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Background Design (5e Guideline)

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Backgrounds, Featured and Quality

These backgrounds have been vetted through the Featured Articles or Quality Articles process and are suitable for any normal campaign.

Adventurer Cook

Farmer Lone Survivor

Mage Hunter Slave

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Backgrounds

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

Abandoned Abyssdweller Adept Adopted Afflicted Air Acrobat Alchemic Construct Alchemist Alcoholic Alcoholic Scientist Amnesiac Ancient Cultist Ancient King Ancient One Anthropologist Antiquarian Apothecary Apprentice of Disguise Arcana Spy, Variant Arcana Spy Arcane Augmented Arcane Dominion Arcane Thief Archaeologist, Variant Archivist Arranged Marriage Artist Arvoreen Keeper Aspirant Assistant Astronaut Asylum Escapee Balloon Mage Banker Barber Barmaid Bartender Battlesmith Beastlike Bedouin Beggar Bereaved Bodyguard Booyahg Acolyte Born of the Far Realm Bounty Hunter Butler Cattle Rustler

Changeling Charlatan Thief Chief Guard Child Child of a War Deity Chimney Sweeper Chronicler City Guard City Worker Clone Collector Combat Medic Confederacy of Feuding Houses Conscript Construct Courtesan Crazed Hermit Crusader Nation Cultist of the Ash-Veined Cursed, Variant Cursed Dandy Dark Lord Defyer of Fate Deluded "Noble" Demonologist Denizen Detective Diplomat Disciple of the Obscure Disgrace Divine Doctor Dog of the Military Dragon Trained Dragonshore Buccaneer Drow Breeding Slave Drunken Bum Drunken Pirate Duelist, Variant Duelist Earthling Elysium Knight Employee of Royalty Endless Soul Engineer Envoy Eternal One

Ex-Blood Doll Executioner Exile Exiled Ruler Experiment Experimenter Explorer Falconer Fallen Hero Fallen Noble Family Business Fated Feared Fearful Feral Child Fey Child Feychild Firefighter Forgotten Formerly Petrified Fortune Teller From The Past Futureborn Gambler, Variant Gladiator, Variant God Touched Governess Gravetender Grey Creed Guild) Heir of a Fallen Kingdom Hellborn Heretic Hired Guard Hitman Hooded Figure House Worker Immortal Infected Innkeeper Inquirer Interplanar Merchant Interspecies Orphan Inventor Isekai Islander Jack Of All Trades Janitor Jester

Jockey Knight Sororitas Law Bringer, Variant Law Bringer Librarian Linguistician Lore Keeper Lost Civilization Lover Loyal Priest Lucky Fumbler Lumberjack Mafioso Mage Maid Mailman Malfunctioning Marshal Master Inquisitor Mercenary Messenger Metal Worker Militant assassin Military Asset Military Pilot Miner Minion Monastic Monastic Traveller Monster Monster Hunter Monstrozoologist, Variant Monstrozoologist Mortician Mute Mystic Navy SEAL Negotiator Noble Dragon Tamer Noble Guard Nomad Nurse Oathbreaker Occult Investigator Occultist Oracle Otherworlder, Variant Paranoid Agent

Pilot Planar Traveler Plane Walker Politician Possesed Body Powerless Mage Primitive Tribe Prisoner Proctor Prodigy Professional Assassin, variant Professional Assassin Prospector Psychic Psycho Puppeteer Redeemed Cultist Regime of the Dark Overlord Researcher Retired Hero Revenant Revolutionist Rider Ringleader Rite of Rebirth Rival Roamer Royal Cavalryman Royalty Runaway Sadistic Assassin Salesman Scavenger Scout Sealed One Secret Sentinel Serial Killer Sex Slave Sex Worker Shadow Thieves' Guild Member Shadow Touched Shipwright, Variant Side Character Simpleton Slaver Slayer Sleuth

Smuggler, Variant Smuggler Solid Soulless Spirit Medium Split Personality Splitting Body Spy, Variant Squire Steampunker Storyteller Stranded Student of Magic Survivor Tailor Temple Guardian Tempter Test Subject The Chosen One Time Frozen Time Traveller Torturer Town Apothecary Tragic Knight Transformed Monster Urban Vigilante Vagrant Trouper Vampire Vaquero Venator Village Dunce Wanderer Wandering Mercenary War Criminal Warforged Warrior of a Lost Age Well Travelled Wielder of the Old One Witch Witch Doctor Witch Hunter Wolf Knight Woodcutter Wooddweller Worshipped One Writer Wronged Hero 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 Adventuring Royalty

Avenger DBZ Warrior Dragonborn

Genin King's Ranger Marked by the Outsider

Otherworlder Persona User Space Marine

Stand User State Alchemist Unkindled

April Fools Backgrounds

Backgrounds with a more comedic twist.

Actual Criminal Almost the Chosen One Apostle of the Church of Crabbo

Bantmaster Candy Scientist Destined to be a Hero

Disgruntled Barkeep Farm Animal Fourth Wall Breaker

Just A Guy Root Beer Founder Space Janitor

Strickland Propane Employee

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 Addict Armed Escort Assassins Creed Barbaric Folk Hero Born of Darkness Cannibal

Cow History Darkness Incarnate Determined One Divine Servant Dominatrix Endless Divine Soul of Darkness Incarnate Envious

Fallen Child Fallen Deity Former Gladiator Herald of the Gods Hunter Hunter Stalker Immortal Warrior of the Void

Insurgent Jaroidian Royalty Lost Children Member of The Court of Gaia Naga's Chosen Noble, Variant Of the Void

Paradox Pet Lover Planar Spawn Pre-Bronze Age Civiliization Primogenitor Sage's Assistant Savage Land

Shadow-Taken Shadow Bringer Skeleton Fairy Slayer, Variant Star Pilot Thug Tribal Chieftain

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