Aristocrat
Skill, Background
Upper-class upbringing. +40% to the starting-wealth roll; cannot take Streetwise, Street Fighting or any Woodlore skill. Choose 2 of: Diplomacy/Protocol, Reading/Writing, up to two Additional Languages.
Also called Background
From the book
An aristocrat was brought up amid the finer and gentler side of civilization. Characters from this background can usually read and write and know the manners and customs of the upper class.
They add +40% to the roll for starting wealth and possessions, but may never learn Streetwise, Street Fighting or any Woodlore skill. Their contacts are aristocrats of every sort, clergy and artisans, with few or no friends among people of lower standing. Two background skills are chosen from Diplomacy/Protocol, Reading/Writing and up to two Additional Languages. In the Atlantean world likely birthplaces are Avalon, Atlantis, Khitai, Acheron and Tartessos.
At a glance
- Kind
- Background
- Choose two of
- Diplomacy/Protocol, Reading/Writing, Additional Language (up to two)
- Contacts
- Nobles and other aristocrats, clergy and artisans; few or no contacts among the lower classes
- Possible place of birth
- Avalon, Atlantis, Khitai, Acheron, Tartessos
- Starting wealth
- +40% to the Wealth and Possessions die roll
- Barred skills
- Streetwise, Street Fighting, all Woodlore skills
Also +40% to the starting wealth roll; may not take Streetwise, Street Fighting or any Woodlore skill.