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 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. Completing an inspiration event will also grant experience to characters with that background.

Location	XP Reward	Name	Description
General
Anywhere	20	Valued Customer	Trade with someone who has High approval of you.
	25	A Golden Masterpiece	Sell an item worth at least 1000 gold.
Act 1
Forest	25	A New Vision	Reforge the broken spear.
Waukeen's Rest	30	The Spider's Gift	Identify the drow armour near Waukeen's Rest. This requires the armour to be picked up with a Drow, Duergar, Deep Gnome, or any character with +5 to History or higher in the party.
Zhentarim Basement	30	An Artist in Need	Rescue Oskar the painter from the Zhentarim.
	30	In Working Order	Repair the elevator in the Zhentarim hideout.
Riverside Teahouse	30	An Acquired Taste	Drink one of Ethel's unique potions. Heart of Stone or A Mother's Loathing are recommended, as the others have negative effects.
Underdark	30	Mind Over Mushroom	Gather ingredients for Omeluum's potion.
	30	The Finest Ingredients	Create a masterwork item from Sussur Tree Bark.
Arcane Tower	30	Regeneration	Restore power to the elevator in the Arcane Tower.
	30	Trash & Treasure	Observe the effects of the Chest of the Mundane.
Grymforge	30	Art Endures	Craft something in the Adamantine Forge.
	50	Expert Opinion	Evaluate the ruins in Grymforge and share your findings with the duergar mason.
Act 2
Shadow-Cursed Lands	50	Trust and a Little Pixie Dust	Investigate the Moonlantern and find its power source.
Last Light Inn	60	Hellish Armaments	Obtain a piece of infernal equipment from Dammon.
	50	In the Palm of My Hand	Acquire the Brilliant Retort from Barcus. This is the reward for completing the quest Rescue Wulbren.
Reithwin Town	60	Confiscated Works	Acquire a magical item from the toll collector's confiscation chest.
	60	Safety-Averse Quaffing	Drink at least 1 of the brewer's steins.
	60	Special Iced Arsenic... Brew?	Craft some Brewed-Up Bellyglummer.
	60	Inhumane Trials	Witness a horrid operation in the cursed house of healing.
	60	Ruthless Craftsmanship	Take Shar's ceremonial dagger.
	60	Tragedy in Masonry	Discover the fate of the mason.
Moonrise Towers	50	Blood, Sweat, and the Other Thing	Give your blood to Araj Oblodra.
	50	Simple Tools, Great Works	Return Wulbren's tools to him. This doesn't need to be his hammer that was confiscated; any bludgeoning weapon, including the club that Wulbren can pick up on the docks, will award this Inspiration.
Gauntlet of Shar	60	Mating Season	Discover the source of the displacer beast's infatuation. Investigate the spider carcass near Yurgir.
	75	Dark Machinations	Fill all sockets with Sharran gems in the Gauntlet of Shar.
	75	Made of Shadows	Unlock and take the Spear of Rampant Night.
Act 3
Rivington	135	Immoral Ingenuity	Discover the booby-trapped toys.
	135	Dream Big	Describe your perfect weapon to Gyldro Angleiron.
	135	Encouraging Local Artists	Commission a Statue of yourself.
	135	Free Advertisement	Complete the interview with Lens.
	170	Following Instructions	Return the Sentient Amulet to Shirra.
	170	Macabre Enigma	Piece the corpse of Dribbles back together.
Wyrm's Crossing	170	Alternative Vocations	Partake in the lurid services of Sharess' Caress.
Lower City	135	Extravagance Required	Acquire an exquisite new outfit from Figaro's.
	170	Soured Taste	Find a bottle of poisoned wine at the wine festival.
	170	Putting Pen to Paper	Discover the inner workings of the Baldur's Mouth printing press.
	170	Sanguine Progress	Find out what happened to Araj and her blood experiment.
	170	These Belong in a Museum!	Open any of the special vaults in The Counting House.
	170	Touring the Sights	Correctly identify all of the Devil's Fee's relics.
	170	Lantanna Marvel	Take control of the Submersible.
	220	The Art of Destruction	Use the Runepowder Bomb to destroy the Steel Watch Foundry.
	220	Flames of Passion	Burn Oskar's painting with a Torch of Revocation.

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.