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Tasha's had 4th level Summon Construct, which wouldn't be legal at most tables since it was reprinted in the 2024 PHB, but also it was actually listed in the new Eberron book as an Artificer spell so no issues there. The 3rd level spell Conjure Constructs is what should presumably be listed...

Picture caption: "DERYAN KAYA SUMONS A HORDE OF CONSTRUCTS TO FIGHT OFF A BLUE DRAGON" Book text: Artificers can cast neither the Conjure Constructs spell (which is the one which would summon a "horde" of constructs), nor the Deryan's Helpful Homunculi spell named after the Artificer in the...

It's not really "at odds" though, you can easily have a highly detailed setting and just not be a stickler for making sure that every PC concept fits perfectly into the DM's perfectly curated vision. Most of those characters I listed were not "comic relief", they were serious characters played...

I already responded once to this quote but it got me thinking of some of the far more goofy characters that our table has seen show up in the past couple years without causing any issue in the campaign. We've had a group playing Mario/Luigi/Peach, a group playing various Pokemons (I forget...

A few people on an internet forum having a complaint about something that can easily be addressed by simply communicating expectations to the people at your table does not make it an actual problem that should be addressed by changing an entire game design that is loved by millions of people.

Yeah don't get me wrong, I actually would love to see a "standard 5e setting" that WotC supports with lore and adventure arcs and such. I don't think it would solve any of the "problems" being discussed in this thread (which aren't actually problems in my opinion), but I do think it would be...

It's more like the greatest strength is that each table can decide for themselves whether this is ok. That would be perfectly fine at my table, and I haven't yet played with any DM who was controlling enough about the setting to disallow such things, but it's also completely acceptable to put...

Those games all have a tiny fraction of the player base that DnD 5e has. I bet they would all love it if DnD abandoned one of it's biggest strengths by consolidating everything down to one setting* *Not that WotC could even do this if they wanted to, they tried to stop third parties from...

Since when has any internet forum ever strove for consensus? Closest thing to a consensus you're ever going to see is everyone agreeing to disagree

Well I suppose the "tailorability" of the rules in DnD is more of a culture/expectation thing and not that the rules are particularly well designed to enable it. Any game design has infinitely tailorable rules if you simply throw out what you don't like and replace it with something else...

Tailorability of the setting (and even the rules) is one of the major strengths of DnD design and why it remains the most popular TTRPG. Excellent decision by TSR.

I'd love to see more proper setting books but I don't think it would solve much here since most DMs are going to homebrew their own world regardless of what WotC publishes. Even though I'd love to see more setting books, I wouldn't actually use the settings for anything more than cherrypicking...

Technically anyone can craft it at 1st level with 200 gold and 10 days of downtime, as long as they have Tinker Tool proficiency (automatic for Artificer) and Arcana proficiency (which should be an automatic pick for any Artificer)

I'd definitely agree that's the aesthetic style of the pictures in the book. As far as the abilities themselves, if I were reading the text alone with no context or pre-existing knowledge of Eberron, I'd say the vibe was "standard DnD magic item shopkeeper" that would fit seamlessly into any...

Heroic Fantasy vs Epic Fantasy vs Mythic Fantasy vs Bright Fantasy - ok someone help me out with some definitions here

The first bullet is a very subjective question, it depends heavily on what you think the Artificer "class fantasy" is. If your definition of the Artificer class fantasy is that they are the party's primary crafter, buffing the entire party via downtime crafting of magic items, then yeah this...

I've never done that before, or even heard of anyone attempting it, but it does seems like this could work REALLY well if everyone was on board with the concept that the entire first session (or maybe more!) is dedicated to taking however much time is required to create characters and party...

There are so many DMs in my area looking for players but unable to find any stable groups of people who want to play. I just want players to show up over half the time, give a warning ahead of time when they'll miss a session, and have fun when they do show up. Almost everyone I ever meet who...

Seems like that would make sense to for the War Bond weapon(s) be usable as an Arcane Focus, but Arcane Tricksters also have no method to use a weapon as a focus so I guess the logic is Primary Casters = Yes; Tertiary Casters = No. Does anyone actually keep track of Spellcasting Focuses? I'd...

This is definitely true online but in my experience the exact opposite is true for in-person groups. There is a huuuuuuge number of people who have never played DnD before and say they want to try it (but don't remotely understand the time commitment required for a successful group), and then...