5e Backgrounds

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5e Background Design Guide

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Backgrounds

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

Adept 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 Beggar Bodyguard 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 Cults X-Golden Child Cursed Dark Lord Demonologist Denizen Diplomat Disciple of the Obscure 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

Ex-Blood Doll Executioner Exile Exiled Ruler Experiment Explorer Falconer Fallen Hero Farmer Fearful Feral Child Fey Child Firefighter Fully Customizable Backgrounds Variant Rule) Gambler Gay One Gladiator, Variant God Touched Governess Heir of a Fallen Kingdom Hellborn Herald of the Gods Heretic Hitman Hooded Figure House Worker Hunter Immortal 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 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 Simpleton Slave Slayer Smuggler Soulless Spirit Medium Spy Squire Student of Magic Survivor Tailor Test Subject The Chosen One Torturer Unknown Urban Vigilante Vagrant Trouper Vaquero Venator 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 Adopted Adventuring Royalty Altered State Amnesiac Apostle of the Church of Crabbo Apprentice Archivist Balloon Mage Banker Barber

Bereaved Blood luster Cheater Chemical Savant Chief Guard Corno Cultist-Assasin Detective Divine Servant Dragon Owned DrugDealer

Eager Novice Easygoing Evil Henchman Extortionist Futureborn Gemini Race) Gravetender Kid Don King's Ranger Lawyer Legendary Sword Saint

Loyal Priest Lumberjack Martial Trainer Merchant Metuomagnus Race) Miner Noble, Variant Nurse Other Plane Paranoid Agent Racial Philanderer

Radiant Blood Researcher Rover Runaway Sadistic Assassin Salesman Scholar Seething Magic Slaver Slayer, Variant Sleuth

Steampunker Stranded Sword Saint of Legends Temple Guardian The False Chosen One The greater Jeff Town Apothecary Village Dunce Warlock of Wild Magic Wronged Hero

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