Mercenary

You work for a living using your combat skills for profit, whether you were a bounty hunter or someone’s personal guard you just worked to get paid. You may have worked for criminals as an enforcer or for the law as a 3rd party operative. Either way mercenary life is a life of traveling town to town and completing contracts

Skill Proficiencies: Investigation, Survival

Languages: You get two languages of your choice that you used to help garner information on your targets

Equipment: A mercenary license, a trophy from an important job in your career (a dagger, photo, or any other memento), a set of bone dice or deck of cards, a set of common clothes, and a pouch containing 15 gp

Suggested Characteristics

The training for mercenary work often times shapes a person’s personality, your training may have made you hardened and cold to those you’re hunting or compassionate to those who you may be safe guarding. Either way you’re time learning the trade has changed you either for the better or worse.

d8	Personality Trait
1	I’m always polite and respectful.
2	I’m haunted by memories of fighting. I can’t get the images of violence out of my mind.
3	I’ve lost too many friends, and I’m slow to make new ones.
4	I’m full of inspiring and cautionary tales from my combat experience relevant to almost every combat situation.
5	I can stare down a hell hound without flinching.
6	I enjoy being strong and like breaking things.
7	I have a crude sense of humor.
8	I face problems head-on. A simple, direct solution is the best path to success.

d6	Ideal
1	Greater Good. Our lot is to lay down our lives in defense of others. (Good)
2	Responsibility. I do what I must and obey just authority. (Lawful)
3	Independence. When people follow orders blindly, they embrace a kind of tyranny. (Chaotic)
4	Might. In life as in war, the stronger force wins. (Evil)
5	Live and Let Live. Ideals aren’t worth killing over or going to war for. (Neutral)
6	Nation. My city, nation, or people are all that matter. (Any)

d6	Bond
1	I would still lay down my life for the people I served with.
2	Someone saved my life on the battlefield. To this day, I will never leave a friend behind.
3	My honor is my life.
4	I’ll never forget the crushing defeat my company suffered or the enemies who dealt it.
5	Those who fight beside me are those worth dying for.
6	I fight for those who cannot fight for themselves.

d6	Flaw
1	The monstrous enemies we faced in battle still leaves me quivering with fear.
2	I have little respect for anyone who is not a proven warrior.
3	I made a terrible mistake in battle that cost many lives—and I would do anything to keep that mistake secret.
4	My hatred of my enemies is blind and unreasoning.
5	I obey the law, even if the law causes misery.
6	I’d rather eat my armor than admit when I’m wrong.