You thrive in front of an audience. You know how to entrance them, entertain them, and even inspire them. Your poetics can stir the hearts of those who hear you, awakening grief or joy, laughter or anger. Your music raises their spirits or captures their sorrow. Your dance steps captivate, your humor cuts to the quick. Whatever techniques you use, your art is your life.

Variant: Gladiator

A gladiator is as much an entertainer as any minstrel or circus performer trained to make the arts of combat into a spectacle the crowd can enjoy. This kind of flashy combat is your entertainer routine, though you might also have some skills as a tumbler or actor. Using your By Popular Demand feature, you can find a place to perform in any place that features combat for entertainment-perhaps a gladiatorial arena or secret pit fighting club. You can replace the musical instrument in your equipment package with an inexpensive but unusual weapon, such as a trident or net.

Skill Proficiencies

Acrobatics, Performance

Tool Proficiencies

Disguise kit, one type of musical instrument

Variant: An inexpensive but unusual weapon, such as a trident or net for the musical instrument

Languages

None

Equipment

  • A musical instrument (one of your choice)
  • Variant: A unusual weapon you are proficient with
  • The favor of an admirer (love letter, lock of hair, or trinket)
  • A costume
  • A belt pouch containing 15 gp

Entertainer Routines

A good entertainer is versatile, spicing up every
perform ance with a variety of different routines. Choose
one to three routines to define your expertise as an entertainer.

  • Actor
  • Dancer
  • Fire-eater
  • Jester
  • Juggler
  • Instrumentalist
  • Poet
  • Singer
  • Storyteller
  • Tumbler

Feature: By Popular Demand

You can always find a place to perform, usually in an inn or tavern but possibly with a circus, at a theater, or even in a noble’s court. At such a place, you receive free lodging and food of a modest or comfortable standard (depending on the quality of the establishment), as long as you perform each night. In addition, your performance makes you something of a local figure. When strangers recognize you in a town where you have performed, they typically take a liking to you.