Charlatan
People call you a con artist, but you're really an entertainer. You make people happy—the separation of fools and villains from their money is purely a pleasant side effect.
What is your most common con? Selling fake magic items? Speaking to ghosts? Posing as a long-lost relative? Or do you let dishonest people think they're cheating you?
- Skill Proficiencies
- Deception, and either Culture, Insight, or Sleight of Hand.
- Equipment
- Common clothes, disguise kit, forgery kit.
Many Identities
Suggested Characteristics
Charlatan Mementos
- A die that always comes up 6.
- A dozen brightly-colored “potions”.
- A magical staff that emits a harmless shower of sparks when vigorously thumped.
- A set of fine clothes suitable for nobility.
- A genuine document allowing its holder one free release from prison for a non-capital crime.
- A genuine deed to a valuable property that is, unfortunately, quite haunted.
- An ornate harlequin mask.
- Counterfeit gold coins or costume jewelry apparently worth 100 gold (DC 15Investigationcheck to notice they're fake).
- A sword that appears more magical than it really is (its blade is enchanted with continual flame and it is a mundane weapon).
- A nonmagical crystal ball.