The Problem with Artificers in D&D

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  • @pointyhatstudios
    @pointyhatstudios  หลายเดือนก่อน +713

    So now that we've talked about artificers, what is your favorite DnD setting and why is it eberron 😌🔧

    • @PixelPenGamer
      @PixelPenGamer หลายเดือนก่อน +23

      3rd edition Eberron evolved my tiny little nerd brain back in the ouughts! Dinosaur-riding Halflings! Druidic order of orcs! A full race of robot-men! A full race of shapeshifters! A full race of Chtuluoid possessed people! Furry race! Magitech! Airships flown under the power of chained Elemental monstrosities! Magnet Trains! Indiana Jones with MORE magic!

    • @frxstbite909
      @frxstbite909 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      I'm sure by this point it's a bit tired but I really like homebrewing with Dark Sun, the post apocalyptic dark fantasy vibe is very interesting to me, though sometimes it does feel a bit too dead or oppressive of a world so I frequently make changes

    • @Rohan-q1x2t
      @Rohan-q1x2t หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Because there is no wild west setting

    • @TheStartrek99
      @TheStartrek99 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I mean, being the primary statistic of the the two best classes would make Intelligence the best ability score.

    • @dragoninthewest1
      @dragoninthewest1 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      I have a love for pulp era science fiction like Jules Verne . There is also the fact that it's not a medievalish setting.

  • @sharlharmakhis280
    @sharlharmakhis280 หลายเดือนก่อน +1780

    Arthur C. Clarke: Any sufficiently-advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
    Artificers: Any sufficiently-analyzed magic is indistinguishable from technology.

    • @jarrahpalethorpe
      @jarrahpalethorpe หลายเดือนก่อน +73

      Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not advanced enough

    • @Anddq
      @Anddq หลายเดือนก่อน +49

      Just replace battery with mana crystal and wiring with runic script.

    • @LupineShadowOmega
      @LupineShadowOmega หลายเดือนก่อน +25

      @@Anddq Or summoning Iron elementals or golems. You're an enchanter, that enchants materials. No tech needed.

    • @aufishsd1445
      @aufishsd1445 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      Pretty sure that reversal showed up in The Librarians when they discovered that someone managed to put a spell into a phone app

    • @bytheburnside7539
      @bytheburnside7539 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      That goes so fucking hard

  • @Ben_From_Canada
    @Ben_From_Canada หลายเดือนก่อน +1152

    All artificers are actually warlocks - only their patron is Lockheed and Martin

    • @franciscoguinledebarros4429
      @franciscoguinledebarros4429 หลายเดือนก่อน +127

      Don't forget the main patrons of the artillerists as well, Smith and Wesson

    • @niamhfox9559
      @niamhfox9559 หลายเดือนก่อน +41

      The Alchemist can make a pact with monsanto but it has an alignment requirement.

    • @Bubben246
      @Bubben246 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

      Or Northrop and Grumman

    • @aldenpartridge4773
      @aldenpartridge4773 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      ​@@franciscoguinledebarros4429 And they will give a Smith and Lesson to their enemies.

    • @giladmachluf3663
      @giladmachluf3663 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

      The Battle Smith's patron is Boston Dynamics.

  • @brigo1744
    @brigo1744 หลายเดือนก่อน +1071

    I AM ABLE MINDED AND SHOULD BE TRUSTED WITH GOVERNMENT MAGICAL ARTIFACTS

    • @mikelevels1
      @mikelevels1 หลายเดือนก่อน +31

      "If its good enough for the government..."
      -Heimerdinger Enjoyers

    • @Beati_yes_the_Beati
      @Beati_yes_the_Beati หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      no I'm calling the dm police

    • @FancyPants5667
      @FancyPants5667 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I'm still bumbed that replicated magic items like a sending stone have one charge/day... 🥲

  • @TheLaensman
    @TheLaensman หลายเดือนก่อน +265

    GinnyDi made a video about artificers that completely changed the way I see them. TLDR, they don’t have to be the steampunk engineers, it can be a nature based, bark shaping, root controlling, squirrel infusing Druid type. Or a earth bending, invaded in rocks, chiseling earth genasi type.
    Don’t get tunnel vision from 99% of the artificer art out there, instead flavor the abilities in a way that makes sense for your world.

    • @leonardhollsten8145
      @leonardhollsten8145 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      They never were steampunk inventors, but good that showed you there is more than that to them.

    • @KiddDaPhoenix
      @KiddDaPhoenix 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +15

      ​@@leonardhollsten8145they're portrayed that way a lot though. It's part of why I've traditionally wrinkled my nose at them and only recently started getting around to them. I'm gonna watch this video from Ginny once I finish the video I'm currently watching (this one! =))

    • @questionswithbaldbryce5626
      @questionswithbaldbryce5626 27 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      Came here to share this. It's seriously a "well duh! Why didn't I think of that?!"

    • @pokelover02
      @pokelover02 27 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      All I want is to make a gnome or dwarf that loves crafting. Think Blitzen from the Magnus Chase series, but not just for fashion.

    • @PhuNguyen-ph6lx
      @PhuNguyen-ph6lx 23 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

      Ever since I watch Ginny's video it's like my mind's eye opened. I've always been playing Artificer and always have tried to convince the DM that my "tech" would be viable in the setting. Now I just straight up says "My character use magical artifacts that grants him powers/armor to do magical shits with" and like 9 times out of 10 the DM accept it right away.

  • @ehsanrahee7411
    @ehsanrahee7411 หลายเดือนก่อน +154

    I once made a kobold artificer in a one-shot and flavoured all the abilities based off the kobold inventor from Volo's.
    He thought his high intelligence was a blessing from an ancient dragon his colony prayed to. He was an armourer artificer and his armour was made of bamboo and weaved with strings and other very rudimentary bonding materials (inspired by the movie Hook). His Right Tool For The Job was a knotted rat-king like mess of a bunch of tools all jammed together. But my absolute favourite Mind Sharpener infusion: it was a live scorpion sewn into his helmet. Whenever he needed to ensure passing a saving throw, he'd whack the scorpion to sting him, thus giving him a sort of "adrenaline rush" to pass the savjng throw for concentration checks.

    • @deggy42
      @deggy42 27 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

      My probably best character I've ever made is a Kobold Battle Smith Artificer whose Steel Defender was the corpse of a Warforged he found in the sewers one day and beat with a hammer until it started moving again as a horrible half-steel zombie. Think Stitch, from the Disney movie, with a stronger version of the 40K Ork gestalt psychic abilities so that if he thinks he's worked hard enough on something for it to function now, it does.
      Also, he got kicked out of his nest as a hatchling because his scales are the wrong color, and he dreams of one day returning and killing them all.

    • @ehsanrahee7411
      @ehsanrahee7411 27 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      @deggy42 sounds like our kobold artificers would be best friends lol

    • @GrayRain0
      @GrayRain0 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      My kobold was an inventor from the under dark who was afraid of everything that goes bump

  • @TheOnlyMisterC
    @TheOnlyMisterC หลายเดือนก่อน +716

    Artificer Main here!
    Boots of Winding Path only teleport you to a place you were previously during the turn, so often it serve more as a way to get in, attack, and get out of threat range without provoking any attack of opportunity

    • @zifir4803
      @zifir4803 หลายเดือนก่อน +62

      More I read this class, more I understand that this is “Overwatch, The class”

    • @landler656
      @landler656 หลายเดือนก่อน +30

      It really makes touch range spells more viable. It's like a wizard casting it with a familiar without having to worry about another stat block.

    • @TheOnlyMisterC
      @TheOnlyMisterC หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      @landler656 My issue I had was that, I was playing a Gnome, which only had 25f movement, and the boots teleport you only 15f, and as a Battlesmith, I used my bonus action to command my Robot Companion, which sucks cuz as a battlesmith your the one class with 2x attacks per turn, so you want to go in the fray and get 3 attack per turn

    • @LupineShadowOmega
      @LupineShadowOmega หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      @@TheOnlyMisterC You're a gnome, you should have just rode your companion. The boots could just be your get out of jail free ticket.

