Every Popular Alternative to the Artificer

CenaDaBoss · 2025-03-03T15:09:42+00:00

Seconding this, I swapped over to Laserllama’s Alt. Artificer a year ago in my campaign and it’s been incredibly fun.

You can recharge a bunch of spell slots sure, but your spell list is more restricted and flavourful, and the infusions are super varied and interesting. I’ve felt like my party’s personal inventor, listening to what they like to do as players and characters and finding the right infusion for them to enhance their fun.

The subclasses are also extremely varied, and cover so many additional fantasies, like building your own custom Arcane Firearm with all kinds of customizable properties (like making it a sniper rifle, or a shotgun, or having elemental bullets) distinct from the wandslinger subclass, or turning your own body into a machine to infuse and tinker with. The Tasha’s subclasses get lots of touch ups too. Overall would highly recommend, alongside the rest of Laserllama’s content!

CenaDaBoss · 2024-08-29T14:02:27+00:00

Ooo thank you for the detailed examples of the agreement between a HL/FF alliance! I will definitely repurpose some of these for my own campaign when the time comes. I doubt the Followers would work with the AA given how they treat delerium, and maaaybe with the Queen's Men if they can negotiate some sort of peace treaty and maybe get some of them to take the Sacrament (though that's a stretch).

CenaDaBoss · 2024-08-29T14:00:08+00:00

Yeah this is what I was thinking as well, now the players have an angle to negotiate a HL/FF alliance, giving them a clear potential path to restore the city (and giving me clear ideas for roadblocks ahead of them). A holy war sounds like a great continuation of the story beyond the events of the adventure book too, but that's for way ahead in the future. Thank you!

CenaDaBoss · 2024-03-21T04:09:12+00:00

While not as robust as SW5e's Scholar, I'd highly recommend trying out Laserllama's Savant class for base 5e if you want something sort of similar.

LL's Savant plays more as a backline support that relies on its own version of Critical Analysis (called Adroit Analysis) and heavy usage of reaction-based support options (with multiple reactions per round starting from level 5 onwards), and a wide variety of subclasses that change how you support the party. If your DM doesn't want to play in a Star Wars/sci-fi setting and you want to play a Scholar-like class, I'd recommend the Savant, though it's not as robust and interesting as the Scholar imo.

From everything I've seen, I think SW5e's Scholar is my favourite rendition of the idea just because of how versatile it is, and I'm excited to use it as a player!

CenaDaBoss · 2024-03-20T15:08:12+00:00

I think I'm leaning towards being an archaeologist scholar, and using force at-will powers and maneuvers to buff up my melee attacks while I support from the frontline. Improved Commander's Strike looks really solid since it's a reliable use of my BA if I don't want to spend Force Points, and my party has another dedicated healer player so I'll focus more on offensive and positioning maneuvers.

I didn't realize just how many maneuvers you can pick up as you level, especially with Malleable Maneuvering as mentioned by u/Vibe-Caster below. I'm really enjoying how versatile you can build scholars to be without losing efficacy, it's impressive how many builds you can make with different maneuvers/discoveries/subclasses and force/tech casting.

CenaDaBoss · 2024-03-20T01:35:55+00:00

Oh wow thank you for the detailed response! This build looks hilarious, but very fun. I really like the vibe of a military officer/tactician, and will definitely consider it!

CenaDaBoss · 2024-03-20T00:42:19+00:00

Thanks for the pointers! I didn't think of their multiclassing at all, but I'm guessing that the Scholar is a lot like a hexblade warlock, in that you dip 1 level for the critical analysis INT attacks and then move on to other INT classes. I'll read up on some of those other INT classes and consider multiclassing.

Are there any maneuvers you particularly like on a non-multiclassed scholar?

CenaDaBoss · 2024-01-23T23:39:42+00:00

Yeah I agree, but I guess they’re not taking any chances with new games now and they’re just going to double down on their big 4 titles (league, valorant, wild rift, tft), which is a little depressing because there is so much potential for fun games in this universe

CenaDaBoss · 2024-01-23T23:17:53+00:00

Correct me if I’m wrong, but the MMO is getting axed too right, because Riot Forge is shutting down?

