Plucky Farmhand

You have lived a life of drudgery and toil, working a family farm. You have whiled away your downtime dreaming of adventure and glory, always fearing that such an exciting life was impossible for you. Now something has happened that provided you with the opportunity to live those dreamed-of adventures and chase that tantalizing glory, and you will not sit idle and let this chance pass you by!

Others may see you as naive, possibly even delusional, but you know that all it takes to make a difference in this crazy world is a bit of wit, a lot of grit, and the determination to do what's right.

So go on great adventurer, get out there, slay that no-good dragon, save that gosh darn princess, and show this world what a real hero looks like!

 

Skill Proficiencies: Your Pa didn't raise you to be no slacker, so you're pretty okay at a couple things that any right minded farmhand needs to know. Choose two from Athletics, Nature, Animal Handling, Medicine, Perception, and Survival.

Tool Proficiencies: Taking a crop to market was always sort of like practicing for an adventure, so you took your training in land vehicles real serious.

Languages: You may not have gotten out much, but you did the best to learn what you could to become what the town mayor would call "worldly". So you've learned one additional language, mostly by sitting around the local inn talking to travelers.

Equipment: You've got your trusty hoe, a knit cap your Ma made you, and a rusty ol' helmet you found in the hayloft of Grandpappy's barn. These things, along with a small sack of silver you've been saving, aren't much, but Pa always said "big things come from small seeds".

Suggested Characteristics

Roll descriptions from the following tables, or choose as desired.

d6	Personality Trait
1	Granny told me "If ya ain't got nothin nice to say, don't say nothing at all" so I pretty much talk all the time.
2	"Hard work never killed nobody" is what Pa always said, but I don't wanna take no chances.
3	When my Grandpappy died my Ma told me "Don't you be afraid. Death is just a part of life." Since then I ain't been afraid of nothin.
4	Granny always said "you got to put the past behind you before you can move on", I suppose that's true.
5	Preacher man in town used to say that "nature is the art of the gods" and boy was he ever a smart one.
6	Pa always told me "poor plannin on your part don't mean an emergency on mine", I reckon that means there's no reason to hurry then.

d6	Ideal
1	"Truth will out" is what Ma always said, and that's the truth, so I speak true or I don't speak.
2	My cousin, Vinny, told me "all work and no play make Jack a dull boy". I don't know who Jack is, but he don't sound very fun.
3	My Ma always said "You have got to do the best you can with what the gods gave you", and I reckon she was right about that.
4	I asked the preacher man about what I was meant to do with my life, he said "I don't know if we each have a destiny, or if we're all just floating around accidental-like on a breeze, but I think maybe it's both. Maybe both is happening at the same time."
5	Mama always said "dying is a part of life", but I sure wish it wasn't.
6	One time I asked my Ma what my destiny was, she said "you're just gonna have to figure that out for yourself", so I guess I will.

d6	Bond
1	Pa liked rain, he said he'd seen just about every kind there is, "little bitty stingin’ rain… and big ol’ fat rain. Rain that flies in sideways. And sometimes rain even seems to come straight up from underneath", so I kinda like rain too.
2	I still got my first pair of shoes in my pack. They don't fit no more, but my Ma always said they was magic shoes, that they'd take me anywhere, and they did, so now I take them everywhere.
3	My first chicken was named Betsy. I felt bad when we killed her for eatin', but Pa told me to keep her wishbone to remind me that little things feed bigger things. So I got that wishbone right here.
4	I got a girl I love, her name is Jenny. This here is a lock of her hair she gave me when she moved off to be a singer in the big city. Pretty ain't it?
5	There's this song my Ma used to sing me when I was little, I don't remember the words or nothin' but I can hum a bit. It was like "mmm hhmm, dmmm, hhm, hmm, mmmmm".
6	I got this here helmet from Grandpappy's old barn. It don't fit good at all but I know he did a lot of heroing in it and I'm gonna do some too.

d6	Flaw
1	I heard Pa tell the tax man "you can't get blood from a turnip" and he's right, I tried, and I don't even like turnips neither.
2	The mayor, he's a real smart man, once told me that "stupid is as stupid does". I'm not sure what he meant by that, but I'll sure never put my head in his butter churn again.
3	One of the last things Grandpappy said to me was "Lay low, play dumb, and keep movin'". It's working so far.
4	My cousin, Vinny, he always tells me "you aren't the good things you do, you're all the bad things you do, that's all that counts", too bad about that, I sure do a lot of dumb things.
5	When I left home the mayor told me "you ain't gonna amount to nothin'", now he's a pretty smart man, so I suppose he's right. Kinda sad about it though..
6	Granny said "If you fail to plan, you plan to fail", now I'm not hoping to do no failing, but I sure ain't done no planning either.