You are a semi-wealthy merchant, traveling through the lands and selling your goods. By trading, you secure your income. Through your mobile way of living you know most of the land and are commonly known in some smaller towns you often stop at. As a provider of crucial goods and materials, the local folks give you a warm welcome when you come into town. Also, you're experienced in the economy, can often assume the worth of any (nonmagical) item. On many occasions, you had to talk yourself out of a situation and are quite experienced in bargaining.
- Skill Proficiencies: persuasion
- Tool Proficiencies: vehicles(land)
- Languages: Choose one between common, drawish, elvish, gnomish, and draconic
- Equipment: A wagon, a draft horse, up to 5 items from the equipment list worth up to 20gp combined, set of common clothes, a pouch containing 10gp
Due to your past, you're very likely to meet acquaintances in smaller towns and villages. Likely are landlords, tradesmen, soldiers, priests, and farmers. These friendly faces will be more likely to help you or do you a favor. In exchange, they might want to incline you to buy a certain item from you.
Suggested Characteristics
There are merchants of any character. Some are cunny and deceiving, some friendly and warm-hearted. Dependant on the trading goods you either count yourself to higher or lower social groups. Merchants often use a lot of words, not regarding whether it's wise or not.
| d8 | Personality Trait |
|---|---|
| 1 | "I complain violently if something is even slightly overpriced" |
| 2 | "I always chat in great detail with people." |
| 3 | "I instinctively call out the price or work of items, tasks and other subjects." |
| 4 | "I often speak very loudly and my voice is quite piercing." |
| 5 | "I'm quite unfriendly to other merchants for they pose a threat to my buisness." |
| 6 | "I take every chance to gain money, by selling or otherwise." |
| 7 | "I tend to challenge other wagon drivers to risky road races." |
| 8 | "I get into every Inn I possibly can." |
| d8 | Ideal |
|---|---|
| 1 | "Trading guilds are the worst! They just surpress the free trade and get caught up in crime (chaotic)." |
| 2 | "The customer is king. Making the fairest price is key to my buisness (lawful good)." |
| 3 | "Those locals are strange. Travelling is a much better way of living (chaotic good)." |
| 4 | "Every good merchants highest goal should be one thing: maiking money! (lawful evil)" |
| 5 | "A good customer is one who pays and leaves me alone (true neutral)." |
| 6 | "The happy look on people's faces when they recieve their goods is the reason why I am (good)." |
| 7 | "We merchants have fallen into shame, I shall retreive the good name of our buisness (lawful good)." |
| 8 | "I can't stand these foreigners and otherlings (evil)." |
| d6 | Bond |
|---|---|
| 1 | "I'm in great dept to a guild official. I hope his men never find me." |
| 2 | "I heard from this one powerful relic, dreaming my whole life of finding it one day." |
| 3 | "I have to leave my familiy behind at my hometown to sell my goods. They depend on the money I bring." |
| 4 | "Feeding the poor has always be my destiny, this I shall continue." |
| 5 | "Being loyal to my trading guild, I preserve their secrets, even the dirty ones." |
| 6 | "I need to save enough money to end this endless traveling and finally settle down." |
| d6 | Flaw |
|---|---|
| 1 | "I always expect the worst from people, seeing enemies everywhere." |
| 2 | "I am riskloving, travelling dangerous roads alone, challenging superior opponents, etc." |
| 3 | "I don't know how to behave in socially tense situations, getting all weird." |
| 4 | "I have a pessimistic attitude, complaining all the time, whining a lot." |
| 5 | "I am clumsy and forgetful, getting distracted easily." |
| 6 | "I tend to obviously overprice my products in order to make more money or to get a good bargain." |
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