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Press-Ganged (LOWG)

Forced aboard a ship by crime, debt, or plain abduction, this deckhand learned a trade under one of the crew's specialists.

common
Granted Features
Automatic:
Deep local ties let a street-smart operator swap Diplomacy for Society to work contacts and pull rumors from a familiar settlement.
A grasp of etiquette, law, and civic history helps a character scrape by in an unfamiliar city and make sense of written records.

Prerequisite Region - High Seas

You were forced into service as a sailor against your will. Perhaps you were punished for a crime, were drafted into military service, are repaying a debt, or simply were abducted. Though you were initially trained as a simple deckhand, you may have subsequently studied a trade under one of the vessel's specialists.

Choose two attribute boosts. One must be to Strength or Wisdom, and one is a free attribute boost.

You're trained in the Society skill and the Sailing Lore skill. You gain the skill feat.

Boosts STR, WIS

Trained Society · Lore Sailing Lore

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