Laborer

You worked as a manual laborer to earn a living. You may have dug ditches, limbed trees, or served as a field worker or slave. You have dirt under your fingernails and never shy away from a little hard work. Most of your time was filled in back-breaking labor, the type of work that keeps merchants and mine owners in business even as it makes you just enough money to get by. It’s a hard life, but it’s toughened you and made you confident in your abilities. Your past marks you as one of the common folk, but all great heroes start somewhere.
Skill Proficiencies: Animal Handling, Athletics
Tool Proficiencies: One type of gaming set, vehicles (choose water or land)
Equipment: A set of common clothes, a token given to you by your family or friends when you left home, a gaming set (your choice), and a small pouch containing 5 gp.

Experienced Laborer

Laborers are everywhere in the city and countryside, from the dockworker unloading goods, to the cart driver delivering them, to the miner deep underground. Choose which type of laborer with which you have the longest history or roll on the table below. Many laborers have held a variety of jobs; you could also roll on the table 2-3 times to get a sense of your resume of work. This list is not exhaustive, so you can make up your job with the DM’s permission.

Types of Laborers

d8	Type of Laborer
1	Miner
2	Stevedore
3	Farmer
4	Servant
5	Herder
6	Logger
7	Carter
8	Stable Hand

Feature: Day Laborer

As one of the working class, finding work and a place to stay is easy for you. In any location that needs workers, you can find room and board plus enough money for a poor lifestyle for as long as the work holds out, unless you prove to be a danger to those around you. Your employer and the other laborers may even protect you from the law or anyone else searching for you, though they will not risk their lives for you.

Suggested Characteristics

Laborers are the workaday people that fill the cities and countryside, but just because they’re looked over by everyone doesn’t mean they’re not capable of great deeds. Most are likely to run from danger, but the exceptional few rise up from their humble origins to be great heroes. They tend to be earthy and defer to those of a higher social rank out of habit. They hold their family, friends, and home in high regard.