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The following subclasses were originally written for
the unofficial Artificer class as presented in earlier
versions of the Korranberg Chronicle: Adventurer’s
Almanac. As of version 1.4 of that document, the
official Unearthed Arcana version of the Artificer class
has been adopted, and the former Almanac version has
been renamed the Arcanist class.
As part of this update, the Automation and
Renegade Masteries were rewritten as UA Artificer
Specialists subclasses, and the Alchemical Mastery
subclass was removed so as to not step on the toes of
the UA Artificer Alchemist.
The Arcanist-style versions of these subclasses
have been preserved here, so you can continue to play
them. However, they will not be supported in future
updates to the Adventurer’s Almanac.
Arcanists who focus on mastering alchemy
continuously mix and concoct strange potions and
substances, experimenting to improve formulas for
their strange solutions.
Arcanist Level Spells
1st chromatic orb, grease
3rd heat metal, Melf's acid arrow
5th transmute weapon, stinking cloud
7th fire shield, stoneskin
9th transmute rock*, wall of stone
*This spell can be found in Xanathar’s Guide to Everything
At 1st level, you gain proficiency with alchemist's
supplies, and your proficiency bonus is doubled for
any ability checks you make using them.
Additionally, you have mastered three formulas
for the creation of alchemical items. You know the
formula for brewing alchemist's fire and the formulas
to brew or transmute two additional kinds of items of
your choice: antitoxin, alchemical acid, alchemical
frost, alchemical lightning, explosive oil, oil of repair,
potions of healing, smoke sticks, sunrods, tanglefoot
bags, or thunderstones. (New items are detailed in
Korranberg Chronicle: Adventurer’s Almanac, Chapter
4: Equipment.)
To craft an alchemical item, you require one
workday (8 hours) of downtime and a set of
alchemist's supplies, plus additional raw materials
worth half of the item's market price in gold pieces.
Items you create this way are nonmagical, except for
oils of repair and potions of healing.
Unlike store-bought items, if an alchemical item
you create requires a saving throw to resist any of its
effects, the DC is 8 + your proficiency bonus + your
Intelligence modifier (using your proficiency bonus
and Intelligence modifier at the time you created the
item).
As you grow in level, your alchemical knowledge
grows more refined as well, allowing you to increase
the potency of some items you create. If the item’s
effect involves dice, it gains an additional die at
arcanist levels 3rd, 5th, 7th, 9th, 11th, 13th, 15th, 17th,
and 19th when you create it. (For instance, basic
alchemical acid deals 1d6 acid damage, but if you are
13th level, any alchemical acid you create can deal 7d6
acid damage).
For each additional dice an item's effect has, you
need to spend one extra workday and an additional
25% of its market value in gold pieces to craft it. You
can choose to create an alchemical item that is less
potent than the maximum potency you are capable of
creating.
If a creature other than you employs an enhanced
alchemical item you create, it retains its increased
potency.
Starting at 2nd level, you can use an Infusion to
transmute a harmless liquid or handheld object that
weighs no more than 10 pounds into an alchemical
concoction or item as an action. You can create any
nonmagical alchemical item you know the formula for.
Any item you create is created at your maximum
potency. The item retains its new properties for 10
minutes, or until used.
At 6th level, you learn two additional formulas for
creating alchemical items, picked from among those
available to you at 1st level.
At 8th level, your experiments and reverse engineering
have unlocked the secrets of dangerous alchemical
formulas not typically available on the market. You
learn how to create two alchemical items from the
following list: absentia, alchemical wrath, dragon's
blood (black), dragon's blood (blue).
All of these items are nonmagical.

Starting at 17th level, you learn two additional
formulas for creating alchemical items, picked from
among those available to you at 1st or 8th level, and
the following list: dragon's blood (red), goodberry
wine.
Of these options, goodberry wine is considered a
magical item.
Some arcanists are focused on the nature of constructs
and hone their intellect toward repairing, maintaining,
and creating them. They are typically hardier than
other arcanists, often wading into battle beside their
signature homunculi.