    • @TheOnlyMisterC
      @TheOnlyMisterC หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @LupineShadowOmega ahaha thats actually what I did! But you still need your bonus action to command your Constuct to move

  • @fishraposo7192
    @fishraposo7192 หลายเดือนก่อน +389

    As an artificer enjoyer, i've been waiting for this video FOREVER.
    Give me kobolds and I will volunteer to be your next unpaid intern

    • @Anonymous_Individual
      @Anonymous_Individual หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      Did we find Den of the Drake’s alternative account?

    • @MrSomethingred
      @MrSomethingred หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      I am itching to play my next character, who is a Alchemist Kobold, flavoured as a Magical Chef, who makes magical cookies to empower his party

    • @githyanki1899
      @githyanki1899 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      I second this. I volunteer. We will be the Hat Army

    • @fulcagay1277
      @fulcagay1277 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      My first artificer was a Battle Master one that built everything with wood and the animal he made was a “giant” worm in a string that he ciuld even ride 😂

    • @FriendlyOne_
      @FriendlyOne_ หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@fishraposo7192 I too have been waiting for pointy hat to cover arti's, but god damn, did he even read the class? He makes at least 3 mistakes and it severely sways the class into the powerful side

  • @RomLoneWolf23
    @RomLoneWolf23 หลายเดือนก่อน +781

    The thing about Artificers is, they don't ~have~ to be flavored as technologists in a fantasy world, they can just be traditional casters. An Artillerist's spell cannons can just be powerful wands, a Battlesmith's constructs can be traditional golem, and an Armorer can just make enchanted armor without clockwork parts.

    • @sarcasticsage984
      @sarcasticsage984 หลายเดือนก่อน +63

      Yeah, his point was that they lose their technology flavour of the Artificer

    • @AegixDrakan
      @AegixDrakan หลายเดือนก่อน +58

      This is more or less what I did in my own setting. I made them "Enchanters". :P

    • @ancova1183
      @ancova1183 หลายเดือนก่อน +40

      True, I remember making a barbaric artificer who crafted magical charms and fetishes from monster parts.

    • @IanFiebigwi
      @IanFiebigwi หลายเดือนก่อน +35

      My artificer knits, throws streams of yarn, creates little charms, caps, and sword cozies.

    • @Mare_Man
      @Mare_Man หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      I made one who was basically a male hag once

  • @BrenGamerYT
    @BrenGamerYT หลายเดือนก่อน +61

    You’re telling me that artificer isn’t just “DM I want to roll to invent nuclear missiles?”

  • @MarkoSeldo
    @MarkoSeldo หลายเดือนก่อน +37

    I would argue there's another form of artificer as old as the alchemist, or nearly so. The golemist. Animating the inanimate. You could make a sweet, sweet subclass around that. Steal a few bits from the battlesmith maybe, but carry on into creepier territory. Dr Frankenstein is the most obvious example, but for the craziest ideas, you need to go read Iron Council by China Mieville, which is an amazing, amazing book... of course, you need to read Perdido Street Station before that... Anyway. Golemist. Great idea. Someone should do that.

    • @Ashbrash1998
      @Ashbrash1998 17 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Yeah I can see a puppeteer like class not breaking the vibes of a less modern dnd game by having furniture fight like in Beauty and the Beast.

    • @ShavedTomato
      @ShavedTomato 16 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      I love the ability to flavor things with Artificer. To me, the Intelligence of this class is more about being a geek about your craft rather than everything.
      I played an Alchemist as a Culinarist, my Experimental Elixer as a Cocktail. I've played a Battlesmith as a Tailor/Spy that made his own suit and gadgets. I still want to Disguise Artificer as a Bard using Paint Supplies or an Infused Instrument Spellfocus
      They're about giving the spark of magic to their tools and crafts, you could be sentimental about a Plushy and it becomes your Steel Defender that does Fluffy Force Damage.

  • @Helldragon789
    @Helldragon789 หลายเดือนก่อน +487

    I did disassemble the remote
    I did play with legos
    I did drop out of college and became a biomed tech
    I do love Artificers
    I AM CALLED OUT

    • @targetdreamer257
      @targetdreamer257 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      You and me both, well except the Biomed Tech. I am more in the Electronic Tech direction.

    • @KiriGoldfishQueen
      @KiriGoldfishQueen หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Dude, you ARE an Artificer!

    • @firebladeentertainment5739
      @firebladeentertainment5739 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I didnt dissamble the remote (but other things, like my pens when im bored)
      i played ALOT of lego (Lego Technic sets are my favourites)
      I tried to get into university to get a degree in material science, then tried to get a degree in renewable resources and bioenergy, failed at both
      currently becoming an office management clerk and liking to work with spreadsheets
      i feel called out too
      first char was a life cleric
      second an artillerist artificer
      i will always be that guy in the party to collect materials and craft their own gear. I know where to look for the crafting rules and am making my own to supplement the weak framework WotC gave us
      standart is that it costs half item cost in materials and you progresse 10gp per day on a craft. theres ONLY a gold and time cost attached to crafting, which makes it boring. There are rules for magic item crafting but they are "Let the DM figure it out."

    • @GMeneze800
      @GMeneze800 หลายเดือนก่อน

      huh, almost like me
      except i did not yet drop out of college (i want that Tier 4 Chem Certificate, my Tier 1 is not cutting out)

    • @rooknado
      @rooknado 21 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Hopefully you see advancement in your job. You will probably regret dropping out for the rest of your life, but you never know where it will take you at the same time.

  • @oliverb2794
    @oliverb2794 หลายเดือนก่อน +589

    I find "The right tool for the Job" is hilarious at times, the idea of the party reaching a vault and the artificer just pulls out a blow torch to melt the door off the frame is great

    • @landler656
      @landler656 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

      But they can only make artisan tools. So if your DM wants to be a stickler they can limit it to the list of tools in books which sadly, doesn't include a blowtorch.
      It's pretty bad that it requires both an hour to make them, and that you already have tools to use.

    • @Caiphex
      @Caiphex หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      ​@@landler656it's reasonable to assume and artificer has at least a single set of tools. You will have thieves or tinkerers tools and if you are an armorer you would need blacksmith tools.😊

    • @ST0AT
      @ST0AT หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      @@landler656 what if the artificer is that one welder dude that uses a blowtorch for artistic designs?

    • @ichifish
      @ichifish หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      This is a common mechanic in systems like Blades in the Dark. You just say "in this gear slot I have [x]," and you do.

    • @daverhoden445
      @daverhoden445 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      So you could make a screwdriver? ANY screwdriver?

  • @jacobyullman5005
    @jacobyullman5005 หลายเดือนก่อน +239

    Just wanna clarify on Spell-Storing Item. It's not a number of uses equal to your Intelligence modifier. It's a number of uses equal to TWICE your Intelligence modifier.
    So yes, you can put Vortex Warp into a dagger, hand it to a Homonculous Servant, and use a bonus action on your turn to make the Homonculous Servant use ITS action, to cast Vortex Warp from the dagger, and you can do it 10 TIMES.
    Yes, 10 free 90ft.-180ft. bonus action teleports for your party every long rest.

    • @neoman4426
      @neoman4426 หลายเดือนก่อน +34

      Also has the important distinction that it isn't casting a spell, it's "producing a spell's effect" so that has some interactions, such as a Barbarian being able to use it when Raging if it's a thing they want to do. Though they'd still need to Concentrate if the effect requires that which is a thing they definitely can't do in 5.5 (there's technically a bad faith reading of the 5e version where the inability to Concentrate is dependent on "If you are able to cast spells" so you can technically read Spell Storing item as bypassing that bit if they have no way of casting spells, but that's a massive stretch)

    • @cavemanpretzel9520
      @cavemanpretzel9520 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Yeah this video has a bit more mistakes than usual on the key features.
      Similarly, infusions active at lvl20 is 6 not 12

    • @AnaseSkyrider
      @AnaseSkyrider 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      Also notable, commanded companions that don't share your turn do not act until yours is over. For example, if you were melee focused, you'd have to hold your action, and only get one attack when you teleport to a creature.

