq Lore
  
  
  
  • Earn Income
  
  
  • Recall Knowledge
    
    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    Recall Knowledge

    
    

    
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    Description
    To remember useful information on a topic, you can attempt to Recall Knowledge. You might know basic information about something without needing to attempt a check, but Recall Knowledge requires you to stop and think for a moment so you can recollect more specific facts and apply them. You might even need to spend time investigating first. For instance, to use Medicine to learn the cause of death, you might need to conduct a forensic examination before attempting to Recall Knowledge.
    
    Applications
    The following skills can be used to Recall Knowledge, getting information about the listed topics. In some cases, you can get the GM’s permission to use a different but related skill, usually against a higher DC than normal. Some topics might appear on multiple lists, but the skills could give different information. For example, Arcana might tell you about the magical defenses of a golem, whereas Crafting could tell you about its sturdy resistance to physical attacks.
    

    • Arcana: Arcane theories, magical traditions, creatures of arcane significance, and arcane planes.
    
    
    • Crafting: Alchemical reactions and creatures, item value, engineering, unusual materials, and constructs.
    
    
    • Lore: The subject of the Lore skill’s subcategory.
    
    
    • Medicine: Diseases, poisons, wounds, and forensics.
    
    
    • Nature: The environment, flora, geography, weather, creatures of natural origin, and natural planes.
    
    
    • Occultism: Ancient mysteries, obscure philosophy, creatures of occult significance, and esoteric planes.
    
    
    • Religion: Divine agents, divine planes, theology, obscure myths, and creatures of religious significance.
    
    
    • Society: Local history, key personalities, legal institutions, societal structure, and humanoid culture.

    
    The GM might allow checks to Recall Knowledge using other skills. For example, you might assess the skill of an acrobat using Acrobatics. If you’re using a physical skill (like in this example), the GM will most likely have you use a mental ability score—typically Intelligence— instead of the skill’s normal physical ability score.
    Degrees of Performance
    

    • Critical Success You recall the knowledge accurately and gain additional information or context.
    
    
    • Success You recall the knowledge accurately or gain a useful clue about your current situation.
    
    
    • Critical Failure You recall incorrect information or gain an erroneous or misleading clue.

    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    
  
  
  
  


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    Borrow a Spell

    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    Borrow a Spell

    
    

    
    EXPLORATION
    
    

    
    

    
    Requirements
    You prpare spells from a spellbook
    

    
    

    
    Description
    you can attempt to prepare a spell from someone else’s spellbook.
    
    Applications
    The GM sets the DC for the check based on the spell’s level and rarity; it’s typically a bit easier than Learning the Spell.
    
    Degrees of Performance
    

    • Success You prepare the borrowed spell as part of your normal spell preparation.
    
    
    • FailureYou fail to prepare the spell, but the spell slot remains available for you to prepare a different spell. You can’t try to prepare this spell until the next time you prepare spells.

    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    
  
  
  • Decipher Writing
    
    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    Decipher Writing

    
    

    
    EXPLORATION
    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    Description
    You attempt to decipher complicated writing or literature on an obscure topic.
    
    Applications
    This usually takes 1 minute per page of text, but might take longer (typically an hour per page for decrypting ciphers or the like). The text must be in a language you can read, though the GM might allow you to attempt to decipher text written in an unfamiliar language using Society instead.
     
    The DC is determined by the GM based on the state or complexity of the document. The GM might have you roll one check for a short text or a check for each section of a larger text.
    
    Degrees of Performance
    

    • Critical Success You understand the true meaning of the text.
    
    
    • Success You understand the true meaning of the text. If it was a coded document, you know the general meaning but might not have a word-for-word translation.
    
    
    • Failure You can’t understand the text and take a –2 circumstance penalty to further checks to decipher it.
    
    
    • Critical Failure You believe you understand the text on that page, but you have in fact misconstrued its message.

