The Toxicant is a strange being, one who has delved into the art of poisoncraft far too deeply. Using this knowledge they craft alchemical brews which others of the trade would deem tainted, putrid, unuseable. Toxicants however use these concoctions to great effect, dipping their crossbow bolts in vitriolic poison to wear down their foes as they slink about silently and unseen.

Alignment: Any nonlawful.

Hit Die: d8.

Starting Wealth: 3d6 × 10 gp (average 105gp.) In addition, each character begins play with an outfit worth 10 gp or less.

Class Skills

The Toxicant's class skills are Acrobatics (Dex), Craft (Alchemy) (Int), Disable Device (Dex), Heal (Wis), Knowledge (arcana) (Int), Knowledge (Dungeoneering) (Int), Knowledge (nature) (Int), Perception (Wis), Sleight of Hand (Dex), Spellcraft (Int), Stealth (Dex), Survival (Wis), Use Magic Device (Cha).

Skill Ranks per Level: 4 + Int modifier.

Weapon and Armor Proficiency: A Toxicant is proficient with simple weapons, all martial crossbows, and with light armor.

Alchemy (Su):  As the Alchemist.

Throw Anything (Ex): A 1st level Toxicant gains the Throw Anything feat as a bonus feat.

Poison Use (Ex): At 1st level, a Toxicant is trained in the use of poison and cannot accidentally poison herself when applying poison to a blade or her bolts.

Toxin (Ex): The main form of killing potential within a Toxicant arsenal is her personally crafted toxin. She may swiftly mix various chemicals to create powerful and bizarre poisons that she can coat her bolts and melee weapons with. Once the coated weapon deals its damage, that dose of toxin is spent. A Toxicant can create a number of toxin doses each day equal to 3 + her Intelligence modifier. Toxins are unstable, and if not used in the round they are created, they degrade and become inert—their method of creation prevents large volumes of poisonous material from being created and stored. In order to create a toxin, the Toxicant must use a small vial containing an ounce of liquid catalyst—the Toxicant can create this liquid catalyst from small amounts of chemicals from an alchemy lab, and these supplies can be readily refilled in the same manner as a spellcaster's component pouch. Most Toxicants create a number of catalyst vials at the start of the day equal to the total number of doses they can create in that day—once created, a catalyst vial remains usable by the Toxicant for years.

Drawing the components of, creating, and coating the weapon requires a standard action that provokes an attack of opportunity (this can be done as a full round action to also make the attack). On a direct hit, the toxin inflicts 1d6 points of damage. At each subsequent round (on their turn) the target must make a fortitude save  (DC 10 + ½ class level + Int mod) or receive the damage again, lasting for a number of rounds equal to the Toxicant’s class level + intelligence mod or until a successful save is made.  The damage of a Toxicant’s toxin increases by 1d6 points at every three levels after first level (this bonus damage is not multiplied on a critical hit or by using feats such as Vital Strike). Toxicants can learn new types of toxins as Poison Crafts (see the Poison Craft ability) as they level up. A Toxicant's toxin, like an extract, becomes inert if used or carried by anyone else. A toxin is poison, thus all bonuses to saves an immunity to poison block toxin, but it is only enhanced by effects that specifically mention a Toxicant’s toxin and not normal poison. A target can only be effected by one toxin at a time, affects replace and damage doesn’t overlap.

Poison Craft (Su): At 2nd level, and then again every 2 levels thereafter (up to 18th level), a Toxicant finds a way to improve on their poisonous arts. Unless otherwise noted, a toxicat cannot select an individual poison craft more than once. Some poison crafts can only be made if the Toxicant has met certain prerequisites first, such as uncovering other poison crafts. Poison Crafts that modify her toxin that are marked with an asterisk (*) do not stack. Only one such poison craft can be applied to a dose of toxin. The DC of any saving throw called for by a poison craft is equal to 10 + 1/2 the toxicant's level + her Intelligence modifier.

• Tailored Toxin (Ex): Choose one creature type (and subtype, for humanoids or outsiders). Your toxin is particularly effective against creatures of this type, increasing the save DC by 2. If that creature type is normally immune to poison, this removes the immunity but doesn’t provide a DC bonus. This craft can be taken more than once; each time it applies to a different creature type (or subtype).

• *Incendiary Poison (Ex): Do to a strange chemical reaction within the Toxin, it deals fire damage instead of untyped damage, and deals an additional 1d6 of damage per 2 class levels. This makes the Toxin into a fire effect, not a poison one.

• *Nerve Chill Poison (Ex): The toxin causes a rapid drop in blood temperature, causing nerve endings to slow and stutter. The toxin’s damage becomes cold, and has the effect of a Slow spell each round the target takes damage from it. This makes the Toxin into a cold effect, not a poison one.

• Increase Virulence (Su): Even on a round that the target successfully saves against your toxin, they always take the toxin’s minimum damage.