    • @TheGodlessmonth
      @TheGodlessmonth 9 วันที่ผ่านมา

      The artificer in my party made a spell-storing item with Cure Wounds in it and gave it to our incredibly fast Rogue. Our Artificer also has a +6 Int mod… (They read a Tome of Clear Thought at lvl 9 that increased their Int max and then current Int score of 20 by 2…)
      Soooo… It has 12 uses of Cure wounds in it… And our DM homebrewed it to cast it up to lvl 3 if you use 1-3 charges (out of the total 12).
      So, 12x(1d8+6), 6x(2d8+6), 4x(3d8+6) and she can chose what lvl every use is as long as there are charges for whatever lvl she “casts” it in… (Obviously more value is gained with only casting at lvl 1 to get a maximum of 12d8+72)
      It’s hard for our 3 person party to ever stay down…
      Since the rouge wears the item around her neck and ANYONE that holds the item can use it she effectively has a personal defibrillator that an NPC (or any of us if close by) can use even if she goes down first.
      (I also just realised that the item is supposed to be an item that can be used as a spell focus or a weapon… I think our artificer missed that part because it has been described as a bolt nut on a string… Not that it matters all that much since our DM has not said anything about it… and the artificer player was kinda new to dnd and very new to the class.
      They are also not at all interested in the “nitty-gritty” rules as I am.)
      Also, this combined with haste on the Rogue… Chef’s kiss.

  • @herkles5416
    @herkles5416 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

    21:11 those are pathfinder's iconic characters you have Amiri the barbarian, Harsk the ranger, Kyra the Cleric(of Serenrae), Sajan the monk, Seoni the Sorcerer, Valeros the fighter, Merisiel the rogue, and Seelah the Paladin. Seelah and Amiri were even in the computer adaptations of the adventure paths, kingmaker for amiri and wrath of the righteous.

    • @LeonardoTaglialegne
      @LeonardoTaglialegne หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Yeah, I had a double take too... "waitaminute, those are pathfinder peeps!"

  • @FarothFuin
    @FarothFuin หลายเดือนก่อน +33

    a homebrew rule i made up for the alchemist in my game is that it can try to de-construct a potion, learning it and can remake it with his Experimental Elixir feature, but only with using spellslots, which then makes it worth it to use hig spellslots depending of which potion is making, like, a giant strength potion or an heroism potion
    It has add a lot to the table and the player enjoys a lot the class like this, since now it can really be the "potion maker" of the party (we also ruled that it can create the potion and drink it as a bonus action only if is for herself, like literally putting the ingredients in her mouth and swallowing it on the go)
    the rule goes like this:
    At 5th level, you can attempt to learn to make new elixirs for your Experimental elixir list:
    By spending 4 hours and using a spellslot of the maximum level you can cast, you take one potion or elixir you had on you that you dont know have on your Experimental elixir list yet (exclude all type of Healing potions) and you can try to de-construct and recreate such alchemy miracle. Such process cannot be part of a rest since you need all your concentration (like if concentrating on a spell)
    Roll an 'Alchemist's supplies' check using your Intelligence, the DC to learn the new elixir depends of the rarity of the item you are deconstructing (check the table), which also get expended without activating, no matter if you succeded or failed on your attempt.
    These Difficulty Class are quite high, since is not an easy task, and if you succeed by 5 or more, you also re-construct the elixir at the end of the 4 hours of the Experiments, getting back the elixir back instead of expending it on the process.
    On a fail, the item is lost, but if you succeed, you add the item to your Experimental elixir list but only for the elixirs that you can produce by spending spellslots, not the ones rolled after a long rest. If you fail by 5 or more, you get one level of exhaustion.
    | DC | Rarity
    | 20 | Common
    | 25 | Uncommon
    | 30 | Rare
    | 32 | Very Rare
    | 35 | Legendary

    • @Attaxalotl
      @Attaxalotl 23 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      DC 30 is already considered 'Impossible,'

    • @FarothFuin
      @FarothFuin 6 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      ​​@@AttaxalotlRAW, dc30 is almost imposible, not imposible
      you can higher the DC for high level campaings. At my table we are already from the last tier and rolling a 30-40 on a skill check isnt rare, specially for the rogue + artificer multiclass with expertise on tools and minimum 10 on the dice with a bless and a bardic inspiration rolling a 50.... Yes, in RAW the DC end at 30 which is the ''almost imposible" (but still possible) and supossely anything higher is imposible, so you can just adjust the table for that, but from experience, that would make it easy for an artificer with +18 on the tools that only need a12 on the dice to deconstruct a legendary potion so they can then make like 3 or 5 per day for each party member... Go ahead...

  • @Augusto2
    @Augusto2 หลายเดือนก่อน +89

    -Artificer throws aging potion to dragon
    -Now the party faces Elder dragon

    • @Just_Call_Me_Tim
      @Just_Call_Me_Tim หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Personal experience? 😂

    • @thefinalstair
      @thefinalstair หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      TIME ROULETTE GO!

    • @rooknado
      @rooknado 21 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Like giving Cell a senzu 😅

    • @diablo.the.cheater
      @diablo.the.cheater 17 วันที่ผ่านมา

      -Bard who did not try before now tries to seduce the dragon
      -Party looks questionly
      -Bard: "What? I did say I liked them more mature!"

  • @hellothere2570
    @hellothere2570 หลายเดือนก่อน +2134

    The problem with artificers is that WOTC keep forgetting they exist

    • @XariaSilver-zn1bc
      @XariaSilver-zn1bc หลายเดือนก่อน +56

      I wish someone would cure their amnesia.

    • @martym3815
      @martym3815 หลายเดือนก่อน +72

      Correction: ignoring that they exist 😥 they are well aware.

    • @zoushaomenohu
      @zoushaomenohu หลายเดือนก่อน +72

      Or more accurately confining them to Eberron when they could be expanding it into other settings. I mean, come on, even FORGOTTEN REALMS has Gond as a deity! You're telling me he wouldn't have artificer priests?!

    • @SergioBocanegra
      @SergioBocanegra หลายเดือนก่อน +17

      wizards forget their spells without their spell books.

    • @meikahidenori
      @meikahidenori หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      This! Artificer is my favourite class to.mess with!

  • @hypnosemblem8829
    @hypnosemblem8829 หลายเดือนก่อน +174

    Vehicle oriented Artificer in the spelljammer would've been so cool

    • @Giosuke_Giogashikata
      @Giosuke_Giogashikata หลายเดือนก่อน +17

      Pulling up in an arcane hot rod to the spacefaring fun fest would be fire

    • @Liethen
      @Liethen หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      Danny Zuko and the Fonz in DND

    • @pablobarreto3587
      @pablobarreto3587 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Writing this down because it's brilliant

    • @arm279145
      @arm279145 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Now I’m thinking about the guy from Transformers Prime who had a team of scientists turn him into a transformer. Imagine a character who was permanently attached to their spell jamming helm. Like they can leave, but the ship isn’t pilot bowl without them because they take the spell jamming helm with them. Like, what was it in saltmarsh where there was a ship that had a Treant on it? It’s like if the character became the treant

    • @neoman4426
      @neoman4426 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Wasn't his main thing, but played an Artificer with land vehicles Proficiency (which because they're counted as tools is impacted by Tool Expertise) in a Descent into Avernus campaign, was a lot of fun whenever driving or repairing an Infernal War Machine came up

  • @twoshieldsandsomemilk
    @twoshieldsandsomemilk 29 วันที่ผ่านมา +7

    Artificer bans, at least in my experience, also sprout from the "well theres no good reason I couldn't figure out how to make rotary cannons and thermonuclear bombs" meme

    • @doffmeister
      @doffmeister 4 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      A former player in our group started down this path to my DMs chagrin. He had to leave the game for other reasons but it made my DM have an extra talk with me when I decided to play an alchemist in our current campaign.

  • @astrolord4325
    @astrolord4325 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Pointy Hat invented GLORIOUS EVOLUTION with this Artificer twist.

