Dungeons & Dragons is updating its long-neglected thirteenth class - the Artificer. Earlier this year, Wizards of the Coast released a new Player's Handbook for Dungeons & Dragons, providing updated rules for character building and more. While not intended to be a new edition of D&D, the new Player's Handbook contained extensive revisions, with all of D&D's 12 core character classes receiving some kind of update to make them more versatile and provide them with additional resources.
The only class that wasn't included in the new Player's Handbook is the Artificer, a class first introduced to 5E in Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron and later revised in Tasha's Cauldron of Everything. However, D&D's designers assured fans that the Artificer would be updated in a future release. Ahead of that release, Wizards shared a new Unearthed Arcana playtest including a rules revision for the class.
Most of the changes are minor, with revisions to spell lists and updated abilities to bring the class in line with other 2024 classes. All four Artificer subclasses also received updates to beef up the Artificer's abilities.
Unlike the Ranger or the Monk, the Artificer did not receive a major rework to most of its core class...
