Languages: Two of your choice.
Choose a Bac
Background
Players can choose between the following backgrounds, or
make a new one.
Acolyte
Aco te
You were trained as a servant of a particular god or gods.
Whether or not you have access to divine magic, you are
authorized to perform the rites of your faith, and you are
recognized and respected by its faithful.
Skill Proficiencies: Religion, and either Insight or
Persuasion.
Tool Proficiencies: Painter's Supplies or Musical
Instrument
Languagues: Celestial.
Equipment: Holy symbol (amulet or reliquary), common
clothes, robe, and a prayer book, prayer wheel, or prayer
beads.
Arti
Art
tisan
You are skilled enough in a trade to make a comfortable
living and to aspire to mastery of your art. Yet here you are,
ready to slog through mud and blood and danger.
Skill Proficiencies: Persuasion, and either Insight or
History.
Tool Proficiencies: One type of artisan’s tools or smith’s
tools.
Languages: One of your choice.
Equipment: One set of artisan’s tools, traveler’s clothes.
Charlatan
People call you a con artist, but you’re really an entertainer.
You make people happy — the separation of fools and
villains from their money is purely a pleasant side effect.
Skill Proficiencies: Deception, and either Insight, or
Sleight of Hand.
Tool Proficiencies: Disguise kit, forgery kit.
Languages: One of your choice.
Equipment: Common clothes, disguise kit, forgery kit.
Criminal
Skill Proficiencies: Stealth, and either Deception or
Intimidation.
Tool Proficiencies: Gaming set, thieves’ tools.
Languages: One of your choice.
Equipment: Common clothes, dark cloak, thieves’ tools.
Culti
tist
You were a member of a sinister cult. You performed
ancient rites found in forbidden tomes, seeking to empower
a fiend, a false god, or a terrible being from a strange and
distant realm.
Skill Proficiencies: Religion, and either Arcana or
Deception.
Tool Proficiences: Poisoner's Kit
Languages: Infernal or Abyssal.
Equipment: Holy symbol (amulet or reliquary), common
clothes, robes, 5 torches.
Enter
tertainer
You’re a performer who knows how to dazzle a crowd, an
artist but also a professional — you never forget to pass the
hat after a show.
Skill Proficiencies: Performance, and either Acrobatics
or Persuasion.
Tool Proficiencies: Gaming set, musical instrument.
Equipment: Lute or other musical instrument, costume.
Ex
xile
Your homeland is barred to you and you wander strange
lands. You will never be mistaken for a local but you find
ready acceptance among other adventurers, many of which
are as rootless as you are.
Skill Proficiencies: Survival, and either History or
Performance.
Tool Proficiencies: Navigator's Tools, Vehicles (Land or
Water).
Languages: One of your choice.
Equipment: Traveler’s clothes, 10 days rations.
Farmer
You were raised a farmer, an occupation where the money
is short and the work days are long. You’ve become an
adventurer, a career where the money is plentiful but your
days — if you’re not careful — may be all too short.
Skill Proficiencies: Nature, and either Animal Handling
or Survival.
Tool Proficiencies: Land vehicles.
Languages: One of your choice.
Equipment: Common clothes, shovel, mule with
saddlebags, 5 Supply (rations).
Folk Hero
You were born to a commoner family, but some event
earned you fame. You’re admired locally, and tales of your
deeds have reached the far corners of the world.
Skill Proficiencies: Survival, and either Animal
Handling or Nature.
Tool Proficiencies: One type of artisan’s tools, one
vehicle.
Equipment: Any artisan’s tools except alchemist’s
supplies, common clothes.
Ga
Gambler
You haven’t met your match at dice or cards. A career of
high stakes and daring escapades has taught you when to
play close to the chest and when to risk it all—but you
haven’t yet learned when to walk away.
Skill Proficiencies: Deception, and either Insight or
Sleight of Hand.
Tool Proficiencies: Gaming set (dice set, playing cards
set).
Languages: One of your choice
Equipment: Fine clothes, dice set, playing card set.
Guard
Whether you worked as a sentry, constable, member of the
city watch, or even a knightly order, rich folk used to pay
you to protect them. These days you’re looking after
yourself.
Skill Proficiencies: Intimidation, and either Athletics or
Investigation.
Tool Proficiencies: Land Vehicles
Languages: One of your choice.
Equipment: Common clothes, halberd, uniform.
Gu
uildmember
It never hurts to be part of a team, and when you’re part of
a guild opportunities knock at your door.
Skill Proficiencies: Two of your choice.
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