  • @ragnar3434
    @ragnar3434 หลายเดือนก่อน +261

    Accusing hogwarts of having black mold is a new burn I had not considered

    • @AHandleWasAlreadyTaken
      @AHandleWasAlreadyTaken หลายเดือนก่อน +24

      It was a reference to the mold jk Rowling had

    • @ragnar3434
      @ragnar3434 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      @AHandleWasAlreadyTaken oh yeah lol, I forgot
      I like the "its also at hogwarts" version of events though, I might run with that for a while and see how I feel

    • @KaitouKaiju
      @KaitouKaiju หลายเดือนก่อน

      It canonically has a lot of stuff much worse than black mold like fiendfyre

    • @TheTlminton
      @TheTlminton หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      ​@@KaitouKaiju Or a tree that beats children, potentially to death

    • @diablo.the.cheater
      @diablo.the.cheater 17 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@TheTlminton Or being near a forest full of giant spiders and angry centaurs

  • @mettatonsagent7541
    @mettatonsagent7541 หลายเดือนก่อน +85

    My table’s artificer is literally a doctor that accidentally created a plague, thank you so much for this

  • @3OOM9
    @3OOM9 หลายเดือนก่อน +142

    I played an Gith Artificer, who was an astronaut and crashlanded in the setting. That was my way to explain his technological advance

    • @angela_merkeI
      @angela_merkeI หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      Hey that's my plan too! An astral elf from the Tears of Selûne whose spelljammer crashed and now she doesn't want back.

    • @cunt5000
      @cunt5000 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I did a similar thing, dodging those problems of tech level by being yoinked in from another setting via the Shadowfell. Since the artificer abilities are the only reason theyre alive and useful in a setting with actual wizards, he's not keen on sharing them x3

    • @somniumlucidus969
      @somniumlucidus969 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thats so dope lol

    • @jarrettgordon6185
      @jarrettgordon6185 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I'm currently playing a goblin Artificer from Ravnica who was thrown through an experimental planer portal and ended up on Faerun.

    • @3OOM9
      @3OOM9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @jarrettgordon6185 that one sounds fun as well :D

  • @BlazeLycan
    @BlazeLycan หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    "Only 2 Intelligence Casters."
    Eldritch Knight & Arcane Trickster: Allow us to introduce ourselves.

    • @y2a1979
      @y2a1979 27 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      While true, people don't think of them as "casters" in the same way, because the magic is limited to one subclass, as opposed to all members of the class getting spells.

    • @rooknado
      @rooknado 21 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      @@y2a1979Regardless they are casters, we’re not referring to classes as a whole. I don’t see the point in that specific distinction.

    • @y2a1979
      @y2a1979 21 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      @@rooknado I agree. I'm simply pointing out that most people I've seen talking about casters rarely mention classes who are only casters if they took one specific subclass.

  • @birubu
    @birubu หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Artillerist’s actually act as surprisingly strong tanks. Protector turret healing backpack, for one. Booming Blade’s a good alternative to Extra Attack, and Arcane Firearm applies to it if you’re whacking with a quarterstaff.
    TLDR: Brigitte and Torbjorn are both Artillerists. Torb went traditional fire bolt + force ballista, while Brigitte went booming blade + protector with a fighter dip for heavy armor.

  • @jorge9604
    @jorge9604 หลายเดือนก่อน +120

    bio engieneer artificer sounds awesome i can imagine a villain making a full army of twisted mutated creatures made not with magic but with a grafting process carefully selecting each piece of the puzzle to fit a magnificent creature of uniamginable horror

    • @meikahidenori
      @meikahidenori หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      There is a Ravnican group that are pretty much this, however they weren't given a class. You can however play as one of their monsters as a race/species and Reborns are technically this as well as technically our lovely Dr. Mordenkin makes them (technically making her an artificer in the Ravenloft mists as she's based of Vikor Frankenstein)

    • @hyzmarie
      @hyzmarie หลายเดือนก่อน

      So… Quinn-Ora?

    • @hyzmarie
      @hyzmarie หลายเดือนก่อน

      There is a homebrew subclass for this made by the Fool’s Gold team! It’s called the Splicer Warlock

    • @pheralanpathfinder4897
      @pheralanpathfinder4897 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Welcome to the Simic Combine. Ravnica is just their capital city

  • @gyroinquisitor8618
    @gyroinquisitor8618 หลายเดือนก่อน +52

    As a french person I really find all the french jokes you do really good ! Thanks for not resorting to "France bad haha"
    Much love Chapeau Pointu

    • @NorroTaku
      @NorroTaku หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Am german
      I am proud to be European because of frances unwavering support for Ukraine
      Also frances army seems hella capable
      Compared to our mess 😂😂

  • @alexi4829
    @alexi4829 หลายเดือนก่อน +101

    [TF2 Medic voice] let's go practice artifice
    alternatively
    [TF2 Engineer voice] son, I'm an Artificer, that means I solve problems _fires gun_
    *alternativly*
    [TF2 Demoman voice] what makes me a good Artificer? IF I WAS A BAD ARTIFICER I WOULDN'Y BE SITTIN' HERE DISCUSSIN' IT WITH YA!

    • @viniciuscarvalho5592
      @viniciuscarvalho5592 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      Medic: Anyway... that's how I lost my artifice license

    • @aazhie
      @aazhie หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      😂😂😂 a perfect range of the abilities

    • @JFirecracker
      @JFirecracker หลายเดือนก่อน

      ...Now I need to make Gnomish Dell Conagher as an artificer and see if I can get away with 'inventing' the sentry gun and the dispenser before my GM catches on

  • @simerzzyt3937
    @simerzzyt3937 หลายเดือนก่อน +47

    0:13 IS THAT ATLANTIS THE LOST EMPIRE???

    • @SuperHbkforever
      @SuperHbkforever หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      You betcher ass it is. I love that movie

    • @Alacaelum
      @Alacaelum หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Tied with Treasure Planet it is one of the most mistreated movie of all time... the pure BLASPHEMY that those didn't receive their due recognition is beyond comprehension.

    • @Hello-lf1xs
      @Hello-lf1xs หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Alacaelumit’s just because 2D animators started to unionize really good around that time, so Disney pretty much intentionally ‘sank’ the movies

  • @arthuremanuel2884
    @arthuremanuel2884 หลายเดือนก่อน +30

    4:20 Thomas Edison mentioned

    • @zoomieredcar
      @zoomieredcar 29 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Fr lol, what he did to Nikola Tesla will NEVER be forgotten

    • @diablo.the.cheater
      @diablo.the.cheater 17 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      @@zoomieredcar Never forget, poor poor Nikola.

  • @spo0pti304
    @spo0pti304 หลายเดือนก่อน +45

    i played in a circussy campaign and someone was an artillerist artificer because they were the pyrotechnics and special effects engineer, it was sick. i was a glamour bard burlesque magician, i wish it wasn't such a short campaign

    • @MalloonTarka
      @MalloonTarka หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I once made a circus crew for a oneshot, and made the ringleader a magician who was mechanically an artificer. Magicians use objects all the time, so I feel it fit really well.

    • @spo0pti304
      @spo0pti304 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @ hot take i think wizards really DONT work for magicians, bards and artificers even work so so much better

    • @espysyn
      @espysyn หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      ...my brain rot when I saw "circussy" and didn't think "circus like"...

  • @stachu5049
    @stachu5049 หลายเดือนก่อน +63

    Holy, he finally got around the OGL issue

  • @I_Like_Everything-sw7ei
    @I_Like_Everything-sw7ei หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    GLORIOUS EVOLTION

  • @Kurobane.
    @Kurobane. หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    This is by far my favorite of the characters you created for this videos, I NEED to see a whole series about that party and Orla's adventure

  • @Matteracter
    @Matteracter หลายเดือนก่อน +52

    Moment of irrational anger at 21:10 all the characters displayed there are Pathfinder characters.

    • @Billybuckets
      @Billybuckets หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      I just got to that point in the video and immediately paused it to make sure somebody has already pointed this out in the comments.

    • @Driftingsiax
      @Driftingsiax หลายเดือนก่อน

      Ironic timing there.

    • @ZeroRoyale
      @ZeroRoyale หลายเดือนก่อน

      Big mood, I was about to say something too

    • @Melidus53
      @Melidus53 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Gotta be rage bait

    • @espysyn
      @espysyn หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I love it, do more Pointy, do more

  • @samiraperi467
    @samiraperi467 หลายเดือนก่อน +37

    Arty fishers?
    "November 2019, so basically 2020, that's four years ago." Excuse me, we are now in November 2024. That's FIVE years.
    I theoretically like bioengineer artificers.

  • @maxwellmcnarrow9732
    @maxwellmcnarrow9732 หลายเดือนก่อน +44

    Keith Baker (creator of Eberron and the artificers) as made two more subclasses and some other infusions in his book "Exploring Eberron", The Forge Adept (Based on the traditional forge techniques of an old empire) and the Maverick (You become a kind of McGuyver of spellcasting) you can find the book on dm's guild.

