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Players Guide 2

You worked for someone else, earning coin by doing the various tasks they couldnt or didnt want to do themselves. You might have helped to maintain a residence, raise a child, or ensure the comfort or safety of whoever employed you. Perhaps you were the trusted companion to one employer for years at a time, worked for a service that sent you on many different jobs, or were part of the living machinery of a large household, business, or government.

With behind-the-scenes access to those you work for, you might have guarded their privacy and information like it was your own or used your position to take their possessions and share their secrets. However and whoever you served, you excelled at anticipating the needs of those around you and achieving them with subtlety and poise. 

Skill Proficiencies

Choose two from Insight, Perception, Sleight of Hand, or Stealth.

Additional Proficiencies

Gain proficiency with two of the following: clothier tools, provisioner tools, thieves tools, tinker tools, or a musical instrument of your choice.

Equipment

 A set of common clothes, sturdy shoes, a set of tools you are proficient with from the above list, a notebook and pen, a waist pouch containing something your employer could not live without, and a coin pouch with 3 gp.

Talent

You performed your job without drawing focus away from your employer, and you learned a great deal about those you worked for in the process. Choose a talent to represent this experience: Hardy, Quick*, or Tag Team.

Adventuring Motivation

Servants work for others, often putting the needs of those they serve ahead of their own ambitions. As you begin your own adventures, determine what led you to strike out in a new direction.

Adventuring Motivation
d8 Adventuring Motivation
1 Adventuring earns me the money I need to thrive.
2 After serving a few adventurers, I could tell Id be at least as good at it as they were.
3 I escaped an unjust service contract by volunteering for a dangerous adventure. Now, I must follow through.
4 I like being part of a well-oiled machine. Adventuring lets me use my skills for my own benefit alongside others
5 I served an adventurer and learned enough to follow in their footsteps.
6 I wanted something other than a servants life. Adventuring seemed like an easy way to a new future.
7 I was treated badly by my employers. Adventuring brings me the status I need for payback.
8 If I do well enough adventuring, I can get servants of my own.