Homebrew Engineer Species Details

Nothing is perfect. Engineers not only believe this fact, they rejoice in it. Every imperfection is a chance for improvement, and progress is an endless march toward a state of perfection that can never be reached. This viewpoint leads Engineers to pursue their work with delighted enthusiasm, never deterred by setbacks and excited by every opportunity for improvement.

Cool Rationality

Despite being talkative, Engineers keep their personal lives private, and they tend to engage more with ideas than with people. They form close friendships based on mutual interests or compelling disagreements, and their interactions dwell on their thoughts about those issues rather than their feelings about them.

To members of other races, Engineers often seem cold, even emotionless. That assessment isn’t fair—they feel emotion every bit as intensely as other folk do, but they are skilled at not displaying it. Cool rationality guides their actions, they make and follow careful plans, and they are patient enough to do nothing when the ideal outcome relies on such inaction.

Reasoning toward Perfection

Their curious intellects and rational minds incline Engineers toward membership in the Craftsman Guild, they put their intelligence to use in crafting and improving things, whether those things are laws, procedures, or magical sciences.

Engineers believe that the path toward the impossible goal of perfection is paved with bricks of education, careful deliberation, and controlled experimentation. Some Engineers direct their energy toward perfecting themselves, whether by means of Simic bioengineering or through extensive study, and others concentrate on perfecting society through the careful drafting and application of laws.

Engineer Names

Engineers are given names at birth, but usually choose new names for themselves as part of their transition into adulthood. They rarely use family names.

Male Names: Alexander, Elon, Nicola, Leonardo, Galileo

Female Names: Hedy, Lillian, Julia

Engineer Traits

Your Engineering character has the following racial traits.

Engineering

You have an eye for the imperfections in broken things and an urge to fix is almost overwhelming. Many years of training has given you the ability to repair and invent parts to fix and maintain a variety of things

Ability Score Increase

Your Intelligence score increases by 2, and your Wisdom score increases by 1.

Age

Engineers mature faster than humans do, reaching maturity around age 10. Their life span is typically 65 years, with some living to the age of 66.

Alignment

Engineers are usually Chaotic and non-evil.

Size

Tall and slender, Vedalken stand 6 to 6½ feet tall on average and usually weigh less than 200 pounds. Your size is Medium.

Speed

Your base walking speed is 30 feet.

Engineering Dispassion

You have advantage on all Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma saving throws.

Tireless Precision

You are proficient in one of the following skills of your choice: Arcana, History, Investigation, Medicine, Persuasion, or Sleight of Hand. You are also proficient with one tool of your choice.

Whenever you make an ability check with the chosen skill or tool, roll a d4, and add the number rolled to the check’s total.

Languages

You can speak, read, and write Common, Dwarvish, and one other language of your choice.