Warsmith

An Artificer (Revised) subclass by KibblesTasty

A Warsmith is
an Artificer that has turned their wondrous talent of invention to a singular goal: making themselves a juggernaut of war. The reasons behind this could be benevolent or nefarious. Some Warsmiths seek to turn their invention into a machine of death and terror; others become the arbiter of justice and order, and others still perhaps merely seek to refine their craft in pursuit of pure innovation.

Because few individuals would pursue such a wondrous invention without a driven purpose to their endeavor, Warsmiths tend to be Lawful, usually driven to their actions by a greater purpose they seek the power to accomplish, be it righting the wrongs of the world, or bringing it to heel beneath their ironshod boot.

Warsmith's Proficiency
At 1st level, you gain proficiency with heavy armor, tinker's tools and smith's tools.

Warplate Gauntlet
At 1st level, when you take this specialization, you construct a Warplate Gauntlet. This is a specialized Wondrous Item that only you can attune to. When you create a Warplate Gauntlet, you can add one of the following upgrades to it: Power Fist, Force Blast, or Martial Grip. This upgrade does not count against your upgrade total. You can make multiple gauntlets with different upgrades, but can only be attuned to one at a time.

If you lose your Warplate Gauntlet, you can remake it during a long rest with 25 gold worth of materials, or can scavenge for materials and forge it over two days of work (eight hours a day) without the material expense.

While wearing a Warplate Gauntlet, you can engage Artificial Strength.

Artificial Strength
"When you don your Warplate Gauntlet or as an action while wearing it, you can dedicate some of your intelligence to fully controlling the power of the gauntlet. You can reduce your current and maximum Intelligence score to increase your current Strength ability score by the same amount, but you can only raise your Strength ability score up what your Intelligence ability score was before engaging Artificial Strength. You can stop using Artificial Strength at any time, and it automatically ends if your gauntlet is removed."

Warsmith's Armor
At 3rd level, you've attained the knowledge of forging and arcane tinkering sufficient to create a set of armor that augments and expands your abilities from a standard, non-magical, set of heavy armor using resources you've gathered. This process takes 8 hours to complete, as well as a place to forge and incorporates a Warplate Gauntlet (they do not require separate attunement).

While wearing your armor, your Strength ability score increases by 2, and your maximum Strength ability score becomes 22.

You can create a new set of armor by forging it from a set of gathered and purchased materials in a process takes 2000 gold pieces and eight hours.

You can create multiple sets of armor, but you can only be attuned to one of them at a given time, and you can only change which one you are attuned to during a long rest. If you create a new set of Warplate, you can apply a number of Upgrades equal to the value on the class table, applying each at the level you get it on the class table.

When you create your armor, you can create a heavy plated Warplate, a magically enhanced set of gear, Warsuit, or you can integrate your changes directly into your body as a Integrated Armor. If your armor is Warplate or Integrated Armor, you gain the Powerful Build trait. Powerful Build means you count as one size larger when determining your carrying capacity and the weight you can push, drag, or lift.

Additionally, if you are small, you become medium while wearing Warplate. {| class="article-table"

Design Note:
Warsmiths & Magical Armor

By the rules laid out here, using magical armor as a base for your Warsmith's armor has no additional effect. This is intentionally the ruled-as-written rules, but there is certainly some flexibility here. Personally in my games, I allow it use magic armor as the base armor with the following considerations: Other cases can be handled on a case by case basis. Consult with your DM and work something out that would be reasonable to combine making receiving magic armor a cool bonus, but not something that breaks the game!
 * Using Adamantine or Mithral, the properties carry over to the Warsmith's armor.
 * Using +1/+2/+3 armor carries over, but counts as taking a free "Armor Class" upgrade for each +1 the armor has, meaning that upgrade cannot be taken to make the armor +4 or better.
 * Armor of Resistance carries over, counting as taking "Resistance" upgrade for that damage type for free.
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Extra Attack
Beginning at 5th level, you can attack twice, instead of once, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn.

Fully Customized Gear
Starting at 14th level, you've mastered the customization of your Warsmith's armor. You can add one additional upgrade your armor that does not count against your Upgrade total.

