Background Instance

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        {
            "name": "Ability Score Increases",
            "desc": "+1 to Charisma and one other ability score.",
            "type": "ability_score"
        },
        {
            "name": "Adventures And Advancement",
            "desc": "Because of your commercial contacts you may be offered money to lead or escort trade caravans. You'll receive a fee from each trader that reaches their destination safely.",
            "type": "adventures_and_advancement"
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        {
            "name": "Connection and Memento",
            "desc": "Roll 1d10, choose, or make up your own.\r\n\r\n#### Trader Connections\r\n|d10|Connection|\n|---|---|\n|1|The parent or relative who wants you to carry on the family business.|\r\n|2|The sibling who inherited the other half of the family business.|\r\n|3|The trading company to which you are indentured until you pay off a debt.|\r\n|4|The powerful merchant who will never forgive the business coup you pulled off.|\r\n|5|The noble whose horse trampled your poor family's vegetable stall, injuring or killing a relative you dearly loved.|\r\n|6|The parent or elder sibling who squandered your family fortune.|\r\n|7|The business partner who cheated you.|\r\n|8|The customs agent who has sworn to catch you red-handed with illicit goods.|\r\n|9|The crime boss to whom you wouldn't pay protection money.|\r\n|10|The smuggler who will pay well for certain commodities.|\r\n\r\n#### Trader Mementos\r\n|d10|Memento|\n|---|---|\n|1|The first gold piece you earned.|\r\n|2|Thousands of shares in a failed venture.|\r\n|3|A letter of introduction to a rich merchant in a distant city.|\r\n|4|A sample of an improved version of a common tool.|\r\n|5|Scars from a wound sustained when you tried to collect a debt from a vicious noble.|\r\n|6|A love letter from the heir of a rival trading family.|\r\n|7|A signet ring bearing your family crest, which is famous in the mercantile world.|\r\n|8|A contract binding you to a particular trading company for the next few years.|\r\n|9|A letter from a friend imploring you to invest in an opportunity that can't miss.|\r\n|10|A trusted family member's travel journals that mix useful geographical knowledge with tall tales.|",
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        },
        {
            "name": "Equipment",
            "desc": "Traveler's clothes, abacus, merchant's scale.",
            "type": "equipment"
        },
        {
            "name": "Skill Proficiencies",
            "desc": "Persuasion, and either Culture, Deception, or Insight.",
            "type": "skill_proficiency"
        },
        {
            "name": "Supply and Demand",
            "desc": "When you buy a trade good and sell it elsewhere to a community in need of that good, you gain a 10% bonus to its sale price for every 100 miles between the buy and sell location (maximum of 50%).",
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        },
        {
            "name": "Tool Proficiencies",
            "desc": "One vehicle.",
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        }
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        "name": "Adventurer's Guide",
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        "display_name": "Adventurer's Guide",
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            "name": "EN Publishing",
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    "name": "Trader",
    "desc": ""
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