Artificer (Pathfinder) . Spellcasters specialize. Artificers understand. They have an amazing. Eberron running. They function just like spells and follow all the rules for spells. For example, an infusion can be dispelled, it will not function in an antimagic area, and an artificer must make a Concentration check if injured while imbuing an item with an infusion. These might include ancient infusions he finds in the ruins of Xen'drik or secret infusions known only to the members of certain guilds or organizations.
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When he encounters such an infusion, an artificer can attempt to learn it by making a Spellcraft check (DC 2. If this check succeeds, he adds the infusion to his list.
If not, he can try again when he gains another rank in Spellcraft, assuming he still has access to the new infusion. To imbue an item with an infusion, an artificer must have an Intelligence score equal to at least 1. Int 1. 1 for lst- level infusions, Int 1. Infusions never allow saving throws. Like spellcasters, an artificer can use only a certain number of infusions of a particular level per day. His base daily infusion allotment is given on the accompanying table.
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In addition, he receives extra infusions per day if he has a sufficiently high Intelligence score (see Table 1—1: Ability Modifiers and Bonus Spells, page 8 of the Player's Handbook). An artificer's infusions can only be imbued into an item or a construct (including warforged). He cannot, for example, simply imbue an ally with bull's strength.
He must instead imbue that ability into an item his ally is wearing. The item then functions as a belt of giant strength for the duration of the infusion. He can, however, imbue bull's strength directly on a construct or a character with the living construct subtype, and infusions such as repair light damage and iron construct function only when imbued on such characters. Many infusions have long casting times, often 1 minute or more. An artificer can spend 1 action point to imbue any infusion in 1 round (like a spell that takes 1 round to cast). Like a spellcaster, an artificer can apply item creation feats and metamagic feats to his infusions. Like a sorcerer, an artificer can apply a metamagic feat to an infusion spontaneously, but doing this requires extra time.
An artificer can craft alchemical items as though he were a spellcaster. An artificer cannot automatically use a spell trigger or spell completion item if the equivalent spell appears on his infusion list. For example, an artificer must still employ the Use Magic Device skill to use a wand of light, even though light appears on his infusion list.
Each day, an artificer must focus his mind on his infusions. He needs 8 hours of rest, after which he spends 1. During this period, the artificer readies his mind to hold his daily allotment of infusions. Without such a period of time to refresh himself, the character does not regain the infusion slots he used up the day before. Any infusions used within the last 8 hours count against the artificer's daily limit. Artificer Knowledge: An artificer can make a special artificer knowledge check with a bonus equal to his artificer level + his Int modifier to detect whether a specific item has a magical aura. The artificer must hold and examine the object for 1 minute.
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A successful check against DC 1. An artificer cannot take 1. A particular item can only be examined in this fashion one time; if the check fails, the artificer can learn no more about that object. Artisan Bonus: An artificer gains a +2 bonus on Use Magic Device checks to activate an item of a kind for which he has the prerequisite item creation feat. For example, an artificer who has the Craft Wand feat gains a +2 bonus on checks to use a spell from a wand.
Disable Trap: An artificer can use the Search skill to locate traps when the task has a Difficulty Class higher than 2. Finding a nonmagical trap has a DC of at least 2. Finding a magic trap has a DC of 2. An artificer can use the Disable Device skill to disarm magic traps. Usually the DC is 2. An artificer who beats a trap's DC by 1.
Disable Device check can study a trap, figure out how it works, and bypass it (with his party) without disarming it. Item Creation (Ex): An artificer can create a magic item even if he does not have access to the spells that are prerequisites for the item.
The artificer must make a successful Use Magic Device check (DC 2. Thus, to make a lst- level wand of magic missile, an artificer would need a Use Magic Device check result of 2. To create a bottle of air (caster level 7th), he would need a check result of 2. The artificer must make a successful check for each prerequisite for each item he makes. If he fails a check, he can try again each day until the item is complete (see Creating Magic Items, page 2. Dungeon Master's Guide).
