Tinkermage Class

Tinkermages who specialise as armoursmiths focus all their considerable arcane talents toward constructing and upgrading their armour. Instead of producing a wide variety of items, armoursmiths layer protective magical enhancements on their armour and optimise attachments to anticipate every situation.

Armoursmith Spells
You always have certain spells prepared after you reach particular levels in this class, as shown in the Armoursmith Spells table. These spells count as tinkermage spells for you, but they don’t count against the number of tinkermage spells you can prepare each day.

Armoursmith Level Spells
2nd heroism, protection from evil and good
5th flame blade, see invisibility
9th beacon of hope, protection from energy
13th death ward, fire shield
17th antilife shell, passwall

Crafter’s Knack
When you select this specialisation at 2nd level, you gain proficiency with heavy armour and smith’s tools or another type of artisan’s tools of your choice. In addition, the Strength requirement to wear types of armour is reduced by 3, and the time required to don or doff armour is halved.

Armour Augmentation
At 2nd level, you focus your use of augments onto your own armour. Choose one suit of armour to be your signature armour. If your signature armour is destroyed you can select a new suit of armour to replace it, taking an hour to add all of the benefits of your old armour to it.

When you apply an augment to your signature armour, you reduce the augment cost by 1 (minimum of 1). Applying anaugment to your armour that increases your attack or damage  rolls affects your unarmed strikes (or armblade, see below). In addition, after you finish a long rest, you can apply one augment you have prepared to your signature armour without spending the augment. This bonus augment doesn’t count against the maximum number of augments you can apply to an item.

Combat Modifications
At 6th level, you alter your signature armour to allow greater flexibility on the battlefield. While wearing your signature armour, you gain the following benefits:

• Mithril Enhancements. Your armour becomes more flexible without sacrificing protection. If your signature armour is light, you have advantage on Stealth checks. If
  it is medium, the maximum Dexterity modifier for the armour increases by 2. If it is heavy, you can add your Dexterity modifier to your AC (maximum of +2).
  
• Armblade. As a bonus action, you can extend an adamantine blade from your wrist and wield it like a sword. You have proficiency with the armblade, and it deals 1d8 + your Strength or Dexterity modifier (your choice) slashing damage on a hit. You can retract the armblade at any time (no action required).
  
• Geared Articulation. You create finely articulated joints for your leg armour, using gears, tubes, and other small mechanisms. If your armour normally gives you disadvantage on Stealth checks, it no longer does so. In addition, if you move at least 10 feet during your turn, your jump distance is doubled.

Extra Attack
At 10th level, you can attack twice, rather than once, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn. You may take this extra attack only while wearing your signature armour.

Greater Combat Modifications
At 14th level, your prowess on the field of battle increases as you continue to enhance your signature armour. While wearing your signature armour, you gain the following benefits:

• Adaptive Fibres. You have advantage on ability checks and saving throws made using Strength, and you count as one size larger when determining your carrying capacity and the weight you can push, drag, or lift.
  
• Elemental Absorption. As a reaction when you take acid, cold, fire, lightning, or thunder damage, you have resistance to the triggering damage type until the end of your next turn.
  
• Kinetic Riposte. After you take damage, the next weapon attack you make deals an extra 2d8 force damage.
  

Juggernaut
At 18th level, your signature armour is a behemoth on the battlefield, striking fear and awe in all who behold it. While wearing your signature armour, you gain the following benefits:

• Iron Mountain. You can use a bonus action to magically retract or deploy your signature armour onto yourself, extending or retracting your armblade as part of the same bonus action, and your armblade damage increases to 2d8. In addition, if an effect moves you against your will along the ground, you can use your reaction to reduce the distance you are moved by up to 10 feet.
• Motion Capacitor. Magical gems inset into the legs of your armour increase your speed by 10 feet. Inaddition, when you take the Dash action, you can use a bonus action to shove or make one melee weapon attack against a creature anywhere along your path. If you move at least 10 feet in a straight line immediately before taking this bonus action, you either gain a +10 bonus to the attack’s damage roll (if you hit with the melee attack) or push the target up to 20 feet away from you (if you succeed on the shove). Once you use this special action, you can’t do it again until you finish a short or long rest.
• Power Detonation. As an action you can release some or all of the augments currently applied to your signature armour in a destructive ball of energy on a point you can see within 100 feet of you. Each creature within 40 feet of that point must make a Dexterity saving throw against your spell save DC, taking 5d6 fire damage for each augment you choose to release (maximum 20d6) on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. The released augments are then removed from your armour, and you can’t apply new augments to your armour until you finish a short or long rest.
  

