Your life has been devoted to farm work for the majority of your life. Either from working as a sharecropper or working your family farm, you have learned animal husbandry and crop rotation in order to produce raw goods to survive and sell on market for other necessary life requirements. It's very possible that you have learned how to hunt and fish, as a way of not only surviving, but possibly supplementing your income when necessary.
When you choose this background, work with your DM to determine your life as a farmhand. Did you work on a successful dairy farm producing a large amount of milk or were you primarily subsistence farming on your family plot, occasionally journeying into the woods to hunt or to find a stream to fish?
- Skill Proficiencies: Animal Handling, Nature
- Tool Proficiencies: vehicles (land)
- Equipment: A pocket knife (a dagger), a set of common clothes, and a pouch containing 10 gp
During your time as a farmhand, you had a specific role or type of farm that you worked at. Roll a d8 or choose from the options in the table below to determine your role:
| d8 | Specialty |
|---|---|
| 1 | Dairy |
| 2 | Steer |
| 3 | Hogs |
| 4 | Poultry/Eggs |
| 5 | Corn |
| 6 | Wheat |
| 7 | Sharecropper |
| 8 | Subsistence Farmer |
You know your way around a firearm, and having used one more than a few times. You have proficiency using longarms, a subtype of firearm.
Suggested Characteristics
The tough work of a farm shapes a person's ideals and strong ties to their family and/or community. They often have a rough appearance and calloused hands, tending to be friendly, but normally suspicious about outsiders and people they don't closely know.
| d8 | Personality Trait |
|---|---|
| 1 | I’m always polite and respectful. |
| 2 | I’m somewhat distrustful of outsiders. I only trust those I know in my community. |
| 3 | I feel more at home being out in a field or in the woods than in the city. |
| 4 | I feel closer to animals than I do other humans. |
| 5 | I can practically make a shot with iron sights with my eyes closed. |
| 6 | I enjoy being strong and like breaking things. |
| 7 | I have a crude sense of humor. |
| 8 | I feel a lot of the problems I have to deal with are caused by city types. |
| d6 | Ideal |
|---|---|
| 1 | Community. I should help others less fortunate by sharing what I can. (Good) |
| 2 | Responsibility. I do what I must and obey just authority. (Lawful) |
| 3 | Rugged Individualism. I rely on myself to survive every year, even if it means I have to cut my own path. (Chaotic) |
| 4 | Profiteering. People need the goods I produce, so I'm free to charge them what I like. (Evil) |
| 5 | Subsistence. We are all just trying to survive and live life. (Neutral) |
| 6 | Ecology. Man has an intricate interconnected existence with the nature that surrounds him. (Any) |
| d6 | Bond |
|---|---|
| 1 | I would give a man the shirt off my back if they needed it. |
| 2 | My farm is my livelihood, I will defend it or work harder to make sure I keep it that way. |
| 3 | I respect nature, as it is its bounty that enables my survival and success. |
| 4 | My animals are like an extension of my family. |
| 5 | My family is not only the people I hold most dear in my life, but also the coworkers who help me survive. |
| 6 | The people who buy my products are what enables me to keep surviving. |
| d6 | Flaw |
|---|---|
| 1 | I often take a handshake as having more importance than whatever is on paper. |
| 2 | I tend to be very distrustful of people I don't intimately know. |
| 3 | I am distrustful of city types. |
| 4 | I do not often approach others that are unlike me. |
| 5 | I believe that I can only rely on myself, sometimes alienating others. |
| 6 | I often live a secluded lifestyle, so my skills at communicating are somewhat inept. |
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