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  OW 
  WITH 
  MODERN 
  advances in tech-
  nomancy, you too can buy 
  magi-mechanical marvels 
  powered by tiny supernat-
  ural gremlins! You won’t 
  know how you ever lived 
  without them!
  WRITING Andrew Engelbrite
  COLOR ART Rachel Maduro
  EDITING Mike Myler
  LAYOUT Frank Michienzi
  Technomancy 
  Gremlins
  Technomancy Gremlins | EN World EN5idEr
  
  Technomancy Gremlins | EN World EN5idEr
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  technomatic gremlins, Tiny magical quasi- 
   
  real creatures summoned through techno-
  mancy to fulfill a purpose. Technomatic gremlins 
  are ethereal and cannot interact with objects on the 
  Material Plane, except for their housing items and 
  items they were specifically designed to interact with. 
  Technomatic gremlins have AC 10 and 1 hit point, 
  though they can only be damaged by creatures on the 
  Ethereal Plane or by creatures who can specifically 
  effect creatures on the Ethereal Plane. Technomatic 
  gremlins have limited intelligence and can speak 
  Common, though they typically only converse about 
  subjects that relate to their purpose.
  5-Star Personal
  Gremlin Organizer
  Wondrous item, common (requires attunement)
  This small black pocketbook comes with a tiny 
  ethereal gold goblinoid who holds a cheap pen and 
  eagerly awaits your instructions. Roughly half of this 
  120 page book is blank scratch paper, and the other 
  half is a calendar of the current year. The gremlin 
  writes down anything you ask him to and even 
  takes down dictation if requested. It will also mark 
  reminders in the calendar and circle dates. Despite 
  its love for writing however, its penmanship is quite 
  poor, it doesn’t actually understand what anything it’s 
  writing actually means, and any word with 3 or more 
  syllables is always misspelled. Accurately under-
  standing anything the gremlin has written requires a 
  successful DC 10 Intelligence check.  
  Executive Automatic 
  Gremlin Tailor
  Wondrous item, common
  This smooth metal box has a funnel-like shoot on one 
  end and a hinged top that when opened reveals dozens 
  of multicolored ethereal goblinoids, each wielding 
  sewing needles and arranged along an assembly 
  line. If you place yarn, wool, or any other common 
  sewing material in the funnel and announce what 
  item of clothing you’d like and in what size, the grem-
  lins produce it to the best of their abilities using the 
  provided materials. When the provided materials are 
  insufficient, production stops until they are provided 
  as the gremlins shout, “More yarn!” and similar.
  The gremlins work quickly depending on the size 
  of the requested garment, averaging about 1 square 
  foot of finished material per minute. Once finished 
  the lid pops open to reveal the gremlin’s handiwork-
  -generally quite poor and misshapen, but sufficient to
  weave passable garments.
  When you request more than 3 garments within a 24 
  hour period, the gremlins go on strike claiming ‘unfair 
  sweatshop conditions’ and you will be unable to utilize 
  the executive automatic gremlin tailor for 1 week or until 
  you profusely apologize to them with a successful DC 
  18 Charisma (Persuasion) check, whichever comes first. 
  Table: Technomancy Gremlins Suggested Prices
  COST
  ITEM
  90 gp
  5-Star Personal Gremlin Organizer
  85 gp
  Executive Automatic Gremlin Tailor
  20 gp
  Gremlin Direction Finder MK2
  150 gp
  Handheld Automatic Gremlin Drill
  75 gp
  Homekeeper Helper Gremlin
  200 gp
  Image-Capturing Premium Gremlin
  80 gp
  Instant Messenger Gremlin Elite
  350 gp
  Micro Describer Plus
  95 gp
  Pocket Barber Gremlin
  100 gp
  Slap-Cut-Chop-Mince-Dicinator
  100 gp
  Steadfast Home Security Gremlin
  50 gp
  Timekeeper Gremlin Deluxe
  250 gp
  Universal Gremlin Translator Select
  
