D&D 5E (2014) Mike Mearls Twitter-Martial adapts and Artificers

[gyor]

Mike has confirmed Arrificers will be in 5e on his twitter account. He also asked about the Book of Nine Swords and asked which was your favourite, Warblades, Cruasaders and I forget the other one. He then whistled not so innocently.



Just thought we need to have a thread for dnd next info dropped via twitter.

 

[GX.Sigma]

Just thought we need to have a thread for dnd next info dropped via twitter.

We do.

 

[gyor]

Good to have a link to it, but that thread hasn't been used since december 2012!

This is for fresh stuff.

Still good to have a link to it so thank you.

 

[John Quixote]

This is good to finally know. Given than 95% of all campaigns I run have a steampunky flavor, it would be hard for me to give 5e a serious try without the artificer.

Now if they can just get us a decent bard...

EDIT: Oh, and Gyor, you're thinking of the Swordsage.

 

[GX.Sigma]

Of course there will be artificers in D&D Next. The real question is whether they will be available at launch. The answer to that is probably no.

 

[GX.Sigma]

(Ack, the double-posting fairy strikes again!)

 

[Weather Report]

Very good news, the ToB classes (and Incarnum) convert very easily to the 5th Ed chassis, the big pull for me in 5th Ed is ease of conversion, all of my pre-3rdEd material is looking extra enticing.

 

[delericho]

Mike has confirmed Arrificers will be in 5e

That's good. If they're including a class whose power comes from crafting lots of items, that will force them to properly playtest the rules for crafting items (and, indeed, magic items themselves). This was something that looked good in 3e, but which turned out to be quite badly flawed.

He also asked about the Book of Nine Swords and asked which was your favourite, Warblades, Cruasaders and I forget the other one.

Swordsage.

By rights, there really shouldn't be a place for those classes in 5e. They were created in 3e as an attempt to level the playing field for martial classes versus spellcasters, and also as a stealth playtest for some of the 4e mechanics. Since WotC should be aiming to get the martial/magic balance right from the outset, and since we've moved on from 4e, neither of those reasons now apply. Everything worthwhile that those classes offered should really be available as options for the more 'classic' martial classes anyway.

 

[gyor]

I don't know, they maybe eyeing them for builds for other classes or chunk them up as feats or wierder things. I assume Mike asked the question for a reason, I just don't what use he has planned for them.

 

[Jeff Carlsen]

Considering we know the team is currently writing up these new, bigger feats, I'm pretty confident that such questions are in relation to those.

Mearls mentioned the other day that he'd just worked up a feat that granted a character spellcasting. I'm betting we'll be seeing feats that grant mechanics like those in Book of Nine Swords. Coincidentally, I posted recently that doing exactly that would be a good idea, and I still think it is.