Lawyer

You are a student of the law, specializing in one branch of it or another. If you practice privately or as part of a firm, your clients might come to you for advice regarding taxes, disputes, or even criminal trials. If you work for the government, you may be called on to prosecute offenders, or defend the accused as a public defender.

Skill Proficiencies: Skill Proficiencies: Insight, Persuasion

Tool Proficiencies: Tool Proficiencies: Calligrapher's Supplies, one type of Gaming Set

Languages: Languages: two of your choice

Equipment: Equipment: Calligrapher's Supplies, a basic law textbook, an official certification to practice one type of law, a set of fine clothes, and a purse containing 20 g

Suggested Characteristics

SUGGESTED CHARACTERISTICS

As a lawyer, you have a higher birth, better education, and a sharper wit than most. This could make you a kind and noble soul, or your privilege might go to your head.

 

d8 Personality Trait

1 My work ethic is unstoppable

2 Every single one of my pens has a chewed back end

3 My stacks of papers can’t not be straight

4 I fiddle with my class ring whenever I’m uncomfortable

5 Appearance is important, so only the finest clothes I can afford will do

6 Inside the courtroom or out, my rhetoric is dramatic, bordering on the theatrical

7 Perfect penmanship!

8 OBJECTION!!

 

d6 Ideal

1 Fairness Everyone has a right to representation, good or bad (Neutral)

2 Greed If you haven’t the coin, you haven’t my services (Evil)

3 Impartiality If you break the law, and I catch you, you’ll have no sympathy from me

(Good)

4 Letter The letter of the law is absolute (Lawful)

5 Spirit The spirit of the law can supercede the letter of it (Chaotic)

6 Aspiration I hope to make a big name of myself, unrivalled in matters of the law (Any)

 

d6 Bond

1 I will always keep my alma mater close to my heart

2 My law professor was, and remains, my best bet for advice of any kind

3 My very first law textbook was given to me by a dear friend, and I reference it often

4 One or more family members is a lawyer, so I had to be; it can be grating, but I push

through

5 I became a lawyer in the first place to get a friend out of legal trouble

6 I failed my first client, and I never will again

 

d6 Flaw

1 The stress and of the job drives me to drink

2 My hours are long, so I don’t sleep well; this may make me cranky

3 All this money, and yet I still won’t turn up my nose at more...

4 Lucrative loopholes are my best friend, even if distasteful things happen as a result

5 Some of my work might slip through the cracks as the case drags on

6 If they’re not well-dressed, I might turn someone down based on that alone