Arkwright

Arkwrights are specialist artisans who work with woodworking and metallurgy to create chests. Of course many carpenters can create wooden containers, and could attempt to make a chest, but to build the kinds of chests that can withstand blows and the test of time. Arkwrights usually work in larger cities, where they will create chests that might sell and be moved much farther from where they were manufactured. They might also make trunks and chest-like containers as well.

          Arkwrights are indirectly connected with adventurers, who rarely purchase their products, but more than often need to get inside of them. As adventurers, former arkwrights are going to be handy to have around in breaking into chests without destroying the contents within, particularly if the party lacks a dedicated rogue.

          Chest Surgery: You have experience with taking apart chests and containers or putting them back together. You can weaken a chest, lowering the DC to destroy it or the hp required to damage it by 5 using Carpenter's tools as an action, or you can strengthen a chest, raising the DC to destroy it or the hp required to damage it by 5 using Carpenter's tools as an action. Furthermore, you can use an action to check what is inside a chest or container, not gaining a perfect knowledge of the contents, but a general knowledge. For example, if a chest is filled with money, you might not know how much, but you'll have an idea that it has money, and maybe an idea of what kinds of money.

If you choose Arkwright, you gain the following:

~Either a +1 to your Strength score or a +1 to your Intelligence score~

~A Skill Proficiency in either Athletics or Sleight of Hand~

~A Tool Proficiency with Carpenter's tools~

~The following items: A chest, carpenter's tools, a guild membership pin, a sturdy belt with a clasp from an old chest, a coinbox with 10sp~

~Chest Surgery feat~

Barber-Surgeon

Alternatively: Barber-Chirurgeon, Physician, or Tooth Puller.

The Medieval Period being what it is, there are few avenues in the way of medical aid for the average person. The wealthy, lucky, or important can rely on magical healing, which is more than effective, but the average person must suffice with more brutal methods of curing what ills you. The Barber-Surgeons are such pioneering sorts, early-era physicians attempting to perform invasive medical procedures aimed at curing patients of blights, cancers, and injuries. To make ends meet when not doing what they love, these folks apply their skill with knives to hair cutting, hence the barber part.

          Barber-Surgeons are odd birds by any measure, and their drive to innovate and discover new mundane ways of healing their fellow man might manifest itself or convert itself into a desire to explore the broader world and live a life of adventure while doing it. While adventuring, former barber-surgeons are likely to seek out the sick wherever they go, and might try to learn from the local medicine men when they come into a new culture.

          This Is Gonna Hurt: You are quite capable of a good shave, but most of your training lies in the subtle and strange art of medieval medicine. Assuming you have access to your razors, you can remove any of the following conditions, as an action, from a target within 5ft of you: Blinded, Deafened, Poisoned, Stunned, or Unconscious. In exchange, this target immediately takes on 1 level of Exhaustion, representing the arduous affair of surgery. You must take a short or long rest before you can use this ability again (to wash and sharpen your equipment).

If you choose Barber-Surgeon, you gain the following:

~Either a +1 to your Dexterity score or a +1 to your Intelligence score~

~A Skill Proficiency in either Medicine or Investigation~

~A Tool Proficiency with an Herbalism Kit~

~The following items: A set of fine razors w/whetstone, a blood-stained apron, 2lbs of shaving soap, a healer's kit, and a coin box with 10sp~

~This Is Gonna Hurt feat~

Baker

Bakers are beloved pillars of their communities, turning the main agricultural products of any nation, whether wheat, rice, corn, or barley, and turning their biproducts into calorie rich and delicious baked goods, usually bread, but often other food as well. Often bread is the cheapest food available to most folks, and yet, is indispensable to richer pallets as well. As such, the bakeries of cities and towns are often bustling with folks looking for their daily bread, quite literally.

          Bakers often form tight nit webs with their many patrons, and they can often come to feel partially responsible for the folks they feed in their local neighborhood. Perhaps then a baker might be called into action when one of their clients doesn't show up the next day for their usual loaf? Bakers are likely to be un-phased by any significantly hot areas while adventuring - few places are hotter than the inside of a bakery while the oven has been fully fired.

