Artifcers in non-eberron games!

[tecnowraith]

I like to know would any players play artificers in non-eberron games like Greyhawk, Forgotten Realms or any other world. Also which playable races (non-eberron cultures) would or could you see being an Artificer?

 

[Staffan]

Since I'm running an Eberron game, I can't really answer the first part of your question. As for the second - I think dwarves and gnomes, with their interest in building things, would make natural artificers. Dwarves would be slightly hampered by their Cha penalty, but that's hardly crippling.

 

[Cabral]

I have a Halfling Artificer (Skip N. Stone) in a homebrew campaign my wife runs and she has a human artificer in a homebrew campaign I run. So, yes. The only concern is the presence of Artificers increases the magic available to a party due to their craft reserve and Dedicated Wright (if you allow them to make one). As for races? Humans, Half-elves, Gnomes, and Dwarves would be most common artificers. The rest are traditionally tied to a form of magic (Elves) or tend to avoid magic (Half-orcs). That's not to say that they can't be an articer, merely that they would be less common.

 

[ForceUser]

I like to know would any players play artificers in non-eberron games like Greyhawk, Forgotten Realms or any other world. Also which playable races (non-eberron cultures) would or could you see being an Artificer?

I have artificers in my non-Eberron campaign. IMC, the class originated with the gnomes, and is that race's favored class. The vast majority of artificers are gnomes, though they have trained a select few individuals of other races. All in all, IMC it is a fairly rare class, and the wondrous widgets the class can invent are found largely in the gnomish homeland.

 

[SteelDraco]

I've had an artificer in a Rokugan game I ran. He was a Kaiu, which is one of the clans dedicated to building stuff and forging weapons. I'd probably allow an Ashahina or Agasha artificer, too.

 

[Ero Gaki]

The artificer actually fits very well in the Forgotten Realms. The country of Rashaman has a spellcatsing tradition where the females fight the battles/defend the land, while the male spellcasters are stuck making magic items for the females. The males could all be artificers.

 

[Twiggly the Gnome]

Another good place for Artificers in the Forgotten Realms is Maztica. It's probably the best class to model the artisans of feather and claw. Just write-up seperate Pluma and Hishna infusion lists and you're golden.

 

[Cabral]

Also, in forgotten realms, Artificers fit in very well with worshipers of Gond and denizens of Lantan which, funnily enough, have a Prestige Class called Gnome Artificer in Magic of Faerun.

 

[tecnowraith]

This is some good feedback, thanks. What about Greyhawk?