The Vagabond/Peasant

Not everybody who gets involved in adventure is a specialist in combat or another area of training. Some are just ordinary people who get swept up in the flow of events or decide that it is time they make a change in their life. The Vagabond/Peasant Occupational Character Class (O.C.C.) represents player characters who don't have any impressive area of expertise or special powers. The character is a person from an ordinary walk of life. The unskilled character is a spirited individual who is full of life and dreams for a better future. Most are illiterate and lack any formal education. Consequently, they tend to live by the seat of their pants and rely on their wits.

Attribute Requirements: None
Alignment: Any
Gender: Male or Female
Race: Any
O.C.C. Skills:

3 Domestic skills of choice (+10%)
Cook (+5%)
Athletics (General)
Languages: Native Tongue at 98% plus one of choice (+10%)
Wilderness Survival (+5%)
W.P. one of choice
Hand to Hand: Basic (Hand to hand: basic can be changed to hand to hand: expert for the cost of two "other" skills or martial arts for the cost of three "other" skills.)

Communications: Language skills only
Domestic: Any (+10%)
Espionage: None
Horsemanship: General or Exotic Only.
Labour: Any
Medical: Brewing, First Aid and Holistic Medicine only.
Military: Heraldry Only
Naval Skills: None
Performing Arts: Any
Physical: Any, except Acrobatics, Gymnastics and Wrestling.
Rogue: Any (+2%)
Science: Mathematics skills only.
Scholar/Noble/Technical: Any (+5%)
Weapon Proficiencies: Any
Wilderness: Any

Secondary Skills: Choose 4 at level 1, plus 1 per level starting at level 2. All new skills start at Lvl. one proficiency. These are additional areas of knowledge that don't get the O.C.C. bonus.

Starting Equipment: Two sets of clothing, boots, hat, belt, blanket backpack, one large sack, 1D4 small sacks, a water skin, dried meats and fruit equal to food rations for 1D4+1 weeks, and a tinder box.

Armour: Starts with a suit of hard leather (A.R. 11, S.D.C. 30).

Weapons: Starts with a dagger, small hand axe, and two other weapons of choice. All are basic S.D.C. weapons of fair to good quality. Magic weapons and other equipment must be acquired later.

Money: The character starts with 120 in gold, which can be used immediately to purchase more equipment or saved. Additional money will come from payment for jobs and/or booty.