Conveyor (5A)

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This is an Artificer Specialization for 5A.

Conveyors build large machine vehicles that can convey themselves and a few others. This conveyance can be used for travel, exploration, or war. Always exotic, such vehicles are unique sights that always draw attention wherever they appear.

Greyhawk: Vehicles in use in the Flanaess is almost universally powered by draft animals or the wind, but certain artificers can build vehicles centuries ahead of their time. Built by individual geniuses, such vehicles can appear anywhere, but the central region around Greyhawk and the Ulek states is the likeliest place to find them.

Source: Original.

Subclass Features

Proficiencies

When you adopt this specialization at 3rd level, you gain proficiency with carpenter's tools. If you already have this proficiency, you gain proficiency with one other type of artisan's tools of your choice. You also gain proficiency with one type of vehicles: land vehicles, water vehicles, or air vehicles.

At 5th level, 9th level, and 15th level you gain proficiency in one set of artisan's tools or one type of vehicle of your choice.

Conveyor Spells

Starting at 3rd level, you always have certain spells prepared after you reach particular levels in this class, as shown in the Conveyor Spells table. These spells count as artificer spells for you, but they don’t count against the number of artificer spells you prepare.

Conveyor Spells

Artificer Level	Conveyor Spells
3	Expeditious Retreat, Tenser's Floating Disc
5	Dragon's Breath, Pass Without Trace
9	Daylight, Meld Into Stone
13	Control Water, Freedom of Movement
17	Control Winds, Telekinesis

Experimental Vehicle

By 3rd level, you have completed an experimental vehicle. This vehicle counts as a creature, but it can take no actions unless you are driving it. If you are not driving the vehicle, it stunned. You can spend actions to use the vehicle's abilities, including any attacks the vehicle is capable of. Any artificer spells with a range of self affecting you also affect the vehicle as long as you are riding it. When you use vehicle weapons to attack, you can use your spell attack bonus for attack rolls and Intelligence bonus for damage rolls, but others using vehicle weapons use the normal ability score. All weapons mounted on an experimental vehicle are simple weapons.

If the Mending spell is cast on your experimental vehicle, the vehicle regains 2d6 hit points. If it has died within the last hour, you can use your carpenter's tools 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 experimental vehicle is restored after 1 minute with all its hit points recovered.

Basic Type

When you gain this ability, you must decide to create a land vehicle, water vehicle, or air vehicle. You must be level 9 to create an air vehicle. You can only change the basic type of vehicle when you advance in level. You can only create vehicles of a type you are proficient with piloting.

There are modifications (see below) that add a second or third type to your experimental vehicle. This gives additional modes of movement and can serve as prerequisites for other modifications, but does not change the vehicles basic type.

Stat Block

Your proficiency bonus (PB) and artificer level appears in several places in the stat block.

Medium construct

Armor Class: 12 + PB (natural armor)

Hit Points:8 times your artificer level (the defender has a number of Hit Dice [d10s] equal to your artificer level)

Speed: land, fly (hover), or swim 20 feet, plus 10 feet times your PB.

STR 10 +2xPB (+PB) DEX 1 (-5) CON 14 (+2) INT 0 (−5) WIS 0 (-5) CHA 14 (+2)

Saving Throws: Dex +1 plus PB, Con +2 plus PB

Damage Immunities: poison, psychic

Condition Immunities: blinded, charmed, deafened, exhaustion, frightened, paralyzed, poisoned, unconscious.

Senses: none

Languages: none

Challenge: —

Proficiency Bonus (PB): equals your bonus

Mount. The experimental vehicle can serve as a mount. Only you can ride it, and you can do so as long as your size is not larger than that of the vehicle. If you are not riding it, the vehicle is constantly stunned.

Terrain Sensitive. When using land or swim speed on a road, calm water, or other flat, entirely clear terrain, the experimental vehicle's speed is increased by 50%. It moves normally in terrain that is neither difficult ground nor particularly flat. Any kind of difficult ground has double effect on the vehicle, requiring 15 feet of movement for each 5 feet moved—or more in very difficult terrain. The vehicle cannot climb and cannot swim unless it has a swim speed. When using swim speed, it can only move on a liquid surface, it cannot dive.

Piloted. When piloting the vehicle, you can use your Intelligence (Vehicle Proficiency) bonus in lieu of Strength (Athletics) and Dexterity (Acrobatics).

Machine. The experimental vehicle lacks Intelligence and Wisdom scores, is immune to any effect that allows an Intelligence or Wisdom save, and cannot take an Intelligence or Wisdom check.

Simple Modifications

Starting at 3rd level, you can apply a simple modification to your experimental vehicle. You can change all modifications to your vehicle at the end of a long rest.

