Savant (5A)

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Source: En5ider #246, #250. Original writing Jeremiah McCoy. Heavily edited.

Savants are first and foremost experts, unique even when compared to arcane or divine sages. Brilliant detectives, iconic martial artists, and adventurous physicians are counted among their number, each utilizing brilliance where others rely on magic or brute power. For a savant, saving the day means turning leverage and knowledge into weaponry.

What is a Savant?

The savant is drawing power from knowledge an can improvise quickly and decisively. Avoiding the repetitive magic and martial practices in favor of a more dynamic approach fitting each situation.

Creating A Savant

The first decision when making a savant is deciding why they’ve chosen the intellectual arts over martial or magical disciplines. Were they singled out in their youth for being physically slight and had to rely on their cunning? Are they heir to a dynasty known for the sharpness of their fine minds? Have they been taught at all or did they become a savant by way of self-discovery? Once you’ve determined your savant’s circumstances, you can choose their aptitude - an expression of your interests and studies in game terms.

Brains Over Brawn

There are many kinds of heroes in myths and in legends— some are strong, others brave or righteous, and a rare few are heroic by virtue of their cunning. The savant is the ultimate example of the smart and clever hero. They are supremely intelligent and approach their adventuring life in that context: instead of brute force, a savant applies their understanding of force to achieve the right results.

Quick Build

Quickly building a savant is a simple affair. Your highest ability score should be Intelligence, followed by Dexterity. Your next highest ability score should be Constitution. Choose the Adversary aptitude and for your Fighting Style pick Smart Defense. When selecting your starting equipment, choose a rapier, hand crossbow, and tinker’s tools. For skills, pick Investigation and Perception.

Class Profile

Hit Points

Hit Dice: 1d8 per savant level

Hit Points at 1st Level: 8 + your Constitution modifier

Hit Points at Higher Levels: 1d8 (or 5) + your Constitution modifier per savant level after 1st

Proficiencies

Armor: None

Weapons: Simple weapons, hand crossbows, improvised weapons, rapiers

Tools: Choose either alchemist’s supplies or tinker’s tools

Saving Throws: Dexterity, Intelligence

Skills: Choose two from Arcana, History, Investigation, Perception, and Sleight of Hand

Equipment

You start with the following equipment, in addition to the equipment granted by your background.

• a set of traveler’s clothes or common clothes
• a scholar’s pack
• (a) a simple melee weapon or (b) a rapier
• (a) a simple ranged weapon or (b) a hand crossbow and 10 bolts
• (a) alchemist’s supplies or (b) tinker’s tools or (c) theif's tools (if proficient)

Multiclassing

Prerequisite: Intelligence 13

Proficiencies Gained: Improvised weapons and choose either Alchemist’s Supplies or Tinker’s Tools

Savant Table

Level	Proficiency Bonus	Savant Dice	Features
1st	+2	—	Aptitude, Versatile Defense
2nd	+2	—	Analyzed need, Aptitude ability
3rd	+2	—	Savant Tricks
4th	+2	—	Ability Score Improvement
5th	+3	—	Extra Attack
6th	+3	d6	Aptitude ability
7th	+3	d6	Intelligent Caution
8th	+3	d6	Ability Score Improvement
9th	+4	d6	Focused Defense
10th	+4	d6	More Tricks
11th	+4	d8	Aptitude ability
12th	+4	d8	Ability Score Improvement
13th	+5	d8	More Savant Dice
14th	+5	d10	Aptitude ability
15th	+5	d10	Clockwork Mind
16th	+5	d10	Ability Score Improvement
17th	+6	d12	Aptitude ability
18th	+6	d12	Mindful Soul
19th	+6	d12	Ability Score Improvement
20th	+6	d12	Ultimate Schema

Class features

As a savant, you gain the following class features.

Aptitude

Your aptitude defines what kind of savant you are. Your aptitude gives you unique features at 1st level and again at 2nd, 6th, 11th, 14th, and 17th level.

