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    D&D 5E (2024) What's New with the Artificer in Eberron: Forge of the Artificer

    The dreadnaught projects an arcane wrecking ball or sledgehammer that deals Force damage- emphasis mine. This reads that the weapon the dreadnaught uses is an energy construct, not a physical item. Guardian? "You can discharge concussive blasts with strikes from your armor. The pulse counts as...
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    D&D 5E (2024) What's New with the Artificer in Eberron: Forge of the Artificer

    Armor-related is slightly better at first blush, because that includes shields now, which is ironic, considering that a shield is the one thing not attached to your armor chasis, so you're not upgrading it directly.
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    D&D 5E (2024) What's New with the Artificer in Eberron: Forge of the Artificer

    Much like the Demon Armor's claw attacks, the Armorer weapons are considered part of the same item as the Armor itself. They are not considered distinct items, with Masteries and the ilk, and thus have slightly different rules. This idea is reinforced by the level 9 feature of both the 2014 and...
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    D&D 5E (2024) What's New with the Artificer in Eberron: Forge of the Artificer

    Ah, Cartographer instead of Artificer spell list. Yeah, missed that. Makes more sense now, even if its a slightly worse ability, I think. All in all, quite frustrating imho.
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    D&D 5E (2024) What's New with the Artificer in Eberron: Forge of the Artificer

    Some thoughts - Okay, so I'm actually a big fan of the changes to Artificer 2024 base class. There's a few minor pain points (mainly the weird way casting foci work, and lack of artificer-specific spells) but nothing I would consider a deal breaker, and the rest of the changes actively feel...
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    D&D 5E (2024) What's New with the Artificer in Eberron: Forge of the Artificer

    Just out of curiosity, what precisely did they remove that you find missing? Not picking a fight or anything, I'm just honestly curious here what you feel is missing.
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    D&D 5E (2024) What should the 15th Class be?

    Psion is attached to the Dark Suns setting. Artificer is attached to the Eberron setting. Its heavily implied that each of the new classes are being released inside of specific setting books. If we're going to see another new class, the only one I see being likely is Warlord, since that's...
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    D&D General An At-Will Warlock, Warlock’s Curse, and an Idiosyncratic Recharge Idea

    Doable, I suppose; ive always considered warlock to be closer to half-caster in spirit. But there's one big hang up. Survivability is currently tied up into spells. Most notably, armor of agathys for extra thp, bit there's others. The familiar to make drone strikes. This creates an...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Simplifying Dual Wielding in 5e-2024

    Okay, the OP's suggestion is just unbalancing. Duel Wielding is already one of the stronger options in the game. Allowing weapons with higher damage dice and removing the restraining features of Light and Two Weapon Fighting FS? This is just allowing stronger combinations while turning the...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Should a general Adventurer class be created to represent the Everyman?

    I kinda get the feeling that this Everyman class is pretty human-centric with a dash of halfling. Like, elves. All elves, gnomes and tieflings are innately sorcerers. That's their Everyman - low level spellcasters. What would a dwarven Everyman look like? Their Moradin-based culture revolves...
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    D&D 5E (2024) What upcoming WotC D&D product are you excited about?

    I want Artificer. That about sums up my desires. I might crack open the FR players if it has interesting stuff beyond the subclasses, but i doubt it.
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    D&D General What races/species populate your DnD world?

    I leave in the core species, but add in warforged, shifters, an abberant inspired tiefling and plasmoids as slimefolk. Other species intermixed with core til theres no differences. Goblins intermixed with halflings to the point there's no differences, just throwbacks. Same with Hobs, bugbears...
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    D&D General What Should Magic Be Able To Do, From a Gameplay Design Standpoint?

    Okay. So. Magic in general should be able do anything. Specific kinds of magic, such as wizardry, should have specific niches, themes and limitations that they cater to. Traditionally, there are four flavors of "magic" in DND. Martial, Divine/Primal, Arcane, and sometimes Psionic. Which...
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    D&D Launches New Eberron-Themed Playtest With Dragonmarked Feats

    I'm getting 11th Doctor vibes from him. He's got that Matt Smith feel. At least, some of that "Gentleman Explorer."
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    D&D 5E (2024) Why aren't Angels concidered a type of Empryeans?

    I don't know. The Ophanim (giant wheels of eyes and wings) have become quite popular to the point that calling them "biblically accurate angels" is a meme. They casually show up in video games as such. Wings, glowy halos and randomly placed eyes seem to be common enough motifs with angels...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Humanoids in the MM...

    These are all PC options - as in, are an existing PHB option. They're humanoids. Deep gnomes are just a flavor of gnome, and those aren't going to change from what the PHB says. Duergar are dwarves. Drow and Orog are just elves/orcs, and elf / orc have stat blocks. They're not going to change...
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    D&D General Let's make the upper planes playable!

    Some thoughts. I'd argue that the only planes that really matter are the eight alignments (Mt Celestia, Arborea, Elysium, Mechanus, Limbo, Hell, Abyss, Hades) plus Sigil - all other planes exist only as glorified transitional planes. Places you walk through to get somewhere else. You don't...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Why aren't Angels concidered a type of Empryeans?

    So. Food for thought. There's a bit in the 2024 DMG, when it talks about gods and their ranks (page 74)? You have Greater Deities (think Moradin, Corellon, etc), Lesser Deities - "the creations, children, or servitors of the greater deities" - and Quasi-deities. That last rank includes...
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