I made my Artillerist someone that learned through other classes, Cure Wounds are his "healing gauntlets", resembling paladin's Lay on Hands, and Heroism is a little emblem attached in clothes that has an epic song, resembling bard's Bardic Inspiration.
I played a herbalist/chemist once. That was pretty much how everything was dealt with. The party mage low on mana? Give him some drugs, The barbarian berserker out of steam? Give him a portion of that "special" shroom stew, aka more drugs. Interrogating some poor schmuck for the treasure location? give him that special drug. Exterminating a goblin camp? naaahh. Sell em lots of drugs instead.
My first time playing artificer, I completely scrambled my DMs brain by playing a Goblin who was living in an old warforged like a mech suit, slowly upgrading it as he leveled up. We also flavoured his Eldritch Cannon to be part of the Warforged as a back mounted launcher which could launch infused objects. In my DMs head I would launch light infused objects like Flares for night combat until I used it to launch a Mortar shell containing Fireball and turned my Artillerist into a mobile Artillery Platform. The party loved it but ho boy does my DM go through our homebrews with the finest comb now 😅
I follow Commander Shepard as a curator on steam and he always recommends the best games! "I'm Commander Shepard, and this is my favorite game on steam." You think I'm kidding
Or when you go to order something but you don't feel like talking to the shop owner "I'm Commander Shepard, and I want this good." "I'm sorry, what was your name?" Then you speak and say to them, "Um, C-O-M-M-A-N-D-E-R... Shepard."
Can you imagine if you were the BBEG and all of a sudden random objects (like say your minion's armour or gold coins) starting talking shit about you? Can you IMAGINE how much magical resources you'd have to expend just to dispel the magic on 1000 gold coins? Or if you're a king and all of a sudden thousands of propaganda leaflets fall from the sky showing in VIDEO your darkest secrets? What about imbuing 100 shields with images of a monster (like a gorgon head) or camouflaging armour pieces so that you can sneak better? You could literally set up a field of stones and turn them (as illusions) into soldiers. You could also place random noises of monsters all over the town and double the patrols so that the town has to send more guards to the opposite side of town and effectively get off your backs. Magical Tinkering, if used right, could literally destroy empires.
@@inventor121 Unfortunately you can only give magical tinkering to a number of objects equal to your intelligence modifier. But if it was limited and the effects could be activated like Magic Mouth (maybe a bit more limited) it could be very good.
3:13 it is not useless. as an Artificer, I would use this Magical Tinkering to help NPC's I came into contact with, which often earned me advantage in Persuasion checks with them, or made them more friendly toward me in the least. - I made one NPC that was reading a book a light she could read near so she could stop wasting candles. - I made a child's toy produce an animal sound, making it more fun to play with - I gave a cook a "air freshener" to keep in the kitchen's trash can.
I feel like the reason people think its bad is they don't make the connection that A. you can create infinite amounts of items, like a 6 second recording on a stone is kind of really bad but making several and you make a sound board of various phrases or sayings. and B you can make some interest combinations with the options per item for example can't put a sound and a smell on the same item get two rocks one makes the desired sound the other the the desired smell yeah its not amazing like certain spells but it costs literally nothing but just an item like a rock or other mundane item that's ether plentiful or easily obtained. edit: and C. misreading the range of 10 feet and thinking the items stop working if they get more then 10 feet or so from you. when that's just how far the effect on the item reach's so you could put light on a rock and drop it down a deep hole or throw it across a pit to see how far the wall opposite of you is. its literally a case of quantity over quality.
I mean, if you have a full caster that you're with all the time or you spend most of your time in combat then no, this won't be useful. As soon as that stopped being the case, I ended up needing Magical Tinkering to: - make a raw meat smell to distract animals - make a REALLY BAD smell to discourage animals - I didn't have torches (for scenario reasons) or the light spell, guess what gave me illumination and helped me survive a bunch of shadow hounds with sunlight sensitivity? - Leave a recorded message for a group of people that would show up at some unknown point in the next few weeks - Create schematics when I had nothing to write with - Make a cup smell like poison when I needed to fake my assassination - Toss a lit one down a dark hole so I could actually see how deep it was - Mark a location in the sand so I could find it later - Anonymously start a bar fight when I recorded something insulting on a coin and rolled it across the room - Make a cute gift for a sprite out of a ball bearing - Made the buckle on our tabaxi's backpack smell like catnip when she wouldn't stop pranking me - Camouflaged a bunch of tripwires (making them match color and pattern to what's behind them in one action? Yes) And yes, there are a bunch of cantrips that can do one or more of these things better. Well, guess how many cantrips I get until level Level 10? That's right, two. I will happily take an ability that has weaker versions of four different cantrips but doesn't actually use one of my two cantrip slots.
@@wolfyblackknight8321 The part that sucks is that you are limited by how many you can make. You can only have as many active at any point as your Intelligence Modifier. I think it would have been better if they changed to it to you can use it Proficiency Bonus x Per Day (PBxPD) and the items only lasted maybe a year or something. Long enough for them to mean something, but not so long as to where you can completely abuse them. Maybe a month instead of a year, though it would be funny to imagine a late game Artificer spending a month making the lights and then launching 180 mini lamps at someone
@@TheElectrikCow yeah I mean you can get half off crafting common and uncommon items at level 10 with a class feature I'd probably just give that to the players at level 5 or something since you don't get the higher tier stuff and your already limited between needing to pay the gold cost and downtime to craft items so its not like you could craft 180 mini table lamps in a day but you could probably make some decent utility items like a medieval zippo lighter or a flashlight stuff like that
@@tortture3519 _a_ is one of the suffixes for possessive pronoun in Russian, like _'s_ in English. _Автомат чей? Калашникова. Whose avtomat? Kalashnikova._
Sanctuary as an invention: You focus on defending a particular ally. When enemies go to attack them, you toss a flash bomb, fire cracker, or similar sensory overload device in that enemy's face. If they pass their wisdom save, they are able to ignore this device and continue their attack. Otherwise, they are temporarily startled long enough for the attack to be wasted. Alternatively, they may quickly look away to strike a different target.
I like this. You could also have a little drone that you're powering with magic fly around your buddy. While it's working, it's being confusing and distracting, but either requires power or direction, so if you stop focusing on fueling it with magic it dies midair. Or it's like one of those stupid toy helicopters where you blink and it crashes immediately.
Magically tinker stones into giving off ultra bright disorienting light and some other stones with deafening sound so your artificer can basically make flashbang grenades using level 1 ability
"Nearly everyone has dark vision!" Queue angry human noises and Volo's guide Tritons because, for some dumbass reason, an aquatic race from the plane of water that lives at the bottoms of oceans don't have dark vision.
WotC posted a semi-official statement a while back saying Tritons do have dark vision and it was basically an oversight. It’s just not in any of the official books, my DM and I agreed that they should have it regardless and one of my players that is also a Triton in the game I’m running was also given dark vision. I’m sure any reasonable DM would allow that.
Anyway dark vision only makes darkness dim light which is still disadvantage on perception so even people with darkvision should keep light sources on them
Sanctuary: When I used this spell as my Kobold Artificer, it was literally a bottle of skunk spray so my friend would smell so bad that enemies would just not want to attack.
@Viktor Magnusson maybe it doesnt linger on the target very well making it so any complex motions for fighting is a enough to blow the smell off of them. OR the enemies actually have a reason to attack him if they are being attacked since not attacking the guy who attacked you is a bad idea even if hes stinky.
"You're going to be the oddball of your party" that was my intention. Be an artificer gnome... no one plays artificers or gnomes... Our party is literally one third artificer gnomes 😑
This is my first time playing d&d. We are in our 6th session in a homebrew story. I'm an artificer gnome. I lvld up from 1 to 3 in one session. Any tips or (especially) tricks would be awesome.
Fun fact: Artificers (EDIT: and Rune Knights) are the only class that gets tool expertise for tools other than Thieves Tools. Other fun fact, instruments count as a type of tool... As a 6th level Artificer, you can out bard the bard.
@@InquisitorThorn Yeah but they can’t roll higher than a 31 without help. Artificers can roll a 37 without help, and they can even learn Guidance sooo.
A subclass can do that too Rune Knight (if you get Fire Rune) But it is the only base class that can do it So in theory you could make a balanced party that has tool expertise for everyone
Hey, uh, I just wanted to point something out. Don’t know if anyone has said this yet, but... Spell-storing says “one item that you can use as a spall focus” because anything you make with Infuse item can be used as a spell casting focus. That’s right, you can give the rogue a bag of holding that lets them cast spider climb... Because they weren’t broken enough.
Not true unfortunately, not all magic items are also spellcasting focuses. Considering that this detail really doesn't make the effect weaker though I would just ignore it. And of course you can only make 1.
Fun fact: the DMG has an EXPLOSIVES section on page 268. So if gunpowder exists in your game, you can do the following: 1 horn of gunpowder weighs 2 pounds. That means 2 of them are about 4 pounds. And a vial of Alchemist's Fire is one pound. If you tie all three items together, the whole kit-and-kaboodle will weigh 5 pounds, which is JUST within the weight limit for a (Catapult) spell. If my math is right (and it usually is), this'll result in 3d8 bludgeoning from the (Catapult) spell, 1d4 fire from the Alchemist's Fire, and 6d6 fire from the exploding gunpowder. AVERAGE DAMAGE: 37 THAT'S MORE DAMAGE THAN A FIREBALL, AND ONLY COSTS A 1ST LEVEL SPELL SLOT . . . (Catapult) even has a Dex save attatched. I have hereby dubbed this invention "The Catapult Bomb." My Artificer in Tomb of Annihilation has 30 of these in a Bag Of Holding (Alchemist's Fire and Gunpowder stored SEPARATELY) , and my DM lets me do this is because "Only an Artificer can come up with this sort of nonsense!" EDIT: Got the weight for the gunpowder wrong, not sure how that happened. Fixed it. This changes the recipe, so for a 2nd-level casting, 1 vial of Alchemist's Fire and 4 powder horns will weigh 9 pounds, doing 4d8 bludgeoning + 1d4 Fire + 12d6 Fire. AVERAGE DAMAGE: 62.5
From what I can find, looks like a horn of Gunpowder is 2 pounds and a flask of Alchemist's Fire is only 1 pound. So, for a 2nd level spell slot, you can do 2 Alchemist's Fire and 4 Horns of Gunpowder for 12d6 from the Gunpowder, 2d4 from the Alchemist's Fire, and 4d8 from the Catapult spell, an average of 65 DAMAGE. Or, if you wanna do more damage over time, just do a half-recipe for 6d6+1d4+3d8 from a first-level Catapult Spell for an average of 37 damage from a simple level 1 cast.