Some tinkermages turn away from fashioning magical
items and focus their creative genius on their own bodies.
Biomechanists seek to understand and improve living flesh
by experimenting on themselves.

Biomechanist Spells
You always have certain spells prepared after you reach
particular levels in this class, as shown in the Biomechanist
Spells table. These spells count as tinkermage spells for
you, but they don’t count against the number of tinkermage
spells you can prepare each day.

Biomechanist Level Spells
2nd disguise self, inflict wounds
5th protection from poison, spider climb
9th fear, water breathing
13th death ward, polymorph
17th modify memory, seeming

Organic Augments
Starting when you select this specialisation at 2nd level,
you can apply augments to your own body instead of items
or spells. You can apply a number of augments to yourself
equal to the number indicated in the Augments Per Item or
Spell column of the Tinkermage table. You can release an
organic augment as a reaction when you take damage, or as
a bonus action, ending the effect.

Augments applied to your body don’t grant their bonuses
to equipment, items, weapons, or armour you are wearing
or carrying. For example, an augment giving you a bonus
to damage increases the damage from your unarmed
strikes or natural weapons. It doesn’t affect a weapon you
wield. Similarly, an augment increasing your armour class,
increases your armour class only if you aren’t wearing
armour. It doesn’t affect any armour you wear.

Certain augments have different effects when applied as
organic augments, as detailed below:

• Enhanced Virtue. This augment increases the save DC
  of effects caused species traits (if any).
  Feral Insight. The extra attack granted by this
  augment must be an unarmed strike.
  
• Item Mimic. This augment can’t be used as an organic
  augment unless the GM allows.
  
• Predator’s Instinct. Your unarmed strikes are
  considered magical and deal damage equal to 1d4 +
  your Strength modifier on a hit.

Mimicking Transmogrification
At 2nd level, you can use an action to touch an allied
creature and mimic one of the target’s species traits. For the
purpose of this feature, species traits are those granted to
player character species, such as darkvision or the Brave trait.
You gain the mimicked trait as if it were one granted to
you by your species, for a number of hours equal to your
Intelligence modifier. When you reach 10th level, you no
longer need to touch a willing creature. As long as you have
knowledge of a willing creature’s trait, you can use an action
to mimic it.
Once you use this feature, you can’t use it again until you
finish a long rest.

Regeneration Reset
At 6th level, your organic augments can be released to speed
your natural healing. When you release an organic augment,
you can immediately restore a number of hit points equal to
five times the cost of that augment. Choose any number of
creatures within 5 feet (including yourself) and divide those
hit points among them. Once you use this feature, you can’t
use it again until you finish a short or long rest.
Instead of restoring hit points, you can spend all of the
healing energy to remove one condition from a creature
within 5 feet of you (including yourself). The condition can
be blinded, deafened, paralyzed, or poisoned.

Communal Adaptation
At 10th level, you can now mimic a trait from any creature,
not only willing creatures. The mimicked trait must be
a trait that doesn’t require an action or saving throw. In
addition, you can channel your arcane energy to share your
transmogrification with your allies. When you use mimicking
transmogrification to mimic a trait on yourself, you can also
give the same trait to willing creatures within 30 feet of you
by spending one spell slot (of any level) for each target.
For example, you can mimic a werewolf’s Keen Hearing
and Smell trait but not its Shapechanger trait, and you can
share Keen Hearing and Smell with five companions by
spending five spell slots.

Reactive Immunity
At 14th level, you can quickly adapt your form to protect
yourself from danger. When you are attacked or damaged,
you can use your reaction to mimic one of the attacker’s
natural resistances or immunities (whichever is greater),
applying it to the triggering attack, if appropriate. For
example, if you are attacked by a red dragon, you can
mimic the dragon’s immunity to fire damage to avoid
taking damage from the dragon’s fire breath. This mimicked
resistance or immunity lasts until the start of your next turn.

