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== Expert Archeologist ==

Specializing in the study of forgotten civilizations, ancient places, and uncharted lands, Archaeologists bring the light of knowledge to the dark and deadly places of the world. Doing their best to uncover the wisdom of ages long forgotten, they tend to feel a sad kinship with the civilizations they study and go to great lengths not to destroy or offend their memory. For an Archaeologist, the best way to improve the present is to learn from both the mistakes and innovations of the past.

When you join this Academic Discipline at 3rd level, you gain proficiency and expertise in History and Investigation. If you are already proficient in either skill you gain proficiency in another skill of your choice from the savant skill list.

Also, if you spend 1 minute examining an object you are holding, you can ascertain its value, its civilization of origin, and its approximate age. If it has any magical properties, you learn of them as if you had cast Identify targeting the object.

The places you explore have honed your survival instincts and given you special insight into the workings of ancient magic items. At 3rd level, you gain the following benefits:

*You gain a climbing speed equal to your walking speed.

*When you make an ability check or saving throw that uses your Dexterity, you can add an Intellect Die to your roll.

*You can expend a use of Expert Student to ignore a class, race, or alignment restriction to attune to a magic item.

*You can use a bonus action on your turn to use a magic item that normally takes an action to use.

You are well acquainted with dangerous situations. Starting at 6th level, the target of your Adroit Analysis cannot target you with opportunity attacks. Also, when a creature targets you with an opportunity attack, you can use your reaction to impose disadvantage on its attack roll.

In addition, when you are forced to make a saving throw to resist the effects of a trap, you gain a bonus to your roll equal to your Intelligence modifier (minimum of +1). If a trap allows you to take only half damage on a success, you instead take no damage if you succeed, and only half damage if you fail.

You study every myth, legend, and folk tale you find, knowing that each story is based on a grain of truth. Starting at 13th level, if you observe a person, place, or object for at least 1 hour, you can mystically recall information about the target as if you had cast Legend Lore on it. The target does not need to be of legendary importance for you to gain information.

Starting at 17th level, you only need to observe a person, place, or object for 1 minute in order to use this feature.

==== Supreme Archeolog ====

Your exposure to the magical effects has caused you  

to develop an innate arcane ward. At 17th level, you gain resistance to damage from spells and magical effects.

Also you can spend an action examining a magic item, causing it to regain all of its expended charges. You can only use this feature again once you have finished a long rest.

Excelling at unraveling mysteries and uncovering secrets, Investigators possess an uncanny ability to read the intent of others. They often spend their lives working against those who deceive the innocent and take advantage of the common trust. Their considerable intellect and eye for the truth stand in the way of thieves, shapeshifters, and corrupt politicians.

When you join this Academic Discipline at 3rd level, you gain proficiency and expertise in Insight and Investigation. If you are already proficient in either skill you gain proficiency in another skill of your choice from the savant skill list.

You also have advantage on any ability check you make to detect illusions, shapeshifters, or if a creature is lying to you.

You have learned to fight dirty in the underbelly of the world. Beginning at 3rd level, your weapon attacks against the target of Adroit Analysis score a critical hit on a roll of 19 or 20.

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When you hit the target of Adroit Analysis with an attack, you can expend an Intellect Die and force the target to make a Constitution saving throw against your Investigator save DC (8 + your Proficiency Bonus + your Intelligence Modifier)

On a failed save, it is blinded, deafened, or cannot speak (your choice) for 1 minute. It can repeat the saving throw at the start of each of its turns, ending the effect on a success.

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When you score a critical hit, you use this feature without expending an Intellect Die, and the target has disadvantage on its initial Constitution saving throw.

You have a heightened sense of danger and can use your reflexes to dodge incoming blows. Starting at 6th level, when a creature you can see targets you with an attack, you can impose disadvantage on their attack roll as a reaction. If the triggering attack misses, you can make one weapon attack against the attacker as part of the same reaction.

Your line of work has granted you a unique familiarity with the underbelly of the civilized world. At 6th level, you learn to speak, read, decode, decipher, and write in Thieves' Cant.

