Alchemical Weaponmaster (4e Class)

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Alchemical Weaponmaster

“	Twas not a homunculus that hath been wrought, but an odd mix of something like a bow and tonics which rendered the opposition all but burned and lame.	”
—Fayn Uyurin, Alchemyst Epics

Class Traits

Role: Striker/Controller. One who draws on formulae as well as strength to best everyone on the battlefield

Power Source: Arcane. Tinkering with potions, tinctures, as well as weapon design leaves you with a higher sense of understanding of how to manipulate and augment yourself and the battlefield to your favor.

Key Abilities: Intelligence, Dexterity, Constitution

Armor Proficiencies: cloth, leather, hide

Weapon Proficiencies: simple and military ranged weapons, crossling, throwing hammer, spiked chain, alchemy weapons (you have a +2 to damage with weapons that have this property)

Bonus to Defense: +2 Reflex

Hit Points at 1st Level: 12 + Constitution score

Hit Points per Level Gained: 5

Healing Surges per Day: 6 + Constitution modifier

Trained Skills: Dungeoneering or Arcana.  From the class skills list below, choose 4 more trained skills at 1st level. Class Skills: Acrobatics (Dex), Heal (Wis), History (Int), Insight (Wis), Nature (Wis), Perception (Wis)

Build Options: Tactical alchemical weaponmaster, trickster alchemical weaponmaster

Class Features: Weapons Jack, Enhance Weapon, Synthesis

Alchemical weaponmasters are swift and clever pieces on the chessboard. They operate as necessity forces them to invent new techniques of survival, not just combat. Using these tactics, they aim to outmaneuver, outlast, and outsmart opponents. Their weapons are often oddly configured to perform more than their intended function. If nothing else, alchemical weaponmasters are resourceful. They are able to lay traps for those whom they know they cannot take on in a full frontal assault. They skulk about the battlefield as scouts for allies, and formulate new alchemical tinctures to aid allies and debilitate enemies. They are true team players who can run the field in a pinch.

As an alchemical weaponmaster, you handle both offensive and tactical responsibilities. The weaponmaster part makes you a jack of all trades of a variety of weapons. You could be at the front lines, slashing away at enemies with an alchemically enhanced sword. Or you could be slinging alchemist fire and potions from afar, away from the line of danger. You constantly need to adapt yourself to the situations that call for it, throwing healing items to allies when needed, or weakening opponents when the going gets tough.

Take up your bow, staves, and swords with your alchemists tools and wreak some havoc!

Alchemical Weaponmaster Overview

Characteristics: Alchemical weaponmasters use unorthodox means through weapons and alchemy to get the job done, whether they are front liners or supporting characters.

Religion: Religions don't factor too much into alchemy, which is a bit more scientific. Alchemical weaponmasters like to think and tinker, rather than ponder existential questions deeply. For the religious minority though, Ioun is a great choice to help reach the peak of mental perfection.

Races: While they are called weaponmasters, strength is not necessarily what they need. They rely on wit and speed more often. What you'd want is a race that is familiar with the flavor of alchemy. Sturdy or dexterous races are also viable, like the homunculus.

Creating an Alchemical Weaponmaster

Generally, there are two kinds of alchemical weaponmasters: tactical and trickster.

Tactical Alchemical Weaponmaster

Tactical means maneuvering as needed to ensure the best outcome in a battle for you. This means shifting roles and supporting heavy hitters as well as making some headway yourself sometimes.

Suggested Feat: Attack Recharge

Suggested Skills: Dungeoneering, History, Diplomacy

Suggested At-Will Powers:

Suggested Encounter Power:

Suggested Daily Power:

Trickster Alchemical Weaponmaster

The trickster weaponmaster is one who toys with opponents, dealing them conditions and debilitating them while staying clear of direct line of fire. They are wily and great at supporting front liners.

Suggested Feat: Master of Poisons

Suggested Skills: Acrobatics, Streetwise, Thievery

Suggested At-Will Powers:

Suggested Encounter Power:

Suggested Daily Power:

Ability Scores

Your Intelligence is your primary means of survival, followed by Dexterity, making you a paragon of reflexes. Constitution is a tertiary stat that remains important for prolonging survival.

