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Template: Occupation Keyword
This is the standard format of a HeroQuest occupation keyword. In general, it is better to create a
specialty within one of the existing occupations if you can, rather than creating a new occupation.
Occupation Name
Description of the profession, followed by the actual keyword in the following format:
| Beginning Hero Suggestions: |
Suggestions for ways a member of this profession might become involved in
activities in the HeroQuest game. |
| Appropriate Homelands: |
A list of homelands where the occupation appears. Eighteen basic, universal
occupations (including magic occupations) appear in HeroQuest, and others appear in
Imperial Lunar Handbook, Volume 1. |
| Abilities: |
Typical activities common in the occupation, the things a person can do when
they have been in it. |
| Specializations: |
The ability variations found in various specialties of the occupation, usually
in the form of modifiers to specific abilities. Not all occupations have specialties. |
| Typical Personality Traits: |
Usual temperament of a member of the occupation. A hero may take any, all, or
none of these as abilities. It is rare to find a member of the occupation with every one of these traits. |
| Typical Relationships: |
Communities or people that members of this occupation often have as relationships.
A hero may take any, all, or none of these as abilities. |
| Typical Followers: |
Typical, suggested, or possible followers. A hero who takes any of these follower
can choose to make them into either retainers or sidekicks. (Heroes do not automatically gain these followers when
they create a new hero with this occupation, but must include them in their narrative or list.) |
| Standard of Living: |
Typical living standard provided by the occupation. See HeroQuest
for more information. |
| Typical Equipment: |
Typical equipment carried or owned by members of this occupation. If a hero has
any ability that implies equipment, he generally has that equipment as well, even if it is not listed here. |
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Latest revision: 2 Apr 2004, new
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