Hunter (5e Background)

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Hunter

You are a hunter. Whether you hunt oddities or normal animals, you have become adept at tracking, predicting, and killing your chosen prey.

Skill Proficiencies: Choose three from Nature, Stealth, Animal Handling and Survival

Tool Proficiencies: Leather worker's tools, and Herbalism kit or Poisoner's kit

Languages: Language of your chosen prey, if they don't have one you can choose one language.

Equipment: Herbalism kit or Poisoner's kit, Skinning knife, Leather worker's tools, a trophy from your best hunt (i.e. a bear's claw or deer antlers), and an animal companion.

Specialization

d6Specialization
1Hunt for Survival
2Hunt for Entertainment
3Hunt for Pelts
4Hunt for Glory/Trophies
5Hunt for Money (Career hunter)
6Hunt to Protect (Hunting a particularly dangerous animal)

Feature: Hunter Merchant

You know how to sell pelts, antlers, heads, and meat from your prey for the most you can get out of them. ( sell them for twice the normal price)

Alternate Feature: Hunter Scavenger

You know how to scavenge and use every part of an animal, you can cook and eat the meat, make knives out of antlers, and make clothes and blankets out of pelts. You also can make them into rations easily. It takes you half the time to make rations than someone else. Creating the rations requires a fire(for smoking meat) nuts and berries, and some sort of package.

Alternate Feature: Hunter Camouflage

You know how to camouflage yourself like other animals, such as deer and wolves, with their pelts. You can use leather working tools to create a disguise. You gain a +2 to stealth checks against creatures with an intelligence of less then 12. The disguise takes 30 min to make, and lasts for 12 hours.

Suggested Characteristics

d6Personality Trait
1I try to find suitable camouflage whenever I am outdoor.
2I have little respect for animals. To me, they are nothing more than prey.
3I enjoy the company of animals more than the company of men.
4I love to boast of my exploits and show off my trophies to everyone.
5I have deep respect for a specific type of animal.
6I have an unusually well-developed sense of smell.
d6Ideal
1Respect. I respect nature and take from it only what is needed. (Lawful)
2Provider. I hunt to feed the poor in my community. (Good)
3Profit. I hunt for profit and fame. (Evil)
4Thrill of the Hunt. I live for the thrill of the hunt. (Chaotic)
5Balance. Nature gives and nature takes away. It’s the circle of life. (Neutral)
6Ambitious. I wish to move on to bigger, more dangerous game. (Any)
d6Bond
1I have a deep admiration and respect for nature.
2The animals I kill are going to help me survive, and I thank them for there sacrifice.
3I feel a brotherhood with fellow hunters.
4I have become attached to my weapons, and do not want to part with them.
5I find it hard to kill small, innocent animals such as squirrels and ferrets.
6I believe nature is sacred, and only animals deserve the title of natural.
d6Flaw
1I don't understand why everyone doesn't hunt.
2"Only the strong shall live in the wild"
3I'm so use to eating what I kill, I might cook and eat a monster or even person I kill without even thinking about.
4Having lived in the wilderness for most of my life, I have poor standards of hygiene.
5I tend to underestimate the deadliness of my prey.
6When bragging about my kills, I tend to lie or exaggerate".

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