The Herbalist

The herbalist is a master of creating potions and philters, poultices and pills, using herbs and mushrooms. They know how to use herbs to heal, poison, and push the body beyond normal limits.

Barbarians and Rangers are the most common classes to become herbalists, with their love and knowledge of nature. Bards are a close second, with their encyclopedic knowledge and tidbits of information. Rogues will sometimes study herbs, primarily to gain the use of poisons. Fighters and Paladins that wish to retire from the fray and provide supporting roles occasionally find themselves studying herbal lore, but it is rare.

Hit Dice: d6.

Level Attack Bonus Fort. Save Ref. Save Will Save Special

1 +0 +2 +0 +0 Create Advanced Mixture,
Natural Resistance

2 +1 +3 +0 +0 Terrain Familiarity

3 +1 +3 +1 +1 Herbalist Feat

4 +2 +4 +1 +1 Identify Ingredients

5 +2 +4 +1 +1 Poison Familiarity

6 +3 +5 +2 +2 Herbalist Feat, Sense Poison

7 +3 +5 +2 +2 Preserve Ingredients, Greater Terrain Familiarity

8 +4 +6 +2 +2 Safe Poison Use

9 +4 +6 +3 +3 Herbalist feat

10 +5 +7 +3 +3 Unique Preparation, Natural Immunity

Level	Attack Bonus	Fort. Save	Ref. Save	Will Save	Special
1	+0	+2	+0	+0	Create Advanced Mixture, Natural Resistance
2	+1	+3	+0	+0	Terrain Familiarity
3	+1	+3	+1	+1	Herbalist Feat
4	+2	+4	+1	+1	Identify Ingredients
5	+2	+4	+1	+1	Poison Familiarity
6	+3	+5	+2	+2	Herbalist Feat, Sense Poison
7	+3	+5	+2	+2	Preserve Ingredients, Greater Terrain Familiarity
8	+4	+6	+2	+2	Safe Poison Use
9	+4	+6	+3	+3	Herbalist feat
10	+5	+7	+3	+3	Unique Preparation, Natural Immunity

Spells Per Day Spells Per Day Spells Per Day

Level 1st 2nd 3rd

1st - - -

2nd - - -

3rd 0 - -

4th 0 - -

5th 1 - -

6th 1 0 -

7th 2 0 -

8th 2 1 -

9th 2 1 0

10th 2 2 0

Herbalist Spell List

1st level 2nd level 3rd level

Alarm Snare Green Blockade

Endure Elements Resist Elements Protection From Elements

Detect Plants Speak with plants Control Plants

Entangle Briar Web Plant Growth

Purify Food and Drink Delay Poison Neutralize Poison

Camoflague Obscuring Mist Might of the Oak

Resistance Goodberry Diminish Plants

Know Direction Warp Wood Remove Disease

Pass without Trace Shillelagh Barkskin

	Spells Per Day	Spells Per Day	Spells Per Day
Level	1st	2nd	3rd
1st	-	-	-
2nd	-	-	-
3rd	0	-	-
4th	0	-	-
5th	1	-	-
6th	1	0	-
7th	2	0	-
8th	2	1	-
9th	2	1	0
10th	2	2	0

Herbalist Spell List
1st level	2nd level	3rd level
Alarm	Snare	Green Blockade
Endure Elements	Resist Elements	Protection From Elements
Detect Plants	Speak with plants	Control Plants
Entangle	Briar Web	Plant Growth
Purify Food and Drink	Delay Poison	Neutralize Poison
Camoflague	Obscuring Mist	Might of the Oak
Resistance	Goodberry	Diminish Plants
Know Direction	Warp Wood	Remove Disease
Pass without Trace	Shillelagh	Barkskin

Requirements

To qualify to become a Herbalist, a character must fulfill all of the following criteria:
Alignment: Any.
Knowledge (Nature) or Wilderness Lore: 8 ranks.
Heal: 8 ranks.
Search: 5 ranks.
Con: 13+
Wis: 13+

The Herbalist's class skills (and the key ability for each skill) are: Alchemy (Int), Climb (Str), Craft (Int), Heal (Wis), Herbalism (Wis, Exclusive skill), Intuit Direction (Wis), Jump (Str), Knowledge (Nature) (Int), Search (Int), Swim (Str), Wilderness Lore (Wis) .

Skill Points at each level: 4 + Int modifier.

Class Features

Weapon and Armor Proficiency
Herbalists are not profiecient with any weapons or armor.

Create Advanced Mixture
Beginning at first level, the herbalist gains access to the Herbalism skill (Wis, Exclusive), which allows him to create advanced mixtures - Herbal mixtures with DC of 15+2*Class level can be made.

Natural Resistance
Through long exposure to natural poisons, toxins and the like, the herbalist has learned a number of tricks to avoid their effects. The herbalist can add their wisdom bonus (if any) to their fortitude saves against any natural poison, toxin, etc.