Arcanist Level Spells
1st cause damage†, repair damage†
3rd magic weapon, methods of repair†
5th mass emergency repairs†,
reactivate†
7th death ward, stoneskin
9th mass repair damage†,
reconstruct†
†These new spells are detailed in the Adventurer’s Almanac
At 1st level, you gain proficiency with heavy armor.
Starting at 2nd level, you can use an Infusion to force a
construct or warforged to temporarily cease all
functions. As an action, you cause one construct or
warforged that can see you within 30 feet of you to
make a Wisdom saving throw. If the target fails its
saving throw, it is affected by this ability for 1 minute.
While it is affected by this Infusion, the target can
take no actions or reactions, can’t move or speak, and
it automatically fails Strength and Dexterity saving
throws. Additionally, attack rolls against it have
advantage, and any attack that hits the target is a
critical hit if the attacker is within 5 feet of it. At the
end of each of its turns, the target can repeat the saving
throw. On a success, this effect ends.
Starting at 6th level, you gain the ability to invest a
construct with a portion of your soul, binding it to you
as a homunculus. You must spend four workweeks of
downtime and 500 gold to construct one. Choose a
construct creature no larger than Medium that has a
challenge rating of 1/4 or lower (see the Homunculus
section of The Korranberg Chronicle: Threat Dispatch
starting on page 45 for constructs particularly suitable
for this ability). After construction is complete, you
imbue the construct with a portion of your soul,
transforming it into a homunculus. Your homunculus
shares your alignment.
Your homunculus accompanies you on your
adventures and faithfully fights alongside you. It uses
your proficiency bonus rather than its own. In addition
to the areas where it normally uses its proficiency
bonus, your homunculus also adds your proficiency
bonus to its AC and to its damage rolls. The creature
has a total number of hit dice equal to your level, or its
normal total, whichever is higher. For every hit die it
has, its hit points increase accordingly. Each level you
gain after 6th, your homunculi gains an additional hit
die and increases its hit points accordingly.
For every 4 hit dice the homunculus has, its ability
scores improve. Your homunculus can increase one
ability score of your choice by 2, or it can increase two
ability scores of your choice by 1. As normal, your
homunculus can't increase an ability score above 20
using this feature unless its description specifies
otherwise. Your homunculus can't gain feats unless
otherwise noted.
Your homunculus obeys your commands as best it
can. It rolls initiative like any other creature, but you
determine its actions, decisions, attitudes, and so on. If
you are incapacitated, your companion acts on its own.
Your homunculus remains active as long as it is
within 100 feet of you. It becomes unconscious and
inert if you ever move further away. If your
homunculus is destroyed, a piece of your soul is lost
and you suffer a –4 penalty to attack rolls, saving
throws, and ability checks. Every time you complete a
long rest, this penalty lessens by 1. Once you no longer
have this penalty, you can craft a new homunculus by
spending another four workweeks of downtime and
500 gold.
You cannot have more than one signature
homunculus active at a time. Should you begin crafting
a new signature homunculus, the old one collapses
into wasted raw materials after you finish one
workday of progress toward crafting the new one (and
you suffer the penalty above, since the old homunculus
is destroyed). However, if you select the Craft
Homunculus feat (described in a later chapter), you
can craft a second homunculus and have both it and
your signature homunculus active at the same time.
 Homunculi you create with the create homunculus
spell from Xanathar’s Guide to Everything do not count
toward this limit, and vice versa.
At 8th level, when you use the Attack action on your
turn, if your signature homunculus can see you, it can
use its reaction to make a melee attack. Additionally,
while your signature homunculus can see you, it has
advantage on all saving throws.
At 17th level, you complete your final adjustments to
your signature homunculus. Pick one of the following
features for your signature homunculus. It gains the
selected feature permanently. Once you make your
choice, you cannot change it unless you construct a
new signature homunculus.
Adamantine Defense. Your signature homunculus
has resistance to all damage.
