Herbalist

His feet tread lightly on the forest floor. Peering around, the
human locks his eyes on a small cluster of mushrooms. Upon
approaching it, he takes a small towel from his belt and begins
digging it out. Smiling, he stores the mushroom, a dull white
fungi with orange markings, in a bag hanging on his belt.
Standing up, he continues searching for any other ingredients.
"Heads up" shouts the dragonborn. She tosses a vial to her
companion, a scarred dwarf in golden armor facing a snarling
minotaur. Catching it, the dwarf quickly pours the foul liquid
on her blade, causing rancid smoke to bellow off of it. Without
hesitation, the dwarf plunges his blade into minotaur, the
poison causing havoc on its internal organs. The dwarf's
eyebrows shoot up as he sees a sickly, necrotic blackness
spreading from the wound.
An elf leans over his desk, scribbling into a notebook.
Muttering to himself from time to time, he grabs various
herbs, fungi, and an unknown powder from a jar. He grinds
them into a paste using a mortar. Adding some water, the
mixture starts to foam and bubble. Nodding, he sets the
mortar down. The elf cuts his palm using a knife. Wincing at
the pain, he grabs the mortar and pours the mixture on the
wound. The wound begins to close until no trace of the wound
is found.
Obessive Thirsty for Knowledge
Herbalists are known for their almost fanatical hunger for
knowledge. To them, they crave to learn more. Herbalists are
known for locking themselves in their workspaces until they
complete their goal. They are often compared to Wizards, as
their devotion to herblore makes them experiment for days
without sleep, only leaving their studies for resources or
occasional snacks, or travel to far off lands, in search of a
plant.

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 Level Proficiency Bonus Features
1st +2 Basic Herblore
2nd +2 Herblore: Utilty Kit, Herblore: Common Poison Kit
3rd +2 Herblore: Wound-Setting, Herblore: Pain Relief
4th +3 Ability Score Improvement
5th +3 Herblore: Moderate Healing
6th +3 Self-Sufficient
7th +3 Herblore: Rare Poisons
8th +3 Workshop Side Effects
9th +4 Herblore: Hallucinogenics
10th +4 Herblore: Toxins and Acids
11th +4 Herblore: Advanced Healing
12th +4 Herblore: Rare Poisons
13th +5 Herblore: Extra Potency
14th +5 Quick Healing
15th +5 -
16th +5 Quick Crafting
17th +6 -
18th +6 Herblore: Unique Poisons
19th +6 Herblore: Expert Healing
20th +6 Herblore Mastery

Creating a Wizard Proficiencies

As you are creating a herbalist character, spend some time to
think what is driving you. What goal are you striving for, as
your knowledge of herblore grows as you adventure? Were
you unable to cure a loved one, or seeking a poison to extract
revenge? Perhaps, in the middle of an ancient tome, you read
the myth of a blue flower residing in the tundra of the Dragon
Plains, granting the ability to control your body temperature.
Quick Build
You can make a herbalist quickly by following these
suggestions. First, Intelligence should be your highest ability
score, followed by Constitution or Dexterity. Second, choose
the sage background.
Class Features
As a herbalist, you gain the follow class features:
Hit Points
Hit Dice: 1d6 per herbalist level
Hit Points at 1st Level: 6 + your Constitution modifier
Hit Points at Higher Levels: 1d6 (or 4) + your Constitution
modifier per herbalist level after 1st
Armor: Light armor, shields
Weapons: Simple weapons, hand crossbows, shortswords
Tools: Herbalism Kit
Saving Throws: Constitution, Intelligence
Skills: Choose two from Insight, Nature, Medicine,
Perception, Survival
Equipment
You start with the following equipment, in addition to the
equipment granted by your background:
(a) a simple melee weapon or (b) a shortsword
(a) a simple weapon or (b) a shield
Hand crossbow and 20 bolts
Leather Armor
(a) an explorer's pack or (b) a scholar's pack
Herbalism Kit, 5 jars, and 3 pouches
Herblore
Herbalists gain an increased knowledge of plants, herbs, and
foliage during their training and advancement. Herblore is the
collective name for all such knowledge gained to that point. At
certain levels, your knowledge of herblore increases, allowing
you to utilize your skills in various ways.