Physical Perfection
At 18th level, your organic augmentations cause an
unintentional, but beneficial, side effect. As long as you
apply one augment to yourself each week, you suffer none
of the frailty of old age, and you can’t be aged magically.
You can still die of old age, however. In addition, if you fail
a saving throw, you can choose to succeed instead. You can’t
do so again until you finish a long rest.

The tinkermage who focuses on potions, elixirs
and draughts follow the path of the concoctionist.
Often festooned with vials and bottles of all manner,
concoctionists mix ingredients and rare reagents, producing
potions to aid their allies and harm their foes.

Concoctionist Spells
You always have certain spells prepared after you reach
particular levels in this class, as shown in the Concoctionist
Spells table. These spells count as tinkermage spells for
you, but they don’t count against the number of tinkermage
spells you can prepare each day.

Biomechanist Level Spells
2nd detect poison and disease, healing word
5th blindness/deafness, ray of enfeeblement
9th sticking cloud, water breathing
13th confusion, phantasmal killer
17th cloudkill, telepathic bond

Alchemical Familiarity
When you choose this specialisation at 2nd level, you gain
proficiency in your choice of alchemist’s supplies, herbalism
kit, or poisoner’s kit. In addition, you have a satchel of reagents,
components, and other esoteric items, which you regularly fill
with ingredients and oddities you find in your travels.

Augmented Distillation
At 2nd level, you can apply your augments to transform
common liquids into magical concoctions. As an action,
you can apply an augment to a nonmagical vial or bottle of
any liquid. The liquid becomes a magical mixture (called an
extract), possessing the properties of a liquid-based magic
item (such as a potion, elixir, or oil) of your choice. The
rarity of the portion you can create in this way is determined
by your level, as shown below.

Potion Rarity Level Minimum
Common or Uncommon 2nd
Rare 5th
Very Rare 10th
Legendary 15th

At the time of creation, you can create copies of the extract
by spending a spell slot of first level or higher for each
additional extract. Each extract requires its own container.
Extracts remain magical until you finish a long rest.

Volatile Brew
At 6th level, you can concoct an unstable mixture of various
reagents and hurl them at your foes with an explosive result.
Choose one of the following: acid, cold, fire, lightning,
poison, or thunder. As an action, you quickly mix together
some reagents and hurl the resulting brew at a point you
can see up to 60 feet away. Each creature within 15 feet of
the point of impact must make a Dexterity saving throw
against your spell save DC, taking 2d6 damage of the type
you chose on a failed save, or half as much damage on a
successful one. You can increase this damage by spending
spell slots when you create the volatile brew. The damage
increases by 1d6 for each spell slot you spend.

If you create a volatile brew and don’t throw it, it explodes
at the beginning of your next turn, affecting you and each
creature within 15 feet of you.

You can use this feature a number of times equal to your
Intelligence modifier. You regain all expended uses when
you finish a long rest.

Potent Infusions
At 10th level, you learn to create especially powerful elixirs.
When you create a potion, extract, or liquid magic item
that requires you to roll for a result, such as the hit points a
drinker gains from a potion of healing or the damage dealt by
your volatile brew, you can add your Intelligence modifier to
the result.

Chemical Resistance
At 14th level, your experimentation with various hazardous
substances grants you a measure of protection from ongoing
threats. You can’t be poisoned, and you have resistance to
poison damage. In addition, you can use a reaction to end
one condition on yourself. You can’t end a condition in this
way again until you finish a short or long rest.

Alchemical Transmutation
At 18th level, your will and knowledge magically transforms
one liquid into another. As a bonus action, you can alter a
container of liquid in your possession. If this is a nonmagical
liquid, you simply choose its new form. For example, you
can change wine into lamp oil. If it is a magical liquid, such
as a potion, you can change it to another magical liquid of
the same or lower rarity. For example, you can change a
potion of invisibility into a potion of speed.

Once you use this feature, you must finish a short or long
rest before you can use it again.

