A warrior for hire, your main concern has been gold. You’ve done jobs, some legal and mundane, some may have been illegal and dangerous, all for the prospect of coin. You know your way around towns and know how to find what needs done.
- Skill Proficiencies: You have additional proficiency in two of your choice of skills. Choose from Athletics, Acrobatics, Persuasion, Intimidation, Investigation, and Perception.
- Languages: You know two additional languages of your choice.
- Equipment: A bag of coins equaling 20 gold, a set of common clothes, and a guild symbol or lucky trinket.
Feature: Silver Tongue
You are well known, or recognized in towns. People recognize you as a mercenary by the way you act and move. While in a town or city, you can easily find a mercenary guild or someone hiring mercenaries. You can request information or shelter from the guild there, so long as you don’t give them cause to dislike or mistrust you.
Suggested Characteristics
Mercenary work is often a difficult and unwelcome profession. Peoples polar reactions to you rubs off.
| d8 | Personality Trait |
|---|---|
| 1 | I always have a plan for what to do when things go wrong. |
| 2 | I am always calm, no matter what the situation. I never raise my voice or let my emotions control me. |
| 3 | I don't pay attention to the risks in a situation. Never tell me the odds. |
| 4 | I blow up at the slightest insult. |
| 5 | I would rather make a new friend than a new enemy. |
| 6 | The best way to get me to do something is to tell me I can't do it. |
| 7 | I tend to approach conversation with people I've just met as though it were an interrogation. |
| 8 | It needn't be hunting down a mark - I'll chop firewood for an old woman if there's pay involved. |
| d6 | Ideal |
|---|---|
| 1 | Ambiguity This job's just a job, like any other. Nothing personal. (Neutral) |
| 2 | Justice. I only accept contracts or employers who I feel will further the cause of justice. (Lawful) |
| 3 | Freedom. I choose my own contracts, and they take me all across the world. (Chaotic) |
| 4 | Hope. Hunting marks and taking contracts allows me to give myself and others hope and closure. (Good) |
| 5 | Brutality. More than gold, violence is my motivation. (Evil) |
| 6 | Endurance In no other line of work could anyone expect to test their limits so completely. (Any) |
| d6 | Bond |
|---|---|
| 1 | Though my friends are few, I owe them my life many times over, and would happily die for them. |
| 2 | Vile rumors destroyed my family's good name, and this path is the only recourse to find the truth. |
| 3 | Mindless thuggery stole the life of one I cherished, and the price they must pay is one I will collect. |
| 4 | My guild took me in when I had nothing. I owe them everything. |
| 5 | I spend the gold I earn to support my family. |
| 6 | I’m trying to pay off an old debt I owe to a generous benefactor. |
| d6 | Flaw |
|---|---|
| 1 | I’m just here for business, I don’t care about the people my jobs affect. |
| 2 | If there's a plan, I'll forget it. If I don't forget it, I'll likely ignore it. |
| 3 | I turn tail and run when things look bad. |
| 4 | Not only am I good at what I do, but I love what I do - and I hate myself for it. |
| 5 | At a younger age my actions earned me the brand of a criminal, those mistakes haunting me and my fellows even today. |
| 6 | Sleep, when it comes, is no sleep at all. The time spent tracking marks has left me skittish and paranoid. |
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