Runesmith Class

From the Impossible Playtest, a warrior scholar who wields a repertoire of runic magic. ⚠️ Partial compatibility with levels 10+. ⚠️ How Runesmith Works In a nutshell, the Runesmith is a martial class mixed with a Runic Repertoire. During combat, you temporarily Trace these runes onto the rune's target (e.g. a creature or a weapon), which confers passive effects like "Reduced fire resistance". As a separate action, you can Invoke one or more runes to activate effects like "The rune-bearer makes a Fortitude save vs fire damage", which consumes the rune in the process. These runes can be Traced an unlimited number of times, so the Runesmith is about mixing Strikes with maximizing the passive and invocation effects of their runes. Runes are to the Runesmith what Impulses are to the Kineticist. Disclaimer: the Runesmith's runes are unrelated to the runes from the shop. You are not tracing a +1 Weapon Potency rune in the middle of combat. Class Features Key Attribute Intelligence Perception trained Offenses up to martial weapons Defenses 8 HP, up to medium armor; trained Reflex, expert Fortitude & Will Skills 2 + Crafting + 1 of Arcana/Nature/Occultism/Religion + Intelligence Level 1: Runic Repertoire (4 runes), Trace Rune, Invoke Rune, Etch Rune (2 runes), Runesmith feat, Shield Block Level 2: Runesmith feat, Runic Crafter Level 3: General feat, skill increase, additional rune known (level 1) Level 4: Runesmith feat Level 5: Attribute boosts, ancestry feat, skill increase, Smith's Weapon Expertise (expert in unarmed/simple/martial weapons), additional rune known (level 1), Etch Rune (3 runes) Level 6: Runesmith feat Level 7: General feat, Runic Optimization, additional rune known (level 1) Level 8: Runesmith feat Level 9: Assured Runic Crafter, additional rune known (level 9), Etch Rune (4 runes) Class Feats (1st) Backup Runic Enhancement, Engraving Strike, Remote Detonation, Rune-Singer (2nd) Fortifying Knock, Invisible Ink, Runic Tattoo, Smithing Weapons Familiarity*