Potioneer

Since a young age, you've been experienced in one of the most unique and interesting types of magic - potions. You've dabbles in the arts of alchemy, of magic-item-creation, and many more potion-making skills that are hard to come across. How did you find this skill? Were you self-taught? Mentored? If so, how did you become a student or apprentice? Were you, a lowly orphan, picked up on the streets by a wizard of great renown? Did a family member teach you the skill that was being passed down through the bloodline? Were you taught by a being of great power? Be sure to decide on these details with your DM - they are of great importance in determining the close-up details of your backstory and potion-making style. With a background like this, you might have great potential to be a sorcerer, wizard, warlock, or cleric! Or maybe a druid, or even bard, using your skills alongside your magic?

Skill Proficiencies: Arcana, Medicine

Tool Proficiencies: Your choice of Alchemist's Supplies or Herbalism Kit

Languages: One of your choice

Equipment: A book or other form of instructions holding all of your recipes, the chosen set of tools of your choice,  a special tool (like an engraved bottle, gilded ingredient case, family hand-down mixing rod, etc.), a set of common clothes, and a belt puch containing 10 gp.

Suggested Characteristics

Your Bonds should relate to your potioneer origin, Personality Traits can be about your favorite potions or your potion-making style, and Flaws could be a common mistake or problem with your potions.

d6	Personality Trait
1	All of my potions are from the heart, reflecting my soul and personality.
2	I love to make exotic potions with exotic ingredients.
3	It's in my best interest to create potions of my own design.
4	My friends all say that some potions I've made have tampered with my brain, because I'm a little eccentric.
5	I am a seasoned expert in potion-making and am able to use my potions in battle as if they were arrows in a bow.
6	I love potion-making for the thrill of creation.

d6	Ideal
1	Creativity. Being creative can be as simple as tampering slightly with a traditional potion, or as challenging as inventing a fail-safe way to ride a dragon.
2	Magic. Magic is the force that holds our world togethor.
3	Knowledge. Knowing things about one thing or another is what makes someone a talented person.
4	Creation. Making new things is a knowledge-learning, skill-teaching experience that we are lucky to have.
5	Exploration. Exploration is the art of finding new things, and learning along the way.
6	Skill. Skill is the foundation of all talent.

d4	Bond
1	My mentor was the key to my success, and I owe them a great deal.
2	My family's tradition of passing down the skill of potion-making is the most important tradition I've ever known of.
3	My potion book is all that is left from my old potion-making days, and is my most prized possesion.
4	I aspire to (and know I will become) the most talented potions expert ever to walk in any dimension or reality.

d4	Flaw
1	My potioneer skills have left me power-hungry, thirsty for more magic.
2	I'm always threatening people that I'll make a deadly potion for them; and most of the time, I'm honest.
3	I tamper with potions so often that I know my creativity will be my demise.
4	Sometimes I value magical knowledge more than friends.