You are a member of the Surveyor’s Guild, skilled in mapmaking, scouting, or surveying. You learned your skills as an apprentice to a master surveyor, under the sponsorship of the guild. You’ve witnessed the migration of herds of unknown creatures, survived weather more extreme than any city-dweller could comprehend, and enjoyed the solitude of being the only thinking creatures for miles in any direction.
- Skill Proficiencies: Insight, Survival
- Tool Proficiencies: Cartographer's tools or Calligrapher's supplies
- Languages: One of your choice
- Equipment: A set of artisan’s tools (Cartographer's tools or Calligrapher's supplies), a guild emblem of rank, a set of traveler’s clothes, and a pouch containing 15 gp
Feature: Guild Apprenticeship
As an established and respected member of a guild, you can rely on certain benefits that membership provides. Your fellow guild members will provide you with rough layouts and maps of regions they’ve been to. In some cities and towns, a guildhall offers a central place to meet other members of your profession as well as turn in newly mapped regions for coin.
Suggested Characteristics
Guild surveyors are among the oddballs of the world — choosing to forge into the unknowns to discover things that might want to remain unknown.
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I believe that anything worth doing is worth doing right. I can’t help it — I’m a perfectionist.
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2
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I’m a snob who looks down on those who can’t appreciate fine map.
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3
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I always want to know how things work and what makes people tick.
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4
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I’m full of witty aphorisms and have a proverb for every occasion.
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5
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I’m rude to people who lack my commitment to hard work and fair play.
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6
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I like to talk at length about my profession.
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7
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I don’t part with my money easily and will haggle tirelessly to get the best deal possible.
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8
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I’m well known for my work, and I want to make sure everyone appreciates it. I’m always taken aback when people haven’t heard of me.
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Ideal |
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Community. It is the duty of all civilized people to strengthen the bonds of community and the security of civilization. (Lawful)
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Generosity. My talents were given to me so that I could use them to benefit the world. (Good)
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3
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Freedom. Everyone should be free to pursue his or her own livelihood. (Chaotic)
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4
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Greed. I’m only in it for the money. (Evil)
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5
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People. I’m committed to the people I care about, not to ideals. (Neutral)
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Aspiration. I work hard to be the best there is at my craft. (Any)
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Bond |
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The workshop where I learned my trade is the most important place in the world to me.
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2
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I created a great work for someone, and then found them unworthy to receive it. I’m still looking for someone worthy.
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3
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I owe my guild a great debt for forging me into the person I am today.
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4
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I pursue wealth to secure someone’s love.
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5
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One day I will return to my guild and prove that I am the greatest artisan of them all.
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6
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I will get revenge on the evil forces that destroyed my place of business and ruined my livelihood.
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Flaw |
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I’ll do anything to get my hands on something rare or priceless.
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2
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I’m quick to assume that someone is trying to cheat me.
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3
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No one must ever learn that I once stole money from guild coffers.
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4
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I’m never satisfied with what I have — I always want more.
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5
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I would kill to acquire a noble title.
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6
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I’m horribly jealous of anyone who can outshine my handiwork. Everywhere I go, I’m surrounded by rivals.
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