You’ve spent most of your time driving pigox across Tesua, getting goods from small town to small town. You know how rough life is out on the desert and you know just how to get things done and keep the caravan moving. You know that in order to stay alive, you have to keep moving.
Discuss the nature of the caravan you worked with your Dungeon Master. Where in Teusa did you travel, what were you selling, and who were the people you traveled with? Is it from a famous caravan line or was it run by simple folk who just wanted to travel?
What work did you do on the caravan? Were you just a hand to move cargo and goods, or did you participate in the trade itself? Maybe you were a guide hired on to help travelers or a guard protecting a very dangerous or valuable cargo.
- Skill Proficiencies: Choose two from Athletics, Deception, Persuasion, and Survival
- Tool Proficiencies: Vehicles (land), Carpenter's Tools
- Equipment: Travelers clothes, a whittled token, a sack marked with your caravans insignia, carpenter’s tools, and a pouch containing 15 gp.
You’ve once been part of the important chain of supply and demand, and you know how it works. When you look for items or labor to purchase you know who to go to, to find reliable labor or rare goods. If the area you’re in doesn't have what you’re looking for your knowledge of the supply lines can lead you to an area that will have the items or labor that you seek. Your DM might tell you that the goods you seek might be too expensive or rare for any trader to carry, or that no laborer is willing or capable to help you.
Suggested Characteristics
The caravan traders of Teusa work hard to get things done, and most let people know that through their demeanor. Their lives have been shaped by hard grueling effort and many still believe there is more to work towards.
| d8 | Personality Trait |
|---|---|
| 1 | I’ve gained a thick accent over my years of travel and people find it hard to understand me. |
| 2 | I love telling people why places have their names, and if I don’t know why I just make something up. |
| 3 | When not in a safe place, like a town, I have no time for jokes or games. |
| 4 | New food is the spice of life. I’ll try anything once. |
| 5 | Making small crafts keeps my hands busy, and my head clear. |
| 6 | I have a journal to record of all of the people I meet and places I visit. |
| 7 | Most times I end up enjoying the company of animals more than people. |
| 8 | I give strange looking rocks or formations silly names to remember them. |
| d6 | Ideal |
|---|---|
| 1 | Honesty. Good honest work always turns out the best. (Good) |
| 2 | Discovery. To be out on the trail lets me see things most never will. (Any) |
| 3 | Sloth. I’ve worked long enough, now I should be on top. (Evil) |
| 4 | Freedom. Cities and towns have laws that keep me from doing what I want. (Chaotic) |
| 5 | Order. Without set wrongs and rights, no caravan would ever move. (Lawful) |
| 6 | Experience. Life really is about the journey, no matter where you go. (Neutral) |
| d6 | Bond |
|---|---|
| 1 | I left my friends and family behind to travel on the caravan. |
| 2 | I found one of the most beautiful places in the world, but I forgot where it was. |
| 3 | There was one special person I met in my travels that stole my heart. |
| 4 | Before I left I took something important from the cargo we were carrying. It’s owner is still looking for me. |
| 5 | My caravan and I were caught moving illegal goods. Anyone who knows of that past steers clear of me out of fear. |
| 6 | I found a map that leads to a supposed buried treasure. |
| d6 | Flaw |
|---|---|
| 1 | What’s mine is mine, I won’t give it up to anyone. |
| 2 | I find myself much too trusting of strangers. |
| 3 | When I reach my limits, most times I just give up. |
| 4 | After a long day, passing out drunk is the best way to fall asleep. |
| 5 | Any insult to something I care about is a strike at my soul. |
| 6 | Every animal I see is just a new pet who doesn’t know it yet. |
While you did spend time on the road with a caravan what you did was much more malicious. Taking common items and giving them strange names and new appearances you swindled hard working folk out of their precious coins. Selling faulty potions, fake magical items, or making rigged games the coins are all that mattered to you.
If you decide that your on your time on a caravan your were a snake oiler, you can choose the Wonderful Splendor feature instead of the Supply and Demand feature.
If your character has a caravan trader background, you may select this background feature instead of Supply and Demand.
In your profession holding people's attention it paramount to selling them the product. You can create a spectacle that draws in the attention of most if not all passerbys around you. If you have products to sell or something to keep their attention you can hold it for 5 to 10 minutes, otherwise you can create a distraction that lasts a few seconds to 1 minute. Depending on the quality of any products you may sell, a town's opinion may change greatly.
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