Feats

Alchemical weaponmasters benefit from feats that augment their ability with weaponry to increase their damage and effectiveness on the battlefield. As you gain levels in this class, you will eventually become specialized in certain weapons, so weapon-specific feats may come in handy. Alchemy feats definitely are needed to craft materials for use, and feats that augment them as well are also appreciated, like the Alchemy and Creation Mastery feats. There is a custom feat for this class that is an example of an enhancement to using alchemical items detailed in the Feats section below. Initiative boosting feats help ensure they can set the field for allies before opponents can act. And you'll probably want some enhancers for survivability since this capitalizes so much on reflex that it neglects will.

Equipment

Alchemical weaponmasters need to start out well equipped to be able to do much of anything from lower levels forth. Simple light armors will suffice, like cloth. If you're willing to splurge and get leather, be sure to have enough left over for some alchemical reagents and, of course, weapons you can capitalize on. Weapons for your use will generally be beneficial if they are ranged, so you can keep some safe distance away from heavy battles and whittle away at opponents. Special kinds of weapons that capitalize on your use of alchemical concoctions are a bonus.

You start off with a either a crossling, which is a hybrid of a crossbow and a sling or a alchemist bow.

Class Features

Every alchemical weaponmaster has the following features.

Weapons Jack

Benefit: You gain +2 to the attacks of one weapon of your choice.

Synthesis

You are more confident in your alchemical items than the blade of a smithy.

Benefit: While not in combat, you can spend five minutes to replace the head or blade of any thrown object with an alchemical item that is typically thrown. The new item uses the original thrown item for attacks, but the alchemical properties for effects. People not proficient with alchemical items take a -2 to attacks with the new item. Alternatively, while in combat, you may spend a whole turn to do this. Weapons altered this way are given the alchemy property.

Enhance Weapon

The deadliness in your expertise lies in augmenting weapons to be more useful and potent than they normally would be without your touch. You know how to change a weapon for the better, similar to a smith who polishes up diamonds to show their untapped potential.

Benefit: You gain Enhance Weapon as a At-Will power at level 1

Enhance Weapon	Alchemical Weaponmaster Class Feature
Using a powerful concoction from your repertoire, you imbue your arsenal with elemental power.
At-Will  Alchemy, Weapon
Standard Action	Personal
Target: One weapon
Effect: Choose one of the elements listed below. The effect described becomes an addition upon the weapon's existing properties. Weapons can only have one of these elements at one time and this effect can be dismissed as a standard action.   Acid: Creatures hit with this weapon have 3 turns to succeed a DC 15 nature check, unless the check is made, both before and after the 3 turns, this creature's armor is considered to be non-existent until the end of the encounter. Only one creature can have this effect at once, after one creatures 3 turns, then another can have this effect applied.   Level 10: DC 20   Level 20: 2 turns Cold: Creatures hit with this weapon are moved to the bottom of the initiative order, and have a -3 to movement speed and -1 to attacks for 3 turns   Level 10: 4 turns   Level 20: -4 to attacks Fire: Creatures hit with this weapon take an ongoing 2 fire damage until the creature succeeds a DC 15 nature check.   Level 10: DC 20 + 4 damage   Level 20: 6 damage Poison: Creatures hit with this weapon suffer from poison effects taking a -3 to all rolls   Level 10: -4   Level 20: -6 Lightning: Lightning chains to other creatures based off the creature hit. For every creature within 2 squares of the creature hit, that creature makes a Fortitude save, if they fail, they take 25% of the weapons original output damage as lightning damage inflicted on the creature.   Level 10: 1-3 squares   Level 20: 50% Note: If this is done in combat, you take a -2 damage penalty with this weapon for the duration of the encounter due to rushing alchemy.
Special: Each creature can only suffer from one effect at once, if they are hit with another it will cancel the existing effect before applying the new effect. This weapon also has the Alchemy keyword for all effects and purposes until the element is removed.

