D&D 5E (2024) What's New with the Artificer in Eberron: Forge of the Artificer

[Parmandur]

why on earth does the arcane firearm specify martial ranged weapons?

Vibes, allows them to do their thing with a pistol, longbow or crossbow, but not a dart or sling.

 

[GarrettKP]

Ok...

1. What are the backgrounds?
2. Can artificers or artillerist use firearms?
3. What changed with alchemist?
4. Do shifters pick one type of form or can they pick a different one each time?
5. How does the cartographer look?

1. Inquisitive, House Agent, Archeologist, plus one for each Dragonmark House and Aberrant.
2. Artificer no, Artillerist yes.
3. The potions all scale now.
4. Shifters are functionally the same as Monsters of the Multiverse.
5. I like it. They have a new level 5 feature to add more damage to spells when they hit a target they have marked with Faerie Fire and have Call Lightning now added to their spell list. Also Faerie Fire can’t have concentration broken starting at 5.

 

[GarrettKP]

I know we had been speculating on the 18 Backgrounds on offer, what's going on with those? What does the Species section have to say about Gnolls?

Gnolls aren’t mentioned at all.

I mentioned backgrounds already, but to elaborate:

Each of the House Heir backgrounds give the appropriate dragon mark feat. Archeologist gets Skilled, House Agent gets Lucky, and Inquisitive gets Alert.

 

[Parmandur]

Gnolls aren’t mentioned at all.

I mentioned backgrounds already, but to elaborate:

Each of the House Heir backgrounds give the appropriate dragon mark feat. Archeologist gets Skilled, House Agent gets Lucky, and Inquisitive gets Alert.

Interesting, one of the early previews had mentioned Fmolls and included a picture with a couple.

 

[Mephista]

They deleted the things that make the class not be just an oddball half wizard in the eyes of my players (and others here), so we are talking about how to just update the OG artificer ourselves. If you like the new one, good for you. We don't. That does not affect you.

Just out of curiosity, what precisely did they remove that you find missing? Not picking a fight or anything, I'm just honestly curious here what you feel is missing.

 

[Parmandur]

Like, what context does this picture occur in:

 

[GarrettKP]

Like, what context does this picture occur in:

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Haven’t gotten to this yet but I believe these are in the monster section as agents of villain organizations.

EDIT: just found it. The caption says “THE CRIMINALS OF SHARN COME IN DIFFERENT SHAPES, IN DIFFERENT SIZES, AND FROM DIFFERENT PLANES OF EXISTENCE”

It’s in the Sharn Inquisitives section.

 

[Twiggly the Gnome]

Shifters are functionally the same as Monsters of the Multiverse.

That's a shame, having them work like Aasimar do now would have been more interesting.

 

[Zaukrie]

Are the monsters "interesting", or just new flavor with no new things they do?

 

[Parmandur]

The page count suggests that bastions are pretty exte lively treated, anything of note there?