Heritages

You’ve spent your life in the pursuit of knowledge. You have advantage on rolls that involve the history of a prominent person or place. Gain a talent related to academic study. When you Work on a Project that involves studying written material, reduce its countdown by 1.

You’ve lived your life in service to a temple or other religious organization. You have advantage on rolls to perform or understand religious ceremonies. Gain a talent related to your faith. When you reach a temple of your faith, you can request room and board for yourself and your party in exchange for assisting the temple with a minor task.

You are a skilled artisan specializing in a particular kind of crafting—leatherwork, woodworking, smithing, weaving, or jewelry making. Reduce crafting countdown for your specialty by 1 and the amount of basic materials needed to do so by ¼, and you roll with advantage to negotiate prices on crafting material. You gain proficiency with the tools of your specialty.

Leatherwork

Woodworking

Smithing

Weaving

Jewelry Making

You are bound to a personal talisman—a ring, a locket, or something similar. It always occupies one of your item loadout slots. While you carry it, you do not age, and you can spend 1 AP and mark 1-fatigue to become Invisible. You can do this a number of times equal to your Prowess, recovering all spent uses as part of your daily preparations. While Invisible this way, you mark 1-fatigue at the start of each of your turns, and the effect ends if you attack or cast a spell. You cannot bring yourself to willingly part with or destroy the talisman; if you ever lose it, you become consumed with retrieving it.

Sometimes you don’t even know who you are anymore, having spent your life weaving elaborate lies, never showing the world your true self. You have advantage on rolls to deceive others while maintaining a false identity, and can forge papers and credentials to create a false identity for yourself or another, countdown 5, that you can work on when you Work on a Project. You can have a number of forged identities equal to your Prowess. Creatures roll with disadvantage to recognize that work as a forgery. You gain proficiency with the disguise kit.

You’re obsessed with cultures other than your own and have studied them extensively. You roll with advantage when trying to understand mores and folkways of a group. Gain a talent related to cultures, customs, or diplomacy. You can take the Work on a Project downtime activity to study the culture of the area you’re currently in, countdown 2. When you complete it, gain advantage on casual interactions with locals of that culture until you study a different one.

You’ve lived life in the underworld, learning an array of useful, if unscrupulous, skills. You have advantage on rolls to negotiate with criminals or find a safe place to hide. When you arrive in a settlement, you can declare you know someone here from the criminal underworld—a fence, a smuggler, a safehouse keeper, or similar. The GM decides whether they owe you a favor or you owe them one. You can do this once, and recover this use as part of your daily preparations.

You’ve spent your life trekking through and mapping unknown terrain. You roll with advantage when navigating harsh environments or using your survival skills. While traveling overland on foot, your group can forage for supplies at any travel speed.

You grew up working the land and know its rhythms. You roll with advantage when working with domesticated animals. When you spend a minute with a non-hostile Easy-tier beast, it accepts your presence and will not attack you unprovoked. You can take the Work on a Project downtime activity at a plot of land to cultivate it, countdown 20. Once cultivated, when you take the Gather Supplies downtime activity at the plot, gain a number of supplies equal to your Prowess instead of rolling.

You’re recognized for a great deed in your past. By spending 2 AP and marking 3-fatigue, you can make a stirring speech: each ally who can hear or see you becomes Inspired, and any non-hostile commoners in earshot become friendly toward your party for the next hour. You can do this once, and recover this use as part of your daily preparations.

Doom follows wherever you go. When the GM spends Doom on an effect that affects you, you can choose to gain 1 Luck Point. You can do this a number of times equal to your Prowess, recovering all spent uses as part of your daily preparations. At the end of a long or extended rest, the GM gains double the Doom from you.

The lingering spirit of someone close to you refuses to leave your side. Only you can see or hear it, it cannot touch or affect anything, and you can speak with it freely. The spirit never sleeps—when you take a long rest, you can take the Take Watch downtime activity in addition to your other downtime activities. When you finish a long rest, you mark 1-fatigue as the spirit’s constant chatter keeps you from being fully rested.

You’ve trained as a healer. You roll with advantage on rolls to treat the sick or injured, or to diagnose an ailment. When you take the Tend Wounds downtime activity to heal another, they clear 1 fatigue. You gain proficiency with apothecary’s tools.

You are a hollow vessel, stranded between the living and the dead. You don’t need to eat, sleep, or drink. You have resistance to necrotic damage. Healing and temporary hit points you gain from anything other than a rest are halved (round down).

