Questions tagged [alchemist]
For questions about the alchemist, a class or character focused on the use of alchemy, typically to create magical or quasi-magical potions.
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Are my homebrew changes to Alchemist bringing things into balance or are they over powered?
I'm treating this like a complete homebrew, but really it is just shoring up (as I see them) deficiencies in Tasha's Artificer Alchemist sub-class. There is only one new feature and everything else is ...
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Alchemists, their daily infused reagents, and their duration
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As soon as you make your next daily preparations, your infused reagents from the previous day’s preparations are instantly destroyed, and nonpermanent effects ...
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How does Doppelganger Simulacrum Work?
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Benefit: The alchemist learns how to create a simulacrum, a soulless duplicate of his body, into which he can project his consciousness. As a full-round action, he may ...
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Can a Tumor Familiar become an Improved Familiar?
An Alchemist can obtain a Tumor Familiar. There's also the feat Improved Familiar, which is accompanied by a table which lists Arcane Spellcaster Level in one of the columns and has the prerequisite:
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How many alchemical items can I create per day with Alchemist Dedication?
Alchemist Dedication says you get 2* free infused reagents per day. This part is clear :
You gain the alchemist’s infused reagents class feature, gaining a number of reagents each day equal to your ...
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How do the formulas for alchemical items from the basic crafting book interact with the alchemical formulas from the Alchemist class?
When you get a basic crafting book, it contains formulas for common items. Some of the things you gain access to are formulas for alchemical items. How does this pair with the alchemical formulas from ...
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Can Alchemy-produced items be purchased like regular potions and items?
I'm looking through the Adventurer's Vault, and there's an Alchemy section which lists items that can be produced by someone with the Alchemist feat, and lists the price of item recipes as well as the ...
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How can I effectively deal with an incorporeal enemy as an alchemist? Are alchemist's bombs considered magical?
Incorporeal enemies have double resistances against non-magical damage. Many other creatures also have resistances against some non-magical damage but incorporeal creatures are the biggest offenders.
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PF2: Can alchemist poison his bombs?
So poisons can be applied to weapons. This is typically done with poisons that have the Injury trait. Which requires the weapon to deal either piercing or slashing damage. I found 4 such bombs:
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Does Munitions Crafter stack with the Alchemist Dedication?
Both the Alchemist Dedication and Munitions Crafter grant me infused reagents equal to my level. Do they stack if I take both, gaining reagents equal to twice my level per day? This seems wrong, ...
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Quick Alchemy and Poison Potency
Does the line on Quick Alchemy about remaining potent for only 1 round matter for poisons once they've been applied?
You swiftly mix up a short-lived alchemical item to use at a moment's notice. You ...
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Alchemist's Fire and Burn it! Critical damage
I am aware that there were quite a few questions about the interaction between Alchemist's Fire splash damage and Burn it! feat. However I think one thing remains without an answer: what about ...
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Can a spellcaster Dispel an effect caused by an Alchemist's bombs?
I'm trying to build a bit of a foil for one of my more competent casters, and I came upon a conundrum.
The Smoke Bomb discovery reads as follows:
When the alchemist creates a bomb, he can choose to ...
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How do a perfumer alchemist's Effervescent Bombs interact with the Healing Bomb Discovery?
We had a problem with the alchemist perfumer archetype, more specifically with his Effervescent Bombs (Su) and Healing Bomb Discovery.
How should it work?
Effervescent Bombs seem to be more of a ...
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Would an Alchemist Artificer apply their Alchemist Savant feature once or twice in a given scenario?
Given the character has all their prerequisites
5th level Alchemist Artificer with the spells Absorb Elements, Shocking Grasp
3rd level Sorcerer (any) with Transmuted Spell metamagic
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Can an alchemist learn any Wizard spell?
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An alchemist can study a wizard’s spellbook to learn any formula that is equivalent to a spell the spellbook contains
I'm playing an alchemist in a party with a wizard. He can know a ...
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Is Alchemical Alacrity a mistake?
