Scientist (Smart Hero)

Monster movies aren’t as scary as real life. Nature has had extensive time and practice in creating ways to kill you.|Dr. Margaret Wellington

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Your mastery of the sciences is normally applied in the lab, making new discoveries and advancing human knowledge. But when lives are on the line, you are ready to demonstrate that knowledge truly is power.

A scientist’s plans are themed around biology and chemistry to damage enemies and aid allies. They are a great choice if you want to play a support role in combat or to tend to the injuries of other heroes. They are one of the more highly skilled classes with a range of expertise available to them.

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Proficiencies

Saving Throws: Constitution and Intelligence

Skills: Choose three from Computers, Investigation, Mechanics, Medicine, Natural Sciences, Security, and Social Sciences

Equipment: None

Scientific Expertise: Choose two from Computers, Mechanics, Medicine, and Natural Sciences. You must be proficient in a skill to gain expertise in that skill.

Equipment Recommendations

Equipment Pack: Scientist Pack

Weapons: None

Scientist Level Up

Level	Talents
1	Dangerous Stuff
3	Plans improve
5	Hazardous Stuff, Plans Improve
7	Plans Improve
9	Deadly Stuff, Plans Improve

Scientist Talents

Dangerous Stuff (Level 1). You can use leftover science materials to attack your enemies. As an action, you can make an attack with this dangerous stuff. The statistics of this weapon are shown below.

Your attack bonus for this attack is your Intelligence modifier + your proficiency bonus. Your damage bonus is equal to your Intelligence modifier.

You have an effectively unlimited supply of dangerous stuff. As a bonus action, you can change the damage type of this weapon until the end of combat to your choice of acid, cold, electricity, explosive, fire, or poison.

Hazardous Stuff (Level 5). The damage of your dangerous stuff improves to 2d6. Its PV becomes 2.

Deadly Stuff (Level 9). The damage of your dangerous stuff improves to 3d6. Its PV becomes 3.

Thrown Weapon	Damage	Range	Rounds	Reload	PV	Properties	Price Level	Bulk
Level 1: Dangerous Stuff	1d6*	40/80	—	—	1	Thrown	—	—
Level 5: Hazardous Stuff	2d6*	40/80	—	—	2	Thrown	—	—
Level 9: Deadly Stuff	3d6*	40/80	—	—	3	Thrown	—	—

* damage may be acid, cold, electricity, explosive, fire, or poison

Scientist Plans

Your Smart Hero level determines the number of plans you know, as shown in the Plans column of the Smart Hero table. Scientists can select from these plans in addition to the shared plans available to all Smart Heroes.

Adrenaline Shot

As an action, you can enact this plan to inject yourself or a willing or Unconscious ally within 5 feet of you with an adrenaline shot you prepared earlier. The target gains temporary hit points equal to 1d6 + your Intelligence modifier. If they were at 0 hit points, they also regain 1 hit point.

Plan Enhancements:

Level 3: The target gains temporary hit points equal to 2d6 + your Intelligence modifier.
Level 5: The target gains temporary hit points equal to 4d6 + your Intelligence modifier. Alternatively, instead of granting temporary hit points, you can inject an ally who died within the last round. That ally returns to life with 1 hit point.
Level 7: The target gains temporary hit points equal to 6d6 + your Intelligence modifier.
Level 9: The target gains temporary hit points equal to 8d6 + your Intelligence modifier. Alternatively, instead of granting temporary hit points, you can inject an ally who died within the last minute. That ally returns to life with 1 hit point.

Can Of Whoop Ass

As an action, you can enact this plan to provide yourself or a willing ally within 5 feet of you with a chemical agent of your own making that provides the following benefits for the next minute.

The target’s movement speed is increased by 10 feet.
The target gains advantage on Strength checks and Strength saving throws.
The target gains a +2 bonus to all damage rolls they make.
Plan Enhancements:
Level 3: You can affect a target up to 60 feet away, either by shooting a dart at them or because you slipped them a vial earlier.
Level 5: You can affect up to two targets with this plan.
Level 7: The targets also ignore the effects of Exhaustion and have advantage on Constitution (Endurance) checks for the duration.
Level 9: The targets also gains advantage on all attack rolls for the duration.

I Have The Cure

When you enact this plan as an action, you can administer a prepared curative agent to yourself or one living ally within 5 feet of you, ending either one illness or one condition afflicting the target. Applicable conditions include Blinded, Deafened, Paralyzed, Sickened, and all levels of Intoxication.

