Artificer Class 5e
Hello readers in this post we are going to talk about the Artificer. Artificer is a powerful spell.
Its play different rolls in dnd game. In this post we have cover their class feature, roll attack, hit points, weapon & skills are completely describe. So lets start the post.
Master of invention, artificers use ingenuity and magic to unlock extraordinary capabilities in objects.
They see magic as a complex system waiting to be decoded and then harnessed in their spells and inventions.
You can find everything you need to play one of these inventors in the next few sections.
Artificers use a variety of tools to channel their arcane power. To cast a spell, an artificer might use alchemist’s supplies to create a potent elixir, calligrapher’s supplies to inscribe a sigil of power, or tinker’s tools to craft a temporary charm.
The magic of artificers is tied to their tools and their talents, and few other characters can produce the right tool for a job as well as an artificer.
Artificers in many worlds
Throughout the D&D multiverse, artificers create inventions and magic item of peace and war.
Many lives have been brightened or saved because of the work of kind artificers, but countless lives have also been lost because of the mass destruction unleashed by certain artificers’ creations.
In the Forgotten Realms, the island of Lantan is home to many artificers, and in the world of Dragonlance, tinker gnomes are often members of this class.
The strange technologies in the Barrier Peaks of the world of Greyhawk have inspired some folk to walk the path of the artificer, and in Mystara, various nations employ artificers to keep airships and other wondrous devices operational.
Artificers in the City of Sigil share discoveries from throughout the, multiverse, and from there, the gnome artificer Viruns a cosmos-spanning business that hires adventurers to fix.
Problem that others deem unfixable. In Vi’s home world, Eberron, magic is harnessed as a form of science and deployed throughout society, largely as a result of the wondrous ingenuity of artificers.
Creating an Artificer
To create an artificer, consult the following subsections, which give you hit points, proficiencies, and starting equipment.
Then look at the Artificer table to see which features you get at each level. The descriptions of those features appear in the “Artificer Features” section.
Quick Build
You can make an artificer quickly by following these suggestions. First, put your highest ability score in intelligence, followed by Constitution or Dexterity. Second, choose the guild artisan background.
Hit Points
Hit Dice: 1d8 per artificer level
Hit Points at 1st Level: 8 + your Constitution modifier
Hit Points at Higher Levels: 1d8 (or 5) + your Constitution modifiers per artificer level after 1st.
Proficiencies
Armor: Light Armor, Medium Armor, shields
Weapons: Simple weapons
Tools: Thieves’ tools, tinker’s tools, one type of artisan’s tools of your choice
Saving Throws: Constitution, Intelligence
Skills: Choose two from Arcana, History, Investigation, Medicine, Nature, Perception, Sleight of Hand
The secrets of gunpowder weapons have been discovered in various corners of the D&D multiverse. If your Dungeon Master uses the rules on firearms in the Dungeon Master’s Guide and your artificer has been exposed to the operation of such weapons, your artificer is proficient with them.
Starting Equipment
You start with the following equipment, in addition to the equipment granted by your background:
If you forgo this starting equipment, as well as the items offered by your background, you start with 5d4×10gp gp to buy your equipment.
Class Features
As an artificer, you gain the following class features, which are summarized in the Artificer table.
Magical Tinkering
1st-level artifcer feature
You’ve learned how to invest a spark of magic into mundane objects. To use this ability, you must have thieves’ tools or artisan’s tools in hand.
You then touch a Tiny nonmagical object as an action and give it one of the following magical properties of your choice:
- The object sheds bright light in a 5-foot radius and dim light for an additional 5 feet.
- Whenever tapped by a creature, the object emits a recorded message that can be heard up to 10 feet away. You utter the message when you bestow this property on the object, and the recording can be no more than 6 seconds long.
- The object continuously emits your choice of an odor or a nonverbal sound (wind, waves, chirping, or the like). The chosen phenomenon is perceivable up to 10 feet away.
- A static visual effect appears on one of the object’s surfaces. This effect can be a picture, up to 25 words of text, lines and shapes, or a mixture of these elements, as you like. The chosen property lasts indefinitely. As an action, you can touch the object and end the property early.
You can bestow magic on multiple objects, touching one object each time you use this feature, though a single object can only bear one property at a time.
