You have a history of helping and shadowing your mother while she built weapons to put food on the table. She wanted you to stay in school but the mechanics and blueprints fascinated you. You have studied her work and work of others for years after she has been gone.
- Skill Proficiencies: You are proficient in Investigation and one of the following: History, Arcana or Perception.
- Tool Proficiencies: You have proficiency in Tinker's Tools and an artisan tool of your choice.
- Equipment: Common clothes, Tinker's tools or one type of artisan's tools you are proficient with, 1d4 books on Engineering, small pouch containing 15 gold.
Your experience with Engineering gives you an edge when it comes to machines that might confound the common man. You have advantage on History skill checks related to mechanical devices. You also have a full understanding of all things non magically mechanical. Advantage on investigation checks to understand a mechanical object. If you are given enough time to study the object you may be able to right out a blueprint and remake it. DM choice.
Suggested Characteristics
You have a long history in the mechanical sciences, having either designed or directly built great feats of engineering. Perhaps you imagined giant war machines and put them to paper. Perhaps you spent your hours riveting girders to construct the frames of Airships. Perhaps you worked in a repair shop, patching up customers' broken and battered electronic do-dads and whats-its
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