This ability replaces the magus’s regular spellcasting ability.Īlchemical Pool (Su): At 1st level, a reservoir of arcane energy that he can use as a catalyst to create his unique weapon blanches and other alchemical items. An alchemic knight does not need to decipher arcane writings before copying them. A wizard or magus, however, cannot learn spells from a formula book. In addition, he receives bonus extracts per day if he has a high Intelligence score.Īn alchemic knight can study a wizard’s or magus’s spellbook to learn any formula that is equivalent to a spell the spellbook contains. His base daily allotment of extracts is given on Table: Alchemic Knight. He must hold the potion for 1 round to make such a check.Īn alchemic knight can create only a certain number of extracts of each level per day. In addition, an alchemic knight can use Craft (alchemy) to identify potions as if using detect magic. When using Craft (alchemy) to create an alchemical item, an alchemic knight gains a competence bonus equal to his class level on the Craft (alchemy) check.
Weapon and Armor Proficiency: The alchemic knight is proficient with all simple and martial weapons, with light armor, but not with shields.Īlchemy: At 1st level, an alchemic knight gains the alchemist’s alchemy ability and can create mundane alchemical substances and extracts, but not bombs or mutagens. The alchemic knight gains a number of ranks at each level equal to 2 + Int modifier. Bonus Skills and Ranks: The alchemic knight may select three alchemist skills to add to his class skills in addition to the normal magus class skills.