Alchemist Discoveries

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Discoveries

Unless otherwise noted, an alchemist cannot select an individual discovery more than once. Some discoveries can only be made if the alchemist has met certain prerequisites first, such as uncovering other discoveries. Discoveries that modify bombs that are marked with an asterisk (*) do not stack. Only one such discovery can be applied to an individual bomb. The DC of any saving throw called for by a discovery is equal to 10 + 1/2 the alchemist’s level + the alchemist’s Intelligence modifier.

Discovery	Prerequisites	Benefits	Source
Acid Bomb*	-	Deal acid damage with your bombs	APG
Alchemical Simulacrum	Alchemist 8	Create a lesser simulacrum	UM
Alchemical Zombie	Alchemist 8	Create zombie as if created by animate dead	UM
Blinding Bomb*	Alchemist 8	Blind enemies with your bombs	UM
Bottled Ooze	Alchemist 6	Preserve an ooze so it can be summoned later	UM
Breath Weapon Bomb*	Alchemist 6	You can use a bomb as a breath weapon	UC
Celestial Poisons	Alchemist 8	You can make poisons which affect undead and evil outsiders (which are normally immune to poisons.)	CoP
Chameleon	-	Your skin changes colors, granting you a bonus on Stealth checks	ARG
Change Alignment	Alchemist 12, infusion discovery	Once/day brew an infusion which changes drinkers alignment to good for 10 min./alchemist level (unwilling drinkers gain save to resist.)	CoP
Cognatogen	-	Increase a mental score and decrease a physical score	UM
Combine Extracts	Alchemist 8	Use two formulae at once	APG
Concentrate Poison	-	Combine two poisons for increased effect	APG
Concussive Bomb*	Alchemist 6	Deal sonic damage with your bombs	APG
Confusion Bomb*	Alchemist 8	Cause confusion with your bombs	UM
Deadly Excretions	Alchemist 8	Your toxic skin poison deals Constitution damage	ARG
Defoliant Bomb	-	You can create a bomb that deals extra damage to plant creatures	ARG
Delayed Bomb	Alchemist 8	You can choose to delay the explosion of your bombs	APG
Demolition Charge*	Alchemist 8	When you create a bomb, you can choose to have it deal damage to an object as if by a sunder combat maneuver.	DHB
Dilution	Alchemist 12	Create two doses of a potion or elixir from one set of ingredients	APG
Directed Bomb	-	Cause bombs to splash in a 15-ft. cone instead of a 5-foot burst	MM
Dispelling Bomb	Alchemist 6	Dispel magic with your bombs	APG
Doppelganger Simulacrum	Alchemist 10, alchemical simulacrum	Create a temporary body	UM
Elemental Mutagen	-	Whenever you imbibe a mutagen, you gain resistance to an energy type and a competence bonus on an associated skill check.	MM
Elixir of Life	Alchemist 16	Create an elixir that can cast true resurrection	APG
Enhance Potion	-	Cause potions to be more powerful	APG
Eternal Potion	Alchemist 16, extend potion	Cause a potion to become permanent	APG
Explosive Bomb*	-	Your bombs gain an increased area of effect	APG
Explosive Missile	Alchemist 4	Infuse a piece of ammunition with a bomb	UC
Extend Potion	-	Potions you drink last longer	APG
Fast Bombs	Alchemist 8	You can throw multiple bombs in a round	APG
Feral Mutagen	-	Gain two claw attacks and a bite attack	APG
Fire Brand	Goblin	Use a bomb to set your weapon on fire	ARG
Force Bomb*	Alchemist 8	Deal force damage with your bombs	APG
Frost Bomb*	-	Deal cold damage with your bombs	APG
Grand Cognatogen	Alchemist 16, greater cognatogen	Increase mental scores and decrease physical scores	UM
Grand Mutagen	Alchemist 16, greater mutagen	Increase physical scores and decrease mental scores	APG
Grease Bomb*	Alchemist 6	When you create a bomb, you can choose to have it create a grease slick upon detonation.	DHB