Amalgamate Essence. When you use an Infusion on
yourself or cast a spell targeting yourself, you can also
affect your signature homunculus with the Infusion or
spell if the homunculus is within 30 feet of you.
Mithral Wings. Your signature homunculus gains a
fly speed of 60 feet, or its existing fly speed increases
by 30 feet. While flying, it can hover. In addition, your
signature homunculus doesn't provoke opportunity
attacks when it flies out of an enemy's reach.
Quicksilver Fury. Your signature homunculus can use
its Action to make two melee weapon attacks against a
single creature, or one melee weapon attack against
each creature of its choice within 5 feet of it, with a
separate attack roll for each target.
Renegade arcanists are driven by a devotion to—or
some would say, obsession with—self-improvement.
These arcanists are called renegades because they
ignore conventional wisdom and experiment upon
themselves, improving their bodies by implanting and
replacing parts of themselves with the products of
their mad genius.
Arcanist Level Spells
1st repair damage †,
thunderous smite
3rd magic weapon,
methods of repair †
5th blinding smite,
mass emergency repairs †
7th staggering smite, stoneskin
9th steel wind strike*,
mass repair damage †
*This spell can be found in Xanathar’s Guide to Everything
†These new spells are detailed in the Adventurer’s Almanac
At 1st level, you have taken the first major leap in your
quest for self-improvement, something that clearly
announces your lack of limits and marks you as a
renegade. You replace one of your arms, with a
constructed prosthesis you refer to as a bionic arm.
When you make an unarmed strike with your bionic
arm, you deal bludgeoning damage equal to 1d8 + your
Strength modifier. Your bionic arm is also considered
a weapon.
Also starting at 1st level, your repair spells are more
effective. Whenever you use a spell of 1st level or
higher to restore hit points to a construct or
warforged, the target regains additional hit points
equal to 2 + the spell's level.
Starting at 2nd level, you can use an Infusion to
activate devices you've implanted in your body to
repair yourself. As an action, you cause yourself to
begin automatically repairing damage for 1 minute.
For this duration, at the start of each of your turns, you
regain a number of hit points equal to your Intelligence
modifier, to a maximum of half of your normal hit point
total.
At 6th level, you have replaced so much of yourself At 17th level, you have achieved your vision of
with artificial components that your hit point perfection for yourself. If you are a warforged, any
maximum is increased by 6 and increases by 1 critical hit against you is treated as a normal hit. If you
whenever you gain another level in the arcanist class. are any other kind of creature, you gain the Model
These artificial replacements also cause you to count Type and Remodeling racial traits of the warforged
as both a construct and a humanoid. You can be (Korranberg Chronicle: Adventurer’s Almanac, Chapter
affected by a game effect if it works on either of your 1: Races of Eberron). You may now attune to
creature types. warforged components that require the model type
Additionally, you may attune to and attach that you chose for the Model Type trait.
warforged component magic items, even if you are not No matter what kind of creature you were, you are
a warforged, so long as they do not require a specific no longer considered a humanoid, and are a construct
warforged model type. only. You cannot be targeted by spells or effects that
specifically target humanoids (such as dominate
person), and you cannot be affected by spells that
explicitly exclude constructs (such as cure wounds).
At 8th level, you have woven countless Infusions and You are immune to poison damage, disease and
layered numerous magical improvements into your exhaustion, and you cannot become petrified or
bionic arm. At your option, you may replace your other poisoned. Finally, you cease to age and will continue to
arm with a second bionic arm as well. Whether you function until destroyed due to accident or violence.
have one bionic arm or two, you gain the same
benefits:
—Your bionic arm(s) now count as magic
weapons.
—When you make an unarmed strike with a
bionic arm you have a +1 bonus to attack and damage
rolls.
—Your bionic arm(s) are reinforced with extra
plating. They function as the equivalent of a magic +1
shield, granting you a +3 bonus to Armor Class. This
does not limit your ability to hold objects, cast spells,
or wield weapons.
— When you take the Attack action on your turn
to make an unarmed strike with a bionic arm, you can
make another unarmed strike as a bonus action.