You are one of the most essential people within a community, providing food or the materials to make foods. You tend to land and harvest from it, as do you with animals and livestock. While it might be a thankless job to some folk, it must be done, and you are one of the many to do it. Whether you might plow fields of wheat or milk cows for hours a day, your job gives you a sense of the outdoors and a connection to the things that lie within it, and provides tranquility among it.
- Skill Proficiencies: Choose two between Animal Handling, Medicine, Nature, and Survival
- Tool Proficiencies: Herbalism Kit
- Languages: One of your choice
- Equipment: A rusted bucket, a shovel, a well-worn scythe (sickle), a set of travelers clothes, and a pouch containing 5 gp.
Because of your time tulling fields and tending to crops, you have a good sense of which plants are what. You can produce raw materials for foods, provided that you have farming equipment such as a scythe or a pitchfork (trident). In addition, you can find areas that will be efficient for camping.
Suggested Characteristics
Farmers are some of the most abundant of commoners within villages, and are an essential part of a community, bringing food to their tables in a literal sense and caring for the land that they till and the animals that roam among them. They are often stoic people with a level of patience and tolerance, not ones to grow upset easily when natural — or unnatural — problems occur.
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Personality Trait |
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1 |
I sometimes talk to the plants and animals I see. |
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2 |
Anything can be solved with hard labor and elbow grease. |
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3 |
I rarely ever speak, only giving small gestures as I see fit. |
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4 |
I like to talk for a while about different types of crops. Sometimes for minutes, sometimes for hours. |
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5 |
I like the smell of dirt, and I like to smell like dirt too. |
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6 |
I fall and rise early, so I can get that worm. |
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7 |
I’m very frugal in my spending, and often don’t buy more than what I think I need. |
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8 |
I like to stand or sit still and bask in the sun. |
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Ideals |
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Nature. We should tend and care for the land around us, so the land can give back what we need. (Neutral) |
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Compassion. If you have a good heart for the things you love, you’ll get loved back. (Good) |
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3 |
Honesty. An honest day’s work is a good day’s work. (Lawful) |
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Fairness. All is fair in mother nature. (Neutral) |
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5 |
Tradition. The older ways are there to guide the newer people. (Lawful) |
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Control. If you own the food, then you own the people. (Evil) |
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Bond |
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1 |
I’ll never forget the farmhand that once helped me out on my farm. |
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2 |
My fondest memories come from my pet sheepdog. |
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3 |
I look back at the wheat fields I once harvested with a deep longing. |
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4 |
I have a deep disdain for the person who burned down my farm. |
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5 |
My beloved cow will always be the creature I look back to for happier days. |
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6 |
I once embezzled a noble for money to keep my farm. Now, they want their money back, or my head. |
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Flaws |
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I tend to get carried away and lose track of time when I get involved in farmwork. |
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2 |
I often complain when I see someone “planting wrong”. |
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3 |
There’s no point in doing something if it can’t be done in a single, specific way. |
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4 |
If you can’t even properly till soil, don’t bother asking me for my help. |
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5 |
I overwork myself into exhaustion too frequently. |
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6 |
The vices of city life grant me relaxation from a hard day, but I get enamored by them too easily for my own good. |
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