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A character class is a fundamental part of the identity and nature of characters in the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game.A character's capabilities, strengths, and weaknesses are largely defined by their class; choosing a class is one of the first steps a player takes to create a Dungeons & Dragons player character. [1]
While the artificer originally appeared as a subclass for spellcasters in older editions, the artificer first appeared as a full class in the 3.5 edition of D&D. The standalone artificer was introduced in 2004 as part of Eberron, a new campaign setting for D&D. It is a unique base class that reflects many of the core themes of Eberron.
The Complete Fighter's Handbook detailed the fighter class, and several subclasses. [6]: 109 The book made an attempt to compensate for this class' lack of special abilities. In addition to offering a variety of kits such as the Swashbuckler, Gladiator, and Noble Warrior the handbook introduced several skills that allowed players to customize ...
Expanded options for members of the mage and cleric classes and their subclasses: 288: 0-7869-3909-5: Complete Psionic: Bruce R. Cordell, Christopher Lindsay: April 11, 2006: New psionic classes and races: 160: 0-7869-3911-7: Player's Handbook II: David Noonan: May 9, 2006: New classes and rules for players: 244: 0-7869-3918-4: Dragon Magic ...
The 1st Edition of AD&D also included a subclass of the magic-user called the illusionist, [8] which had different spell lists, different experience level tables, and slightly fewer maximum hit dice (10 instead of 11). Gnomes were also able to become illusionists, even though only humans, elves, and half-elves could become magic-users.
[14] [15] Three bard subclasses (College of Glamor, College of Lore, College of Valor) are revised and one new subclass (College of Dance) is introduced. [ 16 ] [ 17 ] Chris Stomberg of TheGamer commented that "the biggest changes we see to bard subclasses revolve around the idea that bards are more than the classic musician archetype". [ 16 ]
The ranger was one of the standard character-classes available in the original Player's Handbook, [4] one of five subclasses. [5]: 145 The first edition rangers were a subtype of the fighters, [6] using any weapon and wearing any armor, but they gained extra attacks at a slower rate than fighters and paladins.
The Gamer rated the 5th edition monk subclass Way Of The Sun Soul as the most awesome subclass out of the 32 new character options in Xanathar’s Guide to Everything. [ 17 ] Gus Wezerek, for FiveThirtyEight , reported that of the 5th edition "class and race combinations per 100,000 characters that players created on D&D Beyond from" August 15 ...