Dungeons & Dragons 2024 (D&D) Background: Curio Collector

Curio collectors are obsessed with collecting alchemical ingredients, spell components, and other small oddities. They travel the world in search of the rarest of these to add to their collections. Not all curio collectors are spellcasters, though many are. They might be caring and generous community leaders who want to facilitate magic in their community or quiet and withdrawn owners of a curio shop stuffed with oddities both practical and decorative. The curio collector is always proud of their collections and is usually willing to show and maybe even share with those who take an interest.

Features

Trash is Treasure

You have spent years memorizing alchemical ingredients, spell components, and other hard-to-find ingredients and oddities under the tutelage of another collector or in the learned halls of an academy. You immediately recognize when an object you perceive or handle is an ingredient or component for something, though you might not recall its exact application without further study. You also have a general idea of its value in the markets where it would be most desired, estimating a value within 15 percent of the object’s actual value in those markets.

Suggested Motivations

Curio collectors are obsessive, detail-oriented individuals who are highly motivated to complete their collections. They enjoy the hunt for rare ingredients and components and take great care to maintain the object’s quality when collecting it. They might take risks to ensure the talon of some monstrous foe remains intact even as they work to defeat it. Curio collectors tend to have an excellent memory and are often able to recall details, especially about ingredients and their sources, that others might not.
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