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Herbal Kits
Herbalists are able to create special herbal kits, capable of
anything from numbing pain to transmitting deadly Poisons
into a victim. The amount and variety of kits that a herbalist
can make and alter increases as your herbalist level increases.
Creating, altering, and applying a herbal kit requires an
Intelligence (Medicine) check.
Herbal Utility Kit
These simple Kits are non-combat in use, but are useful
around the house and in the field. Their exact limitations will
be provided by the DM, but they are often used for such tasks
as minor cleaning/stain removal, fever treatments, heat wraps
and cool compresses, itch/rash relief, and the like. This Kit is
exhausted after 10 uses.
Herbal Wound-Setting Kit
This kit contains items to staunch the flow of blood, to set
minor wounds, and to halt further deterioration of the body. A
typical kit is effective on 2 creatures of Large size or smaller,
or one Huge creature. This Kit is exhausted after ten uses.
Herbal Pain Relief Kit
This kit contains items to relieve temporary or chronic body
aches. It can also be used to reduce swelling and bruising.
Temporary conditions will be wholly restored, but
chronic/permanent pains will only affected for a short
duration, usually a day. A typical kit is effective on creatures of
Large size or smaller, or one Huge creature. The kit has ten
uses.
Herbal Healing Kit
This kit contains items to Heal and restore injured and
otherwise damaged individuals. It can restore health, fix cuts
and breaks, as well as other more extreme uses. A full kit has
10 doses, each dose being a pack of herbs effective on
creatures of Large size or smaller. However, many herbalist
can make kits with less doses, decreasing the time and
amount of resources it takes to make the kit.
The following are the effects of varying Healing Kits:
Herbal Healing Kit Cost (1 dose) Weight HP Regained
Moderate Healing 40g 1 lbs 1d6
Advanced Healing 300g 1 lbs 4d6
Expert Healing 800g 1 lbs 8d6
Herbal Poisons Kit
Poisons are very useful in and out of combat. They come with
various status effects and damage dealt. A herbal poisons kit
can contain up to three doses of a poison, where one dose is
enough to affect a creature of Medium size. A creature of a
Small size can be given half a normal dose. If a half dose is
given to a creature of Medium or Large size, then they gain
advantage on their saving throw.
Common Poison Kit:
Rare Poison Kit:
Unique Poison Kit:
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Herbal Poison Treatment Kit
This kit contains items to diagnose and cure many common
Poisons, such as Lotus Tears solutions and snakebites.
Standard Poisons will be completely expunged from the
system, but extremely potent and rarer Poisons may only be
temporarily halted, allowing transport to a place of Healing/ A
typical kit is effective on 2 creatures of Medium size or
smaller. This Kit is exhausted after use.
The following are the effects of varying Poison Kits:
Poison
Treatment Cost Weight Description
Common
Xg X lbs
Cures of common poisons, halts of
advancement of rare poisons for
Poison
24 hours
Cures any common and rare
Rare
Poison
Xg X lbs poisons, halts of advancement of
unique poisons four 24 hours
Unique Cures common, rare, and unique
Poison
Xg X lbs
poisons
Herbal Hallucinogenic Kit
This kit contains items to affect the mind of those that receive
it. May be used to incite dreams and visions, create/clear
confusion and mental stress in an individual, or cause random
hallucinations. A typical kit is effective on 1 creature of Large
size or smaller. This Kit is exhausted after use.
Herbal Toxin/Acid Kit
This kit contains a variety of toxins and acids, useful for
combat and non-combat scenarios. Several toxins or acids can
be created, whether to supplement a Poison Kit or to create
acid for combat/weaponsmithing. A typical kit is effective for
up to 3 months, after which the toxins and acids lose their
potency. This Kit is exhausted after use.
Basic Herblore
At 1st level, you have the ability to use and create Herbal Kits.
This does not provide any proficiency in their creation or use,
but simply the knowledge of what they consist of and how to
use them.
Herblore: Utility
Starting at 2nd level, you are able to create and and use a
variety of multi-purpose herbal kits. In particular, common kit
types created are anti-fever treatments, itch/rash relief,
heat/cold treatments, and cleaning solvents. The effects of
these types are inherently limited, as they cannot be used to
harm or destroy, and are strictly non-combat in usage. You
gain proficiency in Herbal Utility Kits.
Herblore: Poisons
Poisons are always a danger when out in the wilderness,
whether from a venomous creature lurking in the jungle, or an
assassin's poison in your dinner, and it's always a good idea to
have a Poison Kit or two on hand, just in case. At 2nd level,
you gain proficiency in Common Poison Kits. You gain
proficiency in Uncommon Poisons at 7th level. You also gain
proficiency in Herblore: Poison Treatment Kits of the same
tier at the same level as its poison counterpart.
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 Herblore: Wound-Setting
At 3rd level, you are able to make herbal kits for combat. This
is the most basic of combat-related Herbal Knowledge. Such
herbs and kits allow an Herbalist to set a wound, staunch
bleeding or hemorrhaging, and otherwise stabilize an
individual. This will not relieve or heal cuts, scrapes, and other
serious injuries, but rather serve to prevent further
deterioration of the victim's condition, so he may be safely
transported to a site of more advanced healing. The sister
