You have a poor background being homeless or close to it. You grew up without money and had to do what it took to survive. You found, or stole, an instrument or playbook or sheet of music and discovered raw talent within yourself. You taught yourself how to perform with this newfound talent to try and make enough money for food. You perform on streets and in parks - nothing glamorous and only a step more than begging but still it usually earns you enough to just about get by.

You have learned every nook and cranny of your home city or town and know precisely which places will be busiest at which times and know how to get there quickly.

Sometimes you are not alone in your performance with an assistant amongst the crowd discretely pickpocketing your captivated audience while they're distracted or perhaps you bring an audience member into your act and they leave some coins lighter for it. Be it performance, pickpocketing or both you have learned to make do as you strive for better - the only way is up.

You find yourself with enough coin to live modestly for 10 days - did you steal this, have you been more successful with your performances lately or has somebody invested in your future thinking you will one day be a star?

Skill Proficiencies: Performance and Sleight of Hand.

Tool Proficiencies: Two musical instruments of your choice.

Equipment: A small knife, a map of the city you grew up in, two musical instruments, a set of common clothes, and a pouch containing 10 gp

Suggested Characteristics

Street performers are shaped by lives of desperate poverty, for good and for ill. They tend to be driven either by a commitment to the people with whom they shared life on the street or by a burning desire to find a better life — and maybe get some payback on all the rich people who treated them badly.

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 bluntly say what other people are hinting at or hiding.

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	My town or city 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 urchin who taught me to live on the streets.
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.