          Breaking Bread: Your bread is fine, finer than most! You can take 1 hour to bake bread, provided you have adequate access to both materials and some sort of cookery device. If this bread is served within the same day it was baked, and served at a meal, then it will make those at the meal more well-disposed to each other (hostile becomes neutral, neutral becomes friendly, etc.) In addition, you may chose one Charisma based check during that meal that rolled under 10 to become 10 instead.

If you choose Baker, you gain the following:

~Either a +1 to your Constitution score or a +1 to your Charisma score~

~A Skill Proficiency in either Survival or Persuasion~

~A Tool Proficiency with Cook's utensils~

~The following items: A baker's hat and apron, a guild membership pin, a loaf of bread worth a week of rations, cook's utensils, and a coin box with 10sp~

~Breaking Bread feat~

Barrister

Alternatively: Lawyer.

Barristers serve to help resolve the legal disputes between a government and its people (if that government is wise and benevolent in its application of justice) and between individuals themselves. Tasked with learning and memorizing legal proceedings and juris prudence, Barristers become knowledgeable in navigating the impossible complex world of law. Unlike in our current world, barristers and lawyers in medieval Adra are not necessarily richly rewarded for their efforts, though legal work is often a good start to a career in politics and oratory.

          As Barristers find themselves stringing together the facts of a case, they may also find that some facts cannot be ascertained from within their quiet study. Sometimes, they may feel called to adventure, looking to help their clients by going above and beyond, or perhaps even acting outside the parameters of the law (for shame). Barrister adventurers are likely to use their keen insight for other people in their discussions with others, always making note of those who seem to be lying or not making sense to the party.

          Officer of the Court: You have experience smoothing out problems with lawmen. If your party gets into trouble with the law in a city, town, etc., then you can get them out of that trouble. However, if the trouble becomes frequent, even your abilities will not help. You may only use this ability once in a city, after which, you cannot use it again in that same city, town, etc. This ability does not prevent any loss of reputation with any town, faction, etc., and cannot get the party out of dire trouble (treason against an empire, or something of that nature). Consult with your DM if you are wondering what kind of trouble the feat can get you out of in particular.

If you choose Barrister, you gain the following:

~Either a +1 to your Intelligence score or a +1 to your Charisma score~

~A Skill Proficiency in either Persuasion or Insight~

~Any one Kith Language spoken by a former client of yours~

~The following items: A book of laws from a land of your choice, 5 pieces of parchment, a quill and ink, a letter of certification, a purse with 12sp~

~Officer of the Court feat~

Brewer

Alternatively: Hops Farmer.

In the medieval world, everyone drinks beer! The peasants spend evenings at the local dive, merchants have drinks at the tavern after work, and nobles keep dozens, sometimes hundreds of barrels of beer stocked in their larders. Rather than as a way to get hydration (that's a myth), brewing allows for surplus grains and other crops to be turned into a form that can last much longer than it would otherwise before going bad, saving precious calories for times when harvests aren't as bountiful. Brewers often work in cities in guilds, but might work in the country, or even at monasteries and other religious institutions.

          Brewers commonly find themselves "supplying" adventurers, particularly the rowdy kind, before they go out on expeditions. On more than one occasion has a drunken night at the local brewery turned into an invite for the brewer to venture into a local tomb, and after the hangover wears off, some brewers decide that they might like doing it again sober. Brewers are likely to always keep the party well-supplied with lubrication, after all, would you want to risk your life and limb without a brewski in your hand?

          Homebrew: Every brewer has their own secret recipe, either one they invented, or one passed down through generations of brewers. Your homebrew is especially unique, granting a special property to its drinker. With the proper tools and ingredients, it will take 4 weeks (20 days) for a barrel of your brew to be ready. Someone may only gain the effects of drinking a brew once every long rest. Choose one of the following types of brews when you select this feat:

          Spiced Ale: Spiced Ale can pep up someone's day, removing 1 level of Exhaustion, if drunk upon waking up.

          Oat Beer: Beer flavored with oats, this soothing concoction helps ease a bruised mind or body. You may spend a single hit die to regain 6 hit points.

          Mint Mead: This mint infused mead brew helps someone level themselves out. Upon drinking, you roll your next ability check with advantage.

