Professions

Diligence and attention to detail make accountants superb researchers, able to support investigations through meticulous analysis of ledgers, financial statements, and business transactions.

CR: 30–70% | Formula: EDU × 4

Amateur or professional gymnasts and aerialists employed in circuses, carnivals, or vaudeville troupes possessing exceptional agility and balance.

CR: 9–20% | Formula: EDU × 2 + DEX × 2

A stage or screen performer skilled at inhabiting roles and navigating public attention.

CR: 9–70% | Formula: EDU × 2 + APP × 2

Operatives of commercial investigation bureaus such as Pinkerton or William J. Burns, hired for industrial espionage, asset tracking, and missing persons.

CR: 20–45% | Formula: EDU × 2 + (STR × 2 or DEX × 2)

Early 20th-century psychiatric specialists who evaluate mental pathology, asylum commitments, and forensic sanity.

CR: 30–60% | Formula: EDU × 4

Specialists who condition, domesticate, and direct work animals, circus performers, and show dogs.

CR: 10–40% | Formula: EDU × 2 + (APP × 2 or POW × 2)

A dealer, collector, or scholar of rare and historic objects.

CR: 30–70% | Formula: EDU × 4

Scholars, dealers, and collectors of antique relics, forgotten manuscripts, and historic oddities.

CR: 30–70% | Formula: EDU × 4

Shopkeepers and travelling buyers who source rare furnishings, estate goods, and curated oddities.

CR: 30–50% | Formula: EDU × 4

Field academics who unearth ancient tombs, decipher forgotten civilizations, and encounter things buried in deep strata.

CR: 10–40% | Formula: EDU × 4

Designers of civic structures, private estates, and monumental constructions with an eye for structural blueprints.

CR: 30–70% | Formula: EDU × 4

Painters, sculptors, and illustrators with an acute sensitivity to subtle aesthetics and horrific visions.

CR: 9–50% | Formula: EDU × 2 + (POW × 2 or DEX × 2)

Hospital orderlies tasked with restraining disturbed patients, maintaining ward security, and administering baths and sedatives.

CR: 9–20% | Formula: EDU × 2 + (STR × 2 or DEX × 2)

Professional competitors, Olympic athletes, baseball stars, or physical performers in peak condition.

CR: 9–70% | Formula: EDU × 2 + (STR × 2 or DEX × 2)

A novelist, biographer, essayist, or other professional writer.

CR: 9–30% | Formula: EDU × 4

Novelists, pulp fiction scribes, essayists, and occult historians who investigate unusual lore to fuel their prose.

CR: 9–30% | Formula: EDU × 4

Daring barnstormers, mail pilots, and Great War flying aces experienced with open-cockpit biplanes.

CR: 20–70% | Formula: EDU × 2 + DEX × 2

Armed outlaws and motor-bandits specialized in swift, high-stakes bank heists.

CR: 5–75% | Formula: EDU × 2 + (STR × 2 or DEX × 2)

Speakeasy barks and publicans who hear every secret, rumor, and confession in town.

CR: 8–25% | Formula: EDU × 2 + APP × 2

Expedition hunters accustomed to tracking lethal predators in Africa, Asia, and remote frontiers.

CR: 20–60% | Formula: EDU × 2 + (DEX × 2 or STR × 2)

Dealers of rare folio editions, private press runs, and obscure occult grimoires.

CR: 20–40% | Formula: EDU × 4

Distillers, rum-runners, and distribution couriers delivering illegal liquor during Prohibition.

CR: 10–80% | Formula: EDU × 2 + (STR × 2 or APP × 2)

Skilled trackers hired to apprehend bail-jumpers, fugitives, and targets of private warrants.

CR: 9–30% | Formula: EDU × 2 + (STR × 2 or DEX × 2)

Prize-fighters and gym brawlers trained in pugilistic conditioning and ring tactics.

CR: 9–60% | Formula: EDU × 2 + STR × 2

Cat burglars and safe-breakers who slip into secured mansions, museums, and bank vaults unseen.

CR: 5–40% | Formula: EDU × 2 + DEX × 2

Impeccable domestic managers of great aristocratic and industrial households.

CR: 9–40% | Formula: EDU × 4

Skilled professional drivers at the wheel of luxury touring sedans, taxicabs, or commercial freight trucks.

CR: 9–20% | Formula: EDU × 2 + DEX × 2

An ordained religious leader and community counselor.

CR: 9–60% | Formula: EDU × 4

Pastors, rabbis, and ordained priests offering spiritual comfort and confronting spiritual evil.