Lol love it. My wizard is secretly making an emergency weapon by buying up all the acid vials he can afford without the party noticing and putting them in a bag. By 17th level I can catapult a bag of 45 acid vials for 90d6 acid damage
Had a Artificer that used a gun to cast his spells. The bullets had the components for spells in the casings. The "Gun" was a large revolver that looked super arcaney and magicy he also had a regular revolver to cast PAIN....he was fun.
*Rest of the Party:* Setting up traps against an oncoming mansion raid. *My dumbass:* Uses magical tinkering to record the words, *"I can smell you"* at every entry point.
lol, create lures for traps with it, you need them in a location for a trap to work? make a rustling sound they will investigate. need them to hit a pressure plate? make an image of you flipping them off appear on it.
A friend of mine used it to distract some gardeners by making their plants smell putrid. They were scrambling to figure out why. It gave the rogue long enough to pick the lock.
Magical tinkering: I've used it to make the sound of footsteps to misdirect enemies I've used light to make an npc think that there spoon was possesed I've used the picture (like blood) and the sound (like a dire wolf howling) and the smell (like damp fur) while lieing on the ground to trick a platoon of gaurds into thinking that there was a pack of wolves near so should run. So if used correctly it can be very powerful
My Kenku Artificer carries a simple metal tablet around explicitly for MT so that they can inscribe words they don't have the vocabulary to voice themselves. More durable than a notebook, and you never run out of pages! It's also been handy for showing blueprints and plans of attack to other party members. EDIT: Also, the part of the rules which specifies you (The Artificer) has to be the one to record the 6 second message? Turns out, you can mesh that just fine with a Kenku's Mimicry trait, use your target's voice whilst making the recording, bing bang boom, instant blackmail/proof of guilt. Also also, Tinkering with some simple cheap pewter broaches gave my entire team independent magical light sources which left their hands free and could be easily concealed for ambush purposes.
I used simple stones to make light and screams and then thrown them in a room to confuse and distract enemies, or lure them into a trap where my Dragonborn Artificer could use Fire Breath to start the fight
@@glass7923 yes he was eating cerial and I touched his spoon and it glowed and he panicked. He promised to tell us the information if we removed the demon
14:33 I would keep in mind that Tasha's cauldron says that spell storing item works on any item that YOU, the artificer can use as a spellcasting focus. This qualifies ALL tools your are proficient in, along with ALL your Artificer infusions. An armorer can make a budget cloak of stars with magic missle in their cloak of protection. An Artillerist can put scorching ray into their enhanced arcane focus. A battle smith can put warding bond into gauntlets of ogre power/belt of giant strength, and give them to their steel defender. It would essentially turns their steel pupper into a budget shield guardian! Another thing to keep in mind the Artificer has the ability to give spell storing items to their homunculus. This is an effective way to CAST MULTIPLE SPELLS AS A BONUS ACTION. Web, cure wounds, heat metal, magic missle, shatter, scorching ray, flaming sphere. A homunculus and a steel defender are both creatures, so they can both attune magic items. ARTIFICERS CAN BE BROKEN!... that is...if you're crafty enough.
For the magical tinkering: I once evaded a whole army of evil guards by throwing a rock that played a constant foot steps noise that quieter down that made the believe we ran the opposite direction, or I blinded a wizard by making his glasses start shining bright light. It was p fun
@@dreadstar-22 What are you talking about? it doesn't mean that the soldiers that heard the footsteps would just ignore those and not tell theirwhole squad and touching the glasses isn't something impossible too.
I'm playing a warforged artificer fluffed as an Iron Giant style amnesiac robot, right now, and I'm using the magical tinkering to show people pictures from their "memory bank" on a playing card. It has proven useful.
3:58 I’ve found that magical tinkering can be useful when faced with magical darkness. It creates magical light, and it can’t be dispelled because it’s not a spell effect.
I should not have known this. You can make an entire soundboard of random stuff and actually have a way for it to play out in game! This is not a power is should ever have.
*That one Artificer who turned a small wooden cube into his alarm clock singing "HELLO MY BABY HELLO MY HONEY HELLO MY RAGTIME GAAAAL~!" every morning to wake him & the party.*
One of my favourite things about artificers is that you can chose how much "technology" you are using, and how much "magical items" you are using, depending on the settings, you preference, and your DM's preference. Also, magical tinkering ain't that useless. You can take a random rock, make it glow, and throw it at the enemies while shouting "GRANDE!!"
Or have it unleashing a noxious odor. Plus I always take up to 10 feet away to mean radius, so if you throw it into a group of people you are going to get more than a single person.
I have a tendency to make random rocks look like dynamite sticks or any kind of explosives really. Just watch everyone run for cover, rinse, repeat, and then throw a real explosive when they stop running from the fake ones
@@LupineShadowOmega What I like to do is get a bunch of ball bearings and cast the odor on maybe two or three of the bearings and then throw the whole bunch at enemies so that way they cant just pick it up and toss it back or away from them, good luck finding which one smells lmao
Heck, it would definitely work as a distraction. Throw it at your target and when it starts creating a stench or noise, most people are going to freak right the heck out. Especially if they're Kobolds and a rock just suddenly starts roaring like a dragon.
@@tylermohr25 mimic the smell of carrion to draw away dogs or other animals. Have it make an uncommon sound or something attention grabbing like a coin purse being dropped. You can do a lot with it.
My favorite part of Artificer is the flavor that the customization allows. For example, since you can use any artisan's tools as a spellcasting focus, I have a chef Artificer who imbues her food with spells and acts as the party mom making sure everyone is healthy and happy. And it's 100% RAW. That's just amazing.
Not only that, but you can even get proficiency with cook’s tools right out the gate. Meaning you can not only infuse funky magic into the food, you can also make it taste awesome.
@@MythicMachina If you're in like, Faerun, there are Artificers. They mention them and where they're trained, it just slips my mind what isle they're trained on. If it's a homebrew world, then yeah, DM fiat. And I guess if you're not, DM fiat still exists, but when they're literally stated to be a thing and the DM still says no, then that just seems unnecessarily mean. But that's just my 2 cents on the matter
@@the_rose_garden01 counterpoint. Artificers are very much a class made for setting like Ebberon. Yes there are ways that they appear in other offical settings, but they kind of feel like they had to shoehorn them into the old less technical settings, which can cause problems. Should you be allowed to play it? Yes. But it makes sense if the DM does not want it
Artificer perfectly fits into Forgotten Realms, too. Lantan was an entire nation built on science and technology and some of Faerun's most powerful empires ever relied heavily on artifice.
Artificer is honestly my favorite class. I have never really played D&D, but reading about the artificer is mostly what got me super interested. I have so many character ideas of just artificers. A kobold studying magitech traps to protect his people. A guy who uploaded their mind into a warforged and seriously regrets it. An armorer whose "armor" is a transforming vehicle. I really wish I had the books so I could actually look at the stats and rules and abilities and stuff to see whether these actually make any sense.
I was thinking a warforged artificer created by a different, elderly human artificer to finish his works. Old guy knows he'll die eventually and wants his works to be finished even after he dies.
I used a magical tinkering that was pretty hilarious. I used the sound effect and every time someone touches the artifact it would say “AHHHHH DON’T TOUCH MEEEE.”
Creative use for the 6 second message: use it to record the verbal part of a spell. Then if gagged or otherwise incapacitated verbally, yu can still cast the spell
That’s... that’s actually really good. I imagine my artificer walking into a room, inhaling, getting a hand slapped across their mouth and then they just slap their jacket and it says the component. Glorious
To be fair, my first Artificer character used Magical Tinkering to make a rock glow after a child -- whose older brother had gotten lost in a spirit forest -- gave it to me and said it would bring me good luck in finding him. He was so touched (and totally unaware that it was me) that the DM gave me inspiration for making the child believe he had given me the magical power to find his brother. Which, of course, we did.
I dont agree with the whole "its in the eberron book so its only in that setting" the DM can say its not in the game but all its abilites are stuff in basic dnd. Alchemist, there are dozens of potions in dnd so not allowing this subclass is saying potions dont exist. Artillerist, this one creates magical turrets which non of them are super high tech, one shots fire, one is a medival ballista, and the next is just a thing that uses abjuration magic the wand mechanic is just magic nothing futureistic. Battle Smith, they have a construct companion so if constucts like modrones or golems exist in the world I have no idea why people dont allow this subclass. Damn thats a lot of likes, thank guys
I'm currently playing a Battle Smith in our medieval campaign and we just flavor it as he's an enchanter (the infusions). Basically in world he's a wizard who focused more on how magic worked and how to apply it to items instead of learning a large number of known spells. His iron defender is just a golem made of smithing metal. Remove all the suggested flavor from Ebberon and they're just your basic caster class.
@@leahbeah1585 Im not argueing against Jacob just saying for DM's that scroll down and making a post that people may be able to relate to or to use this to change a DM's mind.
Well how he says it is right... sorta... Words have multiple ways to pronounce it. So as long as you understand what they are saying they are technically right... Words are weird
Niarbeht Well you, yourself prove he is right with your wording “Common American Pronunciation”. There are more ways of saying a word then how most Americans pronounce it and all of them are right. He wasn’t being lazy, you were just being judgmental.
-Choose Dwarf -Pick Artificer -Spec into the Artillerist or Battle Smith subclass -Time to *ROCK AND STONE* Extra steps -Have the name Karl -Become a barbarian -Die by sacrificing yourself as your allies escape the BBEG
Something good that I brought up to my DM that really helped with the whole "juggling Infusions" issue was the *actual* magic item crafting rules in Xanathar's. If you can think of an item that could consistently help a party member, like boots of striding and springing for your rogue, you can just crank it out between adventures with a bit of elbow grease. Which reminds me that downtime activities and downtime in general is vastly underdone at most tables. I also used it to give our bard tear-away pants in the form of cast-off armor, but that's neither here nor there.
1st ability Light: attached it to a shield to have both protection in the dark and you can also blind the enemy if they decide to melee you Record: do this to save up ink and paper Make sounds/smells: you can literally hide your presence from the enemy with any sound and also attract them or scare them your choice Produce an image or words: combine it with "record" and a bird you get yourself a drone
Hey, an extra 1d8 to damage makes it so that your essentially “up casting” your spells. So your level 1 offensive spell that does 2d8 is “being cast as 3rd level” with 3d8. As a half caster it’s pretty bonkers.
It just sucks with things like Scorching Ray because you can only add the damage to one hit. Pretty good with cantrips and AoE though. I will say the shift from +7 to hit, 1d8 damage Ray of Frost at level 4 to +9 to hit (enhanced arcane focus on the firearm as well), 3d8 damage at level 5 just feels bonkers when you hit it.
