Almost as ignominious a start as can be, you came to the adventuring life after an upbringing tending the land, growing crops and raising livestock. You know the cycles of the land and while perhaps you're not as versed in the social graces and formal education, you have a profound connection to the land that sustained you for a significant part of your life. While some may look down on your humble beginnings, you know that you could do without city folk and nobles far easier than they could do without you and your sort.
Credit to Spacebar for most of the design
- Skill Proficiencies: Animal handling, Nature
- Tool Proficiencies: Cook's Utensils, Carpenter's Tools
- Equipment: A set of common clothes, a burlap sack containing 10 days' worth of rations, cook's utensils, a small hammer, some seeds from a crop you grew.
While you probably had a few different crops, your farm likely had a specific harvest that they would grow or tend.
| d11 | Specialty |
|---|---|
| 1 | Subsistence/ No Specialty |
| 2 | Grains (Rice/Wheat/Oats/Barley) |
| 3 | Gourds or Melons |
| 4 | Bush Vegetables (Tomatoes/Peppers/Eggplant) |
| 5 | Root Vegetables (Potatoes/Turnips/Beets) |
| 6 | Orchard/Vineyard (Apples/Citrus/Cherries/Grapes) |
| 7 | Chickens/eggs |
| 8 | Pigs |
| 9 | Cows/milk |
| 10 | Small berries |
| 11 | Sheep/wool |
Through years of exposure to the vagaries of nature, you've developed a keen eye for growing conditions and weather. By watching weather trends and sensing changes in the wind and clouds, you can predict what will happen in natural weather conditions up to 8 hours ahead. Additionally, you have advantage on skill checks regarding cultivated food, crops, or livestock pertaining to their growth, natural conditions, or harvest.
Suggested Characteristics
Farmers are defined by their self-sufficiency as well as the tight communities that they tend to form. The lifestyle tends to promote a "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" mentality and this combined with the tendency to have large families often creates tight familial bonds as well as a distrust of outsiders.
| d8 | Personality Trait |
|---|---|
| 1 | I'm always checking the conditions when I go to a new place to see how well it would take a farm like mine. |
| 2 | I'm very self-conscious about looking like a yokel, making me seem shy or withdrawn |
| 3 | I tend to gawp at things that are new to me. |
| 4 | I'll never miss an opportunity to prove that I can and will work harder than anyone else. |
| 5 | I'd just as soon not have to deal with people. Animals are easier to trust. |
| 6 | Life on the road is great, but I tend to get homesick easily |
| 7 | I may have grown up on a farm, but that time is behind me, and I'd just as soon leave it behind. |
| 8 | When given a job I will be sure to see it through to the end |
| d6 | Ideal |
|---|---|
| 1 | Freedom. You handle your life, I'll handle mine, and as long as you don't stop me from doing what I want we'll get along fine. (Chaotic) |
| 2 | Altruism. If you can, you help a person out, even if that means you will have a harder time of things in the future. (Good) |
| 3 | Glory. I've had enough of digging in the mud, I'm going out to make my name and my fortune. (Any) |
| 4 | Resentment. I've spent my life being harassed by people who think they're better than me. I want to see them under my boot for a change. (Evil) |
| 5 | Consistency. The seed sprouts, goes to flower, and fruits. Try to harvest the sprout and you'll starve. Everything has its time and place, we just have to know when that is. (Lawful) |
| 6 | Exploration. I want to go out and see the world, for all that it has to offer — good and bad. (Any) |
| d6 | Bond |
|---|---|
| 1 | My family may not approve of my new life, but I'll make them proud. |
| 2 | The land I grew up on is much a part of me as any bloodline. I'll die to see it safe. |
| 3 | Given a choice, I'd be settled down with a spouse and kids right now. But I don't have that choice. |
| 4 | I need to find someone who can help cure the blight that's killing my farm. |
| 5 | My family haven't always been farmers. I need to reclaim the legacy of my ancestors. |
| 6 | I don't know what this ancient artifact I dug up on my land is, but it is calling to me to find out. |
| d6 | Flaw |
|---|---|
| 1 | I tend to be a bit too open around people I don't know. |
| 2 | I've done things my way my entire life. I'm not going to change if there's any way to avoid it. |
| 3 | I don't have time for social graces. I say what I mean and if you have a problem, you can deal with it. |
| 4 | I've only been exposed to people like myself. My only reference about people of other races tends to be ignorant stereotypes. |
| 5 | I've made it this far on my wits and skills, and I doubt that you can tell me better. |
| 6 | While I am an expert at the things I know well, I tend to know little to nothing about anything else |
Instead of the normal animals you've chosen to keep bees. These bees make honey and pollinate the nearby plants. You've learned to be calm around these small insect and in turn have found them not stinging you. Well at least not very much anymore.
Bees will rarely sting you unless severely agitated. They will naturally trust you and with time may protect you when they detect strong hormones connected with fear. These bees also tend to work harder with you around, producing more honey and pollinating more plants in your presence. This feature also allows you to get any bees within 10 feet of you, to become severely agitated at a target of your choice within the same range of you, this skill can be used once per short or long rest.
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