Guild Artisan

Guilds are generally found in cities large enough to support several artisans practicing the same trade. However, your guild might instead be a loose network of artisans who each work in a different village within a larger realm. Work with your DM to determine the nature of your guild. You can select your guild business from the Guild Business table or roll randomly.

As an established and respected member of a guild, you can rely on certain benefits that membership provides. Your fellow guild members will provide you with lodging and food if necessary, and pay for your funeral if needed. In some cities and towns, a guildhall offers a central place to meet other members of your profession, which can be a good place to meet potential patrons, allies, or hirelings.

Guilds often wield tremendous political power. If you are accused of a crime, your guild will support you if a good case can be made for your innocence or the crime is justifiable. You can also gain access to powerful political figures through the guild, if you are a member in good standing. Such connections might require the donation of money or magic items to the guild’s coffers.

You must pay dues of 5 gp per month to the guild. If you miss payments, you must make up back dues to remain in the guild’s good graces.

You are a crafter who focuses on repairing a wide variety of items rather than specializing in a specific trade. You are familiar with a wide variety of tools and techniques, enough to get by at just about any crafting trade at an apprentice level. Tinkers are much beloved by people who aren’t wealthy enough to outright replace anything that breaks, and smaller settlements rejoice when a tinker rolls into town.

Rather than proficiency with artisan’s tools, you might be proficient with navigator’s tools or an additional language. And instead of artisan’s tools, you can start with a mule and a cart.

Your experience fixing odds and ends as well as your familiarity with a wide variety of tools grants you the ability to make quick repairs on damaged equipment. You can spend two hours during a long rest or downtime working on a damaged object using tinker’s tools. Once you’ve finished, anyone using the object for its intended purpose can ignore any penalties that arise from damage to the object. These repairs are temporary and last a number of days equal to your Intelligence modifier (minimum of 1). You can repair the item again after the first repairs wear off, but each additional time you jury rig the object reduces the number of days the repairs last by 1. Eventually the object must be replaced or professionally repaired by a skilled craftsman with the appropriate tools.

Additionally, you can jury rig minor mechanical objects such as locks or simple traps. It takes two hours of work with tinker’s tools, and you need access to a supply of materials. Any such object you create is of fair quality at best and doesn’t last forever. A jury rigged object functions for a number of days equal to your Intelligence modifier (minimum of 1) before it jams, falls apart, or otherwise ceases to function.

Tinkers are welcomed in rustic communities. You can trade work for food and lodging by doing odd jobs and minor repairs for people.