Blacksmith (5e Background)

Blacksmith

You had always loved your passion,smithing, from building a weapon from scratch to repairing one or to sharping a blade for fellow adventurers, but to get to the point how did you start your loved passion?

When creating your blacksmith how did they start liking it? Maybe from your father being a blacksmith and he taught you how to make a simple dagger? Did you make a quick repair in the face of danger? Or maybe a master blacksmith taught you how to master the arts of smithing? All these options could be a great kickstarter for a wonderful blacksmith they could be!

Skill Proficiencies: History about weapons,perception

Tool Proficiencies: Smithing Tools

Languages: common, a language of your choice

Equipment: common clothes, bedroll, A set of smithing tools that includes 5 iron, 5 wood, anvil, tongs,hammer, chisels and a book meant to guide blacksmith to make weapons.

Feature: Remembered?

Whether you are known or not if people are aware you are a blacksmith and if you see they need a quick repair or a weapon to be made. you would always feel content if the time is right hoping you could make a name for yourself.

Feature: Helpful for the respected ones

You are more helpful to the ones you respect it could be fellow adventures you would help as much as you can! But for a non respected member you would help them for a price and they would need to ask for a repair or a weapon to be made.

Suggested Characteristics

A blacksmith can come from any type of personality It's just the question of will they be nice and warmly welcome? or will they double charge them and make it terrible and unusable?

d8	Personality Trait
1	I'm just in it for the money to make a living.
2	I hope everyone is satisfied with their weapon and i am very critical of a bad review.
3	I love my weapons a little too much.
4	Smithing is the only thing i need in life.
6	When a weapon breaks i must fix it.
7	I freak out without my weapon.
8	I think my weapons have personalities and should be taken with care and shown love.

d6	Ideal
1	Helpful. Everyone needs a weapon for safety and i will be the one to provide. (Good)
2	Justice. I Think my weapons should smite down our enemies that threaten my home. (Lawful)
3	Unhelpful. I sometimes make the weapon i repair explode on impact and rush them to use it.(chaotic)
4	Greedy. I do a decent job but i secretly charge double. (evil)
5	Well. I do a good enough job to get by. (neutral)
6	Armed. everyone needs a weapon. (neutral)

d6	Bond
1	I give my all to my mentors just to be appraised.
2	I took blacksmithing after my dad's wish was for me to continue his legacy.
3	My god told me to take this path and become a legend, i wish to fulfill their request.
4	I taught myself this path because no one bothered to help me.
5	I had to repair my weapon from scratch after i was left behind by my parents.
6	Some people never had proper safety as i hadn't so i wish for people never to walk down my path.

d6	Flaw
1	I feel uneasy without a weapon on me.
2	I'm scared of weapons breaking in front of me.
3	I am hesitant to hand a sword to a non-trusted member for they may stab me in the back.
4	I overreact if someone gives a bad review.
5	I am careless with forging or repairing a weapon and it sometimes results in a terrible injury.
6	I am a hordere of weapons and if i see an unused weapon i must take it and use it.

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(one vote)

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