5e Backgrounds

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See Also

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.

"Blank" the Human Abandoned 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 Barmaid Battlesmith Beastlike Blood luster Bounty Hunter Butler Captain Cattle Rustler Changeling

Chemical Savant Child of Ares City Guard City Worker Clone Collector Combat Medic Confederacy of Feuding Houses Construct Cook Courtesan Crazed Hermit Crusader Nation Cults X-Golden Child Cursed Dark Lord Demonologist Denizen Diplomat Disgrace Disowned Noble Divine Doctor Dog of the Military Dragon Trained Drunken Bum Drunken Pirate Duelist Earthling Elysium Knight

Employee of Royalty Endless Soul Engineer Envoy Eternal One Evil Cultist Executioner Exile Exiled Ruler Experiment Explorer Falconer Farmer Feral Child Fey Child Firefighter Futureborn Gambler Gladiator, Variant Governess Heir of a Fallen Kingdom Hellborn Herald of the Gods Heretic Hooded Figure House Worker Hunter Immortal Innkeeper Inquirer

Islander Janitor Jester Law Bringer Law Bringer (Variant) Librarian Lone Survivor Lost Civilization Lover 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 Guard Nomad Oathbreaker

Occult Investigator Otherworlder, Variant Otherworlder Paradox Pilot Planar Traveler Plane Walker Politician Portuguese Kang Possesed Body Princess/Prince Prisoner Proctor Prodigy Professional Assassin Prospector Psychic Redeemed Cultist Regime of the Dark Overlord Revenant Revolutionist Rival Roamer Royal Cavalryman Royalty Savage Land Scavenger Scout Secret Seeker

Sentinel Serial Killer Sex Worker Shadow Bringer Shadow Thieves' Guild Member Shipwright Slave Slayer Smuggler Spy Squire Student of Magic Survivor Tailor Test Subject The Chosen One Torturer Unknown Urban Vigilante Vagrant Trouper Vaquero Venator 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.

Academy Huntsman

Genin

April Fools Backgrounds

Backgrounds with a more comedic twist.

Actual Criminal Almost the Chosen One

Bantmaster Candy Scientist

Cow History 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.

Adept Altered State Amnesiac Apprentice Archivist Balloon Mage Banker Barber Beggar Bereaved Cheater

Conscrpit Corno Cultist-Assasin Dectective Destined to be a Hero Divine Servant Dragon Owned DrugDealer Eager Novice Easygoing

Ex-Blood Doll Fallen Hero Gemini Race) God King God Touched Hitman Inventor Kid Don King's Ranger Lawyer

Lucky Fumbler Lumberjack Martial Trainer Merchant Miner Noble, Variant Nurse Other Plane Paranoid Agent Psycho

Racial Philanderer Radiant Blood Researcher Sadistic Assassin Salesman Seething Magic Slaver Slayer, Variant Sleuth Soulless

Space Marine Steampunker Temple Guardian The False Chosen One The greater Jeff Town Apothecary Village Dunce War Criminal Wronged Hero

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