What are some unconventional but appropriate backgrounds for adventurers in a historical milieu?
Trying too hard.
>>94710331Programmer
>>94710331Gong farmer.
Beaver trapper from the wilds of Darkest Canada.
>>94710331Plays games and posts on tg. Truly a historic background.
I want to be the tomboy mining guild party's boytoy/manservant.
>>94711881They only need strong farmboys who can kill basilisks and throw salt.
Yeah
>>94712092mines have salt.
>>94710331Prostitute.
>>94710331slave
>>94710331slave owner
>>94711881https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdqCY_DBbs0
>>94710331White person in a colonial adventure.
>>94710331Town rapist
>>9471033130 Year's War, players have taken upon themselves to become mercenaries, don't have a client yet.
>>94710331University student passing through Hesse-Kassel.
>>94710331escaped slave/prisonerdeserterpilgrimmentally ill person with a sharp/pointy thing (mad scientist (believes the earth revolves around the sun)Scam ArtistSerial KillerA chef bored with his ingredientsStage Coach Driver
Dwarf-seller.Leech collector.Fuller.Gong Farmer.Plague Burier.Shepherd Boy.Nettle Harvester.Chaff-Box Boy.Sedge Cutter.Sin-Eater.Saltpeter Man.Sedan Bearer.Wig Maker.Nit Picker.Household Fumigator.Seeker or Searcher of the Dead.Orgy planner.Urine tax collector.Armpit hair plucker.
>>94710331>Camp Follower i.e. prostitute/pimp/washerwoman/tinker/fenceYou're probably hardy and used to life on the road. You're not a warrior, but you can handle yourself in a bad situation. You know how to negotiate, speak multiple languages, and are probably good at doing spot repairs on kit. In a nautical campaign, you might be a sampan hooker, who also moonlights as a spy, smuggler, and information broker.>Executioner/TorturerYou know how to use a sword, even if you aren't a duelist. Your skill is your life, you're probably very good at remaining calm in situations of extreme stress. Ironically, your knowledge of anatomy actually makes you an extremely skilled surgeon, meaning you're just far more likely to heal than to harm in your day to day life. You also have an excuse to travel, as your skills are in demand.>EunuchYou are a valuable and trusted servant to extremely wealthy and powerful people. You may be a fanatical bodyguard or a highly educated advisor, or something of both. Because you were cut, you have no hope of establishing any kind of dynasty of your own, and are therefore trusted implicitly in all things by your master.Depending on your culture's values, you may be an object or scorn, pity, morbid curiosity, or religious reverence.>ActorYou might be part of a traveling troupe or be an itinerant monologist. You're probably extremely well versed in legends and lore, and you're charismatic. You may have modest skill as a swordsman. You're used to travel.
>>94713879>>94716095gonna make some awkward campfire conversation
>>94722486But slave owners love their slaves. Tenderly.
>>94722351Funny how all of these are rollable backgrounds in WFRP 2e.
>>94722565That's because WFRP is genuinely the best take on fantasy RPGs. It does DND better than DND ever has.
>>94723860WFRP might do OSR alright, but it's way too mudcore for DnD
>>94713797Only if they are salt mines
>>94710331Travelling Actor
Literally just pirate the WFRP 2e Career Compendium and open it to a random page.>>94729010Idiot.
>>94729566Salt can also appear in ore mines, when there's nearby mineral spring or seawater seepage. Makes it more of a nuisance than harvestable by-product, because it accelerates corrosion.
>>94710331I feel like this thread is supposed to compel me to look up this image.It's working. Source?
>>94710331Cattle RancherShrimp FarmerGarloid Enthusiast
>>94741762Tower Dungeon, latest manga from Tsutomu Nihei, still being updated, I like it and suggest it to others, when asked, but it's not for everyone, since Nihei is on the weirder side of jap autism spectrum.
>>94710331Patron of the questionable arts (those tapestries of the queen selecting loaves of bread won't pay for themselves).
>>94710331Sex worker trying to rise up in society
>>94745749If Nihei shit clicks for you, you might as well read everything he's made.It's fucking weird and unhinged at times but always fucking great,Gods I love Blame! and Sidonia.And Biomega, sure.
>>94748642there's also works of Q Hayashida, former assistant/disciple of Nihei
>>94716495t. Moldovan
>>94748642Tsumugi best girl
>>94710331Depends on the system, setting, etc. Perhaps if you gave us more info on your game we could provide input onto potential backgrounds or cultures adventurers could arise from, but with such vague, navel-gazing, solipsistic masturbation as the OP no one can help you, not even yourself.
>>94748940lmao
>>94748663>Q Hayashida, former assistant/disciple of NiheiThat's not true. Hayashida Q has never worked as an assistant before, plus Nihei never had assistants, to begin with.
>>94748642l-lewd
>>94745749checking this out now. looks sick. i'm going to see if i can get my comic shop to carry it
