Clan Crafter

The Pariah Folk are well known for their artisanship and the worth of their handiworks, and you have been trained in their ancient tradition. For years you labored under an orc master of the craft, enduring long hours and dismissive, sour-tempered treatment in order to gain the fine skills you possess today. You are most likely an orc, but not necessarily – particularly in the North, where the harsh environments create a mutual respect between those who choose to live there. If you aren't an orc, however, you have taken a solemn oath never to take on an apprentice in the craft: it is not for non-orcs to pass on the skills of Malacath's favored children. You would have no difficulty, however, finding an orc master who was willing to receive potential apprentices who came with your recommendation.

Skill Proficiencies: History, Insight

Tool Proficiencies: One type of artisan's tools

Languages: Orcish or one other of your choice if you already speak Orcish.

Equipment: A set of artisan's tools with which you are proficient, a maker's mark chisel used to mark your handiwork with the symbol of the clan of crafters you learned your skill from, a set of traveler's clothes, and a pouch containing 20 septims and a gem worth 40 septims.

d20 Clan Craft

1. Alchemists and apothecaries
2. Armorers, locksmiths, and finesmiths
3. Brewers, distillers, and vintners
4. Calligraphers, scribes, and scriveners
5. Carpenters, roofers, and plasterers
6. Cartographers, surveyors, and chart-makers
7. Cobblers and shoemakers
8. Cooks and bakers
9. Glassblowers and glaziers
10. Jewelers and gemcutters
11. Leatherworkers, skinners, and tanners
12. Masons and stonecutters
13. Painters, limners, and sign-makers
14. Potters and tile-makers
15. Shipwrights and sailmakers
16. Smiths and metal-forgers
17. Tinkers, pewterers, and casters
18. Wagon-makers and wheelwrights
19. Weavers and dyers
20. Woodcarvers, coopers, and bowyers

FEATURE: RESPECT OF THE PARIAH FOLK

As well respected as clan crafters are among outsiders, no one esteems them quite so highly as orcs do. You always have free room and board in any place where orcs dwell, and the individuals in such a settlement might vie among themselves to determine who can offer you (and possibly your compatriots) the finest accommodations and assistance.

SUGGESTED CHARACTERISTICS

Use the tables for the guild artisan background in the Player's Handbook as the basis for your traits and motivations, modifying the entries when appropriate to suit your identity as a clan crafter. (For example, consider the words “guild” and “clan” to be interchangeable.) 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 or preserving the orc traditions of craftmanship.

d8 Personality Trait

1. I believe that anything worth doing is worth doing right. I can’t help it— I’m a perfectionist.
2. I’m a snob who looks down on those who can’t appreciate fine art.
3. I always want to know how things work and what makes people tick.
4. I’m full of witty aphorisms and have a proverb for every occasion.
5. I’m rude to people who lack my commitment to hard work and fair play.
6. I like to talk at length about my profession.
7. I don’t part with my money easily and will haggle tirelessly to get the best deal possible.
8. I’m well known for my work, and I want to make sure everyone appreciates it. I'm always taken aback when people haven’t heard of me.

d6 Ideal

1. Community. It is the duty of all civilized people to strengthen the bonds of community and the security of civilization. (Lawful)
2. Generosity. My talents were given to me so that I could use them to benefit the world. (Good)
3. Freedom. Everyone should be free to pursue his or her own livelihood. (Chaotic)
4. Greed. I’m only in it for the money. (Evil)
5. People. I’m committed to the people I care about, not to ideals. (Neutral)
6. Aspiration. I work hard to be the best there is at my craft.

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 wealth to secure someone’s love.
5. One day I will return to my guild and 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’ll do anything to get my hands on something rare or priceless.
2. I’m quick to assume that someone is trying to cheat me.
3. No one must ever learn that I once stole money from guild coffers.
4. I’m never satisfied with what I have— I always want more.
5. I would kill to acquire a noble title.
6. I’m horribly jealous of anyone who can outshine my handiwork. Everywhere I go, I’m surrounded by rivals.