A person without a spark of magic could have attempted to become a wizard and failed due to their inability to cast spells, but instead of giving up they may have found their implement wand to allow them to use magic. Perhaps your implement is sentient, and whispers the secrets of the world to you when you sleep. When you awake, you can only recall a portion of the knowledge imparted. Maybe your implment found you instead of the other way around, marking you for a great and auspicious destiny.

Many antiquarians have good or neutral standings with their implement. Sentient artifacts are not especially common, even among the implements of the antiquarians. A lover’s soul could be trapped inside your implement, which is why it only grants you its powers, or it could be a vile and insidious tool which attempts to turn you to evil.

 

 

Class Features

As an antiquarian, you gain the following class features

Hit Points

Hit Dice:

1d8 per antiquarian level

Hit Points at 1st Level:

8 + your Constitution modifier

Hit Points at Higher Levels:

1d8 (or 5) + your Constitution modifier per antiquarian level after 1st

Proficiencies

Armor:

Light armor, medium armor, shields

Weapons:

Simple weapons, martial weapons

Tools:

None

Saving Throws:

Constitution, Intelligence

Skills:

Choose one from Arcana, History, Nature, or Religion. Choose an additional two from Acrobatics, Animal Handling, Athletics, Arcana, History, Insight, Investigation, Nature, Medicine, Religion, Stealth, and Survival

Exploit Vulnerability

You know lore and obscure magic which lets you exploit a creature’s unseen vulnerabilities. You may apply withering dust to your blade to pierce leather armor, or apply silver shavings when fighting against a werewolf. Either way, you are prepared for any fight.

When you hit a creature with a weapon attack (or your wand’s attack if you have the wand implement), you may mark that creature. Once per turn, when you hit a marked creature with a weapon attack using a weapon that isn’t a melee weapon with the heavy property, including when you mark it, you gain a bonus to your damage roll that increases as you gain levels as an antiquarian, as shown in the Exploit Damage column of the Antiquarian table. If you land a critical hit with an attack against a marked creature, your Exploit Damage is doubled in addition to your damage dice.

At 7th level, you can apply your Exploit Damage to two of your attacks per turn instead of just once.

The mark lasts for 1 minute, until you dismiss it (no action required), or you mark a different creature.

Eye for Magic

You are specially trained to detect magic and identify magic items. As an action, you can scan your environment for signs of magic. You sense the presence of magic within 30 feet of you until the end of your turn. You can also spend 1 minute examining an object that is within 5 feet of you. You spend this minute observing and experimenting with the item to identify any magic properties it has. If you are able to spend this minute uninterrupted and if it is a magic item or some other

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Ability Score Increase

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.

Using the optional feats rule, you can forgo taking this feature to take a feat of your choice instead.

Extra Attack

Beginning at 5th level, you can attack twice, instead of once, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn.

Advance Preparation

At 6th level, your expansive knowledge of monsters and magic allows you to prepare for future encounters. When you finish a long rest, you can choose any damage type other than bludgeoning, piercing, or slashing damage. You gain resistance to that damage type until the end of your next long rest.

You can choose an additional resistance to gain at 9th level, and again at 18th level.

At 9th level, you may change one of these damage types at the end of a short rest, but once you do so you cannot change them this way again until you finish a long rest.

At 13th level, you may change resistances from this feature at the end of a short rest twice, instead of just once. This can be done at the end of the same short rest, or at the end of different ones. Additionally, one of the resistances you choose can be from among bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing.

Relic Adept

At 13th level, you know loopholes and exploits which allow you to attune to more magic items. You gain the following benefits:

• You can attune to up to four magic items at once.
• You ignore all class, race, spell, and level requirements on attuning to or using a magic item.

Charge Magic Item

At 17th level, you can revitalize magic items you are attuned to. As a bonus action, you can cause one of your magic items to regain charges as though dawn had just passed. Once you use this feature, you cannot do so again until you finish a short or long rest.

 

 

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Bell

A symbol of the power that sound has over emotion, the bell can both soothe and startle. This type of implement can be any kind of instrument, but is commonly one that can be held and played in one hand.

Exploit Vulnerability

The sound of your bell disrupts your opponents. When the creature marked by your Exploit Vulnerability makes an attack roll or saving throw with advantage, you can use your reaction to prevent the roll from being affected by advantage. You may use this reaction a number of times equal to your Strength or Dexterity modifier (your choice), and regain each expended use at the end of a short or long rest.

