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THE ILLRIGGER

🕑 Added 2021-04-14 18:01:01 +0000 UTC

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Tosari

Can you please update the fantasy grounds unity module to the current rules found on d&d beyond? With the d&d beyond class release the class has become very popular, but when making one under fantasygrounds you quickly find out how weak that release is compared to the new version.

Aaron Richardson

Pretty please!

Anthony Fontana

The Talent is easy to understand. It even names Jean Gray and a few other recognizable Talents/psyoinics. But I don't know what an illrigger is? Is the Witcher? Hellraiser? 🤷‍♂️

itchyboar

Is this going to get a beautiful character sheet option like the Beastheart and Talent??

Krahnin

Linking back to the OG Illrigger post reminded me how much I miss the Chain of Acheron and the Book of Judge. Regardless, excited to check this out! I hope the changes make it into Foundry and everyone else's favorite VTTs! Side note, D&D Beyond is finally doing 3rd party content with Ghostfire Gaming. Might be a new digital front to get your 5E classes and books on for additional exposure!

Edge

The file name is 1.0 but if you download it you'll see that 2nd page of the pdf it says version 2.4

Dysprosium66

I think that there were previous playtest versions and this is the official release, but I could be wrong. It's more well fleshed out than the last time I read through it, now it's much more unique and less like just a devil paladin than what I think it was originally.

Bob Driver

Is this version 1.0 listed above the most up to date version of the class? I thought I read somewhere there had been revisions.

Tintenteufel

Oh, yeah! Just rediscovered this class for my campaign: Knight & Sage! It is a Strongholds & Followers (and hopefully soonish Kingdoms & Warfare) heavy campaign in a home-brewed arthurian kingdom and the two PCs (Knight & Sage) are good souls, so I wanna use the illrigger for the bad guys. Any chance we will see some more illriger NPC stat blocks?

Piero Valle

I finally put my hands onto the lord I wanted to be

Andrés Carmelo Micalizzi Casali

Awesome Content! loved your channel for a couple of years, and decided to back! damn the content is good!

Thisjus10

I mean if you don't give it to them then it just promotes a hex-blade dip. +charisma to ac. I'd much rather them take the two handed weapon chr thing tbh lol

Joey Z

Not sure if this is the place for asking rules clarifications, but for the Architect of Ruin ability Submit!(pg 17) does that apply to all saving throws against the spell(like Hold Person or Phantasmal Killer that allow the target a new save every turn) or does it only apply against the initial save? It does say it imposes disadvantage on their saving throws(plural) but I wanted to confirm that was the intent.

ZorkFox

I'm hoping to introduce a gang of rival adventurers to my group very soon, and I think Illrigger will be a fine addition to the enemy party. #IDontTakeOrdersFromDeadMen

i was worried that was gonna be the case. ty for the explanation though. if playing the illrigger has to wait till i have another in person game set up then so be it lol

Unfortunately MCDM (and other third parties) have very little way to get themselves on DND Beyond. The deal they made with Critical Role to add the Blood Hunter is likely related to their sponsorship. If you want MCDM products on DND Beyond, then the best thing you can do is tell DND Beyond themselves.

Optic

Having looked through it properly now, awesome work by all involved. The flavour and the mechanics are great! The only thing I'd scrap is the charisma for great weapon attack and damage, seems unnecessary and promotes players dumping STR, an already under valued stat, and pumping Dex, the god stat.

Santi

My players just arrived to Avernus, thank you for including NPC stat blocks, they are perfect for the DM!! Also - now this is the class I want to play when I stop being forever DM, I can't wait!

Dammerung

No need to apologize. I realized I hadn't processed the "cities" portion of the text in my excitement over the product. Its awesome to hear that it might be a future product. I'd buy the hell out of a campaign setting book or even smaller 5-10$ portions in an arcadia-like format.

MCDM Productions

Sorry, that was me (Matt). We'd like to do a future book about Orden's multiverse, but I have no idea when that product might materialize.

Dammerung

Oh! Thank you for the answer.

MCDM Productions

There aren’t seven or nine hells in the Timescape, there’s only one. Hell. It’s a world dominated by seven cities that war through eternity, each ruled by a different archdevil.

Dammerung

I can't find the answer elsewhere, and the Illrigger description is what triggered the question so I thought I'd ask here: "I'm used to there being 9 hells, if there are only 7 in Matts world what are they and where would I read up on this?"

dang

Adam Karis

ive never done anything with patreon and im not the most tech savvy, is there a way to access the book on dnd beyond?

Thjumus

In addition to the mistake with Lady Dazran’s statblock, I believe there is a typo in one of the headers on page 17: “Asmoedus’s Blessing”

David

This is one of the most beautiful PDFs my eyes have ever laid eyes on.

Gabriel Bergevin-Estable

This is great! Loved it on a first read. Anywhere where we can provide feedback on some copy clarifications that *may* be worth doing?

Brady Hargett

Im a forever DM, so I will probably never get to play a PC Illrigger but the possibilities of NPC Illriggers is really exciting to me.