CR: 9–60% | Formula: EDU × 4

Software engineers, systems analysts, and network specialists operating in the digital age.

CR: 10–70% | Formula: EDU × 4

Grifters and swindlers skilled at spinning fraudulent investment schemes, forged identities, and seductive scams.

CR: 10–65% | Formula: EDU × 2 + APP × 2

Ranch hands, drovers, and rodeo riders hardened by frontier life and livestock management.

CR: 9–20% | Formula: EDU × 2 + (DEX × 2 or STR × 2)

Carpenters, blacksmiths, stonemasons, and artisans who build, repair, and shape physical structures.

CR: 10–40% | Formula: EDU × 2 + DEX × 2

A burglar, confidence trickster, smuggler, or organized criminal.

CR: 5–65% | Formula: EDU × 2 + DEX × 2

Charismatic charlatans or genuine sorcerers who orchestrate clandestine ritual circles.

CR: 30–60% | Formula: EDU × 2 + (APP × 2 or POW × 2)

A private investigator who finds people, evidence, and uncomfortable truths.

CR: 20–45% | Formula: EDU × 2 + (DEX or STR) × 2

A wealthy enthusiast with freedom to pursue unusual interests.

CR: 50–99% | Formula: EDU × 2 + APP × 2

Independently wealthy socialites with infinite leisure time and eccentric curiosities.

CR: 50–99% | Formula: EDU × 2 + APP × 2

Commercial and salvage divers braving dark depths in heavy canvas suits and brass helmets.

CR: 9–30% | Formula: EDU × 2 + DEX × 2

A physician trained to diagnose disease and treat injury.

CR: 30–80% | Formula: EDU × 4

Licensed physicians and general practitioners equipped to diagnose disease, treat horrific trauma, and identify toxins.

CR: 30–80% | Formula: EDU × 4

Wanderers, freight train riders, and day laborers who know the underside of towns and railroads.

CR: 0–5% | Formula: EDU × 2 + (APP × 2, DEX × 2, or STR × 2)

Publishing and newspaper executives who review copy, assign investigative beats, and protect reputations.

CR: 10–30% | Formula: EDU × 4

Mayors, state representatives, and senators skilled in public oratory and legislative power-brokering.

CR: 50–90% | Formula: EDU × 2 + APP × 2

Builders, civil designers, and mechanical innovators who understand blueprints, stress loads, and machinery.

CR: 30–60% | Formula: EDU × 4

Comedians, dancers, singers, magicians, and vaudeville performers captivating audiences.

CR: 9–70% | Formula: EDU × 2 + APP × 2

A traveler and expedition member accustomed to remote places and uncertain conditions.

CR: 20–70% | Formula: EDU × 2 + (APP, DEX, or STR) × 2

Expedition leaders venturing into unexplored jungles, arctic wastes, and ancient uncharted lands.

CR: 10–60% | Formula: EDU × 2 + (APP × 2, DEX × 2, or STR × 2)

Hardy agriculturalists who cultivate crops, tend livestock, and know rural weather and countryside lore.

CR: 9–30% | Formula: EDU × 2 + (CON × 2 or STR × 2)

Sworn federal investigators enforcing national laws across state lines with constitutional authority.

CR: 20–40% | Formula: EDU × 4

Underworld middlemen who purchase stolen jewelry, bearer bonds, and rare artwork and resell them.

CR: 10–40% | Formula: EDU × 2 + APP × 2

Celebrated motion picture actors and Hollywood royalty commanding public fascination and wealth.

CR: 20–90% | Formula: EDU × 2 + APP × 2

Courageous emergency personnel trained in axe-work, building ventilation, and fire rescue.

CR: 9–30% | Formula: EDU × 2 + (STR × 2 or DEX × 2)

Modern, free-spirited 1920s women who bob their hair, dance the Charleston, and challenge social conventions.

CR: 10–80% | Formula: EDU × 2 + APP × 2

Globe-trotting journalists covering wars, revolutions, and geopolitical intrigues on foreign soil.

CR: 10–40% | Formula: EDU × 4

Pathologists who perform post-mortem autopsies to determine cause, manner, and timeline of suspicious deaths.

CR: 40–60% | Formula: EDU × 4

Master printers and illustrators capable of replicating currency notes, legal wills, passports, and ancient manuscripts.

CR: 20–60% | Formula: EDU × 2 + DEX × 2

High-stakes cardsharps, dice players, and racecourse punters living by wits and probability.

CR: 10–50% | Formula: EDU × 2 + (APP × 2 or DEX × 2)

Capos, enforcers, and racketeers of organized crime mobs running illegal empires.