Heroic Tier

Level	Feats Known	Class Features and Powers
1	1	Weapons Jack, Enhance Weapon, Synthesis
2	+1	Utility Power
3
4	+1	Ability score increase
5
6	+1	Utility Power
7
8	+1	Ability score increase
9
10	+1	Utility Power

Level 1

Early on the road, alchemical weaponmasters separate themselves from the rest of the flock based on their unique style of resourcefulness. Having no direct magic, they rely on other things that put them over the top, even when they have yet to be accomplished. You gain class features, racial traits, 1 Feats, starting skills, 2 at-will powers, 1 encounter power, and 1 daily power

Level 1 At-Will Powers

A good deal of being an alchemical weaponmaster is being able to make the best use of even odds and ends. You employ a variety of items like potions and concoctions to use in battle. This may make you sound a bit costly due to all the consumables, but you have ways of dealing with that.

Resourceful Cycle	Alchemical Weaponmaster Utility 1
You know how to use items to best prolong their use and reduce wear and breakage
At-Will
'	'
Effect: <-If you use an alchemy item, there is a 25% chance the base item is not used (WIP)->

Potion of Elements	Alchemist Expertise Attack 1
Using your powers of transmutation, you can shift elements to suit your needs in battle.
At-Will  Arcane, Weapon
Standard Action	'
Requirement: Weapon
Target: One creature
Attack: Strength/Dexterity Vs. AC
Hit: 1[W]
Effect: You deal 1 extra damage to this creature with whatever element is on the weapon it's hit with(including physical). Allies within 2 squares of you take 1 less damage from whatever element is on this weapon.
Level 20: 2[W]. 2x effect.
Special: These effects last throughout the encounter and do not stack.

Potion Table

Cost (gp)	Potion	Effect
<-insert value->	<-potion	<-effect->

Transmute Length	Alchemical Weaponmaster Attack 1
By changing the structure of a weapon, you can elongate it, allowing it to shoot out and hit from afar, albeit with some detriment to accuracy.
At-Will  Weapon
Standard Action	10
Requirement: melee weapon
Target: One square
Attack: Strength Vs. AC
Hit: [W]
Effect: You can hit something/one up to 10 squares away if there's nothing in the way of a direct straight line and with a -1 to attack for every 2 squares.

Jarring Strike	Alchemical Weaponmaster Attack 1
Your expert strike generates an extra effect of rattling those unfortunate enough to be hit.
At-Will  Weapon, Martial
Standard Action	Melee or Ranged weapon
Target: One creature
Attack: Intelligence Vs. AC
Hit: 1 [W] + Intelligence modifier damage, and the next ally to attack the target before the end of your next turn gains a +2 power bonus to the attack roll.
Special: Level 21 : 2[W] + Intelligence modifier damage.

Level 1 Encounter Powers

Alchemystical Rend	Alchemical Weaponmaster Attack 1
By warping the alchemical make-up of an enemy, you force parts of themselves to die in cellular death, simultaneously crippling them.
Encounter  Arcane
Standard Action	Ranged 15
Target: One creature within range
Attack: Intelligence Vs. Will
Hit: The target takes 2d6 + Intelligence modifier necrotic damage. Until the end of their next turn they suffer -2 to attack rolls.
Level 10: 4d6 + Intelligence modifier necrotic damage

Mind Warp	Alchemical Weaponmaster Attack 1
Using your superior intelligence, you dwarf another being's will and assault their mental faculties with mental alchemy
Encounter  Arcane, Psychic
Standard Action	Ranged 10
Target: One creature
Attack: Intelligence Vs. Will
Hit: 2d10 + Intelligence modifier psychic damage

Battle Step	Alchemical Weaponmaster Attack 1
Efficiency dictates that you move to your next foe as quickly as possible
Encounter  Martial, Weapon
Standard Action	Melee weapon
Target: One creature
Attack: Dexterity Vs. AC
Hit: 1[W] + 1d6 + Dexterity modifier damage and you can shift 2 squares after the first attack