@@tekred2828 at third level you choose The subclass artilerist and at level 5 your subclass feature "arcane firearm" allows you to apply 1d8 to spells damage IF you use the arcane firearm as a focus to cast spells. At level 5 your fire Bolt = 2D10 + 1D8
The artificer gives me the same vibes as the monk or the fighter. Less of simple and more of a blank canvas for you to make your artificer unique like how monks can be ninjas or mma and how fighters can be samurai or magic users
Yeah. I'm excited to start playing an Artillerist who uses calligraphy rather than tinkering tools. Cure wounds will just be a get well soon card. Cast fireball by writing the phrase "this is not a pipebomb" on a paper airplane or something and yeeting it at the enemy
I wanted to make a Mousefolk artificer obsessed with aviation and birds. Much of his inventions will involve flight somehow. His ultimate goal is to make a nonmagical Da Vinci-style ornithopter.
You could possibly clear a small room with the smell tinker by making a room smell like a toxic gas or smoke scaring the enemies giving you and advantage
3:27 ok, I'm an arcane trickster rogue / Artificer multiclass. My Magical Tinkering is applied to my arrows and can be used for all kinds of distractions. 320 feet on my shortbow makes it so these things are really effective. Fire a Stink bomb arrow into a crowd or near a guard to make them disperse. Fire a Howler arrow away from you to make the sound of a screaming baby (the book says Non-verbal, not non-vocal. No words, just incoherent screams and wails) to draw people into a trap. Fire a projector arrow near an ally to act as a long range message spell and if you know multiple languages, it can be used to send encoded messages. Fire a light arrow down a hallway or a pit for the same effect as dropping a couple glow sticks down a pit in a movie. It can even have combat effectiveness. Stink arrows can allow the party a surprise round or provide disadvantage to the enemy. Howlers can be used to help the entire party disengage by distracting or frightening an enemy. Light arrows can be used as an intimidation tactic to end a combat early (it's all fun and games until you turn one of your enemies into a jack o lantern in front of their friends). Is it a game breaking thing? No, of course not. But it's a lvl 1 ability. It's not supposed to be.
Love it! I am playing the same thing and thinking about multiclassing into artificer but was wondering how I could use the artificers ability’s with my bow. You have finalized my decision using pure creativity. Isn’t D&D amazing 😂
I've been wanting to play a PI rogue for a while, and this seems amazing to combine with it. And also just well done on giving use to a shortbow, literally never seen a rogue use a ranged weapon that wasn't a thrown dagger or crossbow.
I see infusions per day as the amount you can create per day. It makes literally no sense that an all mighty 20th level artificer can have 4 rinky dink infusions up when you’re literally killing titans and gods. So I let my players have all 4 up and they have an awesome time. The way I balance it, making monsters that are resistant to bludgeoning, piercing and slashing from infused items and giving them a good explanation as to why (there was an artificer bbeg for that leg of the game)
They should have made a secondary resource, like sorcery points (so you can 'weave' your magic items) Like you can just "grab" the magic from an item you've created and infuse another item with the residue magic for x amount of points based on their level (or spell slots) as you need to activate the new item and then remake a new effect on the fly and as you level up you can have Int Modifier + level/4(min 1) as the total amount of infusions you can have. So at level 1 you'll have between 1-6 (depending if you roll 18 or not and use a gnome) and then at level 20, you're have 10-12 infusions active at once (since you can get that int book that boost your int beyond 20) and can swap a lot of them around on the fly.
@@TheRedAzuki Honestly if infusions just costed spell slots they would be great. Equivalent of sorcery points would also be great just make the better ones cost more.
There should also be a way of making permanent magic items. Maybe not permanent buffs, but items like bag of holding, sending stones, etc. requiring a lot of money and materials and maybe a intelligence check with the dc based on the level of the item.
The thing about artificers, you’re supposed to be make more magic items than just your infusions. The explanation of the class says so itself, i don’t remember the exact quote but it was something along the lines of “your artificer thrives through their inventions, so work with the DM to create things beyond what is listed in any source book” The infusions are basically just quick magical abilities you are able to use. You could use your smith’s tools to create a little knife that shoots knives, you could use your tinkers tools to make a land vehicle faster, or to make it hover, there’s so much you can do beyond infusions
If you get to level 20 and use the optional rules for advancement past 20 you can get an intelegence modifier of +10, aka can use the message maker 10 times, 10 pages
Every time I hear Jacob sing, I cry a little on the inside because there's still no album No joke, I would buy an XP to level 3 album the moment if I had my own credit card
Rui Kirisame, go to the bank and open a checking account. They'll give this thing called a Debit Card that basically works just a Credit Card except that it's safer, if your intelligent with your money.
@@ryavix For online purchases it's much safer to use a credit card, because it's easier to cancel and the disputation process is much simpler, and they're often easier to unlock and relock
@@ryavix that's just straight up not true. credit cards are miles safer to use, because they're actually covered by the bank if your number gets skimmed. if your debit gets nabbed, either through a vending machine or an online purchase of some sort, that damage is not covered - you just lose money.
Why did this tern from someone talking about Jacobs masterpieces of songs, to an argument about which is better, credit or debit. Also we use platinum pieces for goods of that value.
Ways to make useful/interesting things with the Magic Tinkering: 1) Light effect on object, put object inside hooded lantern, instant spotlight whenever you open the shutter. The key is how reflected and focused light works, you get very little diffuse light (less than the Light effect) from a flashlight bulb, but put it in the flashlight and a bright strong beam goes much farther. 2) Sound…six seconds of audio that can be made to repeat, can be keyed to a recipient, and can be heard from 10 feet away…: a) Yep, six second messages is a solid way of using it, especially keyed to the recipient. b) Looped cry of terror/agony (you might need some help, like a good Performance lesson) to toss somewhere and act as a distraction or to lure something. c) Looped insane laughter, put it somewhere you want people to hesitate going or opening. d) Greeter for your shop! Have the object at the door and triggered by someone entering, with a recorded greeting to the shop. e) Toy sales….do you have any idea how sought after the first doll to say “I love you” when you pulled its string was? Imagine how much you could make off of one with a *customizable* message, with the kid’s name? That triggered when hugged? 3) Smells are easy. Permanent scented candle/potpourri/incense? The ability to make laundry permanently carry a specific scent? Using the scent of predators to help keep pests away? Use of scent to help lure animals?
I mean, artificer is supposed to be an intelligence spell caster which imbues objects using magic so you don't have to come up with a technical explanation for everything as long as it's a passable spell
Magic tinkering is one of the funniest abilities in the game! Just some examples from several sessions of lvl 3 artificier: - During the fight with a bunch of Ankhegs my artificier created vanilla and orange-smelling stick to distract insects in particular battlefield area near npc and wounded tank. So, Ankhegs got disadvantage on attacks in this area if they fail wisdom check. - In the airship chase scene, he enhanced steerwheel with police siren-like sound. So, in tough traffic some ships made space and we did not crash into anything). - During an attempt to steal some id's or uniform of quarantine police he recorded cough and sneezeing sounds on a stick, attached to the nearby street corner to achieve distraction and buy some time for the party. Really looking forward to some new situations where MT will come in handy)
I hate how people say that “the Artificer can ruin or break the flavor of a campaign because their about technology” The Artificer is about magic items, you can reflector ALL of the artificer stuff to just be mundane objects imbued with magic. In my campaign I made my Steel Defender a puppet brought to life by magic. You could make the steel defender a prototype/lesser golem, a suit of armor being manipulated by magic, a collection of forks for Christ sakes but it doesn’t have to be a robot. The turret could be a book, orb, puppet, doll, mask, helmet, skull, or a hand. The class is all about flavor. If the techo based stuff doesn’t work just change it.
Sanctuary: A little hologram device that projects an image of the attackers loved ones onto the target, causing them to hesitate and occasionally lose focus on the attack all together.
One of my players used the magical tinkering really well in a horror game by throwing them. Since it was magically dark he was able to throw it to see things ahead of him. He also used it to make the sounds of a crying child to lure the monster
I don't think Jacob expected me interpreting "playing what's fun" as me playing a ranger druid artificer (possibly barbarian and sorcerer) Lizardfolk who's entire premise is the hunt monsters and make them into weapons
Ethsy77 I imagine a sort of witchdoctor type of character who makes all these weird inventions out of bones and stuff. It’s a neat idea for an Artificer
Fun fact. The Battle Smith can use intelligence for magic weapons. Use magical tinkering to make your longsword magical and you don't have to use an Infusion.
Oh my gosh you’re right! I didn’t realize that. In addition, you can even multi class into warlock and use the pact of the blade with battle smith. Meaning you can play hex blade but with more spells!
I will never forget when I made an artificer who was a Warforged. It was so broken. I was untouchable. But I also was able to talk my DM Into letting me take two subclasses but I had to inflict myself with some kind of madness as a damper. Ghost in the machine type situation. It was so much fun!
I played a gnome artillerist. In my opinion, artificers are the most fun as you gain levels, especially when you hit level 10 and just make more and more magic items for you and your party, or breaking the game with spell storing item.
The artificer I'm currently playing in a Dragon Heist campaign is an artillerist subclass. Basically flavoured him to be like a shaman, building all his spells as different totems and trinkets that spirits infuse to cast spells from. His eldritch cannons will be similar totems that will be say 'An angler fish that shoots long streams of high pressured water' or 'A tortoise that fires off a large shell of fortitude for some temp hp'. His arcane firearm will be a carved rod, full of sigils that when used will cause a spirit of one of the totems to form and then cast the spell from that. I honestly love how open and easily customizable the artificer is because you really can flavour it however you like.
This class is perfect!! I love it and i love the tinkering ability! Even being limited, its very versatile. You can send messages with arrows, exellent for stealth missions, make false trails against a hunter that rely on his nose, apply camouflage on everything(!!) and take pictures in polaroid way, as u can place an image over a surface with an 6s action... Its possible even to use the limitation of uses, as the oldest thinkering disapears when you exceed the limits, it can be a good way to "remotely control" them And forge documents. Its perfect to falsify texts and sell peoples soul to demons =D
I finally found a use for it! Our crazy artificer used a rock in a barrel to make smells that distracted dogs trying to smell out drugs and contraband. Very fun.
I always argue that given the rules for the artificer that an infusion could be used as a spellcasting focus I can use items that could be infusions as a spell storing item, and so far I have not been denied so hello jump boots!!
