D&D 5E (2024) Homunculus Servant, Conjure Constructs, Deryan's Helpful Homunculi have class restrictions that make no sense

[TravDoc42]

BG3 has a lot of (implied) artificers, even though the class isn’t implemented for PCs.

And the high priest of Gond is the High Artificer. Most of his worshippers are inventors who are definitely Artificers, even if not called that explicitly.

 

[Mephista]

Wizards need to keep their filthy hands off other classes' pets. Seriously, they don't wash hands after ruffling through that lich's tome. Gross.

Until they learn proper hygiene and to properly care for their own familiar, they get no more spells or subclasses.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

BG3 has a lot of (implied) artificers, even though the class isn’t implemented for PCs.

Yeah its very much entrenched that Artificers are in the Forgotten Realms (and by way of FR, Ravenloft, Planescape, and Spelljammer).

 

[Cap'n Kobold]

Yeah its very much entrenched that Artificers are in the Forgotten Realms (and by way of FR, Ravenloft, Planescape, and Spelljammer).

Yep. - Artificers fit in pretty much all current D&D settings.
I would not be surprised if the class is reprinted in a later "of Everything" book, probably with an updated spell list.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

Yep. - Artificers fit in pretty much all current D&D settings.
I would not be surprised if the class is reprinted in a later "of Everything" book, probably with an updated spell list.

Really it should have been in the PHB.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Yep. - Artificers fit in pretty much all current D&D settings.
I would not be surprised if the class is reprinted in a later "of Everything" book, probably with an updated spell list.

I suspect we will have both artificers and psions in a 2026 core rules supplement book. Although whether the psion is a reprint depends on if it comes out before or after Dark Sun.

I suspect one artificer subclass will remain exclusive to this book though - probably Cartographer. With one exclusive to the new book (Reanimator).

 

[Distracted DM]

Regarding "artificers would fit into most settings," is there a magic item creation conflict of identity?

A setting may be:
magic is everywhere, artificers fit in, magic item creation is common enough to justify it. Forgotten realms and eberron are big callouts for this, they have very common magic.

Or:

Magic items were largely created in the past, by greater civilizations, that's why we delve into dangerous dungeons, for treasures of the past including magics that are greater than anything we can create now (lost knowledge, post post apocalypse, forgotten Roman tech analogue). Artificers don't make a lot of sense here, unless your artificer is relatively unique.

I'm always torn between these two for my own games. I like the romanticism of the latter but the former is more desirable by players and practical from certain GM standpoints.