Tag: careers

You Get

A sling, crutches, dirty rags, a beggar’s bowl.

What Led You To Your Lot?

1. Family Business: You were born into it. Your parents raised as beggars, and you followed in their footsteps. At least one of your parents are still out there, with their can and their beggar’s bowl.
   
2. Cheated: Everything rode on that bet and you were sure to win, but somehow the house was stacked against you. You swear you’ll get back at your rival some day.
   
3. Asceticism: you follow a faith or philosophy that disallows you from owning more than a few things, needing to rely on the kindness of others. The organization you follow is possible to be called on from time to time.
   
4. Profit: Its actually very lucrative, take the max amount of of money for a starting character.
   
5. Doomed: ill omens followed your every step. You’ve never been able to hold steady work, but you’ve picked up on secrets others wish not to know.
   
6. Beggar’s Guild: You hold membership in a secret organization of spies and information brokers. You can tap into a network of unnoticed people who readily trade in knowledge.
   

What Is The One Special Thing You Own?

1. A Good Friend: A faithful dog that always seems to have a scent for extra scraps or an opportunity.
   
2. Everdripping Cap: One a day when you turn your hat upside down, it will produce one pint of low-quality ale. Unfortunately your hat isn’t super resilient, so its always soggy and reeks of alcohol.
   
3. Dire Catfish Catcher: An impressively long fishing pole you swear can never snap, with an impressive tale about a fish just as big and resiliant.
   
4. Emergency Tooth: A wooden tooth you can pop open. Useful for storing a few drops of a potion. Contains one store of a fairly potent healing brew – restore 1d4 HP when you’re able to pop it open.
   
5. Leomund’s Placid Pile: A pile of rags that you’re able to crawl underneath, whereupon you find yourself in a pocket dimension – a small, modestly stocked hut is contained within. Unfortunately anyone who disturbs the pile ejects you from your cozy home.
   
6. Spirit-Scaring Spit: One small box of chewing tobacco that otherworldly beings find extremely distasteful. For some minor spirits spewing the chew directly onto their face is a semi-reliable form of banishment. Only one use remains.

Inspired by Electric Bastionland, Knave, and Ten Foot Polemic.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

You Get

A lantern, a flask of lamp oil, a quarter staff.

Why Did You Stop Practicing?

1. Lack of Talent: The most advanced concoction you could come up with was salt water.
   
2. Heresy: Local clergy found your theories and practices to be blasphemous. They confiscated your works and now you owe a minor indulgence to the church.
   
3. Exiled: You accidentally brewed a love potion instead of the request routine salve. The subject was an heir to a local position of nobility, and their parent would rather see you dead than their offspring end up with you.
   
4. Hunted: Somehow you created a homunculus, a small 6-inch replica of yourself. This creature hates you with every fiber of its being.
   
5. Betrayed: You’re pretty sure your mentor was slowly killing you with arsenic. Every once in a while you’ll find yourself in a vomiting fit.
   
6. Accident: The last concoction you brewed resulted in a massive explosion, scarring you horribly, and burning down a significant portion of home village, many of whom will never forgive you.

What Were You Able To Make Away With?

1. Alchemist’s Fire: a clay bottle filled with sticky green fluid that catches fire when exposed to air. Counts a bottle of burning oil without needing to lit.
   
2. Bomb: Head-sized iron ball filled with explosive powder with an attached wick. Deals d12 damage to everyone nearby it, and can cause noteworthy damage to structures it is placed nearby.
   
3. Vial of Acid: Can disintegrate 1 cubic inch of any kind of metal. If used as a splash weapon, the target must pass a save or suffer -1 to Charisma if applied to the face, -1 Dexterity if applied to a limb, or -1 Constitution if applied to the torso.
   
4. Tincture Of Truth-Talking: Only a few drops remain, enough for one dose. This tasteless clear liquid will compel whoever ingests it to answer questions truthfully for d6 * 10 minutes.
   
5. Magnesium Shavings: A pouch containing d6 uses that will easily ignite and burn intensely.
   
6. Basic Alchemist’s Kit: A wooden chest filled with four corked glass vials and stand, a small bronze weight scale, pestle & mortar, stirring rods, a bottle of solvent, and a pouch of salt.

Inspired by Electric Bastionland, Knave, and Ten Foot Polemic.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.