Versatile Defense

You constantly analyze combat situations to improve your defensive posture, reacting with trained reflexes to guide attacks away from yourself. Beginning at 1st level, while you are wearing no armor and have one hand free, your AC equals 10 + your Dexterity modifier + your Intelligence modifier.

You can use Dexterity instead of Strength for the attack and damage rolls of your unarmed strikes, and your unarmed strikes do d4 damage.

Analyzed Need

At 2nd level, when you finish a short or long rest you can choose a skill. When making an ability check using that skill, you use Intelligence instead of the ability score it normally uses.

Savant Tricks

At 3rd level, you can use a bonus action to prepare a trick. You can only have one trick prepared at a time. A trick is prepared until you use it or prepare another trick. Once you use the trick, you can prepare another trick in the same manner.

Tricks and the Action Economy Most tricks can only be used in certain circumstances, but using the trick itself does not require any action. A bonus action is taken when preparing the trick, but it requires no action when triggering it. Other tricks do require a bonus action to prepare and then some kind of action when triggering the tricks.

Some of your tricks require your target to make a saving throw to resist its effects. The saving throw DC is calculated as follows:

Trick save DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Intelligence modifier

You know a number of tricks equal to your Intelligence Bonus (minimum one trick). You can chose the tricks listed below, or other tricks available from your aptitude. Additionally, when you gain a level in this class, you can choose to replace the tricks you know with other tricks.

• Diversion. You distract the attention of a creature who is attacking you or a creature within within 30 feet of you just as it is about to attack, giving it disadvantage on that attack roll.

• Grounded Reason. You can to reroll a saving throw that you fail. If you do so, you must use the new roll.

• Guiding Steps. When you hit a Large-sized or smaller creature with a melee weapon attack, you can force the target to make a Dexterity saving throw. On a failure, it is either knocked prone or moved up to 10 feet in a direction of your choice. This movement does not trigger attacks of opportunity.

• Off-Balance. When you hit a creature with a melee weapon attack, you put the creature off balance. Until the end of your next turn, the target moves at half speed and has disadvantage on ability checks.

• Sidestep. When you are hit by an attack and there is another creature (not the attacker) within 5 feet of you, you can force the attacker to make an Intelligence saving throw. On a failure, the attack is redirected to strike a creature of your choice within 5 feet of you, but not back on the original attacker. The original attacker makes a new attack roll against the new target.

Ability Score Improvement

When you reach 4th level, and again at 8th, 12th, 16th, and 19th level, you can increase one ability score of your choice by 2, or you can increase two ability scores of your choice by 1. As normal, you can’t increase an ability score above 20 using this feature.

Extra Attack

Beginning at 5th level, you can attack twice, instead of once, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn.

Savant Dice

At 6th level, you gain a pool of dice you can use to improve your chances. You have a number of d6 equal to your Proficency Bonus. You recover all proficiency dice when you finish a long rest. After you make an attack roll, saving throw, or ability check, you can spend a die from your savant pool and add the result to your roll.

Your aptitude gives you additional ways to spend dice from your savant pool.

Your savant dice improve as you increase your level as a savant, becoming d8 at 11th level, d10 at 14th level, and d12 at 17th level.

Intelligent Caution

At 7th level, when you make a saving throw against a spell or effect that deals damage, you can use your reaction to make an Intelligence saving throw instead. On a success, you take no damage. You can use this feature a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus. Expended uses are recharged at the end of a long rest.

Focused Defense

Starting at 9th level, when you are facing more than one enemy you’re able to use them against each other. As long as there’s more than one enemy within 30 feet, you can use a bonus action to choose a creature within range. Until the end of your next turn, it has disadvantage on attack rolls against you.

More Tricks

At 10th level, you can hold a second trick in reserve. You still require a bonus action to prepare a trick. In addition, you learn two more tricks of your choice.