The maximum number of objects you can affect with this feature at one time is equal to your Intelligence modifier (minimum of one objects).
If you try to exceed your maximum, the oldest property immediately ends, and then the new property applies.
Spellcasting
1st-level artificer feature
You’ve studied the workings of magic and how to cast spells, channeling the magic through objects.
To observers, you don’t appear to be casting spells in a conventional way; you appear to produce wonders from mundane items and outlandish inventions.
Tool Required
You produce your artificer spell effects through your tools. You must have a Spellcasting focus-specifically thieves’ tools or some kind of artisan’s tool-in hand when you cast any spell with this Spellcasting feature (meaning the spell has an “M” component When you cast it).
You must be proficient with the tool to use it in this way. See the equipment chapter in the Player’s Handbook for description of these tools.
After you gain the infuse Item feature at 2nd level, you can also use any item bearing one of your infusions as a Spellcasting focus.
Cantrips (0 -Level Spells)
You know two cantrips of your choice from the artificer spell list. At higher levels, you learn additional artificer cantrips of your choice, as shown in the Cantrip Known column of the Artificer table.
When you gain a level in this class, you can replace one of the artificer cantrip you know with another cantrip from the artificer spell list.
Preparing and casting spells
The Artificer table shows how many spell slots you have to cast your artificer spell. To cast one of your artificer spell of 1st level or higher, you must expend a slot of the spell’s level or higher. You regain all expended spell slots when you finish a long rest.
You prepare the list of artificer spells that are available for you to cast, choosing from the artificer spell list.
When you do so, choose a number of artificer spell equal to your Intelligence modifier + half your artificer level, rounded down ( minimum of one spell).
The spell must be of a level for which you have spell slots.
For example, if you are a 5th-level artificer, you have four 1st-level and two 2nd-level spell slots. With an Intelligence of 14, your list of prepared spells can include four spells of 1st or 2nd level, in any combination.
If you prepared the 1st-level spell cure wounds, you can cast it using a 1st level or a 2nd-level slot casting the spell doesn’t remove it from your list of prepared spells.
You can change your list of prepared spell when you finish a long rest. Preparing a new list of artificer spells requires time spent tinkering with your Spellcasting focuses: at least 1minute per spell level for each spell on your list.
Spellcasting Ability
Intelligence is your spellcasting ability for your artificer of the theory behind magic allows you to wield these spells with superior skill.
You use your Intelligence whenever an artificer spell refers to your spellcasting ability. In addition, you use your Intelligence modifier when settings the saving throw DC for an artificer spell you cast and when making an attack roll with one.
Spell save DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Intelligence modifier
Spell attack modifier = you proficiency bonus + your Intelligence modifier
Ritual Casting
You can cast an artificer spell as a ritual if that spell has the ritual tag and you have the spell prepared.
Infuse Item
2nd-level artificer feature
You’ve gained the ability to imbue mumdane items with certain magical infusions, turning those object into magic items.
Infusions known
When you gain this feature, pick four artificer infusions to learn, choosing from the “Artificer Infusions” section at the end of the class description.
You learn additional infusions of your choice when you reach certain levels in this class, as shown in the Infusions Known column of the Artificer table.
Whenever you gain a level in this class, you can replace one of the artificer infusions you learned with a new one.
Infusing An Item
Whenever you finish a long rest, you can touch a nonmagical object and imbue it with one of your artificer infusions, turning it into a magic item.
An infusion works on only certain kinds of objects, as specified in the infusion’s description.
If the item requires attunement, you can attune yourself to it the instant you infuse the item. If you decide to attune to the item later, you must do so using the normal process for attunement (see the attunement rules in the Dungeon Master’s Guide).
Your infusion remains in an item indefinitely, but when you die, the infusion vanishes after a number of day equal to your Intelligence modifier (minimum of 1 day). The infusions also vanishes if you replace your knowledge of the infusion.
You can infuse more than one non-magical object at the end of a long rest; the maximum number of objects appears in the Infused items column of the Artificer table.
You must touch each of the objects, and each of your infusions can be in only one object at a time. Moreover, no object can be bear more than one of your infusions at a time.
If you try to exceed your maximum number of infusions, the oldest infusion ends, and then the new infusion applies.