A friend & I are doing a pair of artificers, one an alchemist & the other an artillerist. Going for a backwards ratchet & clank warforged & goblin backpack caster niche
One of the other players in my current campaign is an artificer, and our job was to break into our employer's mansion to steal a cult artifact from him and we didn't know where the place was on the island. Our artificer made a glowing crate of glowing milk for his second in command to deliver to his residence so it would be easier for my character (swashbuckler rogue/ scout fighter with invisibility as a racial ability) to track him in the night and plan a route. We were the milkmen and our milk was delicious
I have someone playing an artificer in Rime if the Frostmaiden and he actually uses magical tinkering really well. He uses the smell thing to make it smell like food to attract animals to hunt for food, he uses the sound tinkering on crossbow bolts to use as distraction bolts to throw enemies off on their location, and he really likes making flash bangs with multiple objects.
Just gonna say on the infusions thing, the whole switching them over a long rest: While kinda annoying, that's the same way cleric/druid spells work. You get access to a larger list than you can have per day, and you pick new ones after each long rest. I think it just feels worse because there's a lower number of them, so it feels more limiting than the spell preparation thing does
@Zooker I did. ;) But to be more explicit - read the text of the Darkness spell. It creates an area of magical darkness which dispels spells level 2 or lower. The subtext is that any source of magical light which is coming from a level 3 or higher spell, or which is not coming from a spell, is not dispelled. It isn't a spell. In other words - it creates a trinket that nerfs the Darkness spell. There are other, less mechanical ways you can use it -- it largely depends on whether you're creative about how you apply it. Just as Druidcraft, Thaumaturgy, and Prestidigitation - these are spells which do little tricks that don't have an explicit mechanical purpose, but which can be used to great effect through RP.
I can think of many different ways magical tinkering could work well. Place it in a locked room, smelling like a corpse and sounding like a zombie in order to fool guards into rushing in there. Give it to your shapeshifter Druid buddy to give an urgent message to the king/queen. You can make a keyhole/hole in a wall, then cover it up with the item so it projects false information on the other side. Bonus points for snoring noises. And the light’s pretty straightforward.
Yeah, I love Magical Tinkering, both mechanically i.e as a distraction via the sound or for roleplay i.e I gave our adopted Bahamut-infused child a rock that produced an Image of our party/her family when she tapped it.
My friends and I are currently making a very experimental campaign where we rotate who is dming each campaign. Our party has a magic ship that allows us to travel between planes. I'm playing an artificer that is in charge of maintaining the ship. He also attaches a canon onto it, since he is an artillerist.
When I played artificier my tools/staff were magical conduits like a wand. It made it easier to imagine as instead of, I create this, it is I can focus magic through tools to make better stuff and spells. Also my group mis-read the whole infusions shit so our artificier can only infuse 2 items after a long rest, once infused it stays indefinetly until death, there is no limit too the amount of infusions, just you cannot infuse more than limit per long rest.
Be a Tortle.
Be an Artillerist Artificer.
Boom.
Blastoise.
It's crazy, but it checks out.
I was thinking Donatello from Ninja Turtles
Lizardfolk draconic sorcerer
Charizard
@@byronsmothers8064 Awakened Giant Toad (or Grung).
Circle of Spores Druid.
Venusaur.
The trifecta is complete.
Well I know what I'm doing today...
"I cast heroism"
"How?"
"I give him a crack pipe
Holy shit I want a rogue / artificer smoke genasi drug dealer.
I made my Artillerist someone that learned through other classes, Cure Wounds are his "healing gauntlets", resembling paladin's Lay on Hands, and Heroism is a little emblem attached in clothes that has an epic song, resembling bard's Bardic Inspiration.
Brings new meaning to "You'll Cowards Don't Even Smoke Crack"
I played a herbalist/chemist once. That was pretty much how everything was dealt with. The party mage low on mana? Give him some drugs, The barbarian berserker out of steam? Give him a portion of that "special" shroom stew, aka more drugs. Interrogating some poor schmuck for the treasure location? give him that special drug.
Exterminating a goblin camp? naaahh. Sell em lots of drugs instead.
@@MrAntice Push it to the limit! Druglord's full lifel
My first time playing artificer, I completely scrambled my DMs brain by playing a Goblin who was living in an old warforged like a mech suit, slowly upgrading it as he leveled up. We also flavoured his Eldritch Cannon to be part of the Warforged as a back mounted launcher which could launch infused objects. In my DMs head I would launch light infused objects like Flares for night combat until I used it to launch a Mortar shell containing Fireball and turned my Artillerist into a mobile Artillery Platform. The party loved it but ho boy does my DM go through our homebrews with the finest comb now 😅
Damnit, why do all my seemingly original ideas have to exist else where!? Well, good on you for the crazy imagination 👍
6 seconds is long enough to say "I’m Commander Shepard and this is my favorite store on the Citadel"
Then that's all you need. Why's he complaining?
Or "I'm sorry Shepard I'm in the middle of some calibrations"
I follow Commander Shepard as a curator on steam and he always recommends the best games! "I'm Commander Shepard, and this is my favorite game on steam."
You think I'm kidding
Or when you go to order something but you don't feel like talking to the shop owner
"I'm Commander Shepard, and I want this good."
"I'm sorry, what was your name?"
Then you speak and say to them, "Um, C-O-M-M-A-N-D-E-R... Shepard."
just put them back to back
"Record sounds for six seconds" So basically Vine.
Cue a campaign with a DnD version of Vine called Tinkr that's just Artificers making memes.
OMG YES!!
Can you imagine if you were the BBEG and all of a sudden random objects (like say your minion's armour or gold coins) starting talking shit about you?
Can you IMAGINE how much magical resources you'd have to expend just to dispel the magic on 1000 gold coins?
Or if you're a king and all of a sudden thousands of propaganda leaflets fall from the sky showing in VIDEO your darkest secrets?
What about imbuing 100 shields with images of a monster (like a gorgon head) or camouflaging armour pieces so that you can sneak better?
You could literally set up a field of stones and turn them (as illusions) into soldiers.
You could also place random noises of monsters all over the town and double the patrols so that the town has to send more guards to the opposite side of town and effectively get off your backs.
Magical Tinkering, if used right, could literally destroy empires.
This is a good idea
Y E S
@@inventor121 Unfortunately you can only give magical tinkering to a number of objects equal to your intelligence modifier.
But if it was limited and the effects could be activated like Magic Mouth (maybe a bit more limited) it could be very good.
3:13 it is not useless. as an Artificer, I would use this Magical Tinkering to help NPC's I came into contact with, which often earned me advantage in Persuasion checks with them, or made them more friendly toward me in the least.
- I made one NPC that was reading a book a light she could read near so she could stop wasting candles.
- I made a child's toy produce an animal sound, making it more fun to play with
- I gave a cook a "air freshener" to keep in the kitchen's trash can.
I feel like the reason people think its bad is they don't make the connection that A. you can create infinite amounts of items, like a 6 second recording on a stone is kind of really bad but making several and you make a sound board of various phrases or sayings.
and B you can make some interest combinations with the options per item for example can't put a sound and a smell on the same item get two rocks one makes the desired sound the other the the desired smell yeah its not amazing like certain spells but it costs literally nothing but just an item like a rock or other mundane item that's ether plentiful or easily obtained.
edit: and C. misreading the range of 10 feet and thinking the items stop working if they get more then 10 feet or so from you. when that's just how far the effect on the item reach's so you could put light on a rock and drop it down a deep hole or throw it across a pit to see how far the wall opposite of you is. its literally a case of quantity over quality.
I mean, if you have a full caster that you're with all the time or you spend most of your time in combat then no, this won't be useful. As soon as that stopped being the case, I ended up needing Magical Tinkering to:
- make a raw meat smell to distract animals
- make a REALLY BAD smell to discourage animals
- I didn't have torches (for scenario reasons) or the light spell, guess what gave me illumination and helped me survive a bunch of shadow hounds with sunlight sensitivity?
- Leave a recorded message for a group of people that would show up at some unknown point in the next few weeks
- Create schematics when I had nothing to write with
- Make a cup smell like poison when I needed to fake my assassination
- Toss a lit one down a dark hole so I could actually see how deep it was
- Mark a location in the sand so I could find it later
- Anonymously start a bar fight when I recorded something insulting on a coin and rolled it across the room
- Make a cute gift for a sprite out of a ball bearing
- Made the buckle on our tabaxi's backpack smell like catnip when she wouldn't stop pranking me
- Camouflaged a bunch of tripwires (making them match color and pattern to what's behind them in one action? Yes)
And yes, there are a bunch of cantrips that can do one or more of these things better. Well, guess how many cantrips I get until level Level 10? That's right, two. I will happily take an ability that has weaker versions of four different cantrips but doesn't actually use one of my two cantrip slots.
@@wolfyblackknight8321 The part that sucks is that you are limited by how many you can make. You can only have as many active at any point as your Intelligence Modifier. I think it would have been better if they changed to it to you can use it Proficiency Bonus x Per Day (PBxPD) and the items only lasted maybe a year or something. Long enough for them to mean something, but not so long as to where you can completely abuse them. Maybe a month instead of a year, though it would be funny to imagine a late game Artificer spending a month making the lights and then launching 180 mini lamps at someone
@@TheElectrikCow yeah I mean you can get half off crafting common and uncommon items at level 10 with a class feature I'd probably just give that to the players at level 5 or something since you don't get the higher tier stuff and your already limited between needing to pay the gold cost and downtime to craft items so its not like you could craft 180 mini table lamps in a day but you could probably make some decent utility items like a medieval zippo lighter or a flashlight stuff like that
@@TheElectrikCow i can just imagine with a year an artificer selling a line of glowing rocks instead of candles to people
Artillerists be like: “Abra Kadabra? How about Avtomat Kalashnikova.”
Steamloco Yeah, mine packed a Martini-Henry, but pretty much.
Oh thank you, I'm stealing this
Isn't it Kalashnikov? The designer was a man so the name doesn't have an a at the end of it. Kalashnikova is for women, Kalashnikov is for men.
@@tortture3519 _a_ is one of the suffixes for possessive pronoun in Russian, like _'s_ in English.
_Автомат чей? Калашникова. Whose avtomat? Kalashnikova._
It is a possessive suffix but Автомат Калашников is the usual way it’s said
Sanctuary as an invention:
You focus on defending a particular ally. When enemies go to attack them, you toss a flash bomb, fire cracker, or similar sensory overload device in that enemy's face. If they pass their wisdom save, they are able to ignore this device and continue their attack. Otherwise, they are temporarily startled long enough for the attack to be wasted. Alternatively, they may quickly look away to strike a different target.
I like this. You could also have a little drone that you're powering with magic fly around your buddy. While it's working, it's being confusing and distracting, but either requires power or direction, so if you stop focusing on fueling it with magic it dies midair. Or it's like one of those stupid toy helicopters where you blink and it crashes immediately.