If he comes to the end of the crafting time and he has still not successfully emulated one of the powers, he can make one final check—his last- ditch effort, even if he has already made a check that day. If that check also fails, then the creation process fails and the time and money expended to craft the item are lost. For purposes of meeting item prerequisites, an artificer's effective caster level equals his artificer level +2. If the item duplicates a spell effect, however, it uses the artificer's actual level as its caster level.
Costs are always determined using the item's minimum caster level or the artificer's actual level (if it is higher). Thus, a 3rd- level artificer can make a scroll of fireball, since the minimum caster level for fireball is 5th. He pays the normal cost for making such a scroll with a caster level of 5th: 5 X 3 X 1. XP. But the scroll's actual caster level is only 3rd, and it produces a weak fireball that deals only 3d.
An artificer can also make Use Magic Device checks to emulate nonspell requirements, including alignment and race, using the normal DCs for the skill. He cannot emulate skill or feat requirements, however, including item creation feat prerequisites. He must meet the caster level prerequisite, including the minimum level to cast a spell he stores in a potion, wand, or scroll. An artificer's infusions do not meet spell prerequisites for creating magic items.
For example, an artificer must still employ the Use Magic Device skill to emulate the light spell to create a wand of light, even though light appears on his infusion list. Bonus Feat: An artificer gains every item creation feat as a bonus feat at or near the level at which it becomes available to spellcasters. He gets Scribe Scroll as a bonus feat at 1st level, Brew Potion at 2nd level, Craft Wondrous Item at 3rd level, Craft Magic Arms and Armor at 5th level, Craft Wand at 7th level, Craft Rod at 9th level, Craft Staff at 1. Forge Ring at 1. 4th level. In addition, an artificer gains a bonus feat at 4th level and every four levels thereafter (8th, 1.
For each of these bonus feats, the artificer must choose a metamagic feat or a feat from the following list: Attune Magic Weapon, Craft Construct (see the Monster Manual, page 3. Exceptional Artisan, Extra Rings, Extraordinary Artisan, Legendary Artisan, Wand Mastery. Craft Homunculus (Ex): At 4th level, an artificer can create a homunculus as if he had the Craft Construct feat. He must emulate the spell requirements (arcane eye, mending, and mirror image) as normal for making a magic item, and he must pay all the usual gold and XP costs (though he can spend points from his craft reserve). An artificer can also upgrade an existing homunculus that he owns, adding 1 Hit Die at a cost of 2,0.
XP. If an artificer gives his homunculus more than 6 Hit Dice, it becomes a Small creature and advances as described in the Monster Manual (+4 Str, —2 Dex, damage increases to Id. The homunculus also gains 1. Small construct. An artificer's homunculus can have as many Hit Dice as its master's Hit Dice minus 2. No matter how many Hit Dice it has, a homunculus never grows larger than Small. Salvage: At 5th level, an artificer gains the ability to salvage the gold piece value from a magic item and use those funds to create another magic item.
The artificer must spend a day with the item, and he must also have the appropriate item creation feat for the item he is salvaging. This value is cannot be spent as gold, it may only be used in the creation of another magic item. Originally created (like all wands) with 5. The artificer is able to recover the gp value from the remaining charges. He gains the value of (1.
He must have the appropriate item creation feat for the spell trigger item he is using. Using this ability expends additional charges from the item equal to the number of effective spell levels the metamagic feat would add to a spell. For example, an artificer can quicken a spell cast from a wand by spending 5 charges (4 additional charges), empower the spell by spending 3 charges, or trigger it silently by spending 2 charges. The Still Spell feat confers no benefit when applied to a spell trigger item. An artificer cannot use this ability when using a spell trigger item that does not have charges, such as prayer beads.
Rush Job (Ex): At 6th Level, an artificer grows skilled enough at crafting that he can attempt to craft a magical item more quickly. However, doing so is more difficult, and as such, the difficulty of any necessary Use Magic Device checks increases proportionately. Even if the item would not normally require a Use Magic Device check, creating an item as a rush job does require a check. For each day of reduction in crafting time, add 2 to the difficulty of the use magic device check. If this would reduce the crafting time below one day it instead reduces it along the following progression: 1/2, 1/3, 1/4, etc.
