Background : Writer

You are a writer. Whether you are writing for a daily journal known by lots of people, a future best-seller or pamphlets attacking dictatorships or abusing power, you can persuade people to follow the ideals you are defending through words, which can grant you a little of fame, with commoners or nobles, that grow as you go through adventures that you write down for them.



Skill Proficencies : Persuasion, Performance

Tool Proficencies : Calligrapher's supplies

Languages : Choose 1

Equipment : An empty notebook, a quill and a bottle of ink, a book of a subject of your choice, a book or a poem that you've wrote and a belt pouch containing 15 gp.

Field of Experience

Were you the writer of a journal of a city, the storyteller of your future or past adventures ? Were you a playwright, a poet ? Choose the experience you have as a writer, or roll on the table below.

Field of Experience d6 Experience 1 Journalist 2 Novelist 3 Pamphleteer 4 Playwright 5 Poet 6 Storyteller

Feature : Voice of the Words

You can write during a long rest a text defending or incriminating a creature, a group or a whole governement. If you publish it correctly, the DM must make a roll on a d20. If its result is inferior to your Written Persuasion Score, the people reading your text are either friendly or unfriendly to the creature, group or governement of your text. In a case of a critical success or failure, the DM may act in a manner he deems appropriate.

Written Persuasion Score = 8 + Intelligence Modifier + Charisma Modifier



Suggested Characteristics





d8 Personality Trait 1 I read and write every time I'm on the road. When I'm not writing, I'm busy to fight. 2 I think that writers may seem powerless, however, a quill and a paper from a good writer makes a kingdom shiver. 3 I'm always waiting until the deadline before finishing a column. 4 I've read every book of the library of my native town. And then I began to write. 5 I'm not the kind of people that miss a chance of a good story. 6 I'm always aiming for a new tale, a new event, a new adventure. 7 I often lack words to describe what I mean, so I cope by creating new ones. 8 I use humor in my texts, whether light or harsh, to emphasize my intentions.

d6 Ideal 1 Hope. I want my readers to find comfort in my works and find hope to go through their hardships. (Good) 2 Fidelity. I must continue at all means the work I've began. (Lawful) 3 Revolution. My text is my weapon, and I use it to wake up the minds of the downtrodden. (Any) 4 Inspiration. I have a muse and I must embrace it to fully understand it. (Any) 5 Control. I use my skills to seduce people and to make them obey my orders. (Evil) 6 Freedom. I must keep my independence, as no one shall control what I write. (Chaotic)