I was thinking of tinkering with a cloak
okay, that's awesome
With my Alchemist, I made it be overpoweringly foul-smelling chemicals.
Magically tinker stones into giving off ultra bright disorienting light and some other stones with deafening sound so your artificer can basically make flashbang grenades using level 1 ability
With magic tinkering, could you hypothetically touch an enemy's glasses or goggles and essentially point blank flash bang them?
I'd say so.
Could you do that to their eyeballs or contacts?
You big smart brain
and now I want to play artificer
You can use it to give yourself anime glasses!
"Nearly everyone has dark vision!"
Queue angry human noises and Volo's guide Tritons because, for some dumbass reason, an aquatic race from the plane of water that lives at the bottoms of oceans don't have dark vision.
Annoyed Dragonborn noises. Yet another reason not to play them. Does WotC hate them or something?
WotC posted a semi-official statement a while back saying Tritons do have dark vision and it was basically an oversight. It’s just not in any of the official books, my DM and I agreed that they should have it regardless and one of my players that is also a Triton in the game I’m running was also given dark vision. I’m sure any reasonable DM would allow that.
Honestly they should have some version of blindsight, maybe without actual eyes...
Warforged don't have dark vision either. This pisses me off to no end.
Anyway dark vision only makes darkness dim light which is still disadvantage on perception so even people with darkvision should keep light sources on them
Sanctuary: When I used this spell as my Kobold Artificer, it was literally a bottle of skunk spray so my friend would smell so bad that enemies would just not want to attack.
I'm going battle Smith with my gnome, hes going to be riding on a mini chocobo and Sanctuary will be the chocobo going into a protective stance.
@Viktor Magnusson maybe it doesnt linger on the target very well making it so any complex motions for fighting is a enough to blow the smell off of them. OR the enemies actually have a reason to attack him if they are being attacked since not attacking the guy who attacked you is a bad idea even if hes stinky.
I like to flavor Warforged using Burning Hands as having a flamethrower built into their arm.
"You're going to be the oddball of your party" that was my intention. Be an artificer gnome... no one plays artificers or gnomes... Our party is literally one third artificer gnomes 😑
This is my first time playing d&d. We are in our 6th session in a homebrew story. I'm an artificer gnome. I lvld up from 1 to 3 in one session. Any tips or (especially) tricks would be awesome.
in my experience, a human fighter would be the oddball
One third artificer gnomes... that's just two in a six person party. How big *is* your party?
@@LunaMayRussell HOW,
@@stacy__fakename 3 people
"I'm kinda glad they got rid of the guns and made these really unique eldritch cannons"
My guy...The eldritch cannons are just guns with legs.
Hey, they ripped off Borderlands 3
“Did your gun just grow legs and walk away?”
“I mean, of course, how did you know?”
You can still make them tiny and hold them in your hand
@@brewdaly1873 My DM let me reflavor mine as a detachable arm cannon.
@@ozpin8329 I'd want to flavor it as a Monster Hunter Heavy Bowgun.
Fun fact: Artificers (EDIT: and Rune Knights) are the only class that gets tool expertise for tools other than Thieves Tools. Other fun fact, instruments count as a type of tool... As a 6th level Artificer, you can out bard the bard.
You can invent a player piano
Man there needs to be more tool proficiency use
Bards start with 3 instrument proficiencies.
@@InquisitorThorn Yeah but they can’t roll higher than a 31 without help. Artificers can roll a 37 without help, and they can even learn Guidance sooo.
A subclass can do that too Rune Knight (if you get Fire Rune)
But it is the only base class that can do it
So in theory you could make a balanced party that has tool expertise for everyone
Hey, uh, I just wanted to point something out. Don’t know if anyone has said this yet, but...
Spell-storing says “one item that you can use as a spall focus” because anything you make with Infuse item can be used as a spell casting focus.
That’s right, you can give the rogue a bag of holding that lets them cast spider climb... Because they weren’t broken enough.
Sounds amazing
Oh damn
Not true unfortunately, not all magic items are also spellcasting focuses.
Considering that this detail really doesn't make the effect weaker though I would just ignore it.
And of course you can only make 1.
@@probablygeneric429 not all magic items, but any item your Artificer has created with the Infuse Item class ability can be.
@@PhoenixKrash69 I couldn't find anything in the rules that lets artificers use their infusions as spellcasting focuses. You sure about that?
"Do what's fun... idiot" basically sums up 50% of the tutorials on how to dm
Fun fact: the DMG has an EXPLOSIVES section on page 268. So if gunpowder exists in your game, you can do the following:
1 horn of gunpowder weighs 2 pounds. That means 2 of them are about 4 pounds.
And a vial of Alchemist's Fire is one pound.
If you tie all three items together, the whole kit-and-kaboodle will weigh 5 pounds, which is JUST within the weight limit for a (Catapult) spell.
If my math is right (and it usually is), this'll result in 3d8 bludgeoning from the (Catapult) spell, 1d4 fire from the Alchemist's Fire, and 6d6 fire from the exploding gunpowder. AVERAGE DAMAGE: 37
THAT'S MORE DAMAGE THAN A FIREBALL, AND ONLY COSTS A 1ST LEVEL SPELL SLOT . . . (Catapult) even has a Dex save attatched. I have hereby dubbed this invention "The Catapult Bomb."
My Artificer in Tomb of Annihilation has 30 of these in a Bag Of Holding (Alchemist's Fire and Gunpowder stored SEPARATELY) , and my DM lets me do this is because "Only an Artificer can come up with this sort of nonsense!"
EDIT: Got the weight for the gunpowder wrong, not sure how that happened. Fixed it.
This changes the recipe, so for a 2nd-level casting, 1 vial of Alchemist's Fire and 4 powder horns will weigh 9 pounds, doing 4d8 bludgeoning + 1d4 Fire + 12d6 Fire. AVERAGE DAMAGE: 62.5
I upvoted to change the number from 69 to 70 out of spite because you definitely made me feel stupid.
From what I can find, looks like a horn of Gunpowder is 2 pounds and a flask of Alchemist's Fire is only 1 pound. So, for a 2nd level spell slot, you can do 2 Alchemist's Fire and 4 Horns of Gunpowder for 12d6 from the Gunpowder, 2d4 from the Alchemist's Fire, and 4d8 from the Catapult spell, an average of 65 DAMAGE. Or, if you wanna do more damage over time, just do a half-recipe for 6d6+1d4+3d8 from a first-level Catapult Spell for an average of 37 damage from a simple level 1 cast.
Lol love it. My wizard is secretly making an emergency weapon by buying up all the acid vials he can afford without the party noticing and putting them in a bag. By 17th level I can catapult a bag of 45 acid vials for 90d6 acid damage
@@alexanderlehane3459 . . . you are correct. Not sure why I got the weight wrong, but it's been fixed, and it changes the damage output like you said.
Using this against Strahd
Had a Artificer that used a gun to cast his spells. The bullets had the components for spells in the casings. The "Gun" was a large revolver that looked super arcaney and magicy he also had a regular revolver to cast PAIN....he was fun.
*Rest of the Party:* Setting up traps against an oncoming mansion raid.
*My dumbass:* Uses magical tinkering to record the words, *"I can smell you"* at every entry point.
Lmao
lol, create lures for traps with it, you need them in a location for a trap to work? make a rustling sound they will investigate. need them to hit a pressure plate? make an image of you flipping them off appear on it.
What i would do is to make a clap sound with the pacing of ny footsteps, so i can say the sound of my ass cheeks clapping are alerting the guards
A friend of mine used it to distract some gardeners by making their plants smell putrid. They were scrambling to figure out why. It gave the rogue long enough to pick the lock.
Hmm, I imagine that a BBEG that has this ability, if left alone to create a dungeon, will irritate everyone.
Magical tinkering:
I've used it to make the sound of footsteps to misdirect enemies
I've used light to make an npc think that there spoon was possesed
I've used the picture (like blood) and the sound (like a dire wolf howling) and the smell (like damp fur) while lieing on the ground to trick a platoon of gaurds into thinking that there was a pack of wolves near so should run.
So if used correctly it can be very powerful
My Kenku Artificer carries a simple metal tablet around explicitly for MT so that they can inscribe words they don't have the vocabulary to voice themselves. More durable than a notebook, and you never run out of pages! It's also been handy for showing blueprints and plans of attack to other party members.
EDIT: Also, the part of the rules which specifies you (The Artificer) has to be the one to record the 6 second message? Turns out, you can mesh that just fine with a Kenku's Mimicry trait, use your target's voice whilst making the recording, bing bang boom, instant blackmail/proof of guilt.
Also also, Tinkering with some simple cheap pewter broaches gave my entire team independent magical light sources which left their hands free and could be easily concealed for ambush purposes.
you could also cast light on somebodies eye
I used simple stones to make light and screams and then thrown them in a room to confuse and distract enemies, or lure them into a trap where my Dragonborn Artificer could use Fire Breath to start the fight
*their* spoon
@@glass7923 yes he was eating cerial and I touched his spoon and it glowed and he panicked. He promised to tell us the information if we removed the demon
14:33 I would keep in mind that Tasha's cauldron says that spell storing item works on any item that YOU, the artificer can use as a spellcasting focus. This qualifies ALL tools your are proficient in, along with ALL your Artificer infusions. An armorer can make a budget cloak of stars with magic missle in their cloak of protection. An Artillerist can put scorching ray into their enhanced arcane focus. A battle smith can put warding bond into gauntlets of ogre power/belt of giant strength, and give them to their steel defender. It would essentially turns their steel pupper into a budget shield guardian!
Another thing to keep in mind the Artificer has the ability to give spell storing items to their homunculus. This is an effective way to CAST MULTIPLE SPELLS AS A BONUS ACTION. Web, cure wounds, heat metal, magic missle, shatter, scorching ray, flaming sphere. A homunculus and a steel defender are both creatures, so they can both attune magic items. ARTIFICERS CAN BE BROKEN!... that is...if you're crafty enough.
This is incredible and I will be basing my entire character off of this
For the magical tinkering: I once evaded a whole army of evil guards by throwing a rock that played a constant foot steps noise that quieter down that made the believe we ran the opposite direction, or I blinded a wizard by making his glasses start shining bright light. It was p fun
Lmao you just gave me the idea to just slap the nose of a attacking enemy and tinker it to make it smell like rotten food or corpses
Except you aren't doing it correctly. Nobody outside 5ft of the rock can hear those footsteps and you'd have to touch those glasses.
@@dreadstar-22 What are you talking about? it doesn't mean that the soldiers that heard the footsteps would just ignore those and not tell theirwhole squad and touching the glasses isn't something impossible too.
@@ped3752 or you know..... Thaumaturgy exist.....
