Shadow_in_the_Mist
2017-03-23, 05:51 AM
For those who might have missed it, the Artificer was the first fully-developed alternate class to be presented for 5th edition, shared via Unearthed Arcana early in 2017. However, so far, there's only two subclasses for it; the Alchemist, who specialises in being a support class through its bag of alchemical tricks (healing potions, tanglefoot bags, etc), and the Gunsmith, who is a secondary ranged combatant who can also bolster other party members via spellcasting.
However... I think there's room for a third subclass. The Runesmith. To me, this represents the most "magic-focused" of the Artificer's archetypes, as the class itself has a fairly nebulous "magitek" feel - which is, after all, unavoidable. Of course, even with that in mind, there's at least three "niches" that the Runesmith could occupy, and I personally can't pick between them:
The "versatile" artificer, with more variety in its magical gear.
The "abjurer" artificer, with a focus on using runes to negate enemy spells and magic.
The "melee combatant" artificer, using augmented arms and armor to be better in combat, much like how we have the ranged combat-focused Gunsmith.
Heck, it could even blend some of these elements - a melee combatant with some aspects of the abjurer kind of feels like the old 4e Runesmith.
Is anyone interested in this idea? I've love to discuss it and see if it can be made a reality - it's quite important to my Malebolge homebrew setting.
However... I think there's room for a third subclass. The Runesmith. To me, this represents the most "magic-focused" of the Artificer's archetypes, as the class itself has a fairly nebulous "magitek" feel - which is, after all, unavoidable. Of course, even with that in mind, there's at least three "niches" that the Runesmith could occupy, and I personally can't pick between them:
The "versatile" artificer, with more variety in its magical gear.
The "abjurer" artificer, with a focus on using runes to negate enemy spells and magic.
The "melee combatant" artificer, using augmented arms and armor to be better in combat, much like how we have the ranged combat-focused Gunsmith.
Heck, it could even blend some of these elements - a melee combatant with some aspects of the abjurer kind of feels like the old 4e Runesmith.
Is anyone interested in this idea? I've love to discuss it and see if it can be made a reality - it's quite important to my Malebolge homebrew setting.