Scarred Survivor

Your body and mind bear the scars of a thousand deaths and victories. Each wound you’ve endured has hardened you, each close brush with mortality has sharpened your instincts. You are no stranger to pain or struggle; to you, survival isn’t a gift, it’s something clawed from the jaws of death. The scars that mark your flesh are stories — of triumphs, of mistakes, of monsters faced and foes brought low. They also mark you as one who doesn’t break easily. Where others hesitate, you advance. Where others falter, you endure. (In Character Builder: Choose 2 ability scores improvement from the granted feat and manually add one more during the ability score section from the same options)

Ability Scores:

Choose one of the following options:

• Increase one ability score from Constitution, Strength, or Wisdom by 2, and a different one by 1.

• Increase Constitution, Strength, and Wisdom each by 1.

Feat: You gain one of the following feats: Scarred Hide (homebrew), Tough, or Resilient.

Skill Proficiencies: Choose two from: Athletics, Insight, Survival

Tool Proficiencies: Choose one: Monster-Hunting Kit (stakes, chalk, salts, iron spikes, tracking gear) or Tinker’s Tools (improvised repairs, jury-rigging weapons or armor)

Equipment:

You start with:

• Traveler’s clothes (scarred, patched, and worn)

• Your chosen tool proficiency (Monster-Hunting Kit or Tinker’s Tools)

• One martial weapon of your choice (well-used, scarred, or bloodstained)

• A belt pouch containing 10 gp (or the equivalent in scavenged trade goods, trophies, or coin)

And choose two additional pieces of survivor’s gear:

• A hunting trap

• A whetstone and oil rag

• A bundle of torches (5)

• A flask of strong spirits (used as antiseptic or courage)

• A roll of bandages and crude stitching kit (counts as a Healer’s Kit with 2 uses)

• A coil of 50 feet of rope, frayed and patched

• A small sack of monster trophies (teeth, claws, or scales)

Choose one of the following Packages

• Armored Survior
  • Hide armor (patched together from beast skins and scavenged leather)
  • A small shield (dented, scarred, or painted with trophies)
• Unarmored Survivor
  
  • One additional martial weapon of your choice or a ranged weapon with the requisite ammo or amount.

Suggested Characteristics

d6	Personality Trait
1	I trace my scars when I think, each one a memory.
2	I keep my back to the wall — ambushes have taught me too well.
3	I laugh in the face of pain; I’ve felt worse.
4	I clean and sharpen my weapons obsessively.
5	My first instinct is to size up every threat in the room.
6	I often tell grim tales from battles past, whether anyone wants to hear them or not.

d6	Ideal
1	Strength. Pain proves my worth; only the strong endure.
2	Vengeance. Every scar has a name, and one day they’ll pay.
3	Resilience. I survived before, and I’ll survive again.
4	Sacrifice. My suffering should spare others from the same.
5	Dominance. Fear keeps others in line; my scars make me their master.
6	Freedom. I lived through chains and pain once; never again.

d6	Bond
1	I promised to hunt the monster that gave me my worst scar.
2	My scars tie me to the companions who helped me survive.
3	I keep a memento of someone who fell beside me.
4	I owe my life to the one healer who patched me back together.
5	The battlefield is my home; I will never belong anywhere else.
6	My body is a testament — I want the world to see and remember what I’ve endured.

d6	Flaw
1	I never turn down a fight, no matter the odds.
2	I mistrust anyone without scars; they haven’t lived enough to understand me.
3	I am reckless, believing nothing can kill me now.
4	I cling to my anger, because without it I might collapse.
5	I push allies away, afraid they’ll die like the others.
6	I see weakness in compassion and hesitate to show it.