Alchemical Alacrity says:
Your comfort in concocting items is such that you can create three at a time. When using the Quick Alchemy action, you can spend up to three batches of infused reagents to ...
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Closest non-Homebrew class to Potions Master / Salve-Maker?
I've been searching for a character build where it focuses on Potions crafting. To be specific, a character that would be able to craft potions as an (in-combat) action, and where the potions crafted ...
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What is the point of Bestial Mutagen?
The Bestial Mutagen gives you a penalty to AC and Ref, but also unarmed attacks, and an item bonus to these. The bonus to attack is 1 higher than what you could get on a level-apropirate weapon, which ...
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What are the best ways to maximize int score? [closed]
I am playing a level 10 alchemist, and because alchemist needs as much as he can for int (bombs per day, bomb's damage, craft alchemy, etc.), i want to maximize it. I need the cheapest items i can get,...
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How does consumables batch crafting work in Pathfinder Society?
How does Pathfinder 2e consumables batch crafting work in Pathfinder Society play? For example: After an adventure, an alchemist wants to use 8 downtime days to craft a batch of four lesser alchemist'...
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What are the ways by which an alchemist can access the alchemical bomb crit specialisation?
See the title. What methods are open to an alchemist that allow them to gain access to the alchemical bomb's critical specialisation effect (increasing the splash radius to 10ft)?
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When does a Summon spell take effect [duplicate]
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The Summon Monster and Summon Nature's ally spells all have a casting time of 1 round. My regular group have always taken that to mean that the summoned creature begins to act in the ...
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Is there anything preventing a first-level alchemist from buying a sixth-level alchemical formula?
The alchemist starts at level 1 with eight first-level alchemical formulae - two from their specialisation, four from their alchemical crafting feat, and two for free because they're alchemists.
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Can Alchemists apply a poison to their bombs?
Can Alchemists apply a poison to their bombs? Does the poison apply on impact and then boom goes the dynamite?
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Can a non-Elven drinker benefit from an Elven Alchemist Blend spell?
If an Elven alchemist with the Infusion discovery creates an extract of the Blend spell, would that work on a non-Elven drinker?
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Can alchemists prepare alchemical items without reading their formula book?
The Pathfinder 2 alchemist class can prepare alchemical items if they have the item's formula in their formula book. However, the class features never explicitly say that the alchemist needs to read ...
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Are alchemist's tools required for Infused Reagents & Advanced Alchemy?
The Pathfinder 2 alchemist gets the Advanced Alchemy feature, which lets them spend their daily Infused Reagents resource to create alchemical items. The class description suggests that alchemist's ...
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Does Green-Flame Blade benefit from the Alchemist artificer's Alchemical Savant feature if they use alchemist's supplies as an improvised weapon?
The Alchemist artificer's 5th-level Alchemical Savant feature states (WGtE, p. 180; E:RftLW, p. 58):
Whenever you cast a spell using your alchemist’s supplies as the spellcasting focus, you gain a ...
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Can I surprise enemies with bottled oozes?
Suppose I am an alchemist with the bottled ooze discovery, and have a gelatinous cube in a bottle.
If I ready an action to throw a gelatinous cube in the path of a moving creature, does that count as ...
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What’s the right calculation for the Homunculus’s hit points for the 2019 UA Alchemist Artificer?
In the 2019 version of the Unearthed Arcana Alchemist Artificer, the Homunculus's hit points are given as:
Hit Points equal to five times your level in this class + your Intelligence modifier
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Can an Alchemist permanently have a potion buff?
The Eternal Elixir feat lets an Alchemist make the duration of one of their elixirs "indefinite". The Improbable Elixirs feat lets them craft a magic potion as an elixir.
Can an Alchemist with both ...
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Can a (2019 UA) artificer's alchemical homunculus take actions not listed in its description?
The 2019 UA artificer's alchemical homunculus is described with a list of actions it can perform, most of which require the artificer to use a bonus action to issue the order. The actions listed are ...