          Aqua Regio: You know the secrets to make the coveted water of kings. This particular version makes someone feel light as a feather, and somewhat impervious to harm. You gain 4 temporary hit points for 8 hours.

If you choose Brewer, you gain the following:

~Either a +1 to your Constitution score or a +1 to your Intelligence score~

~A Skill Proficiency in either Survival or Religion~

~A Tool Proficiency with Brewer's supplies~

~The following items: A keg of ale, brewer's supplies, a guild membership pin, a canvas apron, and a belt purse with 10sp~

~Homebrew feat~

Butcher

Butchers are tasked with the messy job of processing slaughtered animals like cows, pigs, and sheep into cuts of meat and organs which can be distributed in reasonably portioned meals. Not only is cutting the animals up in the most efficient way a difficult technical skill, it is also the kind of bloody work that most people shirk away from. Furthermore, in highly stratified feudal societies, most meat cuts are reserved only for the highborn - often butchers work directly in the employ of a nobleman.

          Butchers know how to handle knives, and know plenty enough about basic anatomy - this combination can make them a deadly warrior in the right situation, and some butchers turn their skill set to a more profitable, and much more dangerous profession in adventuring. Butchers turned adventurer might look at slain monsters as an opportunity for strange and exotic cuts of meat, or other useful ingredients.

          Beast of a Butcher: You can chop, filet, and slice just about any cut of meat, from just about any creature. When you make checks to harvest any body part from a slain monster (including body parts from the Strongholds and Followers book or ingredients from the Ultimate Guide to Alchemy, Crafting, and Enchanting), you have advantage to do so. Furthermore, you are able to harvest edible meat or plant matter from any creature that would have meat or plant matter, even if it would normally be disgusting or inedible.

If you choose Butcher, you gain the following:

~Either a +1 to your Constitution score or a +1 to your Strength score~

~A Skill Proficiency in either Intimidation or Survival~

~A Tool Proficiency with Cook's utensils~

~The following items: A meat cleaver and hook, a filleting knife, a blood-stained apron, a guild membership pin, and a coin box with 10sp~

~Beast of a Butcher feat~

Caravanner

Alternatively: Caravan Guard.

Caravanners are the folks in charge of transporting trade goods over land, from the place where they are harvested or mined, to the place where they are processed, and from there to a place where they might be sold, or any combination thereof. Their work can often be feast or famine, and comes with challenges and dangers - most caravanners either want to make enough money to have an early retirement, or to purchase their own caravan one day and collect the profits.

          Caravanners are already one kind of an adventurer; riding on the open road, travelling hundreds of miles, taking on exciting one-off jobs, and fighting off dangerous monsters - already sounds like they are half way there. Caravanners who make the full commitment to an adventuring career are likely to constantly push the party to explore and tread new ground, never staying in one place for too long.

          Walking Shop: The roads of the country are filled with caravans and merchants heading from city to city, transporting their goods. However, these merchants often trade with each other along the way as well. While on the road, and in a location with a reasonable chance of encountering other travelling caravans, you may chose to Barter, a travelling activity akin to foraging. This means that your character finds one merchant, buys something from them, and then, by the end of the day (at least 2 hours of travel), you attempt to sell it at a profit to another merchant. You may use any skill based on how you sealed the deal, though social checks are appropriate in most circumstances. For each DC level you earn a certain amount of money on a success, and lose a certain amount of money on a failure.

          DC 10: +1sp on success | -5cp on failure

          DC 12: +1d6+2sp on success | -1d4+1sp on failure

          DC 15: +2d6+3sp on success | -2d4+2sp on failure

          DC 19: +3d6+4sp | -3d4+3sp on failure

          DC 24: +4d6+5sp | -4d4+4sp on failure

If you choose Caravanner, you gain the following:

~Either a +1 to your Wisdom score or a +1 to your Charisma score~

~A Skill Proficiency in either Survival or Perception~

~A Tool Proficiency with any one Gaming Set~

~The following items: A riding horse or pony, a gaming set of your choice, a two-person tent, a hooded lantern, and a pair of shoes with 2sp stuffed in them~

~Walking Shop feat~

Carpenter

Alternatively: Woodcarver.

