Questions tagged [artificer]
For questions about the artificer, a spellcasting class in several editions of Dungeons & Dragons and related RPGs that focuses on the creation, maintenance, and enhancement of magic items. (See also the [artificer-infusions] tag.)
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How Artificer Works in D&D 5e [closed]
Good afternoon! I found an infusion from an artificer that allows you to improve his armor by adding +1 to his armor class.
But also one of the subclasses has a feature that sounds something like this:...
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For the artificer's Magical Tinkering feature, do you need to touch the object with your tool?
The artificer's Magical Tinkering feature says you need to hold the object in hand. Then touch an item to imbue it.
But can the touch be with the other hand?
Are there any other examples of this in ...
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Can a battlefist be broken by normal means?
I am playing an Artificer, Mastermaker subclass (from Keith Barkers Dread Metrol Ravenloft/Eberron crossover), and for roleplaying purposes want my character's battlefist be unrepairable owing to ...
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Can I use Performance of Creation to provide the 100gp gem for a homunculus servant?
The College of Creation Bard has the class feature Performance of Creation, which states:
As an action, you can channel the magic of the Song of Creation to create one nonmagical item of your choice ...
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Can a Battlesmith Artificer's steel defender perform tasks such as "find food" or "stand guard"?
A Battlesmith Artificer in my campaign wants to have his Steel Defender basically "programmed" to perform various tasks, many of which involve acting of its own accord. Things like standing ...
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How does the damage from Artificer Armorer's Lightning Launcher work?
I'm trying to figure out Lightning launcher's extra damage text and if I'm reading it correctly. The part in question reads as follows:
Once on each of your turns when you hit a creature with it, you ...
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What happens with multiple Replicate Magic Item infusions of Spellwrought Tattoo?
The RAW states that an Artificer's infusion can only be applied to one item at a time using bag of holding as an example so we all know it applies to replicated magical items. With Spellwrought tattoo ...
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Does an Arcane Armor replace the legs of the Centaur?
If I was playing a Centuar and I lost my leg would the Artificer Armorer's Arcane Armor replace it while I'm wearing it?
Arcane Armor states:
It also expands to cover your entire body, although you ...
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Can the Infiltrator model's benefit of the Armorer Artificer's 15th-level Perfected Armor feature be stacked?
The description of the Infiltrator model's benefit for the Armorer artificer's Perfected Armor feature says (Tasha's Cauldron of Everything, p. 17):
Infiltrator. Any creature that takes lightning ...
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Could an Artificer / Wizard multiclass add any of their prepared spells to their own spellbook? [duplicate]
Or would they have to go through the process, and cost, of scribing a scroll of, say Detect Magic, then pass an Arcana check to 'learn' and spend more precious gp to scribe it into their spellbook?
If ...
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Can a Steel Defender attack in every round with the cost of only one Bonus Action?
In combat, if a Battle Smith Artificer commands a Steel Defender to attack in every round, does he need to use his bonus action in every round or only one command is necessary?
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Is there a class that uses items only to cast spells?
My DM is preparing more of a fairytale-themed campaign with younger adventurers. I want to make a character that consumes their bracelets to cast all their spells. The problem is that I couldn't find ...
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Are there any obscure methods to get Find Steed?
I'm playing an Artificer that uses its Steel Defender as a mount
and was planning on grabbing the Spellwrought tattoo once able to replicate the higher tier items.
But it seems all the Artificer ...
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How does an Artificer obtain mundane objects for infusion/replication?
I've been trying to figure out how to go about 'creating' the non-magical items needed so you can tinker them into trinkets, or infuse them into a replication of a magic item.
Things like Needles that ...
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Can an Artillerist Artificer's arcane cannon walk without shooting?
I just noticed as I was looking at the artillerist artificer's Eldritch Cannon class feature. Can the eldritch cannon walk without shooting?
On each of your turns, you can take a bonus action to ...
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Can an Artillerist use their eldritch cannon as a focus?
I'm trying to parse out how to wear a shield, still be able to cast spells, and mitigate the cannon's abysmal walking speed in between encounters. Perhaps a shoulder mount, a la "Predator"?
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E6 artificer 4th w/1-level dip elsewhere seeks PrC dip for 6th level that advances infusions
I have an ECL 5th E6 character with 4 levels of artificer (and a necessary 1-level dip, in monk if you’re curious), and I want the character to hit those 3rd-level infusions from that 5th effective ...
