As a maker, you gain the following class features.

Hit Points

Hit Dice: 1d10 per maker level

Hit Points at 1st Level: 10 + your Constitution modifier

Hit Points at Higher Levels: 1d10 (or 6) + your Constitution modifier each time you gain a level in this class

Chi Points

Chi Dice: 1d4 per maker level

Chi Points at 1st Level: 4 + your Constitution modifier

Chi Points at Higher Levels: 1d4 (or 3) + your Constitution modifier each time you gain a level in this class 

Proficiencies

Armor: All armor

Weapons: Simple weapons, Martial weapons

Tools: Choose two types of artisan’s tools

Saving Throws: Strength, Intelligence

Skills: Choose three from Chi, Athletics, History, Insight, Intimidation, Investigation, Nature, Persuasion, and Performance

Equipment

You start with the following equipment, in addition to the equipment granted by your background:

• Any martial weapon and a shield
• (a) scale mail, (b) leather armor, or (c) chain mail
• (a) scholar’s pack or (b) explorer’s pack
• Any simple weapon

Familiar Craft

Beginning at 1st level, you have experience forging, altering, selling, and appraising a certain type of item. Your familiarity with the craft allows you to identify and use that type of item with ease.

Choose one type of item that you are familiar with: armor, consumables, scrolls, weapons, wondrous items. When you make an Intelligence or Wisdom check to reveal information related to this type of item, your proficiency bonus is doubled if you are using a skill that you’re proficient in.

            You can expend one chi point or spend an hour or more examining an item to glean the following information from it:

• The item’s age
• The item’s nation of origin
• The item’s creator (or creators)
• The item’s primary use or function
• The item’s approximate value
• Whether or not the item has special properties
• Whether or not the item has been altered or tampered with in any way

            You choose additional familiar item types at 6th and 14th level.

Empowered Craft

You are able to weave powerful energy into the fabric of your crafts, allowing you to create empowered items. At 1st level, you know how to imbue the power of two of the six base ability scores. When you imbue an item with this power, it becomes an empowered item which grants the wearer a +1 bonus to the chosen ability score when activated.

Any creature may make use of your empowered crafts. In order to do so, the creature must be attuned to the item and be able to wear, hold, carry, or otherwise use the item normally. If the item is a weapon or armor, the creature does not need to be proficient with it in order to get its bonus.

To activate your craft, the creature must expend chi points equal to the stat bonus granted by the item. If the creature is in combat, it must use a bonus action to activate the craft. Once an item is activated, the bonus lasts for 1 minute.

As you gain levels in this class, your empowered crafts get stronger and you learn to imbue the power of more ability scores. At 6th, 11th, and 17th level you learn how to imbue one more ability score, and the total bonus that can be given by one of your empowered crafts increases by 1. Thus, at 6th level, your empowered crafts could give a +2 bonus to one ability score, or +1 bonuses to two ability scores.

            Making empowered crafts requires special material whose power is imbued into the item to grant stat bonuses. The crafting process requires you to acquire an amount of these materials worth 50 gold pieces for each +1 bonus granted by an item. The amount of time required to craft, determined by the total value of the item is equal to the cost of the base item plus the cost of the bonus material.

For general rules on crafting requirements, see the “Crafting” section of chapter 8.

Crafter

Starting at 2nd level, the speed with which you are able to craft items is dependent on your familiarity and knowledge of the craft, and you are able to make crafts with any artisan’s tools, even if you are not proficient.

You can add half your proficiency bonus, rounded down, to any ability check you make with artisan’s tools that don’t already include your proficiency bonus.

If you are not proficient with the tools you are using for a craft, you make progress on the craft at the normal rate of 5 gold pieces per day. When you are using artisan’s tools that you are proficient with, the rate increases to 5 x your Intelligence modifier (minimum of 1).

This rate assumes that you work on the craft for 4 hours each day. If you do not have a full day to work on the craft, you can divide your daily rate by 4 to determine your hourly rate of progress.

Fighting Style

At 2nd level, you adopt a particular style of fighting as your specialty. Choose one of the following options. You can’t take a Fighting Style option more than once, even if you later get to choose again.

Defense

While you are in stance or wearing armor, you gain a +1 bonus to AC.

Endurance

Unless you are unconscious, you regain 1 hit point at the end of each of your turns in combat.

Grappling

You are able to wear down enemies you have grappled. When a creature that you are grappling uses their action to attempt to escape your grasp, they lose 1 chi point.

Power

When you roll a 1 or 2 on a damage die for an attack you make with a melee weapon that you are wielding with two hands, or a bending move that requires two hands, you can reroll the die and must use the new roll. If you are using a weapon, it must have the two-handed or versatile property for you to gain this benefit.

Protection

When a creature that you can see attacks a target other than you that is within 5 feet of you, you can use your reaction to impose disadvantage on the attack roll. You must be in your stance or wearing a shield. 

Two-Handed

When you engage in two-weapon fighting or use a bending move with your offhand, you can add your ability modifier to the damage of the second attack. 

Expertise

At 3rd level, choose two of your skill or tool proficiencies, or one of each. Your proficiency bonus is doubled for any check you make that uses either of the chosen proficiencies.

If the chosen proficiency is an artisan’s tool, your crafting speed is doubled with that tool. Thus, if you have expertise with an artisan’s tool, you make progress on crafts using that tool at a daily rate of 10 x your Intelligence modifier (minimum of 1).

            At 10th level, you can choose another two proficiencies to gain this bonus.

Artisan Guild

At 3rd level, you earn the right to join an artisan guild of your choice: the Guild of Elemental Inventors, the Guild of Empowered Armorers or the Guild of Traditional Crafters, each of which is detailed at the end of the class description. Your choice grants you features at 3rd level and again at 7th, 10th and 18th level.

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.

Extra Attack

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

Extra Item

Beginning at 9th level, your familiarity with empowered items allows you to attune to an extra item, raising the maximum number of empowered items that you are allowed to benefit from to four.

The number of empowered items you can attune to increases to five at 13th level, and to six when you reach 17th level.

Deft Hands

By 11th level, the motions of your craft have become second nature, further accelerating the speed with which you are able to complete your work.

When you make crafts using artisan’s tools you are not proficient with, you make progress at a rate of 10 gold pieces per day. If you are proficient with the artisan’s tools you are working with, your daily rate increases to 10 x your Intelligence modifier (minimum of 1) gp per day.

            If you have expertise with an artisan’s tool, your daily crafting rate with that tool quickens even further to 20 x your Intelligence modifier (minimum of 1).

Timeless Relic

Starting at 15th level, your extraordinary craftsmanship makes items you craft nearly indestructible. Your empowered crafts are considered Artifacts which cannot be damaged or destroyed by normal weapons, and do not degrade over time.

            Additionally, when you die, a portion of your chi is distributed to each of your empowered items. When this happens, the item obtains its own, self-sustaining energy source, allowing it to provide its ability score bonus constantly and indefinitely.

Master Crafter

At 20th level, you become a true master of your craft when you learn imbue an item with the full power of its enhancement. You are able to make empowered crafts that increase the ability score of the creature holding it to 20 when activated. These crafts cost 5 chi points to activate.