Have you played an Artificer yet? D&D’s 13th official class is often overlooked. As an arcane engineer that channels magic through gadgets and contraptions, it stands a little outside the most common fantasy adventurer tropes (like ‘guy with big sword’ or ‘orphan thief’).
The Artificer was first introduced to one of the best tabletop RPGs in 2004, as a class specific to the steampunk Eberron setting, though it’s since appeared in other supplements like Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything. While the class is still played pretty widely, D&D Beyond still puts it dead last behind the other 12 classes, reporting in 2023 that the Artificer had half the number of players on average than the Monk.
