Complete Craftsman (Redux 2.0)

Strike the glowing steel until it yields, quench it, and begin again.

The Complete Craftsman is back! With our third (fourth?) complete rework of this class, the elaborate and finely-engineered crafting class is now better than ever. Playing a craftsman means designing and wielding your own experimental weapons by fiddling with the weapon properties directly, engineering new and devastating exotic weapons as you go. Not only are the wealth of crafting properties more balanced and polished, the entire class is more straightforward and easy to use than ever. You can still get lost in the possibilities of inventing the perfect rocket-powered-shotgun-axe, but you’ll never have trouble figuring out how much it costs or how powerful it is.

In this book, you’ll find the full assortment of twelve craftsman subclasses, called Artisan’s Guilds, which let you do everything from design the perfect wardrobe to pilot a powerful mech suit. Additionally, the book comes with a colossal nine pages of new weapons! It includes simple and martial weapons that could show up in any campaign, and a comprehensive set of exotic weapons that only skilled users and craftsmen can use. It also introduces entire suites of firearms and blasters, organized by era, so you can introduce a new dimension balanced ranged combat into your campaign. Whether you’re looking for a parrying dagger, a portable ballista, an antimatter carbine, or a crossbow axe, there’s a weapon for you in this book.

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After months of work, this is about 99% finished. You'll notice a ton of space on the final page, which is begging for some art, and a complete lack of expanded crafting rules. We'd like to resurrect the more interesting and often-used crafting rules for a short chapter, but we need to go over them with a fine-tooth comb and compare them against official options that have been published since we last revisited this class. Stay tuned as we put even more work into polishing this!

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Changelog: 

• 2/1/21: Various typos
• Missing "Applying Masterwork Properties" section added
• Finesse changed to include Thrown weapons
• Scrapper's Guild added in
• Class Table fixed
• Apprentice armor properties increased to three
• 6/1/21: Lots of changes!
• Improved wording on Active Crafting
• Masterwork feature reorganized, reworded for better clarity
• Clockworkers capstone reworked, clockworkers can use 2 of either contrsuct
• Some ranged and thrown masterwork properties tweaked
• Some weapon rebalancing
• 10/31/22: Updated to match Valda's Spire of Secrets