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Cultist

You're an entertainer at heart, a performer with a flair for the dramatic and a love of the spotlight. You've spent years honing your craft, mastering a demanding set of skills so you can perform them with panache and make them look easy. The wild applause, the screams of the crowds, the mayhem and terror spreading into the streets - this is what you live for. Your cult might be a real one of power founded on ancient teachings of a Fiend or could just be a money making scheme.

Skill Proficiencies

Acrobatics, Performance, One type of musical instrument

Languages

Choose one of either Abyssal or Giant

Equipment

An insignia, a musical instrument (Your choice), a costume, a hooded lantern made of wrought iron, a 10-foot length of chain with sharply spiked links, a tinderbox, 10 torches, a set of common clothes, a pouch, and a bottle of sweet, red juice

Starting Gold

10 GPs

Features

A Flair for the Dramatic

Performance styles typically fuse standard circus-style acrobatics with fire, wrought-iron spikes and hooks, and monsters. You can roll a d8 or choose from the options in the Performance Options table to determine your preferred style of performance.

Fearsome Reputation

People recognize you as a member of the Cult, and they're careful not to draw your anger or ridicule. You can get away with minor criminal offenses, such as refusing to pay for food at a restaurant or breaking down a door at a local shop, if no legal authorities witness the crime. Most people are too daunted by you to report your wrongdoing.

A Flair for the Dramatic

1D8 Performance Feature
1Spike Wheel acrobatYou have proficiency with Acrobatics.
2Lampooning satiristYou have proficiency with daggers.
3Fire jugglerYou can juggle up to 12 objects at once without making a Sleight of Hand check.
4Marionette puppeteerYou have two puppets that you can manipulate with great skill either with one or both at the same time.
5Pain artistYou have proficiency with the Torturer’s Kit.
6Noise musicianYou have an atypical instrument such as a bladed harp, spike lyre, ect. The instrument makes sounds like a scream of pain or wet plopping sounds or similar terrifying noises.
7Nightmare clownYou have a clown costume and Disguise Kit.
8Master of ceremoniesYou have proficiency with Performance.

Personality Tables

Personality Traits (1D8)

Roll Result
1 I revel in mayhem, the more destructive the better.
2 When violence breaks out, I lose myself in Rage, and it's sometimes hard to stop.
3 Everything is funny to me, and the most hilarious and bloodiest things leave me cackling with sadistic glee.
4 I derive genuine pleasure from the pain of others.
5 I enjoy testing other people's patience.
6 I can't stand it when things are predictable, so I like to add a little chaos to every situation.
7 I throw my weight around to make sure I get my way.
8 I enjoy breaking delicate works of art. And fingers, which are sort of the same.

Ideals (1D6)

Roll Result
1 Guild. My guild is all that really matters. (Any)
2 Hedonism. Death comes for everyone, so take as much pleasure as you can from every moment of life. (Neutral)
3 Creativity. I strive to find more ways to express my art through pain - my own as well as others'. (Chaotic)
4 Freedom. No one tells me what to do. (Chaotic)
5 Equality. I want to see my country remade, with no guilds and no hierarchies. (Chaotic)
6 Spectacle. People are inspired by the greatness they see in art. (Any)

Bonds (1D6)

Roll Result
1 I have belonged to the same performance troupe for years, and these people mean everything to me.
2 A blood witch told me I have a special destiny to fulfill, and I'm trying to figure out what it is.
3 I'm secretly hoping that I can change the cult from the inside, using my influence to help rein in the wanton violence.
4 I own something that the ancient demon once touched (it's seared black at the spot), and I cherish it.
5 I want to be better at my chosen form of performance than any other member of my troupe.
6 I am devoted to my Demon and live to impress him.

Flaws (1D6)

Roll Result
1 My family is prominent in another guild. I enjoy my wild life, but I don't want to embarrass them.
2 I couldn't hide my emotions and opinions even if I wanted to.
3 I throw caution to the wind.
4 I resent the rich and powerful.
5 When I'm angry, I lash out in violence.
6 There's no such thing as too much pleasure.