Unconventional Engineering: Kinetic Inventor

Unleash the full potential of invention with Kinetic Inventor, a complete reimagining of the base Inventor's Unstable abilities! No longer bound to a single volatile contraption, this class variant grants your character dynamic, repeatable, and versatile functions, inspired by the Kineticist's elemental flow.

Unconventional Engineering: Kinetic Inventor presents a slew of new abilities, QoL improvements, and choices:

• Gain charge along with its Charged Empowerment, which replaces Overdrive as your stable and consistent damage booster, and use it to power function feats, Kinetic Inventor's equivalent of impulses, with many of them converted from existing Unstable feats.
  • Sacrifice your charge and charged empowerment to use powerful discharge functions, then restore it with the versatile Empower action!
  • Achieve great precision with your functions and innovations both, scaling your function attack rolls at a martial class' pace and using them to guide your invention with Targeting Weapon System.
• Choose an engineering specialty, heavily inspired by and borrowing much from Unconventions from Inventors+, to gain access to their charged empowerment and exclusive function feats, such as their equivalents of Explode and Elemental Blast.
  • Pick a scientific field among biology, chemistry, cryonics, electromagnetism, hydraulics, mechanics, or thermodynamics to specialize in, accessing 5 powerful function feats from any specialty selected, or become a technomage by choosing a magical specialty of dimensionalism, neurology, or prognostication!
  • Use the specialty selected to empower your attacks, such as setting your enemies on fire with thermodynamics or teleporting behind them with dimensionalism.
• Acquire a formula book with numerous designs for crafting in your downtime and pick and choose a new function to use every day with the Specialty Function class feature.
• Pick completely new Inventor feats, such as Extra Specialty for broadening your expertise, Unstable Charge if you like to take risks, or True Construct Companion to help your construct buddy scale into the late game.
• Meld technology and magic into something better than the sum of its parts with the Arcane Artisan class archetype! Encode a spell into a repeatable gizmo with Spell Function and integrate magic into your attacks by using Spell-Encoded Assault.

Fully compatible with Inventors+ and Oceans Unleashed (converting the hydropower unconvention into the hydraulics specialty), as well as any product that adds or modifies innovations. Kinetic Inventor is highly modular: pick and choose its power level, intended to be on the level of Barbarian or Thaumaturge, by tweaking the listed changes, and add your own functions by reflavoring existing or new impulses as necessary!