Soothing Tones

At 2nd level, whenever a creature within 30 feet of you that can hear you would make an attack roll or saving throw with disadvantage, you can use your reaction to expend a use of this implement’s Exploit Vulnerability feature to prevent the roll from being affected by disadvantage. You may use this reaction a number of times equal to your Strength or Dexterity modifier (your choice), and regain each expended use at the end of a long rest.

Relic Sympathy

At 7th level, your relic inspires emotion in your friends and foes. As a bonus action, you can cast bane or bless without expending a spell slot. Intelligence is your spellcasting modifier for these spells. Once you cast one of these spells this way, you cannot cast either of these spells this way again until you finish a short or long rest.

Crescendo

At 11th level, you gain the following benefits:

• When you use this implement’s Exploit Vulnerability feature, the triggering creature takes an amount of thunder damage equal to your antiquarian level.
• When you use your Soothing Tones feature, the triggering creature regains an amount of hit points equal to your antiquarian level, unless they are at 0 hit points.

Ubiquitous Sound

At 15th level, you can use this implement’s Exploit Vulnerability feature against any creature, not just the one marked by your Exploit Vulnerability. Additionally, when you use this implement’s Exploit Vulnerability feature, you also impose disadvantage on the triggering roll.

 

 

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Lantern

Truth, revelations, and guidance is the symbology of the lantern. Your implement can be any type of lantern, it can be a torch, or it could be a similar light source.

Exploit Vulnerability

You can shed light upon your opponent’s hidden weaknesses. As a bonus action, you can make a Wisdom (Perception) check contested by the creature marked by your Exploit Vulnerability’s Dexterity (Stealth) or Charisma (Deception) check (their choice). If you succeed, you have advantage on your next attack roll against them.

You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Strength or Dexterity modifier (your choice), and regain each expended use at the end of a long rest.

Light Bearer

At 2nd level, your lantern implement can be lit and extinguished with just a thought, no action required. While lit, it sheds bright light in a 20-foot radius and dim light for an additional 20 feet. Additionally, you gain proficiency in the Perception skill. Whenever you make a Wisdom check, you gain a bonus to the roll equal to your Strength or Dexterity modifier (your choice).

The range of the bright light and dim light increase by 10 feet at 7th level, and again at 11th and 15th level.

Relic Revelation

At 7th level, your lantern’s light overtakes magical darkness. While a source of magical darkness, such as the darkness spell, is inside the range of the light of your lantern, the magical darkness is surpressed until the source of the magical darkness leaves the light of your lantern. Additionally, if you succeed on your ability check from this implement’s Exploit Vulnerability feature, the creature marked by your Exploit Vulnerability has disadvantage on the next attack roll they make before the end of their next turn.

Cut Through Shadow

At 11th level, your lantern dispels any falsities. You know if there are any shapechangers or creatures concealed by illusion or transmutation magic while the creature is within the lantern’s light. Additionally, you know if something you can see within the lantern’s light is an illusion or affected by an illusion.

Guiding Light

At 15th level, you cannot suffer from disadvantage when making attack rolls against the creature marked by your Exploit Vulnerability while they are inside the light of your lantern, and they cannot benefit from advantage on attack rolls against you while inside the light of your lantern.

 

 

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Silver Shards

At 11th level, your reflection shatters violently. If your reflection would shatter because you reach 0 hit points, you can force each creature of your choice within 15 feet of it to make a Dexterity saving throw (DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Strength or Dexterity modifier (your choice), or your antiquarian spellcasting DC if you are of the Guild of Scribes). A creature takes an amount of piercing damage equal to your antiquarian level + your Exploit Damage on a failure, or half as much on a success.

Mirror Images

At 15th level, when you create your reflection, you can give yourself the benefits of the mirror image spell. Once you do so, you cannot do so again until you finish a short or long rest.

Regalia

Regalia implements are a symbol of social power, rulership, and leadership. Regalia could be honors and medals from serving the military, a certificate of knightship, the banner of an important estate, a scepter, or another such object.

Exploit Vulnerability

When a creature other than you hits the creature marked by your Exploit Vulnerability with an attack, you can give them a bonus to their damage roll equal to the roll of a d4. A creature can only gain this benefit once per turn.

You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Strength or Dexterity modifier (your choice), and regain each expended use at the end of a short or long rest.

The dice size of the bonus damage increases to a d6 at 7th level, and again at 11th level (d8) and 15th level (d10).

Commanding Presence

At 2nd level, you gain proficiency in one of the following skills of your choice: Deception, Intimidation, or Persuasion.

In addition, whenever you make a Charisma check, you gain a bonus to the roll equal to your Strength or Dexterity modifier (your choice).

