The Stout Folk are well-known for their artisanship and the worth of their handiworks, and you have been trained in that ancient tradition. For years, you labored under a Dwarf master of the craft, enduring long hours and dismissive, sour-tempered treatment in order to gain the fine skills you possess today. Perhaps you are a Dwarf, but not necessarily: the Shield Dwarf clans learned long ago that only proud fools who are more concerned with their egos than their craft would turn away a promising apprentice, even one of another heritage. Perhaps you studied the works of Elven craftsmen, instead, perhaps similarly enduring a veneer of civility while laboring beneath the weight of arrogant superiority and impossible expectations.

Alternatively, you may have apprenticed beneath the ingenious mind of a Gnomish inventor, risking life and limb to contraptions and concoctions of devious design. Perhaps you are a Gnome from Lantan or a devoted follower of Gond, the god of invention, or you simply enjoy puzzling out the intricacies of mechanical marvels.

Starting Equipment:

• Artisan’s Tools (same as Proficiency)
• Craftsman’s Mark die or stamp
• Gemstone worth 50 GP
• Laborer’s Clothes
• 2 Pouches
• 18 GP

or 75 GP