There is hidden treasure out there in the world, and you’re just the one to find it. Whether you work in someone else’s employ or if you work independently, your calling is to seek out noteworthy treasure in the world and acquire it: perhaps legally, perhaps not. That is up to you. You may focus on particular types or kinds of treasure, showing something of a preference or specialty as you build your collection, or you might just be interested in selling what you find to the highest bidder to raise money for your own purposes.
Regardless of your preferences and motivations, you seek to find hidden treasures, and you use all of the tools at your disposal to research and locate them, identify them, and ultimately take possession of them.
- Skill Proficiencies: Arcana, History
- Tool Proficiencies: Thieves’ Tools
- Languages: One of your choice
- Equipment: A grappling hook and 50 feet of silk rope, a crowbar, a set of traveler’s clothes, and a pouch containing 10 gp.
In your career as a treasure hunter, you have developed a network of individuals, or perhaps even part of an organization, which provides you with leads to treasures which you might potentially hunt. You may be able to contact these people for information about a particular treasure you seek, but more typically, they will periodically pass along information about new treasures to seek which you may not have been aware of previously.
Additionally, these contacts can often help put you in touch with people who would be interested in acquiring the treasures you find, assuming your goal is not to keep them or use them for some other purpose. If you find particularly interesting treasures, your contacts can usually help you locate someone to take them off your hands.
The player and GM should work together to determine who these contacts are and how they typically communicate with the treasure hunter.
Suggested Characteristics
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While it is true you are a treasure hunter, your particular expertise is more geared toward the taking aspect of the hunt rather than the finding. While you are still skilled in recognizing objects of magical importance and the like, by choice or by happenstance, you tend to devote more of your time toward actually physically acquiring those objects than you do toward studying the histories of them. If you choose the Bagman variant of the Treasure Hunter background, you may choose to forego proficiency in History and instead replace it with proficiency in Sleight of Hand.
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