====== Merchant ======

Whether you worked as a travelling merchant or laboured in a shop, you have a lot of experience with trade and money.  And now you may have felt the lure of excitement, or a desire to make a difference in the world, but you have left your merchant days behind you and trained to become an adventurer.

When you select this Back-Story, increase your Charisma by +1.  Then choose one of Body, Education or Foresight and increase it by +1 as well.  You receive one training rank in [[..:skills:Diplomacy]].  You begin with an extra twenty-five [[..:equipment:coins|silver pennies]] with which to purchase equipment, and a +1 Merchant Prestige.

If you wish to select the [[..:features:General]] Feature, [[..:features:general:Patron]],
you may choose to have one of the Guilds as your Patron, even if you have no Guild Prestige.