    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    
  
  
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    Identify Magic

    
    

    
    EXPLORATION
    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    Description
    Once you discover that an item, location, or ongoing effect is magical, you can spend 10 minutes to try to identify the particulars of its magic.
    
    Applications
    If your attempt is interrupted, you must start over. The GM sets the DC for your check. Cursed or esoteric subjects usually have higher DCs or might even be impossible to identify using this activity alone. Heightening a spell doesn’t increase the DC to identify it.
    
    Degrees of Performance
    

    • Critical Success You learn all the attributes of the magic, including its name (for an effect), what it does, any means of activating it (for an item or location), and whether it is cursed.
    
    
    • Success For an item or location, you get a sense of what it does and learn any means of activating it. For an ongoing effect (such as a spell with a duration), you learn the effect’s name
      and what it does. You can’t try again in hopes of getting a critical success.
    
    
    • FailureYou fail to identify the magic and can’t try again for 1 day.
    
    
    • Critical Failure You misidentify the magic as something else of the GM’s choice.

    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    
  
  
  • Learn a Spell
    
    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    Learn a Spell

    
    

    
    EXPLORATION
    
    

    
    

    
    Requirements
    You have a spellcasting class feature, and the spell you want to learn is on your magical tradition’s spell list.
    

    
    

    
    Description
    If you’re a spellcaster, you can use the skill corresponding to your magical tradition to learn a new spell of that tradition.
    
    Applications
    You can gain access to a new spell of your tradition from someone who knows that spell or from magical writing like a spellbook or scroll. If you can cast spells of multiple traditions, you can Learn a Spell of any of those traditions, but you must use the corresponding skill to do so. For example, if you were a cleric with the bard multiclass archetype, you couldn’t use Religion to add an occult spell to your bardic spell repertoire.
     
    To learn the spell, you must do the following:
    

    • Spend 1 hour per level of the spell, during which you must remain in conversation with a person who knows the spell or have the magical writing in your possession.
    
    
    • Have materials with the Price indicated.
    
    
    • Attempt a skill check for the skill corresponding to your tradition (DC determined by the GM). Uncommon or rare spells have higher DCs. If you have a spellbook, Learning a Spell lets you add the spell to your spellbook; if you prepare spells from a list, it’s added to your list; if you have a spell repertoire, you can select it when you add or swap spells.

    
    Degrees of Performance
    

    • Critical Success You expend half the materials and learn the spell.
    
    
    • Success You expend the materials and learn the spell.
    
    
    • FailureYou fail to learn the spell but can try again after you gain a level. The materials aren’t expended.
    
    
    • Critical Failure As failure, plus you expend half the materials.

    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    
  
  
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• Crafting
  
  
  
  • Craft
    
    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    Craft

    
    

    
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    Requirements
    see below
    

    
    

    
    Description
    You can make an item from raw materials. You need the Alchemical Crafting skill feat to create alchemical items, the Magical Crafting skill feat to create magic items, and the Snare Crafting feat to create snares.
    
    Applications
    To Craft an item, you must meet the following requirements:
    • The item is your level or lower. An item that doesn’t list a level is level 0. If the item is 9th level or higher, you must be a master in Crafting, and if it’s 16th or higher, you must be legendary.
    • You have the formula for the item.
    • You have an appropriate set of tools and, in many cases, a workshop. For example, you need access to a smithy to forge a metal shield.
    • You must supply raw materials worth at least half the item’s Price. You always expend at least that amount of raw materials when you Craft successfully. If you’re in a settlement, you can usually spend currency to get the amount of raw materials you need, except in the case of rarer precious materials.
     
    You must spend 4 days at work, at which point you attempt a Crafting check. The GM determines the DC to Craft the item based on its level, rarity, and other circumstances.
     