Certain modifications and constraints (see below) have prerequisites that either you or the vehicle must fulfill to take that modification or constraint. An assistant can help you create a modification by providing skill and proficiency prerequisites.

A full list of Modifications is provided below.

Vehicle Constraints

At 3rd level you can choose to add up to two constraints to your experimental vehicle. Constraints are disadvantages that limits of hinders your vehicle's performance under certain conditions. Each constraint added allows you to add another modification.

A full list of Constraints is provided below.

Basic Modifications

At 5th level you can select an additional simple modification, for a total of two.

Advanced Modifications

At 9th level, you can apply a total of three modifications to your experimental vehicle, and the modifications can be those listed under Simple Modifications or Advanced Modifications.

Personal Transport

At 9th level you can construct an additional personal vehicle, but this vehicle cannot be made larger than Medium in size. It is created using the experimental vehicles rules and has its own modifications but cannot have constraints. Your personal transport can be a passenger on another vehicle.

Exceptional Modifications

At 15th level, you can apply a total of four modifications to your experimental vehicle, and the modifications can be those listed under Simple Modifications, Advanced Modifications, or Exceptional Modifications.

Modifications

The following modifications can be installed in experimental vehicles.

Simple Modifications

Accommodations

Prerequisite: large or larger vehicle. Travelers can sleep inside vehicle, avoiding the necessity of a camp to take a long rest in the wilderness.

Armored

Prerequisite: Proficiency with smith's tools. The vehicle is armored but it's Armor Class does not improve. Instead it gains a number of temporary hit points equal to half the number of hit points it has (rounded up). These temporary hit points can be restored using the Mending spell, up to the initial maximum. As long as your vehicle has any of these temporary hit points, you and all passengers in the vehicle have cover from all attacks.

Camouflage

Prerequisite: proficiency with painter's supplies. You can use Intelligence (vehicle proficiency) as if it was Dexterity (Stealth) for the vehicle. The vehicle either must remain motionless or needs cover or concealment according to the normal Stealth rules, which can be hard to find for large vehicles.

Echo Bottles

Prerequisite: proficiency with potter's tools. Travelers can use echo bottles to cast Message. At 9th level the range of the spell is increased to 250 feet and the spell can be cast as a bonus action At 15th level the range increases to 500 feet and the spell can be cast without spending an action.

Ground

Prerequisite: proficiency with land vehicles. Your vehicle gains the land vehicle type in addition to any other types it already has. When driven on land it uses proficiency with land vehicles.

Large

Your vehicle becomes Large and has a space of 10 feet times 10 feet. Reduce the speed of the vehicle by 10 feet. It can move through a 5 foot passage by squeezing (see the combat rules). The vehicle has d10 hit dice and gains an additional hit point for each level you have. It can carry three passengers in addition to you.

Ranged Weapons

The vehicle has one or more ranged weapons you or a passenger can use by taking the attack action. These ranged weapons do 1d8 force damage with a range of 30/90 and the loading property.

On your turn, when you use this weapon to attack a target and then move at least 10 feet towards that target, you can attack that target again as a bonus action, ignoring the loading property.

If the vehicle is Large, this weapon does 2d8 force damage with a range of 50/150 and the loading property.

If the vehicle is Huge, this weapon does 3d8 force damage with a range of 70/210 and the loading property.

If the vehicle is Gargantuan, this weapon does 4d8 force damage with a range of 90/270 and the loading property.

At artificer level 9, add 1d8 to the damage of all of these attacks.

Sculpted

Prerequisite: proficiency with woodcarver's tools. The vehicle is covered in elaborate sculpture to impress and frighten. While riding the vehicle, you can use your spell attack bonus in lieu of Charisma (Intimidation) and Charisma (Persuasion). You can amplify your voice to be clearly heard out to a distance of 300 feet.

Walker

Prerequisite: proficiency with cobbler's tools, land vehicle type. The vehicle has legs. It loses the Terrain Sensitive ability (see the experimental vehicle stat bloc). It moves as a normal creature with a land speed, and can climb and swim as such a creature normally can.

Windows

Prerequisite: proficiency with glassblower's tools. The vehicle has glass windows or portholes that allows travelers to see out but prevents those outside from looking in. Travelers cannot be targeted by spells that require a visible target. As soon as the vehicle has taken any hit point damage, windows cease to work.

Advanced Modifications

Amphibian

Prerequisite: proficiency with water vehicles. Your vehicle gains the water vehicle type in addition to any other types it already has. When piloted in water it is used with your proficiency in water vehicles.

Breath Weapon

Prerequisite: proficiency with alchemist's supplies. The vehicle can project a 20 foot cone of harmful energy, doing 6d6 acid, cold, fire, lightning, or poison damage, as decided when the modification is installed. A Dexterity saving throw against your spell DC halves this damage. You or a passenger can use the breath weapon in any direction with the Use Object action.