Plan Enhancements:

Level 3: You can affect a living ally within 60 feet of you, by shooting them with a dart or because you already gave them the cure to hold on to.
Level 5: For the next 8 hours, the target also gains damage reduction 10 against poison and has advantage on saving throws against poison, illness, and any effect that would inflict the Blinded, Deafened, Paralyzed, or Sickened conditions.
Level 7: You can affect up to two living allies.
Level 9: Instead of the usual effects, you can reduce a target’s Exhaustion level by up to three.

Inferno Bomb

As an action, you can enact this plan to throw a rigged incendiary explosive at a point up to 80 feet away. Each combatant within 20 feet of that point must make a Dexterity saving throw against your plan DC, taking 4d6 fire damage (ignoring armor) on a failed save, or half as much on a successful one. A target who fails this save is also Burning, taking 1d6 fire damage at the start of each of its turns instead of the normal amount. The DC to extinguish the fire is your plan DC.

Plan Enhancements:

Level 3: The initial damage becomes 5d6. You can choose to affect all targets within 30 feet of the chosen point.
Level 5: The initial damage becomes 6d6. The damage from Burning becomes 2d6.
Level 7: The initial damage becomes 7d6. You can choose to affect all targets within 40 feet of the chosen point.
Level 9: The initial damage becomes 8d6. The damage from Burning becomes 3d6.

Knockout Gas

As an action, you can enact this plan to throw a canister of gas that induces unconsciousness. The gas can affect a number of hit points’ worth of combatants equal to 3d8 + 10. You can target a location up to 80 feet away as the center of the effect. Each combatant within 20 feet of the target location is potentially affected. Combatants wearing a gas mask or similar protective gear are not affected.

Starting with the combatant who has the lowest current hit points, each combatant affected by the gas falls Unconscious for 10 minutes, or until the sleeper takes damage or someone uses an action to shake or slap the sleeper awake. Subtract each combatant’s hit points from the total before moving on to the combatant with the next lowest hit points. A combatant’s hit points must be equal to or less than the remaining total for that combatant to be affected.

Plan Enhancements:

Level 3: The total hit points affected is 5d8 + 10. The unconsciousness lasts for 1 hour if the sleeper is not damaged or shaken awake.
Level 5: The total hit points affected is 7d8 + 15. Your allies cannot be affected by the gas due to the antidote you gave them.
Level 7: The total hit points affected is 9d8 + 20. The unconsciousness lasts for 8 hours if the sleeper is not damaged or shaken awake.
Level 9: The total hit points affected is 11d8 + 25. You can choose to affect all targets within 30 feet of the chosen point.

Right Into My Trap

When you enact this plan as an action, choose an opponent within 120 feet that you can see. They have set off the sticky web trap you placed earlier, knowing they would blunder into it at this moment. The target must make a Dexterity saving throw against your plan DC or become Restrained for 1 hour.

A Restrained target can use their action to attempt to break free by making a Strength check against your plan DC, ending the effect on a successful check.

Plan Enhancements:

Level 3: You can choose to affect everyone within 5 feet of the target. During a foot chase, you can affect up to two opponents.
Level 5: You can choose to affect everyone within 10 feet of the target. You can choose to exclude any number of targets in the area.
Level 7: You can choose to affect everyone within 20 feet of the target. During a foot chase, you can affect up to three opponents.
Level 9: Targets have disadvantage on Strength checks to escape the trap.

Smokescreen

As an action, you can enact this plan to throw a smoke bomb, creating a 20-foot-radius sphere of smoke centered on a point within 80 feet. The sphere spreads around corners, and its area has no visibility. It lasts for 1 hour or until a wind of moderate or greater speed (at least 10 miles per hour) disperses it.

Plan Enhancements:

Level 3: You can increase the radius of the sphere to 40 feet.
Level 5: You can cause the smoke to be noxious. If you do, each combatant who is completely within the smoke at the start of its turn must make a Constitution saving throw against your plan DC. On a failed save, the combatant becomes Sickened until the start of their next turn. While Sickened, a combatant spends their action during their turn retching and reeling. Combatants wearing a gas mask or similar protective gear are not affected.
Level 7: You can increase the radius of the sphere to 60 feet.
Level 9: You can cause the smoke to be poisonous. When a combatant enters the smoke for the first time on a turn or starts their turn there, that combatant must make a Constitution saving throw against your plan DC. The combatant takes 5d8 poison damage (ignoring armor) on a failed save, or half as much on a successful one. Combatants wearing a gas mask or similar protective gear are not affected. If you cause the smoke to be both noxious and poisonous, combatants must make a single Constitution saving throw against both effects.

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