Con Artist

They say there is a sucker born every minute. Regardless, exploiting people for money is your forte.  Whether for survival or the challenge of it, you've learned how to manipulate people and situations for profit.  A fool and their money are easily parted and in your experience everyone can be made a fool under the right conditions.  Short cons, long cons, you've done them all.  Of course, knowing when you should move along to fresher fields, as it were, before your marks become an angry mob has kept you from settling down.  You tend to travel a lot, fleecing the rubes for awhile and then finding somewhere else to be.  The next con is never far away, and you intend to be the one to pull it off.

Skill Proficiencies: Deception, Insight, and Sleight of Hand

Tool Proficiencies: All game sets available per the campaign setting

Languages: Pick one:  Elvish, Dwarvish, Gnomish, or Halfling

Equipment: Traveler's clothes, 5 days of Rations, 2 game sets of your choice, and a pouch containing 10gp

Suggested Characteristics

Always being on the lookout for a good con makes it difficult to relate with others on a genuine level.  Constantly judging everyone as a potential mark and assessing every situation for its profit potential puts a serious damper on forming real relationships.  Of course, never laying down any sort of roots leads to a lonely life.  Some folk are just made for such a life, while others secretly long for lasting companionships.  However, finding adventure on the road, wanted or not, is relatively easy.

d6	Personality Trait
1	I know a story relevant to almost every situation.
2	Whenever I come to a new place, I collect local rumors and gossip.
3	I hold nothing with sentiment, money can always replace that which has been lost.
4	People who have nothing I want bore me.
5	I know a story relevant to almost every situation.
6	I always have an escape plan in case things go badly.

d6	Ideal
1	Fairness. I'm a sucker for helping those abused by the powerful. (Good)
2	Greed. I’m only in it for the money. (Evil)
3	Humiliation. Those who think the law protects them are my favorite marks. (Chaotic)
4	If you're not living life to the fullest, why bother? (Any)
5	The end justifies the means. (Neutral)
6	I will be remembered for performing the greatest con anyone has ever seen.

d6	Bond
1	I’m trying to pay off an old debt I owe to a powerful individual.
2	I spent some time in prison and am on the run since escaping.
3	I learned to turn cons on the streets as a child and still have contact with members of the old gang.
4	My parents taught me the ropes of running a con before they were imprisoned.
5	I keep an eye on a group of local urchins, helping to teach them how to survive.
6	I had a partner once, but they betrayed me before skipping town.

d6	Flaw
1	I perform cons just to see if I can get away with them.
2	Recently, a con against a fairly important family went badly.
3	When faced with a choice between money and my friends, I usually choose the money.
4	An innocent person is in prison for a crime that I committed. I’m okay with that.
5	I'm confident in my ability to talk my way out of any situation.
6	I am suspicious of any act of altruism. Nobody does something for nothing.