2.9 KiB
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| Book of Blades |
What started as an academic career researching the tactics used in famous historic battles took a turn the first time you ventured into the field. Your accumulated knowledge of strategic history has prepared you for small melees and larger campaigns.
Perhaps you found a taste for adventure and wanted to put your knowledge to the test. Or maybe you studied family histories detailing great tacticians from whom you descended. You might be in the employ of a university or royal court or a scholar of military history in your own right. You might choose to focus on building defenses, small-group tactics, or even navel battles, but regardless of your specialty, testing the practical applications of your theories makes you well-suited for advising leaders or devising plans.
Skill Proficiencies
Choose two from History, Insight, Investigation, or Survival.
Additional Proficiencies
You gain proficiency with construction tools or navigator tools and a vehicle appropriate to your area of focus.
Equipment
A bottle of ink, a quill, three sheets of paper, a historical work of military tactics, a set of common clothes, and a pouch containing 10 gp.
Talent
You have focused on devising strategies and tactics to help you and your allies in battle. Choose a talent to represent this experience: Aware, Comrade, or Vanguard.
Adventuring Motivation
Most battle academicians take up an adventuring life to witness new tactics from distant lands or to test their own strategies in the field. Consider why you chose to leave the library.
| ADVENTURING MOTIVATION | |
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| d8 | Adventuring Motivation |
| 1 | My strategies are superior. I just need a party to test them in the field. |
| 2 | Reading about the great battles is fine, but I want to see the ancient battlefields in person. |
| 3 | I will become a legendary tactician. |
| 4 | My mentor is missing and I need to find them. |
| 5 | My liege ordered me to gather and lead heroes to defend the realm. |
| 6 | I am searching for a fabled treatise on tactics. |
| 7 | One of my ancestors lost a famous battle. Avenging them drives me. |
| 8 | Armies cost a lot, but adventuring will pay for it. |