You are a basic townsperson who runs the local tavern, serving customers and providing hospitality to passers by.
- Skill Proficiencies: By chatting up locals, giving information to adventurers, and driving out rowdy drunkards or gang members, you have learned to read people quite well, giving you proficiency in insight. Also, in order to keep customers happy, your tavern offers entertainment, giving you proficiency in performance.
- Tool Proficiencies: Being an expert mixologist gives you proficiency in brewer’s supplies, and being invited to participate in bar games gives you proficiency in one gaming set of your choice.
- Languages: You’ve had a variety of clientele, not all of which speak common. As such, you’ve had to learn to speak a new language to broaden your audience. You can speak, read and write one extra language of your choice.
- Equipment: You start with a bottle of ale, a trinket gifted to you by a loyal customer, a set of common clothes, a few review letters regarding your tavern, and a pouch containing 15gp.
Did your tavern serve delectable delicacies, catering to the upper class of your town and turn your nose up snobbishly at the poor? Or was it an inclusive, affordable place to hit the town with friends? Roll a d6 on the table below to decide how successful and of what quality the tavern you run is.
1. Woebegone. Rats everywhere, diluted ale and moldy bread to eat. You also provide no living quarters.
2. Substandard. The food is edible. That’s about it. You provide squalid rooms.
3. Humble. Your tavern was a common place for social gatherings, serving food and drink of good quality. You provide poor living conditions.
4. Respectable. Your tavern is well-known throughout your town, and any adventurers passing through are often guided to it. The menu has many great options, and you provide modest living conditions.
5. Esteemed. Your tavern is one of the most highly rated and famed throughout your town. The food is always fresh and well made, and the drinks are quenching and tasty. You provide comfortable living conditions.
6. Superlative. Your tavern is highly regarded by the richest of the upper class, often accommodating traveling nobles and wealthy tourists. Those with enough money travel across the lands just to visit your tavern. The food is enough to please renowned critics, the drinks of peerless, matchless quality, and the atmosphere comparable to a royal dining hall. You provide wealthy housing, comparable to the most revered inns in the land.
As a tavern wench, you have discovered the ins and outs of extracting information from people by socializing with a panoply of people. You have advantage on wisdom (insight) and charisma (deception) checks when inside a tavern, bar or other social common within town.
Suggested Characteristics
Tavern wenches are often people who are counted on to run the rumour mill, on top of their tavern. The quality of the tavern they run might affect their personality (a low-quality tavern wench might be blunt or easily agitated, whereas a tavern wench who owns a more posh facility may be haughty or snobbish). Their flaws might be greed, dishonesty, or a favour owed to a regular client.
| d8 | Personality Trait |
|---|---|
| 1 | I've changed my personality to cater to my clientele so many times I've started to forget who I really am. |
| 2 | My only allegience is to the almighty coin, and it's hard for me to turn down a deal, even if it is just for a few copper. |
| 3 | I've witnessed so many bar fights that I've become desensitized to violence. |
| 4 | When I talk to someone, one minute of conversation is equal to one decade of their history locked into my brain. |
| 5 | I've heard so many drunk sob stories that I am now a qualified therapist. |
| 6 | Even in a loud, crowded space, I've learned to drown out white noise and eavesdrop on juicy conversations. |
| 7 | I'm great at not listening to a word people say and still offering helpful advice that satisfies them. |
| 8 | Even if I know what somebody did is a heinonus crime, I'd never snitch on them. |
| d6 | Ideal |
|---|---|
| 1 | Honesty. Keeping things from people and scamming them is an act of betrayal I won't stand for. (Good) |
| 2 | Order. Criminals, gang members and other likeminded thieves deserve to be behind bars. (Lawful) |
| 3 | Coinage. My moral compass is money. (Chaotic) |
| 4 | Extortion. I will find out a person's most awful secrets and use that to gain money or favour from them, or maybe just make it public knowledge. (Evil) |
| 5 | Asylum. I aim to protect and hide people running from the law. (Chaotic) |
| 6 | Legacy. I want to be remembered and celebrated for generations. (Any) |
| d6 | Bond |
|---|---|
| 1 | My tavern was originally owned by my parents, whose parents owned it before them, and so on. I hope to pass it down to my own heir someday. |
| 2 | I've grown used to being confided in by people, and being approachable is something I strive to be. |
| 3 | A negative review letter from an unhappy client really hurt me, and now I obsessively try to fix even the smallest things that people are upset with me about. |
| 4 | A regulary client once saved me from a drunk madman, and I desperately wish to return the favour someday. |
| 5 | A close friend gifted me a bottle of ale as a joke, but died shortly thereafter. I poured the bottle out for them, and have kept it as a reminder of them wherever I go. |
| 6 | I've met a lot of corrupt businesspeople in my lifetime, and I do everything in my power not to give in to the same greed they do. |
| d6 | Flaw |
|---|---|
| 1 | The extent to which I'd go for a bit of coin scares even me, and I'm easily persuaded with a jingling pouch of gold. |
| 2 | My tavern didn't do well enough to cover property taxes. I am wanted for tax evasion. |
| 3 | If someone does me wrong, I wouldn't physically hurt them. I would find every single secret they've ever tried to hide from people, and use it to drive a wedge between them and everyone they've ever loved, effectively making them a pariah and an outcast. |
| 4 | I tend to overshare, and make people uncomfortable by sharing things with them that couldn't be tortured out of most people. |
| 5 | I've seen what alcohol does to people. If they've taken even one swig that day, I'd likely not speak to them until I know for a fact that it's worn off. |
| 6 | I have nothing against exploiting people when they're at their most vulnerable, even if it makes others hate me. |
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