Chain Pull	Alchemical Weaponmaster Attack 1
With a little alchemy, you extend a chain from your weapon to harpoon and yank an enemy closer to you
Encounter  Arcane, Weapon
Standard Action	Ranged 5
Target: One creature
Attack: Dexterity Vs. AC
Hit: 1[W], you pull the target 3 squares and the target is immobilized

Level 1 Daily Powers

Alchemic Ripple	Alchemical Weaponmaster Attack 1
You compress and twist space, forcing the pressure of the changing dimension onto an enemy in a series of bombarding ripples.
Daily  Arcane, Weapon, Force
Standard Action	Melee weapon
Target: One Creature
Attack: Intelligence Vs. Fortitude
Hit: 2[W] + Intelligence modifier force damage
Effect: Each enemy adjacent to you gains ongoing 5 force damage (save ends)

Muscle Alchemy	Alchemical Weaponmaster Utility 1
Using your knowledge of your own anatomy, you transmute your muscles into overdrive and deliver a particularly crushing blow.
Daily
Minor Action	Personal
Effect: If your next attack hits, the damage is double the rolled result.
Level 10: All modifiers to damage are doubled.

Calculation	Alchemical Weaponmaster Utility 1
As one used to fighting from a range, you alter your weapon strikes with minor alchemy so it coordinates with your own sight and your strikes are made with guided precision.
Daily  Arcane
Standard Action	Close Burst 5
Requirement: Ranged weapon
Target: Each creature in burst
Effect: Roll 1d4. Until the end of the encounter, you gain that as a bonus to all attack rolls against each target with your weapon.

Weapon Burst	Alchemical Weaponmaster Attack 1
Charging your weapon with alchemic energies, you release them when cornered to stall enemies who surround you by momentarily paralyzing them
Daily  Arcane
Standard Action	Close Burst 2
Requirement: Weapon
Target: Each creature in burst
Attack: Intelligence vs. Fortitude
Hit: 1d10 + Intelligence Modifier Lightning damage, and the target is paralyzed, save ends.
Miss: Half damage, target is dazed until the end of your next turn.

Level 2

You expand your repertoire of tricks. Beyond just hitting enemies head-on, you have ways of controlling the field and maneuvering pieces around.
You gain 1 Feats and 1 utility power

Level 2 Utility Powers

Daily

Potion of Endurance	Alchemical Weaponmaster Utility 2
You create an alchemic essence of replenishment which you then ingest and gain temporary succor.
Daily  Arcane
Minor Action	Personal
Effect: You gain temporary hit points equal to 2 + your Wisdom Modifier.
Unwarranted Side Effects: Gain additional temporary hit points equal to your Intelligence Modifier.

Brew of Fortitude	Alchemical Weaponmaster Utility 2
By transmuting minute parts of the body and/or armor, you make your party significantly harder to damage.
Daily  Arcane
Standard Action	Close Burst 1
Target: Allies within range
Effect: Targets gain a +2 power bonus to AC and a +2 to Fortitude defense until the end of the encounter.

Encounter

Transmute Snare	Alchemical Weaponmaster Utility 2
With some alchemy, you change the medium of a nearby hard material into a trap that snaps shut on enemies, restraining them entirely.
Encounter  Arcane
Standard Action	Ranged 5
Target: One square
Effect: Any creature which steps on the square is stunned for 3 turns. When the magic loses hold and the prison collapses. They cannot be attacked as they are surrounded by hard material. This trap can be destroyed from the outside with physical damage at the DM's discretion depending on the material.

Blink Step	Alchemical Weaponmaster Utility 1
As part of your trained reflexes, you move quickly and further than others may, almost in the blink of an eye.
Encounter  Martial
Minor Action	Personal
Effect: Shift 4 squares.

Level 3

Alchemy is all around us. As you gain expertise in your craft, you can manipulate the different substances in the environment to your advantage. You gain 1 encounter power.

