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source: "Campaign Builder: Dungeons and Ruins"
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You traveled far and wide with a singular purpose: documenting the landscapes and locations of the world so that others could safely follow in your footsteps. 
Perhaps you were a war strategist whose maps informed the military movements of your nation, a storyteller whose maps were accompanied by tales of everyday life, an artist who earned more as a mapmaker than they ever could painting landscapes, or an academic who wished to fully document every aspect of the physical world. Regardless of your reasons, you were both adaptable and precise, able to survive your journeys off the beaten path and bring back a reliable record of the world around you.
# Skill Proficiencies
Perception and choose one from Investigation, Nature, or Survival.
# Additional Proficiencies
Gain proficiency with artist tools and navigator tools.
# Equipment
Artist tools for your cartography style of choice, backpack, bedroll, map case, lamp, navigator tools, spyglass, a set of travelers clothes, waterskin, and 10 days of rations.
# Talent
As a cartographer, you turn your observations of the world into a resource that others can use. Choose a talent from the following list to represent this experience: Eidetic Memory, Far Traveler, or Scrutinous.
# Adventuring Motivation
Cartographers generally focus on documenting the world around them rather than affecting it directly. When you begin your adventures, consider why you decided to adventure while you work on your craft (or instead of it).
| ADVENTURING MOTIVATION | |
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| d8 | Adventuring Motivation |
| 1 | Adventuring gives me a chance to get closer to dangerous places on the map I might not otherwise be able to document. |
| 2 | Adventuring lets me be part of the changes happening in the world instead of simply observing them. |
| 3 | Adventuring pays better than cartography ever could. |
| 4 | An error I made on a map caused great harm to an innocent; I hope that adventuring allows me to atone. |
| 5 | I am becoming less talented as a cartographer as I age; adventuring is a new opportunity to see the world. |
| 6 | I mapped everything I ever wanted to; adventuring is a new challenge. |
| 7 | My approach to cartography requires on-the-ground knowledge that an adventurers life provides. |
| 8 | My life has been solitary. I want to travel the world again, but this time with companions. |