Repair Rite
Field Benediction of Function
Choose one weapon, armor, augmetic, or machine within touch. Its next roll, save, attack, or defense-related use gains +1.
Enginseer
The keeper of sacred machinery under fire. Repairs vehicles, blesses weapons, restores armor, deploys servo-skulls, patches cybernetics, and keeps the holy engines moving while everything explodes.
Forge World ClassesBattlefield EngineerAvailable in 1.0
Class Dossier — Enginseer
Working Draft · v0.1Enginseer
The machine is wounded. You are the sutures.
Forge-Bound ClassAvailable in 1.0Working Draft
The Enginseer is a battlefield tech-priest of repair, warplate, weapons, vehicles, and machine survival.
Where the Tech-Adept interprets and accesses machines, the Enginseer keeps them alive under fire. They bless barrels, weld wounds shut, coax engines through impossible damage, and punish anyone foolish enough to interrupt maintenance.
The class fantasy is simple:
An Enginseer survives through Intellect, Toughness, repair rites, servo-tools, machine authority, sacred maintenance, and the belief that every battlefield is just a workshop with worse lighting.
// Design Philosophy
The Enginseer should not play like a generic battlefield mechanic. The class should create moments like:
- I weld the wound shut while the shells are still falling.
- I coax the engine through damage it should not survive.
- I bless the barrel before it fails us both.
- I put the servo-arm through whoever interrupted maintenance.
- I treat the battlefield as a workshop with worse lighting.
Signature Mechanic — Repair Rites
Signature MechanicRepair Rites are the Enginseer signature class mechanic.
A Repair Rite restores, stabilizes, reinforces, blesses, or weaponizes technology under battlefield conditions.
// Rules Draft
- An Enginseer starts with 3 Repair Rites at level 1.
- Repair Rites use limited Rite Uses.
- Rite Uses are restored after a safe rest.
- Draft Rite Uses: Proficiency Bonus per safe rest.
- Repair Rites use the Enginseer Rite DC when opposed.
Rite DC = 8 + Proficiency Bonus + Intellect modifier
Repair Rites are special. Enginseers do not gain a new Rite every level.
Machine Integrity
Machine IntegrityMachine Integrity represents temporary reinforced function granted to weapons, armor, augmetics, vehicles, servitors, or machines.
// Rules Draft
- Some Repair Rites grant Machine Integrity.
- Machine Integrity can absorb a malfunction, add temporary durability, refund an attack's expended ammunition, resist Overheat, or delay breakdown.
- A machine can normally benefit from one Machine Integrity effect at a time.
The machine does not fail. It merely requests more devotion.
Repair Rites Known Progression
| Enginseer Level | Repair Rites Known |
|---|---|
| 1 | 3 |
| 5 | 4 |
| 9 | 5 |
| 13 | 6 |
| 17 | 7 |
This progression is a working draft. Final class balance may change after all classes are designed.
Repair Rites
Working DraftRepair Rite
Emergency Repair
Restore limited function to one damaged weapon, armor system, door, engine, vehicle, servo-skull, or battlefield device for one scene.
Repair Rite
Armor Patch Rite
One ally within touch gains temporary Vitality equal to your Proficiency Bonus and +1 Defense against the next attack before your next turn.
Repair Rite
Calm the Overheat
When a weapon would Overheat or malfunction within 30 feet, use your Reaction to delay that consequence until after the action resolves.
Repair Rite
Servo-Arm Intercession
Make a servo-assisted shove, brace, repair, lift, or strike. Gain +2 to the check, or deal additional damage equal to your Proficiency Bonus on a hit.
Repair Rite
Machine-Spirit Rebuke
Force a hostile machine, turret, trap, servo, or vehicle system to make a resistance check against your Rite DC. On failure, it stalls, loses Reaction, or becomes Exposed until your next turn.
Repair Rite
Sanctify the Engine
A vehicle, drone, servitor, or heavy machine within touch gains Advantage on its next save or check to keep functioning under stress.
Rite Trees
Progression SystemEnginseer progression uses Rite Trees.
Each rank costs 1 Rite Point and requires the previous rank in that tree unless future rules say otherwise.
// Rite Points Progression
Enginseers gain 1 Rite Point at every even level.
Rite Points
| Enginseer Level | Rite Points Gained |
|---|---|
| 2 | +1 |
| 4 | +1 |
| 6 | +1 |
| 8 | +1 |
| 10 | +1 |
| 12 | +1 |
| 14 | +1 |
| 16 | +1 |
| 18 | +1 |
| 20 | +1 |
This progression is a working draft. Final class balance may change after all classes are designed.
Rank 1Proper Tools, Improper Circumstances
Gain +1 to Tech checks made to repair, patch, stabilize, or jury-rig under pressure.
Rank 2Quick Fix
Once per scene, repair a minor malfunction, jam, damaged tool, or broken system as a Bonus Action.
Rank 3Salvage Logic
When scavenging a battlefield, wreck, machine corpse, or vehicle, find one useful repair component if plausible.
Rank 4Blessing of Continued Function
Once per safe rest, prevent a machine or weapon from failing, breaking, or shutting down for one scene.
Rank 5Impossible Repair
Once per safe rest, restore one broken machine, weapon, armor system, door, or vehicle to limited function even if it should not work. The GM defines the cost or instability.
The battlefield provides parts if you are not sentimental.