D&D Beyond Adds Illrigger Class from MCDM

D&D Beyond has added the Illrigger class from MCDM, marking only the second time that the service has added a third party class made for D&D 5th edition. This week, D&D Beyond launched support for the Illrigger, an elite servant of hell with a versatile number of combat options. MCDM originally released the Illrigger class back in 2021 and revised the class in 2023. Both were made for 5th Edition rules and do not incorporate rules from the 2024 Core Rulebook updates.

The illrigger is a primarily martial class that can place seals on their enemy and burn them to deal additional damage. As agents of hell, illriggers are generally evil-aligned characters, but players aren't limited to a specific alignment. The illrigger ruleset on D&D Beyond comes with 5 different subclasses, as well as 8 new spells, and 2 new magic items.

Other than the illrigger, D&D Beyond also supports the Blood Hunter, a 5E class originally designed by Matt Mercer and used in Critical Role. While the Blood Hunter was released for free, the illrigger costs $14.99 on D&D Beyond.

 

[Ulorian - Agent of Chaos]

In the other thread on the Illrigger being added to DnD Beyond, it was mentioned that the name comes from the Dragon Magazine article from the AD&D-era about Paladins for Every Level, back when the paladin class was locked to LG alignment. Illrigger was the LE proposal, very knight of Hell themed.

So nostalgia is the biggest reason the name was reused.

Wow... I had a subscription to Dragon for a number of years. That issue is in my crawlspace somewhere.

 

[Hathorym]

$15 for a class? Seems a little steep, but capitalism's gotta capitalize I guess.

 

[AdmundfortGeographer]

$15 for a class? Seems a little steep, but capitalism's gotta capitalize I guess.

Pay workers their worth.

 

[DEFCON 1]

$15 for a class? Seems a little steep, but capitalism's gotta capitalize I guess.

Yeah, but you're paying for all the playtesting and iterations that have gone on to get this class into the shape it is in.

If people want Free classes, there are umpteen threads here on EN World, Reddit, DMs Guild and various blogs to get them. But as always the case... you get what you pay for.

 

[Waller]

Yeah, but you're paying for all the playtesting and iterations that have gone on to get this class into the shape it is in.

Strong argument! The price measures the quality. Cool!

This 7-page class costs $15 (about $2 per page). The 284-page D&D 2024 Player's Handbook costs $30, about $0.10 per page.

The 600-page Adventurer's Guide for A5E costs $50, about $0.8 per page.

So what we're agreeing here is that the MCDM illrigger class, at $2 per page is [[digs out calculator]] 20 times more playtested and iterated than the 2024 PHB and 25 times more playtested and iterated than the A5E Adventurer's Guide.

I mean, we're playing for the playtesting and iterations, right? That's what we're agreed on?

Let's not be silly. "Playtesting and iterations" are not the explanation for the price. Otherwise the PHB would cost $600.

If people want Free classes, there are umpteen threads here on EN World, Reddit, DMs Guild and various blogs to get them.

Nobody asked for free classes. Seriously, at this point in the internet's history, strawmanning is just embarrassing. Everybody who read that winced a collective cringe. You might have gotten away with it in the early 2000s, but it's internet literacy 101 by now.

 

[Jefe Bergenstein]

So what we're agreeing here is that the MCDM illrigger class, at $2 per page is [[digs out calculator]] 20 times more playtested and iterated than the 2024 PHB and 25 times more playtested and iterated than the A5E Adventurer's Guide.

I mean... probably on the PHB side? WOTC writes rules with less care than my cat.

Its like buying the Eberron guide when all you really care about is the Artifier or the SCAG when someone only wants the 2 pages of blade cantrips

 

[mamba]

This 7-page class costs $15 (about $2 per page).

not sure how you arrive at 7 pages, DTRPG says 40 pages, and there it is $12, so you might have to redo that math

DriveThruRPG

www.drivethrurpg.com

Let's not be silly. "Playtesting and iterations" are not the explanation for the price.

agreed, economics of scale is

 

[kenmarable]

Pay workers their worth.

Exactly, including the DDB programmers because adding a CLASS is massively more complicated than every single spell, feat, magic item, monster, etc. Knee jerk responses of "a creative project isn't cheap, so capitalism is gonna capitalism" is tiring and trite.

The enpoopification of Google and tech's ridiculous push of AI are examples of "capitalism is gonna capitalism."

Game designers, editors, programmers, etc. getting paid to create something people will enjoy for months or years is most certainly not that, and it just sounds silly to claim so. Besides, corporations love when random people devalue the labor of creatives. Helps them in the long run.

 

[Bayushi_seikuro]

I mean... probably on the PHB side? WOTC writes rules with less care than my cat.

Its like buying the Eberron guide when all you really care about is the Artifier or the SCAG when someone only wants the 2 pages of blade cantrips

It used to be on DDB where you could buy the class or spell or item out of specific books for about $2 each. The nice thing was, if you ended up coming back and buying the book, they discounted it by what you'd previously spent.

 

[DEFCON 1]

Strong argument! The price measures the quality. Cool!

This 7-page class costs $15 (about $2 per page). The 284-page D&D 2024 Player's Handbook costs $30, about $0.10 per page.

The 600-page Adventurer's Guide for A5E costs $50, about $0.8 per page.

So what we're agreeing here is that the MCDM illrigger class, at $2 per page is [[digs out calculator]] 20 times more playtested and iterated than the 2024 PHB and 25 times more playtested and iterated than the A5E Adventurer's Guide.

I mean, we're playing for the playtesting and iterations, right? That's what we're agreed on?

Let's not be silly. "Playtesting and iterations" are not the explanation for the price. Otherwise the PHB would cost $600.



Nobody asked for free classes. Seriously, at this point in the internet's history, strawmanning is just embarrassing. Everybody who read that winced a collective cringe. You might have gotten away with it in the early 2000s, but it's internet literacy 101 by now.

Who peed in your cornflakes this morning?