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If you take this profession when you create your character, you gain the following [[gear]], in addition to the [[equipment]] you gained based on your background:  

 

traveler’s pack, wood-splitting axe, brigandine [[armor]], 1 tool or kit, clothes (simple), hooded cloak, 2-person tent, mess kit, rations (7), torches (5), tinderbox, waterskin, 50 ft rope

Each time you gain a rank in the pioneer profession (including rank 1), gain +3 Cartography, and +1 in three different [[skills]] of your choice from below:

* <u>Crafting*</u>: Carpentry, Cartography, Cooking, Glassblowing, Jeweling, Leatherworking, Masonry, Pottery, Smithing, Weaving, Woodcarving

* <u>Influence</u>: [[Empathy]], Leadership, Persuading

* <u>Stamina</u>: Distance Running, Forced March, Swimming

When you become a rank 1 pioneer, and every time you gain a rank in the Pioneer occupation, you expand your control over an unclaimed tract of wilderness.

You own a plot of undeveloped frontier land approximately 20 acres in size. The land is assumed to produce enough water and food to sustain a household. Additionally, you have made arrangements to have a place of residence constructed on your land. The residence is large enough to house you and six companions, and it will be completed and ready to inhabit six months after you first make these arrangements.

You establish a means of sustaining your homestead. Choose Farming, Fishing, or Logging. This choice grants you benefits at this rank and at rank 3

You have cleared 2 acres of land that is now ready for planting, orchards, or livestock. You may hire up to three laborers who will work the land and produce a harvest worth 1d10 sc per week after expenses. Once per year, your crops produce enough bounty that you can store enough food for you and up to six companions for up to three months. You may also bring this crop to market; for each month’s worth of crops that you sell, you earn 4d10+20 sc.

Your property borders a lake teeming with fish. You may hire three laborers to build and maintain a fishing ship that produces fish worth 1d10 sc per week after expenses. When your lake is not frozen, it produces enough food for three creatures to eat indefinitely.

Your land encompasses a vast forest that produces quality timber. You may hire up to five laborers to chop and sell this wood locally, earning 2d10+5 sc per week after expenses. Additionally, your reputation has attracted other homesteaders. You may choose to construct one option from the ''Community Upgrades'' list that becomes established beside your homestead.

Additionally, your reputation has attracted more homesteaders. You may choose to contruct two more Community Upgrades from the ''Community Upgrades'' list that becomes established beside your homestead.

 

Gain the Rank 3 benefit from your sustaining choice at Rank 2.  

Additionally, your reputation has attracted more homesteaders. You may choose to construct two more Community Upgrades from the list below that becomes established beside your homestead.

Additionally, your reputation has attracted more homesteaders. You may choose to construct two more Community Upgrades from the list below that becomes established beside your homestead.

== '''COMMUNITY UPGRADES''' ==

|A skilled blacksmith moves in to ply their trade, constructing a fully functioning forge and domicile on your homestead. Every week, the blacksmith produces 1d8 simple tools and/or simple [[weapons]]. You earn a small tax from sales that the blacksmith makes, earning you 2d10 sc per week, or 3d10 sc per week if you have a Mine Shaft.

|You [[order]] the construction of a small commercial dock on a body of water within or bordering your homestead. This building produces fish for settlement consumption as well as allows trade via water routes.

You must have a plot bordering a river, lake, sea, or ocean to take this upgrade.

|Up to 10 acres of your homestead is sold to a local farmer who will work the land and produce enough food to feed the entire community. This additionally produces 1d10 sc per week.

|You order the construction of a traveler’s inn upon your homestead. This structure includes a kitchen, stable, and tavern along with ten rooms for visiting guests. You earn a small tax from all revenue generated in this inn, earning you 2d10 sc per week.

 

!Professions

|[[Archivist]] • [[Barrister]] • [[Charlatan]] • [[Clergy]] • [[Entertainer]] • [[Guard]] • [[Honorable]] • [[Inquisitor]] • [[Knight]] • [[Nomad]] • [[Physician]] • [[Pioneer]] • [[Sailor]] • [[Soldier]] • [[Trader]] • [[Thief]] • [[Thug]]