Peasant
You have spent your life hard at work in fields and farms, often working for the benefit of others. You come from humble origins but may have grand aspirations, or yearn for the simplicity of your pastoral lifestyle when you compare it to the harrowing dangers of adventure. You feel a strong kinship for the unsung masses who feed and clothe broader society, and you find yourself out of your element in the grand events that take place around you.
Skill Proficiencies: Animal Handling, Nature
Tool Proficiencies: Herbalism kit, Vehicles (land)
Equipment: A pouch containing 5 gp, a tiny trinket from home made of wood or bone, a mule, a cart, a shovel, and a set of traveler's clothes.
Feature: Work the Fields
During your life as a farmer, you raised a specific kind of plant or animal. Roll a d10 or choose from the table below to choose the crop you are trained to cultivate.
| d10 |
Crop |
| 1 |
Cereal grains |
| 2 |
Vegetables |
| 3 |
Dairy |
| 4 |
Wool |
| 5 |
Poultry |
| d10 |
Crop |
| 6 |
Livestock |
| 7 |
Honey |
| 8 |
Orchard fruit |
| 9 |
Wine grapes |
| 10 |
Cash crops |
If you can find a farm that produces the same kind of crop, you can work on that farm to support a poor lifestyle for yourself without paying the lifestyle cost per day, indefinitely. If you own land and cultivate it, you can fund a comfortable lifestyle for youself and up to four other creatures without paying the cost per day.
Suggested Characteristics
You are a simple farmer, a person of the land, the common clay of the world. Most peasants look on their upbringing as a virtue that taught them the value of hard work and to appreciate the simple comforts of warmth and a full belly, but some dreamt of a better station in life.
| d8 |
Personality Trait |
| 1 |
I know my limits, and trust my companions to make the right decisions when I'm out of my element. |
| 2 |
I judge people by their actions, not their words. |
| 3 |
I look down on soft people who live in luxury. |
| 4 |
I have a strong sense of charity. Even when I have little, I want to make sure everyone has enough. |
| 5 |
I know my skills are humble, but I have the utmost confidence in them. |
| 6 |
Adventuring is the most exciting thing that has ever happened to me, and I savor every second. |
| 7 |
When life is slow, life is good. |
| 8 |
If something new isn't happening, I'm bored. |
| d6 |
Ideal |
| 1 |
Fellowship. Mutual support is the only thing that gets us through lean times. (Good) |
| 2 |
Loyalty. Workers and landowners have mutual obligations that must be fulfilled by both. (Law) |
| 3 |
Opportunity. Since I helped make it, I have a right to pilfer more than my share of the harvest. (Chaos) |
| 4 |
Ambition. I know what it is like to be exploited, and will repay the favor in blood, sweat, and tears. (Evil) |
| 5 |
Placidity. What will be, will be. What I can't change, I don't worry about. (Neutral) |
| 6 |
Humility. I should never forget my origins. (Any) |
| d6 |
Bond |
| 1 |
I owe everything to my home and family. |
| 2 |
I know the land. Come anything else, I'll protect it. |
| 3 |
I feel the plight of the poor and starving. |
| 4 |
I would trust the people who have worked beside me with my life. |
| 5 |
Honest work has the most value. |
| 6 |
I have a childhood sweetheart awaiting my return, who I hope to marry someday. |
| d6 |
Flaw |
| 1 |
I have difficulty trusting upper-class people. |
| 2 |
I easily fall victim to urban vices like drinking, whoring, and gambling. |
| 3 |
I fled my home because I committed a terrible crime and can never return. |
| 4 |
Secretly, I yearn to tyrannically lord over the people once considered my equals and betters. |
| 5 |
Bankers, merchants, and people who spin numbers or make money without work are not to be trusted. |
| 6 |
I believe there is no such thing as benevolent leadership. |