Is it possible for an artificer class to be added?

[CrabWithTheKnife]

Would make my year theyre so cool

[Mizu]

Originally posted by Crymoricus:

Artificer was built for Eberron as a sort of Steampunk class, and has no place in The Forgotten Realms, imo. It's a damned cool class, and Eberron is a really neat setting - I totally understand fans of it - but it would really feel out of place here to me. If I were you, I'd be hoping Larian or some other great development company, could start work on something approaching the quality of BG3, but for Eberron. I'd love that, too.

I feel like thats not an excuse, Ghortash honestly feels like he was meant to be an artificer (before they decided not to implement the class) with all the gadgets he has and his access to an army of steam punk mech golems.

[Harukage]

Artificiers alaso exist in FR. Officialy. And most of them are worshipers of Gond. And we just so happen to have a whole coven of gondians in Baldur's Gate who are [spoilers] building crazy robots powered by infernal engines for Gortash [/spoiler].
Not to mention that you can find electric powered cinstructs in the arcane tower of Mystra's cleric.
Now go on and tell me that that Artificiers have no place in FR.
It is a missed opportunity by Larians if you ask me.

[Caramel_Clown]

Originally posted by Crymoricus:

Artificer was built for Eberron as a sort of Steampunk class, and has no place in The Forgotten Realms, imo. It's a damned cool class, and Eberron is a really neat setting - I totally understand fans of it - but it would really feel out of place here to me. If I were you, I'd be hoping Larian or some other great development company, could start work on something approaching the quality of BG3, but for Eberron. I'd love that, too.

I can totally see artificer being added, but only as an origin character. Can come up with lore reasons for that.

[Harukage]

https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Artificer
You do not need to invent anything. Artificiers exist in FR. And in many other settings. They are not exclusive to Ebberon campaign.
Your typical Artificier will be something like a gondian from Lantan

[LordAnubis]

Artificer is not a class present in the Player's Handbook. It was introduced in Tasha's Cauldron of Everything. For the most part, Larian has only included stuff from the Player's Handbook with some changes for One D&D (the in process re-write of the PHB), like the ability score changes at character creation.

[Caramel_Clown]

Originally posted by LordAnubis:

Artificer is not a class present in the Player's Handbook. It was introduced in Tasha's Cauldron of Everything. For the most part, Larian has only included stuff from the Player's Handbook with some changes for One D&D (the in process re-write of the PHB), like the ability score changes at character creation.

They took rules from Tasha's cauldron. What's the problem then. Correct me if I'm wrong, but the way you assign proficiencies in abilities just selecting +2 and +1 to any two abilities is from Tasha's, forgoing traditional racial bonuses

[Vizi Huggles,the teddy bear]

Originally posted by Caramel_Clown:

Originally posted by LordAnubis:

Artificer is not a class present in the Player's Handbook. It was introduced in Tasha's Cauldron of Everything. For the most part, Larian has only included stuff from the Player's Handbook with some changes for One D&D (the in process re-write of the PHB), like the ability score changes at character creation.

They took rules from Tasha's cauldron. What's the problem then. Correct me if I'm wrong, but the way you assign proficiencies in abilities just selecting +2 and +1 to any two abilities is from Tasha's, forgoing traditional racial bonuses

Those tasha cauldron rule changes have been added to the new version of the PHB coming out

[Mizu]

Originally posted by Caramel_Clown:

Originally posted by LordAnubis:

Artificer is not a class present in the Player's Handbook. It was introduced in Tasha's Cauldron of Everything. For the most part, Larian has only included stuff from the Player's Handbook with some changes for One D&D (the in process re-write of the PHB), like the ability score changes at character creation.

They took rules from Tasha's cauldron. What's the problem then. Correct me if I'm wrong, but the way you assign proficiencies in abilities just selecting +2 and +1 to any two abilities is from Tasha's, forgoing traditional racial bonuses

Creating an entire working class with a unique gimmick is just a tiny bit harder then messing with the bean counting that goes on when assigning player stats.

[Vlad von Carstein]

Originally posted by Crymoricus:

Artificer was built for Eberron as a sort of Steampunk class, and has no place in The Forgotten Realms, imo. It's a damned cool class, and Eberron is a really neat setting - I totally understand fans of it - but it would really feel out of place here to me. If I were you, I'd be hoping Larian or some other great development company, could start work on something approaching the quality of BG3, but for Eberron. I'd love that, too.

Baldurs gate is patrolled by giant clockwork robots, how would it feel out of place?

[LordAnubis]

Originally posted by Caramel_Clown:

Originally posted by LordAnubis:

Artificer is not a class present in the Player's Handbook. It was introduced in Tasha's Cauldron of Everything. For the most part, Larian has only included stuff from the Player's Handbook with some changes for One D&D (the in process re-write of the PHB), like the ability score changes at character creation.

They took rules from Tasha's cauldron. What's the problem then. Correct me if I'm wrong, but the way you assign proficiencies in abilities just selecting +2 and +1 to any two abilities is from Tasha's, forgoing traditional racial bonuses

Actually the ability score rules are being reworked into the One D&D playtest for the new PHB, THAT is where Larian got it from (in fact a lot of people think that WotC made Larian make that change for BG3 to get people used to the new rules coming to the new PHB). Larian is not taking any rules from Tasha's.

[CyTh]

Originally posted by Crymoricus:

Artificer was built for Eberron as a sort of Steampunk class, and has no place in The Forgotten Realms, imo. It's a damned cool class, and Eberron is a really neat setting - I totally understand fans of it - but it would really feel out of place here to me. If I were you, I'd be hoping Larian or some other great development company, could start work on something approaching the quality of BG3, but for Eberron. I'd love that, too.

Well yeeeeah, but again if we look at Malus in act 2 he’s got some sort of steampunk-ish look, and we also have Bernard in Underdark Arcane Tower. Thus I think it’s quite possible to add a class which is basically a mage who’s tinkering with weave. I think modders did a great job on Artificer, but I’d still love to see it as official content with some tweaks, cuz it feels kinda… incomplete idk

[Guy]

Originally posted by Lykarius:

Would prefer the Blood Hunter. Why is everyone so hot for the Artificer?

Guns.

[Harukage]

Guns are prohibited in the FR. We can however have an ironman suit wich is better.

[Niradin]

From what I've heard, WotC gave Larian a rather limited license for their product. Namely, majority of content they could use was taken out of "Players hand book" - basically default version of DnD. Artificer is from "Tasha's cauldron of everything", so Larian weren't allowed to use it. Some stuff were given outside of that, like Gith race for example, but that was an exception, rather then the rule. It's possible that WotC would allow them to add more stuff now, considering how profitable was BG3 for them, but I wouldn't exactly bet on it. Just use mods, I guess.