Background: Dropout
You didn't always mean to become the class you currently are. At one point in your life, you were pursuing training in a different class. Whether in an official academy, with a private tutor, or through your own power, you had started and almost completed education into a different life path. Alas, you couldn't finish.
Why couldn't you finish that schooling? What made you decide on your current class? How do you feel about your failure to pursue the other way?
Skill Proficiencies: Choose two from a different class's skill list.
Tool Proficiencies: Two types of instruments, tool sets, or vehicles
Equipment: A letter of acceptance into your previous education, a set of common clothes, a tool or instrument you are proficient with, and a pouch containing 10gp
Former Education
You spent a lot of time, energy, and potentially gold to pursue an education that you had to leave for your own reasons. Choose one or roll on the table below to define your previous aspirations.
| d10 | Class |
|---|---|
| 1 | Artificer University |
| 2 | Bard College |
| 3 | Clerical Cloister |
| 4 | Druidic Initiation |
| 5 | Fighting School |
| d10 | Class |
|---|---|
| 6 | Monk Monastery |
| 7 | Paladin Cloister |
| 8 | Ranger Guild |
| 9 | Roguish Syndicate |
| 10 | Wizard School |
Feature: Old Classmates
You have kept in touch- to some degree- with some of your previous classmates and have maintained some sort of a rapport. While their individual relationships to you are as varied and complicated as any schoolmates could be, you have a good relationship with enough of them to be able to procure information, try to hire services, and maintain contacts in certain professions.
Suggested Characteristics
Dropouts are very varied, leaning into attitudes common in their former educations just as often as they break the mold and resent their former lives. No matter how you feel about your old life, you definitely harbor some emotions towards the person you almost were.
| d8 | Personality Trait |
|---|---|
| 1 | I still prefer to be known as a member of my old profession, even if I couldn't actually cut it. |
| 2 | I was overeducated in my old field and sometimes it spills back out. |
| 3 | Most people where I come from never had the opportunities I've wasted and it never leaves my mind. |
| 4 | I still study resources from my old class in my downtime. |
| 5 | I never let anyone pay for my share, I don't want to disappoint any other patrons. |
| 6 | I'm a fierce independent, making up my own schools of thought as I go. |
| 7 | My excuse for leaving my old philosophy is that it's bad, but I've never explained how. |
| 8 | I desperately try to hide all signs that I was ever a member of my old class. |
| d6 | Ideal |
|---|---|
| 1 | Reformation. My old profession must change how thinks. (Any) |
| 2 | Knowledge. Continued education is the path to power for all people. (Neutral) |
| 3 | No Limits. Nothing can contain true potential in people. (Chaotic) |
| 4 | Freedom. Sticking to one single school of thought only tarnishes what a person can be. (Chaotic) |
| 5 | People. I will stick to the people I care about more than any ideal. (Neutral) |
| 6 | Aspiration. I will return to my old class one day. (Any) |
| d6 | Bond |
|---|---|
| 1 | My family wants me to return to our old profession. |
| 2 | I sank a fortune into schooling for my old class. I need it back. |
| 3 | I met someone I loved at that old school. They're still there. |
| 4 | I left my old life entirely, not just the job. |
| 5 | I left behind an academy full of enemies. |
| 6 | I'm working to repay my ex-patron's debt for my education. |
| d6 | Flaw |
|---|---|
| 1 | I'm very jealous of anyone who finished their education in my old class. |
| 2 | I can't trust people in my old profession, I know their secrets. |
| 3 | I feel shame at my new skills. |
| 4 | I beat myself up whenever I can't finish anything I start. |
| 5 | I'm too incsonsistent for my own good. |
| 6 | Terrible circumstances follow me all the time and get in the way of my plans. |