You came to the big city to study at a university and found yourself struggling. Whether it was housing, grades, scholarship issues, or disciplinary problems, you had to stop taking classes full time and get a job.
- Skill Proficiencies: Pick skills that reflect what you were studying in university.
- Tool Proficiencies: Choose a tool that reflects the job or trade that you acquired after dropping out.
- Languages: Surely languages were a core requirement course at your school! Pick a language you studied at university.
- Equipment: You carry a notebook, pencils, and a very small knife for sharpening. This is an old habit from hours spent taking lecture notes.
Roll a d6 or choose an option below for why you left.
| d6 | Reason for leaving your university |
|---|---|
| 1 | I dropped out because school was too stressful. |
| 2 | I couldn't afford housing on my student stipend, so I had to study part-time and get a job. |
| 3 | I was expelled for inappropriate behavior. |
| 4 | My grades were slipping, so I lost my scholarship and now I am trying to pay for school. |
| 5 | I was caught practicing frowned upon magic, and was banned from further study. |
| 6 | My benefactor is not as benevolent as I believed, they are demanding I repay my debt now, so I need to spend my time making money. |
Though others must often endure extensive interviews and significant fees to gain access to even the most common archives in your university, you have free and easy access to the majority of the resources, though it might also have repositories of lore that are too valuable, magical, or secret to permit anyone immediate access. This is because you never turned in your library card, and no one checks if you are still enrolled.
As a Junior in your new profession, you are a part of the "Apprentice's Network" meaning you find it much easier to learn information from other juniors/apprentices/assistants about the powerful people they support.
Suggested Characteristics
Choose some characteristics.
| d6 | Personality Trait |
|---|---|
| 1 | I use polysyllabic words that convey the impression of great erudition, so that people will not question my level of education. |
| 2 | I am horribly, horribly awkward in social situations. |
| 3 | I’m willing to listen to every side of an argument before I make my own judgment. |
| 4 | I am happy to teach others the few things I know well. |
| 5 | I am bitter about my situation and take every opportunity to complain about it. |
| 6 | I am anxious about making ends meet. |
| d3 | Ideal |
|---|---|
| 1 | Education is meant to be free to all. |
| 2 | I will do whatever it takes to get back into university. |
| 3 | I aim to excel in my new profession. |
| d4 | Bond |
|---|---|
| 1 | I will never forget my failure, or the ones responsible for it. |
| 2 | I Amy trying to pay off a crushing debt. |
| 3 | I owe my employers a great debt for forging me into the person I am today. |
| 4 | I sold my soul for for the chance at knowledge. I hope to do great deeds to win it back. |
| d6 | Flaw |
|---|---|
| 1 | Once I pick a goal, I become obsessed with it to the detriment of everything else in my life. |
| 2 | I’m horribly jealous of anyone who is more successful than myself. Everywhere I go, I’m surrounded by rivals. |
| 3 | I am easily distracted by the promise of information. |
| 4 | An innocent person is in trouble for an offense that I committed. I’m okay with that. |
| 5 | Despite my best efforts, I am unreliable to my friends. |
| 6 | My secrets could get me disowned. |
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