It’s not often that the Artificer, the 13th D&D class, gets some new toys.
While the magical mechanic, who channels arcane forces through the power of technology, has been around in some form since 2004 – initially as a subclass unique to the Eberron setting – it usually sits on the fringes of the main action, cheering from the bench while the Wizard, Fighter, Cleric and others take most of the attention. It’s also an outlier in the main lineup with only four official subclasses to date: the Alchemist, Artillerist, Armorer, and Battlesmith. This week, however, D&D Beyond has dropped a playtest for a host of subclasses, including a new Artificer subclass called the 'Reanimator.' And it is, quite frankly, an astonishingly fun spin on a much-overlooked class.
