For example: a character could select skills like "appraise item", "haggle", and "knowledge: (locality)", and pick for a career "travelling merchant" or just "merchant". They could also just as well pick for a career something like "quartermaster" or "innkeeper" (though innkeeper may be more difficult to play as a member of a potentially travelling group).
[[File:Heartoftheforestdraw.jpg|thumb|upright|left|Danger lurks in the dark places, but power, too, for those willing to pay the price.]]
==== The Setting ====
[[File:Heartoftheforestdraw.jpg|thumb|upright|left|Danger lurks in the dark places, but power, too, for those willing to pay the price.]]
The starting region has the flavor of continental Europe, lol fantasy trope. Cultures mix and trade enough to bring in the occasional people and goods from neighboring regions. This is not a time of empire, but of a collection of generally independent kingdoms coexisting or feuding as it is politically expedient.