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source: Players Guide 2
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After a body dies, it goes somewhere. Often, it went to you. Not for the work of consecrating the spirit or recounting the great deeds of the deceased but for the task of putting it into the ground. 

Perhaps you thought of digging graves as a way to build your physical prowess or viewed the work as steady employment. You might have held deeply spiritual beliefs about your work, believing it was a way to fight against the threat of undeath, or used it to pocket the goods of those whose families who never came to claim their remains. You might have worked for a city or town or been forced to make your way into dangerous crypts and secluded burial grounds. Whatever your reasons for digging graves, you became accustomed to hard labor and gained a perspective on life that few share.

# Skill Proficiencies

 Choose two from Athletics, Insight, Nature, or Religion.

# Additional Proficiencies

 Gain proficiency with construction tools and either scythes or thieves’ tools.

# Equipment

 A set of common clothes, a set of construction tools, a flask of holy water, a small shovel, a keepsake from a specific burial, and 2 gp worth of copper and silver coins.

# Talent

You worked your body to the bone in the service of giving others a final rest, despite the stigma often associated with your work. Choose a talent to represent this experience: Empathetic, Hardy, and Mental Fortitude*.

# Adventuring Motivation

Gravediggers often only encounter the downside of the adventuring life, burying those whose travels were cut short. As you begin your own adventures, determine why you left the graveyard behind.

| Adventuring Motivation |                                                                                                                                        |
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| d8                     | Adventuring Motivation                                                                                                                 |
| 1                      | Adventuring lets me leave behind a legacy that outlasts my physical form.                                                              |
| 2                      | I found something on a corpse that I must understand, no matter how far it takes me.                                                   |
| 3                      | I know better than most that we all die alone, but I don’t want to live that way. Adventuring lets me travel in the company of others. |
| 4                      | I know the truth that a certain burial was meant to cover up. A life of adventure will keep me ahead of those who now pursue me.       |
| 5                      | I was caught stealing from the dead. Adventuring is the only way I can pay back the debt.                                              |
| 6                      | I’m convinced I could do better as an adventurer than the corpses I have put into the ground.                                          |
| 7                      | The spirit of someone I buried has asked me to carry on their adventure. I will honor their wish.                                      |
| 8                      | Where I’m from, they now build funeral pyres instead of graveyards. Adventuring offers me a new profession.                            |