Before you became an adventurer, you were no stranger to war and the ensuing battles. You apprenticed as a blacksmith and general craftsman, spending many of those years on the front lines creating, adjusting and repairing weapons and armor for your companions. You learned how to quickly deconstruct broken armaments and use the raw components along with foraged materials to keep everyone's equipment intact.

Skill Proficiencies: History, plus one from among Insight, Perception, and Survival

Tool Proficiencies: One type of artisan’s tools

Languages: One of your choice

Equipment: A set of artisan’s tools with which you are proficient, a leather-bound ledger of your work over the years, a set of traveler’s clothes, and a pouch containing 5 gp and a gem worth 10 gp

Spell List

For you, the spells on the Field Armorer Spells table are added to the spell list of your spellcasting class. (If you are a multiclass character with multiple spell lists, these spells are added to all of them.)

Spell Level	Spells
Cantrip	mending
2nd	shatter

You have an in depth knowledge of weapons and armor and how they are constructed, including the materials they are made from. This provides the insight needed needed to quickly repair or deconstruct them in a flash. Your magic is almost always utilitarian in nature, preferring speed instead of flash.

Suggested Characteristics

Use the tables for the guild artisan background below as the basis for your traits and motivations, modifying the entries when appropriate to suit your identity as a clan crafter. (For instance, consider the words “guild” and “clan” to be interchangeable.)

Your bond is almost certainly related to the master or the clan that taught you, or else to the work that you produce. Your ideal might have to do with maintaining the high quality of your work or preserving the dwarven traditions of craftsmanship.

d8	Personality Trait
1	I have a crude sense of humor.
2	I believe that anything worth doing is worth doing right. I can’t help it—I’m a perfectionist.
3	I’ve lost too many friends, and I’m slow to make new ones.
4	I always want to know how things work and what makes people tick.
5	I’m rude to people who lack my commitment to hard work and fair play.
6	I like to talk at length about my profession.
7	I’m haunted by memories of war. I can’t get the images of violence out of my mind.
8	I face problems head-on. A simple, direct solution is the best path to success.

d6	Ideal
1	Aspiration: I work hard to be the best there is at my craft. (Any)
2	Community. It is the duty of all civilized people to strengthen the bonds of community and the security of civilization. (Lawful)
3	Generosity. My talents were given to me so that I could use them to benefit the world. (Good)
4	Freedom. Everyone should be free to pursue his or her own livelihood. (Chaotic)
5	Might. In life as in war, the stronger force wins. (Evil)
6	People. I’m committed to the people I care about, not to ideals. (Neutral)

d6	Bond
1	I repaired equipment poorly and people died because of it. I hope to redeem myself one day.
2	I’ll never forget the crushing defeat my company suffered or the enemies who dealt it.
3	My honor is my life.
4	Someone saved my life on the battlefield. To this day, I will never leave a friend behind.
5	I help those that are trying to better themselves.
6	Someone saved my life on the battlefield. To this day, I will never leave a friend behind.

d6	Flaw
1	I’d rather eat my armor than admit when I’m wrong.
2	I tend to ignore sleep for days when I’m working, often at the expense of my own health and safety.
3	I grow combative and unpredictable when I drink.
4	I act impulsively when innocent people are hurt.
5	I sometimes stay up all night listening to the ghosts of my fallen enemies.
6	I become irate when someone is wearing obviously mistreated or broken equipment.