More Savant Dice

At 13th level, you gain 2 additional Savant Dice. When you roll initiative, you regain two Savant Dice, not to exceed your initial maximum.

Clockwork Mind

At 15th level your mind is so ordered and controlled that is harder to influence. You gain proficiency in Wisdom saving throws.

Mindful Soul

At 18th level, your keen mind becomes an asset against all types of obstacles. You have advantage on saving throws. You can use this ability a number of times equal to your Proficency Bonus, regaining all uses with a long rest.

Ultimate Schema

At 20th level, your mental capabilities transcend the normal limitations mortal minds face. You have advantage on all Intelligence checks and saving throws.

Aptitudes

Aptitudes are the different paths of expertise pursued by savants, each a unique focus with its own range of abilities.

Academic

This is a work in progress.

Hobgoblins are not always hostile. They respect displays of strength and adore banners. So let's put Yorik's shield on a pole and present ourselves boldly rather than skulk back here. Even if we have to fight them, they will fight more honorably if we face them openly."

An academic has studied many subjects and has a deep understanding of many subjects, allowing them to cross-reference information and see solutions that combine many fields of knowledge. They are masters of quickly finding solutions.

The academic is perhaps closest to the general idea of what a savant is; a scholar or sage who goes out into the world wider world in pursuit of knowledge.

Academic Proficiencies

When you choose this aptitude at 1st level, you gain proficiency with Arcana, History, Nature, Religion, and alchemist's supplies.

Academia in Action

At 1st level, as a bonus action, you can observe a creature you can see to learn its creature type and any tags the creature has. If creatures of the target's type have a typical alignment, you learn that alignment. In addition you learn and all its permanent damage immunities, damage resistances, damage vulnerabilities, and condition immunities. If a creature has any temporary abilities from this list, of if it temporarily lacks any of these abilities, you do not learn about them.

Exploit Weakness

At 2nd level, with alchemist's supplies in hand, you can spend a bonus action to change the damage type of a weapon you touch. For the next minute, the weapon inflicts your chosen damage type.

What damage types you can change into depends on your level.

At 2nd level you can make the weapon inflict magical damage without changing the damage type.

At 6th level you can make the weapon inflict magical Bludgeoning, Piercing, or Slashing damage.

At 11th level you can make the weapon inflict Force, Poison, or Thunder damage.

At 14th level you can make the weapon inflict Acid, Cold, Fire, or Lightning damage.

At 17th level you can make the weapon inflict Necrotic, Psychic, or Radiant damage.

Academic Tricks

These tricks are only available to Academics.

• Create Instability. When you hit an enemy with an attack, you can use this trick to create an instability in the creature. The target must make an Intelligence saving throw, or it suffers disadvantage on all saving throws until the end of your next turn.
• Create Opening. When you hit an enemy with an attack, you can use this trick to create an opening. The target must make an Intelligence saving throw, or all attacks against the creature have advantage until the end of your next turn.
• Create Weakness. When you hit an enemy with an attack, you can use this trick to create a vulnerability or weaken a resistance in the target for the next minute. The target must make a Constitution saving throw. If it fails, choose one damage type. If the creature lacks resistance or immunity to the chosen damage type, it gets vulnerability to this damage. If it has resistance to this damage, it loses that resistance. If the creature has immunity to this damage, it now has resistance to that damage instead. The ability ends at the end of your next turn. When this ability affects a creature, any previous uses of this ability on that creature end.
• Find Opportunity. Choose a creature you see and an immediate objective towards that creature, such as defeating, escaping, bypassing, or befriending it. You learn an action that (in the GM's estimation) would be a good way of achieving this immediate goal, and if you follow this advice, you have advantage on attack rolls or ability checks to act this out until the end of your next turn. You can use Find Opportunity on behalf of another, in which case they get the advantage instead of you as long as they follow the recommended course of action. The suggested action is always something that can be done or at least started within the next round, but not necessarily something you are good at.