Will

Matt - I just wanted to add that I think this storyline that you have been slowly adding to piece by piece is fantastic, and filling my head with so many awesome ideas. I was wondering if perhaps the idea had occured to you to turn it into a product at one stage - because to me, it feels like a Matt Colville campaign, something on a similar scale to others like the Night Below or the Red Hand of Doom. Personally, I would play the fuck out of The End Of The Timescape (and it would tie all of your lore together into one awesome package). Apologies though if I am overstepping myself!

Jaime Morales San Román

Its another great project from you guys! Thanks for all the hard work and care you put in every thing you release.

Michael Dykes

Absolutely loving the Illrigger concept. I am running a game where the local kingdom is being invaded by an army of hell worshiping cultists and the Illrigger is perfect for their commanders. Only problem is that our game is running in Pathfinder 1E, not D&D 5E. Gotta see if I can come up with a conversion...

Thjumus

Was looking at the Lady Dazran statblock, because I love it and might lift it for my campaign, and spotted a mistake! In her reactions the Telekinetic Seal is named Telepathic Seal (which got me confused because telepathy is not used to push folks away). The mistake is also present in the accompanying text, 5th line from the bottom.

Otto

Hey Matt, thanks for the options. I think a version without art and maybe the border as well would be print friendly. The original font would be best to keep.

MCDM Productions

You mean like a version without art? Or a black and white version? Or a black and white version without art? Like an RTF file? -Matt

MCDM Productions

I would rule that resistance or immunity means you roll your dice, but nothing happens. -Matt

MCDM Productions

If you insist! :D -Matt

MCDM Productions

I think an MCDM Beastmaster is in the cards, but probably not until after the MCDMonster Book. -Matt

MCDM Productions

We're gonna wait on an Illrigger Stronghold until after we revise Strongholds & Followers, I think that product needs a lot of work now, compared to Kingdoms & Warfare. But Lars did a prototype Illrigger stronghold, maybe ask around in the Discord. -Matt

MCDM Productions

I think we'll see more MCDM stuff in Fantasy Grounds, but right this second we got bigger fish to fry. -Matt

Otto

Hello again, is it possible to get a “print friendly” version of this class? I would like to add it to my “unofficial” content binder.

Otto

I was later able to use a different device and the cover popped up. Must have been my phone.

Dustin Hammersmith

Sounds like a fun interpretation. I do wonder why the concept of 1/4 casters, 1/3 casters, and 3/4 casters has gone out the door in 5e tho.

Lennart Peters

My partner essentially reacted, like Anna. "Oh, this is what i actually wanted when making a Paladin. But the Paladin didn't really provide this." Also as GM; i highly appreciate the NPC Options.

Sean Higgins

I apologize if this has been answered somewhere else, but when using the Infernal Conduit ability on an unwilling creature, what happens if they are resistant or immune to necrotic damage? Based on the wording, it seems like the "transfer" is based on the roll, not the damage that is dealt.

Sam

When y'all make more custom classes, please continue adding the NPC (and how to run them) and retainer section. Having those resources as a DM saves so much time and provides so much brainstorming!

Benjamin Russell

I have a clarification question that the team may want to address in a future version. All Illriggers can use a bonus action to place a seal (CHA mod) times per rest. Then the subclasses get new ways to apply seals. It's not clear to me whether abilities like By the Throat are limited to that first pool of seals or can be used with no limit. To me, a lawyer's reading of the rules would indicate the latter, but I don't believe that was the intent. For instance, I might change the language from By the Throat saying "place a seal on an enemy" to "place one of your seals on an enemy." Another idea would be to word the introduction of Baleful Interdict to indicate this is your pool of seals from which they all come.

Travis Winquist

This is incredible. Great work MCDM! I have a retired C.o. Whispers Bard that had been a spy master for a couple of nations. My DM and I decided he was probably actually an Illrigger and are going to run a solo campaign to resolve his story.

Jeppe Juul Rasmussen

It is so cool that the class is "Knights of Hell" and the subclasses are "Paladinlike-", "Roguelike -" and "warmagelike knight of Hell". Each subclass is so distinctive and clear in it's flavour. I think that is a great way to make a class.

Jack Charlton

That artwork is insane! Such cool visuals.

Pesto Enthusiast

Matt is not a huge fan of multiclassing in general, and while the testers did think of some scenarios, it wasn't explicitly tested for bullshit multiclassing combinations. That is, IMO, up to the DM to either allow or shut down. That said, we did spend a lot of time trying to figure out how the Architect of Ruin's non-standard spell progression would work in multiclassing, and ultimately decided to just use the half-caster rules, even though that would mean Architects of Ruin could *lose* spells by multiclassing. Asmodeus takes a dim view of Illriggers who stray from strict commitment to the path of Hell.

Pesto Enthusiast

MCDM is trying to get their content into Roll 20. That and D&D Beyond were by far and away the most popular VTTs in the survey, each having more than everything else (FG, Foundry, etc.) combined. If you program it into FG, you can share it with your group, but you cannot make it public to people outside your table (otherwise that'd be a copyright violation).

