PROVINCIAL
Your character needn’t be lacking in sheer brainpower, but he comes from an ethnic group or area that is considered by most ordinary folks in a campaign world or nation to be amusingly backwards.
[2 Pts.]
Your character displays the accents and personal habits customary to his place of origin; as a result of these traits, he is regarded as a “hick.” Reflect for a moment on the level of sophistication displayed by the average peasant or laborer in a fantasy campaign– those people believe your character to be undereducated, superstitious, and knee-slappingly simple. Con artists and tricksters will single your character out for attention, and strangers in taverns will have plenty of choice witticisms and taunts to throw at him. At the DM’s discretion, your character will suffer a -2 circumstance penalty to most Charismabased skill checks in situations where his origin could be considered a hindrance in the eyes of onlookers.