Level 3 Encounter Powers

Weapon Warp	Alchemical Weaponmaster Utility 3
In a pinch, you utilize a quick burst of alchemy to warp and twist a weapon that is about to hit you, slowing its attack.
Encounter  Arcane
Immediate Interrupt	Personal
Trigger: You are about to take damage from an attack
Effect: The attacker rerolls the attack roll with a penalty equal to your Intelligence Modifier.

Shift Field	Alchemical Weaponmaster Attack 3
Like the master tactician you aim to be, you can manipulate the field around you to your advantage with alchemy
Encounter
'	'
Effect: make a big area around you turn into difficult terrain or stabs enemies maybe

Coordinate Optics	Alchemical Weaponmaster 3
To bolster your tactics, you use alchemy to link up the sight of yourself and your other allies so you all can collaborate better
Encounter  Arcane
Minor Action	Close Burst 3
Target: You and each ally in Burst
Effect: Each target, until the end of the encounter, can see all what the other targets see. One time until the end of the encounter, you may, as a minor action, make a perception check, with a +2 bonus per target, excluding yourself.

Flash Potion	Alchemical Weaponmaster Attack 3
With a volatile concoction, you create a reactionary compound that explodes into a burst of blinding light, possibly burning creatures adverse to lumination.
Encounter  Radiant
Standard Action	Close Blast 3
Target: All creatures in Blast
Attack: Intelligence Vs. Dexterity
Hit: 1d10 radiant damage
Effect: All targets are blinded until the start of your next turn.
Special: Undead targets take extra damage equivalent to your Intelligence modifier.

Level 4

As a hero, you have definitely made a headway in what you sought to accomplish. Your reflexive tactics in battle have gained you new skill and expertise. You gain 1 Feats and +1 to 2 ability scores.

Level 5

The elements and substances used by an alchemist are able to change in surprising ways. One growing in skill as you learns to harness their capricious natures to your advantage, taking enemies unawares with surprising effects. You gain 1 daily power.

Level 5 Daily Powers

Alchemist Expertise	Alchemical Weaponmaster Class Feature
Your alchemy lets you throw a substance at a foe and induce powerful effects in addition to its normal potency.
Daily  Arcane, Weapon
Minor Action	'
Requirement: Potion of Acid/Cold/Fire/Poison/Lightning
Effect: <-something about inducing an extra condition on the target (sleep, burn (hb), etc)->
Special: The potion is consumed

Alchemist Ooze	Alchemical Weaponmaster Class Feature
By transmuting your own form, you can basically change into an amorphous material to better by pass obstacles.
Daily  Arcane
Standard Action	Personal
Effect: <-something about changing into a liquid to slip under doors or something, or maybe just the ooze trait->

Graviton Crush	Alchemical Weaponmaster Attack 5
By augmenting the force of gravity in an area with alchemy, you can crush enemies into a paste.
Daily
'	Blast 6
Target: Creatures within Blast
Attack: Wisdom vs Fortitude
Hit:
Effect: creatures in range take force damage

Counter Flurry	Alchemical Weaponmaster Attack 5
When those who try to take advantage of you miss, you can strike them with a devastating amount of force due to their own openings.
Daily  Arcane
Minor Action	Personal
Effect: Gain a bonus to all defenses equal to Intelligence Modifier against Opportunity Attacks until end of your next turn. Until the end of your next turn, if you provoke an opportunity attack and are not hit, you may make a melee basic attack against your attacker.

Level 6

You gain 1 utility power and 1 Feats.

Level 6 Utility Powers

Spring Step	Alchemical Weaponmaster Utility 6
With alchemy, you enhance your jumps by leaps and bounds.
At-Will  Arcane
Move Action	Personal
Effect: You make an Athletics check to jump with a +5 bonus.