If an infusion ends on an item that contains other things, like a bag of holding, its contents harmlessly appear in and around its space.
Artificer specialist
3rd-level artificer feature
Choose the type of specialist you are: Alchemist, Armorer, Artillerist, or Battle Smith, each of which is detailed after the class’s description. Your choice grants you features at 5th level and again at 9th and 15th level.
The Right Tool For The Job
3rd-level artificer feature
You’ve learned how to produce exactly the tool you need: with thieves’ tools or artisan’s tools in hand, you can magically create one set of artisan’s tools in an unoccupied space within 5 feet of you.
This creation requires 1 hour of uninterrupted work, which can coincide with a short or long rest. Though the product of magic, the tools are nonmagical, and they vanish when you use this feature again.
Ability Score Improvement
4th-level artificer feature
When you reach 4th level and again at 8th, 12th, 16th, and 1 9th level, you can increase one ability score of your choice by 2, or you can increase two ability scores of your choice by 1. As normal, you can’t increase an ability score above 20 using this feature.
Tool Expertise
6th-level artificer feature
Your proficiency bonus is now doubled for any ability check you make that uses your proficiency with a tool.
Flash of Genius
7th-level artificer feature
You’ve gained the ability to come up with solutions under pressure. When you or another creature you can see within 30 feet of you makes an ability check or a saving throw, you can use your reaction to add your Intelligence modifier to the roll.
You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Intelligence modifier (minimum of once). You regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.
Magic Item Adept
10th-level artificer feature
You’ve achieved a profound understanding of how to use and make magic items:
Spell-storing Item
11th-level artificer feature
You can now store a spell in an object. Whenever you finish a long rest, you can touch one simple or martial weapon or one item that you can use as a spellcasting focus, and you store a spell in it, choosing a 1st- or 2nd level spell from the artificer spell list that requires 1 action to cast (you needn’t have it prepared).
While holding the object, a creature can take an action to produce the spell’s effect from it, using your spellcasting ability modifier. If the spell requires concentration, the creature must concentrate.
The spell stays in the object until it’s been used a number of times equal to twice your Intelligence modifier (minimum of twice) or until you use this feature again to store a spell in an object.
Magic Item Savant
14th-level artificer feature
Your skill with magic items deepens:
Magic Item Master
18th-level artificer feature
You can now attune to up to six magic items at once.
Soul of Artifice
20th-level artificer feature
You have developed a mystical connection to your magic items, which you can draw on for protection:
Artificer Specialists
Alchemist: An Alchemist is an expert at combining reagents to produce mystical effects. Alchemist use their creations to give life and to leech it away. Alchemy is the oldest of artificer traditions. And its versatility has long been valued during time of war and peace.
Armorer: An artificer who specializes as an Amorer modifer armor to function almost like a second skin. The armor is enhanced to hone the artificer’s magic, unleash potent attacks, and generate a formidable defense. The artificer bonds with this armor, becoming one with it even as they experiment with it and refine its magical capabilities
Artillerist: An Artillerist specializes in using magic to hurl energy, projectiles, and explosions on a battlefield. This destructive power is valued by armies in the wars on many different worlds.
And when war passes, some members of this specialization seek to build a more peaceful world by using their powers to fight the resurgence of strife.
The world-hopping gnome artificer Vi has been especially vocal about making things right: it’s about time we fixed things instead of blowing them all to hell.
Battle Smith: Armies require protection, and someone has to put things back together if defenses fail.
A combination of protector and medic, a Battle Smith is an expert at defending other and repairing both material and personnel.
To aid in their work, Battle Smiths are acccompanied by a steel defender, a protective companion of their own creation. Many soldiers tell stories of nearly dying before being saved by a Battle Smith and a steel defender.
In the world of Eberron, Battle Smiths played a key role in House Cannith’s work on battle construction and the orignal warforged, and after the Last War, these artificer led efforts to aid those who were injured in the war’s horrific battles.
Artificer Infusions
Artificer infusions are extraordinary processes that rapidly turn a nonmagical object into a magic item.
The description of each of the following infusions details the type of objects that can receive it, along with whether the resulting magic item requires attunement.
Some infusions specify a minimum artificer level. You can’t learn such an infusion until you are at least that level.
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