The Lodge of the Dancing Bear is a loose, widespread organization that stretches from Bjeornheim to the northern coast of the Grand Duchy. Members of the lodge—known as guides—are a rough and tumble lot. As a dancing bear guide, you are at home in the wilds of Midgard, but you make forays into civilization for the express purpose of exposing city-dwellers to the freedom of the wilds. Closed-off streets strewn with garbage and filth mask the truth the wider world has to offer. You’ll show them what they’ve forgotten, and when they see, they’ll understand. Wilderness guides, trappers, teamsters, and smugglers, the guides take any job that involves dragging civilized folk through the brambles to expand their horizons.
- Skill Proficiencies: Persuasion, Survival
- Tool Proficiencies: Vehicles (land)
- Languages: One of your choice.
- Equipment: A set of traveler’s clothes, a map of the region around your home marked with shortcuts and secluded hideaways, a hunting trap, and a pouch containing 10 gp.
Feature: Two-World Stride
You walk between the wilderness and settlements with carefree ease. As a dancing bear guide, the value of your services is known to all. You can pass freely through city gates where travelers are typically scrutinized or taxed, and you can cross disputed land or through the territory of warring tribes without harassment by making your affiliation known; no one wants to alienate the guides without a compelling reason. You lose this consideration in a given city if you earn a reputation there as a criminal or as a trouble-maker, at the GM’s discretion.
Suggested Characteristics
Dancing bear guides might appear gruff and unapproachable when they’re in towns, but that has more to do with their discomfort in urban settings than with their personalities. In the wilderness they love, most dancing bear guides are personable and friendly, and they even have an endearing if rough sense of humor. They’ll form connections with anyone who displays a love for the wilderness or a sincere desire to learn its ways. Guides offer their services readily.
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“I enjoy the discomfort of fancy folk when they slog through the mud”
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Ideal |
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1
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“Protection. Until you know what’s out there, the wild can be deadly. I’ve got your back."
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Bond |
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“I’m always watching for threats to my homeland during my time on the road.”
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Flaw |
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1
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“I get too used to creature comforts when I’m in town, and sometimes I get lost in drink, soft beds, and company.”
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