trading Merchant

You have been a trader for some time. Either you were part of a merchant guild or you have been doing the trade on your own. You can be either a traveling merchant, or perhaps a local one. You would most likely not have a shop larger than a carpet or a cart, since you are just starting out, but you certainly have the will and skills for the craft. You would most likely have been a child of a merchant, or just a shopkeeper.

As a merchant, it is far from uncommon for you to travel in order to either reach places with good wares that you can sell for a better price, or to reach a new destination, where you can set up shop. But your call to adventure would most likely lie in this traveling. Either you have heard of certain items that you can sell to a better price, you have heard of a good city to set up shop in, or perhaps one of your wares were stolen from you and you have taken it upon yourself to retrieve the item.

Skill Proficiencies: Investigation, Persuasion

Languages: Two languages of your choice

Equipment: merchant's scale, a backpack, a charcoal pen, a logbook with wares that you have sold and their prices, traveler's clothes, an abacus, a bell, 2d6 rolls from the trinkets table (players handbook page 160-161), a mule and a cart, and a pouch containing 15 gp.

Suggested Characteristics

You are a merchant with a sharp eye for details, a silver tongue for a salesman, and the wits to know the wares that you are selling and encountering. Your travels has also lend you alot of people and experiences that shaped you.

d8	Personality Trait
1	I am quick to approach people with a big smile and a sales pitch ready.
2	Even when I am down, I also try to keep on smiling
3	I always double-check my customers and their wares, whenever I trade.
4	Flattery is my preferred trick, whenever I trade.
5	I must be tougher than the thougies and smarter than the smarties in this business.
6	I know a good story for every ware that I sell.
7	I will settle for nothing less than perfection in wares
8	I am fascinated by a certain (type of) artisan and often seek out those wares

d6	Ideal
1	Freedom. Everyone should be free to pursue their own livelihood (Chaotic)
2	Fairness. A quality should always be rewarded in kind (Lawful)
3	People. I seek to find wares that people want (Good)
4	Greed. A merchant's only love is money (Evil)
5	Aspiration. Someday, I will be the best merchant in the world. Maybe even start my own merchant guild (Any)
6	Creativity. For each ware I sell, there is a story that I can tell. Even if it is my own story with it (Chaotic)

d6	Bond
1	My parents own a shop in a town far away.
2	I would never have made it this far, without my trusted mule.
3	My cart is my home.
4	I always put alittle bit of my own story into the presentation of my wares.
5	I have had pleasant conversations with a certain guild before. and I would most likely be trading with them again.
6	I have a tale for every town, city, village and hamlet that I have set up shop in before.

d6	Flaw
1	I refuse to spend as much as a copper piece more than what price I think a ware is worth.
2	I can be a little too agressive in my sales techniques at times.
3	I hate to admit it, but I make up descriptions and stories for junk wares that I sell.
4	If you try to steal from me, I will break your arms and punch out your teeth, before I deliver you to the city watch.
5	I have a hard time approaching people. Especially in crowds.
6	I may or may not have sold stolen goods on purpose before, and maybe might do it again.