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The Artificer is an arcane leader, and will appear in the Eberron Player's Guide (source). A playtest/preview version appears in Dragon 365.
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Keith Baker says "you can expect to see an early version of the artificer in next month's Dragon. I don't know if it will be the full class or a partial build, but it should give you something to work with." (source)
Added to the first post a mention that the Forgotten Realms Player's Guide will also include a multiclass-only class for characters with spellscars (source).
Added to the first post a mention that the Forgotten Realms Player's Guide will also include a multiclass-only class for characters with spellscars (source).
Uh? Buh? Wth does multiclass-only class mean? Is the preview guy smoking crack or is the FR Player's Guide introducing some crazy new class system?
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Uh? Buh? Wth does multiclass-only class mean? Is the preview guy smoking crack or is the FR Player's Guide introducing some crazy new class system?
nope... just as many guessed, the same way to mullti class (feats that swap out powers) is going to be used for uniqe power sets that do not make a full class. I bet Dragon marks will be similar... and i hope this is how they address spell fire as well.
Don't know if this is 100% relevant as a "new" class but the Bazaar of the Bizarre: Treasures of Ashardalon article (http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/drbaz/20080707) mentions dragon pact warlocks. My best guess would be a spoiler for PHB2 or the Arcane Power book
Don't know if this is 100% relevant as a "new" class but the Bazaar of the Bizarre: Treasures of Ashardalon article (http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/drbaz/20080707) mentions dragon pact warlocks. My best guess would be a spoiler for PHB2 or the Arcane Power book
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on the other hand they could also be in the "Arcane Power" since it isn't a new class
My best guess would be a spoiler for PHB2 or the Arcane Power book
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It's been more or less implied that the Player's Handbooks would be about introducing new classes rather than adding to existing classes so far.
Dragonpact Warlocks are likely to be in Arcane Power, along with Shadow and Vestige Warlocks which have been suggested as well. And new wizard implements such as familiars. Whether Swordmages or Artificers will get coverage in that book is unknown, but there's probably some supplementary material on Bards and Sorcerers, like new 'patrons' or whatever.
Or the Draconomicon thingie would be a nice way to get more people to buy it as its not a new class per se would be getting around the only releasing classes in PHB's or player guides
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Of course you may be talking about all of the above in character where all the characters in the party count every single coin and keep track of it individually and all know the exact price of items, all can divide big numbers in their heads and all carry around a handy set of dice with them for when the roll off occurs, then of course you are fine, else well done you've taken some of the r out or rpg.
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This is a little bit speculative, but the Ashardalon Dragon article seems to suggest that druids use staffs as implements.
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The only mortal to stand against the full might of Ashardalon was a druid named Dydd, and, if legends
can be believed, he owed much of his success to a mysterious staff whose name and function have since
been lost. Many builders of magic items have worked to recreate his chosen implement, basing their efforts
on tales and myths, while others use such stories for new staffs of their own design.
I think the sorcerer should be a striker (although maybe that overlaps too much with the warlock). Most 3.x sorcerers seemed to lean more towards blowing things up than controlling the battlefield. That would mean that the druid (spellcaster variant) would fill the controller slot, although the druid (shifter) could be more of a striker or defender.
Barbarian as a frontline melee class does seem to fit naturally into the defender class, but with their high damage output I think they have at least some striker traits.
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There's been at least a little bit, but I haven't been keeping close track or updating the thread. Sorry.
I'll try to get to it sometime soon. I've been thinking it would be a good idea to get this info in the wiki, so anyone can update it. If anyone else wants to do that, feel free.
Full write up on Sword mage and Powers for up to 3rd level, as well as all 5 Genasi types in a RPGA release... I have it on my comp, but I can't remember where I got it. The link was in ENWorld somewhere...I will try and find it.
One of the PHB2 classes were described as having a "buddy" and happens to be a leader, as one of the vague clues out there in the Confessions of a Full-Time Wizard.
PHB2 blurb
- barbarian, druid, and sorcerer classes confirmed for PH2; barbarian and druid confirmed as primal
- gnome, half-orc, and goliath races confirmed for PHB2
Arcane Power
- confirms bard and sorcerer as arcane; strongly implies that the bard will be out before Arcane Power
Arcane Power
- confirms bard and sorcerer as arcane; strongly implies that the bard will be out before Arcane Power
They've mentioned the bard being in PHB2 a few times, they've mentioned the bard being an arcane leader, and they've implied that there will be a DDI preview of the Bard before PHB2.
as its not a new class per se would be getting around the only releasing classes in PHB's or player guides
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