Entertainer (Variant)

A good entertainer is versatile, spicing up every performance with a variety of different routines. Choose one to three routines or roll on the table below to define your expertise as an entertainer.

You can always find a place to perform, usually in an inn or tavern but possibly with a circus, at a theater, or even in a noble’s court. At such a place, you receive free lodging and food of a modest or comfortable standard (depending on the quality of the establishment), as long as you perform each night. In addition, your performance makes you something of a local figure. When strangers recognize you in a town where you have performed, they typically take a liking to you.

A gladiator is as much an entertainer as any minstrel or circus performer, trained to make the arts of combat into a spectacle the crowd can enjoy. This kind of flashy combat is your entertainer routine, though you might also have some skills as a tumbler or actor. Using your By Popular Demand feature, you can find a place to perform in any place that features combat for entertainment — perhaps a gladiatorial arena or secret pit fighting club. You can replace the musical instrument in your equipment package with an inexpensive but unusual weapon, such as a trident or net.

When in a town with a battle arena or colosseum of some kind, you can get information about other participants class, weapon of choice or winning rate. You also learn the prizes both for first place and all previous rounds that have any and the cost to enter to fight at any round in a competition rather than start at the bottom and move up in rank to the final round.

Alternatively a tournament could be a test of skills rather than strengths, this could include an acting competition, banter battle, or groups of minstrels attempting to outperform the other. 

Payment does not guarantee victory only determines when in the tournament or competition you want to start.