Pesto Enthusiast

I'm not able to replicate the issue. Try another browser?

Daniel Robino

Wow! As much art as an issue of Arcadia! Plus some tasty Colville prose. Who could ask for more?

Christopher

There are a couple homebrew illrigger strongholds from the community up in the r/mattcolville subreddit, but yeah, it would have been cool to have an official stronghold in the release.

Christopher

Yes! I'm dying to beat my players up with a Painkiller, haha.

Christopher

I'm so excited!!! I played a Shadowmaster through 8th level using the v2.0 rules in a homebrew campaign and it was my favorite character I've ever played. Now I need to find a campaign to play a Painkiller in because I really want to try their abilities out! :-D :-D Can't wait to see the next custom class you folks come up with! (For that matter, I would still love to see the updated version of Tom's beastmaster ranger with the additional ferocity abilities.)

Troy McMahon

I've been playing a Painkiller for the past 12 or so months in our homebrew campaign 'Pimp my Imp'. It's been an absolute blast! I have to congratulate all of MCDM on releasing such a high quality polished product. The art, writing and design are the same high standard I've come to expect of the company and I would have to agree you guys need to price this stuff at a higher level to reflect the amount of work that's gone into it. Keep up the great work guys, looking forward to Kingdoms and Warfare!

J. Griffin Orr

Definitely going to tinker with this and make a certain NPC villain in Waterdeep: Dragon Heist into an Illrigger!

JRy

Just Hell Freakin Yeah man! #JudgeLand

Ty Hall

I was actually looking into making my planned NPC anti-paladin of Asmodeus into an illrigger (free) and then well you post this!! and Mote of Hell is the perfect spell for me to seed more clues to one of my PCs origins, of how the Aitkin power there warforged (through stealing souls from hell , hell isnt to fond of the practice)

Dustin Hammersmith

Did you/testers do a Multi-Classing pass on abilities? This is where most things become "broken". Things like Coffeelock, or Pali/Hexblade/Sorcerer come up, as this is another Cha focused thing I think its the interactions with other Cha based classes in a multi-classing scenario might end up busting some things, but as requested I'll reserve judgement until I give it a whirl.

Finally. I wanted this to come out so much.

StabbyQuest

I haven't read through the release version yet, but I can't wait to roll an Illrigger. I also felt the need to comment about the masterful use of Goat GIFs. Fantastic!

Kevin Tibbs

Oh, I'm going to enjoy this.

Roman Penna

Woooo, so awesome. Thanks MCDM, looks so sweet! I was excited when playtesting this, now excited for all the dope art.

B. J. Boyd

In Original and Basic D&D, evil clerics were a recurring theme for villains. This seems to fit that archetype perfectly for 5ez

Grand Admiral Flair

This is rad! Quick question: if an Illrigger has a Stronghold, what are the demesne effects and such? Will S&F be updated to have that?

Kalerei

DOPE. The dopeness went to the max here. Have fun running your Illriggers ya'll!

Kristopher lee oneill

How is Anna the original player of the Illrigger, not a labeled playtester?

Justin Gillman

So damn cool. So I have no experience in this and no plans to do it at the moment, but a couple of my players are really interested in this and might want to use it in our Fantasy Grounds campaign. Will you guys be selling this as a module for Fantasy Grounds? If not, would you mind if I program it in manually to share with them?

Making Tlon

I didn't have the time to read everything yet, but I wanted to say that even just scrolling through it, it is simply SO BEAUTIFUL! The style, the colors of every piece of art are far above any other D&D thing I ever read !

Bryce Petersen

So excited. Definitely vibes of the 4e fighter in here, with dashes of some other classes. I really want to try it out.

Charles Farrell

Thank you Matt & Company

Brendon Speed

The art, concept and layout everything in this is just screaming with flavor. I'm here for this

Asher Winnie

Incredible art, the Illrigger on page 9 makes me think of Heden from Priest, but if he'd fallen in love with Dispater instead of St. Lynwen <3

Brandon Vock

Dropping this directly into my Descent Into Avernus campaign... Painkillers are a perfect fit for Zariel's cultists fighting in the Blood War.

Hypnoticflame

Goat Gifs on point!

Matt MauDib

Beautiful artwork, as usual!

Kevin M.

The goats in this post are the cherry on top of a sundae from hell.

The Panelist

Nice.

Edward Pizzella

I've never been one to want more classes but the Illrigger is ligit.

Otto

So stoked, this could be a lot of fun as a BBEG as well. I don’t know if I’m the only one but, when I download the PDF the cover disappears. The rest of the content is there which is great.

John Champion

I cant believe Jason made Fancy Squidward Judge art

TURNIP SLOP

This is awesome! I find the best way to get players interested in something like this is to kick their butt with one haha. Challenge rating 11 should do the trick 😁

Cirosmar

Sick. Really well put together

Brian Case

This graphic design, layout, and art is amazing. Honestly, I may need to go up to the $10 tier to pay you folks for the quality that you're putting out.