Taking things apart and putting them back together always fascinated you. You made a living tinkering and repairing items for people, but you spent most of your time thinking of and creating new ideas. Your mind is always creating unique and creative ideas and your skill with your tools allows you to bring these daydreams into reality.
- Skill Proficiencies: Investigation, Sleight of Hand
- Tool Proficiencies: Tinker's Tools, Jeweler's Tools
- Equipment: A set of Tinker’s tools, a small assortment of tinkering supplies (springs, cogs, levers, gears, valves, ball bearings, etc.), an abacus, chain, crowbar, a set of traveler's Clothes.
You have a keen eye and a natural intuition when it comes to scavenging materials for new inventions and coming up with inspiration for new ideas. When investigating and searching your surroundings you are very adept at locating materials that can be used to create new machines and may also become inspired with an idea for a new machine to try building.
Additionally, you can use your tinker’s tools to create larger, more complex inventions if you have the available time and resources to do so. The time and resources as well as the inventions that can be created should be discussed with the DM.
Suggested Characteristics
There was always something more to understand about the world and how it worked. Inventors love taking things apart and putting them back together again. They have a natural curiosity and exuberance about the world.
| d8 | Personality Trait |
|---|---|
| 1 | That looks interesting! I want to know how it works! |
| 2 | I have a hard time keeping my mouth shut, even when I should. |
| 3 | I want to weave magic into my designs to create tools and machines. |
| 4 | Other people never seem to appreciate my jokes as much as I do. |
| 5 | They say I’m crazy, but I can’t be. I make sense to me. I understand and they don't. |
| 6 | I'll be rich, independently wealthy! Someday. I just need some investors. |
| 7 | There's only one way to test an invention, and that's in the field during live fire. There's nothing more invigorating than that! |
| 8 | I talk quick and short. |
| d6 | Ideal |
|---|---|
| 1 | Empowerment: My inventions will change the world for the better. (Good) |
| 2 | Order: There's a right way to do things and a wrong way to do things. (Lawful) |
| 3 | Knowledge: Knowledge is power, and that includes the arcane. (Unaligned) |
| 4 | Greed: I’m only in it for the money. (Chaos) |
| 5 | Tyrant: I will gain power, and finally be able to get back ay everyone who wronged me (Evil) |
| 6 | Liar: Well, if it helps me get the job done, I'll say what needs saying. (Evil/Unaligned) |
| d6 | Bond |
|---|---|
| 1 | The workshop where I learned my trade is the most important place in the world to me. |
| 2 | I will do anything to prove myself superior to my hated rival. |
| 3 | The machines I create are as important to me as people. |
| 4 | I will create wonderful inventions that I can take home to better the life of my people. |
| 5 | One day I will return home and prove that I am the greatest inventor of them all. |
| 6 | I will get revenge on the evil forces that destroyed my place of business and ruined my livelihood. |
| d6 | Flaw |
|---|---|
| 1 | Only the results are important. The ends justify the means. |
| 2 | I know that those people want their money, but they just don't understand the difficulties with getting things done on time. |
| 3 | I’m horribly jealous of anyone who can outshine my handiwork. Everywhere I go, I’m surrounded by rivals. |
| 4 | I’m quick to assume that someone is trying to cheat me. |
| 5 | I really hate destroying machines for any reason, even if it would likely benefit me or those around me. |
| 6 | Someone stole one of my inventions and has been using it in the commission of crimes. And now they are hunting me for it. |