@@TheMrBonzz and it is louder. But the glasses idea is neat if you get to touch the person.
To answer your thing of “What would sanctuary look like as an invention; a safety bubble.
When he thought that I immediately thought of a box.
I actually thought about it like a cloak of invisibility since it drops when you attack it would reveal your self to the enemys
And the "may target another creature" when you fail the save is legit your weapon/spell bouncing off it and hitting someone else.
OST Klingon cloaking system
@@RavingNutter thats a fun way to do it I just imagined they got tired of trying to get you and decided to hit someone else
someone i know made a artificer who only talked through magical tinkering voice clips and chucking them at people.
"Helloo"
"Help me!"
"I'm sorry"
@@GrassPokeKing "Very good!"
@@ArcNine9Angelrogue lineage?
Basically Jacket from Hotline Miami:
"I don't think thats supposed to go there."
Can't wait for Tasha's Cauldron of Everything to hit, forcing a "How to play artificer again, again" video
Same
That is different due to it being a reprint instead of a revision.
it’s just a reprint. the only thing different is the armorer subclass
@@papaquaalude8227 but iron man
@@papaquaalude8227 but iron man
Jacob: “pEoPlE YeLl aT mE fOr PrOnOuNcInG aRtIfIcEr CoRrEctLy”
Also Jacob: pronounces “savant” the way he does
English is dumb anyways. What matters is that you knew what he said.
Darien B I know, I just thought it was a funny self-contradiction 😂
I mean there are two correct eats to pronounce "Artificer". Jacob just uses the British pronunciation.
The exact comment I was looking for
@@SobiTheRobot British person here. That's not the British pronunciation at all, it's just wrong.
I'm playing a warforged artificer fluffed as an Iron Giant style amnesiac robot, right now, and I'm using the magical tinkering to show people pictures from their "memory bank" on a playing card. It has proven useful.
0:51
Logan: "How'd you get that dent in your wall?"
Jacob: "I was crazily screaming about magic robo men."
Logan: "Makes sense."
good comment op
This man implied that we're all saying artificer wrong and then comes in and says "sav-ant"
DruidJake isn’t it Sav-Ahnt
@@werewolftapus7630
Saw-vont
Yeah, I'm going to go the route of .gif and just not pronounce artificer differently from artifice because arTIficer sounds stupid.
It’s savant
He pronounces artificer right though
3:58 I’ve found that magical tinkering can be useful when faced with magical darkness. It creates magical light, and it can’t be dispelled because it’s not a spell effect.
me using my phone to light up the room:
I'm going to play an artificer just so I can roleplay as Jimmy Neutron and have my metal dog be Goddard.
I have found a fellow toucan
@@celtoucan4956 Another has arrived!
@@Pepper_Pip Soon there shall be an unstoppable flock of toucans in this comment
Gotta blast
Looks like they couldn’t handle the neutron style
4:18 you're missing the BEST use of this ability.
You can make a "NUT" button
I should not have known this. You can make an entire soundboard of random stuff and actually have a way for it to play out in game! This is not a power is should ever have.
I'm thinking of making a mute artificer who use a sound bored to talk now
You could make buttons or horns that do that airhorn soundeffect (you know the one) and be a hypeman for the bard.
@@Ronin11111111 thats sounds dope
Make a Kenku artificer with a soundboard they use to speak for them.
*That one Artificer who turned a small wooden cube into his alarm clock singing "HELLO MY BABY HELLO MY HONEY HELLO MY RAGTIME GAAAAL~!" every morning to wake him & the party.*
Send me a kiss by wireeeee
World Anvil is the Raid: Shadow legends of the DND community
“This video is sponsored by the Deck of Many”
Except it’s good
But I feel like the sponsors are better than a shity mobile game
They are
@@snarfymcsnarfface2323 the deck of many is like raycon earbuds for reviewing channels except for d&d story telling channels
One of my favourite things about artificers is that you can chose how much "technology" you are using, and how much "magical items" you are using, depending on the settings, you preference, and your DM's preference.
Also, magical tinkering ain't that useless. You can take a random rock, make it glow, and throw it at the enemies while shouting "GRANDE!!"
Or have it unleashing a noxious odor. Plus I always take up to 10 feet away to mean radius, so if you throw it into a group of people you are going to get more than a single person.
@@LupineShadowOmega Splash attacks are a second nature to alchemists is something i noticed when playing one
I had my Artificer turn a rock into a constant light source and built a metal and leather device to contain the rock, turning into a flashlight.
I have a tendency to make random rocks look like dynamite sticks or any kind of explosives really. Just watch everyone run for cover, rinse, repeat, and then throw a real explosive when they stop running from the fake ones
@@LupineShadowOmega What I like to do is get a bunch of ball bearings and cast the odor on maybe two or three of the bearings and then throw the whole bunch at enemies so that way they cant just pick it up and toss it back or away from them, good luck finding which one smells lmao
Artificer: “I went to Engineering school at MIT and now I’m here...”
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@@Comicsluvr amazing lol
Our Artificer uses tinker to make little fart bombs. Definitely not useless.
Heck, it would definitely work as a distraction. Throw it at your target and when it starts creating a stench or noise, most people are going to freak right the heck out. Especially if they're Kobolds and a rock just suddenly starts roaring like a dragon.
@@LupineShadowOmega or mimic the smell of a gas leak and clear a building just in time for your party disguised at workers to come fix it.
Definitely not useless. It's moments like these that I'm reminded that I might not have fun on Jacob's table.
@@tylermohr25 mimic the smell of carrion to draw away dogs or other animals. Have it make an uncommon sound or something attention grabbing like a coin purse being dropped. You can do a lot with it.
Thats what I was thinking. Or a grenade that basically tear gas.
0:54 This man literally put a dent in his wall for this video
correction! he made a bigger dent as a dent was already there
I think the dent was originally made in a Runesmith video but I could be misremembering
My favorite part of Artificer is the flavor that the customization allows. For example, since you can use any artisan's tools as a spellcasting focus, I have a chef Artificer who imbues her food with spells and acts as the party mom making sure everyone is healthy and happy. And it's 100% RAW. That's just amazing.
Not only that, but you can even get proficiency with cook’s tools right out the gate. Meaning you can not only infuse funky magic into the food, you can also make it taste awesome.
It says in the Eberron book that there are Artificers in other realms and tells you where they're trained
That's pretty cool. But it's always the DMs decision if they want it or not. But also nobody follows the D&D lore like... most of the time
@@MythicMachina If you're in like, Faerun, there are Artificers. They mention them and where they're trained, it just slips my mind what isle they're trained on. If it's a homebrew world, then yeah, DM fiat. And I guess if you're not, DM fiat still exists, but when they're literally stated to be a thing and the DM still says no, then that just seems unnecessarily mean. But that's just my 2 cents on the matter
@@the_rose_garden01 counterpoint. Artificers are very much a class made for setting like Ebberon. Yes there are ways that they appear in other offical settings, but they kind of feel like they had to shoehorn them into the old less technical settings, which can cause problems. Should you be allowed to play it? Yes. But it makes sense if the DM does not want it
Tell that to adventurers League
@@decobyjones9491 AL is whatever Wizards want it to be. That's a whole nother bag of worms
Artificer perfectly fits into Forgotten Realms, too. Lantan was an entire nation built on science and technology and some of Faerun's most powerful empires ever relied heavily on artifice.
Artificer is honestly my favorite class. I have never really played D&D, but reading about the artificer is mostly what got me super interested. I have so many character ideas of just artificers. A kobold studying magitech traps to protect his people. A guy who uploaded their mind into a warforged and seriously regrets it. An armorer whose "armor" is a transforming vehicle. I really wish I had the books so I could actually look at the stats and rules and abilities and stuff to see whether these actually make any sense.
I'm playing a lizardfolk artificer and ended up with a kobold apprentice who's interested in learning to make magitech traps, as it happens!
I was thinking a warforged artificer created by a different, elderly human artificer to finish his works. Old guy knows he'll die eventually and wants his works to be finished even after he dies.
I used a magical tinkering that was pretty hilarious. I used the sound effect and every time someone touches the artifact it would say “AHHHHH DON’T TOUCH MEEEE.”
Creative use for the 6 second message: use it to record the verbal part of a spell. Then if gagged or otherwise incapacitated verbally, yu can still cast the spell
verbal, not somatic
Zyǐ Bésixdouze yes verbal, thank you, dont know why i had somatic in my head when i posted that
"creative" i think you mean genius
That’s... that’s actually really good. I imagine my artificer walking into a room, inhaling, getting a hand slapped across their mouth and then they just slap their jacket and it says the component. Glorious
Oh fuck, that's actually mega big brain
To be fair, my first Artificer character used Magical Tinkering to make a rock glow after a child -- whose older brother had gotten lost in a spirit forest -- gave it to me and said it would bring me good luck in finding him. He was so touched (and totally unaware that it was me) that the DM gave me inspiration for making the child believe he had given me the magical power to find his brother. Which, of course, we did.
Jacob : Nerf his character.
Also Jacob : Complaints about it.
DM : hold on, this whole operation was your idea.
I dont agree with the whole "its in the eberron book so its only in that setting" the DM can say its not in the game but all its abilites are stuff in basic dnd. Alchemist, there are dozens of potions in dnd so not allowing this subclass is saying potions dont exist. Artillerist, this one creates magical turrets which non of them are super high tech, one shots fire, one is a medival ballista, and the next is just a thing that uses abjuration magic the wand mechanic is just magic nothing futureistic. Battle Smith, they have a construct companion so if constucts like modrones or golems exist in the world I have no idea why people dont allow this subclass.
Damn thats a lot of likes, thank guys
I mean, the book itself says that there are places in other realms that have artificers. For example, the Forgotten Realms have the island of Lantan.
I'm currently playing a Battle Smith in our medieval campaign and we just flavor it as he's an enchanter (the infusions). Basically in world he's a wizard who focused more on how magic worked and how to apply it to items instead of learning a large number of known spells. His iron defender is just a golem made of smithing metal. Remove all the suggested flavor from Ebberon and they're just your basic caster class.
He literally said that he uses artificer in other settings and to just do whatever is fun and makes sense I don’t understand why you are arguing
@@leahbeah1585 Im not argueing against Jacob just saying for DM's that scroll down and making a post that people may be able to relate to or to use this to change a DM's mind.
@@notsogreatjagras4314 thank you for clarifying! I really appreciate it!
"It's only 6 seconds! That's not long enough to relay useful information."
"Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi. You're my only hope"
"and everyone gets mad at you when you pronounce the name correctly"
All this has taught me is to not trust Google's claims on things are pronounced.