Herbalist Feat
At 3nd level, and every 3 levels thereafter, the herbalist gains one feat from the following list: Skill focus, Substitution*, Master Critic*, Scrounger*, Great Fortitude, Iron Will, Toughness, Dwarf's Toughness, Giant's Toughness, Dragon's Toughness, Athletic, Endurance, Track, Create Infusion, Faster Healing.

Substitution: You are adept and changing out the raw materials of a mixture - if you are forced to substitute for one of the raw materials, your DC is +5, instead of the usual +10.
Master Critic: You are skilled in detecting when your concoctions have gone wrong. Your check to determine success is made at the normal DC, instead of DC +10
Scrounger: You are especially good at finding raw materials. You take half the listed time to locate materials. This only applies if you are using the proper ingredients - substitutes take the normal time.

Terrain Familiarity
At third level, the herbalist chooses one type of terrain (forest, swamp, mountain, etc). The herbalist gains a +2 competency check to spot, search, wilderness lore, and intuit direction rolls in that terrain type. This bonus increases by 1 at 7th level. In addition, if the herbalist spends more than 25% of the time in a designated "Home Range," they get an additional +1 bonus in that range.

Identify Ingredients
The herbalist can make a herbalism check against DC 15 to identify the ingredients of any mixture they encounter. They may make a second check at DC 20 to determine the base ingredients, and a third check at DC 25 to determine the approximate percentages, which would allow them to recreate the mixture. If any of these checks fail, no further checks are allowed.
Alternatively, they can make a check against the creation DC of the mixture to determine what it does.

Poison Familiarity
At fifth level, the herbalist has gained some skill with poisons. The chance to poison yourself is reduced by class level/2.

Sense Poison
The Herbalist has become highly familiar with the scent and taste of natural poisons. When actively trying to detect poisons, the Herbalist may add Herbalist class levels to the check. If not actively seeking them, the Herbalist may make a Herbalism check (DC 20) whenever a poison is within 5 feet to detect it.

Preserve Ingredients
At 7th level, the Herbalist learns how to preserve ingredients and prevent spoiling. With a successful Herbalism check (DC 15), you can preserve ingredients indefinately. This also allows the creation of a Herbalist's Kit.

Greater Terrain Familiarity
The herbalist gains an additional +1 bonus in his favored terrain. He also gains a +1 bonus to hide and move silently rolls in his favored terrain.

Safe Poison Use
The Herbalist can use poison safely, as an assassin. If the herbalist does not have ranks in Craft (Poisonmaking), you can use half your herbalist skill instead.

Natural Immunity
At 10th level, the Herbalist has vast experience with poisons, and is immune to all natural toxins, poisons an the like. He may make a fortitude save (DC 20) to ignore the negative affects of any Herbal Mixture. This is an extraordinary ability.

Unique Preparation
At 10th level, the Herbalist has become intimately famaliar with their craft, and has developed their own unique reciepes. The herbalist can choose one aspect of the receipe, which they can modify as they wish. If a mixture is modified once, the DC stays the same. Multiple changes increase the DC by 5 per change. Each aspect can be changed only once, but a single technique can be applied to different elements of a mixture. Examples of the modifications include:

Doubling the benefits: The herbalist can double the benefits a mixture provides. Woad Powder, which usually gives +1 strength, +2 con, could now provide +2 strength, or +4 con, for the same DC. A Woad Powder which provided +2 strength and +4 con would be at +5 DC. The herbalist cannot make a Woad Powder that would grant +6 con, however.
Halving the penalties: The herbalist can halve the penalties a mixture provides, if they are numeric. Woad Powder, which usually reduces strength by 2 and constitution by 3 after use, could now reduce strength by 1, or constitution by 2.
Doubling the effective time: The herbalist can double the time a mixture provides beneficial effects. Woad Powder, which usually lasts 2d4+2 rounds, could be made to last 4d4+4 rounds.
Halving the penalty duration: Any mixture which has penalties for a duration of time may have that duration halved. A philter of Focus's penalty lasts for 1d8 hours after it wears off. This could be reduced to 1d4.
Increased DC to resist: The herbalist can add his herbalist level to the DC to resist any determintal effects (to a maximum of +10).
Increase Potency: The herbalist can increase the damage caused by acidic or poisonous mixtures by 50%. A contact poison that usually did 1d6 strength damage would now do 1d6+1d3.
Repeated Effects: Any mixture that allows multiple checks (poisons with secondary effects, philters with staggered bonuses, etc), will allow an additional effect, at half power. This effect is spaced the same as the secondary effect. If a poison usually does 2d6 con damage, with a secondary hit of 1d6 ten minutes later, it will now do a third hit of 1d3 ten minutes after that as well. A tincture of Adrenaline, which usually provides +1 strength the first round, and +2 strength the third, now also provides +1 strength the fifth round. This always increases the DC by 5.
Multiple effects: Two or more mixtures maybe combined with this preparation - two existing mixtures maybe combined, at a DC of the highest mixture + 5, or a single mixture can be made from scratch that duplicates the effect of two mixtures. Both checks are made at the relevant DC. Failure on either check ruins the entire mixture.

New Rules for Herbalism
Herbal Mixtures