• Specialty Toxin (Ex): You must have the Tailored Toxin and be at least 5th level to select this craft. Your toxin is even more effective against a single creature type you chose for Tailored Toxin, increasing the toxin’s damage by 2d6. This craft can be taken more than once; each time it applies to a different creature type (or subtype) chosen for Tailored Toxin.

• *Wildstench Toxin (Su): This potent poison is less directly harmful, but causes a reaction in the target that makes them smell horrible and dangerous to wildlife. a Wildstench toxin deals 1d6 less damage than a normal toxin (minimum 0 damage), but instead if the target fails their save against the toxin they immediately produce an odorous pheromone that causes all natural wildlife (creatures with the animal type, and some magical beasts based on DM choice) within 100ft to make a fortitude save. If the animal fails this save it becomes hostile towards the target and will always choose to attack them over any other target. Summoned creatures and animal companions aren’t immune to this effect, but get a +4 bonus on their save.

• *Eyeblight Toxin (Su): You must be at least 6th level to select this craft. Each round the target of your toxin fails their save against it, they are blinded for that round.

• Discovery: You may select any of the following discoveries from the Alchemist list as long as you meet their prerequisites, using your Toxicant level as your effective Alchemist level- Alchemical Zombie, Bottled Ooze, Change Alignment, Combine Extracts, Concentrate Poison, Dilution, Enhance Potion, Extend Potion, Infusion, Lingering Spirit, Malignant Poison, Mummification, Nauseating Flesh, Phantom Limb, Poison Conversion, Preserve Organs, Spontaneous Healing, Tentacle, Vestigial Arm, Wings.

• Stench (Ex): Your body exudes a special chemical that grants the Stench universal ability, though it’s save becomes your normal poison craft DC.

• Horrid Stench (Ex): You must be at least 8th level and have the Stench craft to select this craft. Your stench ability becomes permanently enhanced as per the Amplify Stench spell.

• Shadeform Concoction (Su): You must be at least 4th level to select this craft. You add the Invisibility spell to your formulae list if you don’t already have it. Whenever you prepare an Invisibility extract, you can choose to combine it with another unused extract to create a Shadeform Concoction instead. When you drink a Shadeform concoction you become invisible (as the invisibility spell), but it also has the additional benefit of an extra effect based on the level of the second extract slot combined to form it, including all effects of lower level.

• Evasion (Ex): You must be at least 8th level to select this craft. If you make a successful Reflex saving throw against an attack that normally deals half damage on a successful save, you instead takes no damage. Evasion can be used only if you’re wearing light armor, medium armor, or no armor. You can not gain the benefit of evasion if you’re helpless.

• Master Poisoner (Ex): You must be at least 6th level to select this craft. You add 1/2 her level on Craft (alchemy) checks dealing with poison. In addition, you can use Craft (alchemy) to change the type of a poison with 1 hour of work and an alchemist's lab. If the Craft (alchemy) check (DC equals the poison's save DC) is successful, the poison's type changes to contact, ingested, inhaled, or injury; on a failed check, the poison is ruined.

• Improved Evasion (Ex): You must be at least 15th level to select this craft. This ability works like evasion, except that while you still take no damage on a successful Reflex saving throw against attacks, you henceforth take only half damage on a failed save. You can’t benefit from Improved Evasion while helpless.

• *Hiderot Poison (Ex): This potent toxin reacts with the skin and muscles of the target, causing them to melt and soften. A hiderot poison deals 1d6 less damage than a normal toxin (minimum 0 damage) The toxins damage becomes acid, and each time it deals damage to the target it reduces its natural armor by 1. If you possess the Tailored Toxin craft and the target qualifies for it, it loses 2 natural armor instead. A creature's natural armor can’t be reduced by more than your class level. The target's natural armor returns at a rate of 1 per round after it either succeeds on its saving throw or the toxins duration expires. This makes the Toxin into an acid effect, not a poison one.

• *Staticbind Poison (Ex): A toxin that causes it’s victims body to let out strange electrical shocks from off-firing nerves. The toxins damage becomes electric, and while under it’s effects the target gets a -2 on attack rolls with metal weapons due to the metal being attracted to their own body. If you possess the Tailored Toxin craft and the target qualifies, then whenever the target misses an attack with a metal weapon and is affected by the toxin, it deals it’s own minimum damage to themselves if their attack would bypass their own AC.

• Toxic Manufactory (Ex): You must be at least 6th level to select this craft. When creating poisons or antitoxins you can create a number of doses equal to your Intelligence modifier at one time (minimum 1). These additional doses do not increase the time required, but do increase the raw material cost accordingly. In addition, you use the item's gp value as its sp value when determining progress made with her Craft (alchemy) checks. If the you have the Master Alchemist feat, you may create a number of doses of poison or antitoxin at one time equal to twice your Intelligence modifier and use the item's pp value as its sp value when determining progress with her Craft (alchemy) checks.

