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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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 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.