Informant

Background — Homebrew for Heretics of the Old Gods

You know things. More precisely, you know how to find things out, who to sell them to, and how to make sure nobody can prove it was you. You’ve worked for factions, institutions, gangs, and individuals — sometimes simultaneously, sometimes at cross-purposes. Loyalty is a performance you give when it’s useful. What you actually believe in is leverage.

You might have started as someone’s planted asset — embedded in a community, reporting back, keeping your head down. Or you came to this work sideways, realizing early that the information passing through your hands was worth more than whatever you were being paid to ignore it. Either way you’re in the business now. The business has a way of making sure you stay.

Ability Scores: Charisma, Wisdom, Dexterity

Feat: Lucky

Skill Proficiencies: Deception, Stealth

Tool Proficiency: Disguise Kit

Equipment: Choose A or B: (A) Disguise Kit, nondescript common clothes, a coded ledger of contacts and dead drop locations, a forged identity document, 15 gp; or (B) 50 gp

Feature: In Circulation

Once per Long Rest you can query your network for a piece of information about a person, faction, or location. The DM provides what the network currently knows, which may be accurate, outdated, or incomplete. The query isn’t free — someone knows you asked, and information about your inquiry is now also in circulation.