Backgrounds represent what your character did as an individual before they took up the adventuring life. Adventurers are often a motley group and come from a wide variety of backgrounds. Backgrounds include options like adherent or scholar.
Skill Proficiencies: Choose two from Stealth, Investigation, Insight, or Deception. Additional Proficiencies: You know Thieves’ Cant. If you already know this language, you learn a different language of your choice. Gain proficiency with a tool and a vehicle. Equipment: Five pieces of chalk, a grappling hook, a set of dark …
Skill Proficiencies: Choose two from Arcana, History, Nature, or Religion. Additional Proficiencies: Learn two additional languages of your choice or gain proficiency with a tool or vehicle relevant to your field of study. Equipment: A bottle of ink, a quill, a small knife, a reference book on a highly specific …
Skill Proficiencies: Choose two from Animal Handling, Athletics, Medicine, or Survival. Additional Proficiencies: Gain proficiency with a tool and a vehicle of your choice. Equipment: A symbol of rank (like a letter, badge, or identification tags), a mess kit, a pack of playing cards or a set of dice, a …
