Fifth Fantasy - The Alchymyst (PDF)

Fifth Fantasy: The Alchymyst

Most alchemists spend their lives boiling dubious liquids, refining powders and trying to remember which flask contains medicine and which contains something capable of removing a laboratory wall.

The Alchymyst has moved beyond all that.

A true master of the art understands that everything is composed of a handful of fundamental elements: Earth, Air, Fire, Water, Light, Darkness and Magic. By separating, combining and manipulating these principles, the Alchymyst can produce effects which resemble sorcery without actually casting spells.

No spell slots. No prayers. No pact with something that has too many eyes.

Just knowledge, ingredients and a worrying collection of stoppered bottles.

Fifth Fantasy: The Alchymyst presents a complete anime and Japanese roleplaying game-inspired character class for Fifth Edition fantasy games. It is designed for players who want the flexibility and spectacle of a classic JRPG alchemist rather than the traditional fantasy apothecary who occasionally remembers to throw acid.

Elemental Chymistry

The Alchymyst works by reducing materials to their essential components and recombining them into useful—or violently unstable—mixtures.

Earth provides solidity and endurance. Fire burns and transforms. Air moves and disperses. Water heals, dissolves and adapts. Light reveals and purifies. Darkness conceals and corrupts. Magic permits effects which ordinary chemistry would regard as showing off.

These elements allow the character to create a broad range of chymicals and battlefield effects without relying upon conventional spellcasting.

Unlike a magician, the Alchymyst is not limited by a daily allowance of spells. Their creations last until the ingredients run out, which encourages a refreshingly practical attitude towards gemstones, monster carcasses and anything else which can be rendered down without attracting the town watch.

Harvest, Prepare, Deploy

An Alchymyst’s work begins long before initiative is rolled.

Creatures, minerals and unusual substances can be harvested for useful components. Those ingredients are then converted into mixtures, compounds and chymicals ready for later use.

This gives the class a satisfying cycle:

• Seek out rare materials

• Harvest valuable ingredients

• Prepare useful concoctions

• Deploy them when everything goes horribly wrong

• Examine the smoking crater for anything recyclable

The class rewards preparation and experimentation, but its creations remain useful in the thick of an adventure. An Alchymyst can support allies, manipulate the battlefield and inflict elemental unpleasantness upon enemies who assumed the person carrying all the bottles was merely the party’s pharmacist.

Inside

• A complete Alchymyst character class for Fifth Edition fantasy games

• Anime and classic JRPG-inspired abilities

• A system built around seven fundamental elements

• Chymicals and mixtures producing a range of extraordinary effects

• Rules for gathering and harvesting ingredients

• Equipment suited to the practising Alchymyst

• A resource system based upon available materials rather than ordinary spellcasting

• Opportunities to turn slain monsters into something more useful than experience points and an unpleasant smell

The Fifth Fantasy Series

Fifth Fantasy introduces character classes and peoples inspired by the roles, visual language and cheerful excesses of Japanese computer roleplaying games and anime.

The series is particularly suited to high-magic campaigns where elaborate abilities, unusual heroes and spectacular effects are considered virtues rather than breaches of good taste.

The Alchymyst can be used alongside ordinary Fifth Edition characters or combined with other Fifth Fantasy options for a party which looks increasingly as though it ought to have its own overwrought battle theme.

Requirements

The Alchymyst is a character supplement, not a standalone roleplaying game.

You will need the rules for a compatible Fifth Edition fantasy game to use this class.

Format

Digital PDF download.

This listing is for the electronic edition. No physical book, philosopher’s stone or padded parcel leaking luminous green fluid will be posted.