Your days are spent digging holes and chiseling gravestones for the recently deceased.
- Skill Proficiencies: Athletics, Religion
- Tool Proficiencies: Mason's Tools, Carpenter's Tools
- Equipment: A staff, a shovel, a rubbing of a gravestone, a set of commoner's clothes, and a pouch containing 10 gp
Feature: Seen it Before
Days and nights of being around the dead have stripped the horror of corpses from you. You have advantage on saves against fear effects from the undead.
Suggested Characteristics
Gravediggers are solitary and often blunt to others. Days spent among the dead usually result in a dark sense of humor.
| d8 | Personality Trait |
|---|---|
| 1 | I'm not impressed with wealth or titles. It only means a bigger gravestone. |
| 2 | I have accepted my death. Hence, I don't fear it. |
| 3 | I've spent so long in graveyards that I have little practical experience dealing with living people. |
| 4 | No one can fake a smile, a handshake, or an interested nod like I can. |
| 5 | I like to remind people of their inevitable demise. |
| 6 | I like to talk at length about my profession. |
| 7 | I have morbid interests and a macabre aesthetic. |
| 8 | I often get lost in my own thoughts and contemplation, becoming oblivious to my surroundings. |
| d6 | Ideal |
|---|---|
| 1 | Individuality. Nobody is exactly the same. No body, either. (Chaotic) |
| 2 | Responsibility. People entrust me with their loved one's remains. It's a trust I won't see broken. (Good) |
| 3 | Structure. Every plot in a line, every line in a row, every row by the book. (Lawful) |
| 4 | Control. It would be a shame if no one found your body, wouldn't it? (Evil) |
| 5 | Nature. The bodies feed the soil, which feeds the animals, which feed our bodies. (Neutral) |
| 6 | Inevitability. All names wear away eventually. (Any) |
| d6 | Bond |
|---|---|
| 1 | I will get revenge on the evil forces that destroyed my gravesite and ruined my livelihood. |
| 2 | I deeply miss someone and am quick to adopt people who remind me of them. |
| 3 | Someone I love has become a monster, murderer, or other threat. It's up to me to put them in the ground. |
| 4 | Everyone is deserving of a decent burial. |
| 5 | The families of the dead need my comfort. |
| 6 | Someone I loved died because of a mistake I made. I still care for their grave. |
| d6 | Flaw |
|---|---|
| 1 | I like keeping secrets and won't share them with anyone. |
| 2 | I get a thrill in acting suspiciously. Especially in the dead of night |
| 3 | I don't bother to couch my opinions in flattering words. |
| 4 | I'm especially superstitious and live life seeking to avoid bad luck, wicked spirits, or dying curses. |
| 5 | I'm a skeptic and don't believe in the power of rituals, religion, superstition, or spirits. |
| 6 | I pocket anything I see that might have some value. |
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