You are fascinated with the natural world, and love a hands-on approach to scholarship. Your sense of adventure drives your learning forward, and you view the flora and fauna that you coexist with with a deep reverence and curiosity. You love the water and want to learn more about the sea life.
- Skill Proficiencies:
- [Skill Proficiencies]: Choose two of the following: [Animal Handling], [Arcana], [Investigation], [Nature], [/Survival]
- Tool Proficiencies: Herbalism kit
- Languages: Elvish, and one other language of your choice
- Equipment: A set of common clothes, a book of research notes/a field journal, a scroll case, a field guide, 6 empty glass vials, 3 empty glass bottles, a book of pressed flowers and other plants
- Tool Proficiencies: Research Specialization
What ecosystems catch your eye the most? Where in nature do you prefer to spend your time? You may choose a research specialization from the table below, or work with your GM to come up with a reasonable and fitting research interest for your character.
- Languages: Language Specialization
Youll earn the ability to talk to animals
- Equipment: Explorer's Pack
10 gp - Backpack, a bedroll, a mess kit, a tinderbox, 10 torches, 10 days of rations, and a waterskin. The pack also has 50 feet of hempen rope strapped to the side of it.
Other
- Book(A book might contain poetry, historical accounts, information pertaining to a particular field of lore, diagrams and notes on gnomish contraptions, or just about anything else that can be represented sing text or pictures. A book of spells is a spellbook.) 25 gp 5 lb.
- Component Pouch (A component pouch is a small, watertight leather belt pouch that has compartments to hold all the material components and other special items you need to cast your spells, except for those components that have a specific cost (as indicated in a spell's description.) 25 gp 2lb.
- Ink Pen 2cp
- Ink (1oz) 10gp
Feature: Biodiverse Learning
You've spent enough time studying the biota of your preferred ecosystem to know the intricacies of how creatures behave, how they move, what they eat, and how they interact with the world around them. You may gain advantage on Nature and Animal Handling checks pertaining to these animals and plants provided you've spent at least 1 day observing them, after which you can gain a basic understanding of how they act in their native habitat.
Spell List
Provided spells
- Speak with animals (druid, ranger, bard)
- Calm animals
| Spell Level | Spells |
|---|---|
| 1st | speak with animals |
Provided spells
Speak with animals (druid, ranger, bard)
- Casting Time: 1 action
- Range: Self
- Target: Self
- Components: V S
- Duration: 10 minutes
- Classes: Bard, Druid, Ranger
- You gain the ability to comprehend and verbally communicate with beasts for the duration. The knowledge and awareness of many beasts is limited by their intelligence, but at minimum, beasts can give you information about nearby locations and monsters, including whatever they can perceive or have perceived within the past day. You might be able to persuade a beast to perform a small favor for you, at the GM’s discretion.
Calm animals
- Casting Time: 1 action
- Range: (25 ft. + 5 ft./2 levels)
- Target: Animals within 30 ft. of each other
- Components: V S
- Duration: 1 min./level
- Classes: Bard, Druid, Ranger
- You gain the ability to calm animals with the duration of the spell. The knowledge and awareness of many beasts is limited by their intelligence, but at minimum, beasts can give you information about nearby locations and monsters, including whatever they can perceive or have perceived within the past day. You might be able to persuade a beast to perform a small favor for you, at the GM’s discretion.
Suggested Characteristics
Suggested Characteristics
Much like the inherent biodiversity of the natural world, the behavior of Field Biologists and how they approach their work is incredibly varied. Some field researchers may close themselves off from society for days, weeks, or even months at a time to track the most elusive of animals or find samples of the rarest plants. Others are more content to simply survey the lands close to their home, and head back to their own bed after a day in the field with their colleagues.
