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<blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 7772038" data-attributes="member: 7006">Oh come on now... let's be real here.&nbsp; The Artificer is a thing because Eberron made it a thing.&nbsp; So why else would WotC find the need to create and re-publish an Artificer if not for the Eberron setting?&nbsp; There have been hundreds of classes made for D&amp;D over the years, in every edition and for countless books and in countless issues of Dragon Magazine.&nbsp; If they are deciding to remake the Artificer for 5E, its because they want it available for Eberron, not just because they decided to randomly choose a 13th class to publish and this just happened to be the selection they drew out of a hat.And while yes, psionics have been around since AD&amp;D, they were never a focal point of any part of the game until Dark Sun purposefully made it an inherent part of their setting.&nbsp; So again, if WotC was going to choose to publish this new Psion class for 5E and need a book to do it in, the most logical place to have it appear would be in the setting that is most closely aligned to it.&nbsp; Sure they could have just put it in Xanathar's if they wanted to... but what would have been the point?&nbsp; Just to have a 13th class out there for people?&nbsp; I mean, I guess you could do that if you felt any real need to make a 13th class available just because... but personally I don't see it.Now, would it have bothered me if either the Artificer or the Psion had appeared earlier in just some random book?&nbsp; Nope.&nbsp; I'd look at them and go &quot;Okay, they are now officially available for people.&nbsp; Lovely.&quot;&nbsp; But I also have not been put out at all that they haven't appeared.&nbsp; Why? Because quite frankly I've already been using both of them already anyway in their playtest forms.&nbsp; A player of mine used the playtest Mystic in one of my Curse of Strahd games, and another player is currently using kibbletasty's expanded Artificer class based upon the playtest doc in my current Eberron game.&nbsp; And the fact that they aren't &quot;officially released&quot; hasn't mattered one whit.And it also matters not that WotC gets 50% of any DMs Guild sale, because if just selling lots of material for the cash was really all that mattered to them, they would have already made or opened all kinds of stuff.&nbsp; Besides which, as I said... they aren't really helping themselves by opening up Mystara on the DMs Guild, because 50% of nothing is nothing.&nbsp; And while you may think you have some way of generating sales from settings that practically no one is playing... I suspect WotC would rather just wait on those nickels until such time as they can be fully supported across the entire platform.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DEFCON 1, post: 7772038, member: 7006"] Oh come on now... let's be real here. The Artificer is a thing because Eberron made it a thing. So why else would WotC find the need to create and re-publish an Artificer if not for the Eberron setting? There have been hundreds of classes made for D&D over the years, in every edition and for countless books and in countless issues of Dragon Magazine. If they are deciding to remake the Artificer for 5E, its because they want it available for Eberron, not just because they decided to randomly choose a 13th class to publish and this just happened to be the selection they drew out of a hat. And while yes, psionics have been around since AD&D, they were never a focal point of any part of the game until Dark Sun purposefully made it an inherent part of their setting. So again, if WotC was going to choose to publish this new Psion class for 5E and need a book to do it in, the most logical place to have it appear would be in the setting that is most closely aligned to it. Sure they could have just put it in Xanathar's if they wanted to... but what would have been the point? Just to have a 13th class out there for people? I mean, I [I]guess[/I] you could do that if you felt any real need to make a 13th class available just because... but personally I don't see it. Now, would it have bothered me if either the Artificer or the Psion had appeared earlier in just some random book? Nope. I'd look at them and go "Okay, they are now officially available for people. Lovely." But I also have not been put out at all that they haven't appeared. Why? Because quite frankly I've already been using both of them already anyway in their playtest forms. A player of mine used the playtest Mystic in one of my [I]Curse of Strahd[/I] games, and another player is currently using kibbletasty's expanded Artificer class based upon the playtest doc in my current Eberron game. And the fact that they aren't "officially released" hasn't mattered one whit. And it also matters not that WotC gets 50% of any DMs Guild sale, because if just selling lots of material for the cash was really all that mattered to them, they would have already made or opened all kinds of stuff. Besides which, as I said... they aren't [I]really[/I] helping themselves by opening up Mystara on the DMs Guild, because 50% of nothing is nothing. And while you may think you have some way of generating sales from settings that practically no one is playing... I suspect WotC would rather just wait on those nickels until such time as they can be fully supported across the entire platform. [/QUOTE]

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