Alchemist Class

Alchemists are spellcasters who do not actually use spells in the ordinary sense. Rather, they prepare concotions (just as a regular spellcaster prepares spells) and uses these alchemical substaces to create magical effects. Alchemists thus work their magic through powders, explosions and sleight-of-hand.

Alchemists tend to be less intimidating to others than true wizards. Regular folk consider them eccentric and mysterious, and might not invite them over for dinner or be happy about one marring into the family. But the 'scientific' approach of an alchemist makes him much less feared than a true mage.

Gnomes make particularily fine alchemists because of their keen sense of smell, but all races have their fair share. Half-orcs rarely have the intelligence to become alchemists.

• Hit Die: d4
• Base Attack Increment: As wizard
• Saving Throws : Fortitude (Good), Reflex (Poor), Will (Poor)
• Skill Points at Each Level: 2 + Int modifier.
• Class Skills: Alchemy (Int), Concentration (Con), Craft (Int), Knowledge (all skills, taken individually) (Int), Profession (Wis), Scry (Int, restricted skill), Spellcraft (Int).

Weapon and Armor Proficiency: Alchemists are proficient with the club, dagger, heavy crossbow, light crossbow, and quarterstaff but not with armor or shields. Note that the standard armor check penatlies to skills apply. Like any other arcane spellcaster, an alchemist can cast spells while wearing armor or using a shield but suffers a chance of arcane spell failure if the spell in question has a somatic component (most do).

Spells: Alchemists calculate their maximum number of arcane spells per day as wizards of equal level, including intelligence bonuses. These spells are actually alchemical concotions, as explained above. This means that they lack verbal components, but always have material components. An alchemist cannot prepare his spells unless he has access to an alchemist's kit. Alchemists have their own spell lists, below.

Familiar: An alchemist can summon a familiar in exactly the same manner as a sorceror. See PH, p 51.

Brew Potion: At 3 rd level, an alchemist learns the Brew Potion feat.

Bonus Feats: Just like wizards, Alchemists gain bonus feats from the metamagical or item creation feats.

Level 0

1. Arcane mark
2. Create water
3. Cure minor wounds
4. Dancing lights
5. Daze
6. Detect magic
7. Detect poison
8. Flare
9. Light
10. Mending
11. Ray of frost
12. Read magic
13. Resistance
14. Virtue

Level 1

1. Burning hands
2. Cause fear
3. Change self
4. Charm Person
5. Color spray
6. Comprehend languages
7. Cure light wounds
8. Detect secret doors
9. Detect undead
10. Endure elements
11. Enlarge
12. Feather fall
13. Grease
14. Identify
15. Jump
16. Mage armor
17. Magic missile
18. Magic weapon
19. Nystrul's magic aura
20. Nystrul's undetectable aura
21. Obscurng mist
22. Ray of enfeeblement
23. Reduce
24. Shocking grasp
25. Sleep
26. Spider climb
27. True strike

Level 2

1. Aid
2. Alter self
3. Arcane lock
4. Blindness/ deafness
5. Blur
6. Bull's strength
7. Cat's grace
8. Clairaudience
9. Clairvoyance
10. Cure moderate wounds
11. Darkness
12. Darkvision
13. Daylight
14. Delay poison
15. Detect thoughts
16. Endurance
17. Flaming sphere
18. Fog cloud
19. Glitterdust
20. Hypnotic pattern
21. Invisibility
22. Knock
23. Lesser restoration
24. Levitiate
25. Locate object
26. Melf's acid arrow
27. Misdirection
28. Obscure object
29. Protection from arrows
30. Pyrotechnics
31. Resist elements
32. Scare
33. See invisibility
34. Shatter
35. Tasha's hideous laughter
36. Web
37. Zone of truth

Level 3

1. Cure serious wounds
2. Dispel magic
3. Displacement
4. Explosive runes
5. Fireball
6. Flame arrow
7. Fly
8. Gaseous form
9. Gentle repose
10. Greater magic weapon
11. Gust of wind
12. Halt undead
13. Haste
14. Hold person
15. Illusory script
16. Invisibility sphere
17. Keen edge
18. Lightning bolt
19. Neutralize poison
20. Protection from elements
21. Remove blindness/ deafness
22. Remove disease
23. Remove paralysis
24. Shrink item
25. Sleet storm
26. Slow
27. Stinking cloud
28. Suggestion
29. Water breathing
30. Wind wall

Level 4

1. Arcane eye
2. Bestow curse
3. Charm monster
4. Confusion
5. Contagion
6. Detect scrying
7. Dimensional anchor
8. Emotion
9. Enervation
10. Fear
11. Fire shield
12. Fire trap
13. Ice storm
14. Improved invsibilty
15. Lesser geas
16. Locate creature
17. Minor creation
18. Minor globe of invulnerability
19. Polymorph other
20. Polymorph self
21. Remove curse
22. Shout
23. Solid fog
24. Stoneskin
25. Wall of fire
26. Wall of ice

Level 5

1. Animal growth
2. Animate dead
3. Cludkill
4. Cone of cold
5. Dream
6. Fabricate
7. Feeblemind
8. Hold monster
9. Major creation
10. Passwall
11. Permanency
12. Stone shape
13. Transmute mud to rock
14. Transmute rock to mud
15. Wall of force
16. Wall of iron
17. Wall of stone

Level 6

1. Acid fog
2. Analyze dweomer
3. Antimagic field
4. Chain lightning
5. Circle of death
6. Contigency
7. Control water
8. Disintegrate
9. Eyebite
10. Flesh to stone
11. Geas/Quest
12. Globe of invulnerability
13. Greater dispelling
14. Mass haste
15. Mass suggestion
16. Move earth
17. Otilukes freezing sphere
18. Repulsion
19. Stone to flesh
20. Tenser's transformation
21. True seeing

Level 7

1. Delayed blast fireball
2. Drawmij's instant summons
3. Ethereal jaunt
4. Finger of death
5. Insanity
6. Limited wish
7. Mass invsibility
8. Phase door
9. Prismatic spray
10. Reverse gravity
11. Sequester
12. Simulacrum
13. Spell turning
14. Statue
15. Vanish

Level 8

1. Antipathy
2. Clone
3. Etheralness
4. Horrid wilting
5. Incendiary cloud
6. Iron body
7. Mass charm
8. Mind blank
9. Otto's irresistible dance
10. Polymorph any object
11. Prismatic wall
12. Protection from spells
13. Sunburst
14. Symbol
15. Sympathy
16. Trap the soul

Level 9

1. Astral projection
2. Enegry drain
3. Meteor swarm
4. Mordenkainen's disjunction
5. Prismatic sphere
6. Shapechange
7. Temporal stasis
8. Time stop
9. Wish