Tinker

Gadgeteers' Guild

Gadgeteers improve existing items and work to invent entirely new ways of solving problems. They add features to ordinary items include weapons, armor, and tools. They create new tools to improve their livelihood, effectiveness in combat, and many other things. You start with the blueprints for two 1st-level gadget in your blueprint book, in addition to your other blueprints. You may also create improvised gadgets using your components in the same way you create gizmos.

Because members of this guild tends to engage in martial combat, you gain the following:

• Your hit points increase to 10 plus your Constitution Modifier.
• You gain proficiency in all common simple and martial melee weapons and crossbows, although they must be modified.
• You gain proficiency in light and medium armor, although it must be modified.

Clockmakers' Guild

Clockmakers work with complex devices to create clockwork automations. They create these devices that automate repetitive tasks. Some are even able to create clockwork mechanisms complex enough to mimic basic intelligence.

You gain the Clockwork Companion feat for free and start with a basic clockwork companion with the following changes:

• Increase the Strength, Dexterity, Constitution, or Wisdom score by 1 in addition to the standard increase.
• The Hit Points gained per level increase to 6 plus the companions Constitution modifier.
• If your companion is destroyed and you have access to the remains, you can rebuild it with one day of down time.
• While riding a clockwork companion, you cannot be targeted by an attack or effect that forces a saving throw. Instead, you always take half the damage your companion takes.
• Your companions base AC increases from 10 to 12.

Tinker Feats

At 1st level and every even-numbered level thereafter, you gain a tinker class feat. Tinker class feats are described beginning on page ...

Skill Feats

2nd

At 2nd level and every 2 levels thereafter, you gain a skill feat. Skill feats can be found in Chapter 5 of the Core Rulebook and have the skill trait. You must be trained or better in the corresponding skill to select a skill feat.

General Feats

3rd

At 3rd level and every 4 levels thereafter, you gain a general feat. General feats are listed in Chapter 5.

Great Fortitude

3rd

Your physique is incredibly hardy. Your proficiency rank for Fortitude saves increases to expert.

Skill Increases

3rd

At 3rd level and every 2 levels thereafter, you gain a skill increase. You can use this increase either to increase your proficiency rank to trained in one skill you're untrained in, or to increase your proficiency rank in one skill in which you're already trained to expert.

At 7th level, you can use skill increases to increase your proficiency rank to master in a skill in which you're already an expert, and at 15th level, you can use them to increase your proficiency rank to legendary in a skill in which you're already a master.

Ability Boosts

5th

At 5th level and every 5 levels thereafter, you boost four different ability scores. You can use these ability boosts to increase your ability scores above 18. Boosting an ability score increases it by 1 if it's already 18 or above, or by 2 if it starts out below 18.

Ancestry Feats

5th

In addition to the ancestry feat you started with, you gain an ancestry feat at 5th level and every 4 levels thereafter. The list of ancestry feats available to you can be found in your ancestry's entry in Chapter 2.

Guild Journeyman

5th

Gadgeteer: You gain the Necessary Invention activity.

Weapon Expertise

5th

You've trained to more effectively wield the weapons you find on your workbench. Your proficiency ranks for simple and tinker weapons increase to expert as well as unarmed attacks.

Resolve

7th

You've steeled your mind with incredible resolve. Your proficiency rank for Will saves increases to master. When you roll a success at a Will save, you get a critical success instead.

Weapon Specialization

7th

You've learned how to inflict greater injuries with the weapons you know best. You deal 2 additional damage with weapons and unarmed attacks in which you are an expert. This damage increases to 3 if you're a master, and to 4 if you're legendary

Guild Adept

9th

Gadgeteer: When you defeat an opponent that was affected by your Necessary Invention feature, you can use a single action to adjust your gadget to target the weakness of another creature with the same ancestry.

Clockmaker: You gain the Incredible Companion Feat for free.

Tinker Expertise

9th

Constant practice has increased the effectiveness of your devices. Your proficiency rank for your tinker class DC increases to expert.

