Explorer

You grew up fascinated by the wilds and foreign civilizations, maybe you were born in a big city or you come from a small rustic  island but whatever your birthplace your desire to see the world set you out. You have traveled far from your local birthplace and the comforts of family, tribe, hometown and technology. You’ve witnessed the migration of herds larger than forests, survived weather more extreme than any city-dweller could comprehend, and enjoyed the solitude of being the only thinking creature for miles in any direction. You have lived with more different groups of people than the usual local. The love for the new and foreign or for the wilds are in your blood, whether you were a traveler, a nomad, an explorer, a recluse, a hunter-gatherer, or even a marauder. Even in places where you don’t know the specific features of the terrain or the layout of a settlement, you know the ways of the wild or how to move around the settlement.

Skill Proficiencies: Athletics,Insight,Investigation,Perception,Persuasion, Survival

Tool Proficiencies: Choose one from cartographer, navigator, tinkerer or vehicles

Languages: One of your choice

Equipment: A staff, rope, an object or map from a place you visited, a set of traveler’s clothes, and a pouch containing 10 gp

Suggested Characteristics

Often considered rude and uncouth among local folk, explorers have visited many places some are in the wild and others are foreign cities that locals have never heard of. To most explorers the ties of tribe, clan, family, are second to the tie to the natural world of which they are a part or to the appeal of foreign civilizations.

d8	Personality Trait
1	I’m driven by a wanderlust that led me away from home.
2	I watch over my friends as if they were a litter of newborn pups.
3	I once ran twenty-five miles without stopping to warn to my clan of an approaching orc horde. I’d do it again if I had to.
4	I have a lesson for every situation, drawn from observing nature or other cultures.
5	I place no stock in wealthy or well-mannered folk. Money and manners won’t save you from a hungry owlbear.
6	I’m always picking things up, absently fiddling with them, and sometimes accidentally breaking them.
7	I feel far more comfortable around animals than people.
8	I am lured by foreign cultures

d6	Ideal
1	Change. Life is like the seasons, in constant change, and we must change with it. (Chaotic)
2	Greater Good. It is each person’s responsibility to make the most happiness for the whole world. (Good)
3	Honor. If I dishonor myself, I dishonor the world. (Lawful)
4	Might. The most cosmopolitan are meant to rule. (Evil)
5	Civilization. The world as a whole is more important than all the constructs of a particular civilization. (Neutral)
6	Glory. I must earn glory in battle, for myself and my clan. (Any)

d6	Bond
1	My growth is the most important thing in my life, even at the cost of family, tribe or nation.
2	An injury to the unspoiled wilderness of my home is an injury to me.
3	I will bring terrible wrath down on the evildoers who despised me for being 'foreign'.
4	I am the last of my tribe, and it is up to me to ensure their names enter legend.
5	I suffer awful visions of a coming disaster and will do anything to prevent it.
6	It is my duty to provide children to sustain my tribe.

d6	Flaw
1	I am too enamored of ale, wine, and other intoxicants.
2	There’s no room for caution in a life lived to the fullest.
3	I remember every insult I’ve received and nurse a silent resentment toward anyone who’s ever wronged me.
4	I easily disregard locals and consider them ignorants of the much wider world.
5	Violence is my answer to almost any challenge.
6	Don’t expect me to save those who can’t save themselves. It is nature’s way that the strong thrive and the weak perish.