• Truedark Concoction (Su): You must be at least 12th level and have the Shadeform Concoction craft to select this one. You add the Greater Invisibility spell to your list of formulae if you don’t have it already. Whenever you prepare a Greater Invisibility extract, you can choose to combine it with another unused extract or 4th level or higher to create a Truedark Concoction instead. When you drink a Truedark concoction you become invisible (as the greater invisibility spell), but it also has the additional benefit of an extra effect based on the level of the second extract slot combined to form it, including all effects of lower level.

Poison Resistance (Ex): At 2nd level, a Toxicant gains a +2 bonus on all saving throws against poison. This bonus increases to +4 at 5th level, and then again to +6 at 8th level. At 10th level, a Toxicant becomes completely immune to poison.

Crossbow Skill (Ex): At 3rd, 7th, 11th, 15th, and 19th levels a Toxicant gains new prowess with their crossbow. They may select from the following feats at each of these levels to gain without needing to meet that feat’s prerequisites. This only functions as long as she is wearing light, medium, or no armor.

Deadly Aim, Focused Shot, Precise Shot, and Rapid Reload.

• At 7th level, she adds Crossbow Mastery and Improved Precise Shot to the list.
• At 11th level, she adds Pinpoint Targeting and Shot on the Run to the list.

Favored Terrain (Ex): Much like a normal ranger, a Toxicant can choose a favored terrain at 5th level. She gains a +2 bonus on initiative checks and Knowledge (geography), Perception, Stealth, and Survival skill checks when she is in this terrain. A Toxicant traveling through her favored terrain normally leaves no trail and cannot be tracked (though she may leave a trail if she so chooses).

At 13th level and 19th, the Toxicant may select an additional favored terrain. In addition, at each such interval, the skill bonus and initiative bonus in any one favored terrain (including the one just selected, if so desired), increases by +2.

If a specific terrain falls into more than one category of favored terrain, the Toxicant's bonuses do not stack; she simply uses whichever bonus is higher. Unfortunately for her, the Toxicant has a much more limited variety of terrains to choose from than a ranger, being able to choose from only Forest, Jungle, Swamp, Underground, and Urban.

Quick Poisoning (Ex): A 6th level Toxicant can poison a weapon as a move action (including all the processes of applying her toxin). She can create poisons with the Craft (alchemy) skill in half the normal amount of time.

Intravenous Toxin (Ex): At 9th level whenever a creature successfully saves against the toxicant’s toxin, they suffer its effects one last time the round after they made the save.

Swift Poisoning (Ex): At 11th level, a Toxicant can draw a vial of poison from her bag and apply it to a weapon as a swift action. This applies only to a single use of her toxin in a given round. This action does not provoke attacks of opportunity as long as she has at least one hand free.

Induce Weakness (Su): At 12th level a Toxicant’s skills allow her toxin to affect even those that normally laugh in the face of a lesser poisoner. Even if a creature is normally immune to poison (such as outsiders or undead), only receives a +4 bonus on their save instead of being immune. This is due to a Toxicant imbuing a portion of her own person magic within each does, her venomous will reaching out.

 Instantaneous Toxicology (Ex): At 15th level, a Toxicant can create a poison as a full-round action if she succeeds at the Craft (alchemy) check and has the appropriate resources on hand to pay the creation cost. Poisons crafted in this way last up 10 minutes per class level before losing their potency. In addition, she can instead create an unstable toxin. An unstable toxin costs 1/10 its normal price (rather than 1/3), but is ruined if not used by the end of her next turn.

Induce Frailty (Su):  Every poisonous substance the Toxicant creates strikes fear into the hearts of all those who once feared no venom. At 17th level no creature is immune to ANY poison she creates and administers herself, and no longer gains a bonus to saves from her poisons.

Toxin Mastery (Ex): At 20th level, the Toxicant begins to work on their masterpiece. Taking 3 days of constant work and 10,000gp worth of supplies, she toils away in her alchemy lab combining whatever strikes her mind in a feverous epiphany. At the end of the 3rd day, she emerges with a single dose of Deathform Poison. If she chooses to drink this poison, she suffuses with the impossible mixture and gains the Poisonous Creature template as well as 2 claws and a bite attack of her size. If she chooses to use this poison on an arrow however, it becomes an instrument of terror. A creature hit with a Deathform arrow must make a Fortitude save (DC 25 + ½ class level + Int mod) or immediately die. Demons, Angels, Liches, nothing but the gods themselves can hope to stave of destruction as this poison eats away their very being, slaying them no matter their defences or abilities. However this comes at a price, for only ONE dose of Deathform poison can exist within a single plane, and a Toxicant only gains the eldritch epiphany to create it once in their whole existence.