Investigator features
Expertise
Expertise
At 1st level, choose two of your skill proficiencies;
your proficiency bonus is doubled for any ability
check you make that uses either of the chosen
proficiencies.
At 6th level, you can choose two more of your
proficiencies to gain this benefit.
Ritualist
Ritualist
You maintain a grimoire brimming with magical
rituals, your most potent tools to defeat supernatural
threats.
GRIMOIRE
At 1st level, you have a grimoire containing four
1st-level spells of your choice that have the ritual tag
from any class’s spell list (the spells needn’t be from
the same list). You can’t cast spells in your grimoire
except as rituals, unless you’ve learned them by some
other means.
Whenever you gain a level in this class, you can
add an additional ritual spell from the Investigator
Rituals list to your grimoire at no cost. The Ritual
Level column on the Investigator table shows the
maximum spell level you can add to your grimoire.
Additionally, whenever you find a ritual spell on
your adventures, you can add it to your grimoire if
it is on the Investigator Rituals list of a level you can
add to your grimoire. For each level of the spell, the
transcription process takes 2 hours and costs 50 gp
for the rare inks needed to inscribe it.
BONUS RITUALS
As an investigator, you can treat specific spells as if
they had the ritual tag, allowing you to add them to
your grimoire and cast them as rituals. These spells
are listed on the Investigator Rituals table to the
right.
SPELLCASTING ABILITY
Intelligence is your spellcasting ability for your
ritual spells, since you master your spells through
deduction and cunning. You use your Intelligence
whenever a spell refers to your spellcasting ability.
In addition, when you cast an investigator ritual or a
spell offered to you by a feature in this class, you use
your Intelligence modifier when setting the saving
throw DC and making an attack roll.
Spell save DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus
+ your Intelligence modifier
Spell attack modifier = your proficiency
bonus + your Intelligence modifier
Myths and Legends
At 2nd level, you are extremely adept at uncovering
knowledge which pertains to eldritch threats
and forgotten legends. You have advantage on
Intelligence checks related to researching creatures,
spells, and other ancient or secret lore.
Rushed Incantation
Beginning at 2nd level, you can hastily perform any
ritual spell in your grimoire that has a casting time of
1 action, completing the ritual as a bonus action. If
the ritual requires spell components worth 100 gp or
less, you cast it without using spell components. You
can use this feature a number of times equal to your
Intelligence modifier (minimum once), and regain
the ability to do so when you finish a long rest.
As you gain higher levels in this class, you can
use this feature additional times. You can use it once
more at 5th level (Intelligence modifier + 1), 9th level
(Intelligence modifier + 2), 13th level (Intelligence
modifier + 3), and 17th level (Intelligence modifier + 4).
Occult Specialization
At 3rd level, you choose a specialization, an area
of expertise in handling eldritch threats. Your
specialization choices are detailed at the end of the
class description. Your specialization choice grants
you features at 3rd level and then again at 6th, 10th,
and 14th level.
TRINKETS
TRINKETS
Investigators of each specialization also collect a
number of supernatural trinkets. Once you use one
of your trinkets, you can’t this feature again until you
finish a short or long rest. As you gain higher levels
in this class, you can use your trinkets additional
times: You can use them once more at 5th level (2
uses), 11th level (3 uses), and 17th level (4 uses).
Ability Score Improvement
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.
Exploit Weakness
Most supernatural creatures have some form of
weakness, a gap in their armor that allows them to be
defeated. Starting at 5th level, once on each of your
turns when you hit a creature with a weapon attack,
it is treated as if it has vulnerability to the weapon’s
damage. Vulnerability from this feature only doubles
your weapon damage dice and your ability modifier;
do not double additional sources of damage, such as
spells and other class features.
Additionally, the attack, as well as all other
attacks made against the creature until the start
of your next turn, are considered magical for the
purposes of bypassing damage resistance and
immunity.
Opportunistic Piety
By 7th level, you always keep a wide array of holy
symbols and blessed items on your person, even if
you aren’t particularly pious. When you use your
Opportunistic Piety, you choose which effect to
create from the list below. You must then finish a
short or long rest to use your Opportunistic Piety
again.
Banish. You cast the spell banishment without
using a spell slot. If the target is a fey, fiend, or
undead and fails its saving throw against this spell, it
also takes radiant damage equal to your level.
Miracle Healing. As an action, divine light
from your hands knit the wounds of a willing
creature you touch. That creature regains a number
of hit points equal to twice your investigator level.
This ability has no effect on undead or constructs.
Warding. As an action, you trace a holy
symbol on a creature within 5 feet of you, warding
it from harm. For the next minute, aberrations,
celestials, fey, fiends, and undead which touch the
target creature or hit it with a melee attack take 1d12
radiant damage.
Supernatural Resolve
At 9th level, you gain an extreme resilience to the
attacks and effects of the creatures you regularly
investigate. You can’t be possessed or charmed, and
you gain resistance to both psychic and necrotic
damage.
Finisher
Beginning at 11th level, you know exactly how to
bring a monster down. When you take the Attack
action and hit a creature with a weapon attack, you
can deal an extra 2d8 damage to the creature. If the
creature has less than half its hit points remaining,
you can instead deal an extra 4d8 damage to the
creature.
Enigma Arcane
At 13th level, you uncover a magical secret
connected to a wellspring of potent magic. You
can cast one of the following spells once without
expending a spell slot: mirage arcane, plane shift,
reverse gravity, sequester, or teleport. You must finish
a long rest before you can do so again.
At 15th level, you can also cast one of the
following spells without expending a spell slot:
antimagic field, glibness, maze, or mind blank. You
must finish a long rest before you can do so again.
At 17th level, you can also cast one of the
following spells without expending a spell slot: astral
projection, gate, or weird. You must finish a long rest
before you can do so again.
Exorcist
Beginning at 18th level, you can cast the spell
protection from evil and good without using a spell
slot or spell components.
Spellbinder
By 20th level, many rituals you perform have become
second nature to you. Select five ritual spells in your
grimoire with a casting time of 1 action. You can cast
these spells as a bonus action without using a use
of Rushed Incantation, and you can do so without
your grimoire on hand. If the ritual requires spell
components worth 100 gp or less, you cast it without
using spell components.