Talk:Artificer (5A)

Infusions

New or altered infusions are listed here.

Homunculus Servant

A Homunculus Servant has a number of d4 Hit Dice equal to your level and gains a one-time bonus to its Hit Points equal to your Intelligence modifier. Due to its 12 Constitution this results in Hit Points equal to (3.5) times your level + your Intelligence modifier (rounded down, minimum 10 Hit Points).

This rules is what I expect we will want to play with at higher levels, as I think the Homunculus Servant's HP will scale too slowly. We'll see how it works out.

Editor's Notes

Artificer, so hard to get right. Not only is this a generalist class, which are in itself hard, it is also a support class and a half-spellcaster, all tricky prospects. My premise for these changes is that the artificer is weak and that the way to rectify that is to make them more artificer-like.

• I removed Infusions Known as a concept, and increased the number of infusions by half.
• Infusions scale more over levels, around a 50% increase.
• Overnight Crafting lets them do a bit of crafting on adventures as long as a long rest is involved.
• Magical tinkering got more options, mostly for fun but with some utility.
• Artificers now get Mending as an additional cantrip, and can spend spell slots when casting Mending to quickly heal their own constructs.
• Right Tool for the Job now gives semi-proficiency.
• At level 3 you learn to infuse magical items. This can be a worrying complexity to new players, so a better wording would be nice.
• Magic item adept's ability to craft faster and more cheaply removed. In a game that actually allows and gives time for crafting the reduced cost can very quickly unbalance things.
• At level 13 and 17 your ability to concentrate improves. With the weak spells the artificer has compared to full casters, this is good but not outrageously so.
• Magic Item Adept at lvl 10 allows the artificer to use all scrolls and ignore spells required for crafting.
• Soul of Artifice no longer takes a reaction. You are very likely to be out of reactions when you use this.

Subclass Ideas

• Mirrors - redirects spells and effect by using a series of mirrors.
• Prosthetics
• Necromancer
• Ether
• Astral
• Clocks
• Slime
• Force
• Crystals
• Mason
• Animal statues/Law
• Artifacts
• Mutation
• Pioneer
• Soul-Eater
• Weather
• Glyphs - All-day spells work around concentration.
• Illusion
• Specific elements/materials - Fire, Cold, Lightning, Metal
• Size - Grow/Shrink
• Cook
• Golem
• Curses
• Futurist - loans things from the future
• Quartermaster - Buy items and later replicate them
• Headhunter - turn dead enemies into power
• Blue Agent - Extra-dimentional Merchant
• Clockwork - Release custom-made programmed clockwork to perform a specific task
• Infuser - Specialized in infusions
• Firearms
• Wishgate - Pull things out of chaos
• Scarabs - Swarms & insects
• Runes - Quick infusions?
• Plagiarist
• Totems
• Enchanter - Makes, identifies, and uses any type of magic item
• Shadow - Molds shadowstuff
• Card Shark - Infusions and effect from a deck of cards
• Reforger - Turn one magic item into another
• Bottlewright - Bottlewrights specialize in extradimensional spaces, fitting impossibly large things into tiny glass bottles
• Fleshless - You somehow lost your living body and now you are building an artificial one
• Mangnum Opus - Create a single special item
• Playful Genius - Does your party lack that fun factor?
• Psionic Infusion
• Ethical - Good/Evil
• Adventurer - Focus on non-artifice
• Harponeer
• Acoustics
• Ghost (ether) Buster
• Jinx
• Chandler
• Seeds
• Demolisher
• Trapsmith
• Brewer
• Ofuda-shi (お札師) – Not a standard term, but could mean “talisman master” or “seal-crafter” if invented for fiction.
• First Responder - Medic and medivac
• Rightwarden - Denies others the use of magic
• Astrographer - Uses celestial signs

• Rune Junkie
• nectotect
• Statistican
• Carpenter
• Spiritualist
• Mesmerist
• Sanitizer
• Gunblade
• Light Sculptor