Carpenters take cut lumber and turn it into useful furniture, buildings, containers, and ships. More flexible and cheaper than stone and iron, the whole world is built on the back of the humble carpenter. Carpenters often work for guilds, and might sometimes take up permanent work at a castle or temple. 

          When carpenters do work on the borderlands or in keeps, they often encounter adventurers on their quests. The repeated encounters can sometimes prod carpenters to take up adventures of their own - though this is quite rare. Carpenters who become adventurers are likely to approach problems methodically and with due care, breaking any challenge into its parts before tackling them in turn.

          Quick Shelter: You have expertise in wooden construction, and while usually this would be of more permanent town structures, it can sometimes be a temporary wilderness shelter. You can spend a short rest building a small hut that can sleep 4. You can spend a long rest building a log cabin (or similar structure) that can sleep 10. Both can adequately protect against the wilderness and the elements.

If you choose Carpenter, you gain the following:

~Either a +1 to your Strength score or a +1 to your Wisdom score~

~A Skill Proficiency in either Athletics or Perception~

~A Tool Proficiency with either Carpenter's tools or Woodcarver's tools~

~The following items: Either carpenter's tools or woodcarver's tools (your choice), 10lbs of fine quality wood, a guild membership pin, a sturdy tool belt, a belt pouch with 10sp~

~Quick Shelter feat~

Carter

Alternatively: Wainwright, Wheelwright, Chauffeur, or Coachbuilder.

Carters are those responsible for transporting most trade goods across cities, and on shorter journeys between settlements, or between farms and settlements. In some cities, they are asked to transport their goods at night to avoid clogging city streets, and they often deal with severe weather and dangerous conditions as they uphold local trade and transportation.

          Unlike caravans, simple carters are unlikely to have anyone to guard them as they transport their simple goods from point a to point b. Normally this is fine, but when trouble does strike, and carters find themselves under attack, they often have to find the adventurer inside of them. Carters as adventurers will likely drive the party's cart or carriage, always making sure they have swift and comfortable transportation on the open roads.

          Home on the Road: You have travelled far and wide on roads, both cobbled stone in cities and dirt roads in the country. As such, you excel at making your wagon into a home. You begin with a standard wagon, weighing 400lbs, fit to hold two people at the front, and 8 people in the hold (with no cargo there). However, you have the blueprints to make your wagon into a home, and perhaps even a moving fortress, with enough investment. The following upgrades must be purchased in descending order:

          Undercarriage: (10sp, 4 hours, 450lbs total) An undercarriage is installed to hold cargo and luggage just above the ground, freeing up space on the wagon deck for people.

          Comfortable Upholstery: (25sp, 8 hours, 475lbs total) The wooden benches and hard floors shall be replaced with padded leather benches and carpeted floors. The driver’s bench is outfitted not only with padded leather but also arm rests and a safety tether for hard roads and fierce weather.

          Mechanical Controls: (50sp, 24 hours, 500lbs total) A set of three controls are installed in the driver’s seat. One lever controls a set of newly installed breaks which allows you to travel more safely downhill. A second lever can bring up or down the wagon cover, allowing the party to receive fresh air and sunshine when they feel like it. A third lever can raise or lower a set of stairs that allows for easy entry and departure from the wagon.

          Sleeping Car: (100sp, 3 days, 925lbs total) A second wagon is installed to the first, turning it into a wagon-train. A sturdy bridge with hand ropes connects the two, allowing one to move between them mid-journey. The second wagon is outfitted with hammocks, and floor beds, allowing for 10 people to sleep inside at once. The hammocks work especially well because they allow one to sleep somewhat soundly mid-journey.

          Steel Wheels: (100sp, 3 days, 1100lbs total) The wheels and their joints become entirely steel plated, so that attempts to jam or break them are significantly hampered. Furthermore, large spikes are attached to the wheels facing out, so that when the wagon train moves at full speed, it can deal damage to neighboring vehicles and animals.

          Dining Car: (200sp, 5 days, 1675lbs total) A third wagon is attached to the wagon-train. This wagon is outfitted with a small kitchen galley with cooking utensils, storage, counterspace, and a woodburning stove. In addition, it holds a table that can seat 10 people at once. Not only can this serve as a place to eat, but also as a place to relax, play games, work, write, etc.

