Ranger's Apprentice

You were the apprentice to an experienced and well known ranger. Depending on your time as an apprenticeship, you may have learn the various skills that would be shared between rangers, or you may have loathed the experience only making through what you needed to survive. Regardless to which ever applied to you, your apprenticeship has ended for the better or worse. With the skills and experience that you learned during the will help guide your decisions from here on out whether if you chose to be a ranger or another path.

Skill Proficiencies: Survival, and one of the following Animal handling, Athletics, Nature, Perception or Stealth
Tool Proficiencies: Choose one of the following: Cartographer's Tools, Leatherworker's Tools, Woodcarver's Tools, Herbalism Kit, Navigator's Tools, or Thieves' Tools.
Languages: Choose one of your choice.
Equipment: An explorer's pack, a set of traveler’s clothes, and a pouch containing 5 gp

Ranger Specialty

As an ranger's apprentice, you are being taught the ways of a ranger, but everyone has their specialty. Choose a specialty that you've adopted, or roll on the Ranger Specialty table

d4	Ranger Specialty
1	Pathfinder. One who shows others safely through nature.
2	Forester. One who lives with nature and thrives in it.
3	Warden. A defender of nature and civilization.
4	Scout. An explorer who finds new paths.

Feature: Party Guide

Travelling is easier when you are around due to your expertise of the wildness. When you forage, you can forage enough food for yourself and 2 other people per day, provided that the land offers berries, small game, water, and so forth. In addition, while you travel for more than a hour, you and your group cannot become loss, except through magical means and non magical difficult terrain doesn't slow your group.

Suggested Characteristics

As an apprentice to a ranger, your skills are not as refined. They may choose to hone these skills to become a legendary ranger of their own, or may choose to ignore their teaches and take a different path. How they act is often reflected by their experiences during their apprenticeship.

d8	Personality Trait
1	I don't like staying in one place for too long.
2	I protect those who I care for with my life.
3	I will always strive to be better than my current state.
4	I try to teach the lessons I learned from my mentor to others.
5	I have little respect for those who use titles to disrespect others.
6	I’m always picking things up, absently fiddling with them, and sometimes accidentally breaking them.
7	I am more comfortable in the wilds than the city.
8	I have a crude sense of humor.

d6	Ideal
1	Change. Life is like the seasons, in constant change, and we must change with it. (Chaotic)
2	Generosity. I went through my apprenticeship to help those with what I would learned. (Good)
3	Honor. If I dishonor myself, I dishonor my mentor and all those who look up to me. (Lawful)
4	Might. The strongest are meant to rule. (Evil)
5	Nature. The natural world is more important than all the constructs of civilization. (Neutral)
6	Self-Improvement. The goal of a life of study is the betterment of oneself. (Any)

d6	Bond
1	I must continue to hone what skills I learned during my apprenticeship.
2	An injury to the unspoiled wilderness of my home is an injury to me.
3	I will someday get revenge on the individual who killed my mentor.
4	I suffer awful visions of a coming disaster and will do anything to prevent it.
5	My mentor was a fool who didn't see my potential.
6	My mentor was like a parent to me; they taught me everything I know.

d6	Flaw
1	I am too enamored of ale, wine, and other intoxicants.
2	I am inflexible in my thinking.
3	I remember every insult I’ve received and nurse a silent resentment toward anyone who’s ever wronged me.
4	I am slow to trust others.
5	Violence is my answer to almost any challenge.
6	Don’t expect me to save those who can’t save themselves. It is nature’s way that the strong thrive and the weak perish.