Drifters lack permanency, stable living environments, or jobs. How did they arrive here? It may be by choice, or a tragedy they simply never recovered from. Today’s day job isn’t so much a job as it is a look at those that have fallen between the cracks of society, they may be homeless, searching for something, tangible or unknowable, some may have even chosen to forswear society at large.
Note: This post may romanticize the ideas of being homeless. Our goal is to help players create a shared fictional world. For more information on what life without a home may be like, please click the links below.
Core Talents for the drifter revolve around basic survival needs. Sourcing food and shelter, enduring through times without food, or medical care and recognizing what parts of town are safe or dangerous.
Core Talents
- Overlooked (Disguise)
- Fasting
- Outlast
- Scrounging
- Street Smarts
- Survival
Related Talents expand the drifter’s world adding friends, and collecting useful pieces of knowledge that can help them survive.
Related Talents
- Bargain Finder
- Contact
- Hard Earned Wisdom (Education)
- Geography: Roads
- Herbalism
- Manual Labor
The drifter’s Talents are all about surviving without home or permanency. Players may consider additional Talents based on the lives the character might have led before loosing this stability.
Often counted out, the drifter may enjoy the following Boons.
- Amazing
- Surprising
- Tricky
Being discounted the drifter may learn to take advantage of this fact. Catching people off guard, and using their powers in different an surprising ways.
