Piles of legal manuals, stern teachers, and experience in the courtroom have instructed you in legal matters. You’re capable of mounting a prosecution or defense in court, and you tend to keep abreast of local laws, as you never can tell when you might need to know them on short notice.
- Skill Proficiencies: Deception, Persuasion
- Languages: Two of your choice
- Equipment: signet ring of law, book of law from your home city, 5 legal documents, bottle of black ink, quill, sealing wax, fine cloths, belt pouch with 15gp
When you arrive in a new town or kingdom you can spend 1hr researching local law. You then gain advantage on ability checks to recall laws of the town or kingdom that you researched. As well you have advantage on investigation check to find loopholes, or hidden information in a contract or legal form.
Suggested Characteristics
Barristers tend to be individuals that either are scrupulous with the law, making sure others adhere to it as the law it what keeps civilization civil, or they use their knowledge to weave their way through the law either to help others or them selves to achieve their goals. It is even possible that they learn these laws just to see what they can get away with. In any of these cases knowing the law is very important for a barrister.
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