Guild Artisan

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"Your skill in a particular craft has earned you membership in a mercantile guild, offering privileges and protection while engaging in your art. Repairing and discovering rare crafts will bring new inspiration."

Background Features

• Insight Proficiency: Gain Proficiency with Wisdom (Insight) Ability Checks.
• Persuasion Proficiency: Gain Proficiency with Charisma (Persuasion) Ability Checks.

Background Goals

Performing certain actions that align with this background will reward Inspiration. These goals can be accomplished by any member of the active party, and Inspiration points are pooled, up to a maximum of 4.

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General

• A Golden Masterpiece: Sell an item worth at least 1000 gold.
• Valued Costumer: Trade with someone who has High approval of you.

Act One

• A New Vision: Reforge the broken spear.
• An Acquired Taste: Drink one of Ethel's unique potions.
• An Artist in Need: Rescue Oskar the painter from the Zhentarim.
• Art Endures: Craft something in the Adamantine Forge.
• Expert Opinion: Evaluate the ruins in Grymforge and share your findings with the duergar mason.
• In Working Order: Repair the elevator in the Zhentarim hideout.
• Mind Over Mushroom: Gather ingredients for Omeluum's potion.
• Regeneration: Restore power to the elevator in the Arcane Tower.
• The Apprentice Turns Master: Craft Nettie's antidote in the cauldron.
• The Finest Ingredients: Create a masterwork item from Sussur Tree Bark.
• The Spider's Gift: Identify the drow armour near Waukeen's Rest.
• Trash & Treasure: Observe the effects of the Chest of the Mundane.

Act Two

• Blood, Sweat, and the Other Thing: Give your blood to Araj Oblodra.
• Confiscated Works: Acquire a magical item from the toll collector's confiscation chest.
• Dark Machinations: Fill all sockets with Sharran gems in the Gauntlet of Shar.
• Hellish Armaments: Obtain a piece of infernal equipment from Dammon.
• Inhuman Trials: Witness a horrid operation in the cursed house of healing.
• Made of Shadows: Unlock and take the Spear of Rampant Night.
• Ruthless Craftsmanship: Take Shar's ceremonial dagger.
• Simple Tools, Great Works: Return Wulbren's tools to him.
• Special Iced Arsenic... Brew?: Craft some Brewed-Up Bellygummer.
• Tragedy in Masonry: Discover the fate of the mason.
• Trust and a Little Pixie Dust: Investigate the Moonlantern and find its power source.

Act Three

• Alternative Voices: Partake in the lurid services of Sharess' Caress
• Dream Big: Describe your perfect weapon to Danthelon.
• Following Instructions: Return the Sentient Amulet to Shirra.
• Immoral Ingenuity: Discover the booby-trapped toys.
• Mating Season: Discover the source of the displacer beast's infatuation.