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DnD’s new Cartographer Artificer starts strong, but falls apart almost immediately.
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the first new artificer subclass that
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we've seen since Tasha's Cauldron of
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Everything. So, that's exciting. I wish
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the subclass was better, but let's talk
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about the cgrapher. At level three, the
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cgrapher creates their map, which is
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kind of their signature feature, and
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they can share maps with a number of
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creatures equal to their intelligence
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modifier. So, it's you plus intelligence
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modifier creature. The benefits are
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actually pretty great. Everyone holding
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a map gets plus 1d4 to their initiative
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roles and creatures know each other's
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location and you can cast spells on each
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other even if you don't have line of
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sight so long as you're still in range.
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So like if there's a solid wall between
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you and a friend, you can still hit them
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with stuff like healing word. The map
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also lets you do a whole bunch of stuff
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with teleportation which builds up over
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time. Like right at level three, you can
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spend half of your movement to teleport
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10 ft away from where you are or
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teleport to a space within 5 ft of a
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creature holding a map that's also
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within 30 ft. There's a lot of
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restrictions, but the point is you can
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teleport short distances. Where things
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start to go south is you gain the
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ability to cast fairy fire a number of
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times per day equal to your intelligence
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modifier, which should tell you right
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away, oh god, they're building a class
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around fairy fire. Level five, you add
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additional effects to fairy fire, mostly
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damage from yourself. If you hit a
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creature affected by your fairy fire
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with a spell from the cgrapher spell
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list or with an attack, they take
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additional damage equal to your
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intelligence. So like very very
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restricted and you have to hit them with
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fairy fire first and the damage bonus
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isn't very big. This is a huge pain and
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there's like two spells on the
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ctographers spell list that deal damage
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like guiding bolt and mind spike. Great.
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Also, you can't lose concentration on
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fairy fire for taking damage, which
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like, yes, sure, but it's a level one
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spell, guys. Come on. At level 9, when
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you use flash of genius, you can cause a
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creature to teleport 30 ft as a
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reaction. And then at level 15, the
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subclass capstone lets creatures instead
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of falling to zero hit points, destroy
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their map and teleport to another
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creature holding the map. And finally,
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you get to cast find the path once per
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day without a spell slot. Except find
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the path sucks in 5v. To recap, you get
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an initiative bonus, which is pretty
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great. You get to target allies through
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cover, assuming they're still within
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range with spells. Pretty great. You can
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do a bunch of short-range teleportation.
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Sure. Okay. And you get to care a whole
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lot about fairy fire, which is a level
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one concentration spell. Like, we're
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we're having this issue with rangers. We
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don't need this on artificer. And the
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difference between artificer and ranger
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is the artificer actually has other good
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concentration spells to care about. So
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like just the whole subclass boils down
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to misty step. Honestly like if you want
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the initiative bonus play her gone. If
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you want the teleportation play an
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eludin or something like this just isn't
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doing it for me. like this. It's not a
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good subclass.
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