You have trained to be a master of slapstick and comedy. Whether you are met with affection, disdain, or outright fear entirely depends upon your audience.
- Skill Proficiencies: Performance, and choose from: Animal Handling, Sleight of Hand, Acrobatics
- Tool Proficiencies: One musical Instrument, Disguise Kit
- Equipment: A Disguise Kit, a badly-tuned instrument of your choosing, a clown costume, a set of common clothes, and a pouch containing 10 gp
Clown Archetype
What kind of clown on you? A sad clown? A happy clown? An Angry clown?
| d5 | Clown Archetype |
|---|---|
| 1 | Joyous Clown - There's a big grin painted across my face. |
| 2 | Sad Clown - My face is made even more morose by a huge frown. |
| 3 | Angry Clown - I have threatening, angry eyebrows |
| 4 | Surprised Clown - I look vaguely shocked by everything! |
| 5 | Curiously Blank clown - My expression gives nothing away at all. How odd. |
Feature: Clown Persona
You have a separate "Clown Persona," complete with unique makeup. Non-entertainers will often have a hard time linking you in plain clothes to the clown they see on stage-- and must make an investigation check to put the two together.
Suggested Characteristics
Many clowns have very separate onstage vs. offstage lives. Some may be intensely private without their makeup, finding that hiding behind the clown face helps them express what they truly feel. Others merely see it as an extension of their friendly, boisterous selves.
| d8 | Personality Trait |
|---|---|
| 1 | I often try to cheer people up with my clownish antics. |
| 2 | I use the clown persona to hide how clumsy or forgetful I actually am. |
| 3 | I often feel I can only express what I am really feeling through my performance art. |
| 4 | I don't mind being the butt of the joke-- Any laugh is a good laugh! |
| 5 | I often hide what I'm really feeling behind a mask-- literally or metaphorically. |
| 6 | I relish the "lowest" forms of humor-- slapstick, puns, and fart jokes get the biggest laughs anyway! |
| 7 | I play a dunce, but I'm much, much quicker than I let on. |
| 8 | I will often fan situations to see where they go-- I'm a huge fan of "Yes, and--" |
| d6 | Ideal |
|---|---|
| 1 | Hilarious Chaos. Turning situations on their head and leading them where no one expected to go is my idea of a good time. (Chaotic) |
| 2 | Carefully Ordered Laughs. The best skits have a plan behind them, and a hidden order to keep the chaos controlled. (Lawful) |
| 3 | Joy. I want to take people's mind off the pain of the world, and make the world a little brighter. (Good) |
| 4 | Deception. No one cares too much about a clown. It's a way to bide my time. (Evil) |
| 5 | Community. I am one part of a greater performance, and I wish to protect that. (Neutral) |
| 6 | Attention! I long for the fame of the stage! (Any) |
| d6 | Bond |
|---|---|
| 1 | My troupe is my family, where ever they are. |
| 2 | I love my country deeply, even if I mock it for my act. |
| 3 | I care deeply about the Art of Clowning, and hope to one day meet and learn from my heroes. |
| 4 | My life before clown hood still haunts me-- perhaps one day I will return, and face those demons as a new clown. |
| 5 | I long to lift people out of sorrow and misery-- I've been there before, and I can't resist a crying face. |
| 6 | One of my troupe members once saved my life, and I hope to return the favor. |
| d6 | Flaw |
|---|---|
| 1 | My cheerful demeanor often comes off as warped or unnatural to others. |
| 2 | I see Clowning as the one True Art, and everything else as secondary. |
| 3 | My peculiar persona disguises even more peculiar interests. |
| 4 | I have a weakness for the vices of the city, especially hard drink. |
| 5 | One day, the tables shall turn, and I shall be the one laughing. |
| 6 | I laugh off things that I should take much more seriously. |
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