Game Mastery Guide | Monsters | Road | Vagabond

Vagabond

Super Race: human commoner 2/warrior 1. Cr: 1. Xp: 400. Alignment: N. Size: Medium. Creature Type: Humanoid.
Init: +1. Senses: Perception +7. Ac: 16, touch 11, flat-footed 15 (+4 armor, +1 Dex, +1 shield).
Hp: 15 (3 HD; 2d6+1d10+3).
Fortitude: +3. Reflex: +1. Will: -1.
Speed: 30 ft.. Melee: battleaxe +3 (1d8+1/×3) or dagger +3 (1d4+1/19-20). Ranged: mwk composite longbow +4 (1d8+1/×3) or mwk composite longbow +2/+2 (1d8+1/×3) or dagger +3 (1d4+1/19-20). Strength: 13. Dexterity: 13. Constitution: 12. Intelligence: 10. Wisdom: 8. Charisma: 9.
Base Attack: +2. Cmb: +3. Cmd: 14.
Feats: Alertness, Point Blank Shot, Rapid Shot.
Skills: Climb +3, Handle Animal +3, Knowledge (geography) +1, Knowledge (local) +1, Perception +7, Ride +3, Sense Motive +2, Survival +1, Swim +3.
Languages: Common.
Gear: masterwork chain shirt, buckler, battleaxe, dagger, masterwork composite longbow (+1 Str) with 20 arrows, mule, saddle. Boon: A vagabond can give accurate directions to any known landmark or settlement within 50 miles (+5 on Survival checks to avoid getting lost) and general information about likely dangers (terrain or hostile creatures) along the way..

Vagabonds are drifters who wander the roads, picking up odd jobs but rarely letting the sun set on them in the same place twice. Vagabonds have a few skills that can help them get odd jobs in communities they pass through, but often possess skills in combat as well, as no road is ever truly safe.

Vagabonds serve well as hunters, woodsmen, and herders who live on the fringes of society. A vagabond might also work as a traveling peddler or merchant, or serve as a scout for a town militia.

Vagabonds make good low-level archers, and this skill can be improved by replacing the Alertness feat with Far Shot, Precise Shot, or Weapon Focus (longbow). Alternatively, you can replace the archery feats with Power Attack and Toughness to make a vagabond better in melee combat.

Vagabonds are usually loners, but may partner with a caravan guard, storyteller, or pair of farmers (CR 3). Two vagabonds might join a troupe of four wanderers (CR 7), or occasionally travel in small groups of four, accompanied by a single wanderer, pilgrim, or trapper (CR 6).