Sellsword

One moment, a goblin warrior is given a pouch of gold by a general, another, he is stabbing his way through a battlefield.

Sellswords, or mercenaries, fight for the sole purpose of getting paid. Usually, a mercenary would switch sides to whoever pays the most. Sellswords tend to earn a bad reputation and have always been untrustworthy and costly to maintain.

Skill Proficiencies: From all the times you were paid to fight, you are proficient in 2 skills between stealth, survival, persuasion, history, deception, or athletics.

Tool Proficiencies: You are proficient with simple or martial weapons (choose one), archery, and unarmed combat.

Languages: You learn an extra common language.

Equipment: You start off with 20 gp, boots, a dagger, a simple or martial weapon, boots, common clothing, a crossbow/composite bow and a hip quiver of 30 arrows, and a soldier's backpack (10 feet of rope, and 4 days of rations)

Suggested Characteristics

Roll a d4 as to WHY you became a mercenary

1. Money. I trained and bought my equipment, so I'm looking forward to being able to pay some loans and live a wealthy life.
2. Experience. I care a bit less about pay and more about learning how to fight, just in case some assassins come in.
3. Friendship. A battlefield is both where friends and swords alike meet, maybe some soldiers are friendlier than they look.
4. Ignorance. The thrill of fighting and getting paid keeps my mind away from other, more traumatizing dangers.

Roll a d4 to determine HOW you were accepted as a mercenary

1.  I asked for a pay that is just big enough to offput things like taxes, but just little enough to not ward away people from the cost alone.
2. I was well trained enough that the price was more than worth it.
3. Through a bit of shady work and hostaging, I managed to force a deal.
4. I earned a reputation as a good warrior and suddenly, everyone comes to me begging to fight for them.

And finally, roll a d4 twice for flaws and traits

First roll

1. I fight fiercely to impress the person paying
2. I tend to reminisce times of war to bring back fighting knowledge
3. I know that a stray arrow or a lucky slice will kill me, so I tend to be cautious
4.  I think fighting is ignorance and ignorance is bliss

Second roll

1. No matter how much I train, I always fear of a person better at fighting than me absolutely embarrassing me in combat as my last moments
2. I tend to use brute more than I would like to
3. I tend to think that its inevitable that I will stop being as good as I am now and my financer will stop paying me
4. The main reason I fight is to feed my family, and I fear that my family will have bad stuff happen to them while I'm away