You’re two small creatures in a trench coat! You appear as a medium creature, and are considered one mechanically, but in reality you’re just a couple of small creatures standing on top of each other, acting as one. You can only take this heritage if your character’s size is small.

While you are two physical creatures, you’re treated as one for the purposes of game statistics and mechanics, unless otherwise noted. You wear armor as a single creature. While split, both of your halves share your DT, but each is Sundered until you reunite. You must wear a trench coat, long robe, or other long covering that obscures your true nature and maintains the illusion you’re a single medium sized creature. But you’re still two creatures! Adopt a quirk around how your two halves interact with each other; maybe you’re always whispering to yourself in two slightly different voices, maybe you’re lightly kicking and punching each other to get the other to do what they want. Whatever the quirk is, it should be noticeable, but subtle. Gain the in a trenchcoat talent. When trying to maintain your disguise, make a skill check with your in a trenchcoat talent; on a strong hit you’re able to keep it up, on a weak hit you stumble: mark 2-fatigue to keep your disguise together or let your disguise slip, on a miss, you can’t hold your disguise together and your true nature is exposed.

On your turn, you can spend 1 AP to separate; if you do each half gets ½ of your current HP, and any conditions applied (this does not change their duration) and can only be healed up to a maximum of ½ of your maximum HP. They share the same fatigue and exhaustion tracks. When split, each half only has the equipment they were carrying. They share any remaining AP this round, and on subsequent rounds they take their turn together, sharing a single total pool of AP.

If one of your halves drops to 0 HP, it makes death saves as normal. Coming back together stabilizes your dying half; you’re whole again with your combined HP, and you can’t separate again until you’ve finished a short or long rest. If one of your halves dies while separated, you stay separated at ½ your maximum HP, without the in a trenchcoat talent, until your other half is resurrected or replaced.

You bear a visible marking from an otherworldly presence. You gain advantage on rolls to intimidate or command obedience and resistance to psychic damage. Creatures that recognize your mark and fear it become hostile on sight, those who revere it offer aid without being asked. Your mark cannot be hidden or disguised by any means, and rolls to avoid being recognized or to maintain a false identity are made with disadvantage.

You’re accustomed to a life of privilege within the upper echelons of society. You have advantage on rolls to consort with nobles or command deference from those beneath your station. Gain a talent related to the nobility.

You make your living entertaining others, giving you advantage on rolls when you do so. When you take the Clear Fatigue downtime activity, you can perform for your party—each ally within earshot clears 1 additional fatigue. You gain proficiency with two musical instruments of your choice.

You’ve been blessed with a natural gift and have worked to hone it. Gain two talents, and gain expertise in one of them.

Your soul has lived before, and fragments of past lives surface when you need them. At character creation, choose a number of common heritages equal to your Prowess + 1; these are your past lives. Two are active at any time, granting all their benefits and consequences as if you had taken them. As part of your daily preparations, you can swap one active past life for another from your pool; doing so marks 1-exhaustion that you cannot clear except by taking the Recuperate downtime activity. Whenever your Prowess increases, you discover another past life and add it to your pool. Your soul is split across many selves—the duration of the Charmed condition on you is doubled.

Few have sailed as widely as you. You recognize a port from its coastline or skyline, and know its main trade. You can take the Work on a Project downtime activity to chart a course to a place you’ve heard of, countdown 2. When you complete it, you learn its direction and approximate distance from your current location. You roll with advantage when sailing. You gain proficiency with drafter’s tools.

You’ve lived a life of military discipline, and are ready to defend those around you. You gain proficiency in two weapons of your choice, with mastery in one of them, and roll with advantage when convincing law enforcement of your take of events. When you take the Prepare downtime activity, you hold 2-prepared no matter how many party members prepare with you.

Darkness is your ally; while some have adopted the dark, you were born in it, moulded by it. You have darkvision and advantage to hide while in darkness. While in shadow or darkness, you can attempt to Hide even without cover. You are vulnerable to radiant damage, and while uncovered in direct sunlight, you mark 1-fatigue at the end of each hour.

Because you’ve spent your life wandering from place to place, never settling down, you’ve picked up a knack for always having the right item on you. Add a Wanderer’s Pack to your inventory—when you use Retrieve Item from the pack, you can pull out a mundane item that’s useful for your current situation. Work with your GM to figure out what item you have taken out. You can do this a number of times equal to your Prowess, and recover all spent uses as part of your daily preparations.