Choose A Background

Your character’s background describes what they did before they joined the crew. Choose one of the general background options from the list on your playbook, then write a detail about it that’s specific to your character. For example, you could choose Labour, and then write sailor on a mutiny ship with few survivors. Or you might choose Law and write Former Bluecoat. See more examples below.

• Academic: A scholar, clerk, teacher, astrologer, engineer, artist, tutor, alchemist, mage, etc.

• Labour: A servant, blacksmith, mason, carpenter, butcher, fisher, teamster, nanny, wainwright, cook, sailor, etc.

• Merchant: A shopkeeper, merchant, crafter, trader, tinker, etc.

• Military: A knight, soldier, mercenary, guard member, spy, war leader, fight instructor, etc.

• Peasant: Farmer, herder, beekeeper, orchardist, etc.

• Noble: A member of a high, noble, or fallen house; an heir, scion, courtier, illegitimate child, etc.

• Religion: A priest, priestess, acolyte, temple guard, temple servant, or cult member.

• Underworld: A street urchin, gang member, robber, beggar, prostitute, thug, thief, cutpurse, brigand, smuggler, or other outcast.