"Wobbly" is a slang term for a class of hobos and itinerant or migrant workers, including drovers (herdsmen), pickers, and miners. They often 'ride the rails'--a jouncing and 'wobbly/ experience-- either as stowaways or working for their passage on the wondrous trains of the Railway Company. The company's hub is in the city-state of Zephania's Hollow, but the great locomotives run across most of the Alliaance, carrying ore and freight.

Ability Scores: Dexterity, Wisdom, Constitution Feat: Alert

Ability Scores: Dexterity, Wisdom, Constitution

Feat: Alert

Skill Proficiencies: Stealth and Survival

Tool Proficiencies: Tinker's Tools

Equipment: Choose A or B: (A) One set of traveler’s clothes, any one tool you are proficient with, a cold-weather blanket, a flask of cheap whiskey, a pouch containing 10 GP; or (B) 50 GP

Suggested Characteristics

Suggested Characteristics

Wobblies are shaped by nomadic lives following the general principle of going where the work is. They tend to be driven either by a commitment to the people with whom they shared life on the move, or by a burning desire to find a better life at the next jobsite. Using the Locomotives of the Railway Company on the sly is just another part of the Wobbly calling, and good economy to boot.

 

d8 Personality Trait

1 I hide scraps of food and trinkets away in my pockets.

2 I ask a lot of questions.

3 I like to squeeze into small places where no one else can get to me.

4 I sleep with my back to a wall or tree, with everything I own wrapped in a bundle in my arms.

5 I eat like a pig and have bad manners.

6 I think anyone who’s nice to me is hiding evil intent.

7 I don’t like to bathe.

8 I bluntly say what other people are hinting at or hiding.

 

d6 Ideal

1 Respect. All people, rich or poor, deserve respect. (Good)

2 Community. We have to take care of each other, because no one else is going to do it. (Lawful)

3 Change. The low are lifted up, and the high and mighty are brought down. Change is the nature of things. (Chaotic)

4 Retribution. The rich need to be shown what life and death are like in the gutters. (Evil)

5 People. I help the people who help me — that’s what keeps us alive. (Neutral)

6 Aspiration. I’m going to prove that I’m worthy of a better life.

 

d6 Bond

1 My town or city is my home, and I’ll fight to defend it.

2 I sponsor an orphanage to keep others from enduring what I was forced to endure.

3 I owe my survival to another Wobblywho taught me to live on the streets.

4 I owe a debt I can never repay to the person who took pity on me.

5 I escaped my life of poverty by robbing an important person, and I’m wanted for it.

6 No one else should have to endure the hardships I’ve been through.

 

d6 Flaw

1 If I’m outnumbered, I will run away from a fight.

2 Gold seems like a lot of money to me, and I’ll do just about anything for more of it.

3 I will never fully trust anyone other than myself.

4 I’d rather kill someone in their sleep than fight fair.

5 It’s not stealing if I need it more than someone else.

6 People who can’t take care of themselves get what they deserve.