    

    Consumables and Ammunition

    
    You can Craft items with the consumable trait in batches, making up to four of the same item at once with a single check. This requires you to include the raw materials for all the items in the batch at the start, and you must
    complete the batch all at once. You also Craft non-magical ammunition in batches
    

    Getting Formulas

    
    You can gain access to the formulas for all common items by purchasing a basic crafter’s book. 
    Formulas are instructions for making items with the Craft activity. You can usually read a formula as long as you can read the language it’s written in, though you might lack the skill to Craft the item. Often, alchemists and crafting guilds use obscure languages or create codes to protect their formulas from rivals. You can buy common formulas at the Price listed or you can hire an NPC to let you copy their formula for the same Price. A purchased formulais typically a schematic on rolled-up parchment of light Bulk. You can copy a formula into your formula book in 1 hour, either from a schematic or directly from someone else’s formula book. If you have a formula, you can Craft a copy of it using the Crafting skill. Formulas for uncommon items and rare items are usually significantly more valuable—if you can find them at all!
     
    If you have an item, you can try to reverse‑engineer its formula. This uses the Craft activity and takes the same amount of time as creating the item from a formula would. You must first disassemble the item. After the base downtime, you attempt a Crafting check against the same DC it would take to Craft the item. If you succeed, you Craft the formula at its full Price, and you can keep working to reduce the Price as normal. If you fail, you’re left with raw materials and no formula. If you critically fail, you also waste 10% of the raw materials you’d normally be able to salvage. The item’s disassembled parts are worth half its Price in raw materials and can’t be reassembled unless you successfully reverse-engineer the formula or acquire the formula another way. Reassembling the item from the formula works just like Crafting it from scratch; you use the disassembled parts as the necessary raw materials.
    Degrees of Performance
    

    
    
    • Critical Success- Your attempt is successful. Each additional day spent Crafting reduces the materials needed to complete the item by an amount based on your level + 1 and your proficiency rank in Crafting.
    
    
    • Success- If your attempt to create the item is successful, you expend the raw materials you supplied. You can pay the remaining portion of the item’s Price in materials to complete the item immediately, or you can spend additional downtime days working on it. For each additional day you spend, reduce the value of the materials you need to expend to complete the item. This amount is determined earn income action, based on your proficiency rank in Crafting and using your own level instead of a task level. After any of these downtime days, you can complete the item by spending the remaining portion of its Price in materials. If the downtime days you spend are interrupted, you can return to finish the item later, continuing where you left off.
    
    
    • Failure- You fail to complete the item. You can salvage the raw materials you supplied for their full value. If you want to try again, you must start over.
    
    li]Critical Failure- You fail to complete the item. You ruin 10% of the raw materials you supplied, but you can salvage the rest. If you want to try again, you must start over.

    
    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    
  
  
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    Earn Income

    
    

    
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    Description
    You can use a skill—typically Crafting, Lore, or Performance—to earn money during downtime. You must be trained in the skill to do so. This takes time to set up, and your income depends on your proficiency rank and how lucrative a task you can find. Because this process requires a significant amount of time and involves tracking things outside the progress of adventures, it won’t come up in every campaign.
     
    In some cases, the GM might let you use a different skill to Earn Income through specialized work. Usually, this is scholarly work, such as using Religion in a monastery to study old texts—but giving sermons at a church would still fall under Performance instead of Religion. You also might be able to use physical skills to make money, such as using Acrobatics to perform feats in a circus or Thievery to pickpockets. If you’re using skill other than Crafting, Lore, or Performance, the DC tends to be significantly higher.
     
    You use one of your skills to make money during downtime. The GM assigns a task level representing the most lucrative job available. You can search for lower-level tasks, with the GM determining whether you find any. Sometimes you can attempt to find better work than the initial offerings, though this takes time and requires using the Diplomacy skill to Gather Information, doing some research, or socializing.
     
    When you take on a job, the GM secretly sets the DC of your skill check. After your first day of work, you roll to determine your earnings. You gain an amount of income based on your result, the task’s level, and your proficiency rank. You can continue working at the task on subsequent days without needing to roll again. For each day you spend after the first, you earn the same amount as the first day, up until the task’s completion. The GM determines how long you can work at the task. Most tasks last a week or two, though some can take months or even years.
    