Cantrips
Acid Splash
Chill Touch
Dancing Lights
Fire Bolt
Guidance
Light
Mage Hand
Minor Illusion
Mending
Message
Poison Spray
Prestidigitation
Ray of Frost
Resistance
Shocking Grasp
Spare the Dying

1st Level
Alarm
Cure Wounds
Comprehend Languages
Detect Magic
Expeditious Retreat
Faerie Fire
False Life
Feather Fall
Floating Disk
Grease
Identify
Jump
Longstrider
Magic Missile
Purify Food and Drink
Sanctuary
Shield
Unseen Servant

2nd Level
Aid
Alter Self
Arcane Lock
Arcanist’s Magic Aura
Blur
Continual Flame
Darkvision
Enhance Ability
Enlarge/Reduce
Heat Metal
Invisibility
Lesser Restoration
Levitate
Locate Object
Magic Mouth
Magic Weapon
Protection from Poison
Rope Trick
Shatter
Web

3rd Level
Blink
Counterspell
Create Food and Water
Dispel Magic
Fireball
Fly
Glyph of Warding
Haste
Major Image
Protection from Energy
Revivify
Tiny Hut
Vampiric Touch
Water Walk

4th Level
Arcane Eye
Banishment
Control Water
Fabricate
Faithful Hound
Freedom of Movement
Private Sanctum
Resilient Sphere
Secret Chest
Stone Shape
Stoneskin
Wall of Fire

5th Level
Animate Objects
Arcane Hand
Conjure Elemental
Creation
Greater Restoration
Legend Lore
Planar Binding
Telekinesis
Wall of Force
Wall of Stone

Each of the augments described below includes prerequisites, indicating the objects or spells required, and the cost in augments. More powerful augments require a greater number of augments as a prerequisite. Some augments aren’t appropriate for all possible items, weapons, or spells that might meet the augment’s prerequisite, though nothing prevents you from applying the augment if the prerequisites are met. For example, a bag of holding can be imbued with the Keen Eyes augment, but the bag doesn’t gain any benefit from that augment.

Blast of Fury
Prerequisite: item
Cost: 1 augment
You imbue the item with magical energy. Choose one of the following: acid, cold, fire, lightning, poison, or thunder. A creature holding the item can use an action to launch a bolt of energy from the item at a target it can see up to 100 feet away. The creature makes a ranged spell attack, using your spell attack bonus. On a hit, the target takes 1d10 damage of the type you chose.

With Additional Augments. When you add Blast of Fury augments to an item already imbued with this augment, the damage increases by 1d10 for each augment after the first.

Chameleon’s Knack
Prerequisite: item
Cost: 3 augments
Choose one skill. While a creature carries or wears the imbued item, it has proficiency in the chosen skill.

Eldritch Aegis
Prerequisite: item
Cost: 4 augments
While a creature carries or wears the imbued item, it has advantage on saving throws against spells.

Elemental Hide
Prerequisite: armour or item
Cost: 3 augments
Choose one of the following: acid, cold, fire, lightning, poison, or thunder. A creature carrying or wearing the imbued item has resistance to the chosen damage type.

Elemental Spirit
Prerequisite: spell or weapon
Cost: 1 augment
Choose one of the following: acid, cold, fire, lightning, poison, or thunder. When a creature is hit by the spell or weapon or when the creature fails the spell’s saving throw, the augmented spell or weapon deals an extra 1d6 damage of the type you chose. This augment can’t be applied to a spell that doesn’t deal damage, such as enlarge/reduce. With Additional Augments. When you add Elemental Spirit augments to an item or spell already imbued with this augment, the damage increases by 1d6 for each augment after the first.

Enhanced Virtue
Prerequisite: spell
Cost: 1 augment
The augmented spell’s save DC increases by 1.

With Additional Augments. When you add Enhanced Virtue augments to a spell already imbued with this augment, the save DC increases by 1 for every two augments after the first.

Feral Insight
Prerequisite: weapon
Cost: 3 augments
When a creature wielding this weapon uses the Attack action to attack with it, the creature can make one extra attack as part of that action. The weapon can’t be used again in this way until you finish a short rest.

Hearty Vigour
Prerequisite: armour or item
Cost: 2 augments
A creature carrying or wearing the imbued item gains 10 temporary hit points. When these temporary hit points are expended, the augment doesn’t end. You can spend 1 Hit Die during a short rest to refill all temporary hit points granted by this augment.

With Additional Augments. When you add a Hearty Vigour augment to an item already imbued with this augment, the temporary hit points granted by the item increase by 10 for each augment after the first, to a maximum of 40.

Hunter’s Steps
Prerequisite: armour or item
Cost: 1 augment
While a creature carries or wears the imbued item, its walking speed increases by 10 feet.