Relic Ruler

At 7th level, those who swarm your marked foe are granted a boon by you. While you or friendly creatures of your choice are within 10 feet of the creature marked by your Exploit Vulnerability, they gain a +1 bonus to their AC.

Loyal Congregation

At 11th level, you can spur your allies to put in more effort. When a friendly creature you can see misses an attack against the creature marked by your Exploit Vulnerability, you can use your reaction to force them to roll again and use the new result. You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Strength or

 

 

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Wand

Wands are associated with magic and its practice; specifically arcane spells. Wands are usually short, lightweight wooden batons.

Exploit Vulnerability

When you target the creature marked by your Exploit Vulnerability with your wand’s attack, you add your Exploit Damage to the damage roll.

Fling Magic

At 2nd level, your implement is an unrefined wand. While you are holding your wand, you may replace any attack you make with the wand’s attack. The wand has a range of 30 feet, and can only target one creature at a time. The target of your wand’s attack must make a Dexterity saving throw (DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Intelligence modifier, or your antiquarian spellcasting DC if you are of the Guild of Scribes). They take force damage equal to 1d6 + your Intelligence modifier on a failure, or half as much on a success.

The range and damage die increase to 60 feet and a d8 at 7th level, and the range increases again at 11th level (90 feet) and 15th level (120 feet).

Relic Power

At 7th level, your wand can be customized to defeat your foes. When you force a creature to make a saving throw against your wand’s attack, you can choose to change the saving throw to a Constitution or Wisdom saving throw, instead of Dexterity. You can use this feature a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, and regain each expended use at the end of a short or long rest.

Forked Projectile

At 11th level, your wand’s attack splits off into multiple projectiles. When you use the wand’s attack against the creature marked by your Exploit Vulnerability, you can choose two additional creatures within 30 feet of the marked creature. The creatures takes an amount of force damage equal to a roll of the wand’s damage die. At 15th level, when you roll this damage, you may reroll the die if the result is a 1 or 2, and you must use the new roll.

Volatile Magic

At 15th level, your wand’s attack becomes volatile. When you use the wand’s attack against the creature marked by your Exploit Vulnerability, each creature of your choice within 15 feet of the marked creature and the targets of your Forked Projectile feature takes 1d8 force damage. The marked creature and the targets of Forked Projectile only take this damage if they are within 15 feet of another one of them. A creature can take this damage no more than once per use of the wand’s attack.

 

 

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Screaming Chorus

At 15th level, your weapon possesses your foes with fear. When you reduce a hostile creature to 0 hit points, you can force each creature of your choice that can see you within 30 feet of you to make a Charisma saving throw (DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Strength or Dexterity modifier (your choice), or your antiquarian spellcasting DC if you are of the Guild of Scribes). On a failure, they are frightened of you for one minute. A creature frightened this way may repeat their saving throw at the end of each of their turns. On a success, they are no longer frightened. Once you use this feature, you cannot do so again until you finish a short or long rest.

 

 

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Antiquarian Guilds

You define your trade by specializing in an antiquarian guild of your choice. An antiquarian guild is not a literal guild, though it can be. Instead, an antiquarian guild is a collection of people and places that an antiquarian can or has gained knowledge and opportunities from. An antiquarian who learns of opportunities to acquire magic items from a thieves’ guild may be of the Skulker’s Guild, and an antiquarian who studies tomes and scripture to find magic worth pursuing may specialize in the Scribe’s Guild.

Scribe’s Guild

While all antiquarians dabble in the power granted by magical items, those of the scribe’s guild take a more direct route to magic: learning and studying. Scribe antiquarians keep spellbooks on them which not only house their spells, but also many of their notes on esoteric lore, myths, and folk magic.

Spellcasting

When you reach 3rd level, you supplement your esoteric knowledge with the ability to cast spells.

Cantrips

You learn two cantrips of your choice from the wizard spell list. You learn an additional wizard cantrip of your choice at 10th level. When yougain a level in this class, you can replace a wizard cantrip you know with another wizard cantrip of your choice.

Spellbook

At 3rd level, you gain a spellbook containing six 1st-level wizard spells of your choice. Five of these spells must be from the conjuration, divination, and transumtation spells on the wizard spell list. Your spellbook is the repository of the wizard spells you know. If your implement is a tome, you can use it as your spellbook.

Preparing and Casting Spells

The Scribe Spellcasting table shows how many spell slots you have to cast your wizard 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 wizard spells that are available for you to cast. To do so, choose a number of wizard spells from your spellbook equal to a third of your wizard level (rounded up) + your Intelligence modifier (minimum of one spell). The spells must be of a level for which you have spell slots.