    Applications
    Crafting Goods for the Market (Crafting)- Using Crafting, you can work at producing common items for the market. It’s usually easy to find work making basic items whose level is 1 or 2 below your settlement’s level. Higher-level tasks represent special commissions, which might require you to Craft a specific item using the Craft downtime activity and sell it to a buyer at full price. These opportunities don’t occur as often and might have special requirements—or serious consequences if you disappoint a prominent client.
     
    Practicing a Trade (Lore)- You apply the practical benefits of one of your Lore specialties during downtime by practicing your trade. This is most effective for Lore specialties such as business, law, or sailing, where there’s high demand for workers. The GM might increase the DC or determine only low-level tasks are available if you’re attempting to use an obscure Lore skill to Earn Income. You might also need specialized tools to accept a job, like mining tools to work in a mine or a merchant’s scale to buy and sell valuables in a market.
     
    Staging a Performance (Performance)- You perform for an audience to make money. The available audiences determine the level of your task since more discerning audiences are harder to impress but provide a bigger payout. The GM determines the task level based on the audiences available. Performing for a typical audience of commoners on the street is a level 0 task, but a performance for a group of artisans with more refined tastes might be a 2nd- or 3rd-level task, and ones for merchants, nobility, and royalty are increasingly higher level. Your degree of success determines whether you moved your audience and whether you were rewarded with applause or rotten fruit.
    Degrees of Performance
    

    • Critical Success You do outstanding work. Gain the amount of currency listed for the task level + 1 and your proficiency rank.
    
    
    • Success You do competent work. Gain the amount of currency listed for the task level and your proficiency rank.
    
    
    • Failure You do shoddy work and get paid the bare minimum for your time. Gain the amount of currency listed in the failure column for the task level. The GM will likely reduce how long you can continue at the task.
    
    
    • Critical Failure You earn nothing for your work and are fired immediately. You can’t continue at the task. Your reputation suffers, potentially making it difficult for you to find rewarding jobs in that community in the future.

    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    
  
  
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    Identify Alchemy

    
    

    
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    Requirements
    You have alchemist’s tools
    

    
    

    
    Description
    You can identify the nature of an alchemical item with 10 minutes of testing using alchemist’s tools. If your attempt is interrupted in any way, you must start over.
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    • Success- You identify the item and the means of activating it.
    
    
    • Failure- You fail to identify the item but can try again.
    
    
    • Critical Failure- You misidentify the item as another item of the GM’s choice
    
    

    
    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    
  
  
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    Repair

    
    

    
    EXPLORATION
    
    

    
    

    
    Requirements
    You have a repair kit
    

    
    

    
    Description
    You spend 10 minutes attempting to fix a damaged item, placing the item on a stable surface and using the repair kit with both hands. 
    
    Applications
    The GM sets the DC, but it’s usually about the same DC to Repair a given item as it is to Craft it in the first place. You can’t Repair a destroyed item.
    
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    • Critical Success You restore 10 Hit Points to the item, plus an additional 10 Hit Points per proficiency rank you have in Crafting (a total of 20 HP if you’re trained, 30 HP if you’re an expert, 40 HP if you’re a master, or 50 HP if you’re legendary).
    
    
    • Success You restore 5 Hit Points to the item, plus an additional 5 per proficiency rank you have in Crafting (for a total of 10 HP if you are trained, 15 HP if you’re an expert, 20 HP if you’re a master, or 25 HP if you’re legendary).
    
    
    • Critical Failure You deal damage to the item. Apply the item’s Hardness to this damage.
    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    
  
  
  
  


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    Create a Diversion

    
    

    
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    Description
    With a gesture, a trick, or some distracting words, you can create a diversion that draws creatures’ attention elsewhere.
    