Well how he says it is right... sorta... Words have multiple ways to pronounce it. So as long as you understand what they are saying they are technically right... Words are weird
Merriam-Webster has the common American pronunciation, so the dude's just lazy.
Niarbeht Well you, yourself prove he is right with your wording “Common American Pronunciation”. There are more ways of saying a word then how most Americans pronounce it and all of them are right. He wasn’t being lazy, you were just being judgmental.
i looked it up, and his pronunciation is basically the british pronunciation but with the "r"s better enunciated
Say artificial, now say artificer
Now, hear me out:
Heroism=PCP
Sanctuary=Aerosolized Heroin
Become the dealer of the campaign
@@georgepeterjoubert7482 I think ketamine would be better for sleep like fr have you seen people dosed out on that shit they are pretty much asleep
@@georgepeterjoubert7482 ketamine is literally horse tranquilizer lmfao
-Choose Dwarf
-Pick Artificer
-Spec into the Artillerist or Battle Smith subclass
-Time to *ROCK AND STONE*
Extra steps
-Have the name Karl
-Become a barbarian
-Die by sacrificing yourself as your allies escape the BBEG
i get this reference
Even though I don't like that every class has a nature subclass, I would LOVE to see a nature artificer subclass
that's pretty much the alchemist. you use the herbs of nature to create healing potions and poisons,
Wizard? Fighter? Bard?
Anthony Norman Barbarian
@@DeepFriedFrenz112 storm something something barbarian
@@commanderpeacekeeper937 Nah man. We need to go beyond. I want to build mecha out of oak and raid a fortress with a nutsoocka.
I used the magical tinkering to record the smell of 10'000 orcs to prove that orcs were going to attack the town and we needed to borrow their army
Hey that's pretty cool.
How do people know what 10,000 orcs smell like?
@Banyuaigo: lmao
Something good that I brought up to my DM that really helped with the whole "juggling Infusions" issue was the *actual* magic item crafting rules in Xanathar's. If you can think of an item that could consistently help a party member, like boots of striding and springing for your rogue, you can just crank it out between adventures with a bit of elbow grease. Which reminds me that downtime activities and downtime in general is vastly underdone at most tables. I also used it to give our bard tear-away pants in the form of cast-off armor, but that's neither here nor there.
1st ability
Light: attached it to a shield to have both protection in the dark and you can also blind the enemy if they decide to melee you
Record: do this to save up ink and paper
Make sounds/smells: you can literally hide your presence from the enemy with any sound and also attract them or scare them your choice
Produce an image or words: combine it with "record" and a bird you get yourself a drone
Hey, an extra 1d8 to damage makes it so that your essentially “up casting” your spells. So your level 1 offensive spell that does 2d8 is “being cast as 3rd level” with 3d8. As a half caster it’s pretty bonkers.
It just sucks with things like Scorching Ray because you can only add the damage to one hit. Pretty good with cantrips and AoE though. I will say the shift from +7 to hit, 1d8 damage Ray of Frost at level 4 to +9 to hit (enhanced arcane focus on the firearm as well), 3d8 damage at level 5 just feels bonkers when you hit it.
The only part that sucks is you have basically no offensive spells to use it on 😮💨
How do you get the extra 1D8?
@@tekred2828 at third level you choose The subclass artilerist and at level 5 your subclass feature "arcane firearm" allows you to apply 1d8 to spells damage IF you use the arcane firearm as a focus to cast spells. At level 5 your fire Bolt = 2D10 + 1D8
I'm playing an artificer sorcerer and it's so cool. The guy is like a mega nerd and it explains how he can cast spells.
The artificer gives me the same vibes as the monk or the fighter. Less of simple and more of a blank canvas for you to make your artificer unique like how monks can be ninjas or mma and how fighters can be samurai or magic users
Yeah. I'm excited to start playing an Artillerist who uses calligraphy rather than tinkering tools. Cure wounds will just be a get well soon card. Cast fireball by writing the phrase "this is not a pipebomb" on a paper airplane or something and yeeting it at the enemy
I wanted to make a Mousefolk artificer obsessed with aviation and birds. Much of his inventions will involve flight somehow. His ultimate goal is to make a nonmagical Da Vinci-style ornithopter.
Lord Mosnar that sounds amazing
Jared Burns a bag of holding could jest bee an envelope that says insert stuff here
The Artificer is like: Ferb, I know what we’re gonna do today!
GameOverVirus I know what character I’m gonna play
@@BoredTAK5000 Battle Smith with Warforged Platypus?
You could possibly clear a small room with the smell tinker by making a room smell like a toxic gas or smoke scaring the enemies giving you and advantage
3:27 ok, I'm an arcane trickster rogue / Artificer multiclass. My Magical Tinkering is applied to my arrows and can be used for all kinds of distractions. 320 feet on my shortbow makes it so these things are really effective. Fire a Stink bomb arrow into a crowd or near a guard to make them disperse. Fire a Howler arrow away from you to make the sound of a screaming baby (the book says Non-verbal, not non-vocal. No words, just incoherent screams and wails) to draw people into a trap. Fire a projector arrow near an ally to act as a long range message spell and if you know multiple languages, it can be used to send encoded messages. Fire a light arrow down a hallway or a pit for the same effect as dropping a couple glow sticks down a pit in a movie. It can even have combat effectiveness. Stink arrows can allow the party a surprise round or provide disadvantage to the enemy. Howlers can be used to help the entire party disengage by distracting or frightening an enemy. Light arrows can be used as an intimidation tactic to end a combat early (it's all fun and games until you turn one of your enemies into a jack o lantern in front of their friends). Is it a game breaking thing? No, of course not. But it's a lvl 1 ability. It's not supposed to be.
Love it! I am playing the same thing and thinking about multiclassing into artificer but was wondering how I could use the artificers ability’s with my bow. You have finalized my decision using pure creativity. Isn’t D&D amazing 😂
I've been wanting to play a PI rogue for a while, and this seems amazing to combine with it. And also just well done on giving use to a shortbow, literally never seen a rogue use a ranged weapon that wasn't a thrown dagger or crossbow.
@@lightningcowboy4846 Rebuilds Emily's Crossbow, just for this.
I see infusions per day as the amount you can create per day. It makes literally no sense that an all mighty 20th level artificer can have 4 rinky dink infusions up when you’re literally killing titans and gods. So I let my players have all 4 up and they have an awesome time. The way I balance it, making monsters that are resistant to bludgeoning, piercing and slashing from infused items and giving them a good explanation as to why (there was an artificer bbeg for that leg of the game)
They should have made a secondary resource, like sorcery points (so you can 'weave' your magic items) Like you can just "grab" the magic from an item you've created and infuse another item with the residue magic for x amount of points based on their level (or spell slots) as you need to activate the new item and then remake a new effect on the fly and as you level up you can have Int Modifier + level/4(min 1) as the total amount of infusions you can have. So at level 1 you'll have between 1-6 (depending if you roll 18 or not and use a gnome) and then at level 20, you're have 10-12 infusions active at once (since you can get that int book that boost your int beyond 20) and can swap a lot of them around on the fly.
@@TheRedAzuki Honestly if infusions just costed spell slots they would be great. Equivalent of sorcery points would also be great just make the better ones cost more.
A lvl 20th artificer can have 6 infusions up at the same time not 4. 12 infusions going is too much.
There should also be a way of making permanent magic items. Maybe not permanent buffs, but items like bag of holding, sending stones, etc. requiring a lot of money and materials and maybe a intelligence check with the dc based on the level of the item.
@@Obsi399 there already is ruling for making magic items and Artificer can do it in 1/4th of the time
The thing about artificers, you’re supposed to be make more magic items than just your infusions. The explanation of the class says so itself, i don’t remember the exact quote but it was something along the lines of “your artificer thrives through their inventions, so work with the DM to create things beyond what is listed in any source book”
The infusions are basically just quick magical abilities you are able to use. You could use your smith’s tools to create a little knife that shoots knives, you could use your tinkers tools to make a land vehicle faster, or to make it hover, there’s so much you can do beyond infusions
I am going to use this. I don’t know how or when, but I’m gonna use it.
A good use for recording message is, grab a paper, record a message, attached it to a book. Repeat the process a lot. Done. An audiobook XD
you can only use it up to your Int-Modifier :/ But nice Idea, I would allow it
You can get a 10 page book for a kid story
@@shadowbladeandlightin8889 if you can get 2 pages into 6 seconds. The restrictions are pretty heavy. I'd just overrule them
If you get to level 20 and use the optional rules for advancement past 20 you can get an intelegence modifier of +10, aka can use the message maker 10 times, 10 pages
@@shadowbladeandlightin8889 okay then you can do 6seconds a page
Every time I hear Jacob sing, I cry a little on the inside because there's still no album
No joke, I would buy an XP to level 3 album the moment if I had my own credit card
Rui Kirisame, go to the bank and open a checking account. They'll give this thing called a Debit Card that basically works just a Credit Card except that it's safer, if your intelligent with your money.
@@ryavix For online purchases it's much safer to use a credit card, because it's easier to cancel and the disputation process is much simpler, and they're often easier to unlock and relock
@@ryavix that's just straight up not true. credit cards are miles safer to use, because they're actually covered by the bank if your number gets skimmed. if your debit gets nabbed, either through a vending machine or an online purchase of some sort, that damage is not covered - you just lose money.
And yet every experience I've personally witnessed or had myself has gone the exact opposite way, @@bernardo8993.
Why did this tern from someone talking about Jacobs masterpieces of songs, to an argument about which is better, credit or debit.
Also we use platinum pieces for goods of that value.
Ways to make useful/interesting things with the Magic Tinkering:
1) Light effect on object, put object inside hooded lantern, instant spotlight whenever you open the shutter. The key is how reflected and focused light works, you get very little diffuse light (less than the Light effect) from a flashlight bulb, but put it in the flashlight and a bright strong beam goes much farther.
2) Sound…six seconds of audio that can be made to repeat, can be keyed to a recipient, and can be heard from 10 feet away…:
a) Yep, six second messages is a solid way of using it, especially keyed to the recipient.
b) Looped cry of terror/agony (you might need some help, like a good Performance lesson) to toss somewhere and act as a distraction or to lure something.
c) Looped insane laughter, put it somewhere you want people to hesitate going or opening.
d) Greeter for your shop! Have the object at the door and triggered by someone entering, with a recorded greeting to the shop.
e) Toy sales….do you have any idea how sought after the first doll to say “I love you” when you pulled its string was? Imagine how much you could make off of one with a *customizable* message, with the kid’s name? That triggered when hugged?
3) Smells are easy. Permanent scented candle/potpourri/incense? The ability to make laundry permanently carry a specific scent? Using the scent of predators to help keep pests away? Use of scent to help lure animals?