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Can Vivisectionist retrain Throw Anything feat?
One of my players has an alchemist with vivisectionist archetype, thus loosing ability to make bombs in change of roguish sneak attack.
He tries to convince me, that Throw Anything feat gained as a ...
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What can the 2019 UA Artificer's Alchemical Homunculus do outside of combat?
In the 2019 version of the UA Artificer class, one of the specializations is Alchemist. The alchemist gets the ability to create an Alchemical Homunculus.
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Stats for homunculus created by Alchemist with Promethean Disciple discovery - how to get it buffed up, RAW?
One of my ex players (ex as we're switching DM currently, she is still active) wanted to create a homunculus. She took Promethean Disciple because, for some reasons, Promethean Alchemist did not ...
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Can other PCs use Alchemical Weapons?
I wanted to get some clarity on something. My character is an alchemist for reference.
If I craft Alchemical Weapons like those listed in the Alchemists Manual, can my other party members use them?
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Missing with a splash weapon II - Target against a wall / water / pit
(This is kind of a follow-up to Missing with a splash weapon)
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There is an alchemist (or other splash weapon user) "T", throwing her splash weapon at a target "X" that is within T's weapon'...
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How does the Alchemist and Alchemy Craft work?
Fair warning, I really new player in the Pathfinder world so you may need to dumb it down for me quite a bit.
This is the first time I've cracked open the subject of creating potions or poisons or ...
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Missing with a splash weapon
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The Combat Rules concerning Splash Weapons go as follows:
If you miss the target (whether aiming at a creature or a grid intersection), roll 1d8. This determines the misdirection of the throw, ...
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What happens when you're under the effects of a mutagen and brew a new one?
The alchemist's Mutagen class feature says:
At 1st level, an alchemist discovers how to create a mutagen that he can imbibe in order to heighten his physical prowess at the cost of his personality. ...
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Can an Alchemist with Infused Extract hand them out before combat? [closed]
Inspired by Who can be the target of an infused extract?.
Supposing an Alchemist has created their Extracts per the Alchemy class feature and the Infusion Discovery, would they then be able to ...
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Firing a rocket from within a Bag of Holding
So, my party has come up to something that I think is rather interesting.
Because of an absence from several sessions due to work, my character, a goblin firebomber, was placed within our bag of ...
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How can I play an adventuring alchemist in D&D 5e?
I'd like to play as an alchemist in D&D 5E. I'm assuming I need a class or archetype for this but have not found anything official-looking.
I've found some stuff online, but nothing that seems ...
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Which features that increase damage contribute towards Alchemist Bomb Splash damage?
Alchemist bombs have splash damage equal to the minimum damage that the bomb can roll.
The Point-Blank-Shot feat specifically calls out that it does not increase splash damage, and FAQs have said ...
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How do I optimize a Winged Marauder Mount for flyby Bomb-Throwing?
I'm making a Winged Marauder Alchemist. I've never played a class with an animal companion or mount before, so I really don't understand any of the business of building my Vulture or Bat. For example, ...
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How to make Alchemist able to create homunculus, as RAW as feasible, in Pathfinder?
In European tradition, Homunculus is alchemical creation:
The homunculus first appears by name in alchemical writings attributed to Paracelsus (1493–1541)
One of my players plays Alchemist class ...
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What do the Alchemist's bombs look like?
What do bombs crafted by Pathfinder's Alchemists actually look like? I was trying to figure this out for a magic item I wanted to create, something that'd be involved in the bombs' creation - e.g. a ...
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Ectoplasmic Bombs rules?
The Alchemist's Ectoplasmic Bombs discovery states that Incorporeal creatures struck by such a bomb take full damage from it. It does not, however, state whether these still do their normal damage to ...
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Does an Alchemist have any means to recall Infused Extracts?
The Infusion Discovery allows Alchemist to provide their Extracts to non-Alchemist for use. However it inlcudes the caveat:
...it continues to occupy one of the alchemist’s daily extract slots.
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