CR: 20–90% | Formula: EDU × 2 + (STR × 2 or DEX × 2)

Chic, street-smart companions of mobsters who know illicit underworld operations inside out.

CR: 10–80% | Formula: EDU × 2 + APP × 2

Aristocrats and landed gentry educated in classics, hunting, and high social protocol.

CR: 40–90% | Formula: EDU × 2 + APP × 2

Digital infiltration specialists skilled at penetrating secured servers, decoding data, and uncovering classified files.

CR: 10–70% | Formula: EDU × 4

Resourceful wanderers following rail lines, reading chalk symbols, and surviving in jungle camps.

CR: 0–5% | Formula: EDU × 2 + (APP × 2, DEX × 2, or STR × 2)

Ward staff who maintain sanitation, move patients, and help restrain violent wards.

CR: 6–15% | Formula: EDU × 2 + STR × 2

A reporter who investigates events and turns evidence into a story.

CR: 9–30% | Formula: EDU × 4

News hounds and reporters digging up scandalous scoops, murder evidence, and anomalous events.

CR: 9–30% | Formula: EDU × 4

Bench magistrates presiding over criminal trials, warrant requests, and judicial hearings.

CR: 50–80% | Formula: EDU × 4

Academic technicians who prepare chemical reagents, calibrate glass equipment, and run experimental tests.

CR: 10–30% | Formula: EDU × 4

Factory workers, dockers, stevedores, and manual workers accustomed to exhausting physical labor.

CR: 5–30% | Formula: EDU × 2 + STR × 2

Attorneys, defense barristers, and corporate counsels defending clients and dissecting legal loopholes.

CR: 30–80% | Formula: EDU × 4

Guardians of university and public book collections with access to restricted special collections.

CR: 9–35% | Formula: EDU × 4

Rugged timber cutters working deep in northern forests with double-bitted axes and crosscut saws.

CR: 9–30% | Formula: EDU × 2 + (STR × 2 or CON × 2)

Automobile and machine technicians who keep engines humming and repair complex mechanical devices.

CR: 9–40% | Formula: EDU × 4

A shopkeeper, trader, or commercial representative who understands goods and negotiation.

CR: 20–70% | Formula: EDU × 2 + APP × 2

Commissioned officers experienced in strategic tactical command, artillery deployment, and leadership.

CR: 20–70% | Formula: EDU × 2 + (DEX × 2 or STR × 2)

Subterranean workers navigating deep shafts, coal faces, and subterranean rock strata.

CR: 9–30% | Formula: EDU × 2 + STR × 2

Faithful emissaries sent into remote frontiers to build clinics, preach, and teach local populations.

CR: 0–30% | Formula: EDU × 4

High-altitude mountaineers conquering dangerous peaks, ice crevasses, and sheer rock faces.

CR: 30–60% | Formula: EDU × 2 + (DEX × 2 or STR × 2)

Scholarly directors of public and private museum collections who authenticate, catalog, and exhibit historical antiquities.

CR: 10–30% | Formula: EDU × 4

Jazz players, orchestra instrumentalists, and club performers with exceptional auditory sensitivity.

CR: 9–30% | Formula: EDU × 2 + (APP × 2 or DEX × 2)

Trained clinical caregivers dedicated to wound care, patient recovery, and medication administration.

CR: 9–30% | Formula: EDU × 4

Scholars and practitioners of hidden esoteric arts, Hermetic philosophy, and secret ritual traditions.

CR: 9–65% | Formula: EDU × 4

Trappers, guides, and forest rangers intimately familiar with wilderness navigation and survival.

CR: 5–20% | Formula: EDU × 2 + (DEX × 2 or STR × 2)

Scientific researchers investigating seances, apparitions, telepathy, and poltergeist activity.

CR: 9–30% | Formula: EDU × 4

Chemists and druggists compounding prescriptions, tinctures, painkillers, and patent medicines.

CR: 35–75% | Formula: EDU × 4

A studio, press, scientific, or street photographer who documents revealing details.

CR: 9–50% | Formula: EDU × 2 + DEX × 2

Cameramen documenting crime scenes, news headlines, and strange optical anomalies.

CR: 9–30% | Formula: EDU × 2 + DEX × 2

A sworn investigator experienced with crime scenes and suspects.

CR: 20–50% | Formula: EDU × 2 + (DEX or STR) × 2

Plainclothes police investigators experienced in interrogating suspects, crime scene analysis, and city streets.