Greater Plague Bomb	Alchemist 16, plague Bomb, smoke Bomb	Your smoke bombs spread a deadly disease	ARG
Greater Alchemical Simulacrum	Alchemist 14, alchemical simulacrum	Create a simulacrum	UM
Greater Cognatogen	Alchemist 12, cognatogen	Increase mental scores and decrease physical scores	UM
Greater Mutagen	Alchemist 12	Increase physical scores and decrease mental scores	APG
Healing Bomb*	-	When you create a bomb, you can choose to have it heal damage instead of dealing it.	MM
Healing Touch	Alchemist 6, spontaneous healing	Heal other creatures with a touch	UM
Holy Bombs*	Alchemist 8	Bombs you create can deal good divine damage.	CoP
Immolation Bomb*	Alchemist 3	Deal damage over time with your bombs	UC
Inferno Bomb*	Alchemist 16, smoke bomb	Create an incendiary cloud effect with your bombs	APG
Infuse Mutagen	-	You can have multiple mutagens prepared	APG
Infusion	-	Your extracts can be used by others	APG
Lingering Plague	Alchemist 8	Creatures have to save more often against your disease-causing bombs	ARG
Lingering Spirit	Alchemist 4	You can take more damage before being killed	UM
Madness Bomb	Alchemist 12	Deal Wisdom damage with your bombs	APG
Malignant Poison	Alchemist 10	As a full-round action, you can increase the save DC of any poison and increase its duration	DHB
Mummification	Alchemist 10, preserve organs	Gain mummy-like immunities	UM
Mutagen	-	Increase physical scores and decrease mental scores	UM
Nauseating Flesh	Alchemist 12	Anything that bites the alchemist is nauseated	UC
Parasitic Twin	Vestigial Arm (2)	You can reroll your saves against certain mental effects	UM
Plague Bomb*	Alchemist 8, smoke bomb	Duplicate the effects of contagion with your bombs	UM
Poison Bomb*	Alchemist 12, smoke bomb	Duplicate the effects of cloudkill with your bombs	APG
Poison Conversion	Alchemist 6	You can convert one form of poison to another form	UC
Precise Bombs	-	Choose which squares are missed by your bomb's splash damage	APG
Preserve Organs	-	Sneak attacks and critical hits are less likely to do damage	UM
Psychoactive Bomb*	Alchemist 6	Your bombs make it easier to manipulate others	BotM
Rag Doll Mutagen	Goblin	Your body becomes rubbery and easy to contort	ARG
Ranged Baptism	Alchemist 4	You can use holy water as a splash weapon and any squares subject to its effects (including creatures affected by splash damage) or that contain creatures subject to its effects are also affected as if by the consecrate spell.	CoP
Rocket Bomb	Goblin, Alchemist 6th	Create bombs with less accuracy but more ka-boom!	ARG
Sandstone Solution	-	Use a potion to make sand or dirt as hard as stone.	PoS
Scrap Bomb	Goblin	Your bombs create shrapnel and cause bleed damage	ARG
Shock Bomb*	-	Deal electricity damage with your bombs	APG
Siege Bomb*	Alchemist 12, explosive bomb	Deal bomb damage with siege weapons	UC
Smoke Bomb*	-	Create a fog cloud effect with your bombs	APG
Spontaneous Healing	-	You can heal more rapidly	UM
Sticky Bomb	Alchemist 10	Deal splash damage one extra round	APG
Sticky Poison	Alchemist 6	Poison applied to a weapon lasts longer	APG
Stink Bomb*	Smoke bomb	Create a stinking cloud effect with your bombs	APG
Strafe Bomb	-	Your bomb splash damage affects a line	UM
Sunlight Bomb*	Alchemist 10, blinding bomb	Create a bright sunlight effect with your bombs	UM
Tanglefoot Bomb*	-	Entangle foes with your bombs	UM
Tentacle	-	Gain an extra limb	UM
Tumor Familiar	-	Gain a familiar that is part of the alchemist's body	UM
Underwater Demolition	-	You can create and throw bombs underwater	ARG
Vestigial Arm	-	Gain an extra arm	UM
Wings	Alchemist 6	Gain wings that let you fly	UM

