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I would also like to know this. I have a good one for 1e character building and stat tracking, but a reliable and clean 2e app would be welcome.

Wondrous Items allow you to ignore non-feat requirements when crafting them in exchange for a +5 to the DC to craft the item. Most crafters would have no problem making it at a DC 13 instead of 8 - you can take 10 on crafting IIRC, so just a single rank and class skill bonus in Spellcraft is an auto-success. The extra requirement of Brew Potion is a lot harsher than the Alchemist requirement.

So if I am understanding you right, as long as I added +5 to the DC needed to make the item and expended the GP required, I don't need the Craft Wondrous Item and Identify feats?

ElectroDaddy wrote:

David knott 242 wrote:

Take a look at the Alchemical Allocation extract, which is a 2nd level extract and thus available to you at 4th level. That extract would enable you to drink a potion and then spit it back out into its container, with the result that you gain the effect of the potion but still have it. That doesn't let you learn the formula for that potion as an extract, but it could be very useful.

I was looking in vain for a feat or discovery that would let you do what you wanted, but little did I know it could be done with a very cheap magic item as described above.

Thats useful actually, but yeah that item is really what I need. Now I just need to find out how to buy it, or get both Craft Wondrous Item and Identify feats to be able to craft it.

An alchemist is very limited when using Craft Wondrous Items:

FAQs wrote:

Alchemist: Is an alchemist a spellcaster for the purpose of crafting magic items other than potions?

As written, no, alchemists are not spellcasters, and therefore can't select feats such as Craft Wondrous Item.
The design team is aware that this creates some thematic problems with the idea of an alchemist creating golems and so on, and plan to examine this in the future.

RAW you need to learn Master Craftsman to be able to craft a limited selection of Wondrous Items.

The discovery spell Knowledge gives you a caster level, even if it is for a single spell, so it should allow you to take the crafting feats (ask your GM first).

Hmm. That is confusing since the construction requirements listed (at least on d20pfsrd) include both Craft Wondrous Item and must be an Alchemist. Either way I will probably be better off trying to find an NPC that sells alchemical equipment. We are in a large city at the moment, part of me hopes that my GM won't really question the item Im looking for and let me buy such a thing.

Take a look at the Alchemical Allocation extract, which is a 2nd level extract and thus available to you at 4th level. That extract would enable you to drink a potion and then spit it back out into its container, with the result that you gain the effect of the potion but still have it. That doesn't let you learn the formula for that potion as an extract, but it could be very useful.

I was looking in vain for a feat or discovery that would let you do what you wanted, but little did I know it could be done with a very cheap magic item as described above.

Thats useful actually, but yeah that item is really what I need. Now I just need to find out how to buy it, or get both Craft Wondrous Item and Identify feats to be able to craft it.

Awesome, thank you for the clarification! Now I just need to figure out how to get my hands on a Formula Alembic.

Hi,

I am a new player and I'm currently in my first campaign, I'm a lvl2 Alchemist. I have a couple questions and I'm pretty sure it's a no since I can't find anything about it, but my party has made me question my ability to do this or not. For context, here is the situation:

After our last encounter I received a potion of Invisibility as a reward. Jokingly I mentioned I should sell the potion because im poor and don't have terrible use for the potion at the moment. But a few of the more veteran players told me I really should keep it instead to make more. And that's when I started trying to find if there really is a way that would allow me to take the potion I have, somehow learn to replicate it and go about that. Likewise, would I be able to take this potion and confer the formula from it to add to my Formula Book? Invisibility is a 2nd level formula, so technically it is something I can learn (but not use yet), I just don't know if I could "learn" it that way.

I know in the potion rules you can roll a check to determine "what" a potion is, but since my GM told me what it is, I'm guessing that doesn't mean I know how to make it? I guess I just need clarification on these points:

• Can a formula be learned from a potion as long as it's a learnable formula?
• Does having a potion, and knowing what it is, allow me to recreate the potion using Brew Potion as outlined for my class?
• Can I know a formula before I'm at a level that I am capable of using it in an extract or potion?

If on the off chance I can do what I'm trying to do, then would I just take time to study/make an entry into my Formula Book?

Side Note: I know I could just ask my GM, but I try and be a good PC and do as much digging as I can before I make him figure it out.