You are, or once were, one who tilled the land, planted crops, or tended to herds of animals. Your life was fairly non-descript, leading you to enjoy the rare luxury of peace and plenty thanks to your profession. You likely earned money from your efforts, though you could have also bartered your excess product. You are extremely knowledgeable about the land or region in which you plied your trade. You can recall numerous facts about details that most other adventurers might consider insignificant: soil quality, tilling techniques, seasons for planting and harvesting, or even anatomy of various herd animals. You might also not have owned the land you worked, instead being a laborer on a plantation or farm. Either life led you to also have a strong back and the ability to work long hours.

Whatever your specific background, you left your life on the farm behind to become an adventurer. The reasons are numerous, ranging from boredom to a desire for travel. Work with your Dungeon Master, develop one of your own, or roll on the table below to determine why your character is no longer bound to the land.

Choose a region or area from the Ranger's Favored Terrain list. When required, you can recall any information necessary or related directly to farming or tending of animals in that region, without rolling. In addition, you are able to easily acquire simple lodgings on a farm or in some other agricultural holding, for the low price of a day's labor.

Skill Proficiencies: Nature, Animal Handling

Tool Proficiencies: Choose one: Carpenter's Tools, Cobbler's Tools, Leatherworker's Tools, or Mason's Tools

Equipment: Whichever tool set you gained proficiency in from this background, a bag of seed from your home farm, and a sturdy pair of boots.

Suggested Characteristics

Agrarians are shaped by the type of agricultural holding they gained their skills in, or worked on. Their level of interaction with the world outside their farm heavily affects their social skills, along with the breadth of their knowledge. Their ideals are those developed after long hours spent reflecting on the meaning behind their work, or with family and fellows around the cook-fire. Flaws are generally those small idiosyncrasies that arise after years on end of toiling away at the same routine, or reflective of their view of the world beyond the farm.

d6	Personality Trait
1	You're stubborn. It takes a great deal of effort to get you to change your mind about almost anything.
2	You put forth high effort in any endeavor, often leaving yourself exhausted.
3	You lived well on the farm, enjoying a life with plenty of food and drink at almost no cost. You feel like this is what you deserve.
4	You're carefree and relaxed like a summer breeze. So long as the job gets done, you don't care how or when.
5	You have a soft spot for labor animals, and treat them better than you treat yourself.
6	You became attached to your daily routine, and lead a regimented life.

d6	Ideal
1	Tradition. The old ways are the best ways. They've always worked, so why change them? (Lawful)
2	Change. Innovation and alteration allow us to push agriculture to new and wondrous heights. (Chaotic)
3	Selfish. I work because I don't want to share the results of my labors with others, even if they starve. (Evil)
4	Charity. I share what I grow and tend, that all might prosper as I have. (Good)
5	Resigned. Somebody's got to do it. Why not me? (Neutral)
6	Determined. I'll see it done, no matter the cost to myself. (Neutral)

d6	Bond
1	My family comes first in my life. Though I've traveled away, I miss them dearly.
2	My spouse stayed behind on the farm, raising our family. Though I miss them, I do this to provide for them.
3	My work is my life. Without my farm and the effort I've put into it, what meaning does my life have?
4	My friends have always been there for me, and I'd take an arrow for any of them.
5	The overseer at the farm horribly mistreated my kin and I. I will exact my revenge someday.
6	My mount is the only creature I trust. I left the farm with just them and a few supplies, and they've allowed me to live a good life.

d6	Flaw
1	I hate variety in my food or clothing. I want to wear and eat the same thing every day.
2	I never learned to read. It wasn't that important when it came to life in the field.
3	I'm a little too obsessed with finding a better way to do things, and sometimes make unnecessary changes.
4	Every story I have seems to start with "This one time back on the farm..."
5	I don't speak unless directly spoken to in a pointed manner. I usually communicate with simple grunts of acknowledgment or displeasure.
6	You'd rather lose sleep and keep watch for predators than get a necessary rest.