Additionally, during a long rest, you can now swap out any one upgrade for any other upgrade of the same level, so long as you don't have an upgrade that requires the upgrade you are removing as a prerequisite, or an incompatible upgrade. {| class="article-table"

What Does Your Armor Look Like?
Nothing in this document specifies that visual appearance of your armor beyond the type of armor, but it very likely does not look like a standard set of armor. Consider what the visual differences are - are you enhancements more mechanical in nature or more magical in nature? Does it have geared joints, glowing runes, or both?

Consider how your setting might react to someone standing around in such armor. In all but the highest magical settings, such a set of armor is likely to attract some curiosity or concern.
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Accelerated Movement
You can apply this upgrade twice."You reduce the weight of your armor by 15 lbs. While wearing your armor your speed increases by 10 feet. This applies to all movement speeds you have while wearing your armor."

Arcane Visor
"While wearing your armor, you have darkvision to a range of 60 feet. If you already have darkvision, this upgrade increases its range by 60 feet. Additionally, you gain advantage on saving throws against being blinded."

Faraday Helmet
"You arrange the magical channels of your armor to interfere with magical manipulation of your mind. While wearing your armor, when you make a Saving Throw to save against being charmed, mind controlled, stunned, or confused by magical means, you can replace the number rolled on the die with the number of Upgrades you have."

Flame Projector
"You gain the ability to unleash fire energy. While wearing your Warplate Gauntlet, you can cast fire bolt, and gain access to the following spells at the following levels while wearing your Warplate Gauntlet:"

Force Blast
"You upgrade your Warplate Gauntlet to deliver special ranged attacks. These attack are a ranged spell attack that deals 1d8 + your Intelligence modifier force damage, and has a range of 30 feet.""You are proficient in this weapon. When you take the attack action, you can use this ranged spell attack in place of any attack made. At level 5, this spell attack gains a +1 to attack and damage rolls; this increases to a +2 at level 14."

Grappling Reel
"Your Warsmith's armor gains an integrated grappling reel set into your gauntlet. As 1 attack or 1 action, you may target a surface, object or creature within 30 feet. If the target is Large or Smaller, you can make a Grapple check to pull it to you and Grapple it on success. Alternatively, if the target is Large or larger, you can choose to be pulled to it, this does not grapple it."

Lightning Channel
"You are able to funnel your suits power into your attacks. You can use this upgrade to cast lightning charged as a bonus action without expending a spell slot. Once used, this upgrade cannot be used until you complete a short or long rest.""Additionally, you can apply the damage from lightning charged to your Force Blast ranged spell attacks."

Lightning Projector
You gain the ability to unleash lightning energy. While wearing your Warplate Gauntlet, you can cast shocking grasp, and gain access to the following spells at the following levels while wearing your Warplate Gauntlet:

Martial Grip
"Your Warplate Gauntlet grants the ability to wield a wide variety of powerful weapons. You gain proficiency with martial weapons while wearing your Warplate Gauntlet."

Power Fist
You can apply this upgrade twice."You upgrade your Warplate Gauntlet to better punch things. Your Warplate Gauntlet is upgraded to a magical weapon you have proficiency with dealing 1d8 bludgeoning damage and gains the Light and Special properties. At level 5, this magic weapon gains a +1 to attack and damage rolls; this increases to a +2 at level 14.""Special: When you make an attack roll, you can choose to forgo adding your Proficiency modifier to the attack roll. If the attack hits, you can add double your Proficiency modifier to the damage roll.""With Power Fist applied twice, you have a Power Fists for each hand that can be used for Two-Weapon Fighting."

Reinforced Armor
You can apply this upgrade up to 3 times."You reinforce the structure and materials that make up your Warsmith's armor. Your Warsmith's armor Armor Class (AC) increases by 1."

Sentient Armor
"You create an artificial personality integrated into your armor, giving it limited sentience. This sentience assists you in many ways. While wearing your armor, your Intelligence ability score and maximum Intelligence ability score are increased by 2."

Arcaneware
Prerequisite: Sentient Armor"You upgrade the artificial personality integrated into your armor to assist with a new skill. Select a skill from the following: Arcana, History, Investigation, Nature, or Religion. While able to communicate with your armor, you gain proficiency in this skill."

