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Message: <blockquote data-quote="thelordofthemorning" data-source="post: 8482215" data-attributes="member: 6811375">So, from a purely mechanical stand point, I love it.  So much better than O5e artificer.I am a little grumpy about it being so completely not appropriate for every campaign setting flavorwise, specifically that the technological aspect makes it not really appropriate to a lot of more traditional fantasy or or medieval sword and sorcery settings, which is what I tend to prefer.  The techno-magical approach is certainly a valid one for the artificer, but it's not the only one, and I would have preferred the base class to be presented in a slightly more flexible manner.  However, I don't think that is necessarily a deal breaker, as other than the Engineer subclass I think this can be fairly easily reflavored/reskinned to fit into a less technological setting.  Just in case anyone else shares my preferences and is interested, here's a rough draft of me rewritten non-techno flavor for the A5e Artificer:Artificers are those who thirst for arcane knowledge and power, and more importantly for new arcane knowledge and power.  They find the hide bound traditions, ancient "wisdom", and esoteric rituals of traditional magical practice to be narrowminded and stifling, and so they set out on their own in search of new, unorthodox means of channeling magic.  Magic is an inherently unpredictable and dangerous thing, and though artificers risk life and limb and frequent failure in their experiments, they attempt to insulate themselves somewhat from the unpredictable risks of their recklessness by focusing on sympathetic magic, the channeling of mystical energies through physical objects and foci and the harnessing of the innate magical properties of strange alchemic substances, as opposed to directly casting spells.  This reliance on physical implements means that many artificers come from a background of being mundane craftsman, and those who do not quickly develop such skills out of necessity.  Most interestingly of all, their studies give them unique insight into the supremely difficult and costly creation, use, and powering of magical items, insight even the greatest of traditional wizards and sorcerers cannot replicate, much to their consternation.Spell inventions become unstable foci, bombardier either makes their bombs more explicitly magical (mini fireball you can throw) or emphasizes their alchemical nature (supped up alchemist fire or acid flask), stitcher is pretty much good to go, drop the engineer, add in the O5e artificer alchemist if you really want a third (ideally tweaking it first since O5e alchemist sucks), and there you have it.</blockquote>

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