Liquid Lead	Alchemical Weaponmaster 6
Using one of the densest substances in the known world, you recruit gravity in your aid in slowing and squishing enemies under its weight.
Encounter
'	'
Effect: slows your target, and they take ongoing 1 force damage (save ends both)

Alter Weight	Alchemical Weaponmaster 6
You can manipulate the concentration of gravity in a large span of ground to make it harder for things to move.
Daily
'	'
Effect: Has a big range, slows creatures and makes them have penalty in reflex saves

Level 7

You gain 1 encounter power

Level 7 Encounter Powers

Potion of Death	Alchemical Weaponmaster Attack 7
As you develop skills, you learn to make this brew more and more toxic...
Encounter  Poison, Necrotic
Standard Action	5
Requirement: Open hand to throw the potion
Target: One creature
Attack: Intelligence Vs. Will
Hit: 2d10 necrotic damage
Special: If the target is 2 levels or less than the user, they die at the start of the user's next turn.

Reagent Armor	Alchemical Weaponmaster Attack 7
You cover yourself with an alchemical corrosive that erodes the enemy's offenses when they hit.
Encounter  Aura
Standard Action	Personal Aura 1
Requirement: Armor
Effect: Any creatures within your aura that attack you with a weapon regardless of if they hit you take a -5 penalty with that weapon, and you take half damage from that attack. This effect ends at the start of your second turn after this.

Reactant Armor	Alchemical Weaponmaster Attack 7
With the power of super reactive solutions, you can make an enemy's attack literally backfire on themselves.
Encounter  Aura
Standard Action	Personal Aura 1
Requirement: Armor
Effect: Any creatures within your aura that attack you with a weapon take half that damage to themselves and you take no damage. This effect ends at the start of your second turn after this.

Weapon Frenzy	Alchemical Weaponmaster Attack 7
You strike at your surrounding enemies like a whirlwind of weapons, blurring as you furiously swap between arms in your arsenal.
Encounter  Martial, Weapon
Standard Action	Melee Aura 1
Requirement: Must have at least three weapons either on hand or in inventory
Target: All creatures within Aura
Attack: Intelligence vs. AC
Hit: 1[W] per weapon + Intelligence Modifier damage + Alchemical Weaponmaster level.

Level 8

Nearing the first pinnacle of heroism, your mind and body are both sharpened. You gain 1 Feats and +1 to 2 ability scores

Level 9

You gain 1 daily power.

Level 9 Daily Powers

Shrapanel Spur	Alchemical Weaponmaster Attack 9
You smash apart an expendable weapon on an enemy, giving them painful wounds.
Daily  Martial, Weapon
Standard Action	Melee weapon
Target: one creature
Attack: Strength Vs. AC
Hit: 2[W] + Strength modifier damage, and the target takes a -2 penalty to speed and attack rolls.
Your weapon is destroyed.

Control Field	Alchemical Weaponmaster Utility 9
You construct an alchemical circle which messes with the movement of foes that dare to step foot near you.
Daily  Arcane, Aura
Standard Action	Aura 3
Target: All creatures within Aura
Effect: Enemies entering the aura or starting their turn within the aura have a penalty to their movement, saving throws and attack rolls equal to your Intelligence modifier until the end of the encounter.

Rending Circle	Alchemical Weaponmaster Attack 9
You make an alchemy circle appear under an area that thoroughly twists the very souls of those within, breaking their spirit and body.
Daily  Arcane, Necrotic
Standard Action	Close Blast 4
Target: All creatures within Burst
Attack: Intelligence vs. Will or Fortitude (you pick)
Hit: 2d6 + Intelligence modifier necrotic damage, and the targets are stunned for 2 turns
Miss: Half damage and not stunned

Aimed Force	Alchemical Weaponmaster Utility 9
Taking on a stance mimicking an occular enhancement rune of alchemy, you observe for weak points and moments of opportunity to evade attacks
Daily  Stance
Minor Action	Personal
Target: Self
Effect: Until the stance ends, you gain a +2 bonus to damage rolls and a +5 bonus to Reflex saves

Level 10

You gain 1 Feats and 1 utility power.

Level 10 Utility Powers

<-need 1 encounter, 3 daily->

Paragon Tier

Not settling for just the path of a hero, you go onward to become a paragon of what an alchemical weaponmaster can be. The normal weaknesses do not impede you any longer, as you become an ideal of what can be achieved with a bit of thinking and a lot of concocting.