    • @arbitrary_thoughts
      @arbitrary_thoughts หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Artificer was an option for wizard in 2e. Artificers did not originate from Eberron.

    • @ThePa1riot
      @ThePa1riot 22 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Oh that second one sounds awesome!

    • @davidsoyele7829
      @davidsoyele7829 13 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Yeah I just thought it was a bit weak, but someone made a slightly better version that’s REALLY cool.

  • @aperson4792
    @aperson4792 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Finally another person who appreciates the power of flesh sculpting in a fantasy setting!

  • @God_is_a_High_School_Girl
    @God_is_a_High_School_Girl หลายเดือนก่อน +45

    The problem with Artificers is that my DM keeps saying all my original ideas for inventions are "too broken" and "world-shattering" and that I should "stop trying to build nukes".

    • @willybranto-davyo8786
      @willybranto-davyo8786 21 วันที่ผ่านมา +7

      Make it subtle, (im banned from playing artificers in my home groups games, due to this) as you go around create or collect some decanters of endless water, then collect some Tungsten, or similarly strong metal.
      Alter the decanters so they can be set off with a command word (make them all the same word).
      Turn your hard metal of choice into opposite halves of spheres, and etch them intricately.
      Get some linked sending stones (however many you need for the spheres, +1 for yourself).
      Place 2 decanters into a sphere half, and then add in a sending stone, finally seal them.
      Deliver these intricate gifts to various cities around the map over a period of time to make it less sus.
      When you are a safe distance away and are ready to watch the fireworks, simply speak the command word, and watch.

    • @jeremiahfox6957
      @jeremiahfox6957 16 วันที่ผ่านมา

      ​@@willybranto-davyo8786 Add in a bit of Purple Worm/Wyvern toxin to be diluted by the water to simulate radiation sickness.
      Instant toxic Water World!

    • @MT-lk7qt
      @MT-lk7qt 6 วันที่ผ่านมา

      - R. J. Oppenheimer, probably

    • @jeremiahfox6957
      @jeremiahfox6957 6 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@God_is_a_High_School_Girl I went the entirety opposite direction there. I spent my entire campaign as an Artificer upgrading my Steel Defender, and by the end... I created a ZOID!!! My Steel Defender was now a Lightning Siax! 😂

  • @paulshackelford2224
    @paulshackelford2224 หลายเดือนก่อน +36

    Keith Baker, the creator of Eberron, has published a few Eberron titles on the Guild. At least one of those has several new artificer subclasses

    • @vKILLZ0NEv
      @vKILLZ0NEv หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Would you happen to have a link??

    • @gratuitouslurking8610
      @gratuitouslurking8610 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I feel like I should also point out another book on the Guild, the Ultimate Adventure's Handbook, which included a buncha subclasses for the core classes including Artificer, as well as for the Blood Hunter and a few new classes atop that. I found the spread of options it offered a nice collection of alternatives for low-tech artificers.

    • @biodtox
      @biodtox หลายเดือนก่อน

      Which titles include artificer subclasses?

    • @blksmagma
      @blksmagma หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@biodtox
      I know that his book, Exploring Eberron, has a few new artificer sub classes, infusions, and a bunch more magic items.

  • @justinn8541akaDrPokemon
    @justinn8541akaDrPokemon หลายเดือนก่อน +114

    Artificer are basically wizards who want to build things.

    • @zippomage
      @zippomage หลายเดือนก่อน +25

      i like to think of it this way: wizards learn secrets. Artificers decode those secrets and hand them out to all their friends willy nilly.

    • @scotthalfhill7501
      @scotthalfhill7501 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Failed wizards... making them half casters

    • @GrabnokTD
      @GrabnokTD หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      @@zippomageExactly! That’s also why they have less spell slots. They’re actually thinking through their magic and being careful to keep it stable instead of relentlessly pursuing more

    • @PigOfGreed
      @PigOfGreed หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Artificers cannonically do not cast spells imo
      You look at their spellcasting feature and basically they just make contraptions
      They aren’t casting sheild, they’re pressing a button and activating a mechanism that makes a giant sheild spring out of their armor and block the hit

    • @torinsockey9979
      @torinsockey9979 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@PigOfGreed your right and I hate it why can't my steel defender be a creature that I summon like the beast master ranger but actually strong and now I'm stuck with the game mechanics I want but flavor I hate yes you can technically change the flavor but doing so is such an uphill battle

  • @joegeigerjr
    @joegeigerjr หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    Atlantis: The Lost Empire is my favorite animated movie. The Audrey clips were appreciated.

  • @lukelavigne5474
    @lukelavigne5474 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Bless you pointy hat, may your eye never dry and may the eternal eyedrop dripper in the sky always be there to support you.

  • @eggs8021
    @eggs8021 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    My biggest annoyance with Artificer isn't even with the class itself, it's when people act like they are literally every single human inventor across all of history combined into one person and can invent any modern thing or any possible creation or mechanical idea they can think of and write down, like no you can't just have guns because you chose the Artificer class. You can't create whatever you want

    • @HOLDENPOPE
      @HOLDENPOPE หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Isn't 'having guns' the entire point of the Artillerist?

    • @smylerthedamned9549
      @smylerthedamned9549 26 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      As artificers are the only class that singles out their proficiency with firearms, yes you can expect that... Your DM obviously has the last say, but that was an odd thing to single out...

    • @diablo.the.cheater
      @diablo.the.cheater 17 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      The thing is that that's exactly how this character-trope is portrayed in media, they essentially want to play as doctor who, as Rick Sanchez, as Doofersmith as Tony Stark, etc. These characters invent stuff on the fly as if they were every single inventor convened, and that is the class fantasy for this class, it is the equivalent to the gandalf for a wizard.

  • @C.D.G.1
    @C.D.G.1 หลายเดือนก่อน +37

    A idea for a subclass for artificers is inspired by the Chaos Dwarfs and Iron Warriors called demonsmiths. Imagine shoving spirits, demons, and other magical living things into your gun and it shoots hellfire or something. And it only has a 30% chance of the gun will try to kill you.

    • @Stormfarer-bf3vt
      @Stormfarer-bf3vt หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Please tell me this is a real homebrew subclass

    • @PhantomGato-v-
      @PhantomGato-v- หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      The screaming daemon of chaos undivided unwillingly powering the great siege machines of the Iron Warriors doesn't approve of this, but to be fair it can't do much about it.

    • @Zer0Dakilla
      @Zer0Dakilla หลายเดือนก่อน

      Grim hollow has the machine cultist that allows you to make demonic vehcles

    • @gratuitouslurking8610
      @gratuitouslurking8610 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Zer0Dakilla The more I hear about Grimhollow, the more I remind myself to add it to my D+D subbook wishlist

  • @Ralathym
    @Ralathym หลายเดือนก่อน +18

    The subclass has awesome flavor!
    As a chemical engeneer, it makes me happy

  • @luissilva-oh9zz
    @luissilva-oh9zz หลายเดือนก่อน +24

    I had made a an alchemist/ Barbarian which i called Dr. Jekyll and flavor activating rage as drinking elixir, while other elixirs where available while raging without concentration.

    • @Dimble_Gobblefern
      @Dimble_Gobblefern หลายเดือนก่อน

      Same, except i made Dr. Jackal/Mr. Hide (like animal skin), a shifter flavored as a refined jackalwere-ish doctor wearing a nice coat, a top hat, and a bandolier of vials who transforms into a beastial but more man-like form.
      After transforming his snout retracts into a sharp-toothed grin, his normally dog-like heels touch the ground, and his shoulders and musculature broaden threatening to tear his fabric.
      I've only played him once but i think he's neat

    • @MK_ULTRA420
      @MK_ULTRA420 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The potion seller said no and he went "fine, I'll do it myself."

  • @davidplayzgaming1988
    @davidplayzgaming1988 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Wanted to leave a comment saying that this really helped inspire me to make my own artificer subclass! Thank you, your videos are really helpful :D

  • @corndogconnoisseur
    @corndogconnoisseur หลายเดือนก่อน

    Pointy Hat you spoil us!! As an artificer-enthusiast I am so happy you finally made a twist video+subclass for it

  • @Zeliek
    @Zeliek หลายเดือนก่อน +46

    21:11 "DnD is product..." With the iconic Pathfinder characters behind it, from Paizo that actually tried hard to take away the monopoly from wizards and give it up for free.....!!

