
You grew up as a slave, working as your masters deemed fit without choice but now you are free. You have slowly come to terms with your freedom but struggle with your new life having never benefited from a childhood of choices, decisions and consequences to give you the experience to feel either comfortable or relaxed with your new life. This may manifest as social anxiety and you hide yourself away or put yourself in situations where you have no choices or you have thrown caution to the wind and partake in every experience denying yourself nothing as you navigate your new life.
- Skill Proficiencies: Choose two from among Persuasion, or Deception, and Insight, or Perception
- Tool Proficiencies: One type of artisan’s tools
- Languages: Choose one language
- Equipment: A set of artisan’s tools (one of your choice), an item from you time as a slave, a set of common clothes
Before you set out as an adventurer your life as a slave defined you as property not as a person. What moment of chance or whim of fate granted that which previously you only imagined. Choose how you became free, or roll on the Freedom Events table.
d8 | Slave to the past |
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1 | You were the favored slave of a mostly benevolent owner who granted your freedom as an act of kindness. |
2 | You were skilled or fortunate enough to buy your own freedom but was the cost worth it? |
3 | You killed your former masters and escaped into the night. Did you get away or are your former masters still seeking you? |
4 | You were part of a slave revolt, your companions rose up and fought for your freedom. Did you split up or do you still speak to your companions? |
5 | Slavery was outlawed and you were freed forcibly with the stroke of a pen. Did the law provide for you or abandon you afterwards. |
6 | You were freed by others looking to end the practice of slavery. Was it a rescuing militia or social crusaders? |
7 | You struck a bargain that resulted in freedom. Are you truly free or have you just swapped one yoke for another? |
8 | The transport you was on crashed, or sunk, you awoke with everyone dead or no one around. You have never looked back. |
As an ex-slave, you know how to locate access the 'Underground Caravan', a secret network of merchants and citizens who provide assistance to slaves escaping from captivity. You know a set of secret marks and passwords you can use to identify members, who can provide you information or arrange access to a hidden safe house until such time as you can be safely transported out of the City, Town or Village you are in. These people will never risk their lives for you or risk revealing other members of the Caravan.
Suggested Characteristics
Slaves are property not people. You have lived with indignities most people will never understand. Now you respect freedom and liberty and consider those who seek to control such with suspicion.
d8 | Personality Trait |
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1 | I refuse to become a victim, and I will not allow others to be victimized. |
2 | I never relax, I expect to be found at any moment and have my escaped planned. |
3 | I never back down or admit I am wrong, this is a sign of weakness. |
4 | I do not make plans, I take each new day as it comes and with a smile. |
5 | My past is my shame, no one must ever know. |
6 | I follow those who take the lead, I am more comfortable doing as I am told. |
7 | Possessions are meaningless. Experiences and memories are priceless. |
8 | I cannot hold peoples gaze, I rarely look them in the eye. |
d6 | Ideal |
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1 | Stability. Without a strong society, the decent into lawlessness and exploitation is inevitable. (Lawful) |
2 | Respect. People deserve to be treated with dignity and respect. (Good) |
3 | Freedom. The people should not be constrained by society. (Chaotic) |
4 | Greed. There are no limits to what i will do to achieve my goals. (Evil) |
5 | People. I look out for me and my own above society. (Neutral) |
6 | Destiny. I am an agent of change and will achieve my goal. (Any) |
d6 | Bond |
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1 | The people who made me a slave still operate. I still plot my revenge. |
2 | I will fight to the death to protect those who help me. |
3 | I owe everything to the person who freed me. I can never repay them. |
4 | I pursue power to allow me to change this unfair world we live in. I will enact change. |
5 | My family still remains as slaves, I am still looking for them and I will free them |
6 | No one should ever experience what I lived through. |
d6 | Flaw |
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1 | When given choices, I freeze, I never know what to do. |
2 | My initial reaction is to obey when I am ordered by someone in authority. |
3 | I was denied everything for so long, never again. If I want it, I will have it. |
4 | If a new experience presents itself I forget what I was doing previously to partake. |
5 | I will shout down others I disagree with, or finish it with my fists if I cannot. |
6 | I get a thrill out of imposing my will on others. I will say or do anything to make people do what I want. |
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