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Does a Cognatogen count as a mutagen for the purposes of the master chymist prestige class abilities and/or prerequisites? I searched around but didn't find anything specific on the forums.
Benefit: The alchemist gains the ability to create a cognatogen, a mutagen-like mixture that heightens one mental ability score at the expense of a physical ability score. If the cognatogen enhances his Intelligence, it applies a penalty to his Strength. If it enhances his Wisdom, it applies a penalty to his Dexterity. If it enhances his Charisma, it applies a penalty to his Constitution. Otherwise, this ability works just like the mutagen ability (including the natural armor bonus). Anytime the alchemist would prepare a mutagen, he may instead prepare a cognatogen. All limitations of mutagens apply to cognatogens as if they were the same substance—an alchemist can only maintain one mutagen or cognatogen at a time, a cognatogen that is not in an alchemist’s possession becomes inert, drinking a cognatogen makes a non-alchemist sick, and so on. When the effect of the cognatogen ends, the alchemist takes 2 points of ability damage to the ability score penalized by the cognatogen. The infuse mutagen discovery and the persistent mutagen class ability apply to cognatogens.
At 1st level, a mindchemist learns how to create a cognatogen, as per the cognatogen discovery.
This ability replaces the mutagen class ability (a mindchemist cannot create mutagens unless he selects mutagen as a discovery).
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Does a Cognatogen count as a mutagen for the purposes of the master chymist prestige class abilities and/or prerequisites? I searched around but didn't find anything specific on the forums.
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Nope, Mutagen is specifically called out as the requirement. It also doesn't make as much sense with the Jekyl/Hyde dynamic that the PrC is intended to create. That's not to say you couldn't retool the class to give you a shot brilliant-supervillian-awesomeness at the cost of your physical health.