You have spent years learning to design and fabricate tools, weapons and armor, however you chose to specialize in the creation, improvement and repair of armor. You find comfort around a forge and quickly slip into a zen like rhythm when working one.
Despite your love of the forge and your craft, you have discovered a reason to leave your forge and begin a life of adventuring. Perhaps you had one of your pieces stolen and have vowed to track down the thief and ensure they face justice, or maybe you have decided to adventure so you may find new examples of armor to better improve your knowledge and skills.
- Skill Proficiencies: Years of working in a forge have made you proficient in Athletics and your experience repairing armor has made you proficient in Investigation.
- Tool Proficiencies: Your training as a blacksmith has given you proficiency with Smith's tools and years of creating armor have made you proficient with Leatherworker's tools.
Choose a specialty. As an armor smith, did you mostly make light, medium or heavy armor, or shields? You can roll on the following table to determine your specialty or choose one that best fits your character.
| d4 | Specialty |
|---|---|
| 1 | Light Armor |
| 2 | Medium Armor |
| 3 | Heavy Armor |
| 4 | Shields |
You can light and maintain roaring fires with ease, arranging materials to concentrate the heat as if it were a forge. You may spend an hour to create a makeshift forge while only using twice the materials needed to fuel a regular campfire.
You can also assess the quality and value of non-magical armor and know how to care for and maintain it (protecting it from corrosion and breakage, repairing damage, etc).
Suggested Characteristics
Life in a forge leaves marks, changes a person just as they change the metal they work. An armor smith’s study of the materials and techniques used in their craft affect their mannerisms and ideals. Their flaws might be some hidden arrogance or outlandish idea, or an ideal or bond taken to an extreme.
| d8 | Personality Trait |
|---|---|
| 1 | The best part of my job is getting the praise of others. |
| 2 | I'm always hungry to know more about my craft. |
| 3 | All I do, I do for the gold. |
| 4 | I enjoy nothing more than a cold drink after a day of working by the fire. |
| 5 | My drive is to be famous by my craft, have my name outlive myself. |
| 6 | Life is simple; you break my things, I break you. |
| 7 | I lack respect for those who can't keep up with my work ethic. |
| 8 | I only trust a select few people with my masterworks. |
| d6 | Ideal |
|---|---|
| 1 | My talents were given to me so that I could use them to benefit the world. |
| 2 | Every piece of armor I make must be my best work and I must charge fairly for it. |
| 3 | The freedom to create should be supported and protected, everyone should be left to their own pursuits. |
| 4 | This world is like raw ore. It must be thrust into fire to separate the impurities from the pure metal. |
| 5 | I don't care who I work for, as long as I can practice my craft. |
| 6 | Just as my forge turns lumps of metal into useful tools, so should the world change from day to day into a new thing. |
| d6 | Bond |
|---|---|
| 1 | The workshop where I learned to craft armor is the most important place in the world to me. |
| 2 | I created a great piece of armor for someone, and then found them unworthy to receive it. I’m still looking for someone worthy. |
| 3 | I'm grateful, both to my mentor for teaching me, and to my colleagues for all their support in the forge. |
| 4 | My pursuit of perfection is fueled by a need to craft a fitting set of armor for a great warrior. |
| 5 | One day I will craft an set of armor beautiful and strong enough to earn the favor of the gods themselves. |
| 6 | I forge my armor to protect people from the evil that infests my home. |
| d6 | Flaw |
|---|---|
| 1 | I care more about my craft and creations than about those around me. |
| 2 | My work is never good enough, there's always room for improvement. |
| 3 | I’m horribly jealous of anyone who can outshine my handiwork. Everywhere I go, I’m surrounded by rivals. |
| 4 | I always think that I deserve more coin for what I do. |
| 5 | If you pay the price, the armor is yours. I don't care how you use it. |
| 6 | I will do anything to get to work with a rare metal. ANYTHING. |
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