A Variant Farmer Image

You spent your life working the land, experiencing the rhythm of the seasons, and understanding the delicate balance between hard work and nature's whims. Your days were filled with planting seeds, tending crops, harvesting yields, and caring for livestock. Years of physical labor have made you hardy and pragmatic, while observing weather patterns and soil conditions has given you an intuitive understanding of natural cycles.

 
Skill Proficiencies: Skill Proficiencies: Animal Handling, Nature
Tool Proficiencies: Farming implements, Land vehicles
Languages: Common, Draconic, One of your choice (typically the regional trade language)

Dragons and farmers have maintained a special relationship since time immemorial. As everyone knows, dragons make excellent pest control for rabbit infestations, while their scales, when ground into powder, create the realm's finest fertilizer. Most farm children learn Draconic lullabies before Common, as dragons are widely regarded as the best babysitters during the busy planting season.

Equipment:  

  • set of common clothes
  • wide-brimmed hat
  • shovel or a demonic pitchfork that burns with hellfire
  • pouch containing 10 sp
  • small sack of heirloom seeds
  • farmer's almanac
  • Purple worm poison
 
Feature: Green Touch

You can identify plants and assess soil quality with a touch. Additionally, plants you tend yield 1d4 more produce than normal.
You can cast Goodberry once per long rest as a ritual without using a spell slot. Instead of an instantaneous effect, the spell will take effect after a day. In the place of the ritual, a shrub with goodberries will grow.

This ability developed naturally among those who devoted their lives to understanding growing things. After decades of working with soil and crops, some farmers develop an intuitive connection to plant life that borders on magical. The "verdant palm technique" is traditionally taught by elder farmers who recognize the gift in apprentices who show unusual empathy for growing things. In farming communities, those with the Green Touch are sought out for advice on planting schedules and crop selection.

Feature: Gravity Manipulation

You can cast Reverse Gravity whenever you want without using a spell slot.

Any decent orchardist knows more efficient ways to harvest tall trees than climbing ladders all day. When city folk express amazement at fruit "falling upward" into collection nets, farmers just shake their heads at such ignorance of standard practices. The technique is simply a matter of proper positioning, tool angle, and making a particular clicking sound with your tongue. Children learn it by watching their elders, like learning to call chickens or milk cows. When asked how it works, most farmers mumble something about "proper harvesting stance" and change the subject to more interesting topics like compost temperature.

 
 
Spell List

You know the following spells and can cast each once per long rest without requiring spell slot and material components:

  • Mending - Usually, farmers can't afford new equipment. The ability to instantly repair broken tools, fences, and clothing became second nature after years of "making do" with whatever was on hand.

  • Fireball - Essential for quickly clearing fields of stubborn stumps and instantaneously popping large quantities of corn. The spell was originally discovered when a farmer's particularly vigorous sneeze combined with hay fever and fermented silo gases.

  • Control Weather - Every farmer can naturally adjust weather patterns within a 5-mile radius of their property. This explains why it often rains immediately after you wash your wagon or why perfect harvest weather appears exactly one day after you've already harvested everything.

  • Conjure Woodland Beings - Originally developed as an economical alternative to hiring seasonal workers. Most farmers can summon a variety of helpful creatures simply by complaining loudly about how much work there is to do.

  • Wish - Available to farmers only during moments of extreme frustration, typically when equipment breaks during critical harvest periods. The cosmic forces of the universe recognized long ago that no being deserves emergency magical intervention more than a farmer watching their combine harvester break down with storm clouds approaching.

 

Spell Level Spells
Cantrip mending
3rd fireball
4th conjure woodland beings
8th control weather
9th wish
 
Suggested Characteristics
d8 Personality Trait
1 I judge the quality of a town by its soil composition and annual rainfall
2 I'm most comfortable when I can see the horizon in all directions.
3 I have a habit of checking the sky and predicting the weather, sometimes with uncanny accuracy.
4 I speak to plants when I think no one is listening; occasionally, they seem to respond.
5 I keep small pouches of my home farm's soil in my pockets at all times for "good luck."
6 I categorize people I meet based on what crop they most resemble in temperament.
7 I casually mention my ability to momentarily reverse gravity when discussing efficient harvesting techniques.
8 I firmly believe my chicken understands Celestial and serves as my spiritual advisor on crop rotation.
d6 Ideal
1 Sustainability. Take from the land only what you need, and ensure it will provide for generations to come. (Good)
2 Tradition. The old ways of farming have sustained us for generations and should be preserved. (Lawful)
3 SOIL SUPREMACY. THE DIRT SPEAKS AND I OBEY ITS ETERNAL WISDOM. (Unaligned)
4 Self-Reliance. A true farmer should be able to sustain themselves even if transported to another plane of existence. (Neutral)
5 Abundance. With the right combination of soil enchantment and gravity manipulation, no one in the world needs to go hungry. (Good)
6 Multi-Dimensional Agriculture. Why limit farming to just one plane of existence when there are infinite growing spaces available? (Any)
d6 Bond
1 My family farm has been passed down for seven generations, and I would die to protect it.
2 I carry a vial of water from our farm's well, which I believe has minor healing properties.
3 I seek an ancient seed variety rumored to produce crops in any climate or soil.
4 My grandmother's ghost still tends the north field, and I visit her when I need advice.
5 I've sworn to find the legendary floating islands where gravity-resistant wheat supposedly grows upside-down.
6 I maintain a small interdimensional farm plot where I experiment with growing plants affected by planar energies.
d6 Flaw
1 I'm overly suspicious of unfamiliar plants and refuse to eat produce I haven't grown myself.
2 I bore people with exhaustive discussions about soil quality and rainfall patterns.
3 I stubbornly insist on doing things the way they've always been done on my farm.
4 I sometimes accidentally influence the weather when experiencing strong emotions.
5 I've developed an unhealthy obsession with interdimensional crop rotation.
6 I believe the key to world peace is suspending all world leaders upside-down until they agree to be reasonable.
 

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