Mechanical Engineer

You’ve spent years—perhaps decades—refining your understanding of mechanical and arcane-integrated machines. Whether you studied under a guild, labored in isolation, or apprenticed aboard a flying fortress, your mind works in gears and glyphs. You can spot a misaligned sprocket the way others sense danger and feel the hum of arcane current in your bones. While others wield swords or spells, you alter the battlefield with craftsmanship and quiet genius.

Ability Scores: You gain a +4 to your intelligence ability score.

Feat: Your research has enabled you to craft or cast small-scale spells tied to your understanding of engineered magic. You can cast a number of minor spells equal to your proficiency bonus per long rest, or two spells after a short rest. These spells must be from the artificer or wizard spell list, and represent magical effects triggered by devices, infused mechanisms, or improvised tech.

You also have advantage on Intelligence (Arcana) checks related to magical machinery, engineered traps, or constructs.

Skill Proficiencies: Choose one:

• Arcana and History

• Arcana and Investigation

Tool Proficiencies: Choose one:

• Tinker’s Tools and Engineer’s Tools

• Smith’s Tools and Engineer’s Tools

Languages: Common and one additional language of your choice

Equipment: Engineer’s tools, a small bag filled with salvaged parts (worth 3 platinum), a schematic scroll of an unfinished invention, and a set of comfortable traveler’s clothes.

Spell List

Spell Level	Spells
Cantrip	mage hand, mending
1st	alarm, catapult, grease, identify, shield, tasha's caustic brew

Suggested Characteristics

d4	Personality Trait
1	I talk to my devices like they’re people. Honestly, they’re better company.
2	I lose track of time when I start sketching or modifying a mechanism.
3	I’m obsessed with improvement—nothing is ever “finished.”
4	I've dedicated decades of my life to build the most impactful machine.

d4	Ideal
1	Innovation. The world moves forward when we take it apart and rebuild it better.
2	Pragmatism. I serve function first—form is a byproduct.
3	Discipline. Precision, patience, and process. That’s the formula.
4	Hopefulness. There is a machine for someone... out there.

d4	Bond
1	I owe everything to the engineer who taught me to read blueprints like a language.
2	One of my greatest designs was stolen. I will recover it.
3	I dream of building something that outlasts empires.
4	My first machine ever created was destroyed... I will find that person...

d4	Flaw
1	I trust machines more than people.
2	My perfectionism has cost me relationships.
3	I sometimes test things I shouldn’t—especially when I’m told not to.
4	Some people have malfunctions and should be disassemble.