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* The Artificer base class from the ''[[Eberron]]'' campaign setting of ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]]'' is a magical version of the Gadgeteer Genius.
* ''[[GURPS]]'' has two levels of this. Gageteers can build things that break the laws of physics if they have lots of funding. Quick Gageteers can do the same thing in half the time with rubberbands and cheese.
** And their options get even wilder if the Gizmo advantage is also taken. For a Gadgeteer character, that means that at a crucial moment, he or she can build exactly what they need on the spot. (Alternatively, it can also mean happening to have [[Crazy Prepared|just the right gadget]] in his or her pocket.)
* In ''[[Warhammer Fantasy]]'' the Skavens clan Skyre is a group of giant rats numbering hundreds of thousands if not millions of Gadgeteer Geniuses. The engineers of the empire follows this trope quite good as well. The dwarfs might at first appear like this but their constructions aren't that improbable and most are old engines based on experience and new inventions are rare.
* The Ork Mekboyz of ''[[Warhammer 40000]]'' might as well be gods of this trope, being able to construct [[Humongous Mecha]] out of a mound of scrap metal and a hot water heater. Not to mention every other piece of Ork technology from cars to guns to back scratchers are made in this way. Since this knowledge is bred into their DNA, and they aren't really that bright, they use latent psychic powers to cover up flaws.
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* The D20 supers game ''[[Godlike]]'' likewise has gadgeteers turn out to actually have nonsensical gadgets that only work because their "inventors" believe they do, most likely as a way to prevent a [[Reed Richards Is Useless]] situation.
* ''[[Traveller]]'': The Terran Confederation is this in ''Intersteller Wars''. When they first meet the Vilani they are thousands of years behind. However they surpass them in less then two hundred years.
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