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Sailor

You're an experienced mariner with a keen weather eye and a favorite tavern in every port. Hard voyages have toughened you and the sea's power has made you humble.

Were you a deckhand, an officer, or the captain of your vessel? Did you crew a naval cutter, a fishing boat, a merchant's barge, a privateering vessel, or a pirate ship?

Skill Proficiencies
Athletics, and either Acrobatics or Perception.
Equipment
Common clothes, navigator's tools, 50 feet of rope.

Sea Salt

Suggested Characteristics

Sailor Mementos

  1. A dagger with a handle carved from a dragon turtle's tooth.
  2. A scroll tube filled with nautical charts.
  3. A harpoon (treat as a javelin with its butt end fastened to a rope).
  4. A scar with a famous tale behind it.
  5. A treasure map.
  6. A codebook which lets you decipher a certain faction's signal flags.
  7. A necklace bearing a scale, shell, tooth, or other nautical trinket.
  8. Several bottles of alcohol.
  9. A tale of an eerie encounter with a strange monster, a ghost ship, or other mystery.
  10. A half-finished manuscript outlining an untested theory about how to rerig a ship to maximize speed.

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