If you were playing d20 Modern and are switching to Pathfinder you might want to try The Modern Path: Heroes of the Modern World 2.0. I haven't looked it over yet but I gather it is an attempt to make a modern setting compatible with Pathfinder rules. I have the PDF. I believe it is $4.99 on Paizo's store. Game Room Creations is the company responsible for it. If you have the core Pathfinder book it might fit the bill for you.
I am tinkering on a new character for a friend's campaign at the moment, I found Arcane Mechanik on these boards. It still has spells, but the class combines well with technology, I find it is fairly easy to flavor cast spells from the class in such a way that they are more technological in nature or at least a combination of the two. As part of the class you get a servitor I plan to use mine as a battlesuit/mount, WoW d20 might have some fun technological device ideas you can steal from.
The tome of secrets has a fairly well done artificer that creates Weird Science Devices that allow you to have and even combine spells that are actual devices you carry on your person.
My brother designed and maintains the Ardwright, which is a crafting-based class originally inspired by the Eberron Artificer.
It has some of the highest ratings on PFDB (4 stars on 41 votes!), and has been noted by the maintainer of that site as the standard for custom class submissions. It also has original art by the designer and he does his best to give it a power bump when new books come out.
I've GMed for it. It does inflate party wealth something awful, but you need to expect that when you introduce a dedicated crafting class into a campaign. The ability to buff with weapon and armor magic abilities and to transfer abilities from item to item are both really cool.
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The tome of secrets has a fairly well done artificer that creates Weird Science Devices that allow you to have and even combine spells that are actual devices you carry on your person.
Well, there's the first time I've seen someone recommend the ToS Artificer... first time for everything, I guess.
I enjoyed the Ardwright that Evil Lincoln linked to. It's one of the better attempts, IMO.
The WOW Tinker is an idea. However you'll have to take a good long hard look at the crafting tech rules. Here's one houserule you'll need ot implement to keep them valuable.
Weapon Damage should be TN/2 not TN/3. Dividing it by three is excessive and not consistent with the listed tech items. In fact let me link you to soem rather good Tech rules me and one of the developers worked on.
FYI when I played this more regularly then normal D&D Tinkers were my favorite class. :)
The tome of secrets artificer has been mentioned previously, it is up on the d20psrd.com page here It has some gray areas and requires some DM judgment/discretion, as has been mentioned previously.
Someone else posted this in the homebrew section.
It is a really good rework of the alchemist, and sounds similar to what you are looking for.
Either way, I would look at making an archtype for the Alchmist. Just changing the fluff on extracts and mutagens can give you something close to what you are looking for.
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Hooray! Another chance to pimp my Engineer to the People!
Basics: Base Class, non-caster. Focused on a special omni-tool, a clockwork companion and a nifty, Macgyver style inventing mechanic. Also a clockwork armor mechanic similar to the fighter's Armor Training. Most all abilities are Extraordinary, with a few Supernatural and a couple optional spell-likes.
The Ardwright is nice as well (probably the best artificer update I've seen to date), but it isn't really a "tech" character so much as an...artificer.
Hooray! Another chance to pimp my Engineer to the People!
Basics: Base Class, non-caster. Focused on a special omni-tool, a clockwork companion and a nifty, Macgyver style inventing mechanic. Also a clockwork armor mechanic similar to the fighter's Armor Training. Most all abilities are Extraordinary, with a few Supernatural and a couple optional spell-likes.
The Ardwright is nice as well (probably the best artificer update I've seen to date), but it isn't really a "tech" character so much as an...artificer.
Where did you get that art?
Where did you get that art?Hooray! Another chance to pimp my Engineer to the People!
Basics: Base Class, non-caster. Focused on a special omni-tool, a clockwork companion and a nifty, Macgyver style inventing mechanic. Also a clockwork armor mechanic similar to the fighter's Armor Training. Most all abilities are Extraordinary, with a few Supernatural and a couple optional spell-likes.
The Ardwright is nice as well (probably the best artificer update I've seen to date), but it isn't really a "tech" character so much as an...artificer.
I believe it was from one of the artists that creates stuff for Paizo on deviantart, though it's been a while since I found it. It might have been in one of the paizo blogs (I've been through all of them searching for character art), too. I honestly can't remember. I can put the word doc up if you want to steal it.
...Catch Phrase,
-Chris
EDIT: Both the pieces in this document are probably my favorite pieces I've used overall for my homebrew work. They just fit the concept beautifully.
The fellow with the staff appears in the Inner Sea World Guide, titled as a "Sargavan Pathfinder".
The Robot/golem-looking one is the illustration for the Aluum, which first appeared in Dark Markets: Guide to Katapesh and was reprinted (I believe) in the ISWG. Also, I like calling that book "The Izz-wig".
Gracias for that. Amongst retrieving things from deviantart/the paizo site, I use the PDF reader that comes with Ubuntu (two operating systems on my PC) to extract art from the PDFs I buy.
My collection of character pics is huge. 410 character portraits as it stands. And I get a new one nearly every week thanks to the web fiction.
...Catch Phrase,
-Chris