Your Artificer character concept is undoubtedly amazing, now just make sure you're extra inspired to roleplay them!
The Artificer is a class that stands out as way to visually express your stunning creativity. You can have mechanical friends, suits of super armor, incredible weaponry, the list goes on. It's incredibly fun to keep detailing out these aspects of the artificer. With these concepts, however, we find it easy to forget to build a rich character underneath it all, with a story and a personality that's gonna shine as brightly as their robo-monkey-cat. That's why we talk about what steps you can take to create a great artificer character in this episode.
We start things off in Kinship Camp. First, we take inspiration from our favorite parts of the Artificer concept, then build characters that we would have a blast playing. We do so using our "Character and Traits Planner", which you can download for free from our website. Jordan's Character is an alchemist drawing on the history of alchemy and its goals, and Travis' is an Armorer that draws on the newer concepts of transhumanism.
Then we pop over to Grandma B's Schoolhouse to learn how to think inventively, like a true Artificer. All you have to do is apply some "Inventive Principles" outlined in Jack Hipples book The Ideal Result: What It Is and How to Achieve It. We talk about 5 of them and apply them to our specific challenges in our dnd games, but you can see all 40 inventive principles for yourself. See if there's any you like, and try to use them in your next session as an inventive character. Even if they don't work in practice, running through them is a great way to roleplay that inventive mind.