Suggested Actions The actions proposed by Find Opportunity are usually straightforward, but geared towards a creature's weakness or in way the creature would not oppose. A Troll guarding a bridge might be best bypassed by swimming the river. If the GM proposes this, the GM should not have the troll intercept the swimmers as that would make this a bad suggestion. Freeing prisoners from an orc in an encampment that is disorganized and lacking guards might be best done by Stealth. Befriending an ogre might be best done by bribing it with food. Defeating a red dragon might be best done using cold damage.

Academic Dice

At 6th level, when observing a creature, you can spend a Savant Die and learn information about the target. You learn all the information reveled by Academia in Action ability. In addition roll a Savant Die and learn additional information as given below.

1. What attacks the creature has and the damage each attack.
2. What Armor Class the creature has, any reactions it can use, and what saving throws it is proficient in
3. What spells the target knows (if any). In the case of creatures that prepare spells, you learn what spell lists they can pick spells from.
4. What skills the target knows.
5. The target's point of origin, native terrain, and what languages it speaks (if any).

On a result of six or more, you get to chose what information you learn.

Universal Knowledge

At 11th level, when you use the Academia in Action, Academic Tricks, or Academic Dice abilities, you learn which creatures that you see (if any) have identical statistics to the target, and all identical targets within 30 feet of your target also suffers the effect of any trick you use. It a trick involves an attack, only your original target is hit by the attack.

Polymath

At 14th level, you can quickly cram a subject to bring out latent knowledge. During a long or short rest, you consult your journal or a book relating to a certain skill, tool, language, or vehicle you lack proficiency in. You gain that proficiency and retain it until you begin your next long rest.

Stroke of Genius

At 17th level, when you make a d20 check, you can choose to not roll and threat the result as a 20 instead. You can use this three times, and regain the ability at the end of a long rest.

Adversary

“I can’t let you do that,” said the small, unassuming fellow, brushing back his thin hair and wrapping one hand about the top of his walking stick as the brutes turn to face him, their would-be victim dangling in the air. One of the hobgoblins lashes out with an axe but misses, the short man pushing the weapon’s haft ever so slightly and leaning slightly to the side. The next thug stabs in a vicious thrust but his target steps to the right, lashing out with a cane to strike the attacker’s knee and diverting the assault into the hobgoblin holding the victim aloft. As they look upon him with new regard the little man squares himself once more and nonchalantly asks, “shall we begin?”

As an Adversary you are a master of violence. The focus of combat is oft en geared towards the use of maximum force but these savants approach fighting from a different mindset, seeking to control a battle through the correct application of force instead. Rather than try to overpower an opponent they maneuver them into a perilous position by way of a superior intellect. Whether you choose to do that up close or at range, you are as effective as any standard warrior and what’s more, because of your subtleties you are easily underestimated.

An adversary is often a gentleman; a militant scholar or sophisticated ex-military.

Adversary Proficiencies

When you choose this aptitude at 1st level, you gain proficiency with martial weapons as well as light and medium armor. In your hands a mace and quarterstaff gains the finesse property, and you can use various canes and sticks as if they were such weapons depending on size. Many adversaries sport a handsome cane that functions as a mace or quarterstaff while appearing to be nothing but an accessory. Other fancy weapons such as the cane sword, a cane that conceals a dagger, rapier, or shortsword, with the larger weapons needing longer cane.

Smart Defense

Starting at 1st level you gain a +1 bonus to AC. In addition, while you are wearing light armor and have one hand free, you gain a bonus to AC equal to your Intelligence modifier (up to a maximum no higher than your proficiency bonus). Alternatively, while wearing medium armor, you may use Intelligence instead of Dexterity when calculating AC.