          Bath Car: (250sp, 7 days, 2400lbs total) A fourth wagon is attached to the wagon-train. This wagon is outfitted with a room fit for bathing and defecation. There are partitions up to separate the three sections of the car, one at the entrance with a wash bowl and mirror, another on the left with a sizeable bathtub and another water vessel for filling the wash bowl and bathtub, which collects rainwater, and a final partition on the right with a chamber pot and storage cabinet. Furthermore, a lever in the bathtub allows for the bathwater to be dumped out, and a fourth lever in the driver’s seat allows the driver to decide when it is time to dump the chamber pot.

          Rear Ballista: (500sp, 10 days, 2700lbs total) A platform is attached to the back of the wagon-train which carries a fully battle capable ballista, outfitted with armor plating to provide half-cover to anyone manning the ballista. Up to three people can man the ballista at once (see DM for stats on Ballista).

          Climate Control: (1000sp, 5 days, 2850lbs total) A complex series of small canvas tubes connects the entirety of the wagon-train, with small slits that allow for air to flow through every so often. This connects to the stove in the kitchen, which can now be used to heat the entire wagon-train. Furthermore, these also connect to large wind-catchers which sit on the outside of the wagon, allowing for airflow from the outside to be channeled in to cool the wagon-train as well. These two modes, heating and cooling, can be operated, turned on and off, from two additional levers in the driver’s seat.

          Armored Wagon-Train: (2000sp, 20 days, 3400lbs total) A series of segmented armor plates now envelop the sides of the wagon-train, providing full cover to any attack aimed from the ground at the wagon-train or those inside it. They still leave open the top, allowing for flying enemies to still threaten the wagon-train’s passengers. These plates shift with movement, allowing them even to cover the bridges connecting the different wagons, and skirted plates hang down to further protect undercarriage luggage, only giving way to allow for the deadly wheel spikes to protrude from the train. Metal plates fully envelop the driver’s seat, providing three-quarter’s cover to attacks aimed from any direction (including from above). Furthermore, the side-seat to the driver is outfitted with a mounted heavy crossbow which allows for attacks to be fired out to targets in front of the horses.

If you choose Carter, you gain the following:

~Either a +1 to your Strength score or a +1 to your Wisdom score~

~A Skill Proficiency in either Animal Handling or Athletics~

~A Tool Proficiency with Land Vehicles~

~The following items: A wagon, a draft horse, a whip, a wide-brimmed hat, and a belt pouch with 10sp~

~Home on the Road feat~

Cartographer

Alternatively: Surveyor or Explorer.

Rather than reflecting an extension of what we normally can see in our surroundings, maps allow us to understand our world in a completely different way than we normally do - indeed, the map is not the territory. However, maps are extremely useful for the military, politicians, administrators, and merchants. Cartographers work for guilds, however these guilds tend to work in partnership with and sponsorship by governments and powerful organizations.

          Cartographers don't always sit in their dusty guild houses drawing on canvas all day - some, surveyors as they are often called, go into the actual places they are mapping to get accurate measurements of the area. In doing so, they can often become entangled in local events, and the right kind of person in such a position might take up adventure out of either wanderlust or necessity. Cartographers who become adventures are unlikely to ever give up their drafting equipment, and instead constantly make maps of the locations they go to - maps of dungeons, local regions, forests, secret trails, and anything that might be useful to the party on their travels.

          Maps of Legend: Your time as a cartographer has allowed you to collect a set of quality maps from other cartographers. You have 3 maps, depicting locations of legend or ancient ruins. These could be maps to a secret treasure, an ancient ruin, or some place of power. You will discuss the nature of these maps (what they show) and the detail (how much they show and how accurate they are) with the DM.

