Press-Ganged Captive

You were abducted and forced into service by a malicious crew - smugglers, pirates, or worse. You are accustomed to surviving in the dark holds of the ship, scavenging for your needs and performing menial or dangerous tasks at the whim of your captors.

Skill Proficiencies: Sleight of Hand, Stealth

Tool Proficiencies: Thieves’s tools, cook’s utensils or carpenter’s tools.

Equipment: A small knife, a map of the sea, a trinket stolen from the crew, a token to remember your parents by, a set of common clothes, and a pouch containing 10 gp

Suggested Characteristics

Press-ganged captives are accustomed to hard work and dangerous conditions, but may have grown to resent them. You savor your new-found freedom and opportunities but may be mistrustful of others.

d8	Personality Trait
1	I hide scraps of food and trinkets away in my pockets.
2	I ask a lot of questions.
3	I like to squeeze into small places where no one else can get to me.
4	I sleep with my back to a wall or tree, with everything I own wrapped in a bundle in my arms.
5	I eat like a pig and have bad manners.
6	I think anyone who’s nice to me is hiding evil intent.
7	I don’t like to bathe.
8	I was treated like an animal, and often act like one.

d6	Ideal
1	Respect. All people, rich or poor, deserve respect. (Good)
2	Community. We have to take care of each other, because no one else is going to do it. (Lawful)
3	Change. The low are lifted up, and the high and mighty are brought down. Change is the nature of things. (Chaotic)
4	Retribution. The rich need to be shown what life and death are like in the gutters. (Evil)
5	People. I help the people who help me — that’s what keeps us alive. (Neutral)
6	Aspiration. I’m going to prove that I’m worthy of a better life.

d6	Bond
1	The town I escaped to is my home, and I’ll fight to defend it.
2	I sponsor an orphanage to keep others from enduring what I was forced to endure.
3	I owe my survival to another crewmember who taught me to live on the high seas.
4	I owe a debt I can never repay to the person who took pity on me.
5	I escaped my life of poverty by robbing an important person, and I’m wanted for it.
6	No one else should have to endure the hardships I’ve been through.

d6	Flaw
1	If I’m outnumbered, I will run away from a fight.
2	Gold seems like a lot of money to me, and I’ll do just about anything for more of it.
3	I will never fully trust anyone other than myself.
4	I’d rather kill someone in their sleep than fight fair.
5	It’s not stealing if I need it more than someone else.
6	People who can’t take care of themselves get what they deserve.