Atlantean Trilogy Archive
A panorama of skills: an acrobat leaping, a scribe writing, a thief climbing a moonlit wall, a tracker, a lyre player and sparring fighters.

City Dweller

Skill, Background

Big-city upbringing. Choose 2 of: Streetwise, Haggling, Drinking, Gambling, Reading/Writing, one Additional Language.

Also called Background

From the book

A city dweller is familiar with the day-to-day running of a big city or township. What kind of city it is, such as a capital or a seaport, and where it stands are for the Game Judge to decide.

Such a character has contacts in all sorts of trades, as well as among merchants and guilds. The two background skills come from Drinking, Gambling, Haggling, Streetwise, Reading/Writing and one Additional Language. In the Atlantean world, suggested home cities are Atlantis, Khitai, Tartessos, Mohenjo-Daro, Acheron and Kaffir.

At a glance

Kind
Background
Contacts
People of every profession, guild members and merchants
Possible place of birth
Atlantis, Khitai, Tartessos, Mohenjo-Daro, Acheron, Kaffir
City type
Seaport, capital, etc., set by the Game Judge

The book prints 'Reading/Writing one Additional Language'; it can be read as one choice (literacy in an extra language) or as two (Reading/Writing, and one Additional Language). Listed here as two.