Mechanic

Your craft is the building and maintenance of machinery. Your experience might involve gunsmithing, steam engines, gas lamps, blast furnaces, printing presses, threshing machines, or industrial mills, drills, and pumps. With the right resources, you can build and maintain these types of machinery. Your hands are strong and careful, and you have plenty of experience getting them dirty. You belong to a guild, union or society dedicated to technological progress. Such societies are the rivals of artisan guilds, whose members tend to be displaced by industrial machinery. Perhaps you’re a factory inspector, railway engineer, or a firearm manufacturer.

Skill Proficiencies: Investigation, Perception

Tool Proficiencies: One of tinker’s tools, carpenter’s tools, mason's tools, leatherworker's tools or smith’s tools

Languages: One of your choice

Equipment: One of tinker’s tools, carpenter’s tools, mason's tools, leatherworker's tools or smith’s tools, a guild coin or medallion, a set of traveler’s clothes, and a pouch containing 15 gp

 

Suggested Characteristics

Mechanics are industrious and curious - they like to understand how things work and are put together. This curiosity may even may extend to people, organizations and wider political movements. Or perhaps instead they prefer to keep their head down and focus on what is real, tangible and concrete, leaving the rest to those who care.

d8	Personality Trait
1	I believe that anything worth doing is worth doing right. I can’t help it — I’m a perfectionist.
2	I’m a snob who looks down on those who can’t appreciate good craftsmanship.
3	I always want to know how things work and what makes people tick.
4	I’m full of witty aphorisms and have a proverb for every occasion.
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 don’t part with my money easily and will haggle tirelessly to get the best deal possible.
8	I’m well known for my work, and I want to make sure everyone appreciates it. I’m always taken aback when people haven’t heard of me.

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

d6	Bond
1	The workshop where I learned my trade is the most important place in the world to me.
2	I created a great work for someone, and then found them unworthy to receive it. I’m still looking for someone worthy.
3	I owe my guild a great debt for forging me into the person I am today.
4	I pursue wealth to secure someone’s love.
5	One day I will return to my guild and prove that I am the greatest mechanic of them all.
6	I will get revenge on the evil forces that destroyed my place of business and ruined my livelihood.

d7	Flaw
1	I’ll do anything to get my hands on something rare or priceless.
2	I’m quick to assume that someone is trying to cheat me.
3	No one must ever learn that I once stole money from guild coffers.
4	I’m never satisfied with what I have — I always want more.
5	I would kill to acquire a noble title.
6	I’m horribly jealous of anyone who can outshine my handiwork. Everywhere I go, I’m surrounded by rivals.
7	People are complicated, cruel and useless. I am interested only in objects, and in particular my own creations.