    • @jadeb9871
      @jadeb9871 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      Pathfinder, which is also a product that needs to make money and manages to do it while putting all their classes into their SRD and making them free to play 🤷‍♀️

    • @rommdan2716
      @rommdan2716 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@jadeb9871 Pathfinder is still better lol

  • @dragoninthewest1
    @dragoninthewest1 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    8:19 You could use your knowledge of jewelry to flatter a nobleman. You recognize the designer and style of their necklace.

  • @bananabanana484
    @bananabanana484 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    16:29 ah, Gus Johnson. What sweet memories from before the fall

    • @PresidentMystry
      @PresidentMystry หลายเดือนก่อน

      Was not expecting that clip lol

  • @skando_a
    @skando_a 29 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I don't even play d&d but these videos give me LIFE also please keep on shoving in those drag race references bestie

  • @claudiaborges8406
    @claudiaborges8406 23 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

    From the moment I understood the weakness of my spell casting, it disgusted me.
    Your kind cling to your spells as if you’ll always have time to remember them.
    One day that old tome you call a spell book will wither, and you’ll beg my kind to save you.

  • @dragonriderabens9761
    @dragonriderabens9761 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    Small corrections:
    You cannot use Boots of Winding Path to go forward
    Only back
    You can only retrace your steps with it
    I made this mistake too ^^;
    Spell Storing item is your int mod TIMES 2
    So at 20 int, that’s 10 uses
    How do I know all this?
    I’m playing an artificer in a modern setting campaign and I’ve never had so much fun in all my life
    And yes, he uses guns. A sniper in fact! And my party and I make VERY good use of Magic Item Adapt for crafting and Tool Expert has been very useful for hacking computers (yes, there’s a tool for that. No, it’s not Homebrew, it’s Spelljammer)
    Also, he’s a Homebrew subclass who’s big invention is basically FMA Automail

  • @Nyghtking
    @Nyghtking หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    I always figured Artificers were the casters that chose to specialize in the crafting of items rather than any other feat of magic.
    An artificer doesn't spend their life understanding magic and crafting spells, an artificer spend there life to make their greatest creation yet for their chosen craft, an alchemist is researching to craft their greatest potion, an artilerist wants to craft their best weapon, the armorer wants to make an even more advanced armor, and they spend their lives doing so.

    • @tomykong2915
      @tomykong2915 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yeah, they're just a wizard specialized in imbuing their magics into items, they're from Eberron, a setting with even less traditional technology than faerun, which was just really poorly represented in the 5e books

    • @Nyghtking
      @Nyghtking หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@tomykong2915 I'm a fan of magi-tech settings.

    • @tomykong2915
      @tomykong2915 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@Nyghtking same

  • @lazarus_089
    @lazarus_089 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    Haha, I was had the thought "Oh I wonder if they're gonna use Potionomics gameplay" about 5 seconds before it came on screen. Great game

  • @DungeonMagister
    @DungeonMagister หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    This subclass just screams "Fabius Bile", I love it. It's literally called "Chirurgeon", the name Fabius gave his medical harness.

    • @Mantaur104
      @Mantaur104 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      There we go, I was waiting for someone to mention Fabulous Bill :) He fits the class perfectly (as does the manga character Franken Fran, for that matter).

  • @crisrody852
    @crisrody852 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Keith Baker (creator of Eberron) made 2 super cool artificer subclasses:
    Forge Adept and Maverick
    One will get a weapon (only for himself) and get to make it super OP, getting up to a +3 bonus and +1d6 elemental damage
    The other will get extra spells and spell slots
    Neither is stronger than the present options and neither is able to do things in a way superior to the others.
    But, both are fun and unique to play.
    They're in the Exploring Eberron book, I super recommend it!

  • @DrewHerrema
    @DrewHerrema หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    My favourite way to flavour Artificer is as Necrobotany. Like a Steel Defender made out of bones held together by plant life.

    • @edwardlane1255
      @edwardlane1255 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      yes my mind always goes to some sort of druid/necromancer frankenstein type familiars - baba yaga's hut, bone wrought armour, wood and bone, not steel and motors

  • @AndrewJohnson-oy8oj
    @AndrewJohnson-oy8oj หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    The word artificer came into being during the age of enlightenment to describe those people, mostly from the Arabic world, who would construct mechanical wonders, most often mechanical imitations of humans, called AR-ti-fices. From the same root as AR-ti-facts. They were called AR-ti-ficers after those devices. One can pronounce a word any way one chooses, but this is derived from a word which had an established pronunciation.

  • @b_z5571
    @b_z5571 หลายเดือนก่อน +56

    Artificers are to engineers as wizards are to physics. And yes this has the connotations for both sides. And yes I am a physicist so feel free to come bash me engineers.

    • @KinStein07
      @KinStein07 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

      I'm only studying engineering, but yeah. g=10m/s and π=3 (jokes)

    • @b_z5571
      @b_z5571 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      @ don’t forget e=3 too remember they’re all the same 🤭

    • @chain3519
      @chain3519 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      One thing engineers and physicists both love are Taylor's series expansions

    • @KinStein07
      @KinStein07 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      @@b_z5571 e=π yes

    • @talscorner3696
      @talscorner3696 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Gods, I'm just a translator, but that belligerent rounding down made even me cringe in pain xD

  • @pafuwolf
    @pafuwolf หลายเดือนก่อน

    I think this is One of the best character you ever made!! The flavor and aesthetic, the goal...everything, i love her!!

  • @joseq1140
    @joseq1140 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Never thought this video would ever come out, amazing pointy hat!!!

  • @lil_fox0585
    @lil_fox0585 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    I wish this video came sooner! I'm currently playing a life cleric who's basically Medic from TF2 who loves learning biology and improving it by any means necessary.

  • @WickamanOrange
    @WickamanOrange หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    I just love that "Human Familiar" JIngle. I always sing along XD

  • @schmidtycent2388
    @schmidtycent2388 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    hell yeah. In the perfect mood for a new pointyhat drop. Happy friday all

    • @stachu5049
      @stachu5049 หลายเดือนก่อน

      For real, I had a wonderful day and then also got the long awaited video

  • @patolinocanadense8686
    @patolinocanadense8686 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I LOVE HOW YOU MAKE CONTENT RIGHT BEFORE I PRESENT THE IDEAS FOR MY PLAYERS
    My BBEG is literally this mixed with the wizard dragon

  • @alexinfinite7142
    @alexinfinite7142 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Man, your work is so f*cking good 👍. Love this channel and your energy and love for your hobby. It just overflows from your cup and its so refreshing

  • @genxlibertarian9656
    @genxlibertarian9656 หลายเดือนก่อน +32

    "What if we made... bioengineers."
    Clan Tzimisce from VTM has entered chat.

    • @draconikratosus
      @draconikratosus หลายเดือนก่อน

      Ahh, a fellow Kindred. Welcome

  • @peng1luver259
    @peng1luver259 หลายเดือนก่อน +33

    20:15 Not gonna lie, Spelljammer should have added an Artificer subclass

    • @viniciuscarvalho5592
      @viniciuscarvalho5592 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Yeah like a artificer focus on space ships
      (Also trasform the ships into space battle mechas

    • @leonardhollsten8145
      @leonardhollsten8145 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Why?

    • @peng1luver259
      @peng1luver259 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @leonardhollsten8145 the existence of Autognomes. Autognomes are robots. Artificers make machines and potions. Artificers also appeared alongside Warforged. I find it interesting that a Warforged or Autognome Artificer can make a Warforged or Autognome with their Artificer abilities. Something like the Artificer Subclass in this video would be good as seeing a pirate artificer with cybernetic limbs suits the aesthetic.

  • @teacup_ninja
    @teacup_ninja หลายเดือนก่อน +22

    Arcane and Veilguard have definitely inspired me to create an artificer oc. This video came at the right time 🎉

  • @MisterDiceGuy
    @MisterDiceGuy หลายเดือนก่อน

    I love the theme of the Chirurgeon. Glad to see you make an Artificer subclass!

