A vaquero, also known as a cowboy, is an animal herder who tends livestock on ranches, traditionally on horseback, and often performs a multitude of other ranch-related tasks. Cowboys have become a figure of special significance and legend.
- Skill Proficiencies: Skill Proficiencies: Animal Handling and Survival
- Tool Proficiencies: Tool Proficiencies: Vehicles(land), musical instrument, firearm, tinker tools
- Languages: 1 Language of your choice
- Equipment: a set of traveler's clothes, a good luck trinket (choose one or use the d100 chart in the PHB), musical instrument, small satchel containing 15gp, One revolvers, or one hunting rifle, or one shotgun, 25 bullets, bandoleer, and a bandanna.
Feature: Tough
Whenever you gain a level, your hit point maximum increases by an additional 2 hit points.
Suggested Characteristics
Use the tables for the vaquero background below as the basis for your traits and motivations. But these are a suggestions.
d4 |
Personality Trait |
1 |
I only sleep in chairs with my hat covering my eyes, and my feet up. |
2 |
I have the coolest nerves in all the realms. I could stare down a arch-lich from a thousand yards. |
3 |
I sleep with my gun's under my pillow, or sitting upright with my thumb on the hammer. |
4 |
I once crossed a continent to kill the man who shot a hole in my hat. |
d4 |
Ideal |
1 |
Justice. |
2 |
My bounty cleared. |
3 |
For every last outlaw bastard to bake in the desert with a bullet in'em, and only vultures for company. |
4 |
To drink in silence, and not be bothered. |
d4 |
Bond |
1 |
My gun's hold great sentimental value to me. They a relic of my past. |
2 |
My horse is my one and only friend. |
3 |
I have a child with a former saloon prostitute. They are the loves of my life, and I miss them dearly. |
4 |
Don't touch my hat. |
d5 |
Flaw |
1 |
I can't say no to a stiff drink, and my life is ruled by when my next one will be. |
2 |
Who I was in the past haunts me every day. |
3 |
I smoke like a chimney. |
4 |
A posse of bounty hunters pursues me. I know their leader from my old gang. |
5 |
I am wanted and pursued by a sheriff of whom I was once a deputy to. |
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