• Note! Discoveries marked with an asterisk (*) do not stack—only one such discovery may be applied to a single bomb.*

Grand Discoveries

Grand Discovery	Prerequisites	Benefits	Source
Acidic Blood	Acid Bomb	The alchemist's blood turns to acid permanently.	EP
Alchemical Abomination	True Mutagen, Alchemist 23	You improve your mutagen further	EP
Atonal	Sonic Bomb	The alchemist gains immunity to Sonic damage. The alchemist is not affected by mundane hazardous effects brought on by sonic environments. The alchemist's voice becomes monotone and his movements seem to echo (or another fitting physical change).	EP
Awakened Intellect	-	The alchemist’s constant exposure to strange chemicals has expanded his mind. His Intelligence score permanently increases by 2 points.	EP
Carpet Bomber	Breath Weapon Bomb, Explosive Bombs	Instead of splash damage, you now do the full damage of the bomb to all creatures within a thirty foot spread of the targeted square.	EP
Caustic Temperament	Acid Bomb	The alchemist gains acid immunity.	EP
Change Alignment, Greater	Change Alignment, Infusion	The effects of the alchemist's change alignment infusion become permanent and can only be reversed by a wish or miracle.	EP
Corrosive Grasp	Philosopher's Stone	An alchemist’s melee touch attacks cause an unattended metal object to swiftly rust and corrode.	EP
Eternal Youth	-	The alchemist has discovered a cure for aging, and from this point forward he takes no penalty to his physical ability scores from advanced age. If the alchemist is already taking such penalties, they are removed at this time. Furthermore, the alchemist cannot be magically aged, even temporarily.	EP
Fast Healing	-	The alchemist’s flesh responds to damage with shocking speed—he gains fast healing 5.	EP
Gaussian	Shock Bomb	The alchemist gains electricity immunity.	EP
Heart of Ice	Frost Bomb	The alchemist gains cold immunity	EP
Hyper-Tweaking	-	Gain 6 permanent Stat points which you may distribute as you wish, up to two points per Stat. However, he also ages twice as quickly as normal.	EP
Icarus Ascendant	winged flight or an ability to grant himself wings	The alchemist's wings are now retractable and flight speed increases by 30 feet and maneuverability becomes perfect	EP
The Mad Bomber	Carpet Bomber	Your bombs reach untold levels of destructive power. In addition to adding your Int modifier to the damage of your bombs, you also increase the damage of the bombs by a number of dice equal to your Int Mod.	EP
Metaphasic	Force Bomb	The alchemist gains immunity to force damage. In addition, the Alchemist can make a Fort save to ignore certain Force effects.	EP
Midassian Scion	Philosopher's Stone	The alchemist may now use his Philosopher's Stone ability a number of times each month equal to his intelligence modifier.	EP
Mutagenic Immutability	Eternal Youth	The alchemist becomes immune to attribute drains and attribute damage.	EP
Mutation Mastery	Mutation Suppression	Temporarily suppress the positive and negative effects of your mutagen a number of times per day equal to your INT mod.	EP
Mutation Suppression	True Mutagen	Temporarily suppress the positive and negative effects of your mutagen a number of times per day equal to your INT mod.	EP
Philosopher's Stone	-	The alchemist learns how to create a philosopher's stone, and can do so once per month at no cost	EP
Poison Touch	-	The alchemist gains a poisonous touch, as if under the effects of a poison spell. He can suppress or activate this ability as a free action.	EP
Protean Resistance	Vestigial Twin, at least two Grand Discoveries	Once per round, as a swift action, the Alchemist may choose an energy type and gain significant resistance to it.	EP
Soulfire	Alchemist 21	The alchemist gains fire immunity.	EP
True Mutagen (modified)	Alchemist 20, Grand Mutagen	The alchemist improves his mutagen even further	EP
Unborn Horror	Alchemical Abomination, Alchemist 29	You have gone TOO FAR! The alchemist improves his mutagen even further	EP
WHAT HATH SCIENCE WROUGHT?	Unborn Horror, Alchemist 35	You were warned. The Gods Themselves begged you not to do this. The alchemist perfects his mutagen, and the world trembles.	EP