You spent your childhood working on a farm or ranch. Life would have been tough, but fair, with good food being plentiful, but money being scarce.
Working on a farm can be dreadfully boring, and doesn't lend itself to the extraordinary, but on rare occasions even the humblest can alter the course of history.
- Skill Proficiencies: You are proficient in animal handling and one other skill from the following list: athletics, nature, or survival.
- Tool Proficiencies: You are proficient with vehicles (Land).
- Equipment: As a farmer, you have a single riding pony or a mule with a cart. You additionally have 5 days of feed for your animal, as well as a gaming set or an instrument.
What type of farmer were you? Did you mostly deal with animals? Or maybe you did a little bit of everything.
| d4 | Agricultural background |
|---|---|
| 1 | A Rancher |
| 2 | A Farmer |
| 3 | A Fungiculturist |
| 4 | A little bit of everything |
You can easily find room and board on the road in areas with farmland. Other farmers will trust you, and help feed any mounts in a pinch. If you're a rancher, you might know all the stops on a cattle drive path. If you're a farmer, you know some of the roads between your farm and the market, as well as knowing storefronts and other buyers of food.
Suggested Characteristics
Why did you leave your previous life? Did you grow tired of the drudgery of farm life, or perhaps events beyond your control forced you to leave?
| d6 | Personality Trait |
|---|---|
| 1 | That ain't what the almanac said! |
| 2 | ... and that's why you never sow your seeds in the same field twice. |
| 3 | My sense of humor can be crude, if only I knew what that meant... |
| 4 | Honesty never served me wrong, why should I lie now? |
| 5 | Animals will never hurt you, like people do, ... at least not on purpose. |
| 6 | They lied to me? That can't be right, surely something just came up and they'll be back soon enough... |
| d4 | Ideal |
|---|---|
| 1 | Community. It's the neighborly thing to do. (Good) |
| 2 | Independence. If I wanted to talk to people, why would I live in the middle of nowhere? (Any) |
| 3 | Fairness. What's fair is fair! (Lawful) |
| 4 | Tranquility. This truly is the best of all possible worlds! (Any) |
| d4 | Bond |
|---|---|
| 1 | My farm was devastated by a flood, and I'm in desperate need of money to save it. |
| 2 | Circumstances beyond my control forced me to leave my farm, and until they're resolved I cannot return. |
| 3 | I was fired from my job at the farm, and have nowhere else to turn to other than adventuring. |
| 4 | I grew tired of life on the farm, and became consumed with wonderlust. |
| d4 | Flaw |
|---|---|
| 1 | I don't really understand "the big picture." |
| 2 | I don't trust foreigners, why would they ever wonder so far from their homes? |
| 3 | I only know how to write words and numbers I used while farming/ranching. |
| 4 | I trust others a little more than I should, and I'm easily fooled because of that. |
Contacts
As a farmer (or a rancher) you have a contact with someone from a peripheral industry. This might be a butcher or a tanner if you mainly raise cattle, or it might be a greengrocer, an Innkeeper, or a brewery if you mostly grow vegetables or grains.
| d6 | Contact |
|---|---|
| 1 | A Butcher |
| 2 | A Tanner |
| 3 | A Brewery |
| 4 | An Innkeeper |
| 5 | A Greengrocer |
| 6 | Another Farmer |
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