| d6 | Personality Trait |
|---|---|
| 1 | I prefer the company of animals and plants to that of people. |
| 2 | I love nothing more than giving reverence the little intricacies of nature that many overlook. |
| 3 | The serenity of the natural world brings me a sense of peace that few other things can. |
| 4 | Certain species fascinate me, to the point of obsession. |
| 5 | I'm never found without shells in my pockets, dirt on my face, or an animal on my shoulder. |
| 6 | It's not a successful day in the field unless I feel like I've learned something. |
| d6 | Ideal |
|---|---|
| 1 | My dream is to one day index every species in the ecosystems I love to study. |
| 2 | I hope to one day revive a species that went extinct during my lifetime. |
| 3 | Understanding the workings of the natural world is the key to our progression as a society. |
| 4 | Diversity and individual variance are a deeply important part of life itself. Everything has its place in the world. |
| 5 | Nothing brings me more joy than gaining complete understanding of how a living thing works. |
| 6 | What use is learning about biodiversity if we can't also learn to preserve it? |
| d6 | Bond |
|---|---|
| 1 | I unknowingly brought an invasive species into the area around my home. |
| 2 | During my studies, I came upon a species new to science, and have not revealed this secret discovery to anyone. |
| 3 | There is a part of me that wants to abandon society entirely and become one with the wilds. |
| 4 | I nursed a creature back to health as part of my studies, and now it's become attached to me. |
| 5 | A colleague of mine took credit for a paper that I did most of the work for, and I seek vindication for how they wronged me. |
| 6 | A colleague of mine was poisoned by a mysterious creature on an expedition. It is now my goal to find the antivenom for this mystery beast. |
| d6 | Flaw |
|---|---|
| 1 | Behaviors from the organisms I study have rubbed off on me, some more unpleasant than others. |
| 2 | Being in a closed space away from nature makes me stir-crazy. |
| 3 | Making small talk with people is incredibly difficult when it doesn't involve my studies. |
| 4 | Society and the natural world cannot coexist, and I desire for the world to return to a state of unmitigated wilderness. |
| 5 | I'll often disappear unannounced for weeks at a time to pursue my fieldwork. |
| 6 | It's not uncommon for me to stop in the middle of an important journey to inspect a carcass or a weed on the side of the road. |
| d6 | Personality Trait |
|---|---|
| 1 | I prefer the company of animals and plants to that of people. |
| 2 | I love nothing more than giving reverence the little intricacies of nature that many overlook. |
| 3 | The serenity of the natural world brings me a sense of peace that few other things can. |
| 4 | Certain species fascinate me, to the point of obsession. |
| 5 | I'm never found without shells in my pockets, dirt on my face, or an animal on my shoulder. |
| 6 | It's not a successful day in the field unless I feel like I've learned something. |
| d6 | Ideal |
|---|---|
| 1 | My dream is to one day index every species in the ecosystems I love to study. |
| 2 | I hope to one day revive a species that went extinct during my lifetime. |
| 3 | Understanding the workings of the natural world is the key to our progression as a society. |
| 4 | Diversity and individual variance are a deeply important part of life itself. Everything has its place in the world. |
| 5 | Nothing brings me more joy than gaining complete understanding of how a living thing works. |
| 6 | What use is learning about biodiversity if we can't also learn to preserve it? |
| d6 | Bond |
|---|---|
| 1 | I unknowingly brought an invasive species into the area around my home. |
| 2 | During my studies, I came upon a species new to science, and have not revealed this secret discovery to anyone. |
| 3 | There is a part of me that wants to abandon society entirely and become one with the wilds. |
| 4 | I nursed a creature back to health as part of my studies, and now it's become attached to me. |
| 5 | A colleague of mine took credit for a paper that I did most of the work for, and I seek vindication for how they wronged me. |
| 6 | A colleague of mine was poisoned by a mysterious creature on an expedition. It is now my goal to find the antivenom for this mystery beast. |
| d6 | Flaw |
|---|---|
| 1 | Behaviors from the organisms I study have rubbed off on me, some more unpleasant than others. |
| 2 | Being in a closed space away from nature makes me stir-crazy. |
| 3 | Making small talk with people is incredibly difficult when it doesn't involve my studies. |
| 4 | Society and the natural world cannot coexist, and I desire for the world to return to a state of unmitigated wilderness. |
| 5 | I'll often disappear unannounced for weeks at a time to pursue my fieldwork. |
| 6 | It's not uncommon for me to stop in the middle of an important journey to inspect a carcass or a weed on the side of the road. |
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