Guild Artisan

Guild Artisan is a character background with skills and inspirations themed around crafting and mercantilism. The hireling Jacelyn has this background.

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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.

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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 rewards Inspiration. These goals can be accomplished by any member of the active party, and Inspiration points are pooled, up to a maximum of 4. Completing an inspiration event also grants experience to characters with this background. While not necessarily all-inclusive, listed below are known events which grant inspiration points.

Location	XP Reward	Name	Description
General
Anywhere	25	A Golden Masterpiece	Sell an item worth at least 1000 gold.
	30	An Acquired Taste	Drink one of Ethel's unique potions. The potions can be found in the Acrid Workshop (Act One) or in The Blushing Mermaid Basement (Act Three), if Ethel resides there. Can actually be drunk anywhere. Heart of Stone or A Mother's Loathing are recommended, as the others have negative effects.
	20	Valued Customer	Trade with someone who has High approval of you. Despite the word "approval" in description, the inspiration actually implies Attitude.
Act One
Blighted Village	30	The Finest Ingredients	Create a masterwork item from Sussur Tree Bark. The party must find and read blueprints, then obtain a piece of the bark in the Dread Hollow, and finally return and forge the enhanced weapon. Granted upon creating a weapon.
Grymforge	30	Art Endures	Craft something in the Adamantine Forge. Instructions for operating the forge can be found in a book obtained from Xargrim's corpse in the Ebonlake Grotto.
	50	Expert Opinion	Evaluate the ruins in Grymforge and share your findings with the duergar mason. This is granted if all three checks (Investigation, History and Perception, all DC 10) on examining ruins are passed by a single character. Any other party member starts an independent dialogue and has to pass their own sequence of checks. The checks are not necessary passed in a single dialogue; a party member can try them separately until they use the dialogue option "I'm ready to report".
Forest	25	A New Vision	Reforge the broken spear. Collect two parts of the broken spear (from Edowin and from Mother Owlbear) and combine them into a single weapon.
Underdark	30	Mind Over Mushrooms	Gather ingredients for Omeluum's potion. Granted upon bringing both fungal ingredients back to Omeluum.
	30	Regeneration	Restore power to the elevator in the Arcane Tower. Reach the ground level of the tower and combine a fresh Sussur Bloom with the Power Generator inside.
	30	Trash & Treasure	Observe the effects of the Chest of the Mundane. The chest is on the northern balcony of the entrance level of the tower. Place any item inside, watch it changing, then take it back.
Waukeen's Rest	30	The Spider's Gift	Identify the drow armour near Waukeen's Rest. The party must include a character who has +5 to History or higher,or one belonging to any Underdark race (Drow, Duergar, Deep Gnome), at the moment when the armour is picked up. This includes hirelings belonging to these races.
Zhentarim Basement	30	An Artist in Need	Rescue Oskar the painter from the Zhentarim. Convince Brem to let Oskar go or buy him, or kill the Zhentarim and then talk to Oskar. The options to set Oskar loose for free appear only in the initial dialogue with Brem, after choosing the line "It sounds a bit more like kidnapping".
	30	In Working Order	Repair the elevator in the Zhentarim Hideout. The elevator needs not repairing, only unlocking with the key held by Karad or with a DC 10 Sleight of Hand check. This opens an additional way to enter the Underdark.
Act Two
Multiple locations	60	Special Iced Arsenic... Brew?	Craft some Brewed-Up Bellyglummer. The coating can be actually crafted anywhere, once the party obtains the necessary amount of Corpse Rose, even without reading the brewer's notes.
Gauntlet of Shar	75	Dark Machinations	Fill all sockets with Sharran gems in the Gauntlet of Shar. One gem is needed to call the disc to the Shadowfell entrance (its pair is already in place), three more gems open it.
	75	Made of Shadows	Unlock and take the Spear of Rampant Night. The name of the spear has been changed to the "Spear of Night", but not the inspiration formula.
	60	Mating Season	Discover the source of the displacer beast's infatuation. Inspect the dead spider carcass, choose to lick it, and succeed a passive Constitution check. Talking to the Hoarding Merregon and reading its thoughts does not grant this, despite it later leads to the same dialogue options with Nessa.
Last Light Inn	60	Hellish Armaments	Obtain a piece of infernal equipment from Dammon. Give Dammon a piece of Infernal Iron to make something. Reworking Devilfoil Masks does not count.
	50	In the Palm of My Hand	Acquire the Brilliant Retort from Barcus. This is the reward for completing the quest Rescue Wulbren.
Moonrise Towers	50	Blood, Sweat, and the Other Thing	Give your blood to Araj Oblodra.
Moonrise Towers Prison	50	Simple Tools, Great Works	Return Wulbren's tools to him. Any weapon dealing Bludgeoning damage will do, not necessary Wulbren's hammer.
Reithwin Town	60	Confiscated Works	Acquire a magical item from the toll collector's confiscation chest. Must loot the necklace from the chest in the "Seized Inventory" room. The door to it is blocked by thick roots, so it is better to enter from the roof or through the window.