Alertness

11th

You remain alert to threats around you. Your proficiency rank for Perception increases to expert.

Enhancement Expert

11th

You learn to create weapon and armor enhancements for yourself and your allies. During your daily preparations, you can craft weapon and armor enhancements you know the blueprints for using your improvised devices. These enhancements use your tinker class DC.

Evasion

11th

You've learned to move quickly to avoid explosions, dragon's breath, and worse. Your proficiency rank for Reflex saves increases to master. When you roll a success on a Reflex save, you get a critical success instead.

Armor Expertise

13th

You have spent so much time in armor that you know how to make the most of its protection. Your proficiency ranks for light and medium, as well as for unarmored defense, increase to expert. You gain the armor specialization effects of medium armor.

Durable Enhancements

13rd

After an enhancement has been used, you can make it work again by spending 10 minutes resetting it. An enhancement that has been reset cannot be reset again.

Weapon Mastery

13th

You fully understand your weapons. Your proficiency ranks for simple and martial weapons increase to master.

Guild Master

15th

Gadgeteer: When you use the Necessary Invention action, you gain a +2 to all attacks made against that creature.

Clockmaker: You gain the Specialized Companion Feat for free.

Greater Resolve

15th

Your unbelievable training grants you mental resiliency. Your proficiency rank for Will saves increases to legendary. When you roll a success at a Will save, you get a critical success. When you roll a critical failure at a Will save, you get a failure instead. When you fail a Will save against a damaging effect, you take half damage.

Perfected Enhancements

17th

Any enhancement you create can be used twice without needing to be reset. After the second use, the enhancement is destroyed.

Greater Weapon Specialization

17th

Your damage from weapon specialization increases to 4 with weapons and unarmed attacks in which you're an expert, 6 if you're a master, and 8 if you're legendary.

Armor Mastery

19th

Your skill with armor improves, helping you avoid more blows. Your proficiency ranks for tinker armor, as well as for unarmored defense, increase to master

Deos Ex

19th

You wake in a cold sweat with a blueprint dancing in your mind, one that you are unable to write down. You are unsure what the machine does, but you are compelled to build it, certain it will grant you something you desire. As you build it during your daily preparations, the blueprint morphs in your mind such that you will never be able to recreate the device in the same way. When you activate the device, you will it to answer your desires.

Tinker Feats

At every level that you gain an alchemist feat, you can select one of the following feats. You must satisfy any prerequisites before taking the feat.

Devices

Device By Group

Enhancements

Design Notes

Mundane talismans.

Gadgets

Gadgets are tools that solve problems in new ways.

Design Notes

Gadgets should be deployable on their own.

Gizmos

Gizmos are consumable items that accomplish a single purpose and are destroyed in the process.

Design Notes

Gizmos are small, cheap, consumable gadgets.

Far Bludgeoner

ITEM 1+

CONSUMABLE

GIZMO

held with 1 hand L

Strike

A simply designed thrown weapon that, to the untrained eye, appears to be just an ordinary rock. However, you know better and your careful modifications to this simple stone makes it more lethal than expected.

lesser 1 1 cp

On a hit, the far bludgeoner deals 1d6 damage. On a critical hit, the target acquires the slow 1 condition.

moderate 3 1 sp

This item has +1 item bonus to hit deals 2d6 damage. On a critical hit, the target acquires the slow 1 condition.

greater 11 5 gp

This item has +2 item bonus to hit deals 3d6 damage. On a critical hit, the target acquires the slow 2 condition.

major 17 50 gp

This item has +3 item bonus to hit deals 4d6 damage. On a critical hit, the target acquires the slow 2 condition.

Clockworks

Clockworks are automations created by tinkers to automate repetitive tasks.

Design Notes

Clockworks are devices that can act on their own or improve a clockwork companion. They are similar to gadgets except they display a rudimentary intelligence akin to a computer program. A gadget has simple behaviors such as, if the tripwire is pulled, the crossbow will fire. A clockwork can have much more complex behaviors such as, if the wire is tripped and the target is in daylight, the crossbow fires; if it is night, than the alarm sounds as well. An easy way to determine if a device is a clockwork or a gadget is to look at the number of if then else statements required to describe it. Another thing to look at is the complexity of the trigger. A device triggered by a tripwire is a gadget. A device triggered by a voice command is a clockwork.

