
You understand wealth, power, and privilege. You understand starvation, fear, necessity, and pain.
You were born of your mother’s infedelity and grew up without knowing your true heritage for some time. When your bastard nature was discovered, you were cast to the streets where you learned to survive.
How long did you spend in each world before becoming an adventurer? Did you adapt quickly or really on pity? Did you run with a group or keep to yourself? Do you resent either of your parents or the noble class? Do you wish to prove your worth to the world?
- Skill Proficiencies: History, Deception
- Tool Proficiencies: One type of gaming set
- Languages: One of your choice
- Equipment: A set of beggars clothes and a stolen keepsake from home.
Thanks to your bastard birth, nobles are inclined to think the worst of you. You are unwelcome in high society, and people assume you are up to some petty crime. The common folk either openly resent you or treat you with pity.
You know the ways of court and nobility and can be more natural than most commoners in a ball or party.
As an urchin, you know the ways of the streets and if not know where to find things, recognize who to talk to. Your street days allow you to traverse the streets without the scrutiny of some crews and blend in with the crowd and more easily notice who you need to avoid.
Suggested Characteristics
Nobles are born and raised to a very different lifestyle than most people ever experience. They never need to worry about basic needs, a cunning and cutthroat nature is often necessary to survive in court, assassins may have been a real threat.
Urchins live every day leaning on deaths door. Every day is a fight to stay alive, both physically and mentally. A cunning and cutthroat nature is often necessary to survive the streets. There are always those who are bigger and stronger who will kill without hesitation or remorse.
d8 | Personality Trait |
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1 | My eloquent flattery makes everyone I talk to feel like the most wonderful and important person in the world. |
2 | I spare food to those who need it more than I. |
3 | No one could doubt by looking at my regal bearing that I am a cut above the unwashed masses. |
4 | I take great pains to always look my best despite my economic position. |
5 | I deserve my title and thus I deserve the respect and subservience of those around me. |
6 | Despite my noble birth, I do not place myself above other folk. We all have the same blood. |
7 | My favor, once lost, is lost forever. |
8 | If you do me an injury, I will crush you. |
d6 | Ideal |
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1 | Respect. Respect is due to anyone regardless of position, all people regardless of station deserve to be treated with dignity. (Good) |
2 | Responsibility. It is my duty to respect the authority of those above me. (Lawful) |
3 | Independence. I must prove that I can handle myself without the coddling of my family. (Chaotic) |
4 | Power. If I can attain more power, I can return to my rightful place. (Neutral) |
5 | Family can be found in anyone and is to be protected. (Any) |
6 | I will obtain power, and I will punish my family for casting me out. (Evil) |
d6 | Bond |
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1 | I will face any challenge to win the approval of my family. |
2 | I must avenge a wrong done to a member of my crew. |
3 | Nothing is more important than the other members of my crew. |
4 | I will obtain money and status to prove I am not the trash my parents discarded. |
5 | My loyalty to my friends is unwavering. |
6 | I will obtain money and status that I may prevent others from suffering as I have. |
d6 | Flaw |
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1 | I secretly believe that everyone is beneath me. |
2 | I hide from danger, I can’t bring myself to face it. |
3 | I too often hear veiled insults and threats in every word addressed to me, and I’m quick to anger. |
4 | I have an insatiable desire for decadent pleasures. |
5 | If you look at me as inferior, I will pull you beneath me. |
6 | I deserve to have whatever I want. When I take something, it should have been mine all along. |
You discovered the scandalous nature of your birth privately and wether from shame or fear, fled your home and learned to fend for yourself on the streets.
Did your parents know of the nature of your birth? Are they trying to look for you? Is that a good thing?
You hold all of the previous traits and features and gain this one.
Nobility and those surrounding them might recognize you. Is that I good thing?
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