Learned in the Method

Armed with an inventive intellect, a love of the scientific method, and an unquenchable energy, you are an enthusiastic researcher and inventor. 

Skill Proficiencies: Investigation, Nature

Tool Proficiencies: Select two types of artisan’s tools from Alchemist's Supplies, Herbalism kit, Smith's tools, or Tinker's tools. 

Equipment: One set of artisan’s tools, a hammer, a journal for keeping notes, a bottle of black ink, an ink pen, and a belt pouch containing 5 gp. 

Suggested Characteristics

Intellectual curiosity is the driving force behind a scientist. You are committed to academic pursuits and invention, or perhaps you just like explosions.

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 science — 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 iodine droplets inserted into a gravity 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 the 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 have visions of a pending disaster and must research it or invent something to stop it.

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 the world, except maybe the great guild master, who can match my boundless intellect.
6	I’m incapable of admitting a flaw in my logic.

Contacts

You have a number of contacts from the days of your training or possibly more recent work. 

d8	Contact
1	An older relative is a member of the guild’s board of directors.
2	I know a sprite who carries important messages among the guild’s laboratories.
3	A sibling is the head of a laboratory doing exotic research.
4	A former colleague is now an attendant in a laboratory in the central guildhall.
5	I’m in regular communication with an instructor who set me on the course of my life and research.
6	I had a romance with a chemist working on an explosive concoction.
7	As an attendant, I had a fierce rivalry with another attendant for our supervisor’s attention.
8	The guildmaster took note of one of my experiments!

d10	Non-contact
1	A government functionary seems interested in my work.
2	I was ready to join the army before I decided to become a scientist, and I sometimes still hear from the sergeant who tried to recruit me.
3	One of my former assistants turned out to be a spy. We’re not on friendly terms anymore, but we have a habit of running into each other.
4	An assassin killed a bitter rival of mine, leaving me with conflicted feelings.
5	I helped a minor barbarian chieftain acquire a firearm.
6	Roll an additional contact; you can decide if the contact is an ally or a rival.
7	A banker financed my laboratory’s current work and expects great returns.
8	I have a cousin in the Cult of the Primordial Titans, and we get along quite well.
9	A former attendant from the same laboratory ran off to join a different guild, and we get into a big argument every time we run into each other.
10	I compare notes and techniques with a rival scientist over lunch sometimes.