You've spent the last few years working under the tutelage of a guild, organization or powerful character. Maybe you acquired the skills of dwarven ore-melting deep in the mountains, worked as an assistant in an alchemy shoppe, were a trainee sellsman for an illustrious wine-making family, a damsel of company for a local noblewoman, or even a squire for a legendary paladin... in any case you've quickly learned to guess other people's needs as you attended to the many practical tasks your work demanded. You've also become quite proficient in dealing with powerful, often difficult people and ironing out their quirks as well as their laundry.
Yet all this time spent working for others hasn't offered you the opportunity to truly discover your path in life. Recently released from your duties, you intend to remedy to this, as you finally set out on your own !
- Skill Proficiencies: Either Insight or Persuasion + 1 other skill of your choice.
- Tool Proficiencies: 2 sets of tools of your choice.
- Languages: Choose 1 language of your choice.
- Equipment: A small portable kitchen, a short sword, a big leather satchel, a lantern, a set of common clothes, and a pouch containing 15 gp
As an apprentice, you're used to be faced with impromptu and sometimes awkward work situations that demand both a quick response and good People's Skills. As such, you've become knowledgeable in various tricks of the trade and can placate or divert an interlocutors' anger, or inspire their confidence when the need arises.
Your mindset can be based on a sour disposition backed by a perfectionist's mind, or a happy-go-lucky openness that show your natural optimism and ressourcefulness, but be it as it may, you're the man (or woman) for the situation when unexpected practical difficulties arise.
You have access to various professional contacts and shoppes in one city of your choice, and know of at least one influential NPC relating to your old work.
Suggested Characteristics
Apprentices are generally very practical and/or people oriented, so their skills and specialties will tend to gravitate towards the social and the immediately useful.
On the other hand, they may have quirks that reflect their old masters and employers' tendencies or traumas.
| d8 | Personality Trait |
|---|---|
| 1 | I idolize my old employer, and constantly refer to that person’s deeds and example. |
| 2 | I always tend to strive for a diplomatic solution when trouble arises, and will try and smooth things between conflicting parties to find a common ground. |
| 3 | I see opportunity in every encounter and wherever I am, I always keep my eyes peeled for a good deal or a useful connection to be made. |
| 4 | Nothing can shake my optimistic (pessimistic) attitude. |
| 5 | I'll recall old working anecdotes in almost every situation, often at the worst possible times. |
| 6 | I have kept a fond friendship with (or a seething hatred of) my old employer's relatives, partners, friends, competitors and enemies. |
| 7 | I’ve learned the highest of both working and behaving standards as part of my apprenticeship. Rough manners grate on me. |
| 8 | I’ve spent so long working in the city that I have little practical experience dealing with people in the rural world (or vice versa). |
| d6 | Ideal |
|---|---|
| 1 | Work Ethics. Any given job should be done with the utmost care and absolute dedication and honesty. (Lawful) |
| 2 | Abnegation. I always put the needs of those who I work with ahead of my own. (Good) |
| 3 | Resourcefulness. It's not because a tool's not in the toolbox that it can't be made... or 'found'. (Chaotic) |
| 4 | Power. I hope to one day to become the best in my chosen profession. (Lawful) |
| 5 | Confidence. I trust that all my hard work will pay-off, some day. I have always believed that if I always strive for perfection, the results will show. (Lawful) |
| 6 | Aspiration. I seek to prove myself worthy of my old employer's faith in me by matching my actions against his or her teachings. (Any) |
| d6 | Bond |
|---|---|
| 1 | I am obsessed with recovering a long lost manufacturing secret relating to my old trade. |
| 2 | I will someday get revenge on the corrupt merchant responsible for the dismissal from my apprenticeship. |
| 3 | I owe my life to my old employer, who took me in his/her service when my parents died. |
| 4 | Everything I do is for the common people. |
| 5 | I will do anything to protect the guild where I served. |
| 6 | I have sworn to guard a rare item (or formula/recipe) that my old employer's enemies seek to obtain. |
| d6 | Flaw |
|---|---|
| 1 | I judge others harshly, and myself even more severely. |
| 2 | I put too much trust in those who wield power within my guild's hierarchy. |
| 3 | My affinity for my old work sometimes leads me to blindly trust (or distrust) those of the same trade. |
| 4 | I've always liked a good bit of gossip, especially about those I consider better off than me. |
| 5 | I am suspicious of strangers and expect the worst of them. |
| 6 | Once I am involved in any task, I become obsessed with it to the detriment of everything else around me. |
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