A life spent on the road riding with merchants and mercenaries is a rootless, but often lucrative life. Much of your life was spent on the roads, staying in towns just long enough to trade goods and services, before picking up stakes and returning to the lonely road. Perhaps you were a sellsword, or shop owner, or even a beggar eager to work for a meal. In any event, long travel, camping under the stars, and friendships in many lands are a common trait to the Caravaneer.
- Skill Proficiencies: Insight, Persuasion
- Tool Proficiencies: Player's Choice of any two instruments, tool sets, or gaming set.
- Languages: Player choice of one additional language.
- Equipment: One book containing the trade information and business transactions or notes regarding the Player's Caravan. One case of (20) Crossbow Bolts. One highly detailed map regarding the Caravan's typical or routine Trade route (if any) including landmarks, friendly businesses, and characters. One Fishing Tackle, one Hunting Trap, one Lamp, one locked chest and key, one mess kit, rations for five days, one Tent. One pouch containing 40 Gold coins.
Or
One Cart with one draft horse, and one set of Traveler's Clothes. One pouch containing 70 gold coins.
As a Caravaneer, you've cultivated a number of working relationships with guilds and businesses in the region, working to supply them regularly with whatever it is they needed. As a result, you are a known quantity to many shopkeepers and business people, or if not, your caravan is a familiar and welcome sight. You can expect to be treated to at worst a cordial attitude from many such businesses, and may be privy to the goings on of a region or settlements. You may be able to leverage such a relationship into discounts, but care should be taken this does not offend the business. Further, you can recognize a great many landmarks or popular sites in a region, such as temples, famous taverns, or physical features like standing stones, waterfalls, and so on.
Suggested Characteristics
Caravaneers are shaped by the intensely social life they lived, and as a result, often leads to confident extroverts, or at least an introvert capable of socialization. Living in often cramped carriages with others and working with many shopkeeps ensure the Caravaneer is adept in many social situations and rarely uncomfortable in a crowd. However, such a life is fraught with the dangers of the road, like bandits or monsters, and the hidden dangers of the city, like rival guilds, caravans, or vengeful nobles.
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