A Character Background by Kay Marlow Allen
You used to be an adventurer. You had a weapon, a party, and a plan. You scaled mountains and crossed oceans, befriended tavern keepers and served empresses, battled the forces of evil and fought for the lives of the good.
You used to be an adventurer—but that was a long, long time ago.
You haven’t picked up a weapon or journeyed across this landscape in many years, but you’re coming out of retirement. You’re going on one last adventure—and you’re going to make it a good one.
Sometime during your last adventure, you decided it was time to retire. Choose the incident that made you hang up your sword, or roll for one on the following table.
Choose one of these features to shape the way your character arrives in a new city or town.
Retirees are shaped by the tensions between their old adventuring days and the new lives they’ve settled into. Choose or roll for characteristics on the following tables, or create your own.