D&D General Thoughts on New Artificer Subclasses from Exploring Eberron (D&D Beyond)

[Marandahir]

Keith Baker sat down with the D&D Beyond team to talk about the Maverick Artificer.

Link here

 

[Marandahir]

Is Exploring Eberron going to be updated for those that bought the PDF, but not the DnD Beyond version?

I tried the old Maverick and found it wanting, in general, a caster-focused subclass stapled to a half-caster felt really weak. But that's a shame, it is, conceptually, one of my fav Artificers as I liked the 3.5 Artificer with the Spell Storing Infusion, and this subclass is trying to emulate that.

Visionary Productions posted an FAQ including the answer to your question, on Facebook here.

But for ease of viewing, esp. for folks without FB, I screenshotted and attached below. Suffice to say, there's not going to be errata, but if you own the 5E 2014 version of the book, you will be able to buy the 5E 2024 version of the book at a dramatic discount – once it goes live on DMs Guild, for which there's no ETA.

I'd presume there's a licensing hurdle given D&D Beyond and Roll20 being competitors, much as there was before the WotC buyout when we could only get CritRoll stuff in one site or the other, but not both, for the longest time. Or at least, I'd guess WotC wants the book as a "timed-console-exclusive", given that it's essentially Keith's DLC for Forge of the Artificer.

 

[BigMac75]

Keith Baker sat down with the D&D Beyond team to talk about the Maverick Artificer.

Link here

Seems like mostly selling. Has anyone used the new subclass on D&D Beyond? As I mentioned earlier, early reviews found it had a bunch of missing components so wondering if it is fixes (my son is playing an Artificer in a campaign at school and has not declared his subclass yet).

Mostly I am looking for commentary on how people think it compares to the Battle Smith... Does the use of the infused one-time-use creations and the more open spell list make up for the loss of the Steel Defender and the couple of extra spell slots. All the other automaton creatures we were thinking about for the Battle Smith can be created by any subclass so it is mainly the Steel Defender that is lost.