Crusader

Whether by choice or by force, you heeded the call to action to fight in the service of your personal beliefs, a specific god or pantheon of gods. You are a soldier in a righteous army, fighting tooth and nail for your cause. You live and die by your beliefs, your deity or deities, and your weapons. You are not necessarily a paladin—fighting for your beliefs and your gods does not always include channeling holy power.

Choose a god, a pantheon of gods, or some other quasi-divine being, and work with your DM to detail the nature of your religious service. Were you, perchance, someone who felt the need to spread their deity or deities' gospel, whether by conquest or travel? Someone conscripted into a high priest's army? Or someone who simply wished to spread their ideology? Perhaps you felt your chosen divine calling to you in a vision or dream, an echo to pick up your arms and spread their influence throughout the world.

Skill Proficiencies: Religion, and choose one of the following: Intimidation, Persuasion and Athletics.

Languages: One of your choice

Equipment: A holy symbol (given to you when you entered your crusade), a prayer book or prayer wheel, a trophy taken from a fallen enemy (a dagger, broken blade, or piece of a banner), a set of common clothes, and a pouch containing 10 gp.

Suggested Characteristics

Crusaders are shaped by their experiences in the battlefield, their beliefs or faiths, and the places in which they travel. The way in which they interact with others of their beliefs or faiths, other beliefs or faiths affect the way in which they view the world and their ideals. Flaws may be some hidden hypocrisy or heretical idea, and ideals and bonds may border on or become zealotry.

d8	Personality Trait
1	I idolize a particular hero of my faith or homeland, and constantly refer to that person’s deeds and example.
2	I have become disgusted by warfare and seek more peaceful ways to spread the word.
3	I see omens in every event and action. The gods try to speak to us, we just need to listen.
4	Nothing, not even the most charismatic devil alive, can shake my beliefs.
5	I quote (or misquote) sacred texts and proverbs in almost every situation.
6	I am tolerant (or intolerant) of other faiths and beliefs and respect (or condemn) the worship of other gods or ideas that are not my own.
7	My travels have left me with an insatiable curiosity of what else is out in the world.
8	I love to discuss my conquests at nearly every opportunity.

d6	Ideal
1	Tradition. The ways that I fight for must be preserved and upheld. (Lawful)
2	Charity. I always try to help those in need, no matter what the personal cost. (Good)
3	Change. We must help bring about the changes that we wish to see in the world, no matter what the cost may be. (Chaotic)
4	Power. I seek to be the most powerful warrior these lands had ever seen. (Lawful)
5	Faith. I trust that my deity will guide my actions. I have faith that if I work hard, things will go well. (Lawful)
6	Aspiration. I desire to be the one that people speak and sing about long after I am gone. (Any)

d6	Bond
1	My mentor's dying wish was to spread his beliefs, and it is a mission I shall not fail.
2	I will someday get revenge on the corrupt religious hierarchy that branded me a heretic.
3	I seek to avenge my fellow crusader who took a death blow meant for me.
4	Everything I do is for the common people.
5	I will do anything to revive my faith; other crusaders nearly wiped it out.
6	I seek to preserve a sacred text that my enemies consider heretical and seek to destroy.

d6	Flaw
1	I judge others harshly, and myself even more severely.
2	If you are not of my faith, I immediately deem you a heretic.
3	I become so fixated on spreading my beliefs that I often think of nothing else.
4	I am inflexible in my thinking.
5	I am suspicious of strangers and expect the worst of them.
6	I often attempt to force people to convert, whether that be by persuasion or by violence.