Level	Feats Known	Class Features and Powers
11	+1	Ability score increase Paragon Path Features Paragon Path Power
12	+1	Paragon Path Power
13
14	+1	Ability score increase
15
16	+1	Paragon Path Feature
17
18	+1	Ability score increase
19
20	+1	Paragon Path Power

Level 11

You gain +1 to all ability scores, a Feats, as well as paragon path features and a paragon encounter power <-link paragon paths below->

Level 12

You gain 1 Feats and one paragon utility power <-link paragon paths below->

Level 13

You replace 1 encounter power

Level 13 Encounter Powers

<-need 4->

Level 14

You gain 1 Feats and +1 to two ability scores

Level 15

You replace one daily power

Level 15 Daily Powers

Ouroboros Cycle	Alchemical Weaponmaster Utility 15
Like the snake of infinity, you gain a penchant for eluding death and extending your lifespan beyond danger.
Daily  Arcane
Minor Action	Personal
Effect: If you drop to 0 hp, you are left with 1 hp instead. This effect lasts until the it's used or the end of the encounter

Summon Launcher	Alchemical Weaponmaster Attack 15
You quickly pull up a launcher from the arcane weave and power it with your alchemical knowledge, decimating enemies.
Daily  Arcane
Standard Action	Close blast 9
Effect: 9 square AOE of X damage type, Yd20 damage, miss results in the DM deciding where the rocket hits, crit fail = dud. One full turn to reload, standard action to fire, minor to aim. (X= fire, radiant, whatever alchemical formula you load in. Y= level. So first level = 1d20. 5th level = 5d20, and so on

Level 16

You gain a Feats, a utility power, and a paragon path feature <-link paragon paths below->

Level 16 Utility Powers

<-need 1 encounter, 4 daily->

Level 17

You replace 1 encounter power

Level 17 Encounter Powers

<-need 4->

Artery Pierce	Alchemical Weaponmaster Attack 17
With your battle expertise, you aim and strike a vital point, making your opponent bleed.
Encounter  Martial, Weapon
Standard Action	Weapon
Target: One creature
Attack: Strength/Dexterity Vs. AC
Hit: 1[W] + Strength/Dexterity damage and target takes ongoing 10 damage.

Level 18

You gain 1 Feats and +1 to 2 ability scores

Level 19

You replace 1 daily power

Level 19 Daily Powers

<-need 4->

Level 20

You gain 1 paragon daily power and 1 Feats. <-link paragon paths below->

Epic Alchemical Weaponmaster

Legends speak of how with a single prick of your bow that you put dragons to sleep with your powerfully crafted substances. Healing and harming are both easily within your grasp. The battlefield is but a projection of your mind for you to control with your supreme mental capacity.

Level	Feats Known	Class Features and Powers
21	+1	Ability score increase Epic Destiny Feature
22	+1
23
24	+1	Ability score increase Epic Destiny Feature
25
26	+1	Epic Destiny Power
27
28	+1	Ability score increase
29
30	+1	Epic Destiny Feature

Level 21

You gain 1 epic destiny feature, 1 Feats and +1 to all ability scores <-link epic destinies below->

Level 22

You gain 1 utility power and 1 Feats.

Level 22 Utility Powers

<-need 4 daily->

Level 23

You replace 1 encounter power

Level 23 Encounter Powers

<-need 4->

Level 24

You gain 1 Feats, 1 epic destiny feature, and +1 to 2 ability scores

Level 25

You replace 1 daily power

Level 25 Daily Powers

<-need 4->

Level 26

You gain 1 Feats and 1 epic destiny utility power <-link epic destinies below->

Level 27

You replace 1 encounter power

Level 27 Encounter Powers

<-need 4->

Level 28

You gain 1 Feats and +1 to 2 ability scores

Level 29

You replace 1 daily power

Level 29 Daily Powers

<-need 2->

Level 30: Epic Destiny Feature

It is time to prepare for your final challenge. Will you go down a legend, or rise up as a god. You gain 1 epic destiny feature and 1 Feats. <-link epic destinies below->

Paragon Paths

Brew Junkie

Prerequisite: Alchemical weaponmaster
Alchemy Junkie Path Features:
Your body has been drastically altered to ensure you never develop tolerance against the potency of your potions. In fact, you body goes into overdrive when you use some potions.

