Growing up, you have always run around in your parents workshop, playfully learning the craft as you grew up. You are expected to take over the business one day, but before you are can become a master of your craft, first you need to do the menial tasks around the shop like sweeping, bookkeeping or deliveries.
- Skill Proficiencies: Animal Handling, Survival
- Tool Proficiencies: One type of artisan’s tools, one type of vehicle (land or water)
- Equipment: A set of artisan’s tools (one of your choice), a shovel, an iron pot, a set of common clothes, and a pouch containing 10 gp
You previously pursued a simple profession among the peasantry, perhaps as a farmer, miner, servant, shepherd, woodcutter, or gravedigger. But something happened that set you on a different path and marked you for greater things. Choose or randomly determine a defining event that marked you as a hero of the people.
| d8 | Reason for leaving |
|---|---|
| 1 | I was send on an errand by my father, I don't know if I will return |
| 2 | Our plans got stolen, I need to get them back |
| 3 | I hate the business and got away as soon as I could |
| 4 | I need to learn skills elsewhere, so I can better our own business |
| 5 | The skills of my family is renowned, I am requisted to appear in the big city |
| 6 | We will be the best, by any means necessary. I'm going to destroy our competitors |
| 7 | During a delivery our goods where stolen. I have to know who is behind this |
| 8 | The business was destroyed. I need to make money quick so we rebuild |
You have been working since you where a child an have learned the value of a hard day's work. After a day's work people seem more helpful when looking for information or a place to stay. Some might even pay more then agreed beforehand.
Suggested Characteristics
Having a family business can influence your upbringing wildly. It can mean having parents who where always working. Wealthy or not, your parents usually spend a lot of time in the business and so did you. Family is usually very important even if you decide the family business is not for you. You can always come back to it later.
| d8 | Personality Trait |
|---|---|
| 1 | I judge people by their actions, not their words. |
| 2 | If someone is in trouble, I’m always ready to lend help. |
| 3 | When I set my mind to something, I follow through no matter what gets in my way. |
| 4 | I have no problem getting a profit even from people down on there luck. Business is business |
| 5 | If it is worth doing, it's worth doing right. |
| 6 | Thinking is for other people. I prefer action. |
| 7 | People see a working man and underestimate my intelligence. I like to keep it that way |
| 8 | I get bored easily. When am I going to get on with my destiny? |
| d6 | Ideal |
|---|---|
| 1 | Respect. People deserve to be treated with dignity and respect. (Good) |
| 2 | Fairness. No one should get preferential treatment before the law, and no one is above the law. (Lawful) |
| 3 | Freedom. I want to start my own business, any business, somewhere else... (Chaotic) |
| 4 | Profit. Growing the business is all that matters (Evil) |
| 5 | Sincerity. There’s no good in pretending to be something I’m not. (Neutral) |
| 6 | Pride. Doing the best I can, where I can. (Any) |
| d6 | Bond |
|---|---|
| 1 | My family is back home, I need to check in once in a while. |
| 2 | I worked the land, I love the land, and I will protect the land. |
| 3 | My current skills where made possible by my master. I want to show him what I have learned. |
| 4 | My tools are symbols of my past life, and I carry them so that I will never forget my roots. |
| 5 | I protect those who cannot protect themselves. |
| 6 | I need to impress my childhood sweetheart, once I'm back home, she will be mine. |
| d6 | Flaw |
|---|---|
| 1 | I have always paid others to do the crafting for me. Even my father doesn't seem to know. |
| 2 | I have no flaws, I'm perfect in every way. If I really had to pick something I guess self awareness. |
| 3 | I'm the cause of the accident that destroyed the workshop. |
| 4 | I have a weakness for the locally grown drug. I need to find a replacement. |
| 5 | Secretly, I don't want to be on adventure. I want my home. |
| 6 | I have trouble trusting anyone that isn't family. |
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