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What portion of the crafting time for a magic item does an artificer need to meet the minimum caster level?
The artificer class has multiple abilities related to emulating spell casting abilities for crafting items and meeting the caster level requirements for crafting items. First, they have an ability to ...
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What happens to an Armorer Artificer's extra infusions if they change their Arcane Armor?
Armorer artficiers have the Armor Modifications feature, which lets them improve parts of their Arcane Armor, but also importantly...
In addition, the maximum number of items you can infuse at once ...
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Is the Armorer artificer's Arcane Armor magical?
Is an Armorer artificer's Arcane Armor magical?
As far as I've seen, the rules do not clearly state that the armor becomes a magical object. In addition, an argument can be made that the rules ...
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Are my homebrew changes to Alchemist bringing things into balance or are they over powered?
I'm treating this like a complete homebrew, but really it is just shoring up (as I see them) deficiencies in Tasha's Artificer Alchemist sub-class. There is only one new feature and everything else is ...
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Arcane Propulsion Armor — can it give the wearer limbs they never had?
Arcane Propulsion Armor can give additional body parts to the wearer instead of "missing" ones:
If the wearer is missing any limbs, the armor replaces those limbs—hands, arms, feet, legs, ...
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Can Arcane Armor replace a missing eye?
Arcane Armor states that it "replaces any missing limbs, functioning identically to a limb it replaces". Would this apply to a missing eye?
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Can a warforged artificer armorer doff their Arcane Armor as an action or do they still need an hour to remove it? [duplicate]
A druid cast Heat Metal on the Arcane Armor worn by a warforged artificer armorer, who wanted to use an action to doff the red-hot Arcane Armor. The DM pointed out that a warforged needs an hour to ...
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How could an Artificer craft and infuse a laser pistol?
Let's say a futuristic artificer finds themselves in the 15th-century Sword Coast and wants to build a laser pistol.
If they found "generic" +1 weapon formulas, which allows you to craft a &...
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Can an artificer use both a shield and a crossbow at the same time? [duplicate]
Ok, so from reading the rules, you can't use a shield and a crossbow at the same time due to the fact that you need a free hand to load the crossbow.
My question is about a very niche artificer thing. ...
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What spell attack modifier does Eldritch Cannon use when multiclassing another casting class?
The Artificer’s Eldritch Cannon features states, under Force Ballista:
Make a ranged spell attack, originating from the cannon, at one creature or object within 120 feet of it. On a hit, the target ...
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Can an Armorer Artificer infuse both of their Thunder Gauntlets separately?
This takes a little setup...
At level 3, an Artificer takes the Armorer sub-class. One of the features is Armor Model which can be configured so that they have Thunder Gauntlets.
Each of the armor's ...
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Do constructs like Steel Defenders require sleep?
While making a Battle Smith Rock Gnome, I came to a similar question to this one about the Steel Defender, but saw it in another light; Though it is a construct, there is nothing in the stat block or ...
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Does the Artificer's Homunculus Servant infusion have any tool proficiencies?
The artificer's Infuse Item feature (TCoE, p. 9; E:RftLW, p. 57) grants access to a number of infusion options, one of which is the Homunculus Servant (TCoE, p. 21; E:RftLW, p. 62).
I'm just trying to ...
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Can the Armorer Artificer's Infiltrator Lightning Launcher be used if set into a full hand?
Per RAW, if the Lightning Launcher of the Infiltrator version of Arcane Armor is put onto one of the fists, can it be used to make an attack if that hand is full, either due to wielding a weapon/...
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Can a fighter learn to use firearms despite them only recently being invented by another member of the party
Recently, after one of our PC's fell off a mountain we welcomed a new fighter to our party, hailing from a far-off land.
Our party is all level 3. I'm playing a dwarf artillerist artificer. My ...
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Do the “Master Scrivener” and “Magic Item Adept” features stack?
Does the “Master Scrivener” feature from the Order of Scribes subclass stack with the “Magic Item Adept” feature from the Artificer class when determining the time and gold cost for crafting common ...
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Does using the Artificer's Repulsion Shield happen before or after taking damage from a successful hit?
Does using the Artificer's Repulsion Shield prevent the character from taking damage? Or does it happen after taking damage from a successful hit?