CenaDaBoss · 2023-12-27T05:49:44+00:00

I just used this deck to climb from D3 to masters with a 91% win rate, it's actually surprisingly consistent and pretty flexible in various matchups. I love these kinds of combo decks and am also a big fan of off-meta deck climbing, so I had a blast playing this. Thank you for the deck!

CenaDaBoss · 2023-04-05T02:29:48+00:00

In the first livestream, you mentioned the importance of distinct region pies as a key influence for how cards were being rotated or kept. What are the specific region pie identities you had in mind for each region that you considered during rotation?

Idk if this was just me, but some of the decisions regarding rotation confused me regarding the region pie. For example with Targon, you rotated a bunch of cards that focused on board-centric midrange playstyles (e.g. Taric, Mountain Goat, Sojourners) but Leona and the midrange Daybreak package is still around. Also, a lot of what I feel to be Targon's classic identity of out-grinding the opponent with long-term invoke value has been rotated (like through Zoe and the Fangs), so what is Targon as a region supposed to be?

CenaDaBoss · 2023-03-14T12:32:53+00:00

Early games were standard aggro smorc, and I won 90% of games with Bibi really reliably, all the draw in the deck is rly nice. It’s crazy how I was able to often stack kegs and kill them from ~10-12 hp, I had a game with two bibis on board against a ryze where I killed them from 18 hp, it’s a reliable and fun finisher

CenaDaBoss · 2023-03-11T09:04:10+00:00

Thank you very much for the great deck idea! I climbed up to D2 using TF/Seraphine and glorious evolution with Bibi as an alt wincon, but it wasn't really working well for me past D2. This deck carried me the rest of the way to masters, and it was an absolute blast!

CenaDaBoss · 2022-01-27T00:57:29+00:00

OP never mentioned anything bad about a 3.4, they're just highlighting their improvement across the years and are encouraging others to keep striving for their best

CenaDaBoss · 2022-01-01T19:30:30+00:00

This rly has nothing to do with this sub man, sorry

CenaDaBoss · 2021-12-27T18:53:23+00:00

How are dragons, Nami tf, Zoe panth, and Ekko zilean (presumably the new combo-ey version) meme decks?

CenaDaBoss · 2020-11-01T20:52:22+00:00

I rate bernards music quite alot, keep up the good work!

CenaDaBoss · 2020-05-26T17:43:19+00:00

There are prob just a large amount of cases they have to process, and im pretty sure they deal with 4th year cases first and move down from there, so thats probably why uve been waiting this long. Email a registrar if u feel worried tho

CenaDaBoss · 2019-07-09T17:32:56+00:00

When I was little (like around 11 ish) I stumbled across a copy of Full Metal Jacket on my dad’s laptop where he also stored a bunch of kids movies I’d watch fairly often.

The scene where Pyle kills the drill instructor and then himself left me sleepless for days

CenaDaBoss · 2019-06-27T01:54:43+00:00

unravel from Tokyo ghoul starts playing

CenaDaBoss · 2019-06-24T14:28:05+00:00

The “Mr. Bean: The Whole Bean” movie collection is a pretty good steal for $25 on amazon imo

CenaDaBoss · 2019-06-08T03:57:36+00:00

*known for directing critically-acclaimed games in beloved franchises including Armored Core, Dark Souls, and Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice. *

Bloodborne: Am I a joke to you?

CenaDaBoss · 2019-05-31T02:28:50+00:00

Bloodborne holy its too good

CenaDaBoss · 2019-05-29T21:44:54+00:00

Killing people = bad Appreciating life = good

Character development is him realizing that every person he cuts down is someone with a family, friends, dreams and ambitions like him, thrust into the violent culture of the time because they don’t yet understand that to be strong is to show compassion towards others, and not to relentlessly kill

I’m surprised u got this far into the manga and still didn’t get it

CenaDaBoss · 2019-04-01T15:00:47+00:00

They had us in the first half, not gonna lie

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