Mad Maker of Magical Items

You are a craftsman (smith, jeweler, tinkerer, artificer, etc.)  that puts a little more into what you create. Many create magical items, blessed by a Dwarven god or etched with a magical rune, but you and your ilk will do anything and everything to create that perfect magical item that may topple cities or even magically refresh food. What matters is that you will go to any lengths to imbue what you create with whatever it needs, whether its runes spoken in the deepest Hells to a little bit of ground up Celestial feathers. You study your worlds' magics, but what you create goes beyond just a little more protection or damage. You want to create something that changes the world.

You may come from a line of craftsmen that specialize in magical items and/or weapons, you may be traveling the world to catalog all the unique magical items out there, possibly to improve on their design at a later date. You may also be a heretic who was banished from his/her homeland after one too many demons got accidentally summoned. What you are, ultimately, is a mad genius who's always willing to push the boundaries (of decorum or of what is sane). Just know that you don't mind a little risk(or a lot) if it gives you just a little more knowledge.

Skill Proficiencies: History, Arcana

Tool Proficiencies: One type of artisan’s tools

Languages: Two languages.

Equipment: A set of artisan’s tools with which you are proficient, a set of traveler’s clothes, and a pouch containing 5 gp and a gem worth 10 gp

Suggested Characteristics

Use the tables for the guild artisan background below as the basis for your traits and motivations, modifying the entries when appropriate to suit your identity as a clan crafter.

Your bond is almost certainly related to the master or the clan that taught you, or else to the work that you produce. Your ideal might have to do with maintaining the high quality of your work.

d8	Personality Trait
1	I'm full of witty aphorisms and have a proverb for every occasion.
2	I believe that anything worth doing is worth doing right. I can’t help it—I’m a perfectionist.
3	I’m a snob who looks down on those who can’t appreciate fine art.
4	I always want to know how things work and what makes people tick.
5	I’m rude to people who lack my commitment to hard work.
6	I like to talk at length about my profession . . . to a point.
7	I don’t part with my money easily and will haggle tirelessly to get the best deal possible.
8	I can focus on a particular problem until my obsession with it begins to consume me.

d6	Ideal
1	Aspiration: I work hard to be the best there is at my craft. (Any)
2	Community. It is the duty of all civilized people to strengthen the bonds of community and the security of civilization. (Lawful)
3	Generosity. My talents were given to me so that I could use them to benefit the world. (Good)
4	Freedom. Everyone should be free to pursue his or her own livelihood. (Chaotic)
5	Greed. I’m only in it for the money. (Evil)
6	Art. I’m committed to the creation of something for which people will remember me. (Neutral)

d6	Bond
1	The workshop where I learned my trade is the most important place in the world to me.
2	I created a great work for someone, and then found them unworthy to receive it. I’m still looking for someone worthy.
3	I owe my guild a great debt for forging me into the person I am today.
4	I pursue knowledge as voraciously as I pursue my art.
5	One day I will prove that I am the greatest artisan 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	I'm never satisfied with what I have― I always want more.
2	I’ll do anything to get my hands on something rare, priceless, or taboo.
3	I’m quick to assume that someone is trying to cheat me.
4	No one must ever learn what I've done to secure some very forbidden knowledge.
5	I obsess about proving wrong those that call me "mad."
6	I’m horribly jealous of anyone who can outshine my handiwork. Everywhere I go, I’m surrounded by rivals.