D&D 5E (2024) So the Armorer still need be Wearing before Don his armor.

[aco175]

Really like these pictures. I had several initial thoughts about how light the case must be since he can repel one handed or how big is he, since it is either the 'Hulk' version of the Iron Man suit or he is about to fight some pecks. Maybe he is a giant and can do both. Either way cool picture.

The steamer trunk might make some players think twice about taking this class, although I feel most will wave this away and go full Iron Man with the nano stuff.

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

Reminds me of how the 3.5e Expanded Psionics Handbook had the Déjà vu power written out in full twice (on purpose).

Hah!

Reminds me when we were making the German equivalent of something like a "High School News Paper" (Abizeitung) and we had a poem called "In the Looking Glass" and intentionally mirrored it (crazy what was possible with the Mac publishing software we ha in the 90s already). But when we got the printed paper, the text was mirrored back. We figured that the printers saw it as a mistake and mirrored it back. (Now, 25 years later, I wonder if it could also have been that our Mac could do things that the printer software couldn't do?)

 

[Mistwell]

There's art in the new book that addresses this:

That's some excellent art. Love it. That the new Eberron books?

 

[pukunui]

That's some excellent art. Love it. That the new Eberron books?

Yep! Most of the art tells a story.

 

[Clint_L]

Really like these pictures. I had several initial thoughts about how light the case must be since he can repel one handed or how big is he, since it is either the 'Hulk' version of the Iron Man suit or he is about to fight some pecks. Maybe he is a giant and can do both. Either way cool picture.

The steamer trunk might make some players think twice about taking this class, although I feel most will wave this away and go full Iron Man with the nano stuff.

The steamer trunk is just one interpretation. It's not in the rules or anything.

 

[FitzTheRuke]

The steamer trunk is just one interpretation. It's not in the rules or anything.

I think that's one of their points for leaving the rules about it as vague as they have: It's up to the Player and their DM to decide how the character stores their armour when they "doff" it. It could shrink to a single gauntlet, fold itself into a backpack, be stored in a pocket dimension, stand around as a statue, or be stored in a steamer trunk. Or whatever.

 

[pukunui]

Really like these pictures. I had several initial thoughts about how light the case must be since he can repel one handed or how big is he, since it is either the 'Hulk' version of the Iron Man suit or he is about to fight some pecks. Maybe he is a giant and can do both. Either way cool picture.

The steamer trunk might make some players think twice about taking this class, although I feel most will wave this away and go full Iron Man with the nano stuff.

That character happens to be a changeling, as evidenced by the art accompanying the changeling species entry:

And the three figures running toward him in the second picture are these guys (Emerald Claw agents with a new - or should I say old? - look):

 

[Seramus]

There's art in the new book that addresses this:

Imagine they struck a pose and politely waited the full donning time.

To be funny, I've literally had players wake up during a night attack and say "I put on my armor!", and I have to explain to them how long that will take.

 

[pukunui]

Imagine they struck a pose and politely waited the full donning time.

To be funny, I've literally had players wake up during a night attack and say "I put on my armor!", and I have to explain to them how long that will take.

Yeah, I've had that too.

What's really interesting is that this guy is taking on the three of them alone. The only other artificer to go with him on the expedition was the shifter artillerist, and I guess she stayed behind on the airship.

In case anyone is wondering where the story goes from here: the changeling armorer succeeds in getting the artifact, then the shifter artillerist flies him back to Sharn, where more Emerald Claw agents attack them. They survive, though, and bring the artifact back to their mobile bastion, where the human battle smith, the kalashtar alchemist, and the dragonborn (?)* are waiting in their museum bastion facility.


*There's a dragonborn featured in a number of images throughout the book, but I'm not sure what type of artificer they're meant to be. The illustrations of the alchemist, armorer, artillerist, and battle smith are all cropped from the larger story images, but the illustration of the cartographer is different. It shows a human woman who doesn't show up in any of the group story art. The dragonborn only shows up in the latter, unless I missed something.

 

[Seramus]

I still want a Porter Artificer. Hands out bags of holding, suffers no encumbrance penalties, increases the speed of overland travel for everyone, maybe gets a fantastic conveyance like an airship at 18+.