	60	Inhumane Trials	Witness a horrid operation in the cursed house of healing. "Horrid operation" here refers to the nurses "operating" upon each other or upon Malus Thorm.
	60	Ruthless Craftsmanship	Take Shar's ceremonial dagger. The way to the pedestal opens after passing the three checks on Shar's statues in the Sharran Sanctuary. Taking the dagger prompts a fight with three undead Sentinels.
	60	Safety-Averse Quaffing	Drink at least 1 of the brewer's steins. Granted on the first choosing the option to drink, regardless of the consequent Constitution saving throw result.
	60	Tragedy in Masonry	Discover the fate of the mason. Read the plaque under the pile of "Odd looking Bones" in the Mason's Guild hall. Earned only if the Guild Artisan character is present when you read the plaque for the first time.
Shadow-Cursed Lands	50	Trust and a Little Pixie Dust	Investigate the Moonlantern and find its power source. The options to inspect the Moonlantern appear only when obtaining it from Kar'niss at the Harpers' ambush site. Mutually exclusive with the ⁠Odd Entourage.
Act Three
Multiple Locations	170	Macabre Enigma	Piece the corpse of Dribbles back together. Granted upon collecting the 7th corpse piece, whichever it would be, before reporting to Lucretious. Obtainable only after opening the way to the Undercity Ruins.
Lower City	135	Extravagance Required	Acquire an exquisite new outfit from Figaro's. Granted only upon trading with Figaro Pennygood himself. Trading with Phlanders Hort if Figaro died does not count. Buying anything from Figaro grants the inspiration, not necessarily a clothing item.
	220	Flames of Passion	Burn Oskar's painting with a Torch of Revocation. Available only if Oskar was saved from the Zhentarim in Act One. Granted upon destroying Kerri's potrait in the hidden cubby of Oskar's atelier.
	170	Lantanna Marvel	Take control of the Submersible. Despite the description, convincing Redhammer to operate the submersible also grants the inspiration.
	170	Putting the Pen to Paper	Discover the inner workings of the Baldur's Mouth printing press. Granted upon speaking to Jelliwig initially, before changing the block.
	170	Sanguine Progress	Find out what happened to Araj and her blood experiment. Obtainable only if the player character gave Araj a vial of their blood in Moonrise Towers in Act Two. Granted after initial talk with Araj, regardless of the player character's consequent decision.
	170	Soured Taste	Find a bottle of poisoned wine at the wine festival. When talking to Cora and Metzli at the wine festival, must succeed a passive DC 18 Medicine check. The party's consequent choice of whether to warn Cora is irrelevant. Barbarians roll a passive DC 10 Perception instead, which makes obtaining the inspiration easier.
	220	The Art of Destruction	Use the Runepowder Bomb to destroy the Steel Watch Foundry. Despite the description, this is granted regardless of the particular way the party eliminates the foundry.
	170	These Belong in a Museum!	Open any of the special vaults in The Counting House. Open any of the nine vaults specifically via lockpicking. Using keys found around the Lower City does not count. Despite the description, lockpicking any of safes or simple vaults does not count.
	170	Touring the Sights	Correctly identify all of the Devil's Fee's relics. To identify each item, must pass DC 5 Perception check and then DC 15 Arcana check. Karlach succeeds the second check automatically; thus, having her in the party provides a reliable way to earn the inspiration. Despite the description, identifying at least two of the four relics counts. The Monster's Horn in the basement may not work.
Rivington	135	Dream Big	Describe your perfect weapon to Gyldro Angleiron. This is only possible if Orin is impersonating the smith, and granted only if the answer to her third question is "Perhaps. If there was no other option" It is not necessary for the Guild Artisan character to be the one talking to "Gyldro".
	135	Encouraging Local Artists	Commission a statue of yourself. The Guild Artisan character is triggered no matter whose statue is made.
	135	Free Advertisement	Complete the interview with Lens. Only obtainable if Orin is impersonating Lens. It is not necessary for the Guild Artisan character to be the one talking to "Lens".
	170	Following the Instructions	Return the Sentient Amulet to Shirra. Open Shirra Clarwen's sarcophagus in the temple crypt. Granted after Monk's Manifestation leaves, regardless of whether the party helps or confronts him.
	135	Immoral Ingenuity	Discover the booby-trapped toys. The party must walk up to the crate with teddy bears at X: 82 Y: -108 inside the Requisitioned Barn and succeed the passive Investigation check. Granted regardless of the party having or having not the permission into the barn.
Wyrm's Crossing	170	Alternative Vocations	Partake in a service from Sharess' Caress. Hire any of the drow twins (or both), OR pass an Insight check to get a service from Naoise Nallinto.

Cut Background Goals

The Apprentice Turns Master: Craft Nettie's antidote in the cauldron.

• This source of inspiration was removed by Patch 1 when the quest Get Help from Healer Nettie was changed to use regular potion crafting to make an antidote rather than using the cauldron and Flora of the Dalelands to craft an Elixir of Silvanus.