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