You've spent most of your life moving from place to place, never settling down in one location for long. Maybe your family was part of a traveling circus, or perhaps you're an outlaw on the run. As you've wandered, you've dealt with people of all backgrounds and from all walks of life. Drifters do not often build lasting relationships with friends and lovers; they leave a string of acquaintances or simply refuse to even try, knowing anyone they meet will soon be a small spot behind them on the horizon.
- Skill Proficiencies: Insight, Survival
- Tool Proficiencies: Vehicles (Land)
- Languages: Two of your choice
- Equipment: A set of traveler's clothes, small souveniers and trinkets from places you've called home or visited, and a belt pouch containing 15 gp.
Origin
Feature: Contacts and Connections
You know someone (or someone knows you) in every place you've been to. When you come to a town, work with your DM to determine if you've visited it before. You can find a place to hide, rest, or recuperate among people you know unless you've shown yourself to be a danger or too much of a nuisance to them. They will help you as much as they are able, but they will not risk their well-being for you.
Suggested Characteristics
Some drifters enjoy their wandering lifestyle, whereas others long for a place to call home. Whether they enjoy moving from place to place or yearn to settle down, constant travel shapes a drifter's attitudes and ideals. Some develop an insatiable wanderlust and choose adventuring to fulfill it.
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Personality Trait |
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I’m driven by a wanderlust that led me away from home.
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2
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I watch over my friends as if they were a litter of newborn pups.
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3
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I once ran twenty-five miles without stopping to warn to my clan of an approaching orc horde. I’d do it again if I had to.
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4
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I have a lesson for every situation, drawn from observing nature.
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5
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I place no stock in wealthy or well-mannered folk. Money and manners won’t save you from a hungry owlbear.
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6
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I’m always picking things up, absently fiddling with them, and sometimes accidentally breaking them.
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7
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I feel far more comfortable around animals than people.
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8
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I was, in fact, raised by wolves.
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Ideal |
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Change. Life is like the seasons, in constant change, and we must change with it. (Chaotic)
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2
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Greater Good. It is each person’s responsibility to make the most happiness for the whole tribe. (Good)
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3
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Honor. If I dishonor myself, I dishonor my whole clan. (Lawful)
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4
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Might. The strongest are meant to rule. (Evil)
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5
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Nature. The natural world is more important than all the constructs of civilization. (Neutral)
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6
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Glory. I must earn glory in battle, for myself and my clan. (Any)
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Bond |
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1
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My family, clan, or tribe is the most important thing in my life, even when they are far from me.
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2
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An injury to the unspoiled wilderness of my home is an injury to me.
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3
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I will bring terrible wrath down on the evildoers who destroyed my homeland.
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4
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I am the last of my tribe, and it is up to me to ensure their names enter legend.
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5
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I suffer awful visions of a coming disaster and will do anything to prevent it.
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6
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It is my duty to provide children to sustain my tribe.
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Flaw |
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1
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I am too enamored of ale, wine, and other intoxicants.
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2
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There’s no room for caution in a life lived to the fullest.
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3
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I remember every insult I’ve received and nurse a silent resentment toward anyone who’s ever wronged me.
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4
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I am slow to trust members of other races, tribes, and societies.
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5
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Violence is my answer to almost any challenge.
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6
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Don’t expect me to save those who can’t save themselves. It is nature’s way that the strong thrive and the weak perish.
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