You make your living on cobblestone street corners and in crowded tavern squares, relying on quick fingers, rapid-fire patter, and actual sparks of magic to dazzle crowds and empty pockets. While true wizards study in dusty towers, you learned your arcane craft in the gutter, picking up just enough real magic to seamlessly blend it with misdirection and practical illusions. You know that people want to be fooled, and you are more than happy to oblige them. To you, there is no difference between casting a spell and palming a coin—they are both just tools to control the audience's attention.
- Ability Scores: Dexterity, Intelligence, Charisma
- Feat: Magic Initiate (Wizard) or Magic Initiate (Bard)
- Skill Proficiencies: Sleight of Hand and Performance
- Tool Proficiencies: Playing Cards
- Equipment: A set of Playing Cards, a colorful or patched jacket with hidden pockets, a small trinket used for your best trick (like a two-headed coin or a trick wand), a set of Common Clothes, and 50 GP.
Roleplay: Your Signature Trick
Every street magician has that one defining illusion that always draws a crowd. Roll a d6 or choose the trick that made you famous on the streets:
| d6 | Signature Trick |
| 1 | The Bleeding Deck: You ask a spectator to cut the deck, and when they do, the chosen card bleeds actual, physical drops of red ink (or blood) onto their hand. |
| 2 | The Breath of Embers: You swallow a lit torch, extinguish it in your stomach, and then burp up a perfect, harmless cloud of glowing fireflies. |
| 3 | The Invisible Thread: You perform a levitation trick with a coin that looks exactly like you are using hidden strings, right up until you pass a solid iron hoop completely over it. |
| 4 | The Pickpocket's Return: You steal an item from a spectator using Sleight of Hand, only to use Mage Hand to seamlessly drop it out of the sky back into their own pocket. |
| 5 | The Elemental Shuffle: You shuffle a deck of cards so fast that they momentarily catch fire, freeze solid, or spark with lightning, depending on your mood. |
| 6 | The Impossible Prediction: You write a prediction on a piece of paper, burn it to ash, and when the spectator opens their closed fist, the unburned paper is somehow inside. |
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