If you choose Cartographer, you gain the following:

~Either a +1 to your Intelligence score or a +1 to your Dexterity score~

~A Skill Proficiency in History or Perception~

~A Tool Proficiency with Cartographer's tools~

~The following items: Cartographer's tools, 3 maps of legend with scroll cases, a guild membership pin, a chaperon (fancy hat), and a coinbox with 10sp~

~Maps of Legend feat~

Cheesemaker

Cheesemakers are wizards of dairy, turning animal milk, often cow's milk, into a semi-solid block of delicious food that goes well with just about anything. Cheesemaking is an important job, not just because people like cheese, but because cheese is an extremely useful way to convert milk which goes bad quickly into something that can last for weeks and months. For these reasons, cheese is a staple both at the tables of nobles and peasants alike.

          Cheesemaking is a noble profession, and various cheesemakers in different regions develop their own fantastic methods for making a certain kind of cheese. Some cheesemakers might be drawn to a life of travel and adventure, at least initially, with the purpose of finding other master cheesemakers and learning from them.

          Cheese Bomb: Your knowledge of the art of cheese crafting has allowed you to craft the stinkiest cheese known to man. If you have the proper ingredients and an hour you can create a cheese bomb. This wad of horrifically smelling hardened dairy can be chucked to a spot up to 40ft away. Everyone starting their turn within a 25ft radius of the cheese must make a DC 14 Constitution saving throw or be forced to use all of their movement that turn to get as far away from the cheese as possible.

If you choose Cheesemaker, you gain the following:

~Either a +1 to your Constitution score or a +1 to your Intelligence score~

~A Skill Proficiency in either Animal Handling or Survival~

~A Tool Proficiency with Cook's utensils~

~The following items: A wheel of a cheese of your choice, a guild membership pin, a vial of rennin, cook's utensils, and a coin box with 10sp~

~Cheese Bomb feat~

Cobbler

In the medieval world, shoes are not a common consumer good, but instead a once or twice in a lifetime purchase - made of sturdy leather and built to last, with only minor repairs every few years, a pair of sturdy shoes can last decades. The types of footwear which cobblers make varies greatly by the region and the types of climate found there - in warm and temperate areas, sandals are common. In colder or wetter areas, a fully enclosed leather shoe or boot is called for. In freezing climates, fur lined boots are the standard.

          Cobblers know more about what you've been doing and where you've been going than most people you meet - as they see the scars you've left on your shoes, they start to picture the exciting adventures you've had, and maybe occasionally, they think that they'd like to try out having a few adventures of their own. Cobblers as adventurers are likely to pay close attention to terrain and hazards on the ground, since they don't want to ruin their good work.

          Totally Not a Foot Fetish: Your expertise in the form of the foot and the importance of well-structured shoes has given you a wealth of knowledge in how to make extremely comfortable and sturdy shoes. You can spend time fortifying a pair of shoes to allow their wearer to walk for longer lengths before becoming exhausted. By spending a short rest modifying a pair of shoes, its wearer can walk for an additional 2 hours on foot before they wear out. Alternatively, you can modify the shoes with cleats so that the wearer gains advantage on checks to prevent themself from sliding or to ignore difficult terrain from icy surfaces.

If you choose Cobbler, you gain the following:

~Either a +1 to your Strength score or a +1 to your Dexterity score~

~A Skill Proficiency in either Investigation or Athletics~

~A Tool Proficiency with Cobbler's tools~

~The following items: A jar of fine shoe polish, a guild membership pin, cobbler's tools, a leather apron, and a coin box with 10sp~

~Totally Not a Foot Fetish feat~

Cooper

Coopers are professional barrel makers, woodworkers who specialize in forming and shaping wood into a form it was never meant to be in, and ensuring that its waterproof and airtight - a difficult task by any measure. Given that most perishable and semi-perishable goods, as well as almost all liquids are transported in barrels, the barrel trade is usually a booming business, if not a hugely lucrative one.

          Coopers might sometimes get hired out aboard a large trading vessel or caravan in order to keep the barrels maintained and free of leaks as the wood naturally warps over time. Coopers brought to perform these tasks might sometimes feel themselves discovering something more exciting than a life of barrel making. Unlike most adventurers, coopers rarely pass up an opportunity to see what a barrel or other mundane container holds - not all that is valuable in this world is held in a treasure chest after all.