Increased Validity
Prerequisite: spell
Cost: 2 augments
When you add this augment to a spell with a duration of 1 minute or longer, you double the duration to a maximum of 8 hours.

Intuitive Mind
Prerequisite: armour or item
Cost: 3 augments
Choose Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma. While a creature carries or wears the imbued item, the chosen attribute increases by 2, to a maximum of 20.

Invigorated Form
Prerequisite: armour or item
Cost: 3 augments
Choose Strength, Dexterity, or Constitution. While a creature carries or wears the imbued item, the chosen attribute increases by 2, to a maximum of 20.

Item Mimic
Prerequisite: armour, item or weapon
Cost 1 augment (common), 2 augments (uncommon), 3 augments (rare), 4 augments (very rare)
You augment the armour, item, or weapon to replicate a magic item you have seen. The rarity of magic item you can mimic is determined by the number of augments you spend, as indicated above. The object you imbue must have the same general properties of the magic item you wish to mimic. For example, if you replicated a potion of climbing, the imbued item must be something that can be consumed, such as liquid or food, or if you replicate a bag of holding, the imbued item must be an object designed to hold other objects such as a pouch or backpack.

Keen Eyes
Prerequisite: item, spell or ranged weapon
Cost: 2 augments
When you add this augment to a ranged weapon or to an item or spell that has a range of 5 feet or greater, the range is doubled. If you add this augment to a spell that has a range of touch, the range becomes 15 feet.

Predator’s Instinct
Prerequisite: spell or weapon
Cost: 1 augment
A weapon imbued with this augment is considered magical. A creature wielding the augmented weapon gains a +1 bonus to attack rolls made with it. When you cast a spell imbued with this augment, you gain a +1 bonus to the spell attack roll. The augment can’t be applied to spells that don’t require an attack roll, such as fireball.

With Additional Augments. When you add Predator’s Instinct augments to a spell or weapon already imbued with this augment, the bonus to attack rolls increases by 1 for each augment after the first, to a maximum of +3.

Reinforced Fortitude
Prerequisite: armour or item
Cost: 2 augments
While a creature carries, wields or wears the imbued item, it gains a +1 bonus to saving throws.

With Additional Augments. When you add a Reinforced Fortitude augment to armour or an item already imbued with this augment, the bonus to saving throws increases by 1 for each augment after the first, to a maximum of +3.

Soul-Bound Strength
Prerequisite: item
Cost: 4 augments
While a creature carries or wears the imbued item, its proficiency bonus increases by 1.

Spell Dance
Prerequisite: 2 spells
Cost: 4 augments
Choose two spells that target only one creature and that don’t have a range of self. When you imbue these spells, you can spend a total of 4 augments. You can cast both spells as one action, applying both spell’s effects to the target. You must expend spell slots for both spells. To be eligible, a spell must have a casting time of one action, and it must be incapable of targeting more than one creature at the spell’s current level. For example, you can imbue magic missile and the 4th-level version of banishment together with this augment, but not magic missile and fireball.

Thickened Hide
Prerequisite: armour
Cost: 1 augment
While a creature wears the imbued armour, it gains a +1 bonus to AC.

With Additional Augments. When you add Thickened Hide augments to a suit of armour already imbued with this augment, the bonus to AC increases by 1 for each augment after the first, to a maximum of +3.

Augment Item

At 1st level, you learn how to empower mundane items, magic items, and even spells with your innate magical energy. You do this by imbuing items or spells with magical powers called augments. This magical connection instils items or spells with greater powers.

Number of Augments. When you gain this feature, you can prepare a number of augments for you to use when empowering an item or spell. To do so, choose a number of augments as indicated in the Augments Known column of the Tinkermage table. When you take a long rest, you regain any spent augments and can change your list of prepared augments. Preparing a new list of augments requires time spent contemplating your notes and plans—at least 3 minutes per augment on your list.

Applying an Augment. Whenever you finish a short or long rest, you can apply one or more augments to a nonmagical item, a magic item, or a prepared spell. The chosen item or spell gains an augment chosen from the “Augment List” on page 29. If you wish to apply an augment to a magic item that requires attunement, you must be attuned to it first. Augment benefits remain active until you take a long rest, you die, or you dismiss the effect (as a bonus action).

