[Dungeon Fantasy] Designing a Tour Guide bargain henchmen template

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Previous posters covered most of the ground. Filling in some of the gaps:

A good local Reputation is vital. The Honest Face perk and good Appearance also help gain customers. Voice might help a guide who has to do a lot of public speaking, as might the Penetrating Voice perk.

Social Stigma (Minor) is an "acceptable disadvantage." Struggling or Poor are common disadvantages.

Contacts are also potentially useful.

Any tour guide will benefit from Diplomacy (i.e., customer service training and the ability to gently herd or restrain difficult customers so they don't do something stupid).

Savoir-Faire (Servant) is useful for low-status characters serving as informal tour guides.

Regular old Savoir-Faire (High Society) is useful for middle-class or higher characters with enough education and social standing that they can deal with customers as near-peers. It's especially useful for "old native hand" type guides who steer high-status customers to all the best venues while avoiding the hoi-polloi.

Carousing and Streetwise are vital for tour guides of the seedier sort, who steer their customers towards the best bars, brothels and gambling dens the city has to offer.

Tour guides who are in charge of tour groups will benefit from Administration and Leadership, possibly Intimidation.

For really low-status tour guides (e.g., the lead character in "Slumdog Millionaire") don't forget Filch, Pickpocketing, PS (Any variation of Sex Worker or other survival level hustle), Running and Stealth.

At the other end of the scale, a respectable tour guide might have any of Expert Skill (Art History, Military Science, etc.), History (Local), Naturalist or Theology, depending on the nature of the tour and the tourists.

Mobility skills, like Animal Handling (Equines), Packing, Riding or Teamster (or Driving and possibly Freight Handling and Mechanic for high TL guides) are potentially helpful for getting customers around on longer tours.