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Also, once you spend a long rest in a settlement, you have advantage on any checks you make to gather information on that settlement, its culture, factions, or important figures.

Your eye for the truth has reached near-supernatural levels. At 17th level, you gain Truesight in a 60-foot radius. Though, you cannot see into the Ethereal Plane within this range.

Also, when you, or a creature you can see, hits the target of your Adroit Analysis with a weapon attack, you can use your reaction to turn that attack into an automatic critical hit.

You can use this reaction a number of times equal to your Proficiency Bonus, regaining expended uses when you finish a long rest.

 

When you join this Academic Discipline at 3rd level, you gain proficiency and expertise in Nature and Survival. If you are already proficient in either skill you gain proficiency in another skill of your choice from the savant skill list.

Also, during a long rest, you can spend 1 hour studying and taking notes on your environment. So long as you have these notes, you have advantage on Intelligence or Wisdom checks related to its native animals, plants, weather, and ecosystems.

You have the knowledge and skills to survive and thrive in the wild. Starting at 3rd level, as part of a long rest, you can spend 1 hour gathering materials from the surrounding environment to create one of the following items: 10 feet of rope, a club, a javelin, 1d4 darts, or a net. To use this ability, you need a blade, dagger, or the appropriate artisan's tools.

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You have also learned to set snares. As an action, you can set a snare in an adjacent unoccupied 5-foot space. The first creature that moves into the space must succeed on a Dexterity saving throw against your Naturalist save DC (8 + your Proficiency Bonus + your Intelligence Modifier) or be restrained by your snare.

As an action, the restrained creature can repeat the saving throw, ending the effect on a success. A creature can detect a snare by making a successful Intelligence (Investigation) or Wisdom (Perception) check against your Naturalist save DC.

Starting at 6th level, you can train others to survive in the wild. At the end of each long rest, you, and a number of creatures equal to your Intelligence modifier (minimum of 1 creature), gain one of the following features until the end of your next long rest.

:'''Concealment Training.''' While in natural environments, creatures can move stealthily at a normal pace and have advantage on Dexterity (Stealth) checks they make to hide.

:'''Diver Training.''' Creatures gain a swimming speed equal to their walking speed and can hold their breath underwater for a number of minutes equal to their Constitution modifier + your Intelligence modifier (minimum of 1 minute).

:'''Endurance Training.''' Creatures can ignore the effects of difficult terrain imposed by natural environments and have advantage on saving throws to avoid exhaustion.

:'''Mountaineer Training.''' Creatures gain a climbing speed equal to their walking speed and they reduce any falling damage they take by an amount equal to your savant level.

:'''Resilience Training.''' Creatures have advantage on saving throws to resist the effects of extreme environments and gain resistance to either cold, fire, poison, or thunder damage.

Starting at 13th level, you can tame almost any wild creature. As an action, you can force a beast, plant, or monstrosity that can hear you within 30 feet to make a Wisdom saving throw against your Naturalist save DC or be charmed for 1 hour.

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While charmed, the creature is friendly to you and your allies and shares your turn in combat. As a bonus action, you can issue a simple command to the creature, which it does its best to obey. Once it completes a command it will defend itself to the best of its ability until you command it again.

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Each time the creature takes damage, it can repeat the Wisdom saving throw, ending the charm on a success. If you are within 30 feet of the creature and it can hear you, you can use your reaction to impose disadvantage on its saving throw.

You can only have one creature charmed in this way at a time. Attempting to charm a second creature ends the effect for the first. You may use this feature a number of times equal to your Intelligence modifier (minimum of once), and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

You have become a leading authority on the natural world and can maneuver with comfort in any environment. Upon reaching 17th level, you gain the following benefits:

*Whenever you make an Intelligence check related to an environment you studied as part of Student of Nature, you can substitute your d20 roll with your savant level.

*You gain the benefits of all Improvise, Adapt, and Overcome features.

*Creatures with an Intelligence score of 10 or lower have disadvantage on saving throws to resist Call of the Wild.

*The duration of Call of the Wild increases to 24 hours.