Groundskeeper

You lived on the edge of civilization, on the boundary of wilderness, most likely near backwoods and roads. Your role was not only to tend the outskirts but also as lookout. This required you to stay at your post at all times. Given the right tools and materials, often acquired through a trade or gamble with passerby's, you were fairly adept at not just surviving but thriving in these conditions. As a result, you not only have a genuine understanding of how nature functions but you have a way with words most would not expect to come from someone often described as a hermit city watch.

Skill Proficiencies: One outdoor skill and one social skill

Equipment: A journal that contains notes and drawings (on the local flora and fauna, simple recipes, maps, instructions for simple crafts, etc), 10ft of string, a whetstone, a small hammer, soap, a set of traveler's clothes and a belt pouch containing 10 gp 

Suggested Characteristics

Groundskeepers are often confused with off-duty or discredited city watch. They may go to great lengths to get something they need without leaving the area under their purview, often times owing favors or gambling debts. Given a groundskeeper's role borders on that of the mundane and the adventurous, it often comes to no surprise that they become adventurers. Used to being well-known but kept at a distance, this can often get them in trouble while adventuring, as they tend to believe they have the skills to get anything done on their own and that no one will mind any indiscretions committed along the way. Groundskeepers make excellent fighters, barbarians or rangers. Perhaps they have answered a sort of call to action or higher power and become a monk, cleric, paladin or druid. A groundskeeper may become a rogue or bard if they find that they were better at acquiring supplies than actually fulfilling their role as a groundskeeper. While a groundskeeper that spent their time studying the arcane arts, and became a wizard, is rare yet possible, it is more likely that they stumbled upon or were contacted by some greater force and became a warlock. These groundskeepers were more likely to learn new languages and other skills than use tools. A sorcerer emerging from a groundskeeper is seemingly unheard of, however, perhaps their innate magical abilities have been dormant until some defining moment occurred. A groundskeeper becoming a blood hunter can be created in a similar vein as a ranger or warlock. An artificer giving up groundskeeping to become an adventurer seems like a fairly simple transition as well.