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  Gremlin Direction 
  Finder MK2
  Wondrous item, common
  This tiny ethereal silver goblinoid sits in a small 
  clamshell container along with a small cup of water 
  and a single thin needle. When prompted with a 
  bonus action, the gremlin uses the old cup and needle 
  trick to try and find magnetic north, although it is not 
  particularly good at this. Whenever the gremlin tries 
  to find true north roll a d10, and on a result of a 1 it 
  gets confused, pointing in the exact opposite direc-
  tion instead.
  Handheld Automatic 
  Gremlin Drill
  Wondrous item, uncommon
  When the trigger of this odd handheld tool is 
  pulled, a tiny ethereal red goblinoid with a hammer 
  and chisel pops out of the nozzle to chisel a perfectly 
  circular 1-inch diameter hole in whatever object or 
  creature the drill was pointed at. Once you release 
  the trigger, the gremlin ceases chiseling and returns 
  to the drill. You can pull or release the trigger as a 
  bonus action, and the trigger can be held down 
  indefinitely as long as a humanoid creature manu-
  ally holds the trigger down (no action required). The 
  gremlin continues chiseling the 1-inch diameter hole 
  deeper until the trigger is released, at the following 
  rates depending on material (approximate using these 
  materials for obscure materials):
  • Earth, loam or dirt: 6 inches per minute.
  • Wood: 3 inches per minute.
  • Stone: 1 inch per minute.
  • Metal: 1 inch per hour.
  If the gremlin was directed at a creature, it deals 1 
  piercing damage every minute that creature remains 
  in the gremlin’s path.
  Homekeeper  
  Helper Gremlin
  Wondrous item, common
  This hand-sized tin is covered in colorful branding 
  and home to a Tiny ethereal black-and-white spotted 
  goblinoid holding a mop and bucket. You can direct 
  the gremlin to clean rooms or objects, which it does 
  to the best of its ability using any water or soap that 
  is available, at a rate of 1 square foot of cleaning 
  per minute. The gremlin is particularly literal with 
  instructions, and cleaning instructions should be 
  worded carefully to avoid mishaps. Examples of 
  cleaning mishaps include scrubbing all the paint off 
  a painting when instructed to ‘make a room spotless’ 
  or washing all the books when instructed to ‘clean the 
  library’. The gremlin continues cleaning until verbally 
  instructed to stop or when its cleaning orders are 
  completed to its own potentially misguided satisfac-
  tion. The gremlin is always magically aware of where 
  its tin is and it returns to it when done.
  Image-Capturing 
  Premium Gremlin
  Wondrous item, uncommon
  This Tiny ethereal white goblinoid sits within a 
  small iron box and is surrounded by tiny pigments. 
  The box has a switch that when pressed strikes the 
  gremlin on the head with a tiny hammer. Whenever 
  the gremlin is hit by the hammer it rapidly paints 
  whatever it sees out of the small porthole at the front 
  of the box. The gremlin takes 1 minute to finish the 
  picture and the result is a perfectly accurate painting, 
  albeit extremely tiny. The gremlin comes with enough 
  pigments for 5 paintings and each subsequent 
  painting requires paints worth at least 12 gp.   
  