Studied Target

At 2nd level, you can spend a bonus action studying a creature. For the next minute, you gain a +1 bonus to weapon damage rolls, attack rolls, and opposed ability checks made against the target. You may only have one Studied Target at a time. This bonus increases to +2 when you reach 11th level in this class, and again to +3 at 17th level.

Adversary Tricks

These tricks are only available to Adversaries.

• Affront. On your turn, use this trick to force all creatures within 30 feet to make a Charisma saving throw. On a failure, the target’s attention is drawn to you and it has disadvantage any attack or Perception roll it makes against anyone but you until the end of your next turn. You can use this outside of your turn, but then you only affect a single creature within 5 feet of you.

• Blinding Strike. Use this trick when you damage a creature with a weapon attack, the target must make a Constitution saving throw or be blinded until the end of your next turn.

• Pin Down. When you hit a creature you can use this trick to halve the target's move until the end of your next turn. When you see a creature that is moving, you can use this trick to make a weapon attack against them, and if you hit, they also have their movement halved as above.

• Tangled Dance. Use this trick at any time. Until the end of your next turn, your AC increases by 1 for each creature within 30 feet of you (to a maximum bonus equal to your Proficency Bonus).

Tacticia

At 6th level you can use dice from your savant pool to improve weapon attacks. Add the result of the savant die to both the attack and damage rolls.

Exploit The Patterns

At 11th level, as a bonus action, you can choose a creature you can see within 30 feet. You impose one of the following effects, that last until the end of your next turn.

• The target’s AC is reduced by an amount equal to half your proficiency bonus, rounded down.
• Any attacks the target makes take a penalty equal to half your proficiency bonus, rounded down.
• Your attacks against the target ignore damage resistance.
• Attack you make that hits this creature before the end of your next turn does increased damage. Add your Savant Die to the damage. This does not spend any dice from your Savant Dice pool.

Subject Mastery

At 14th level, choose one weapon you are proficient with. Your attacks with this weapon score a critical hit on a roll of 18–20.

Disable

At 17th level, you learn how to immobilize an enemy. Once per turn when you have advantage on your attack roll and hit a creature of Large size or smaller with a melee weapon attack, you can force it to make a Constitution saving throw. On a failure, the target is paralyzed for a number of rounds equal to your Intelligence modifier. At the end of each of its turns, the target can make a Constitution saving throw, ending the effect on itself on a success.

Coordinator

Our line of attack is on the right, with Arthorn leading. I will follow, and Dirgie will cover us with arrows from the left. I will call out any opening I see. We must keep Ilum safe at the rear so he can be ready to use a spell if things turn sour, but likely he can conserve power by using only cantrips. After all, this is just an early skirmish - I expect much tougher opposition later on.

Coordinators are skilled experts who use their knowledge to guide people. While their talents might seem magical, Coordinators need no incantations to achieve the seemingly impossible. As a Coordinator you are best at supporting teammates, using your abilities to make your companions more effective. That’s not all you do though, and between your superior deductive reasoning and broad base of knowledge you’re quite a sleuth as well.

Coordinator Proficiencies

When you choose this aptitude at 1st level, you gain proficiency with Insight and Intimidation.

Cooperation

At 1st level, you can assist an ally as long as that ally can clearly hear you, typically 30 feet, but can be further with the help of things like the Message spell. You can use the Help action as a bonus action or as a reaction when an ally is taking an action. You can always use the Help action, even if you are unable to perform the action you are assisting.

Tactical Eye

At 2nd level, when you see a creature within 100 feet, you learn its Challenge Rating. If the creature is disguised or in an altered form, you learn the false Challenge Rating of the assumed identity, but if you later penetrate the disguise you learn the real Challenge Rating.

Coordinator Tricks

These tricks are only available to Coordinators.

• Coordinating the Attack. When you hit a creature with a weapon attack, you leave the target vulnerable. An ally within reach of the target can use their reaction to attack it with advantage, you add your Savant Die to the damage. This does not spend a die from your Savant Dice pool.on a successful hit.

