Artificer Action Economy (Adamant Entertainment) ‎

[Wind Chime]

I have a friend in a game I am playing in using the Artificer class and I can't help feel it's a little broken or at least her interpretation of it. She interprets the multiple spells in one item to mean she can cast all the spells in one action, so she has a defensive belt bracelet that cast mirror image + blink and guns that fires multiple magic missile spells. With this interpretation she doesn't just break the action economy she brutalizes it. Is she interpreting the rules correctly or is the wording on multiple spells on one item just not very clear?

[The Shining Fool]

Howdy!

Your friend seems to be pretty clearly in the right:

"Combining multiple magical effects into a single device means that both effects function simultaneously upon activation (effectively casting two or more spells at once) -- but such devices are even more unstable than usual: The Use Magical Device check for extra activations starts at DC 25 + the number of effects used, and goes up for each additional usage by the number of effects used."

This does not seem at all balanced or fair. I would not allow it at my table. As has been discussed ad nauseum, it's just too easy to pump up skill checks, which for this character allows them to completely shatter the action economy (as you are experiencing).

[xorial]

This is a common complaint of the class from that supplement. Many people are of the opinion that it is indeed overpowered.

[darkwarriorkarg]

Wind Chime wrote:

I have a friend in a game I am playing in using the Artificer class and I can't help feel it's a little broken or at least her interpretation of it. She interprets the multiple spells in one item to mean she can cast all the spells in one action, so she has a defensive belt bracelet that cast mirror image + blink and guns that fires multiple magic missile spells. With this interpretation she doesn't just break the action economy she brutalizes it. Is she interpreting the rules correctly or is the wording on multiple spells on one item just not very clear?

She is correct. In fact they MUST go off at the same time.

I don't like the class, myself. I could have played one in my current game, didn't want it. It's a 1 trick nova pony. Boring.