knowledge of Pain Relief, this field of knowledge focuses on
the physical aspect of injuries. You gain proficiency in Herbal
Wound-Setting Kits.
Herblore: Pain Relief
Similar to the herbs used to stop blood flow, this particular
area of knowledge focuses on numbing the effects of pain, as
well as reducing swelling and bruising on an individual. This
will not relieve or heal cuts, scrapes, and other serious
injuries, but rather serve to prevent further deterioration of
the victim's condition, so he may be safely transported to a site
of more advanced healing. The sister knowledge of Wound-
Setting, this field of knowledge focuses on the
mental/emotional aspect of injuries. You gain proficiency in
Herbal Pain Relief Kits.
Ability Score Increase
When you reach 4th level, and again at 8th, 12th, 16th, and
19th level, you can increase one ability score of 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.
Herblore: Moderate Healing
By far the most commonly-practiced type of Herblore, the
power to Heal others is always of use. At 5th level, this first
foray into the field provides several essential techniques,
usable both in combat and outside the arena. Focusing on
healing cuts, gashes, burns, and other painful injuries, this is
essential knowledge for any Herbalist. You gain proficiency in
Herbal Moderate Healing Kits.
Self-Sufficient
At 6th Level, you are able to forge for more ingredients,
increasing the quantity you find and their rarity. You gain
proficiency in the Nature skill. If you already have proficiency
in Nature, you gain double proficiency in it.
Workshop Side-Effects
At 8th Level, through the amount of exposure to poisons gain
resistance to poison damage and have advantage of saving
throws against poison.
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Herblore: Hallucinogeics
This intense new area of study focuses on mind-affecting
herbs and plant secretions, to explore and affect an
individual's mind. This is very powerful knowledge, however,
and can be extremely potent, and dangerous, in the right(or
wrong) hands. Hallucinogenics are typically used to incite
Dreams, to confuse, and are commonly used by the lowe caste
of society to entertain, typically accompanied by drugs and
alcohol. You gain proficiency in Herbal Hallucinogenics Kits.
Herblore: Toxins and Acids
Similar to Poisons and Hallucinogenics, toxins and acids can
be made from a variety of common plants. Somewhat
unwieldy in combat due to their volatility, this is nonetheless a
very important area of herblore. Toxins often go hand-in-hand
with Poisons, while Acids are used for such purposes as
releasing bound characters, throwing at opponents, and for
alchemical and metallurgical work. You gain proficiency in
Herbal Hallucinogenic Kits.
Herblore: Advancing Healing
By 11th far the most commonly-practiced type of Herblore,
the power to heal others is always of use. This second foray
into the field provides more advanced healing techniques,
usable both in combat and outside the arena. Focusing on
healing severe injuries, minor breaks and dislocations, and
even effective for severed limbs when applied quickly enough,
this is essential knowledge for any Herbalist You gain
proficiency in Herbal Advanced Healing Kits.
Herblore: Extra Potency
At 6th Level, the Herbalist's advanced knowledge allows them
to increase the potency of their Herbal Kits. Your Potency
Bonus is equal to half of your Herbalist level, rounded down,
and is added to the roll to create, alter, or use a Herbal Kit.
Healing Kits are more effective at healing, Poison Kits
become deadlier, and Hallucinogenic/Toxic/Acid Kits become
harder to resist. For example, a 7th Level Herbalist would add
+3 to her Herbal Kit healing results, and a 16th Level
Herbalist would add +8 to her Poison Kit usage roll.
Quick Healing
At 14th Level, you have so much practice with applying Herbal
Kits, that you are able to apply/use a Kit as a Move action,
instead of an Action.
Quick Crafting
At 16th Level, you’ve mastered creating Herbal Kits so such a
degree that you’re able to create/alter an Herbal Kit twice as
fast. For example, a 2 hour Crafting decreases to 1 hour.
Herblore: Unique Poisons
By the 18th level, Poisons are always a danger when out in the
wilderness, whether from a venomous creature lurking in the
jungle, or an assassin's poison in your dinner, and it's always a
good idea to have a Poison Kit or two on hand, just in case...
This expert knowledge of Poisons allows creation of
extremely effective remedies, the ability to create deadly and
untraceable Poisons, and techniques for preventing future
Poisonings and diseases. Also prevents accidental self-
poisoning when working with Herbal Poison Kits.
Herblore: Expert Healing
By far the most commonly-practiced type of Herblore, the
power to Heal others is always of use. This third and final
foray at the 19th level into the field provides several high-risk
and high-reward techniques, usable both in combat and
outside the arena. Focusing on healing extreme injuries,
severe breaks and dislocations, severed limbs and burns, this
is essential knowledge for any high-level Herbalist.
Herblore Mastery
Upon reaching 20th Level, the Herbalist is considered to be a
Master of all things related to plants and Herblore. He/She
can Use, Alter, or Create any Herbal Kit at a +3 Bonus. In
addition, the Herbalist can then begin imparting his/her
knowledge to others, providing a +2 Knowledge Bonus to any
student they may take on. As well, the intense knowledge of
Herblore and Herbal Kits allows the Herbalist to recognize
various Kits on sight, as well as fortify themselves from
Herbal Poison, Toxin, Acid, and Hallucinogenic Kits.

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