Active Camouflage
"As an action, you can activate active camouflage causing your suit to automatically blend into its surroundings. This lasts until deactivated. While this is active, you are considered lightly obscured, and can hide from a creature even when they have a clear line of sight to you. Wisdom (Perception) checks to find you that rely on vision are made with disadvantage."

Collapsible
Incompatible with Integrated Armor or Piloted Golem"Your Warsmith's armor can collapse into a case for easy storage. When transformed this way the armor is indistinguishable from a normal case and weighs 1/3 its normal weight. As an action you can don or doff the armor, allowing it to transform as needed."

Divination Visor
Prerequisite: Arcane Visor"You cast divination Artificer spells you know as a bonus action, and if they require concentration, they no longer require concentration maintain."

Emergency Protocol
Prerequisite: Sentient Armor"The intelligence in your armor will attempt to preserve your life. If you are Incapacitated or Unconscious and cannot take your action, it will cast a spell or take the dodge action. It can only cast spells using your armor's upgrades. It will act once, and cannot act again until you complete a short or long rest."

Focal Reflectors
Prerequisite: Force Blast"You upgrade your Force Blast to strike at greater distance and accuracy. The range of all your ranged spell attacks with your Force Blast is increased by 30 feet. Additionally, you gain a +2 to hit with ranged spell attacks."

Mechanical Enhancement
Prerequisite: Integrated Armor"You improve every aspect of yourself ever so slightly. You gain +5 feet of movement, one additional hit point per Artificer level, and +1 to Strength, Dexterity, and Constitution saving throws."

Reactive Plating
Prerequisite: Warplate"Your armor partially deflect incoming blows. You can use your reaction when hit by an attack to reduce the damage of that attack by an amount equal to your proficiency bonus."

Resistance
"You tune your armor against certain forms of damage. Choose acid, cold, fire, force, lightning, necrotic, radiant, or thunder damage. While wearing your Warplate you have resistance to that type of damage. If you apply this upgrade more than once you must choose a different damage type."

Sealed Suit
Prerequisite: Warplate"As a bonus action on your turn you can environmentally seal your Warplate, giving you an air supply for up to 1 hour and making you immune to poison (but not curing you of existing poisoned conditions).""In addition to the above, you are also considered acclimated to cold and hot climates while wearing your armor, and you're also acclimated to high altitude while wearing your armor."

Ether Reactor
"You construct an ether reactor that feeds your armor, powering its upgrades with arcane energy. The Ether Reactor has 6 charges, and can be used to power upgrades that cast spells, even upgrades that would normally only recharge after a rest can cast instead using charges, spending 1 charge per level of the spell you are casting. You can cast spells at a higher level by expending more charges. It regains all charges at the end of a long rest.""If your Ether Reactor has no charges left, you can overdraw your Ether Reactor for one last burst of power, but your armor is temporarily immobilized and your speed while wearing your armor becomes zero for a number of rounds equal to the level of the spell cast. Once you do this, you cannot do this against until you complete a long rest."

Iron Muscle
"You reinforce the structure of your armor, giving it the strength of giants. While wearing your armor, your current Strength ability score is increased by 2, and your maximum Strength ability score becomes 24."

Phase Suit
Prerequisite: Warsuit"You gain the ability to cast misty step and blink while wearing your Warsuit. Additionally, as an action, you can become intangible, and move through creatures or objects until the end of your turn. If you end your turn inside a creature or object, you are forced to the nearest unoccupied location, taking 10 force damage for each foot you are forced to move.""Once you become intangible using this upgrade, you cannot do so again until you complete a short or long rest."

Piloted Golem
Prerequisite: Warplate, Incompatible with Collapsible."You enlarge your Warplate, turning it into a piloted mechanical golem. Your size category when wearing the armor increases by one, and you have advantage on Strength saving throws and Strength checks against creatures the same size as you or smaller than you."

Prerequisite: Piloted Golem
"You leverage your Warplate's increased size to load it up with some redundant layers of armor to protect you. At the end of a short or long rest, you gain temporary hit points equal to your Intelligence modifier + Artificer level."