• Precipitous Rescue. You can activate this trick as a reaction when an ally within 30 feet of you fails a saving throw. If you do so, the ally may reroll their saving throw and adds your savant die to the saving throw, but must use the new roll.

• Prepared Partner. When you are within 5 feet of an ally and either of you is attacked or subject to a single-target effect, you can switch location with that ally. If you were the target, it now targets your ally. If ally was the target, it is now against you.

Coordination Dice

At 6th level, you can can use savant dice to assist allies. After an ally within 30 feet makes an attack roll, saving throw, or ability check, you can spend a die from your savant pool and add the result to their roll.

Second, when you or an ally within 30 feet is hit by an attack, you can spend a savant die and add the result to their Armor Class until the end of your next turn, possibly turning the hit into a miss and protecting from further attacks.

Finally, you can use a coordination die to add to the save DC of an effect used by an ally within 30 feet.

Battue

At 11th level, you can effectively coordinate with your allies to keep track of an attack concealed and invisible enemies. Allies within 30 feet of you automatically see invisible and hidden creatures within 5 feet of them unless they have full cover. You and allies within 30 feet of you do not suffer disadvantage when attacking enemies spotted this way, and such opponents do not have advantage when attacking you and your allies.

Coordination Reach

At 14th level, Savant Tricks with a range of 30 feet and the Focused Defense, Informed Coordinator, Coordination Dice, and Battue abilities have their range increased from 30 feet to 100 feet. Battue now requires your ally to be within 10 feet of a hidden or invisible creature to detect it.

Confound Advantage

At 17th level, enemies you can see within 100 feet of you never have advantage. Enemies can still use advantage to negate disadvantage, but they cannot make a roll with advantage.

Investigator

Then there’s the evidence of demonic incursions in the Duke’s cellars. When his manservant was questioned we were told that the Duke had arrived at sundown yet all signs indicated that he died hours earlier. This would suggest a shapechanger or possibly an illusion, making the Duke’s son—a known mage—a possible suspect. However when speaking with the servant I noticed something peculiar: his use of the local dialect is commensurate yet his accent and idioms suggest another region entirely. Far be it from me to judge someone based on their nationality, but the corresponding cultures to that flavor of speech are infamous for a kindness towards cults of the Abyssal Lords. Add into that the slight yellowing of his hand from the use of sulfur, his curious aversion to our cleric, and it became clear he was the infernalist. A mystery solved but not the last—for he is not the murderer!

Investigators are exemplars of the notion that knowledge is power. They use their cunning to aid in endeavors—sometimes by solving mysteries and other times more militantly as they help allies to find a foe’s weaknesses. They have a sharp eye and a background that lets them assemble clues into a picture of events and who did what.

Investigator Proficiencies

When you choose this aptitude at 1st level, you gain proficiency with Insight, Investigation, and thieves’ tools.

Sucker Punch

At 1st level, when you have advantage on an attack roll and hit, you can add your Savant Die to the damage. This does not spend a die from your Savant Dice pool.

In addition, if you take the Dodge action in combat you set up to deliver a counter attack. Until the start of your next turn, when an opponent makes an attack against you and misses, you can spend a reaction to attack that opponent with advantage on your attack roll.

Cipher

At 2nd level, you gain advantage on ability checks made to decipher codes and hidden messages. In addition, you can spend a bonus action to learn all damage immunities, damage resistances, damage vulnerabilities, and condition immunities of a creature within 30 feet.

Investigator Tricks

These tricks are only available to Investigators.

• Analyze Move. When an enemy within 30 feet hits with an attack, you can force that opponent to re-roll and accept the second result.
• Exploit Opening. When an ally attacks a creature in your reach, you can make a melee attack with advantage against that same creature. If you hit, you add your Savant Die to the damage. This does not spend a die from your Savant Dice pool.
• Find Weakness. Use this trick on your turn. Select a creature within 30 feet. You learn any damage resistances, damage immunities, and condition immunities the creature has, as well as identifying which of its saving throws is the worst.

