On the left, the Remorhaz! I know, I was surprised too, but they're smart enough to understand languages and form contracts. Apparently use the fact that people think they're beasts to thier advantage. These are 25 ft (7.6 m) artic centipede-like creatures with the brilliant strategy of using an element cold-loving creatures don't usually resist. They have a STRONG internal heat, but only to damaging levels when irritated or hurt. They're known to swallow creatures whole, and just look at that gorgeous coloration!

(art by eleth-art on DeviantArt)

There are plenty that believe that alcohol makes everything better, though admittedly most are referring to beverages, but the substance as plenty of medical and chemical uses as well.

Today’s archetype… is only a little bit about the latter. I present the mixologist!

Now, in the real world, mixology is less a study and more a skill about understanding what flavor profiles work together specifically for making mixed drinks that taste good and only make you sick after several of them instead of on the first sip.

So, applying this to the alchemist class, the mixologist is a master of adding alcohol to their various concoctions in a way that doesn’t ruin them (the concoction or the alcohol) to enhance their effects at the cost of getting you drunk, with all the debuffs involved, if you fail the fortitude saves. And yes, this archetype did come from the Inner Sea Taverns book, how did you guess?

Now, this archetype does have some conceptual overlap with the fermenter archetype, and certainly the mixologist would no doubt be quite happy to also make use of the tinctures that fermenters are also associated with, but I do think they are quite different in their application. Fermenters being more focused on the creation of alcohol, while mixologists focus on applying the finished product.

It also behooves me to inform you that certain abilities of this archetype reference the expanded drunkenness rules from Inner Sea Tavern, so you may have to modify this archetype a bit if you’re only using it and not those rules.

Now, let’s take a look, shall we?

At the core of the archetype is their knack for adding alcohol to the brewing of their potions and extracts. While the former requires more ingredients to stabilize them, the end result is stronger potions and extracts that are also quite potent in their alcohol content too, making it easy to get absolutely shitfaced if one has too many in a short period.

However, they don’t stop at the brews they drink, applying alcohol to their bombs as well. When they choose to do so, the alcohol aerosolizes into the air when the bomb explodes, giving the targets a contact buzz from the alcohol, potentially getting them drunker and drunker until they outright pass out if they keep getting hit by such bombs.

Naturally, their constant experimentation also means they develop just as much tolerance to alcohol as they do to poison, though never full immunity (gods, can you imagine?)

Normally, they can only have a small fraction of their extracts be alcohol-enhanced, but masterful mixologists can double that number, ensuring that their brews are quite potent (and their selves almost never sober) throughout most of the day.

Whether you’re playing an alchemist that never got over their party years at the college, a fantasy bartender who enjoys blending disciplines, or simply a brilliant scientist that is willing to pursue progress even to the bottom of a bottle, this archetype can be fun whether you plan on using it with the expanded or classic drunkenness rules. In practice, you can get a little bit more potency out of a lot of your extracts and potions at the cost of getting some debuffs through their use, but much like in the real world, moderation can help mitigate that.

Now, I probably don’t need to say this. Most of you who play this game are adults and get it. But between the mixologist and fermenter, not to mention archetypes like drunken rager and drunken brute barbarian and the drunken master monk, please drink responsibly at your table. Do not try to emulate the alcohol intake of your character, especially if you gotta drive home after the game. You likely do not have their fantastical liver nor the ability to gain superpowers from your booze. It’s like playing a character who smokes or does drugs. Neat for narrative reasons, but you know better.

While everything on the Plane of Law runs like clockwork, even axiomites must take a break every now and again, but rarely do they party so hard as to disrupt the schedules of the plane. This is why the arbiter inevitable Seventy-Fifth Timekeeper is so concerned when they learn that a new bar that has opened up on the plane provides drinks that can knock even lawful outsiders for a loop.

Though he make look like a fish out of water, Bizgax the grindylow can knock your socks off from behind his combination fish tank and bar, The Soused Siren. What’s more, he sells alchemically enhanced brews to wealthy customers, preferring bottles to mugs so they can take them where the effects benefit them the most.

Did you know that if you're a big enough nerd about math, architecture, philosophy, or crafting, you come back as the math and concepts you adored? This is the fundamental truths and laws of the universe, expressing themselves through those who loved them. While this reincarnation doesn't quite remember thier old life, thier old knowledge and skill still shine through, and thier experiences form the basis of thier new body.

PATHFINDERS - The Aphorite Summoner

Like the Ganzi and Duskwalkers, the Aphorites are unique concepts of the Pathfinder scenario, being also linked to the Monitors, more specifically to the Aeons, entities representing the concepts of Law without moral judgment of Good or Evil. The first Aphorites were forged by the Axiomites, humanoids reborn from mortal souls in the Eternal City of the Axis, the opposite plane of the Maelstrom's endless chaos, serving as emissaries between their lawful masters and their mortal allies. Over time, the Aphorites, once all alike in appearance, became enamored with the free will of the Material Plane, becoming another of the Outer Sphere's influences among mortals, maintaining their Axis legacy in their metallic-toned skin, for sometimes covered dancing runes or crystalline dust around them.