Youʼve worked in ale houses for as long as you can remember, serving food and drink to people who need it. Youʼve heard exciting tales from travelling storytellers and lost yourself in dreams of where you could be if you didnʼt have to go to work every day and every night.
Ability Score Increases: +1 to Dexterity and one other ability score
Skill Proficiencies: Insight and Persuasion
Tool Proficiencies: Suggested Equipment: Your favourite serving platter, a set of common clothes.
Feature: Good with the Customers. People feel absurdly comfortable telling you things. Whenever you are searching for information you can reliably find people who will give you the latest rumour and gossip.
Adventures and Advancement. No one knows better than you how to run a public house and keep the beer flowing. If you acquire a tavern of any description you can earn twice as much as you otherwise would with many people seeking your tavern out specifically to be served by someone of your fame.
Connection and Memento. Roll 1d10, choose, or make up your own.
- A mysterious stranger
- An old man with tales to tell
- A lovable rogue
- An old sot whoʼs seen things
- Old soldiers from the last war
- The local drayer
- Your old boss who looks on you as one of their kids
- An e x boss who never liked you that much anyway
- A colleague who went away on adventure
- A cook who ended up in a local lordʼs service
- A favored skillet which you press into service as an improvised weapon
- A small wooden box full of beautiful things lost which you saved against the return of the patrons
- A se t of coins from all over the world that people have paid in and which were too pretty (or fake) to pass on
- A locket containing a portrait of your family
- A set of playing cards signed by famous bards
- A pad of IOUs and service notes from people who used them in payment for beer - they vary wildly in legibility and decipherability
- A small book of poems containing dried flowers pressed within its pages
- A partially obscured map of an unknown location with a large X marking a spot 9
- A bracelet with a strange pattern le by a mysterious stranger 10
- A journal of strange and exotic smells that you have known