Arcanist

Alignment: Any

Mentorship Ability

Apprentices who study a mentor’s arcanist class levels learns all arcanist spells their mentor has currently prepared, adding them to their list of spells known for the day. The apprentice casts spells learned from an arcanist mentor as arcane spells. Spells cast this way use the apprentice’s Charisma regardless of what ability their mentor uses to modify their spells. This ability does not allow an apprentice to cast spell they cannot learn due to their Charisma score or level. Apprentices treat spells learned this way just as any other spontaneous spell caster would their spells known. Your caster level is equal to your apprentice level, and your save DCs and concentration checks are Charisma-based. You’re considered to have the sorcerer/wizard spell list for purposes of spell completion items and spell trigger items.

Advanced Mentorship Ability

Apprentices who study a mentor’s arcanist class levels and chooses arcanist for their advanced mentorship ability for the day gains the arcanist‘s arcane exploits class feature. The apprentice gains one arcane exploit for every three apprentice levels. The apprentice must select exploits known by his mentor. When determining the effects of the apprentice’s exploits, the apprentice’s effective arcanist level is equal to his apprentice level minus 3. If the exploit requires the spending of arcane reservior points, the arcanist can instead spent an equal number of cooperation points.

Cooperation Power

Key ability: Intelligence

Apprentices who study a mentor’s arcanist class levels and chooses arcanist for their cooperation power may spend a cooperation point as an immediate action when they or an ally casts a spell to increase the caster level of that spell by 1.