Guild Engineer

Armed with an inventive intellect, a love of magical technology, and an unquenchable energy, you are an enthusiastic participant in the research work of your guild. Though you're likely to begin your career as a mere attendant, you can aspire to become a skilled mage or alchemist, a laboratory supervisor, or even a flamethrower-wielding scorchbringer tasked with defending your guild's laboratories. Guild engineers are obsessive, brilliant, inspired, and an unpredictable force of chaos, and you epitomize all of those qualities.

Skill Proficiencies: Arcana, Investigation.

Tool Proficiencies: One type of artisan's tools.

Languages: Choose one of Draconic, Goblin, or gnomish

Equipment: The charred and twisted remains of a failed experiment, a hammer, a block and tackle, a set of common clothes, and a belt pouch containing 5 gp

Suggested Characteristics

Personality Traits

d8	Personality Trait
1	I have a hard time staying focused on... oh, and my brain tends to jump from one... did I mention focus?
2	I get really excited about my ideas and I can't wait to talk about them and start putting them into practice and tinkering with them and I want to tell you about how exciting it all is!
3	It's not magic—or anything, really—if you do it only halfway. Whatever I do, I give it all I've got.
4	I do what my gut tells me.
5	Life's an experiment, and I can't wait to see what happens.
6	I pepper my speech with the incomprehensible jargon of my trade, like mizzium droplets inserted into a weird-field suspension.
7	Great ideas are fine, but great results are what counts.
8	If you can guess what I'm about to do, that means I've run out of imagination.

Ideals

d6	Ideal
1	Guild. My guild is all that really matters. (Any)
2	Creativity. Half the world's troubles come from stodgy thinking, stuck in the past. We need innovative solutions. (Chaotic)
3	Discovery. Every experiment has the potential to reveal more secrets of the multiverse. (Any)
4	Science. A rigorous application of logical principles and protocols will lead us toward progress more surely than any belief system. (Lawful)
5	Fun. I love my job! Despite the dangerous working conditions, there's nothing I'd rather do. (Chaotic)
6	Power. Someday I'll find or create the magic that will make me the most powerful being in Ravnica. (Evil)

Bonds

d6	Bond
1	I have dedicated my life to finding a solution to a scientific problem.
2	I'll never forget the laboratory where I learned my skills, or the other attendants who learned alongside me.
3	I'm convinced it was sabotage that destroyed my first laboratory and killed many of my friends, and I seek revenge against whoever did it.
4	I have the schematics for an invention that I hope to build one day, once I have the necessary resources.
5	A fellow student and I are racing to solve the same scientific puzzle.
6	I would do anything the guildmaster told me to do.

Flaws

d6	Flaw
1	If there's a plan, I'll probably forget it. If I don't forget it, I'll probably ignore it.
2	I get bored easily, and if nothing is happening I'll make something happen.
3	Nothing is ever simple, and if it seems simple, I'll find a way to make it complicated.
4	I tend to ignore sleep for days when I'm conducting research, often at the expense of my own health and safety.
5	I'm convinced there's not a soul in Ravnica, except maybe the great Niv-Mizzet, who can match my boundless intellect.
6	I'm incapable of admitting a flaw in my logic.

d8	Personality Trait
1	I have a hard time staying focused on... oh, and my brain tends to jump from one... did I mention focus?
2	I get really excited about my ideas and I can't wait to talk about them and start putting them into practice and tinkering with them and I want to tell you about how exciting it all is!
3	It's not magic—or anything, really—if you do it only halfway. Whatever I do, I give it all I've got.
4	I do what my gut tells me.
5	Life's an experiment, and I can't wait to see what happens.
6	I pepper my speech with the incomprehensible jargon of my trade, like mizzium droplets inserted into a weird-field suspension.
7	Great ideas are fine, but great results are what counts.
8	If you can guess what I'm about to do, that means I've run out of imagination.

d6	Ideal
1	Guild. My guild is all that really matters. (Any)
2	Creativity. Half the world's troubles come from stodgy thinking, stuck in the past. We need innovative solutions. (Chaotic)
3	Discovery. Every experiment has the potential to reveal more secrets of the multiverse. (Any)
4	Science. A rigorous application of logical principles and protocols will lead us toward progress more surely than any belief system. (Lawful)
5	Fun. I love my job! Despite the dangerous working conditions, there's nothing I'd rather do. (Chaotic)
6	Power. Someday I'll find or create the magic that will make me the most powerful being in world. (Evil)

d6	Bond
1	I have dedicated my life to finding a solution to a scientific problem.
2	I'll never forget the laboratory where I learned my skills, or the other attendants who learned alongside me.
3	I'm convinced it was sabotage that destroyed my first laboratory and killed many of my friends, and I seek revenge against whoever did it.
4	I have the schematics for an invention that I hope to build one day, once I have the necessary resources.
5	A fellow student and I are racing to solve the same scientific puzzle.
6	I would do anything the guildmaster told me to do.

d6	Flaw
1	If there's a plan, I'll probably forget it. If I don't forget it, I'll probably ignore it.
2	I get bored easily, and if nothing is happening I'll make something happen.
3	Nothing is ever simple, and if it seems simple, I'll find a way to make it complicated.
4	I tend to ignore sleep for days when I'm conducting research, often at the expense of my own health and safety.
5	I'm convinced there's no one who can match my boundless intellect.
6	I'm incapable of admitting a flaw in my logic.