Trader A5E

+1 to Charisma and one other ability score.

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.

Roll 1d10, choose, or make up your own.

Trader Connections

d10	Connection
1	The parent or relative who wants you to carry on the family business.
2	The sibling who inherited the other half of the family business.
3	The trading company to which you are indentured until you pay off a debt.
4	The powerful merchant who will never forgive the business coup you pulled off.
5	The noble whose horse trampled your poor family's vegetable stall, injuring or killing a relative you dearly loved.
6	The parent or elder sibling who squandered your family fortune.
7	The business partner who cheated you.
8	The customs agent who has sworn to catch you red-handed with illicit goods.
9	The crime boss to whom you wouldn't pay protection money.
10	The smuggler who will pay well for certain commodities.

Trader Mementos

d10	Memento
1	The first gold piece you earned.
2	Thousands of shares in a failed venture.
3	A letter of introduction to a rich merchant in a distant city.
4	A sample of an improved version of a common tool.
5	Scars from a wound sustained when you tried to collect a debt from a vicious noble.
6	A love letter from the heir of a rival trading family.
7	A signet ring bearing your family crest, which is famous in the mercantile world.
8	A contract binding you to a particular trading company for the next few years.
9	A letter from a friend imploring you to invest in an opportunity that can't miss.
10	A trusted family member's travel journals that mix useful geographical knowledge with tall tales.

Traveler's clothes, abacus, merchant's scale.

Persuasion, and either Culture, Deception, or Insight.

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%).

One vehicle.