          Barrel-Rider: You have ridden a few barrels in your day. So long as you have a barrel with you, you can use it as a personal vehicle which moves at 45ft per round on land or water, so long as you are 1) moving downhill or downstream, and 2) so long that you end your turn having moved more downhill or downstream than you were at the start of your turn, cumulatively. For the purposes of making checks, you are considered to have a subdiscipline with barrels when making Vehicles (Land) or Vehicles (Water) checks. You may mount or dismount your barrel as a bonus action. If you move downhill or downstream 30ft consecutively before you reach an enemy combatant, you automatically deal 1d6 bludgeoning damage.

If you choose Cooper, you gain the following:

~Either a +1 to your Strength score or a +1 to your Wisdom score~

~A Skill Proficiency in either Athletics or Investigation~

~A Tool Proficiency with Carpenter's tools~

~The following items: A sturdy barrel that fits you perfectly (35lbs), carpenter's tools, a bottle of tomato-ketchup, a guild membership pin, and a coin box with 10sp~

~Barrel-Rider feat~

Courtesan

Alternatively: Sir/Madame or Prostitute.

Sex work has been a part of our world for as long as records turn back. Sex work in Adra is a gender-equal endeavor, with men, women, and nonbinary individuals taking part - furthermore, so long as the work is led by the workers themselves or organized around worker's brothels, it tends to be viewed in a neutral light by most everyday folk. Courtesans tend to make plenty of money for their hard work, but it can be dangerous to ones health, given the lack of understanding in the medieval world surrounding sexually transmitted diseases.

          Courtesans have been known to offer their services to rich and rugged adventurers, and sometimes these business relationships can turn into friendships, and those friendships can pull courtesans onto the frontier of adventure. Courtesans who become adventurers will use their people skills to understand and empathize with others when possible, and see through the lies in others when necessary.

          Bugs in the Bed: Courtesans, beg your pardon, have a habit of getting into rather uncleanly situations. As a result, if you are ever exposed to disease, you have advantage on any Constitution Saving Throw to resist the disease. Further, if you contract the disease, you have advantage on any saving throws associated with its symptoms or drawbacks.

If you choose Courtesan, you gain the following:

~Either a +1 to your Charisma score or a +1 to your Constitution score~

~A Skill Proficiency in either Performance or Insight~

~Any one Language that sounds sexy or Tool Proficiency with any one Instrument that sounds sexy~

~The following items: A lucky pillow, silk sheets, a guild membership pin, an alluring scarf, and a purse with 15sp~

~Bugs in the Bed feat~

Farrier

Farriers have a pretty unique set of skills - they are on the one hand, a kind of specialized blacksmith that works exclusively with horseshoes - on the other hand, they are responsible for affixing the horseshoes to horses and other equine animals, and ensuring that the horse's legs and hooves are healthy and working well with the shoes. Farriers tend to work in specialized guilds, though might sometimes work with Blacksmith guilds.

          On rare occasions, adventurers or warriors who ride horses, for example a mounted knight, have decided to hire a farrier to travel with them for some time, particularly when travelling for long stretches over rough terrain. On occasion, these farriers develop skills on these journeys that carry over into a possible career in adventuring of their own. Farriers who become adventurers are likely to ride and take care of a horse of their own, and might advocate for their fellow party members to do the same.

          Sturdy Shoes: The horseshoes you make are well-built and sturdy. They can hold up to wear and tear, and they keep a horse healthy during long journeys. You can spend 1 hour per horseshoe of a horse, pony, donkey, etc., in order to refit them with proper horseshoes, though you need your smith's tools for this. Once the horseshoes are sturdy, your horse can travel farther on the road before becoming exhausted, and its gate is steadier, allowing you to move farther as well. you can travel 10 hours this way before entering a forced march while on horseback. The horseshoes wear down after 3 weeks, so every 3 weeks you need to spend the time to maintain them again or else you lose the benefit.

If you choose Ferrier, you gain the following:

~Either a +1 to your Wisdom score or a +1 to your Dexterity score~

~A Skill Proficiency in either Animal Handling or Medicine~

~A Tool Proficiency with Smith's tools~

~The following items: A lucky horseshoe, smith's tools, a guild member's pin, protective leather undercovering, and a belt pouch with 10sp~

~Sturdy Shoes feat~