Cloaking Device
Prerequisite: Active Camouflage"If you do not move during your turn with active camouflage engaged, you can use your reaction to take the Hide action using an Intelligence (Stealth) check. You make this check with disadvantage if you are within 5 feet of another creature or you attacked during your turn.""You can overload your camouflage to cast greater invisibility without expending a spell slot. Once you do this, you cannot do this again until you complete a long rest."

Distributed Force
"You can empower attacks with both arms equally. You gain the Two-Weapon Fighting Style: When you engage in two-weapon fighting, you can add your ability modifier to the damage of the second attack."

Lightning Rod
Prerequisite: Lightning Channel"Whenever you cast lightning charged, you can treat the spell as if it was cast by a spell slot one level higher."

Flash Freeze Capacitor
Incompatible with other Capacitors."You can store arcane energy, releasing it in a torrent of freezing energy. As an action, you can cast cone of cold without expending a spell slot or charges. The effected area becomes difficult terrain until the end of your next turn.""Once you use this upgrade, you cannot use it again until you complete a long rest."

Flight
Incompatible with Piloted Golem."You integrate a magical propulsion system into your Warsmith's armor. While wearing your Warsmith's armor you have a magical flying speed of 30 feet."

Integrated Attack
Prerequisite: Integrated Armor or Warplate"You integrate a melee weapon into your Warsmith's Armor. When you apply this upgrade you must have a weapon to integrate, and you must choose where on your armor the weapon is located. The weapon cannot have the Heavy property. You are proficient with this weapon. As a bonus action you can activate the weapon.""You must treat it as though you are wielding it with one hand, but you cannot be disarmed of it. Once activated, you can use this weapon when you take the attack action, and it does not require the use of a hand or your Warplate Gauntlet. You can apply this upgrade multiple times, selecting a new weapon and new location on your armor to install it.""When you activate your integrated weapon, you can immediately make one attack with it. While it is active, you can make an attack with it using your bonus action."

Power Slam Capacitor
Incompatible with other Capacitors."You store up kinetic energy, and unleash it in a mighty bound. As an action, you can jump up to your entire movement speed and cast destructive wave without expending a spell slot or charges upon landing.""Once you use this upgrade, you cannot use it again until you complete a long rest."

Self-Repair Matrix
Prerequisite: Ablative Armor"At the start of each turn, if you have no temporary hit points, you gain temporary hit points equal your proficiency modifier."

Titan Grip
You can take this upgrade twice"You improve your grip strength and control of one of your gauntlets beyond the limits of flesh. You can wield a two-handed weapon in one-hand for the gauntlet this upgrade is applied to, and do not need two hands to wield a lance in a hand this upgrade is applied to, even if you are not mounted."

Phase Engine
Prerequisite: Warsuit"When you are attacked, you can use your reaction to become intangible, causing that attack to miss if it is a nonmagical attack, or to have disadvantage if it is a magical attack. Once you do so, you cannot do so again until you complete a short or long rest. This upgrade is refreshed every time you teleport or enter the ethereal plane."

Heavy Plating
Prerequisite: Warplate"You install special heavy plating, giving you resistance to bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage from non-magical sources while wearing your Warplate."

Recall
"When not being worn you can hide your Warsmith's armor in a pocket dimension. As an action you can magically summon the armor and don it. You can use a bonus action to return the armor to the pocket dimension.""While in the pocket dimension the armor cannot be affected by other abilities and cannot be interacted with in any way."

Shield Arm
Prerequisite: Piloted Golem"You integrate a shield into one of your armor's arms. You have proficiency with that shield, and can deploy it as a bonus action. It requires the use of that arm while deployed."

Sun Cannon
"You install a sun cannon into your Warsmith's armor, allowing you to unleash devastating solar laser blasts. As an action, you can cast sunbeam without expending a spell slot.""Once you use this ability, you can not use it again until you complete a long rest."

Virtual Interface
Prerequisite: Sentient Armor"When you use Artificial Strength to raise your Strength ability score, you no longer lower your Intelligence ability score below your natural maximum (not counting Sentient Armor)."