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D&D 5e – Eberron: Forge of the Artificer

Michael Long — Sat, 10 May 2025 16:27:47 +0000

Prepare to return to Eberron, where magic meets wondrous inventions! Pre-orders for Eberron: Forge of the Artificer kicked off ahead of the adventure’s US release on August 19, 2025. A new trailer released today shares additional details. Eberron: Forge of the Artificer will feature: The revised Artificer class, redesigned for the new Core Rules (40) player options, including playable species like the mechanical Warforged(4) updated Artificer subclasses and (1) new subclass, the Cartographer(5) revised species, (18) backgrounds, and (28) feats, […]

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Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything Breakdown, Part One

Brandes Stoddard — Fri, 20 Nov 2020 17:34:54 +0000

This is the beginning of what will surely (barring catastrophe in the next couple of months) be an extended series examining every nook and cranny of Tasha’s Cauldron. Let me say in no uncertain terms that this is not a euphemism, whatever you may have heard. We went on one date while I was in college, she had just broken up with some demon lord, I wasn’t ready to be a stepdad, it all fell apart. I miss her, is […]

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UA 2020: Subclasses, Part Three Breakdown

Brandes Stoddard — Tue, 25 Feb 2020 18:48:38 +0000

It’s been a couple of weeks since the chaos of Subclasses, Part Two: Revenge of the Bride of the Electric Boogaloo, so yesterday WotC dropped three more playtest subclasses. We have the Armorer artificer, the Circle of Stars druid, and the Fey Wanderer ranger conclave. (Yes, I know it’s still technically “archetype,” because “conclave” got buried beside the UA Revised Ranger, but – and I cannot stress this strongly enough – you can have it when you pry it from […]

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Brief Description of 5e Classes and Subclasses (Ideal to Show to your Players), Part 4

Tomás Giménez Rioja — Tue, 14 Jan 2020 14:00:50 +0000

So… We finally got the Eberron official release we long waited for. With it, several new player choices arrived. It’s time to put these articles up to date by adding in the new content. Thus, I present to you the Artificer. After surfing the web for a while, I could not find any place in which all the classes and subclasses were briefly explained for a quick read. What I want to create is 4 articles you can give to […]

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The Artificer Class, Part Seven

Brandes Stoddard — Fri, 15 Nov 2019 22:20:36 +0000

Now that my review copy of Eberron: Rising from the Last War has arrived, I’m starting my breakdown of it by finishing up the History of the Artificer series. As a reminder, this class went through multiple rounds of public playtesting in Unearthed Arcana (v1, v2, v3). I’ll write this on the assumption you haven’t read all of those, but if you want some extra context, they may be interesting. Part Zero | Part One | Part Two | Part Three | Part Four | Part Five | Part Six | Part […]

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The Artificer Class, Part Six

Brandes Stoddard — Thu, 03 Oct 2019 12:00:36 +0000

Today I’m finishing my exploration of Rich Howard’s Alchemist class, with the Irezumi, Metamorph, Poisoner, Pyromancer, and Re-Animator subclasses. Have I mentioned that Rich created an impressive array of subclasses? The best part, though, is how none of them tread on one another, conceptually or mechanically. Part Zero | Part One | Part Two | Part Three | Part Four | Part Five | Part Six Irezumi Magical tattoos are one of those recurring ideas in gaming, because they’re a recurring idea in real-world legends. For that matter, […]

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The Artificer Class, Part Five

Brandes Stoddard — Wed, 21 Aug 2019 12:00:55 +0000

My text for today is a little unusual, in that I’m covering something from Tribality Publishing. One of our earliest and most successful releases is Rich Howard’s Alchemist class. It includes an Artificer tradition among its subclasses, so it belongs in this series. There are a lot of traditions for the alchemist, so I’ll try to cover all of them but there’s a chance it’ll stretch out to two articles. Part Zero | Part One | Part Two | Part Three | Part Four | Part Five The […]

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The Artificer Class, Part Four

Brandes Stoddard — Thu, 08 Aug 2019 12:00:39 +0000

Now that GenCon 2019 is done, I can come back to the History of the Artificer. This week we’re taking on 4e and the Eberron Player’s Guide. By coincidence this is the one version of the artificer I’ve seen in actual use at the table. (There were no artificers in the one 3.5 Eberron campaign I played.) Part Zero | Part One | Part Two | Part Three | Part Four Eberron Player’s Guide This is the second Arcane Leader class of 4e. Making the […]

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The Artificer Class, Part Three

Brandes Stoddard — Thu, 18 Jul 2019 13:51:02 +0000

Thanks to several Alert Readers including Trampas Whiteman and Cam Banks, another chapter in the story of the artificer came to my attention: War of the Lance, the 3.5e Dragonlance supplement coincidentally written by Cam Banks, Trampas Whiteman, et al. Today we’re looking at the master class and the Gnomish Tinker prestige class. Part Zero | Part One | Part Two | Part Three The Master This is a strictly nonmagical conception of excellence in crafting. It doesn’t, in itself, offer a lot […]

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The Artificer Class, Part Two

Brandes Stoddard — Wed, 03 Jul 2019 14:30:29 +0000

Welcome back to the History of the Artificer. Here in the third* article, we’re finally going to see a version of the class that is called an artificer, and is 100% different from the Clockwork Mage kit and the tinker class. *sometimes we count like programmers Part Zero | Part One | Part Two Eberron Campaign Setting (3.5) The theme presented here leans all the way into replacing technology (steam, clockwork, whatever) with magic. The artificer is a technician of magic […]

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