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You work for the Man.  You are a middle manager in a massive faceless corporation.  You don’t always agree with the polices and procedures of your organization, but you do what you’re told.  Your connection to the corporation allows you access to reputable merchants and guilds.

 
Skill Proficiencies: Insight, Persuasion
Tool Proficiencies: One type of artisan’s tools
Languages: One of your choice
Equipment: A set of artisan’s tools (one of your choice), a letter of introduction from your Corporate Office, a set of traveler’s clothes, and a pouch containing 15 gp
 
Corporate involvement

Your corporate employer can be involved in a variety of economic practices.  Most people know of your corporation, even if they don’t know what it does.  While you cannot make major decisions on behalf of your corporation, you can use your connection to manipulate merchants and vendors into providing you with special consideration or risk being punished by supply chain issues.  

d20 Corporate involvement
1 Alchemists and apothecaries
2 Armorers, locksmiths, and finesmiths
3 Brewers, distillers, and vintners
4 Calligraphers, scribes, and scriveners
5 Carpenters, roofers, and plasterers
6 Cartographers, surveyors, and chart-makers
7 Cobblers and shoemakers
8 Cooks and bakers
9 Glassblowers and glaziers
10 Jewelers and gemcutters
11 Leatherworkers, skinners, and tanners
12 Masons and stonecutters
13 Painters, limners, and sign-makers
14 Potters and tile-makers
15 Shipwrights and sailmakers
16 Smiths and metal-forgers
17 Tinkers, pewterers, and casters
18 Wagon-makers and wheelwrights
19 Weavers and dyers
20 Woodcarvers, coopers, and bowyers
 
Feature: Corporate Expense Account

As an emissary for a faceless corporation, you can rely on certain benefits that your position provides. Your fellow employees will provide you with lodging and food if necessary, and pay for your funeral if needed. In some cities and towns, a satellite corporate office offers a central place to meet other coworkers, which can be a good place to meet potential patrons, allies, or hirelings.

Your Corporate Office often wields excessive political power. If you are accused of a crime, corporate will support you if a good case can be made for your innocence or the crime is justifiable, and the expense of defending you is low.  You can also gain access to powerful political figures through the corporation, assuming the figure is Republican. Such connections might require a donation to their CPAC.

You can expense modest travel accommodations and basic survival supplies, provided you save the receipts.

 
Suggested Characteristics

Corporate stooges are among the most ordinary people in the world — and rarely have the personal drive to become anything more than basic.

d8 Personality Trait
1 I believe that anything worth doing is worth doing right. I can’t help it — I’m a perfectionist.
2 I’m a snob who looks down on those who can’t appreciate fine art.
3 I always want to know how things work and what makes people tick.
4 I’m full of witty aphorisms and have a proverb for every occasion.
5 I’m rude to people who lack my commitment to hard work and fair play.
6 I like to talk at length about my profession.
7 I don’t part with my money easily and will haggle tirelessly to get the best deal possible.
8 I’m well known for my work, and I want to make sure everyone appreciates it. I’m always taken aback when people haven’t heard of me.
d6 Ideal
1 Community. It is the duty of all civilized people to strengthen the bonds of community and the security of civilization. (Lawful)
2 Generosity. My talents were given to me so that I could use them to benefit the world. (Good)
3 Freedom. Everyone should be free to pursue his or her own livelihood. (Chaotic)
4 Greed. I’m only in it for the money. (Evil)
5 People. I’m committed to the people I care about, not to ideals. (Neutral)
6 Aspiration. I work hard to be the best there is at my craft. (Any)
d6 Bond
1 The workshop where I learned my trade is the most important place in the world to me.
2 I created a great work for someone, and then found them unworthy to receive it. I’m still looking for someone worthy.
3 I owe my guild a great debt for forging me into the person I am today.
4 I pursue wealth to secure someone’s love.
5 One day I will return to my guild and prove that I am the greatest artisan of them all.
6 I will get revenge on the evil forces that destroyed my place of business and ruined my livelihood.
d6 Flaw
1 I’ll do anything to get my hands on something rare or priceless.
2 I’m quick to assume that someone is trying to cheat me.
3 No one must ever learn that I once stole money from guild coffers.
4 I’m never satisfied with what I have — I always want more.
5 I would kill to acquire a noble title.
6 I’m horribly jealous of anyone who can outshine my handiwork. Everywhere I go, I’m surrounded by rivals.
 
Variant Corporate Stooge: Political Hack

Instead of a Corporation, you may be a cog in the political machine.  You may hold a middling political office, or work for a notorious politician or political party.  Your political influence allows you access to decision makers throughout the region, provided they are not diametrically opposed to your beliefs.  

Your political involvement can effect how commoners interact with you.  Some taverns will offer you free services, while others may refuse to serve you.  Speak with you DM to determine the values you spew and how they affect the general public.

 
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