Keywords are: 'class alchemist' There is no dedicated alchemist class, but there are variety of brewing skills to learn. Mages can brew potions. Thieves can brew poisons and antidotes. Druids can brew tonics and salves. Clerics can prepare unguents. Spell components for brewing are also useful for a handful of other purposes, such as making the ink for scribing scrolls, building grenades and augmenting raised undead with improved elemental resistances.