Peasant Hero

​The Peasant Hero is the "local boy done good," the home-town warrior who fights and adventures to the delight of the people in his home area. The Peasant Hero is the most common sort of fighter found wandering the land and adventuring; every village has one or has had one within living memory. ​

Role

​The Peasant Hero is the fellow who won't forget that his roots are in the country and in the soil. He can be a rebel against the crown in lands where the peasants are especially oppressed; he can be the farmboy who becomes a mighty general; he can be the noble's child (secretly raised by peasants) who grows up to fulfill an ancient prophecy; but in every case, he remembers his origins and strives to make things better for his family and home community.​

Distinctive Appearance

None

Special Benefits

​No matter what he's done or what anyone thinks of him, the Peasant Hero always has shelter and often has other help when he's in his own community. Unless it is known that the Peasant Hero has hurt people from his own community, he'll always find people to put him up, hide him and companions from the law, supply them with food and drink and what little weaponry can be scraped together (usually daggers), and even provide them with helpers - earnest 0-level youths who want to grow up to be like their hero. ​

Special Hindrances

​Since the Peasant Hero is looked upon as a patron and hero by the people from his home, they will frequently come to him for help. Whenever the village is losing people to nocturnal predators, whenever a village overlord turns out to be a dangerous tyrant, whenever a local citizen is jailed and tried for something he didn't do, the citizens turn to the Peasant Hero for help. And if he turns them away, he loses their respect and earns a -2 reaction from all of the peasants in the land until he is once again in his home community's good graces. ​

Class

Fighter ​

Attribute Requirements

None

Barred Beliefs

None

Race Requirement

None

Bonus Weapon Proficiencies

None​

Required Weapon Proficiencies

None

Recommended Weapon Proficiencies

​The player may choose his character's weapon proficiencies, though they should be regionally based. ​

Barred Weapon Proficiencies

None

Bonus Non-Weapon Proficiencies

Agriculture or Fishing (player choice), Weather Sense or Animal Lore (player choice). ​

Recommended Non-Weapon Proficiencies

Any of the General proficiencies. ​

Equipment

​The Peasant Hero may spend his starting gold any way he sees fit, but may have no more than 3 gp left when he begins play ​

Wealth Options

The Peasant Hero gets the standard 5d4 x 10 gp starting money. ​

Homeland Terrain

None

Economic System

​None​