Unearthed Arcana New Unearthed Arcana: Revised Artificer

Chryssis · May 15, 2019

i think just adding something like "[Y]ou take a bonus action on your turn to command it (the Iron Defender) to take one of the actions in its stat block or the Dash, Disengage, or Help action until you give it another command." would solve the TWF bonus action conflict.

Gradine · May 15, 2019

I also really like this version of the Artificer. I agree; ship as is.

Also, a reminder: homonculi were always a fairly core class feature for Artificers.

Stacie GmrGrl · May 15, 2019

Still not as good as other Artificer and Alchemist and Craftsman classes by 3rd party developers.

Azzy · May 15, 2019

UngeheuerLich said:
That would still leave the beastmaster unable to use TWF.
Imagine you chose twf as your weapons style and then you decide to take beastmaster.
While I don't hate the two weapon fighting rule, maybe it needs a general revision to not take a bonus action but using a bonus action improves it. Or we need the twf style remove the bonus action cost.

Yeah, maybe TWF needs to be fixed, too.

Zardnaar · May 15, 2019

Starting to think the bonus action twf thing was a mistake. Well that or the great weapon master feat.

cbwjm · May 15, 2019

Make TWF like earlier editions as just a thing you can do with your off-hand when you make an attack and the problem is solved. I know some people might not like free g up the bonus action for other things but I don't really think it is a major issue.

5ekyu · May 15, 2019

Azzy said:
Yeah, maybe TWF needs to be fixed, too.

I would say this is just an example of poor choices by the player. How is this different from any other character choosing more than one bonus sction attack pair of options?

Making your "bonus action attack" be the beast attack instead of your blade attack fits to me pretty solid.