At level 15 this creates a 30 ft. cone that does 10d6 damage. Add necrotic, radiant, and thunder to the types of damage it can inflict.

Environmental protection

Prerequisite: proficiency with leatherworker's tools. The vehicle protects its travelers from environmental dangers, providing resistance to acid, cold, fire, and thunder damage. The vehicle does not gain these resistances.

Huge

Your vehicle becomes Huge and has a space of 15 feet times 15 feet. Reduce the speed of the vehicle by 20 feet. It can move through a 10 foot passage by squeezing (see the combat rules) but cannot move through a passage of 10 feet or less. The vehicle has d12 hit dice and gains two additional hit points for each level you have. It can carry eight passengers in addition to you.

Melee Attack

The vehicle a melee attack you can use by taking the attack action. This weapons does 2d10 force damage. When you are riding the vehicle you can attack with this weapon as a bonus action.

If the vehicle is Large, this weapon does 3d10 force damage and has a reach of 10 feet.

If the vehicle is Huge, this weapon does 4d10 force damage and has a reach of 15 feet.

If the vehicle is Gargantuan, this weapon does 5d10 force damage and has a reach of 20 feet.

Optics

Prerequisite: proficiency with glassblower's tools. The vehicle carries telescopes and other optics that allows travelers to see clearly at long distances and removes the disadvantage for firing ranged weapons at long range.

Submersible

Prerequisite: water vehicle type, proficiency with potter's tools. The vehicle can move underwater and provides breathable air for travelers.

Exceptional Modifications

Arms

Prerequisite: proficiency with tinker's tools. The vehicle has two arms that allows it to manipulate objects and wield weapons. It can use any weapon you are proficient with. It can also use a shield.

If the vehicle is larger than Medium, all equipment it uses must be scaled appropriately.

A Large vehicle does twice the dice of damage of the same type the weapon already inflicts and has a reach of 10 feet. A Huge vehicle does three times weapon damage dice and has a reach of 15 feet, and a Gargantuan vehicle does four times the normal damage dice of the weapon and has a reach of 20 feet.

If it is appropriately armed, you can use two-weapon fighting with the vehicle.

Crystal Windows

Prerequisite: proficiency with jeweler's tools. The vehicle has crustal windows or portholes that allows travelers to see out but prevents those outside from looking in. Travelers cannot be targeted by spells that require a visible target. Unlike normal windows, these are only destroyed once the vehicle is below half hit points.

Flier

Prerequisite: proficiency with air vehicles. Your vehicle gains the air vehicle type in addition to any other types it already has. When piloted in the air it uses proficiency with air vehicles.

Folding

Prerequisite: proficiency with tinker's tools. As an action when the vehicle is empty and within 5 feet of you, you can fold it up into a 5 inch replica of itself. You can unfold the folded vehicle into its normal size as an action, provided there is room for it to form fully.

Gargantuan

Your vehicle becomes Gargantuan and has a space of 20 feet times 20 feet. Reduce the speed of the vehicle by 30 feet. It can move through a 15 foot passage by squeezing (see the combat rules) but cannot move through a passage of 10 feet or less. The vehicle has d20 hit dice and gains six additional hit points for each level you have. It can carry fifteen passengers in addition to you.

Stone Hull

Prerequisite: proficiency with mason's tools. Your vehicle gains loses 20 feet of speed but gains resistance to all damage. Travelers do not gain these resistances.

Constraints

Crewed

The vehicles requires a number of crew equal to half its maximum number of passengers (round up, minimum one) to move. You can function as crew. Example crew are rowers, stokers, or engineers. Each member of the crew must spend an action each round crewing the vehicle. If the number of crew who spent actions during the last round drops below half the requirement (round the requirement up), halve the vehicle's speed. If no crew remains, the vehicle's speed becomes 5 feet.

A crewed vehicle gains the Large modification for free if you so wish. It has the Large modification, it instead gains the Huge modification. If it has the Huge modification it instead gains the Gargantuan modification.

Glider

Prerequisite: air vehicle type. The vehicle needs to maintain speed in order to fly. It loses the ability to hover and stalls if it does not move at least 5 feet on your turn, losing 1d10 times 10 feet of altitude. If it reaches the ground, this is considered a fall.

Pulled

Prerequisite: Animal Handling. Your vehicle is pulled by creatures you must provide, usually animals. A single creature of the same size as the vehicle or a number of smaller creatures are required to pull it. The number of Medium creatures required to draw the vehicle depends on its size, as given in the draft table. A creature that is larger than Medium in size counts as more than one creature, given in the draft table.