Investigation Dice

At 6th level, when observing a creature, you can spend a savant die and learn information about the target. You always learn what languages the target speaks (if any), what weapons they are carrying, what natural attack they can use, and what armor they are wearing. In addition roll a savant die and learn additional information as given below.

1. The target’s alignment.
2. If the target is disguised or capable of changing their form or appearance
3. If the target has spells or magical abilities. Also and what spells the target is under (if any).
4. What skills the target is proficient in.
5. The target's point of origin, native terrain, and the approximate location (within 1 mile) they have spent most of their time in the last three days.

On a result of six or more, you get to chose what information you learn.

Investigating the Scene

At 11th level, you can spend a savant die and learn information about the location you are in, up to 100 feet in radius. You always learn what this place is normally used for. If you are acquainted with the owner or custodian, you can identify them. If an attack was made or a spell was cast in the last three days, you know that this happened but not what specific spell, attack, perpetrator or target. In addition, roll a Savant Die and learn the corresponding information, below. You learn the described information and when these events happened.

1. A brief description of all significant events in the last three days.
2. The three highest-level spells cast in the last three days.
3. Weapons attacks made here in the last three days.
4. General description of creatures who visited in the last three days. If you are acquainted with these creatures, you can identify them.
5. A piece of or personal item from a significant creature who visited the location in the last three days. Useful for divination spells.
6. Identify a creature that frequents the area and can be a possible witness.
7. You spot any hidden construction, secret doors, hidden caches, and traps, even those who have been discharged or destroyed. You also learn when these things were used or triggered.

If there is no significant information gained for the die result, the GM can let you reroll. On a result of eight or more, you get to chose what information you learn.

Codebreaker

Also at 11th level, you learn two languages. In addition, your skill and breadth of knowledge allows you to see the commonalities of all languages. By spending 10 minutes studying you can make a DC 15 Intelligence check to translate any script, even if you cannot recognize the language it is written in. If you fail, you can try again after taking a long or short rest.

Observations In Darkness

At 14th level, you do not have disadvantage when attacking invisible targets and invisible or hidden creatures do not get advantage when attacking you. Creatures do not gain any benefit from cover against your attacks unless they have total cover.

Escape Disadvantage

At 17th level, you never have disadvantage. You still have to roll a die normally, and you can still have advantage on a check cancelled by an effect that applies disadvantage, but you cannot be forced to make a roll with disadvantage.

Physic

The tiny needle slid into the wizard’s gut as the physic gently slapped his face. “What in the hells?!,” cried the mage. “Why are you sticking a needle in me?” “Because you were dead and I needed to reset your humors to bring you back,” she replies with an unnerving calm. “I was dead?” he asks, aghast. “Yes.” The physic answers, a bit frustrated. “Well, only temporarily.” Rubbing at his temples, the mage continues, “and you brought me back...from the dead?” “A little, yes.” She gestures behind her with one thumb. “Now try and keep up. The others are trying to kill that lich by themselves and it is not going well.”

The study of the body calls to some people. These savants want an understanding of life beyond magic, taking to wandering battlefields or back alleys in search of suffering to heal with nothing more than their hands and knowledge. Physic knowledge can seem esoteric — the relationship of natural humors, the importance of different organs to various functions, and the correct use of herbs can look like a magic but is not.

As a Physic your role is primarily that of a healer, and though you have access to poisons and other forms of attack your abilities primarily focus on keeping your allies alive.

Mundane Healing in the Game Magical healing in the game is cheap and effective, and to compete mundane healing needs to be the same. The two main branches of mundane healing is the exemplar Physic and the rogue Chirurgeon. To merit having two branches, they have to be different, which is expressed in the different classes they belong to. The Physic is focused on medicaments and the balance of the humors. From the Savant, it inherits stunts, and defense. The Chirurgeon is focused on the healing power of the knife, surgery. From the rogue it inherits sneak attack, cutting enemies with a surgeon's precision. The fencer Medico is a less proficient mix of the two styles.

