The Measured Becoming
An exacting artificer’s field folio records how to persuade matter into becoming something more useful, while hinting at a dangerous experiment she has not yet finished.
Spellbook · Artificer · Level 18
The Measured Becoming
An exacting artificer’s field folio records how to persuade matter into becoming something more useful, while hinting at a dangerous experiment she has not yet finished.
Ex librisMara VellumArtificer
At a glance
Level
18
Artificer
Spells
10
2 cantrips, 5 signature
At the table
A margin note
Plot hook
Spells
10 spellsCantrips
2- Repairs a single break or tear in an object you touch, no larger than 1 foot in any dimension.
- Duration
- Instantaneous
- Target
- One object with a break or tear
- Components
- V, S, M (two lodestones)
- Higher levels
- No scaling.
- Source
- Player's Handbook
- You touch up to three pebbles and imbue them with magic. A creature can make a ranged attack with one, using your spellcasting ability modifier.
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Target
- Up to three pebbles
- Components
- V, S
- Save or attack
- Ranged spell attack, or a ranged weapon attack by a creature using the stone
- Damage
- bludgeoning per attack
- Higher levels
- The spell has no scaling; the stones' attack bonus uses your spellcasting ability modifier.
- Source
- Xanathar's Guide to Everything
1st level
2- Choose an unsecured object weighing 1 to 5 pounds within range. It flies in a straight line up to 90 feet; a creature in its path makes a Dexterity save or takes damage. The object stops if it hits a solid surface.
- Duration
- Instantaneous
- Target
- One unsecured object weighing 1 to 5 pounds and creatures in its path
- Components
- S
- Save or attack
- Dexterity saving throw
- Damage
- bludgeoning
- Higher levels
- When cast with a slot of 2nd level or higher, damage increases by for each slot level above 1st.
- Source
- Xanathar's Guide to Everything
- Choose up to five falling creatures within range. Their rate of descent slows to 60 feet per round, and they take no falling damage before the spell ends.
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Target
- Up to five falling creatures
- Components
- V, S, M (a feather or a small piece of down)
- Higher levels
- No scaling.
- Source
- Player's Handbook
2nd level
4- Touch a creature and grant one chosen ability-based benefit, such as advantage on checks using a chosen ability. The Bear's Endurance option also grants temporary hit points.
- Duration
- Concentration, up to 1 hour
- Target
- One willing creature
- Components
- V, S, M (fur or a feather from a beast)
- Higher levels
- When cast with a slot of 3rd level or higher, you can target one additional creature for each slot level above 2nd.
- Source
- Player's Handbook
- Heat a manufactured metal object you can see. A creature in physical contact with it takes damage; if holding it, the creature makes a Constitution save or drops it if able. You can use a bonus action on later turns to cause the damage again.
- Duration
- Concentration, up to 1 minute
- Target
- One manufactured metal object
- Components
- V, S, M (a piece of iron and a flame)
- Save or attack
- Constitution saving throw to avoid dropping the object, if able
- Damage
- fire per round
- Higher levels
- When cast with a slot of 3rd level or higher, damage increases by for each slot level above 2nd.
- Source
- Player's Handbook
- Enlarge or reduce a creature or an object that fits within a 10-foot cube. An unwilling creature can resist with a Constitution save. The spell's effects depend on the chosen size change.
- Duration
- Concentration, up to 1 minute
- Target
- One creature or object that fits within a 10-foot cube
- Components
- V, S, M (a pinch of powdered iron)
- Save or attack
- Constitution saving throw for an unwilling creature
- Higher levels
- No scaling.
- Source
- Player's Handbook
- A willing creature gains the ability to move up, down, and across vertical surfaces and ceilings while leaving its hands free. It also gains a climbing speed equal to its walking speed.
- Duration
- Concentration, up to 1 hour
- Target
- One willing creature
- Components
- V, S, M (a drop of molasses)
- Higher levels
- When cast with a slot of 3rd level or higher, you can target one additional willing creature for each slot level above 2nd.
- Source
- Player's Handbook
4th level
2- Convert a sufficient quantity of raw material into a finished object of the same material. You can create a Large or smaller object contained within a 10-foot cube, or eight connected 5-foot cubes.
- Duration
- Instantaneous
- Target
- Raw materials within range
- Components
- V, S
- Higher levels
- No scaling.
- Source
- Player's Handbook
- Transform a creature you can see into a beast whose challenge rating is no greater than the target's, or whose challenge rating is 1 if the target has no challenge rating. The target's game statistics are replaced by the beast's, subject to the spell's rules.
- Duration
- Concentration, up to 1 hour
- Target
- One creature you can see within range
- Components
- V, S, M (a caterpillar cocoon)
- Save or attack
- Wisdom saving throw for an unwilling creature
- Higher levels
- No scaling.
- Source
- Player's Handbook
In the margins
3 notes
WarningNever enlarge the load-bearing stone before checking what rests above it.
DiaryThe hinge was only iron yesterday. It has learned to remember the shape of a key.
FormulaCopper salts + measured heat + patient agitation: the stubborn alloy yields.
The book itself
The book smells faintly of warm copper and bitter orange.
Its diagrams show tools and bodies as assemblies of parts, never as finished things.
The caster
ArtificerMara Vellum
Studies: Transmutation and practical alchemyManner: Courteous and quietly intense, she treats every unfamiliar object as a problem worth understanding.Focus: A brass caliper with a removable crystal stylus, used to measure, inscribe, and channel her spells.Quirk: She taps objects twice with her caliper before trusting them, even when the object is a chair she has just made.Wants: To discover whether a material can be given a stable new nature without destroying what it was before.Mara Vellum apprenticed as a clockmaker before turning to artificing. She became fascinated by the boundary between repairing an object and changing what it is. Her folio is a record of experiments, field repairs, and costly mistakes.
The book
A brass-clasped, oilskin folio whose hammered copper covers are embossed with changing anatomical diagrams. Its pages are vellum, thin metal sheets, and pressed leaves, all annotated in a precise hand.
Its wards · GM only
About the book
FormatAlchemical folio
ThemeTransmutation
Written by aArtificer
Caster level18
SystemDungeons & Dragons 5th Edition
Plot hooks
1A page describing a metal alloy that can repair itself has been torn out. Mara suspects a rival artificer stole it to build an army of self-mending constructs.
2The folio’s shifting diagrams begin depicting a ruined observatory that Mara has never seen, along with a transformation formula she believes could reverse a decades-old petrification.
3A guild claims the folio’s notes prove Mara unlawfully transformed a sacred monument. The monument has begun changing shape again.
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