Archetypes

Beastmorphs study the anatomy of monsters, learning how they achieve their strange powers.

ReplacesSwift Alchemy, Swift Poisoning, Poison Resistance +1

An alchemist who studies anatomy and uses this knowledge to heal is a chirurgeon.

ReplacesPoison Use, Poison Resistance

Clone masters practice duplicating existing creatures in order to better understand how to create new life.

ReplacesBomb, Poison Resistance

Ectochymists study the effects of alchemy on soul and spirit, focusing on fighting ghosts and other incorporeal creatures.

ReplacesBomb, Poison Resistance, Poison Use +1

A vine leshy alchemist who casts by Wisdom, brews druidic extracts, and pelts foes with leshy seedpods instead of bombs.

ReplacesThrow Anything, Bomb, Poison Use +1

An alchemist who cultivates plants and plant creatures, brewing summoning extracts, fine-tuned herbal bombs, and a plant familiar.

ReplacesMutagen, Poison Resistance, Poison Use +1

An alchemist of the frozen wastes whose bombs deal cold, who sweats off cold damage, and who starts with the frost bomb discovery.

ReplacesPoison Resistance

An internal alchemist studies medicine, diet, and the living body to purify the self in the hope of gaining immortality by means of alchemical concoctions and controlling vital energy.

ReplacesThrow Anything, Swift alchemy, Swift poisoning

While most alchemists use mutagens to boost their physical ability at the cost of mental ability, some use alchemy for the opposite purpose—to boost the power of the mind and memory.

ReplacesMutagen, Poison Use

Some alchemists are obsessed with collecting and preserving exotic creatures.

ReplacesPoison Use, Poison Resistance, Persistent Mutagen

A psychonaut uses his knowledge to explore altered states of consciousness and even other planes of existence.

ReplacesBomb, Poison Resistance

Some alchemists create mutagens that tap into a primal anger that fuels their physical transformation.

ReplacesPoison Use, Swift Poisoning, Poison Resistance

A reanimator is an alchemist who has discovered how to infuse a corpse with a semblance of life.

ReplacesBomb

A vivisectionist studies bodies to better understand their function.

ReplacesBomb

An arcanist who empowers transmutation spells — boosting ability-score and natural-armor bonuses and extending personal transmutations to allies — in place of magical supremacy and two exploits.

ReplacesMagical Supremacy

A good-aligned arcanist of a halcyon magic hall who radiates an aura of good, borrows druid and good-cleric spells, and gains Spell Mastery, in place of four exploits.

An arcanist who trades prepared spells for extra spell slots and can overcharge a spell or exploit at the cost of fatigue, in place of magical supremacy and three exploits.

ReplacesMagical Supremacy

An arcanist who adds planar ally spells to her list and spends arcane reservoir points to summon ever-stronger monsters, in place of magical supremacy and two exploits.

ReplacesMagical Supremacy

An arcanist who reads the harrow to refuel her reservoir, learns divination spells from any class, and deals allies cards of fate; replaces consume spells and two exploits, adds three class skills and Psychic Sensitivity.

ReplacesConsume Spells

A necromancer arcanist who drains the dying to refuel her reservoir, must prepare necromancy spells daily, and gains a lashing arcane barrier and power over the moment of death, in place of consume spells and an exploit.

ReplacesConsume Spells