  • @matthewrobertson4145
    @matthewrobertson4145 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Awesome work, as ever. Many thanks for the free twisty stuff.
    And for the record, if you ever were to release a book of your twists, then, on principle, I will print out your artificer subclass and physically stick it in said book. You might not get any extra money for it, but dang it, it needs to be a part of your official compendium (physically, if not legally).

  • @cianuro_di_potassio4367
    @cianuro_di_potassio4367 หลายเดือนก่อน +26

    Artificer is a super interesting class, my personal one in fact. The real problem is that wotc does not really care right niw, I hope they'll give it more love in new books.

    • @cianuro_di_potassio4367
      @cianuro_di_potassio4367 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      In my opinion one of the most rewarding for creative players.

  • @redman7775
    @redman7775 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    I'm currently working on an Artificer rework, so this popping up was perfect

  • @MalloonTarka
    @MalloonTarka หลายเดือนก่อน +19

    Artisan's Tools come up a _lot_ in the games I play. Mostly because I like making characters with tool proficiencies who use them a lot. Someone in your party uses arrows? Make arrows for them using Woodcarver's tools. Lots your weapon because you flung it at the bad guy while running away? Use Smith's tools to get another one cheaply. Short Rest? Give everyone a few more hit points using Cook's Utensils. Etc.

    • @tiph3802
      @tiph3802 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Same. I absolutely love crafting, so I created my own crafting rules because 5e's are terrible. In my games, everyone has the option to start with a tool of their choice provided it makes sense. I just love them.

    • @targetdreamer257
      @targetdreamer257 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Exactly. People really overlook or just never cared to look at the Xanathar's Tools uses. One I am especially fond of is Cobbler's Tools. Our group doesn't hand wave overland travel. With Cobbler's Tools, for every 4 days you travel it is like you gain an extra day so now you can get to the next town in just 8 days instead of 10. Also they have the added thing that they can hide small things in everyone's boots. Sneak a key. Everything taken away? Not that Wand the Wizard can use as a spell focus. Keep a just in case dagger in your boot, how cool is that?!

  • @mexicanLOUBForce
    @mexicanLOUBForce หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Finally some love for the artificer, I wanted to make a subclass where you're like Dr Frankenstein.

    • @arbitrary_thoughts
      @arbitrary_thoughts หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      There is the Reanimator subclass by the Ghostfire Gaming folks.

  • @catdad626
    @catdad626 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    My comment is before viewing bc I'm excited to see what you say; my brother is playing his first campaign with me since our revived dnd interest since we were kids, and he's chosen an artificer for Curse of Strahd! Specifically a Gondian gnome who survived the events of BG3 and moved to Waterdeep for a fresh start away from the baggage of what happened in Baldur's Gate with his people... My dm has been game with the challenge of making artificer work outside of a steampunk setting :)

    • @KinStein07
      @KinStein07 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Just make a magic blacksmith. I think thats the best way to fit any artificier in a more medieval setting.

    • @KinStein07
      @KinStein07 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      For the Battlesmith the steel defender is an iron golem. For the armorer you have magic enchanted armor thats fires lightning bolt. The alchemist is an alchemist. The artilleries is just a mage with a different way to cast magic, and have mobile iron golem that can cast magic.
      There is no need for Steampunk

    • @15stargamer98
      @15stargamer98 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yeah, I played a warforged artificer in a campaign of Descent into Avernus that went way off the rails.
      And the way I mananged to fit the setting was by being effectively a walking vault designed to contain a magical artifact and utilize the power that flowed off of it.
      Effectively I was Vision but bulkier and contained the artifact that was my character's core and consciousness fully within their body.
      This also meant that, when this came to light for my character, we started having people trying to steal this artifact for the villains, because my artifact was a core part of their plans that my character's creator had known about when creating my character.
      Worked like a charm, and since my character was notably an engineering marvel for the time made by a hyper-advanced wizard, I didn't push the setting's limits as much as the gunslinging pact of the blade sorcerer in the party.
      I served as the party tank and portable battery for a hell tank we hijacked.

    • @15stargamer98
      @15stargamer98 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@KinStein07 another way that instantly popped into my mind to flavor the artillerist would be a magical puppetmaster, more or less.

    • @KinStein07
      @KinStein07 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@15stargamer98 oh like he controls magic minions, like familiars, and commands them to attack or protect. Good thinking

  • @DeedeeDirt
    @DeedeeDirt หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    I'm just imagining an artificer named Kelly who in every new town goes "betcha, let's get some shoes, these shoes suck, these shoes rule! these shoes cost 300 gold, let's get em"

  • @NobodyDungeons
    @NobodyDungeons หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    In my worlds I have it that artificer creations can’t be wide spread because they require constant maintenance from the artificer in question or for some similar reason which means you have pockets of immense technological advancement surrounded by medieval society.

  • @mvbonfim
    @mvbonfim หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    >”Why are you playing Bugs Bunny?
    I literally played a harengon artificer based on Bugs Bunny. His spells were mainly toonforce

  • @michaelgroce966
    @michaelgroce966 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Dude. Great video. Crazy you are holding to your “certified pointy hat free” even at losing cost to yourself.

  • @PatStormlord
    @PatStormlord หลายเดือนก่อน +17

    There are so many posibilities for Artificer subclasses
    - The Mecha-Warrior
    - The Parfumer
    - The Cyborg
    - The Bomb specialist
    - The Spy (with holo-illusion-tech and/or drones)
    I have so many Ideas and I would really like to get more official content from one of my favorite classes
    Maybe someone will take on the task and make videos about possible Artificer subclasses ... theoretically
    btw i love your content

    • @targetdreamer257
      @targetdreamer257 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Add Tattoo Artist to that list. How cool would it be to hand Spellwrought Tattoo to everyone. Once a day everyone can have some concentration spells going!
      *sad trombone noise*
      Except you barbarian no concentration for you!

    • @rebelredd9077
      @rebelredd9077 หลายเดือนก่อน

      maybe a redneck version as well- i don’t know all that fancy wizard bs, but i was tinkering with some parts i had in the bag of holding and behold a little black box with a button that when ya push it will cast an illusion of meemaw’s housecat.

    • @gratuitouslurking8610
      @gratuitouslurking8610 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      A homebrew subclass I've debated making noise about somewhere is a Trapkeeper, vaguely Orcs Must Die! flavored, where you use your understanding of mechanical forces to magically create traps on the fly and whose free spells focused on battlefield manipulation.

    • @3ndlessL00p
      @3ndlessL00p หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@targetdreamer257 except on Dimension 20 they made a Barbarian+Artificer multiclass that eventually let the Barbificer hold concentration spells while raging. It had a sort of combat-gear angle, I really wish it was able to be published somehow.

    • @leonardhollsten8145
      @leonardhollsten8145 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Barely any of these actually fit Artificer.
      The cyborg technically already exists as the Mastermaker from Dread Metrol, a 3rd party book by Eberron creator Keith Baker (also the setting where artificers first came from)

  • @corywilliams9474
    @corywilliams9474 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    16:11 Armorer is so op I’m glad he explored the other subclasses

    • @googloocraft12
      @googloocraft12 27 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Armorer is one of the worst subclass of artificer. Explain to me why it’s so good, and I will explain to you how you don’t know how the rules work because every time I heard someone said that Armorer are op they were not respecting the rules

  • @justinn8541akaDrPokemon
    @justinn8541akaDrPokemon หลายเดือนก่อน +41

    Basically your new artificer is The Medic of TF2.

    • @angela_merkeI
      @angela_merkeI หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      Welcome to us artificers! We have: medic, heavy, spy, demoman, soldier, sniper, engineer and scout!

    • @winter945
      @winter945 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@angela_merkeI And, thanks to artillerist griving you fire spells and the option for a flamethrower cannon, pyro!

    • @angela_merkeI
      @angela_merkeI หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@winter945 Oh right, I forgot them! And the best thing is that you can be multiple of them at once!😁

  • @tygreen101
    @tygreen101 22 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Maybe I was silly to watch your Familiar video before this one, but here is an idea. An Artificer sub class that creates a familiar--an automaton familiar. Maybe multiple familiars, but the limiting factor is in the way they casts spells. Because this familiar cannot simply "cast" every spell, this automaton familiar reads scrolls. This Artificer sub-class doesn't cast spells normally, but must put them into scrolls. And the artificer "charges" his familiar with these scrolls. This keeps the flavor of spell slots and doesn't allow a character to make 5 Boots of Elvenkind or 5 Winged Boots for the entire party destroying the economy of the town or allowing 1 character to cast way more fly spells than he has spell slots for. Yes, this means that the familiar might have 10 Magic Missiles loaded up, but the familiar can still only cast 1 spell--read 1 scroll--per round.

