5e Backgrounds

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5e Background Design Guide

Don't like how you are playing your character, who you are, or fed up with the DM? Make your background!

Backgrounds

Backgrounds without an improving, reviewing, or removing template present.

Adept Adopted Adventurer Afflicted Air Acrobat Alchemic Construct Alchemist Alcoholic Alcoholic Scientist Amnesiac Ancient Cultist Antiquarian Apothecary Arcana Spy Arcane Dominion Armed Escort Artist Arvoreen Keeper Aspirant Astronaut Banker Battlesmith Beastlike Beggar Bodyguard Born Lycanthrope Bounty Hunter Butler Cattle Rustler Changeling Child of Ares Chronicler City Guard

City Worker Clone Collector Combat Medic Confederacy of Feuding Houses Conscript Construct Cook Courtesan Crazed Hermit Crusader Nation Cursed Dark Lord Demonologist Denizen Diplomat Disciple of the Obscure Disgrace Disowned Noble Divine Doctor Dog of the Military Dragon Trained Drunken Bum Duelist Dēmonkēji Earthling Elysium Knight Employee of Royalty Engineer Envoy Eternal One Evil Cultist

Ex-Blood Doll Ex-Hero Executioner Exile Exiled Ruler Experiment Explorer Falconer Fallen Hero Farmer Fearful Feral Child Fey Child Firefighter Fully Customizable Backgrounds Variant Rule) Gambler Gladiator, Variant God Touched Governess Gun Man Heir of a Fallen Kingdom Hellborn Herald of the Gods Heretic Hitman Hooded Figure House Worker Hunter Hunter Stalker Innkeeper Inquirer Inventor Islander

Janitor Jester Law Bringer Law Bringer (Variant) Librarian Lone Survivor Lost Civilization Lover Lucky Fumbler Mage Hunter Maid Mailman Marshal Master Inquisitor Mercenary Messenger Metal Worker Military Asset Military Pilot Monastic Monastic Traveller Monster Monster Hunter Mute Mystic Nature Adept Noble (Variant) Noble Dragon Tamer Noble Guard Nomad Oathbreaker Occult Investigator Otherworlder, Variant

Otherworlder Paradox Pilot Planar Traveler Plane Walker Politician Possesed Body Princess/Prince Prisoner Proctor Prodigy Professional Assassin Prospector Psychic Psycho Redeemed Cultist Regime of the Dark Overlord Revenant Revolutionist Rival Roamer Royal Cavalryman Royalty Runaway Savage Land Scavenger Scout Secret Seeker Sentinel Serial Killer Sex Worker Shadow Bringer

Shadow Thieves' Guild Member Shipwright Simpleton Slave Slayer Smuggler Soulless Spirit Medium Spy Squire Student of Magic Survivor Tailor Test Subject The Chosen One Unknown Urban Vigilante Vagrant Trouper Vaquero Venator Wandering Mercenary War Criminal Witch Doctor Witch Hunter Wolf Knight Woodcutter Wooddweller Worshipped One Writer Zealot

Backgrounds Based on Existing Fiction

Backgrounds which are based on existing characters or archetypes from other works of fiction.

"Blank" the Human

Academy Huntsman

Genin

Naga's Chosen

Space Janitor

Space Marine

April Fools Backgrounds

Backgrounds with a more comedic twist.

Actual Criminal Almost the Chosen One

Bantmaster Candy Scientist

Cow History Destined to be a Hero

Disgruntled Barkeep Farm Animal

Fourth Wall Breaker

Incomplete Backgrounds

Backgrounds with one or many improving, reviewing, or removing templates present. Please help work on the problem presented on the template.

5e Background Preload Abandoned Adventuring Royalty Altered State Amnesiac Apostle of the Church of Crabbo Apprentice Apprentice of Disguise Archivist Balloon Mage Barber Barmaid

Bereaved Blood luster Cheater Chemical Savant Chief Guard Cults X-Golden Child Detective Divine Servant Dragon Owned Dragonborn DrugDealer

Drunken Pirate Eager Novice Easygoing Endless Soul Evil Henchman Extortionist Foreign Orphan Futureborn Gravetender Grey Creed Immortal

King's Ranger Loyal Priest Lumberjack Martial Trainer Merchant Miner Noble, Variant Nurse Paranoid Agent Portuguese Kang Radiant Blood

Researcher Rover Sadistic Assassin Salesman Slaver Slayer, Variant Sleuth Steampunker Stranded Temple Guardian The False Chosen One

The greater Jeff Torturer Town Apothecary Unkindled Village Dunce Wronged Hero

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