Fortified Plunder	Brew Junkie Attack 20
Drinking a dose of your own making, you kick your body into hyperdrive to deliver a single blow of last resort.
Daily  Martial, Weapon
Immediate Reaction	Melee Weapon
Trigger: You use your Potion of Endurance power.
Requirement: Weapon, Potion of Endurance
Target: One creature
Attack: Strength + 2 Vs. AC
Hit: 3[W] + temporary hit points damage and target is dazed (save ends). If the target is bloodied by this attack, the target takes a −2 penalty to attack rolls (save ends).
Miss: Half damage, and no ongoing damage or penalty to attack rolls.

Alchemy Commander

Prerequisite: Alchemical weaponmaster
Alchemy Commander Path Features:
You never have enough pieces to boss around on the battlefield. The more pawns the better. As an alchemist, you have the means to create creatures that can handle the small details and fill spots so the rest of your war machine runs smoothly.

Level 11

Homunculus Servant

Level 11

Living Turret

Level 11

Animated Shield

Epic Destinies

Bile Archalchemist

Prerequisite: 21st-level Alchemical Weaponmaster
Like the Bile Spider King Ziguarz, you have harnessed alchemical power to such an extent that you can permanently alter living creatures, twisting them to alchemically altered forms for battle. But unlike foul king, you can use these powers for good as well as evil. What you touch can break or mend, based on what alchemy you use. What is decent can be made better or worse with your extensive knowledge of formulae. A fortress for a city can be equipped to automatically grow spikes, or a suit of trap armor can be manipulated to spike its wearer to death. The extent to which your powers to influence other beings potential is limited only by your imagination. No longer do rules, arcane or mundane, bind your powers of creation and revision.
Experimentation Retreat: When you complete your final quest, you can sit back and ease into the life of a true scientist. You cannot retreat to some convenient sanctum like an archmage, but you do have a holding where you can study and practice in peace, perhaps in the unforgiving areas of cold, or within the dungeons as a kingdom's minister of alchemy. Often you may retreat to your laboratory where you are in the process of making new life. You may concoct many new substances which will carry your name as their use spreads throughout the world. In your search for perfection, you may even make the prized Philosopher's Stone, granting you immortality.

Bile Archalchemist Features

21st level

24th level

30th level

Bile Archalchemist Power

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Jackmaster

Prerequisite: 21st-level Alchemical Weaponmaster
Those who say "jack of all trades, master of none" are wrong. Not only are you a master of all arms, but you are also a whiz with how to use them with alchemy. You may have polished your skills to their zenith, having slaughtered all who stand in your way. But there remains still more for you to do, or so you can feel. Even as a master, you continue to polish your skills, perhaps becoming a wanderer across other realms to fight new foes and forge new frontiers. Maybe you found a school for warriors to train the next generation even.
Indirect Immortality: Your name may go down in history due to the whispers of your feats. After your final quest, people will speak of you as a great warrior, but for what cause? Did you fight and use your powers for justice or evil? Depending on what you do, deities may invite you to spend the rest of your days in a Valhalla to battle out the rest of your days alongside other greats. Others may see you as an eternal enemy to be hunted to dust.

Jackmaster Features

21st level

24th level

30th level

Jackmaster Power

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Feats

Official Feats

• Alchemist
• Creation Mastery

Alchemist Feats

• Alchemist Sniper

You gain greater expertise in your usage of alchemical weapons on a new way.

Prerequisite: Alchemical weaponmaster

Benefit:Your knowledge of throwing alchemical items has allowed you to gain +2 to all ranged alchemical item attacks

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Prerequisite: Alchemical weaponmaster

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Other Feats

• attack recharge
• master of poisons
• venomous strike
• Tunnelrunner

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