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Message: <blockquote data-quote="cbwjm" data-source="post: 8791150" data-attributes="member: 6788732">Out of interest, I was thinking about how an Artificer might access the arcane spell list since it seems that some classes have limited access to a spell list. While I'm not really assuming the artificer will get a revision in 2024 PHB, it might have a revision in a later book.Looking at the artificer's spells they have the following schools/spell numbers in their current list:<table style='width: 100%'><tr><td>School</td><td>Number of Spells</td></tr><tr><td>Abjuration</td><td>15</td></tr><tr><td>Conjuration</td><td>12</td></tr><tr><td>Divination</td><td>5</td></tr><tr><td>Enchantment</td><td>1</td></tr><tr><td>Evocation</td><td>17</td></tr><tr><td>Illusion</td><td>5</td></tr><tr><td>Necromancy</td><td>1</td></tr><tr><td>Transmutation</td><td>39</td></tr></table>Additionally, the Artificer has 5 spells that aren't arcane spells and that I didn't include in the table above: spare the dying, cure wounds, lesser restoration, revivify, and greater restoration.Looking at this, enchantment and necromancy can easily be removed since they only have a single spell, and divination and illusion only have 5 so most likely could also be removed from artificer access, however, divination includes the spells identify and detect magic, 2 spells which I think an artificer should have so perhaps they'll keep it but I also feel like they could get those two spells as a class feature as something always prepared. Illusion has the creation spell which is also a prime candidate for an artificer, but since WotC are will to swap schools this could easily be included by making it conjuration.Since artificers are also able to heal, I wouldn't be surprised if they have a "Songs of Restoration" ability like the bard, probably something like "Artifacts of Healing" but where the bard gets healing word, the artificer gets cure wounds.So if I had to speculate what spell access a potential artificer update would have, I believe it would be the schools of Abjuration, Conjuration, Evocation, and Transmutation. They'll have class features that grant them access to detect magic and identify; and access to 5 healing spells in a similar fashion as the bard.</blockquote>

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