For example?
Trap making features for the Bounty Hunter for example.
For example?
Trap making features for the Bounty Hunter for example.
I disagree, I don't think that mechanics are particularly needed for either bounty hunter or archeologist. A diviner might use their spells to hunt down their quarry or find lost artifacts. A ranger or rogue lie in wait for their quarry.To do them right requires more mechanical meat then the backgrounds offer.
I don't think building traps are really something that I'd want to see as a class ability. As soon as that happens players start thinking that they must have those class abilities to build traps.Trap making features for the Bounty Hunter for example.
Legitimate question here:Alchemist (though covered by Artificer)
Trap making is more like a Tool proficiency.
Certain classes like Ranger, and certain races like Grugach Elf (and Kobold) would have a way to gain proficiency with it.
In the mean time, the Sleight of Hand skill can handle it. And DMs who use the option can make an Intelligence (Sleight of Hand) check to make a trap, as opposed to disarm one.
This is a great reason why example characters are useful.Legitimate question here:
What is the difference between an Alchemist and a Transmuter?
I feel Transmuter is the "classical" alchemist that turns things into other things while Alchemist is someone who combines actual Chemistry with Magic.Legitimate question here:
What is the difference between an Alchemist and a Transmuter?
I'd say it would depend on the kind of trap: thieves tools, survival might apply.
But they aren’t shackled. There could be a ritualist patron, and that just allows mixing ritualist with familiar or swordy stuff.Mearls made some good points about how it shackles their ability to make more of either pact or patron options, which is seen in controversy over the Hexblade.
Transmutation is not the singular focus of Alchemists like pop culture would like you to think. IRL Alchemists were chemists, pathologists, herbalists, inventors, etc. In other words, scientists. The idea that they were all obsessed with transmuting lead into gold is at best an oversimplification, and at worst an incomprehensible wild mischaracterization.Legitimate question here:
What is the difference between an Alchemist and a Transmuter?