One (or both) of your parents was an adventurer, and the call of it is in your blood. Maybe you grew up with stories of your parents' exploits, or maybe you desperately want to know what happened to your father oh-so-many years ago.
- Skill Proficiencies: Insight, History
- Tool Proficiencies: cartographer's tools
- Languages: one language
- Equipment: a set of fine clothes, your parents' diary or a faded map to a dungeon or foreign land, a vial of ink, a ten foot pole, a boot knife, 20 gp in a belt pouch.
Feature: Allies
Either you can occasionally get some sort of support, magic, or information from your parents themselves, or allies/acquaintances of theirs will periodically offer their aid. This operates wholly at GM discretion.
Suggested Characteristics
Rised by adventurers, for good or ill.
| d8 | Personality Trait |
|---|---|
| 1 | I often quote stories of my parents' |
| 2 | I try to collect stories of what actually happened in my parents' lives |
| 3 | I try to hide from my parents' reputation. |
| 4 | My parents travelled far, so I live by the codes of a faraway land. |
| 5 | My parents taught me their livelihood, but sometimes all I really want is a common life. |
| 6 | I grew up watching wealth squandered outrageously, money means little to me. |
| 7 | I inherited a casual roughness or shamelessness that can shock my companions at times, such as readily taking to graverobbing or changing my armour in public. |
| 8 | My fathers/mothers profession is something I'm quite familiar with, I sometimes seem to think like one of them rather than what I was actually trained in. Perhaps I'll follow in their footsteps one day. |
| d6 | Ideal |
|---|---|
| 1 | I must live up to my parent's legend (Good) |
| 2 | I will finish what my parents left unfinished. (Lawful) |
| 3 | I will find what became of a missing parent (or one of their companions).(Good) |
| 4 | I will prove that I'm better/different person to my parents (Good/Evil) |
| 5 | I'm all about the adventure and excitement (Chaotic) |
| 6 | I must seek vengeance for my parents. |
| d6 | Bond |
|---|---|
| 1 | I feel a kinship with other children of my parents' adventuring party. |
| 2 | I serve the same lord my father served. |
| 3 | I was raised to revere my parents' deity above all else. |
| 4 | I was given a memento of my parents, yet lost it. It must be retrieved. |
| 5 | My parents incurred debts that still have to be repaid. |
| 6 | The gold is all that matters, I picked up that much. |
| d5 | Flaw |
|---|---|
| 1 | I'm the child of a hero, dammit. Give me some respect. |
| 2 | 'll never be as good as them |
| 3 | My parents' enemies yet haunt me. |
| 4 | I believe I have an inevitable destiny, and too easily behave recklessly. |
| 5 | 6.My parents stories sometimes lead me to apply dungeoneering skills inappropriately, such as by mapping taverns I walk into or checking new suits of armour for traps. |
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