When you take a short rest, an item imbued with a single augment can be changed to be imbued with a different augment. However, items or spells imbued with more than one augment can’t be changed until after you finish a long rest. You must have physical contact with an item to augment it, and if you augment a spell, it must be one on your tinkermage list. Some uses of this feature require saving throws. When you use such an effect from this class the DC equals your tinkermage spell save DC.

Applying Multiple Augments. You can apply multiple augments to a single item or spell or divide your available augments between different items or spells. Some augments can be applied to the same item or spell multiple times, increasing its power. You must spend the cost of the augment each time you apply it, even with multiple applications of the same augment. For example, adding two Blast of Fury augments to an item requires spending two augments. Some more powerful augments require specific augments be applied first, as indicated in the augment prerequisites.

However, a single item or spell can hold no more than a specific number of augments, as indicated in the Augments Per Item/Spell column of the Tinkermage table. Applying an augment to an item that already has the maximum allowed number of augments automatically fails.

By studying the flows of magic and how they interact with objects, you have learned to cast spells. The methodology for your spellcasting involves using objects and tools to produce the desired effect. Your augment pouch is filled with bits of gadgets, metal, and esoterica.

Cantrips
At 1st level, you know two cantrips of your choice from the tinkermage spell list. At higher levels, you learn additional tinkermage cantrips of your choice, as shown in the
“Cantrips Known” column of the Tinkermage table. When you gain a level in this class, you can replace one of the tinkermage cantrips you know with another cantrip from the tinkermage spell list.

Preparing and Casting Spells
The Tinkermage table shows how many spell slots you have to cast your tinkermage spells of 1st level and higher. To cast one of these spells, you must expend a slot of the spell’s level or higher. You regain all expended spell slots when you finish a long rest.

You prepare the list of tinkermage spells available for you to cast, choosing from the Tinkermage Spell List on page 37. When you do so, choose a number of tinkermage spells equal to your Intelligence modifier + your tinkermage level (minimum of one spell). The spells must be of a level for which you have spell slots.

For example, if you are a 5th-level tinkermage, you have four 1st-level and two 2nd-level spell slots. With an Intelligence of 16, your list of prepared spells can include six spells of 1st or 2nd level, in any combination. If you prepare the 1st-level spell magic missile, you can cast it using a 1st-level or 2nd-level slot. Casting the spell doesn’t remove it from your list of prepared spells.

You can change your list of prepared spells when you finish a long rest. Preparing a new list of tinkermage spells requires time spent studying your notebook of inventions or otherwise contemplating crafting techniques: at least 1 minute per spell level for each spell on your list.

Spellcasting Ability
Intelligence is your spellcasting ability for your tinkermage spells. The power of your spells comes from the innovation of your design and your comprehension of magical theory. You use your Intelligence whenever a tinkermage spell refers to your spellcasting ability. In addition, you use your Intelligence modifier when setting the saving throw DC for a tinkermage spell you cast and when making an attack roll with one.

• Spell save DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus + your
  Intelligence modifier
  
• Spell attack modifier = your proficiency bonus + your
  Intelligence modifier
  

Ritual Casting
You can cast a tinkermage spell as a ritual if that spell has the ritual tag and you have the spell prepared.

At 1st level, you gain the ability to prepare a number of gadgets that you can quickly put together to create a temporary nonmagical item. When you finish a short rest, you can spend 10 minutes cobbling your gadgets. Once before your next long rest, you can use an action to put the gadgets together to fashion any nonmagical adventuring gear with a cost of 1,000 gp or less. The item can’t be a weapon, armour, poison, or potion, and it can be multiple items only if the base item comes with multiple parts, such as a set of ball bearings or a climber’s kit. Your tinkercraft holds together for a number of minutes equal to your Intelligence modifier.

At 10th level, you can use tinkercraft twice before your next long rest.

Crafting Specialisation
Tinkermages follow many paths in their search for inspiration and invention. Some gravitate to schools or academies to learn techniques. Others are largely self-taught and wander the world practicing their trade and improving their skills.

At 2nd level, you choose your specialisation. The three specialisations—Armoursmith, Biomechanist, and Concoctionist—are detailed at the end of the class description. The specialisation you choose grants you features at 2nd level and again at 6th, 10th, 14th, and 18th level.

At 2nd level, your talent for magic item creation raises you above the common craftsman. When you set about to create a magic item, you don’t need a formula or plans as long as you have studied a similar item. You may still need any required exotic materials. For example, a winter wolf’s hide might be needed to craft boots of the winterlands.

