Ambassador – Humblewood

You have traveled far from your home into unfamiliar lands. You may well be the first of your kind that other folk have ever met. You could be part of an official delegation or an independent agent trying to foster communication between your homeland and wherever you find yourself. Improving trade, disproving unkind rumors, or even averting war are all tasks that may lie ahead of you. You have prepared as best you can, but you know that curiosity and humility will be the most useful tools you have to complete your mission.

Feat:

Diplomatic Privilege

Your diplomatic credentials give you a degree of access and protection while on your travels. If you show proof of your role as ambassador to local authorities when you arrive
somewhere new, you can make any Charisma (Persuasion) checks to gain access to important documents, restricted
areas and private meetings with advantage.

Mending: Even the most damaged relationship can be mended with good mediation. 

Skill Proficiencies: Insight, Persuasion

Languages: Any 2 of your choice

Equipment: An identity document from your home, a precious memento, a simple weapon from your homeland of distinctive design, a scholar’s pack, 25 gp in a currency from a distant land.

Suggested Characteristics

d8 Personality Trait

1 I have been to many places and I love to talk about them.
2 I collect local currencies from every different region that I visit.
3 I come from humble beginnings and look to prove myself to the world.
4 I am eager to experience everything new around me.
5 I write the name of every person I meet in a notebook so I don’t forget them.
6 I am sometimes overtaken by homesickness and melancholy.
7 I believe a firm handshake is the best first impression.
8 I try to learn at least twenty words of the language of each new place before I visit.

d6 Ideal

1 Connection. Communication is the antidote to conflict. (Good)
2 Respect. Guests should abide by the laws of their hosts. (Lawful)
3 Adaptability. Change yourself to suit the situation. (Chaotic)
4 Open Minded. It is natural that things will be different in different places. (Neutral)
5 Conniving. Learning about others is the first step to manipulating them. (Evil)
6 Mending. Even the most damaged relationship can be mended with good mediation. (Good)

d6 Bond

1 I love my home and feel the weight of my responsibility to represent it well.
2 I was blackmailed by someone back home into taking up this mission.
3 I have fallen in love with someone from outside my home, and now my loyalties are torn.
4 Although I am working for the authorities in my homeland, I am actually a double agent for a different faction back home.
5 I leapt at the chance to leave my homeland because I did something unforgivable.
6 I have children back home, and I must work to secure a safer world for them.

d6 Flaw

1 My enthusiasm for the new things around me can become overbearing.
2 I can never fully relax.
3 When I am met with suspicion, I react in kind.
4 My thoughts are always far from the present moment.
5 I enjoy using my unusual status to make others feel off balance.
6 I get envious of the nobility and upper class folk I get to mingle with.

d8	Personality Trait
1	I have been to many places and I love to talk about them.
2	I collect local currencies from every different region that I visit.
3	I come from humble beginnings and look to prove myself to the world.
4	I am eager to experience everything new around me.
5	I write the name of every person I meet in a notebook so I don’t forget them.
6	I am sometimes overtaken by homesickness and melancholy.
7	I believe a firm handshake is the best first impression.
8	I try to learn at least twenty words of the language of each new place before I visit.

d6	Ideal
1	Connection. Communication is the antidote to conflict. (Good)
2	Respect. Guests should abide by the laws of their hosts. (Lawful)
3	Adaptability. Change yourself to suit the situation. (Chaotic)
4	Open Minded. It is natural that things will be different in different places. (Neutral)
5	Conniving. Learning about others is the first step to manipulating them. (Evil)
6	Mending. Even the most damaged relationship can be mended with good mediation. (Good)

d6	Bond
1	I love my home and feel the weight of my responsibility to represent it well.
2	I was blackmailed by someone back home into taking up this mission.
3	I have fallen in love with someone from outside my home, and now my loyalties are torn.
4	Although I am working for the authorities in my homeland, I am actually a double agent for a different faction back home.
5	I leapt at the chance to leave my homeland because I did something unforgivable.
6	I have children back home, and I must work to secure a safer world for them.

d6	Flaw
1	My enthusiasm for the new things around me can become overbearing.
2	I can never fully relax.
3	When I am met with suspicion, I react in kind.
4	My thoughts are always far from the present moment.
5	I enjoy using my unusual status to make others feel off balance.
6	I get envious of the nobility and upper class folk I get to mingle with.