Draft

Number	Vehicle Size	Draft Creature Size
1	Medium	Medium
2	Large	Large
4	Huge	Huge
9	Gargantuan	gargantuan

All pullers must spend an action each round to pull and the vehicle cannot move faster than the slowest creature pulling it.

A land vehicle requires creatures with a land or fly speed to draw it.

An air vehicle requires creatures with a fly speed to draw it.

A water vehicle requires creatures with a swim or fly speed to pull it, unless it has the submersible modification in which case the creatures must have a swim speed.

For simplicity's sake, pullers are included in the vehicle's space and are targeted as if they were passengers.

A pulled vehicle gains the Large modification for free if you so wish. It has the Large modification, it instead gains the Huge modification. If it has the Huge modification it instead gains the Gargantuan modification.

Sailed

Prerequisite: proficiency with weaver's tools. The vehicle uses sails to move. Its speed is reduced to 5 ft. in a dead calm and it cannot move directly into the wind (one of the eight cardinal directions on a grid). It can zigzag to indirectly move in the prohibited direction.

Slow Turn

The vehicle cannot turn while moving and must move along one of the cardinal directions of the grid. Its heading is not recorded from round to round, it can move in a different direction on each of your turns.

Wide

The vehicle has masts, an envelope, or other protrusions that hinders its movement in constrained areas. It cannot squeeze and can only pass through an opening if it has at least ten feet of free space on each side.

Experimental Vehicle Rules

Experimental vehicles are mounts and act and move like other creatures and do not really need any additional rules, but there are certain corner cases that can use an explanation.

Passengers

Large and larger vehicles can carry passengers, allied creatures that you allow to ride your vehicle. Passengers cannot control an experimental vehicle and simply move along as it moves. A hostile creature can never be a passenger or traveler and must use Dexterity (Acrobatics) to Climb A Larger Creature in order to hitch a ride.

Travelers

A traveler (you or a passenger) is anyone aboard a vehicle. Travelers do not trigger attacks of opportunity when the vehicle moves, only the vehicle does so. Travelers can take actions, and are considered to occupy the entire space of the vehicle for the purpose of targeting. A traveler can spend half their movement to mount or dismount the vehicle in any space within 5 feet.

Traveler Size

Travelers are normally Small or Medium in size. A Tiny creature does not count as a passenger as long as the number of Tiny creatures is not higher than the allowed number of travelers. It can still be a traveler and act as a traveler. A Large creature counts as four travelers. A Huge creature counts as nine travelers. A Gargantuan creature counts as sixteen travelers.

Cargo and Stowage

A traveler can take only what they can carry aboard a vehicle. A Large or larger vehicle can carry cargo of 500 lbs per passenger it is capable of carrying. An additional 500 lbs can be carried for each passenger not carried. Living creatures can be carried as cargo taking up 250 lbs each, but this is a discomfortable ride. A vehicle can carry four times the normal number of passengers if they are all in stowage.

Creatures carried as cargo are said to be in stowage. They have full cover from all attacks as long as the vehicle has any hit points remaining and all creatures outside the vehicle has full cover against them. Stowage passengers are prevented from resting and liable to motion sickness, make a DC 10 Constitution check the first time the vehicle moves or become poisoned. A new saving throw is allowed each hour in stowage or at the end of each round once out of stowage to end the condition.

As an action, a creature in stowage can exit the cargo and become a passenger if there is room for more passengers in the vehicle or the pilot position is empty. A passenger can use an action to move into stowage.

Vehicle Husks

Vehicles are quite large, and when they cannot travel under their own power are hard to transport. A disabled vehicle is not entirely destroyed, it is a husk of wood beams and planks. Such a husk can be transported at half speed as if it had the Pulled constraint.

As long as the husk is present, you can revive it using carpenter's tools and a spell slot of any level as outlined in the Experimental Vehicle ability. If the husk is lost, it takes you a week of work and plentiful timber to build a new vehicle.

Commercially Available Vehicles

These rules can be used to create vehicles that can be bought or crafted by any skilled creature, not just an artificer. Such vehicles must conform to the technology common in the setting. A vehicle that can be made by a 3rd level artificer is considered a common item costing 50 gp. A vehicle that can be made by a 5th lever artificer is considered an uncommon item costing 1,000 gp. A vehicle that can be made by a 9th level artificer is considered a rare item costing 10,000 gp. A vehicle that can be made by a level 15 artificer is considered a very rare item costing 100,000 gp. All such vehicles can have an additional constraint that does not allow for more modifications, usually crewed, pulled, or sailed. Creating a commercial vehicle usually takes much longer than it takes for a conveyor artificer to create an experimental vehicle.

Vehicles Larger that Gargantuan

Vehicles can be larger than Gargantuan in size, but such vehicles are much less maneuverable than those covered here and are mostly considered terrain.