Creating a magic item comes with a gold piece cost covering materials, tools, and other supplies and you must spend a number of days to complete the item.

As a tinkermage, you can craft magic items faster and at a lesser cost than other craftsmen. However, you must have a certain number of tinkermage levels to craft items of certain rarities as shown on the Tinkermage Magic Item Creation and Cost table. Halve the listed price and time for consumable items (minimum of 1 day), such as potions and spell scrolls.

A tinkermage engaged in crafting a magic item makes progress in 25 gp increments, spending that amount for each day of work until the cost is paid. You are assumed to work for 8 hours each of those days. More advanced tinkermage features further reduce the cost and time required for crafting magic items. You can create multiple items in a 2-day period if their combined cost is 50 gp or lower. Items that require multiple days to complete don’t have to be done in a continuous block of time. The ongoing work can be stored in a safe location until work resumes.

Crafting Table
With a day of work and basic materials, you can construct a portable crafting table, a small folding table and toolset you can use to work on your magic item crafting while travelling. Setting up a crafting table takes 10 minutes. You can spend 2 hours working on a project at this crafting table during a long rest and still gain the benefits of that long rest.

Tinkermage Magic Item Creation and Cost

At 3rd level, you gain the ability to adapt to an item’s magical aura and decipher magical writings found on scrolls and items. You can ignore the class and species requirements when attuning to or using a magic item. You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Intelligence modifier. You regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

At 14th level, you can ignore all class, species, and level requirements when attuning to or using a magic item. You no longer have a limit on the number of times you can use this feature.

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.

At 5th level, you expand your study of magical interactions, catching glimpses into other disciplines and esoteries. Choose two spells from any class, including this one. A spell you choose must be of a level you can cast, as shown on the Tinkermage table, or a cantrip. The chosen spells count as a tinkermage spell for you and are added to your tinkermage spell list. You learn two additional spells from any class at 13th level.

When you find spell scrolls, you can add them to your list of class spells if it is of a spell level you can prepare and if you can spare the time to study it. For each level of the spell, the process takes 2 hours and costs 50 gp. The cost represents material components you expend as you experiment with the spell to master it. Once you have spent this time and money, you must succeed on an Arcana check with a DC equal to 10 plus the level of spell you are attempting to learn. A failure ruins the scroll. On a success, you can prepare the spell just like your other spells.

At 7th level, you begin to master crafting tricks and techniques, allowing you to create magic items faster and at a reduced cost. On the Reduced Magic Item Time and Cost table, the 1-6th Level column indicates your normal time and cost to create an item. The columns to the right show how the number of days required to craft the magic item and the cost of creating that item are reduced as you increase in level. You can still create multiple items in a given time period as long as the total cost of those items does not exceed the price indicated in the 1-6th Level column. For example, a 20th-level tinkermage can create three common magic items in a single day since 15 gp times three is less than 50 gp.

The number of days required to craft a magical item reduces further at 15th and 20th levels; and the cost reduces further at 11th, 15th and 20th levels.

Tinkermage Magic Item Creation and Cost
Days Required (Cost in gp)

At 9th level, you can use special augments on the items of your foes, reducing their power and effectiveness. If you have at least one augment that hasn’t been applied to an item, you can use an action to spend that augment and choose a suit of armour, a weapon, or a magic item being worn or carried by a creature you can see within 30 feet of you. The creature must make an Intelligence saving throw against your tinkermage spell save DC or the target item gains one of the following inverse augments for a number of rounds equal to your Intelligence modifier.

• Cracked Shell: The AC of the suit of armour you selected is reduced by 2. This reduction can’t reduce the armour’s AC below 10.
  
• Broken Claw: Attack rolls using the weapon you selected have a 2 penalty.
  
• Weak Stamina: If the item has an effect with a saving throw DC, that DC is reduced by 2.
  
• Suppressed Nature: If the item or weapon deals a number of dice of magic damage, this extra damage is reduced by one die. This feature can’t reduce the damage dice below 1. For example, a flame tongue longsword affected by this feature would deal an extra 1d6 fire damage to any target it hits, instead of 2d6.

You can apply only one inverse augment at a time. If you use this feature on a different item, the effect on the first item ends.