Guidance: your goggles are a H.U.D. with your own A.I. that helps you with tasks
I mean, artificer is supposed to be an intelligence spell caster which imbues objects using magic so you don't have to come up with a technical explanation for everything as long as it's a passable spell
Magic tinkering is one of the funniest abilities in the game!
Just some examples from several sessions of lvl 3 artificier:
- During the fight with a bunch of Ankhegs my artificier created vanilla and orange-smelling stick to distract insects in particular battlefield area near npc and wounded tank. So, Ankhegs got disadvantage on attacks in this area if they fail wisdom check.
- In the airship chase scene, he enhanced steerwheel with police siren-like sound. So, in tough traffic some ships made space and we did not crash into anything).
- During an attempt to steal some id's or uniform of quarantine police he recorded cough and sneezeing sounds on a stick, attached to the nearby street corner to achieve distraction and buy some time for the party.
Really looking forward to some new situations where MT will come in handy)
I hate how people say that “the Artificer can ruin or break the flavor of a campaign because their about technology”
The Artificer is about magic items, you can reflector ALL of the artificer stuff to just be mundane objects imbued with magic.
In my campaign I made my Steel Defender a puppet brought to life by magic. You could make the steel defender a prototype/lesser golem, a suit of armor being manipulated by magic, a collection of forks for Christ sakes but it doesn’t have to be a robot. The turret could be a book, orb, puppet, doll, mask, helmet, skull, or a hand.
The class is all about flavor. If the techo based stuff doesn’t work just change it.
Sanctuary: A little hologram device that projects an image of the attackers loved ones onto the target, causing them to hesitate and occasionally lose focus on the attack all together.
One of my players used the magical tinkering really well in a horror game by throwing them. Since it was magically dark he was able to throw it to see things ahead of him. He also used it to make the sounds of a crying child to lure the monster
Artificer 2: Electric Boogaloo
HermitCRAFT
I don't think Jacob expected me interpreting "playing what's fun" as me playing
a ranger druid artificer (possibly barbarian and sorcerer) Lizardfolk who's entire premise is the hunt monsters and make them into weapons
Ethsy77 That’s a really cool idea!
@@LordPyro25 I don't know whether to be thankful or sad as the entire point was to make a dumb ineffective character that's just fun
@@ethsy77 so you just wanna make a Monster Hunter then?
@@MythicMachina I didn't even think of that so I'm gonna start planning as you have given me more ideas
Ethsy77 I imagine a sort of witchdoctor type of character who makes all these weird inventions out of bones and stuff. It’s a neat idea for an Artificer
Fun fact. The Battle Smith can use intelligence for magic weapons. Use magical tinkering to make your longsword magical and you don't have to use an Infusion.
Oh my gosh you’re right! I didn’t realize that.
In addition, you can even multi class into warlock and use the pact of the blade with battle smith. Meaning you can play hex blade but with more spells!
And so it continues... the war of how to pronounce Artificer correct rages on
Yes, it is true. You are making a season 2 of "how to play" WHAT JOY!!!!!!
Considering Jocat started doing that too, hopefully this continues to be the case with our Lord and saviour Sir Davvius Chappy
Patrick Duffin Jocat says Barbarian is the only one he’s redoing though
@@riastradh You can always hope.
@@riastradh key word is *says* we will get more
I will never forget when I made an artificer who was a Warforged. It was so broken. I was untouchable. But I also was able to talk my DM Into letting me take two subclasses but I had to inflict myself with some kind of madness as a damper. Ghost in the machine type situation. It was so much fun!
And then he enchanted a pickle, funniest shit I ever saw
Commit heart not move
I think the Artificer class has the best aesthetics out of all the classes.
I just like to bribe people with fake gold that i make out of spoons
its closest to a thaumaturge which is why I like them
@@lorekeeper685 Thaumaturge?
I played a gnome artillerist. In my opinion, artificers are the most fun as you gain levels, especially when you hit level 10 and just make more and more magic items for you and your party, or breaking the game with spell storing item.
The artificer I'm currently playing in a Dragon Heist campaign is an artillerist subclass. Basically flavoured him to be like a shaman, building all his spells as different totems and trinkets that spirits infuse to cast spells from. His eldritch cannons will be similar totems that will be say 'An angler fish that shoots long streams of high pressured water' or 'A tortoise that fires off a large shell of fortitude for some temp hp'. His arcane firearm will be a carved rod, full of sigils that when used will cause a spirit of one of the totems to form and then cast the spell from that.
I honestly love how open and easily customizable the artificer is because you really can flavour it however you like.
I'm doing something similar with my artillerist, who's a tiefling who's cannons are built into his horns that he just unscrews and chucks at people
@@the_ceeman That's the dumbest best thing I've heard. Good on you man!
This class is perfect!! I love it and i love the tinkering ability!
Even being limited, its very versatile. You can send messages with arrows, exellent for stealth missions, make false trails against a hunter that rely on his nose, apply camouflage on everything(!!) and take pictures in polaroid way, as u can place an image over a surface with an 6s action... Its possible even to use the limitation of uses, as the oldest thinkering disapears when you exceed the limits, it can be a good way to "remotely control" them
And forge documents. Its perfect to falsify texts and sell peoples soul to demons =D
I finally found a use for it! Our crazy artificer used a rock in a barrel to make smells that distracted dogs trying to smell out drugs and contraband. Very fun.
I DM a game where the artificer used tinkering to make a stone smell like cooked meat and used it to distract a pack of wolves. Is good ability.
Make it smell of Thioacetone.
Now you have a grenade that will literally cripple everyone within it's area of effect.
I always argue that given the rules for the artificer that an infusion could be used as a spellcasting focus I can use items that could be infusions as a spell storing item, and so far I have not been denied so hello jump boots!!
In NPC DND Alans character Greg was an artificer who took the actor feat so he could copy other people's voices on an item and used it pretty well
# Level 1
2:55 Magical Tinkering
6:02 Spellcasting
# Level 2
7:25 Infuse Items
# Level 3
10:44 Right Tool for the Job
10:57 Artificer Specialist (Sublcass)
11:05 1) Alchemist
11:32 2) Artillerist
12:00 3) Battle Smith
#Level 4
12:24 Ability Score Improvement
#Level 6
14:01 Tools Expertise
#Level 7
14:10 Flash of Genius
# Level 10
14:18 Magic Item Adept
#Level 11
14:28 Spell-Storing Item
#Level 14
15:11 Magic Item Savant
#Level 18
15:24 Magic Item Master
#Level 20
15:38 Soul of Artifice
A friend & I are doing a pair of artificers, one an alchemist & the other an artillerist. Going for a backwards ratchet & clank warforged & goblin backpack caster niche
Brilliant, I absolutely love this idea
Sounds like Borth-Majar from Chaotic
@@ShouldaWoulda Ah, a person of culture, I see
One of the other players in my current campaign is an artificer, and our job was to break into our employer's mansion to steal a cult artifact from him and we didn't know where the place was on the island. Our artificer made a glowing crate of glowing milk for his second in command to deliver to his residence so it would be easier for my character (swashbuckler rogue/ scout fighter with invisibility as a racial ability) to track him in the night and plan a route. We were the milkmen and our milk was delicious
"Jamie, Jamie pull.that up...Druids can turn into chimps. " lol
I have someone playing an artificer in Rime if the Frostmaiden and he actually uses magical tinkering really well. He uses the smell thing to make it smell like food to attract animals to hunt for food, he uses the sound tinkering on crossbow bolts to use as distraction bolts to throw enemies off on their location, and he really likes making flash bangs with multiple objects.
Literally just started that campaign in my group and that is exactly what I’ve been doing so feels good to know I’m on track.
Just gonna say on the infusions thing, the whole switching them over a long rest: While kinda annoying, that's the same way cleric/druid spells work. You get access to a larger list than you can have per day, and you pick new ones after each long rest. I think it just feels worse because there's a lower number of them, so it feels more limiting than the spell preparation thing does
*says he nerfed his character by giving him a prosthetic arm and then complains about the other infusions being cooler than the arm*
he could have just gone armorer to get his prosthetic arm and have bonus infusions (+1 ac isnt needed if you have plate armor)
@@finalfantasy50I don't think armorer existed when this video came out
Magical tinkering tbh can be used very effectively in my experience, much like prestidigitation, you just have to use it cleverly
It is a *magical* source of light that isn't a spell.... but yes, it's main limitation is the creativity of the user. :)
@Zooker i agree. It just looks like a more limited verison of cantips like Thumatergy.
@Zooker I did. ;) But to be more explicit - read the text of the Darkness spell. It creates an area of magical darkness which dispels spells level 2 or lower. The subtext is that any source of magical light which is coming from a level 3 or higher spell, or which is not coming from a spell, is not dispelled. It isn't a spell. In other words - it creates a trinket that nerfs the Darkness spell. There are other, less mechanical ways you can use it -- it largely depends on whether you're creative about how you apply it. Just as Druidcraft, Thaumaturgy, and Prestidigitation - these are spells which do little tricks that don't have an explicit mechanical purpose, but which can be used to great effect through RP.
I can think of many different ways magical tinkering could work well. Place it in a locked room, smelling like a corpse and sounding like a zombie in order to fool guards into rushing in there.
Give it to your shapeshifter Druid buddy to give an urgent message to the king/queen.
You can make a keyhole/hole in a wall, then cover it up with the item so it projects false information on the other side. Bonus points for snoring noises.
And the light’s pretty straightforward.
Yeah, I love Magical Tinkering, both mechanically i.e as a distraction via the sound or for roleplay i.e I gave our adopted Bahamut-infused child a rock that produced an Image of our party/her family when she tapped it.
My friends and I are currently making a very experimental campaign where we rotate who is dming each campaign. Our party has a magic ship that allows us to travel between planes. I'm playing an artificer that is in charge of maintaining the ship. He also attaches a canon onto it, since he is an artillerist.
him: Snappy aside at the beginning saying that he's pronouncing Artificer correctly.
Also him: S A V V E N T
When I played artificier my tools/staff were magical conduits like a wand. It made it easier to imagine as instead of, I create this, it is I can focus magic through tools to make better stuff and spells.
Also my group mis-read the whole infusions shit so our artificier can only infuse 2 items after a long rest, once infused it stays indefinetly until death, there is no limit too the amount of infusions, just you cannot infuse more than limit per long rest.
Wait is that the rule or is that what your group thought it was? Little confused
@@nightseeker0092 It was a misunderstanding. That's not the rule.
Alternatively, you could just have each infusion cost 50 gp each and not give out all that much gold.
Thumbs and comment on the strength of the Level 4 ability description alone! Well done.
“Ability Score Improvement” is the first Class Guide Song I enjoyed. 10/10.