Scrapper
You’ve had to make a living with your fists, but you’ve never had time to develop a particularly attractive style of fighting. The world is a rough place to make it in, and if that meant breaking a chair over your opponent’s head or taking them down with a grapple, then so be it.
With this brutal fighting style at your disposal, did you seek out excitement and opponents or was fighting for pay merely a grim reality? Did you leave a trail of broken bodies or reluctant admirers in your wake?
+1 to Strength or Dexterity, and +1 to Constitution.
Common clothes, brass knuckles, a bag of caltrops, and a crowbar.
When fighting in a public area, you draw a crowd excited by the combat. If you win the fight, you earn enough to support yourself for the next week: the bigger the settlement, the higher your standard of living, up to a moderate lifestyle in a city.
Additionally, if you’ve fought in a settlement before, you gain an expertise die on Intimidation or Persuasion checks against locals from that settlement.
Your natural talent for combat and your brutal fighting style gains you a reputation in any settlement where you publicly fight. In settlements that hold staged fights (either in or outside of the law) you have an opportunity to earn enough to support yourself and your companions: the bigger the settlement, the higher your standard of living, up to a moderate lifestyle in a city. As your fame grows, you may be called on by wealthy patrons who can provide a rich lifestyle as long as you hold their interest.
Additionally, your reputation may also gain you one or many rivals. Depending on your level, your Narrator can create their own or choose from Appendix B: Nonplayer Characters in Monstrous Menagerie. Examples include: thug , tribal warrior , bandit captain , berserker , veteran , gladiator , and assassin .