For some reason, your head is permanently stuck in a jug. Whatever someone did to you, no one has been able to undo it, not even with magic. You have enough air space to fit a straw or little bits of things on a skewer into your mouth, but that's about it. You've engineered a weird little periscope and some listening tubes that let you see and hear the world outside your jug. It's not a great life, but it's your life and you're darn well going to enjoy it.
- Skill Proficiencies: Survival, Insight
- Tool Proficiencies: Tinker's tools
- Equipment: A specialized apparatus for seeing/hearing outside the jug, a set of tinker's tools, and a money pouch containing 15 gp
During the course of working on new ways to interact with the world, you invented something that is globally useful for people with a particular type of permanent condition. Your invention is famous among the community of interest and sees regular use. Granted, the manufacturing industry and the artisans don't kick the profits your way very often, but whenever you find yourself in a town where a user lives, they treat you as an ally and will help you and the party when they can.
Suggested Characteristics
Those whose heads are stuck in jugs are a variable lot, but they generally tend to be hopeful and sarcastic if not fatalistic. They dedicate their lives to making the most of it - it beats the alternative.
Personality Traits
| d8 | Personality Trait |
|---|---|
| 1 | I like to change up my style every few days; a new knitted cover, a random antenna sticking out, a stuffed penguin on top. You only live once. |
| 2 | It's important to help the people around me, especially the less fortunate. |
| 3 | I'll always fight to protect other people from villains. I'll probably get taken out one day, but at least I won't lose face when I die. |
| 4 | I have at least a dozen different stories for how I got this way. All of them are sort of true. |
| 5 | I like to act crazy in public about once a month to keep people guessing. |
| 6 | It's easier to just avoid civilization as much as possible. Adventuring groups tend to be less judgy as long as I can do something. |
| 7 | I don't like it when people cover their heads or other people's for a joke. |
| 8 | I try to make light of my situation in public whenever I can. |
Ideals
| d6 | Ideal |
|---|---|
| 1 | Spontaneity. I follow my heart even if it doesn't know where it's going. |
| 2 | Duty. I have a responsibility to stand up for all jug-headed people in the world. |
| 3 | Self-Improvement. As long as I'm a better person than I was yesterday, it's all fine. |
| 4 | World Building. This world can be a better place, and I have to make it so. |
| 5 | Deconstruction. Tearing down the system is the best way to fix what's wrong. |
| 6 | Isolation. Keeping to myself is the best way to interact with this world. |
Bonds
| d6 | Bond |
|---|---|
| 1 | I'm responsible for an orphan who attached themselves to me a few years back. |
| 2 | I send money every month to a crippled old widow in the countryside. |
| 3 | I owe a debt of honor to the town that helped me when I first became afflicted. |
| 4 | I still play a role in the same organization I was part of before. |
| 5 | Those who abandoned me after my change must someday know misery. |
| 6 | I know who did this to me, and I'll get them for it. |
Flaws
| d6 | Flaw |
|---|---|
| 1 | When people make fun of me, it's hard to contain my anger. |
| 2 | I'm haunted by the memory of a sudden yet inevitable betrayal. |
| 3 | Sometimes I put myself in unnecessary danger to feel alive. |
| 4 | I avoid relationships with others because I imagine what they'll come to think of me. |
| 5 | I often hurt myself trying to get out of the jug even though I know it never works. |
| 6 | I always feel like I just want to lay down in the street and not get up, and sometimes I do. |
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