Hedge Arcanist
You keep to your books and scholars and formulae. I know that just a pinch of ornsleaf will do the trick - my grandfather's grandmother passed it down.
Not all arcanists learn through some type of formal study or at the feet of a recognized master. Others learn from family or some dabbler, cobbling together solutions that would never be sanctioned by a 'real' wizard, using cleverness and patience. Found in small villages in rural areas or deep within city slums where education is lacking, the hedge arcanist is someone who has learned to make do with what they have, making their spells sometimes less reliable, but they often gain additional effects, as well.
Playing a Hedge Arcanist
Your general hedge arcanist is no less clever than a more traditionally trained mage, but they often have less book knowledge at hand. Instead, they supplement their skills with acculumated folk wisdom and remedies, tested empirically over generations and found to work at least as well as the formal methods - or at least, close, but at much reduced cost.
As a hedge arcanist, you are probably from a small community where you learned from a family member or the region's previous arcanist who recognized a natural gift in you. Consider that your has likely involved being particularly poor - at least, by the standards of city folk, though if your plate was sometimes a little bare, well, it was all the tastier for knowing hard work went into filling it, and it was earned with friends and family.
Requirements
Arcane power source, 14 Wisdom
Improvised Ingredients
Hedge Arcanist Feature
Of course it would be best to use an ounce of silver for this spell - but that's expensive, and silvered fish scales work just as well - well, mostly.
Encounter
Arcane
No Action
Special
Trigger: You make an attack using a power with the arcane keyword
Effect: You add 1d3-2 to the triggering roll, and if the attack hits, choose one of the following effects:
• The target suffers a -2 penalty to its next attack roll before the end of your next turn.
• The target is slowed until the end of your next turn.
• The target is unbalanced.
• The target gains vulnerable 3/6/9 (by tier) against the next attack that hits it before the end of your next turn.
Hedge Arcanist Level 1 Feature
You gain the improvised ingredients power.
Hedge Arcanist Level 5 Feature
You gain the ritual caster feat, or, if you already have the feat, you may double the time required to perform a ritual in exchange for a +4 bonus to skill checks made as part of it.
Hedge Arcanist Level 10 Feature
When you use your improvised ingredients power, you may choose up to two effects, or gain a +2 bonus to the attack roll, but you must choose before you use the power.
Hedge Arcanist Substitution Powers
The following powers are available to Hedge Arcanist adventurers at any time they would otherwise gain access to an attack or utility power of the listed level.
Hedge Arcanist Feats
Arcane Dabblings
Not following the traditional paths of power, you have learned a trick or two far outside the norm for your training.
Prerequisite: Hedge Arcanist theme
Benefit: You can swap one power you know for one power of the same type and level from any arcane class other than your own.