Clockwork Companions

A clockwork companion is a complex automation that follows your orders to the best of its ability.

Your clockwork companion has the minion trait, and it gains 2 actions during your turn if you use the Command a Clockwork action to command it. If your companion is destroyed, you can spend a week of downtime to replace it at no cost. You can have only one clockwork companion at a time and cannot have an animal companion in addition to your clockwork companion.

Hit Points

Your clockwork companion has design Hit Points from its type, plus a number of Hit Points equal to 4 plus its Constitution modifier for each level you have.

Your companion's broken threshold is always equal to half its design hit points plus your level. Once the broken threshold is reached, your companion can only take the stride action and its AC is reduced by 4. If your companion takes enough damage to drop it below its broken threshold, it only takes enough damage to reduce it to its broken threshold, which breaks the construct. All other damage is ignored unless it is enough damage to drop the construct’s HP to 0. In which case, the construct is immediately destroyed.

If a clockwork is broken and then repaired, it gains the impaired condition. If the target already has the impaired condition, the value associated with the condition increases. While impaired, the creatures AC, DC, and attack bonus is reduced by the impaired value. If the impaired value ever reaches 4, the clockwork is immediately destroyed.

Armaments

Every companion has armaments. These are built in weapons and count as unarmed attacks. Because each companion is unique, each has its own armaments. Each design lists how many armaments the design can support. In addition, the design specifies the armament templates each design can use. The template lists the max damage and any traits that must be associated with the armament. When you add an armament, it must have the same traits and deal no more damage than the template specifies. You may choose the damage type for each armament from bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing. You may swap out armaments during your daily preparations.

Advanced Companions

To advance a basic clockwork companion to an advanced clockwork companion (usually a result of one of your class feat choices), increase its Strength, Dexterity, Constitution, and Wisdom modifiers by 1. Increase its unarmed attack damage from one die to two dice (for instance 1d8 to 2d8), and its proficiency rank for Perception and all saving throws to expert. Increase its proficiency ranks in Intimidation, Stealth, and Survival to trained, and if it was already trained in one of those skills from its type, increase its proficiency rank in that skill to expert. If your companion is Medium or smaller, it grows by one size. The companion’s armor hardness increases to 4.

Agile Companions

To advance an advanced clockwork companion to an agile clockwork companion, increase its Dexterity modifier by 2 and its Strength, Constitution, and Wisdom modifiers by 1. It deals 2 additional damage with its unarmed attacks. Increase its proficiency ranks in Acrobatics and unarmored defense to expert. It also learns the advanced maneuver for its type. Its attacks become magical for the purpose of ignoring resistances.

Powerful Companions

To advance an advanced clockwork companion to a powerful clockwork companion, increase its Strength modifier by 2 and its Dexterity, Constitution, and Wisdom modifiers by 1. It deals 3 additional damage with its unarmed attacks. Increase its proficiency rank in Athletics to expert. It also learns the advanced maneuver for its type. If your companion is Medium or smaller, it grows by one size. Its attacks become magical for the purpose of ignoring resistances. The companion’s armor hardness increases to 6.

Companion Designs

Each companion design has its own statistics. The Size entry indicates your companion’s starting size as a basic clockwork companion. Following the size entry are the companion’s unarmed attacks, and then its ability modifiers. The Hit Points entry indicates the companion’s design Hit Points. The Skill entry indicates an additional trained skill your companion has. The Senses entry lists your companion’s special senses. The Speed entry gives your companion’s Speeds. The Special entry, if present, lists any other special abilities your companion has, for example whether it often serves as a mount and is particularly appropriate for mounted classes, such as the champion. The Support Benefit entry indicates a special benefit you gain by Commanding the Clockwork to use the Support action (see below). The Advanced Maneuver entry indicates a powerful new action your companion learns how to use if it becomes a nimble or savage animal companion.

