Raised among the Madcap clan’s reckless inventors, you grew up surrounded by clattering gears, smoking gadgets, and the smell of singed hair. You have a knack for cobbling together strange devices from scraps, though they rarely work as intended. To you, chaos isn’t failure — it’s proof the thing did something. Whether you’re fixing crossbows, making fireworks, or accidentally blowing up a stew pot, your tinkering is as unpredictable as your wild magic.
- Skill Proficiencies: Arcana, Sleight of Hand
- Tool Proficiencies: Tinker’s Tools, Alchemist’s Supplies
- Equipment: A pouch of mismatched gears and springs, a half-finished “device” that rattles ominously, a set of tinkerer’s tools, a goblin-made trinket from the Madcap clan, and a pouch containing 10 gp in odd foreign coins and shiny washers.
You can cobble together small, bizarre inventions out of scraps. Once per long rest, you may spend 10 minutes building a contraption. Roll a d6 to determine the effect when you (or someone else) first activates it (usually by shaking, pulling, or throwing it):
- Kaboom! – Explodes in a harmless puff of smoke, glitter, or sparks. Nearby creatures jump, sneeze, or cough.
- Fizzlepop – Produces a loud popping or whistling sound, drawing attention within 100 feet.
- Whizbang – Shoots off like a firework, harmlessly bouncing around before burning out.
- Goblin Luck – Something useful happens unexpectedly (GM’s choice, like lighting a fire, distracting a guard, or fixing a jammed crossbow).
- Wild Surge Echo – Roll on the Wild Magic Surge table. The effect is minor, cosmetic, and short-lived.
- Oops… – The device backfires comically on you (soot on face, hair standing on end, trousers smoking). No real harm, just embarrassment.
Suggested Characteristics
Tinkerers are curious, reckless, and convinced every problem can be solved with a few gears and a “little boom.”
- Personality Traits
- I can’t resist fiddling with anything that has moving parts.
- I laugh hardest when my experiments fail spectacularly.
- Ideal: Chaos. The world’s too quiet; it needs more noise and sparks!
- Bond: I carry a piece of my Madcap clan’s tinkering heritage, even if they disowned me.
- Flaw: I’d rather make something explode than admit I don’t know how it works.
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