  • @NixityNullt
    @NixityNullt หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    12:36 so like... a dispenser?
    THE ENGINEER IS ENGI-HERE

  • @danjbundrick
    @danjbundrick หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    The fix to the presence of technology in your world is simply to add the word "eccentric" to the artificer's description. I don't even use the automatic setting on my coffee maker so don't say that the existence of technology means that it's widespread and commercial available.

    • @essneyallen6777
      @essneyallen6777 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Yeah you could do that, but if you are a worldbuilder with any interest in actual history you know that "great genius advanced technology all by themself" narratives are bullshhhhh
      But the difference between something being discovered and the discovery being widespread and applied is a very good point that in the age of instant world communication is often forgotten :)

    • @danjbundrick
      @danjbundrick หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @essneyallen6777 The point is that it isn't a great advance in technology. You COULD have a machine that makes you breakfast this morning, but you don't. This is because such a machine would be an enormous investment in time, probably wouldn't work, and no business is going to invest in making it available to you. A strong suit is possible and available to those who want one, and the only fantasy is that it's reliable.

    • @arbitrary_thoughts
      @arbitrary_thoughts หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Artificers are just wizards that invest their study and magic into making magic items and constructs. In 2e they were even an option for the wizard. I would say it is better to think of them as crafters that enchant their creations.
      The whole steampunk, technological engineer who has guns and cannons doesn't really reflect what an artificer in DnD is. They can be reflavored to be that, but that's not what an artificer is inherently. I blame the artwork, Eberron, and some names of abilities for creating this misconception.

    • @essneyallen6777
      @essneyallen6777 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@danjbundrick I really don't understand what you mean I'm sorry. My response might be entirely off base, but: no you can't have a strong suit(is that another term for power armor??) without specific advancements of 1) metallurgy 2) mechanics 3) miniaturization engineering 4) all around engineering 5) mining and other extraction technologies 6) infrastructure and supply chain to get all that to our magically genius "eccentric" and more and more and more. For a single individual to be able to come up with something like that, the world needs to look very, very different! And some DMs do not want to engage with that. We can be pretty precious with our worldbuilding, but it cost us effort to make it sensible, and this kind of attitude towards it can be slightly annoying...
      Again, if I misread your answer I'll apologize and delete :) because your point about progress not being temporally and geographically uniform was pretty spot on. But there's gotta be a somewhere that starts, and that has a chain of consequences on the world. Our own world went from mostly manual labour to pretty much electronics everywhere in the span of what, 300 years? That's less than the lifespan of an elf. There's too much to think about if you don't want full on steampunk in the campaign. For those dms that care about this kind of thing, it's too much work just to appease someone that said " oh this is neat, I want it" and thought nothing more of it 😅 (so like, as always, talk to your players/dms and sort these things out before even choosing a character)

    • @KaitouKaiju
      @KaitouKaiju หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​​​@@essneyallen6777You don't really need all that in a universe where you can literally make something out of nothing with magic. This is like saying making potions requires advanced chemistry in the game just because real world medicine requires it.

  • @Hk-ox4bb
    @Hk-ox4bb หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Whenever I play an artificer, since it’s my favorite class that happens often, I change the flavor so that they are more like artisans who can use runes or grant magical effects to what they build
    The armor? That’s because I used rare components in forging it
    That flamethrower? What flamethrower? You mean the magical dragon head-shaped stone with runes on it?
    The homunculus? that’s just a small golem

  • @michaeljebbett160
    @michaeljebbett160 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    My DM refuses to have gunpowder on his homebrew world, much to my chagrin.
    I did convince him to let me roll up an artificer, so we'll see how that plays out.

    • @angela_merkeI
      @angela_merkeI หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      You could re-flavour guns/cannons to complex, gun-shaped slingshots like you can see in many videos here on YT (if your DM allows rubber/rubber-like alternatives), or "limbless" crossbows like the Ravin Crossbows R18 and Lancehead F1 or make them steam-powered, OR make them use compressed air like the Girandoni air rifle from 1779.

    • @luisfelipeoliveiradecastro7464
      @luisfelipeoliveiradecastro7464 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      I already play artificers and let me tell you, guns are the least interesting thing they do, when you can be iron man, having a gun is just unecessary

    • @sparrowfox6943
      @sparrowfox6943 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      You could probably flavor it and do like how Final Fantasy 14 explains guns, where, iirc, they're essentially using lightning/fire infused magic crystals to fire the bullet. You could probably say your gun has a mechanism that channels a smaller version of thunder wave, using force and a bit of electricity to fire the bullet if your dm is ok with that

    • @Dokari-l9m
      @Dokari-l9m หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Use pneumatic or magnetically propelled weapons. No gunpowder needed

    • @pheralanpathfinder4897
      @pheralanpathfinder4897 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Crossbows are balanced well for the Artificer class.

  • @dkai3976
    @dkai3976 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Pro tip: At if you have proficiency with thieves tools at level 6, tool proficiency will double it from a +3 to +6, you also get gloves of thievery at level 6 which is another +5 to slight of hand and lock picking. +11 to lock picking before adding dexterity

  • @ryant7482
    @ryant7482 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thank you Antonio, your hard work and creative mind are truly a gift.

  • @TempestShroom
    @TempestShroom หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Yay! My favorite class!

  • @Flipercat
    @Flipercat หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    21:10 Aren't those Pathfinder's characters?
    I recognize the cleric, fighter, rogue, champion, barbarian and witch, and the other I probably just don't remember

    • @procrastinatinggamer
      @procrastinatinggamer หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      They are - that whole shot is the Iconic Characters from Pathfinder 1e, the representatives of each player-class. Two of them were even in the two Pathfinder video games Owlcat made year ago - the angry dark-haired lady on the far left with her abs on display was in Kingmaker (Amiri, the Iconic Barbarian) and the black lady in the plate armour on the far right was in Wrath of the Righteous (Seelah, the Iconic Paladin).
      I think he also mistakenly referred to the artificer as being a product of 2019, ignoring that it was in UA for years prior and has been in DnD since 3.5's Eberron Campaign Setting book back in 2004.

    • @Flipercat
      @Flipercat หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@procrastinatinggamerInteresting, I didn't know they were from 1e.
      I recognized them from the 2e core rulebook (where they aren't named) and the beginner's box (where the cleric, fighter, rogue and wizard appear and are named)
      I also now recognize the ranger, monk and the wizards robes sticking out of the left side, but the one I thought was the witch might be the sorcerer.

    • @procrastinatinggamer
      @procrastinatinggamer หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @ if you mean the one in the red dress and white hair, yeah that’s Seoni the Sorceress. They changed up the design of the ones they kept from 1e (which is most of them). Some got pretty mild changes like just neatening up Seelah’s armour (which might be as much Paizo’s art commissioning team as it is Wayne Reynolds’ art style changing over the years) while Seoni got that new blue cloak.

  • @timbombadil4046
    @timbombadil4046 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    3:17 WIzards are scientists, artificers are engineers

    • @DrCranium
      @DrCranium หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Or (please excuse me for comparison) wizards are Sheldons, and artificers are Leonards

    • @akenaden
      @akenaden หลายเดือนก่อน

      Not tech...magic

    • @armageddon7432
      @armageddon7432 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      implying engineers arent scientists /j

    • @bradthelad8308
      @bradthelad8308 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@akenadenI mean they can make magical tech LMAO. They make tech infused with magic. A magical chemical engineer represents what I imagine the alchemist subclass is

  • @ForestRaptor
    @ForestRaptor หลายเดือนก่อน

    Pointy Hat, the Master Chocolatiers joke was brilliant. I almost spat my coffee. Thank you.

  • @truestiltskin
    @truestiltskin หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Need a video on the most under represented playable race (and my personal favorite. Soo totally unbiased opinion) genasi so much potential and never talked about.

  • @rararasputin7017
    @rararasputin7017 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

    27:23 I'm unsubscribing