Light

Faster and more agile than other designs, a light companion is fast and quiet.

Size small
Armaments 2
Melee [one-action] 1d6 (finesse)
Melee [one-action] 1d4 (finesse, agile)
Str +1, Dex +2, Con +1, Int –5, Wis +1, Cha -5
Hit Points 4
Skill stealth
Speed 40 feet
Support Benefit Your companion throws your enemies off-balance when you create an opening. Until the start of your next turn, your Strikes that deal damage to a creature that your companion threatens make the target flat-footed until the end of your next turn.
Advanced Maneuver Pounce

Specialized Companions

Specialized clockwork companions are more intelligent and engage in more complex behaviors. The first time an animal gains a specialization, it gains the following: Its proficiency rank for unarmed attacks increases to expert. Its proficiency ranks for saving throws and Perception increase to master. Increase its Dexterity modifier by 1 and its Intelligence modifier by 3. Its unarmed attack damage increases from two dice to three dice, and it increases its additional damage with unarmed attacks from 2 to 4 or from 3 to 6. Its proficiency rank in Society increases to Trained and it gains a simple understanding of one language you know. Its armor hardness increases by 2.

Each specialization grants additional benefits. Most animal companions can have only one specialization.

Skill Feats

New Traits

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Changelog

V1.041 – 7th of March 2020

This is the first public release of the template. Improved HTML format of the item and creature templates. Fixed printing margins required by latest versions of the Chrome browser. Fixed sizes and templates for action icons.

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Feat Title

FEAT 1

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RARE

UNIQUE

KEYWORD

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Example Action

Action Title

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KEYWORD

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Spell Title

SPELL 1

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RARE

UNIQUE

KEYWORD

arcane, divine, occult, primal

somatic, verbal

Needed for reaction spells.<

touchany number of creatures

20-foot burst

Fortitude, Reflex or Will

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Creature Name

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Creature Name

CREATURE 1

UNCOMMON

RARE

UNIQUE

LE

MEDIUM

KEYWORD

+5; darkvision

common

Acrobatics +12, Diplomacy +15, Intimidating +12, Performance +17, Religion +14

+1 +2 +3 +0 -5 +2

19 (14 when broken) +3 +6 +3

48 8 bleed, death effects, disease, doomed, drained, fatigued, healing, mental, necromancy, nonlethal attacks, paralyzed, poison, sickened, unconscious cold 10 fire 5

30 feet

stone fist +19 (magical) 2d12+6 bludgeoning plus Grab

flaming coal +12 (finesse, fire, magical, range increment 80 feet) 2d6+6 bludgeoning and 2d8 fire

Arcane 23 +14 dispel magic, invisibility, resist energy ray of enfeeblement, true strike (×2); detect magic, ghost sound, mage hand, ray of frost, read aura

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Example Hazard

Hazard Name

Hazard 1

UNCOMMON

RARE

UNIQUE

KEYWORD

+20

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Acrobatics DC 13 to approach without triggering the trap followed by Thievery DC 15 (trained) to disable it.

23 +13 +6 +3

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Long description of the behavior model of a complex hazard.

Conditions that must be met for the hazard to reset.

Example Item

Item Name

ITEM 1

UNCOMMON

RARE

UNIQUE

KEYWORD

10 gp

held with 2 hands L

interact

4 16 8

Description of the item. If it is a poison, apply the block below. Remove it the item is not a poison.

DC 40 Fortitude 30 minutes 1 day 1d6 poison damage and enfeebled 1 (10 minutes) 2d6 poison damage and enfeebled 1 (10 minutes) 2d6 poison damage and enfeebled 1 (10 minutes) 2d6 poison damage and enfeebled 1 (10 minutes) 2d6 poison damage and enfeebled 1 (10 minutes) 2d6 poison damage and enfeebled 1 (10 minutes)

lesser 1 10 gp

This item has +1 item bonus.

greater 6 160 gp

This item has +2 item bonus.

major 12 960 gp

This item has +3 item bonus.

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