I have a homebrew artificer subclass I am making for a player of mine, and this subclass lets you choose more infusions than the normal artificer. The wording is this exactly:
"Bountiful Infusions: 3rd-level subclass feature Beginning at 3rd level, your passion for tinkering and creating exceeds normal bounds. The maximum number of infusions known and infused items you can have active, both increase by +1. This feature increases to +2 at 9th level, and then to +3 at 15th level."
So, at 3rd level, instead of having 4 known and 2 active at a time, they would have 5 known and be able to have 3 active at a time. Is there any way to go about this? This affects the core of the MAIN class ability, so I'm assuming not. But I'm open to any out of the box solutions that can give me a solution! Thank you!
Unfortunately I don't believe we have a modifier that enables us to do either of these.
However, users do have a way to override infusions so they can apply more of them to objects on their character sheet, so at least infusing more items is possible, albeit with a workaround.
What I would say is that allowing an Artificer to learn more infusions may not be that important, as they already learn more than they can apply at once anyway; as an alternative what you could do is rework the feature so that it allows them to swap out infusions that they know, e.g- let them swap 1-3 whenever they long rest, rather than only when they level up? This way while they don't know more in total, they effectively know all infusions, but can only prepare so many new ones on a long rest, but this still gives them the option of learning new infusions that they might need for the day ahead. Make sure to specify whether they can apply the infusion immediately after learning it (i.e- as part of the same long rest).
Otherwise for infusing more items you'll just want to add a box to the feature informing players of the need to override it themselves, I usually do these kind of notes in the form:
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To infuse additional items you will need to open the sidebar for the infusion you wish to apply, and use the "Override Infusion Limit" button at the top in order to exceed your normal limit, making sure you only exceed it by the number of additional infusions this sub-class allows.
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Thank you for your reply! The subclasses’ 5th level ability already allows them to do what you are suggesting hahaha! Great minds think alike. And for this ability, it’s not just about infusions known, it’s also about how many infusions you can have active at one time. A 3rd level artificer can know 4 infusions, but only have 2 of the active at any one time. This subclass feature would allow you to know 5, while being able to have 3 of those infusions known at one time. The idea is that the real feature of the ability comes from being able to hand out more active items than other subclass. A normal artificer at level 3 would only be able to have like, a bag of holding and enhanced defense active, while this subclass could have a bag of holding, enhanced defense, and enhanced weapon active simultaneously.
That boxed text seems perfect though!! How do you add boxed text such as that to the formatting? I’m not familiar with that
That boxed text seems perfect though!! How do you add boxed text such as that to the formatting? I’m not familiar with that
Depending upon your browser you may just be able to copy/paste it straight out of my post and into the description box of your sub-class feature. Try this first, as it's also how you can get tables by lifting them from official sub-classes and such.
If that doesn't work, what you want to do is use the blockquote button (looks like a double quotation mark above the text area) to create the box, you can either just create a new line and click it to create an empty box, or type out what you want the box to contain, select the text and then hit the button to put it into a blockquote. If you want to create a bolded title you can type out the title on its own line, select it and then click where it says "Paragraph" to select a different paragraph style, for my example I used Header 6; this gives you a compact bolded title without a big gap underneath it.
The box should also look better on a sub-class feature; the styles are slightly different between homebrew and the forums.
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I have a homebrew artificer subclass I am making for a player of mine, and this subclass lets you choose more infusions than the normal artificer. The wording is this exactly:
"Bountiful Infusions: 3rd-level subclass feature
Beginning at 3rd level, your passion for tinkering and creating exceeds normal bounds. The maximum number of infusions known and infused items you can have active, both increase by +1. This feature increases to +2 at 9th level, and then to +3 at 15th level."
So, at 3rd level, instead of having 4 known and 2 active at a time, they would have 5 known and be able to have 3 active at a time. Is there any way to go about this? This affects the core of the MAIN class ability, so I'm assuming not. But I'm open to any out of the box solutions that can give me a solution! Thank you!
Unfortunately I don't believe we have a modifier that enables us to do either of these.
However, users do have a way to override infusions so they can apply more of them to objects on their character sheet, so at least infusing more items is possible, albeit with a workaround.
What I would say is that allowing an Artificer to learn more infusions may not be that important, as they already learn more than they can apply at once anyway; as an alternative what you could do is rework the feature so that it allows them to swap out infusions that they know, e.g- let them swap 1-3 whenever they long rest, rather than only when they level up? This way while they don't know more in total, they effectively know all infusions, but can only prepare so many new ones on a long rest, but this still gives them the option of learning new infusions that they might need for the day ahead. Make sure to specify whether they can apply the infusion immediately after learning it (i.e- as part of the same long rest).
Otherwise for infusing more items you'll just want to add a box to the feature informing players of the need to override it themselves, I usually do these kind of notes in the form:
Or something like that?
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It is not currently possible to affect base class features such as that. The override Haravikk suggests is the way to go.
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Thank you for your reply! The subclasses’ 5th level ability already allows them to do what you are suggesting hahaha! Great minds think alike. And for this ability, it’s not just about infusions known, it’s also about how many infusions you can have active at one time. A 3rd level artificer can know 4 infusions, but only have 2 of the active at any one time. This subclass feature would allow you to know 5, while being able to have 3 of those infusions known at one time. The idea is that the real feature of the ability comes from being able to hand out more active items than other subclass. A normal artificer at level 3 would only be able to have like, a bag of holding and enhanced defense active, while this subclass could have a bag of holding, enhanced defense, and enhanced weapon active simultaneously.
That boxed text seems perfect though!! How do you add boxed text such as that to the formatting? I’m not familiar with that
Depending upon your browser you may just be able to copy/paste it straight out of my post and into the description box of your sub-class feature. Try this first, as it's also how you can get tables by lifting them from official sub-classes and such.
If that doesn't work, what you want to do is use the blockquote button (looks like a double quotation mark above the text area) to create the box, you can either just create a new line and click it to create an empty box, or type out what you want the box to contain, select the text and then hit the button to put it into a blockquote. If you want to create a bolded title you can type out the title on its own line, select it and then click where it says "Paragraph" to select a different paragraph style, for my example I used Header 6; this gives you a compact bolded title without a big gap underneath it.
The box should also look better on a sub-class feature; the styles are slightly different between homebrew and the forums.
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You are exactly right, wow! Copy and pasted just like that. That will work. Thank you so much!