Scrounging is an important skill for adventurers and heroes. The ability to find equipment or the components to build equipment in the least likely places is extremely valuable. Anywhere becomes a resource for MacGyvering together precisely the gadget you need to save the day.

In certain fantasy settings, gnomes have a natural ability at this. Other characters could learn a thing or two from gnomes. (It's not often one gets to say that...)

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Chewbacca: Shtoopid 3PO. Hic!
Chewbacca: That it should come to this! Cleaning up other people's meshes, as usual.
Chewbacca: One tries to do the besht one can, but one always ends up in the trash.
Chewbacca: Fight for truth, justice, and the Jedi way? End up in the trash.
Chewbacca: Trashy spaceship. Trash compactor. In the trash, searching for body parts.
Chewbacca: And not for the firsht time. Trash, trash, trashy trash trash.
GM: You find some disconnected parts of 3PO's body.
Chewbacca: Aha! Let me see.
GM: Sorry about that, Sally. Rolling that low was pretty outrageous fortune.
C-3PO: It's okay. These things happen... to droids. I join my comrades in suffering.
{picks up 3PO's torso}
Chewbacca: Alas, poor 3PO. I knew her hydrogen-oxygen ratio.