You work to expose the harm caused by ruling powers through journalism. Maybe a local broadsheet or town crier employs you, or maybe this is how you spend your free time. Either way, the stories you investigate and report on have an impact on your community and your role within it.
- Skill Proficiencies: Skill Proficiencies: Insight, Investigation.
- Languages: Languages: Two of your choice and a journalist shorthand for taking notes.
- Equipment: Equipment: A set of common clothes, a scroll that you use to “map” important relationships between powerful figures in the city, a writing kit (small pouch with a quill, ink, folded parchment, and a penknife), and a pouch containing 10 gp.
You are known in your community as someone who can be trusted with valuable (potentially explosive) information. Community members—including those who hold power—may provide you with valuable information in the hopes that you’ll leak the information or investigate further. Other times, people may try to keep information from you or mislead you, which is a form of gathering information itself! If you don’t protect your sources and their identities, there will be consequences (determined by the GM).
Suggested Characteristics
Citizen journalists are determined to uncover the truth— wherever it’s hidden and no matter how difficult or dangerous it is to get—and bring it into the open. They’re dogged when they’re pursuing stories and will wade into unfamiliar or threatening situations to get the information they need. They might be the type to spend hours with their head buried in tomes and blueprints and official records, or someone who’s out in the streets day in and day out, looking for leads and sources.
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