Through as much experience as book-study, you have learned various useful bits of practical wisdom that your peers rely on to keep themselves, their families and animals well, and their livelihoods and belongings intact. Depending on where you're from, this knowledge may earn you respect or suspicion, perhaps even both; regardless, there's no denying its utility.

Whether you actually cast spells or not, you have learned the combination of plant lore and small magics that go into the creation of certain potions, and can create them with practiced ease. These might account for your whole income, but chances are you know some other craft that might support you on the side when times are easy and your healing wisdom is in less demand.

Skill Proficiencies: Choose two: Animal Handling, Insight, Medicine, Nature, Survival.

Tool Proficiencies: You have proficiency with Herbalism Kits and may additionally choose one of the following tools to be proficient with: Cook's utensils, Brewer's supplies, Potter's Tools, Weaver's Tools, or Woodcarver's Tools.

Suggested Characteristics

The life of a hedgewitch is one of hard work and few holidays. You may have chosen it, or been born into it, but there's something or other in your nature that's made you stick with it for this long.

d8	Personality Trait
1	My stubbornness runs deep. For better or worse, I don't give up easily.
2	I am unafraid to speak my mind, no matter how mighty a person I am talking to.
3	I may be rough around the edges, but when I care about something or someone, I care deeply.
4	I appreciate the healing power of a laugh, even if it hardly solves everything.
5	I have so much to do that I haven't got time for jokes or games.
6	I'm not content to sit still; even in my downtime I'm forever fidgeting with some craft or other.
7	I always pay attention to people's intentions and habits in order to understand what makes them tick.
8	I understand social norms just fine, but there are some about which I simply don't care.

d6	Ideal
1	Competence. Anything worth doing is worth doing properly. (Any)
2	Freedom. What needs doing and what is legal don’t always match. (Chaotic)
3	Tradition. Knowledge of how to keep things well might not be grand, but it needs to be passed down. (Neutral or Lawful)
4	Equity. Each will get what they need, in order of necessity. (Good)
5	Responsibility. This place and its people are mine to take care of. (Lawful)
6	Influence. If people need me, they will have to listen to me. (Evil)

d6	Bond
1	I belong to my home as much as it belongs to me, and being called away for too long unnerves me.
2	I have a duty to pass down my craft, just as it was passed down to me.
3	The hedgewitch who raised me as an apprentice is the closest I have to family.
4	I have a creature as a pet that came to me injured and stayed with me after I nursed it back to health.
5	I know everyone's business back home.
6	Few people have ever approached me without being intimidated by my craft; I count some of those few among my dear friends.

d6	Flaw
1	I'm so used to being the sensible one that I sometimes forget that others may have good ideas, too.
2	I know that others rely on my work, so I'm not afraid to overcharge for it.
3	I am often argumentative simply because bickering is how I know to communicate.
4	People tend to be afraid of me; I enjoy and encourage that.
5	I share as little information as possible, preferring to be the sole source of the wisdom I hold.
6	I chafe at the caution I've always been instructed to employ, and will throw it to the wind if the opportunity to gain more worldly knowledge or power arises.