    
    Applications
    If you use a gesture or trick, this action gains the manipulate trait. If you use distracting words, it gains the auditory and linguistic traits.
     
    Attempt a single Deception check and compare it to the Perception DCs of the creatures whose attention you’re trying to divert. Whether or not you succeed, creatures you attempt to divert gain a +4 circumstance bonus to their Perception DCs against your attempts to Create a Diversion for 1 minute.
    
    Degrees of Performance
    

    • Success You become hidden to each creature whose Perception DC is less than or equal to your result. This lasts until the end of your turn or until you do anything except Step or use the Hide or the Sneak action of the Stealth skill. If you Strike a creature, the creature remains flat‑footed against that attack, and you then become observed. If you do anything else, you become observed just before you act unless the GM determines otherwise.
    
    
    • FailureYou don’t divert the attention of any creatures whose Perception DC exceeds your result, and those creatures are aware you were trying to trick them.

    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    
  
  
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    Fient

    
    

    
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    Requirements
    You are within melee reach of the opponent you attempt to Feint.
    

    
    

    
    Description
    With a misleading flourish, you leave an opponent unprepared for your real attack.
    
    Applications
    Attempt a Deception check against that opponent’s Perception DC.
    Critical Success
    Success
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    Degrees of Performance
    

    • Critical Success You throw your enemy’s defenses against you entirely off. The target is flat-footed against melee attacks that you attempt against it until the end of your next turn.
    
    
    • Success Your foe is fooled, but only momentarily. The target is flat-footed against the next melee attack that you attempt against it before the end of your current turn.
    
    
    • Critical FailureYour feint backfires. You are flat-footed against melee attacks the target attempts against you until the end of your next turn.

    
    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    
  
  
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    Impersonate

    
    

    
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    Description
    You create a disguise to pass yourself off as someone or something you are not. Assembling a convincing disguise takes 10 minutes and requires a disguise kit, but a simpler, quicker disguise might do the job if you’re not trying to imitate a specific individual, at the GM’s discretion.
    
    Applications
    In most cases, creatures have a chance to detect your deception only if they use the Seek action to attempt Perception checks against your Deception DC. If you attempt to directly interact with someone while disguised, the GM rolls a secret Deception check for you against that creature’s Perception DC instead. If you’re disguised as a specific individual, the GM might give creatures you interact with a circumstance bonus based on how well they know the person you’re imitating, or the GM might roll a secret Deception check even if you aren’t directly interacting with others.
    
    Degrees of Performance
    

    • Success You trick the creature into thinking you’re the person you’re disguised as. You might have to attempt a new check if your behavior changes.
    
    
    • FailureThe creature can tell you’re not who you claim to be.
    
    
    • Critical FailureThe creature can tell you’re not who you claim to be, and it recognizes you if it would know you without a disguise.

    
    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    
  
  
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    Lie

    
    

    
    EXPLORATION
    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    Description
    You try to fool someone with an untruth.
    
    Applications
    Doing so takes at least 1 round, or longer if the lie is elaborate. You roll a single Deception check and compare it against the Perception DC of every creature you are trying to fool. The GM might give them a circumstance bonus based on the situation and nature of the lie you are trying to tell. Elaborate or highly unbelievable lies are much harder to get a creature to believe than simpler and more believable lies, and some lies are so big that it’s impossible to get anyone to believe them.
     
    At the GM’s discretion, if a creature initially believes your lie, it might attempt a Perception check later to Sense Motive against your Deception DC to realize it’s a lie. This usually happens if the creature discovers enough evidence to counter your statements.
    
    Degrees of Performance
    

    • Success The target believes your lie.
    
    
    • FailureThe target doesn’t believe your lie and gains a +4 circumstance bonus against your attempts to Lie for the duration of your conversation. The target is also more likely to be suspicious of you in the future.

    
    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    
  
  
  
  

Known Languages

Common, Elvish Celestial Draconic Dwarven

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