You can pick characteristics, roll dice to determine them randomly, or use the suggestions as inspiration for characteristics of your own creation. If you use the optional rule to spend coin on gear, you do not receive the starting equipment from your background.Ī background contains suggested personal characteristics based on your background. See “ Languages.”Įach background provides a package of starting equipment. Some backgrounds also allow characters to learn additional languages beyond those given by race. If a character would gain the same proficiency from two different sources, he or she can choose a different proficiency of the same kind (skill or tool) instead. In addition, most backgrounds give a character proficiency with one or more tools (detailed in “ Equipment”). The sample background presented here provides both concrete benefits (features, proficiencies, and languages) and roleplaying suggestions.Įach background gives a character proficiency in two skills (described in “ Using Ability Scores”). The most important question to ask about your background is what changed? Why did you stop doing whatever your background describes and start adventuring? Where did you get the money to purchase your starting gear, or, if you come from a wealthy background, why don’t you have more money? How did you learn the skills of your class? What sets you apart from ordinary people who share your background? Your rogue might have gotten by as a guild thief or commanded audiences as a jester.Ĭhoosing a background provides you with important story cues about your character’s identity. Your wizard could have been a sage or an artisan. Your fighter might have been a courageous knight or a grizzled soldier. Your character’s background reveals where you came from, how you became an adventurer, and your place in the world. This material from the 5th edition SRD is published under the OGLĮvery story has a beginning. SRD.įor other uses of Background, see Background (disambiguation). This article is about Background, from the 5th ed.
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