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.

"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 Bodyguard 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 Fallen Hero Farmer Feral Child Fey Child Firefighter Futureborn Gambler Gladiator, Variant Governess Heir of a Fallen Kingdom Hellborn Herald of the Gods Heretic Hitman Hooded Figure House Worker Hunter Immortal Innkeeper Inquirer 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 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 Psycho 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 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.

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

Conscrpit Corno Cultist-Assasin Dectective Divine Servant Dragon Owned DrugDealer Eager Novice Easygoing Evil Henchman Ex-Blood Doll

Extortionist Gemini Race) God Touched Gravetender Inventor Kid Don King's Ranger Lawyer Legendary Sword Saint Lumberjack Martial Trainer

Merchant Miner Noble, Variant Nurse Other Plane Paranoid Agent Racial Philanderer Radiant Blood Researcher Rover Sadistic Assassin

Salesman Scholar Seething Magic Slaver Slayer, Variant Sleuth Soulless Space Marine Steampunker Stranded Sword Saint of Legends

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

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