Even a rush job is mentally taxing and as such, each successive item crafted in the same day increases the difficulty of all necessary checks by 2, cumulatively. Regardless, no more than 8 hours may be spent crafting in a single day.
To create a bottle of air in a single day (caster level 7th, 7.
Pathfinder artificer vs eberron artificer. FROM THE ERRATA / FAQ THREAD (this is on the Paizo messageboards, from the author of Tome of Secrets, over several pages): 1) The Artificer doesn't seem to have a primary ability score. You could argue that it's intelligence, due to their focus on crafting and the craft skills, but really, it's never mentioned. I envisioned them as a sort of Jack of All Trades - - but yes, with the concentration on Craft, Intelligence makes the most sense.
Extending from that, what ability score does an artificer use when using her Weird Science abilities? Is it like a magic item, which uses the lowest possible DC? Do you have to rely on multiple ability scores (Wisdom/Charisma/Intelligence) depending on where you took the spell? Can you rely on a single attribute chosen at 1st level? It's handled like a magic item, using the lowest possible DC. Weird science items rely on the artificer's ?
If not, then why aren't they granted higher proficiencies? It seems that an artificer would have a lot to gain from dipping into a class like Fighter. No, they don't suffer from failure- related consequences in armor - - but they weren't granted more proficiencies as a reflection of their academic nature. I understand giving the characters free access to Master Craftsman and every magic item creation feat in the PHB, but they gain no discount to using any of them (also fine, but it makes me wonder). Plus, they gain metamagic feats and zero ability to utilize them beyond spending spell charges (again with the GP).
Why weren't artificers given the ability to utilize their metamagic feats in their weird science ability? I felt that adding metamagic feats to weird science items would make them too overpowering (since they don't use charges, and the balancing factor of those feats are that they burn through multiple charges in use).
Many spells appear on multiple spell lists, sometimes at differing levels (the Ranger and Paladin jump to mind). Is it up to the DM to decide if this is ok, or should the player automatically use the lowest/highest version available? The artificer can use a spell at whatever level it appears, even if it appears at a higher level on another list - - that's a reflection of their versitility.
ABOUT THE TABLE: The part where you're making the mistake is in thinking that the . That table entry is labeled Weird Science Inventions - - which means that at any given time, an Artificer may only have inventions that total the number of spell effects listed. For example: A 4th level artificer may only invent Weird Science that emulate the effects of 3 different 1st level spells, and 1 2nd level spell. Whether that is 4 different inventions, or fewer inventions combining spell effects - - that's all they get. They make one, and that's it. If a device becomes unusable, they can build another (replicating the same effect), or invent a new one (choosing a different spell effect). They do not expend GP to do this - - it's .
Can they use wands as normal such as a wand of cure light or must they make a UMD roll every time? It says they have acess to divine and arcane spells up to 4th level. But from previous discussions earlier in this thread. It seems they just emulate the spells effect but they don't really know the spell.
So can they use spell trigger items? Yes, they can use spell trigger items.
As the description on page 4. Pathfinder Core Book says, ? She can create scrolls at second level, but she can't read magic. Does this mean she needs to make a Use Magic Device check or that she can only use scrolls she has created herself? Yes, she can use scrolls. A Use Magic Device check is required.
If she can cast a spell from scroll she didn't create, can she cast spells from a scroll beyond her current level (assuming the spell isn't higher than 4th level)? Can she cast spells from scrolls if she doesn't know what they do (i. Identified)? As with any use of a scroll, an attempt to cast a spell of a higher level will require a caster level check (DC = spell's caster level +1). This would include spells of a higher level than the artificer would normally have access to. The artificer could not cast from an unidentified scroll, since deciphering is required for activation. Deciphering a written spell requires 1 minute of concentration.
The spells are not a requirement for the UMD use.