For one reason or another, you’ve spent the majority of your life on the road — moving from place to place, never settling in a single place for long. Perhaps you are a member of a traveling circus, or an outlaw on the run from the law.
Thanks to your lifestyle, you’ve no doubt encountered a colorful cast of characters and experienced many cultures from different places around the world. But despite this, you’ve very scarcely forged anything resembling a lasting bond with anyone; friendships and romances are often fleeting when your life is constantly changing and on the move.
- Skill Proficiencies: Insight, Survival
- Tool Proficiencies: Cartographer's Tools, Vehicles (Land)
- Languages: One of your choice
- Equipment: Cartographer's tools, various trinkets and souvenirs from places you’ve visited, a set of traveler’s clothes, and a pouch containing 10 gp.
Thanks to your nomadic lifestyle, you’ve built up connections and friendships in even the most remote and strangest of places. Whenever you reach a village, town or city, work with your DM to determine whether or not you’ve visited it beforehand. If you have, you can find a place to hide, rest and recuperate among people you know - unless you’ve proven yourself to be a threat or a nuisance. The people will offer you aid if they can, but will not risk their own well-being.
Suggested Characteristics
Some drifters love their lives on the open roads, while others long to find a place to call home. Whatever the case is, constant travel can drastically shape and change a drifter’s attitudes, personalities and ideals.
| d8 | Personality Trait |
|---|---|
| 1 | I detest all methods of transportation that aren’t my own two feet. |
| 2 | I find sudden and drastic changes in life to be exhilarating. |
| 3 | I’m driven by a wanderlust that led me away from home. |
| 4 | I love telling stories about the various places I’ve been and the people I’ve met. |
| 5 | When I travel, I never do so with a location in mind; the journey is its own reward. |
| 6 | I get bored very easily. |
| 7 | I love meeting new people. |
| 8 | I collect little trinkets and souvenirs from any place I visit, no matter how small or insignificant. |
| d6 | Ideal |
|---|---|
| 1 | Freedom. Everyone should be free to go wherever they wish. (Good) |
| 2 | Independance. Hanging around the same place for too long makes you lazy and dependent. (Neutral) |
| 3 | Home. One day I will find a place to call home. (Lawful) |
| 4 | Knowledge. I travel to expand my knowledge and understanding of the world. (Any) |
| 5 | Change. Things are always changing, and it’s best to change with them. (Chaotic) |
| 6 | Escape. The law will never catch me! (Evil) |
| d6 | Bond |
|---|---|
| 1 | I miss my family and wish I didn’t have to leave them behind. |
| 2 | I wish to share what I’ve learnt in other places with the people at home. |
| 3 | Where I lay my head to rest is home, and I will do anything to protect it. |
| 4 | I got on the bad side with the wrong person, and they haven’t stopped hunting me since. |
| 5 | I only have a handful of true friends in the world, but I’d do anything for them. |
| 6 | The gods of my people are a comfort to me so far from home. |
| d6 | Flaw |
|---|---|
| 1 | I can’t resist exploring somewhere I’ve never been when the opportunity arises. |
| 2 | Don’t ever lend me money; I’m always far away when it’s time to pay up. |
| 3 | I don’t always mean to, but I always start trouble when I’m bored. |
| 4 | I am terribly naive when dealing with new people. |
| 5 | I envy people who have a place to call home, and I’m bad at hiding my resentment. |
| 6 | Though I loathe myself for it, I’m an unreliable friend. |
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