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Is damage from the spell Wall of Fire rolled once or rerolled each time? [duplicate]
I am playing an Artillerist Artificer, using an Arcane Firearm (5th level feature) which states:
When you cast an artificer spell through the firearm, roll a d8, and you gain a bonus to one of the ...
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If my artificer imbues a staff with the Enhanced Weapon infusion, and then a druid casts the Shillelagh spell on that staff, do their effects stack?
I'm currently playing as an artificer. I know that when an artificer imbues one of their infusions into an item, it makes a non-magic item into a semi-magic item.
Say I imbue the Enhanced Weapon ...
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Can an artificer reset an infusion's charges by re-infusing it?
Some artificer infusions have charges, like normal magic items. For example, the mind sharpener from TCE:
The item has 4 charges. […] The item regains 1d4 expended charges daily at dawn.
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What is the significance of the errata that removed the Artillerist artificer's Eldritch Cannon's immunity to conditions?
When Eberron: Rising from the Last War was published in November 2019, the version of the Artillerist artificer published in it originally contained this line (p. 59):
It is immune to poison damage, ...
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As an Artillerist Artificer, can I use my eldritch cannons while under an entanglement spell?
In Eberron: Rising from the Last War, the Artillerist subclass for the artificer gets a feature called Eldritch Cannon that you summon as a small or tiny object. If my character is under the effects ...
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One of my players placed their eldritch cannon inside the mouth of an enemy. How should I handle the attack?
As stated in the title, one of my players has put their eldritch cannon (Artillerist Artificer) inside the mouth of one of the enemies in their current encounter. I'm struggling to figure out how to ...
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What is the point of the Battle Smith artificer's Steel Defender having the Vigilant trait?
The Battle Smith subclass of the Artificer (TCoE, p. 19) has a Steel Defender companion, whose statblock includes a trait called Vigilant:
The defender can't be surprised.
This sounds good, and I ...
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Can an Artificer cast V,S spells with no free hand
Just seeking to clear up a bit of confusion. There seems to be a lot of points and counter points floating around so I will start at the beginning.
As I understand it a Artificer (RAW but perhaps not ...
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Can an Artificer's Homunculus Servant use magic items, and does an Amulet of Health have an effect on it?
My question is two-fold.
First, I wonder whether a Homunculus Servant can use magic items, especially if they require attunement.
It explicitly counts as a creature of the construct type, and has an ...
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When does an artficer regain spell slots?
I've looked on several resources and I can't get to the bottom of whether an Artificer recharges spell slots on short/long rest?
Lots of articles refer to the class as a "short rest caster" ...
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Can an Artificer, proficient in Mason's Tools, use Fabricate to reconstruct the statue of a petrified person which has been broken or shattered?
Am I interpreting it correctly that, yes, an Artificer in this situation would be able to reconstruct the petrified statue of his party member?
The Petrified condition states:
A petrified creature is ...
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Does the All-Purpose Tool improve the save DC of the Artillerist artificer's "Explosive Cannon" detonation ability?
At 9th level, an Artillerist artificer gains the ability to detonate the cannon created by the 3rd-level Eldritch Cannon ability:
Doing so destroys the cannon and forces each creature within 20 feet ...
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Can a Homunculus Servant speak? [duplicate]
Homunculus Servant's stat block reads:
Languages understands the languages you speak
It doesn't seem like it can actually talk back, though, because of the verb "understands" being used ...
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Does Armor Modifications allow for multiple infusion on the same area? [duplicate]
A bit of a oddly phrased question however, the Armored Modification ability for the Armorer subclass for the Artificer says...
At 9th level, you learn how to use your artificer infusions to specially ...
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Can an Alchemist combine their subclass bonus with an Enhanced Arcane Focus?
Enhanced Arcane Focus is an artificer infusion that's applied to a rod, staff, or wand, and adds +1 to spell attack rolls.
Alchemist artificers also get the Alchemical Savant feature, which lets them ...
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Can an Artificer Armorer use Enhanced Defense Infusion on their Homunculus Servant (infusion)?
Can an Artificer Armorer use Enhanced Defense Infusion on their Homunculus Servant (infusion); same goes for the Battle Smith's Steel Defender? Do these constructs/creatures Natural Armor even count ...
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