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  Instant Messenger 
  Gremlin Elite
  Wondrous item, common
  A Tiny ethereal green goblinoid sits within a rectan-
  gular metal box, constantly holding an ear trumpet up 
  to the perforated metal screen that occupies one side 
  of its receptacle. By holding up the box to a person’s 
  face, you can instruct the gremlin to remember up to 
  3 people’s faces and their first names. 
  As an action, you can instruct the gremlin to deliver 
  a message to a person they remember at a specific 
  location. Messages sent in this way can be up to 10 
  words long.  
  Once instructed to send a message, the gremlin 
  exit its box and walks towards the specified location 
  at a rate of 20 feet per round (or roughly 2.25 miles 
  per hour). The gremlin is ethereal and passes directly 
  through any solid objects it encounters on its journey.
  Once the recipient of the message is found, the 
  gremlin relays your message and immediately begins 
  walking back to its box. The gremlin is always magi-
  cally aware of where its box is.
  If the journey takes the gremlin more than 24 
  hours, it forgets exactly what the message was and 
  there is a 50% chance that what it delivers is garbled 
  and nonsensical.
  If the intended recipient is not in the specified loca-
  tion when the gremlin arrives, the gremlin asks around 
  and tries to find them. The gremlin has a passive 
  Survival score of 10, and will only locate recipients who 
  can be found with a Wisdom (Survival) check of 10. If 
  the gremlin fails to find the intended recipient after 24 
  hours, it gives up and returns to its box.  
  Micro Describer Plus
  Wondrous item, uncommon
  This little porcelain chair has a Tiny ethereal purple 
  goblinoid sitting on it, and in the creature’s hands sits 
  another even smaller purple goblinoid, and in their 
  hands sits an even smaller goblinoid, and the motif 
  seems to go on forever smaller.  
  This item includes 10 gremlins of decreasing scale 
  from the largest at 4 inches tall, to the smallest at merely 
  500 microns tall (roughly the size of an amoeba). 
  If you place a single drop of a substance in front of 
  the series of tiny gremlins, the largest of them leans 
  towards it and allows the smaller gremlins a minute 
  to observe the drop’s contents at a cellular level. The 
  smallest gremlin explains to the next size up, and so 
  on, with the largest gremlin communicating back to 
  you the description of the contents at a cellular level.
  The gremlins are not particularly intelligent so 
  most of their descriptions are similar to ‘some sorta 
  green globs’ or ‘a buncha squidgy spiny things what 
  tried to eat me’.
  Although this information is not scientifically or 
  medically helpful, it can easily be used to identify 
  if a substance is the same as another previously 
  observed substance, as the gremlins are consistent 
  in their descriptions.
  Pocket Barber Gremlin
  Wondrous item, common
  This Tiny ethereal blue goblinoid pops out of a 
  decorative handle at the push of a button. The magical 
  creature contained within this pearl handle has a 
  pair of tiny scissors in each hand. You can press the 
  button to send the gremlin out, causing it to immedi-
  ately start snipping whatever the handle is directed at 
  within 2 inches. The gremlin deals 1 slashing damage 
  every minute to any object it is directed at. 
  
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  Slap-Cut-Chop- 
  Mince-Dicinator
  Wondrous item, common
  This trinket resembles a pepper grinder but 
  cranking the handle instead opens a miniature door 
  to a Tiny knife-wielding ethereal yellow goblinoid in 
  a chef’s outfit. You can instruct the gremlin to help 
  you prepare food, gaining a +2 bonus to ability checks 
  made for cooking (whether using a skill or tool kit). 
  You can also instruct the gremlin to chop Small-sized 
  or smaller objects that can be effectively cut with a 
  knife in the following ways:
  • Diced: Cuts the material to the size of dice,
  takes 1 round to complete.
  • Minced: Extremely fine cuts reducing the
  material to the size of sand grains, takes 1
  minute to complete.
  • Powdered: Cuts until material resembles a fine
  powder, takes 1 hour to complete.
  • Liquified: Cuts until material is fully liquified,
  takes 24 hours to complete.
  Steadfast Home Security 
  Gremlin 
  Wondrous item, common
  This military-styled tin contains a Tiny ethereal 
  mottled green goblinoid that is dressed in soldier’s 
  armor and salutes with earnest eagerness. You can 
  instruct this gremlin to patrol an area, such as the 
  perimeter of a room, campsite, or structure, while 
  keeping watch for a creature type you instruct it to 
  watch for. It completely ignores any creatures that are 
  not of the chosen creature type. If it spots a creature of 
  the chosen type, it immediately begins shouting and 
  runs back into its tin to hide.
  Timekeeper Gremlin 
  Deluxe
  Wondrous item, uncommon
  Inside of this iron locket waits a Tiny ethereal 
  green goblinoid endlessly counting to itself. The 
  magical creature obeys very limited instructions but 
  only when they relate to timekeeping. It counts the 
  seconds, minutes, and hours accurately out loud as 
  they pass, immediately losing count if interrupted.     
  Universal Gremlin 
  Translator Select
  Wondrous item, uncommon
  This Tiny ethereal orange goblinoid sits inside 
  a decorative silver earring. The gremlin speaks 
  Common and has limited knowledge of all other 
  known languages, able to understand and translate 
  the following phrases regardless of what language 
  they are spoken in:
  • Excuse me
  • Please
  • Yes
  • No
  • Where is the bathroom
  When prompted the gremlin provides you with
  the correct translation of any of those phrases in any 
  language. It can also attempt to translate anything 
  spoken or written in any language, however it only 
  recognizes the words that comprise the above 
  phrases. e
  
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