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source: "Campaign Builder: Dungeons and Ruins"
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Before you began adventuring, you sought wisdom in the ruins that the past left for you to find. You learn more about ancient cultures and abandoned sites by exploring their remnants firsthand.
Perhaps you were an educator in search of artifacts that would unlock new knowledge, a fortune hunter who used your work to find treasures that would make you rich, an artisan who wished to improve your craft by learning age-old techniques, or a solitary wanderer more at home with the ghosts of the past than the places of the present. Whatever drove your passion for this work, you rely on your ability to survive and your knack for piecing together knowledge from fragments of information to propel your path forward.
# Skill Proficiencies
History and choose one from Arcana, Athletics, Investigation, or Survival.
# Additional Proficiencies
Learn one additional language of your choice and gain proficiency with one tool of your choice.
# Equipment
A backpack, a book of artifacts and writing implement of your choice, a lamp, a shovel, a magnifying glass, 10 sheets of parchment, 10 days of rations, and 50 feet of rope.
# Talent
As an archaeologist, you thrived in remote locations, puzzling out the nature of objects long removed from their use. Choose a talent from the following list to represent this experience: Artifact Expertise, Dungeoneer, or Scrutinous.
# Adventuring Motivation
While archaeologists and adventurers have much in common, many who choose the former path prefer to work alone, making discoveries at their own pace and for their own purpose. When you begin your adventures, consider why you left this lifestyle behind for one of exploration and camaraderie.
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| d8 | Adventuring Motivation |
| 1 | Adventuring allows me to make practical use of the knowledge Ive learned in my research. |
| 2 | Adventuring gives me a more well-rounded understanding of the world that I can take back to my research. |
| 3 | Adventuring helps me find new hidden places that I can explore in the future. |
| 4 | Adventuring helps to fund my next expedition. |
| 5 | Adventuring is atonement for a mistake I made that forever destroyed a historic site. |
| 6 | Adventuring is the only way to stay ahead of the work of a long-time rival with unlimited resources. |
| 7 | Adventuring means that I always have someone watching my back in case I run into danger. |
| 8 | I stole a powerful artifact from one of my sites. Adventuring keeps the consequences of that decision behind me. |