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 ====== Savant ======
+Warriors rely on their physical prowess, and spellcasters have all
+manner of magic, but a savant needs no weapon or armor, only their
+mind. Brilliant ingenuity, meticulous planning, or keen deductions
+will win them the day and leave their enemies confused at how they
+were defeated.
+Of course, you’d have to be a fool to not use weapons, armor, or
+magic when they’re available, and savants are no fools. Knowledge
+is power, but power is also power. A savant is at their most effective
+when they have an array of tools at their disposal and an assort-
+ment of allies to enact their cunning schemes.
+==== Creating a Savant ====
+Consider why your character relies on wits instead of warcraft or
+wizardry. Were they physically feeble and had to think their way
+out of challenges? Did they receive a refined education and learn
+from history and literature how to deal with all manner of unlikely
+scenarios? Have they just picked up these talents on the job, per-
+haps working a trade or serving as a guard?
+==== Quick Build ====
+Your highest ability score should be Intelligence, followed by Dex-
+terity. Get proficiency in Deception, Investigation, and Perception,
+plus disguise kits. Choose the Vanguard archetype, and choose
+proficiency with Culture, light armor, blowguns, pistols, scimitars,
+and whips. Learn the tricks Antagonizing Flourish, Improved Bas-
+tion Aegis, and Unbalancing Intervention. Learn the clever scheme
+Impromptu Persona.
 ===== Class features =====
-^ Level ^ Features ^ Trick Known ^ SchemesKnown ^
+^ Level ^ Features ^ Tricks Known ^ Schemes Known ^
 | 1 | Adroit defense, archetype, clever schemes, savant tricks | 3 | 1 |
 | 2 | archetype Feature, Combat Poise | 4 | 1 |
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 Once you use this feature, you must finish a short or long rest
 before you can use it again.
+===== Savant Schemes =====
+You can choose from among the following talents that help with
+exploration.
+==== Apothecary Basics ====
+Whenever you take a short or long rest, you can use your medical
+knowledge to treat one creature. That creature can heal as if it had
+one extra 1d4 hit die during this rest, or it can ignore one level of
+fatigue for the next four hours.
+==== Deductive Tracker ====
+After observing a creature, however briefly, you make a deduction
+that gives you an edge when pursuing it. After you spend at least 1
+minute observing a creature, you gain an expertise die on checks
+made to track that specific creature.
+==== Hostilia Naturae ====
+Following the path trod by Drakran naturalist Karl Evol, author of
+A Theory of Noetic Field Adaptation Toward Terrifyingness Among Malice
+Ecologies, you have studied the many perils of wild flora and fauna.
+You gain an expertise die on checks to avoid, locate, or understand
+the abilities of aberrations, beasts, and monstrosities.
+==== Impromptu Persona ====
+You do not need preparation to come up with a convincing fake
+persona, background, and excuse to cover anything suspicious you
+are doing. You can gain advantage on Deception checks to pretend
+to be someone else. However, the ruse won’t hold up to prolonged
+scrutiny. If you spend more than a few minutes in someone’s pres-
+ence, you must make a new Deception check with disadvantage to
+maintain the ruse.
+==== Just What Have We Gotten Ourselves Into? ====
+When you are ambushed, you gain an expertise die on your initia-
+tive check. When you trigger a trap, you gain an expertise die on the
+first saving throw you need to make, or to your AC against the first
+attack the trap makes against you. After you use this ability, you
+cannot use it again until you complete a short rest.
+==== Kleptology ====
+When a creature makes a melee attack against you or otherwise
+touches you, you can make a Sleight of Hand check against them as
+a reaction. Additionally, when you spend at least a minute interact-
+ing with someone within arm’s reach, you gain an expertise die on
+Sleight of Hand checks involving them until the interaction ends.
+==== Local Informants ====
+You quickly can locate people willing to share information. If you
+spend an hour reaching out to local residents or simply perusing
+a recent periodical or newspaper, for the next day you gain an ex-
+pertise die on Culture and Investigation checks related to the area.
+==== Meeting of Minds ====
+You gain an expertise die on Charisma checks with Arcana, History,
+Nature, or Religion when trying to interact with someone who is
+trained in the same skill.
+==== Motto of the Tropezaros ====
+You make sure you’re always prepared. Once per short rest you
+can produce a non-magical item that you could have purchased
+or prepared at some point, small enough to fit in whatever storage
+you have available. This could range from a forged passport in your
+pocket to a glider stowed in the hold of a ship you’re traveling on.
+Pay the appropriate price for it. Limits of causality apply.
+==== Physical Education ====
+Once per hour, when you succeed on an Acrobatics or Athletics
+check to climb, swim, or jump you can offer advice and encourage-
+ment to your allies. For the next minute, each ally who attempts a
+check to traverse the same area gains an expertise die.
+==== Read You Like a Spellbook ====
+You can spend an action to make an Arcana check against the save
+DC of a creature’s spell. If you succeed, you deduce from their de-
+meanor, fashion, and accoutrements what cantrips they know and
+the last non-cantrip spell it cast, if any.
+==== Reinforce Apotropaics ====
+Apotropaics (page 82) are specific items that can repel or harm
+certain creatures, like bells driving away fiends. You can spend an
+action to reinforce an apotropaic you are touching for one day.
+If you brandish a reinforced apotropaic to repel a creature, add
+an expertise die to your opposed Charisma check. If a creature
+tries to bypass the repellent effect of a reinforced apotropaic bar-
+rier (like an undead crossing a line of salt), add an expertise die
+to the flat DC the creature must overcome. If a reinforced item is
+used to harm a creature (like jade dust against an aberration), you
+can also make an opposed Charisma check to repel that creature
+without needing to spend a separate action (and you add an exper-
+tise die to your check).
+==== Reserved Seating ====
+You have forethought of when and where you might need to be
+places. If you knew you would be in a given area, once per day you
+can call upon this forethought to have a vehicle or mount waiting
+for you and your companions, or to have a reservation available at a
+venue. You pay any appropriate costs. For exceptional requests, you
+may need to make a Persuasion check or owe someone a favor.
+==== Run Silent, Run Deep ====
+Once per hour, when you succeed on a Stealth check you can
+discreetly direct your allies. For the next minute, each ally who at-
+tempts a check to traverse the same area gains an expertise die.
+When moving through an area you’re familiar with or have had
+time to study maps of, you gain an expertise die on Stealth checks.
+==== Student of Technology ====
+You instead gain an expertise die on Engineering checks and when
+using tools to build, repair, or understand a technological device.
+Unstable Poison
+You gain an expertise die on checks made with the poisoner’s kit.
+You learn the recipe for creating basic poison. During a short or long
+rest, you can brew one poison for which you have the recipe without
+spending gold or using ingredients. This version of the poison lasts
+until your next short or long rest.