You’ve made your living as a magician’s assistant. You thrive in front of an audience. You know how to entrance and entertain, all to enhance a performance.
- Skill Proficiencies: Your time as a Magician's assistant has homed your skills. Choose THREE skills that you are proficient in.
- Tool Proficiencies: You are proficient with a disguise kit.
- Languages: You gain no additional language proficiencies.
- Equipment: A Magician's assistant must always be ready to hop on stage or head to another town.
Performance Specialty
You specialize in two ways to help enhance a performance. Choose or roll to define your two specialties from the table below.
| d6 | Performance Specialty |
|---|---|
| 1 | Escape. You have a +3 on checks against being grappled, picking locks, and tying or untying knots. |
| 2 | Hide. You have a +3 on stealth checks to hide yourself and slight of hand checks to conceal or move small and tiny objects. |
| 3 | Assist. You know how to enhance a performance. Twice per Short Rest you can use the Help action as a bonus action. |
| 4 | Observe. You’ve studied people, learning to gage if they will believe and enjoy an act. You have a +3 on Insight checks. |
| 5 | Draw Attention. Your mere presence is a distraction. Others have advantage on deception, performance, persuasion, and slight of hand checks when you draw attention to yourself. |
| 6 | Practical Magic. You’ve learned simple utility spells to aid your performances. Three times per long rest you can cast the Prestidigitation, Mending, or Thamaturgy cantrip. |
Feature: Quick Change Artist
You are able to change clothing, apply makeup, or disguise yourself very quickly and very well. If your GM requires a roll for this, roll at advantage.
Suggested Characteristics
As a magician’s assistant you strive to make every performance great. Maybe you are less confident off stage than you are on it. Perhaps you’re ambitious and aim to be a magician instead of a mere assistant. You are probably creative, a quick thinker, and a fast mover. Do you love to show off, or are you just aiming to be helpful?
| d8 | Personality Trait |
|---|---|
| 1 | Nobody stays angry at me or around me for long, since I can defuse any amount of tension. |
| 2 | I'm surprisingly humble and down-to-earth once I get off the stage. |
| 3 | I can't help but show off. |
| 4 | I love learning new tricks. |
| 5 | I believe that anything worth doing is worth doing right. I can’t help it—I’m a perfectionist. |
| 6 | I don’t part with money easily and will haggle tirelessly to get the best deal possible. |
| 7 | I love helping others be and do their best. |
| 8 | I don’t believe in magic – it’s all just illusion, slight of hand, and good timing. |
| d6 | Ideal |
|---|---|
| 1 | Entertainment. Filling the world with wonder is my purpose in life. (Good) |
| 2 | Greed. I’m only in it for the money and fame. (Evil) |
| 3 | Tradition. I am part of a noble profession. I treat the practice of my arts and the guarding of it's secrets with upmost importance. (Lawful) |
| 4 | Spectacle. They want a show? I'll give them a show! (any) |
| 5 | People. I like seeing the smiles on people’s faces when I perform. That’s all that matters. (Neutral) |
| 6 | Trickery. Getting others to believe what I want is just what I do. (Chaotic) |
| d6 | Bond |
|---|---|
| 1 | I want to be famous, whatever it takes. |
| 2 | I idolize a legendary magician and measure my deeds against that person’s. |
| 3 | I screwed up my part of a performance and someone got hurt. |
| 4 | I’m hiding from something in my past – no one would every suspect me of being on stage. |
| 5 | It is my purpose to bring joy to the lives of the lower classes. |
| 6 | I will do anything to prove myself superior to my former Magician. |
| d6 | Flaw |
|---|---|
| 1 | I’ll do anything to win fame and renown. |
| 2 | I have a habit of vanishing in a pinch. |
| 3 | I’m never satisfied with what I have—I always want more. |
| 4 | I will help others before I help myself. |
| 5 | I don’t believe in myself and will give others credit when I succeed at something. |
| 6 | Lying comes easier to me than telling the truth. |
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