Engineer

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Armormech Engineer - Armstech Engineer - Biochem Engineer - Gadgeteer Engineer

Engineer is one of the Playable Classes in Starbies.

BEHIND THE CURTAIN

While perhaps not as intimidating as a heavily-armored trooper, or as exotic as a lighsaber-wielding guardian, engineers are no less vital to group dynamic. They are armorers and gunsmiths, electricians and welders, or any other facet to be found in facilities across the galaxy. Their work, often unsung, is what keeps starships (and their crew) intact.

UNFLAPPABLE

It takes bravery for a soldier to enter a battlefield. It perhaps takes more for someone who is unarmed, and untrained in combat, to do the same. Engineers put their lives on the line for a living, whether by choice or acknowledging their plights as an occupational hazard. Whether they come from an elite training academy or learned their talents surviving in the slums, they are no strangers to danger and conflict.
While creating your engineer character, consider what your primary skill set is and how you use it. You could be a street-smart mechanic who taught yourself how to fix swoop bikes as a teenager. Perhaps you are the recent graduate of an esteemed medical college, or a rookie pilot in the fledgling Rebel Alliance. What is the number one skill you are known for? Why are you willing to enter battles when you have no combat training? How do you view the more adventurous members of your group, and how do they see you and your role?

QUICK BUILD

You can make an engineer quickly by following these suggestions. First, make Intelligence your highest ability score. Your next-highest score should be Constitution. Second, choose the scientist background.

THE ENGINEER

Level	Proficiency Bonus	Features	Tech Powers Known	Tech Points	Max Power Level	Potent Aptitude	Modification Slots
1	+2	Techcasting, Potent Aptitude	6	2	1st	d4	-
2	+2	Infuse Item (+1), Tool Expertise	7	4	1st	d4	-
3	+2	Engineering Discipline	9	6	2nd	d4	4
4	+2	Ability Score Improvement	10	8	2nd	d4	4
5	+3	-	12	10	3rd	d6	5
6	+3	Discipline feature	13	12	3rd	d6	5
7	+3	-	15	14	4th	d6	5
8	+3	Ability Score Improvement	16	16	4th	d6	5
9	+4	-	18	18	5th	d8	6
10	+4	Infuse Item (+2)	19	20	5th	d8	6
11	+4	-	21	22	6th	d8	7
12	+4	Ability Score Improvement	22	24	6th	d8	7
13	+5	-	23	26	7th	d10	8
14	+5	Discipline feature	24	28	7th	d10	8
15	+5	Infuse Item (+3)	25	30	8th	d10	8
16	+5	Ability Score Improvement	26	32	8th	d10	8
17	+6	-	27	34	9th	d12	9
18	+6	Discipline feature	28	36	9th	d12	9
19	+6	Ability Score Improvement	29	38	9th	d12	9
20	+6	Tech Mastery	30	40	9th	d12	9

CLASS FEATURES

As a Engineer, you gain the following class features.

HIT POINTS

Hit Dice: 1d8 per Engineer level
Hit Points at 1st Level: 8 + your Constitution modifier
Hit Points at Higher Levels: 1d8 (or 5) + your Constitution modifier per engineer level after 1st

PROFICIENCIES

Armor: Light armor
Weapons: Simple blasters, simple vibroweapons
Tools: Tinker's implements, one of your choice
Saving Throws: Constitution, Intelligence
Skills: Choose three from Investigation, Lore, Medicine, Nature, Piloting, and Technology

EQUIPMENT

You start with the following equipment, in addition to the equipment granted by your background

• (a) a simple vibroweapon or (b) a simple blaster and two power cells
• (a) a dungeoneer’s pack or (b) an explorer’s pack
• A combat suit, a set of tinker’s implements, a vibrodagger, and a wristpad

VARIANT: STARTING WEALTH

In lieu of the equipment granted by your class and background, you can elect to purchase your starting gear. If you do so, you receive no equipment from your class and background, and instead roll for your starting wealth using the criteria below:

Class Funds

6d4 x 100 cr

TECHCASTING

Engineer: 1st level

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During your training you have derived powers from schematics with the aid of your wristpad. See chapter 10 for the general rules of techcasting and chapter 12 for the tech powers list.

TECH POWERS KNOWN

You learn 6 tech powers of your choice, and you learn more at higher levels, as shown in the Tech Powers Known column of the engineer table. You may not learn a tech power of a level higher than your Max Power Level.

TECH POINTS

You have a number of tech points equal to your engineer level x 2, as shown in the Tech Points column of the engineer table, + your Intelligence modifier. You use these tech points to cast tech powers. You regain all expended tech points when you finish a short or long rest.

MAX POWER LEVEL

Many tech powers can be overcharged, consuming more tech points to create a greater effect. You can overcharge these powers to a maximum level, which increases at higher levels, as shown in the Max Power Level column of the engineer table.
You may only cast tech powers at 6th, 7th, 8th, and 9th-level once. You regain the ability to do so after a long rest.

TECHCASTING ABILITY

Intelligence is your techcasting ability for your tech powers. You use your Intelligence whenever a power refers to your techcasting ability. Additionally, you use your Intelligence modifier when setting the saving throw DC for a tech power you cast and when making an attack roll with one.
Tech save DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Intelligence modifier
Tech attack modifier = your proficiency bonus + your Intelligence modifier

TECHCASTING FOCUS

You use a wristpad (found in chapter 5) or the tools in which you are granted proficiency by this class as a tech focus for your tech powers.

POTENT APTITUDE

Engineer: 1st level

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Your technological experience lends you an uncommon insight that you can use to bolster your allies. To do so, you use a bonus action on your turn to choose one creature other than yourself within 12 meters of you who can hear you. That creature gains one Potent Aptitude die, a d4. This die changes as you gain engineer levels, as shown in the Potent Aptitude column of the engineer table.
Once within the next 10 minutes, the creature can roll the die and add the number rolled to one ability check, attack roll, or saving throw it makes. Once the Potent Aptitude die is rolled, it is lost.
A creature can have only one Potent Aptitude die at a time.
You can use this feature twice. You gain an additional use at 5th, 9th, 13th, and 17th level. You regain any expended uses when you finish a short or long rest.

INFUSE ITEM

Engineer: 2nd level

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You gain the ability to temporarily enhance a weapon or armor set. At the end of a long rest, you can touch one unenhanced object that is a suit of armor, a shield, or a simple or martial weapon. Until the end of your next long rest or until you die, the object becomes an enhanced item, granting a +1 bonus to AC if it’s armor or a shield or a +1 bonus to attack and damage rolls if it’s a weapon.
Once you’ve used this feature, you can’t use it again until you finish a long rest.
This bonus increases to +2 at 10th level and +3 at 15th level.

TOOL EXPERTISE

Engineer: 2nd level

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Instead of using the same modifier for trained skills and their associated tools or kits, you gain an additional +2 to any tool checks for trained skills.

ENGINEERING DISCIPLINE

Engineer: 3rd, 6th, 14th, and 18th level

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You begin to focus on a specific engineering discipline, which is detailed at the end of the class description.

ABILITY SCORE IMPROVEMENT

Engineer: 4th, 8th, 12th, 16th, and 19th level

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You can increase one ability score by 2, or you can increase two ability scores by 1. You can’t increase an ability score above 20 using this feature.

TECH MASTERY

Engineer: 20th level

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Your mastery of technology is unrivaled. Your Constitution and Intelligence scores increase by 2. Your maximum for those scores increases by 2.
Additionally, when you roll initiative and have no uses of Potent Aptitude left, you regain one use.