Physic Proficiencies

When you choose this aptitude at 1st level, you gain proficiency with Medicine, the herbalists's kit, the and poisoner’s kit.

Knowledge of the Form

At 1st level, your knowledge of the body and its functioning eclipses that of most simple healers. Your proficiency bonus is doubled for all Medicine checks. In addition, you can use Intelligence instead of Wisdom when making a check that uses Medicine.

Abilities below often use Medicine to calculate the effect - this can be either Wisdom (Medicine) or Intelligence (Medicine), your choice.

You can also use a healer's kit without expending its charges.

Physic ’s Care

At 2nd level, you can optimize the effects of a short rest. You and any friendly creatures that take a short rest with you regain an additional amount of hit points equal to your Medicine bonus. In addition, you can choose one creature taking a short or long rest with you. Using the right combination of herbs and pressure points, you remove one condition or a level of exhaustion from the target. Undead and constructs cannot benefit from this ability.

Balancing the Humors

At 2nd level, you can spend an action identify maladies and rout them from a creature within 5 feet. Treating a disease or condition requires a successful Medicine check. If the effect allows a saving throw use the saving throw as the DC. Otherwise use a DC of 12. If the Medicine check fails, you cannot attempt to use this ability on this particular creature again until it finishes a long rest.

You can remove a disease and the paralyzed, poisoned, and stunned conditions.

At 6th level, you can treat the blinded, charmed, and deafened conditions as well as any effect that can be removed with Dispel Magic.

At 14th level, you can reduce the target’s exhaustion level by one, remove the frightened, or petrified condition, or end one of the following effects on the target:

• One curse, including the target’s attunement to a cursed magic item.
• One effect reducing the target’s hit point maximum.

Physic Tricks

These tricks are only available to Physic's.

• Always With a Tonic. You administer a potion or Physic Dice to an ally within 5 feet without spending an action.

• Opening Wounds. Use this trick when you attack a creature with a weapon attack and the creature is missing any of its hit points. You have advantage on the attack roll, and you can add your Savant Die to the damage. This does not spend a die from your Savant Dice pool.

• Rescue the Suffering. You can use an action to activate this trick. You gain the benefits of the Dash and Disengage actions, and if you move within 5 feet of a creature no more than one size category larger than you, you can pull that creature along as you move. You can only move one creature at a time with this ability, but if you have enough movement you can move one creature after another.

Physic Dice

At 6th level, you can take an action and spend a savant die to heal a creature you touch. Roll the savant die and add your Medicine modifier, the target recovers Hit Points equal to the result. Undead and constructs cannot benefit from this ability.

Exposure Immunity

At 11th level, countless minor exposures to toxins of all kinds have made you immune to poison damage, the poisoned condition, and all forms of disease, infection, or infestation. In addition, you can use a bonus action to apply poison to a weapon.

Resuscitate

Also at 14th level, you can revive the dead if you reach them soon enough. You can spend an action touching a creature that has died within the last 2 minutes, making a DC 25 Medicine check. On a success, the creature returns to life with 1 hit point. A creature can only benefit from Resuscitate once between long rests. Undead and constructs cannot benefit from this ability.

Superior Physician

At 17th level, you can use a bonus action to touch a creature. The creature regains hit points equal to 1d8 + your Intelligence modifier.

Canny Immunity

Also at 17th level, you become immune to the paralyzed, petrified, and stunned conditions. Choose one of acid, cold, fire, lightning, necrotic, psychic, radiant, or thunder damage. You gain immunity to the chosen damage type. When you finish a long or short rest, you can exchange this damage immunity with immunity to another type of damage from this list.