For example, if you’re a 7th-level antiquarian, 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, chosen from your spellbook. If you prepare the 1st-level spell grease, you can cast it using a 1st-level or a 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 wizard spells requires time spent studying your spellbook and memorizing the incantations and gestures you must make to cast the spell: at least 1 minute per spell level for each spell on your list.

Spellcasting Ability

Intelligence is your spellcasting ability for your wizard spells, since you learn your spells through dedicated study and memorization. You use your Intelligence whenever a spell refers to your spellcasting ability. In addition, you use your Intelligence modifier when setting the saving throw DC for a wizard 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

Spellcasting Focus

You can use your relic implement as your spellcasting focus for wizard spells you acquired through this class.

Learning Spells of 1st Level and Higher

At 4th level, and again at 7th, 10th, 13th, 16th, and 19th, you can add two spells to your spellbook. Each of these spells must be from the conjuration, divination, or transumtation schools of magic. At 8th, 14th, and 20th level, you can add a spell to your spellbook from any school of magic. Each spell you add to your spellbook these ways must be of a level for which you have spell slots, as shown in the Scribe Spellcasting table. On your adventures, you might find other spells that you can add to your spellbook (see the “Your Spellbook” sidebar in the wizard class).

Scroll Proficiency

Starting at 3rd level, your multidisciplinarian approach to magic means you can cast any kind of spell with ease, so long as it comes from a scroll. You can cast a spell from a scroll no matter what spell list it is from. A spell cast from a scroll this way uses your Guild of Scribes spell attack bonus and save DC instead of the scroll’s if yours would be higher. Additionally, when you make an ability check to cast a spell from a spell scroll that is higher than a level you can cast or to copy the spell into your spellbook, you can add your esoteric lore skill bonus to the roll instead of your spellcasting ability modifier. Failing this ability check does not cause the spell to dissapear from the scroll, either.

You can draw and activate scrolls in the same hand that is holding an implement, or shield.

 

 

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Skulker’s Guild

Perhaps the most common type of antiquarian, the skulker’s guild is a guild which specializes in exploration and staying out of sight. These antiquarians tend to stay close to crime syndicates and theives guilds, and often supply or are supplied magic items through these groups. Lone antiquarians of this guild tend to be roguish in nature, perhaps someone who would have become a thief or assassin had they not gained the lore and magic of an antiquarian.

Skulker’s Skill

At 3rd level, you gain proficiency with thieves’ tools, and either Sleight of Hand or Stealth (your choice). If you already have these skill proficiencies, you may instead gain another skill proficiency of your choice. You also ignore disadvantage on stealth checks inflicted due to your armor. When you roll an ability check using thieves’ tools, you can roll using your esoteric lore skill instead.

You can Hide as a bonus action. When comparing your Dexterity (Stealth) roll to the Wisdom (Perception) or Intelligence (Investigation) roll (or their passive counterparts) of a creature marked by you, you can replace your Stealth skill bonus with your esoteric lore skill bonus.

Hidden Venture

at 6th level, you know a piece of esoterica which allows you to hide your tracks. You can cast pass without trace twice, and regain each expended use at the end of a long rest.

Safety of Shadow

At 10th level, you regain lost poise when you evade attacks and stay hidden. While you are in combat and at no more than half your hit points, if the creature marked by your exploit vulnerability misses you with an attack roll or you end your turn hidden due to the Hide action, you regain an amount of hit points equal to 2 + half your Exploit Damage (rounded up).

Surprise Strikes

At 14th, your attacks which surprise enemies become more accurate. When you roll an attack roll with advantage, you can add a bonus to the attack and daamge rolls equal to the roll of a d4. You cannot add this bonus to an attack roll that would already add such a bonus, like from the bless spell.

 

 

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Warden’s Gift

At 10th level, you prepare on behalf of all your allies. As a bonus action, you can grant each creature of your choice within the garden’s area the same damage type resistance(s) you are granted by your Advance Preparation feature for 1 minute, or until you lose concentration (as if you were concentrating on a spell). You cannot impart resistance to bludgeoning, piercing, or slashing damage this way.

You can use this feature twice, and regain each expended use at the end of a short or long rest.

Root to Life

At 14th level, you keep your allies alive through thick and thin. When a creature you can see within the garden’s area would start their turn at 0 hit points, you can use your reaction to immediately cause them to regain hit points equal to half their hit point maximum. They may also stand up. Once you use this feature, you cannot do so again until you finish a short or long rest.