CR: 20–50% | Formula: EDU × 2 + (DEX × 2 or STR × 2)

Uniformed beat patrolmen maintaining order, responding to disturbance calls, and apprehending offenders.

CR: 9–30% | Formula: EDU × 2 + (DEX × 2 or STR × 2)

Hardboiled freelance gumshoes hired to shadow spouses, uncover blackmail evidence, and find missing persons.

CR: 9–30% | Formula: EDU × 2 + (DEX × 2 or STR × 2)

A university academic with deep expertise and access to research collections.

CR: 20–70% | Formula: EDU × 4

Distinguished university academics and department heads with deep domain mastery and faculty access.

CR: 20–70% | Formula: EDU × 4

Solitary frontiersmen searching for gold veins, silver lodes, and rare mineral strikes in rugged mountains.

CR: 0–10% | Formula: EDU × 2 + (DEX × 2 or STR × 2)

Medical doctors specialized in psychological pathology, emotional trauma, and psychiatric treatment.

CR: 30–80% | Formula: EDU × 4

Freudian and Jungian theorists who study the human psyche, subconscious drives, and neuroses.

CR: 10–40% | Formula: EDU × 4

Beat reporters writing fast daily columns on crime, city politics, and sensational events.

CR: 9–30% | Formula: EDU × 4

Scholarly archivists who uncover facts, trace lineages, and examine forgotten manuscripts.

CR: 9–30% | Formula: EDU × 4

Merchant mariners and deckhands weathered by deep ocean voyages and exotic ports of call.

CR: 9–30% | Formula: EDU × 2 + (DEX × 2 or STR × 2)

Travelling salesmen and retail agents adept at closing sales and pitching products.

CR: 9–40% | Formula: EDU × 2 + APP × 2

Experimentalists, laboratory directors, and theoretical scientists pushing empirical boundaries.

CR: 9–50% | Formula: EDU × 4

Executive assistants managing confidential correspondence, appointment schedules, and filing archives.

CR: 9–30% | Formula: EDU × 2 + (APP × 2 or DEX × 2)

Caretakers and ritual attendants serving a Shinto shrine and its community in 1920s Japan.

CR: 9–50% | Formula: EDU × 4

Retail store owners managing inventory, customer service, and daily commerce.

CR: 20–40% | Formula: EDU × 2 + (APP × 2 or DEX × 2)

A serving or former military professional trained for danger.

CR: 9–30% | Formula: EDU × 2 + (DEX or STR) × 2

Infantrymen and marines trained in trench warfare, small arms, and tactical survival under fire.

CR: 9–30% | Formula: EDU × 2 + (DEX × 2 or STR × 2)

Covert intelligence operatives skilled in espionage, surveillance, and false identities.

CR: 20–60% | Formula: EDU × 2 + (APP × 2 or DEX × 2)

Classical theatrical performers trained in repertoire companies, Shakespeare, and dramatic arts.

CR: 9–40% | Formula: EDU × 2 + APP × 2

A university or specialist student with academic access, energy, and an emerging network.

CR: 5–30% | Formula: EDU × 4

Undergraduate and graduate students with youthful energy, academic access, and emerging networks.

CR: 5–10% | Formula: EDU × 4

Movie stunt performers who jump from speeding trains, crash cars, and execute high falls.

CR: 10–50% | Formula: EDU × 2 + (DEX × 2 or STR × 2)

Members of indigenous communities preserving traditional ecological lore, rituals, and survival skills.

CR: 0–15% | Formula: EDU × 2 + (DEX × 2 or STR × 2)

Morticians and funeral directors trained in embalming chemistry, funerary rites, and console work.

CR: 20–40% | Formula: EDU × 4

Labor organizers leading strikes, pickets, and negotiations against industrial bosses.

CR: 5–30% | Formula: EDU × 2 + (APP × 2 or STR × 2)

Diner waitresses and speakeasy servers with quick reflexes, observant eyes, and customer rapport.

CR: 9–20% | Formula: EDU × 2 + APP × 2

Corporate clerks, administrative functionaries, and office workers navigating business bureaucracy.

CR: 9–30% | Formula: EDU × 4

Members and associates of a Japanese organized-crime syndicate bound by honor, tattoos, and underworld duty.

CR: 5–65% | Formula: EDU × 2 + (DEX × 2 or STR × 2)

Fervent ideological crusaders single-mindedly devoted to a cause, sect, or revolution.

CR: 0–30% | Formula: EDU × 2 + (APP × 2 or POW × 2)

Keepers caring for exotic animals, predators, and zoological habitats.

CR: 9–40% | Formula: EDU × 4