Innkeeping or tavern keeping are some of the most lucrative occupations available, but it also carries a lot of responsibility. 
When not trying to evade or reduce taxes and levies by the regional lords, there are bedrooms, dining rooms, an alehouse or a tavern to maintain. You are used to an early start, so you can clean, maintain, and providing quality services for visitors, ordering supplies, calculating bookings, and sometimes even providing security – as the atmosphere inside a tavern can at times become rather violent. You are used to receive and entertain strangers as well as regulars on a daily basis.

Skill Proficiencies: You learned to read people well and much contact with other creatures grants you access to other people-related skills. You have proficiency in the Insight and Persuasion skills.

Tool Proficiencies:  

Languages: Used to entertaining strangers regularly, you have an ear for other languages. You gain proficiency in Gnomish and Elvish.

Equipment: You have sturdy clothes (common) and a pair of leather boots, a long coat and a leather pouch containing 25 gp.

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Suggested Characteristics

 

Successful tavern keepers have to be able to notice their patrons' needs, and to listen to every piece of information and/or gossip they come across. They tend to have a welcoming or forhright personalities. They know hard work, how to make a profit, and how to turn hard work into success. 

Personality traits (d8):

1. I know a story relevant to almost every situation.
2. Whenever I come to a new place, I collect local rumors and spread gossip.
3. I’m a hopeless romantic, always searching for that “special someone.”
4. Nobody stays angry at me or around me for long, since I can defuse any amount of tension.
5. I love a good insult, even one directed at me.
6. I get bitter or annoyed if I’m not the center of attention.
7. I’ll settle for nothing less than perfection.
8. I change my mood or my mind as quickly as I change key in a song or tension in a story.

Ideals (d6):

1. I make the world better than it was. (Good)
2. Stories, legends, good manners, and principles, like helping people in need, must never be forgotten. (Lawful)
3. The world is in need of new ideas and bold action. (Chaotic)
4. I’m only in it for the money and fame. (Evil)
5. I like seeing the smiles on people’s faces. That’s all that matters. (Neutral)
6. Someday I’ll own my own tavern or inn and make my own destiny. (Any)

Bond (d6):

1. I don't make friends easily but nothing is more important than my friends.
2. I chose to travel to to hide from the ones who might still be hunting me. I must someday confront them.
3. I'm on the road now because I loved someone I could not have.
4. I overheard many a rumor. Should what I have discovered come to light, it could bring ruin to my village or town.
5. I owe my life to the tavern keeper who took me in when my parents died.
6. Everything I do is for the common people.

 Flaws (d6):

1. I would do anything for fame and renown.
2. I have trouble keeping my true feeling hidden. My sharp tongue lands me in trouble.
3. A scandal prevents me from going home again. That kind of trouble seems to find me or follow me around.
4. I'm a sucker for a pretty face.
5. Once I start drinking, it's hard for me to stop.
6. I have little respect for anyone who is not willing to put in proper work.

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