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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.

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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 Antiquarian Apothecary Arcana Spy Arcane Augmented Arcane Dominion Archaeologist Archivist Arranged Marriage Artist Arvoreen Keeper Aspirant Astronaut Balloon Mage Banker Barber Barmaid Bartender Battlesmith Bedouin Beggar Bereaved Bodyguard Booyahg Acolyte Born of Darkness Bounty Hunter Butler

Cattle Rustler Changeling Child of Ares Chronicler City Guard City Worker Clone Collector Combat Medic Confederacy of Feuding Houses Construct Courtesan Crusader Nation Cultist of the Ash-Veined Cursed Cursed (Variant) Dandy Dark Lord Darkness Incarnate Demonologist Denizen Detective Diplomat Disciple of the Obscure Disgrace Divine Doctor Dog of the Military Dragon Trained Dragonshore Buccaneer Drunken Bum Drunken Pirate Duelist, Variant Duelist Earthling Elysium Knight Endless Divine Soul of Darkness Incarnate Endless Soul Engineer Envoy

Eternal One Ex-Blood Doll Executioner Exile Exiled Ruler Experiment Explorer Falconer Fallen Hero Family Business Feared Fearful Feral Child Fey Child Feychild Firefighter Forgotten Formerly Petrified Fortune Teller Fully Customizable Backgrounds Variant Rule) Gambler Gladiator, Variant God Touched Governess Gravetender Grey Creed Guild) Heir of a Fallen Kingdom Hellborn Herald of the Gods Heretic Hired Guard Hitman Hooded Figure House Worker Immortal Infected Innkeeper Inquirer Islander Janitor

Jester Jockey Knight Sororitas Law Bringer Librarian Lore Keeper Lost Civilization Lover Loyal Priest Lucky Fumbler Lumberjack Mafioso Maid Mailman Marshal Master Inquisitor Member of The Court of Gaia Mercenary Messenger Metal Worker Militant assassin Military Asset Military Pilot Miner Monastic Monastic Traveller Monster Monster Hunter Monstrozoologist Mortician Mute Mystic Navy SEAL Noble Dragon Tamer Noble Guard Nomad Nurse Oathbreaker Occult Investigator Occultist

Otherworlder, Variant Planar Traveler Plane Walker Politician Possesed Body Primitive Tribe Prisoner Professional Assassin, variant Professional Assassin Prospector Psychic Psycho Puppeteer Redeemed Cultist Regime of the Dark Overlord Revenant Revolutionist Rider Ringleader Rival Roamer Royal Cavalryman Royalty Runaway Sadistic Assassin Salesman Scavenger Secret Sentinel Serial Killer Sex Worker Shadow Thieves' Guild Member Simpleton Slaver Slayer Sleuth Smuggler, Variant Smuggler Soulless Spirit Medium

Split Personality Splitting Body Spy Squire Steampunker Storyteller Stranded Student of Magic Survivor Tailor Temple Guardian Test Subject The Chosen One Time Frozen Time Traveller Torturer Tragic Knight Transformed Monster Urban Vigilante Vagrant Trouper Vaquero Venator Wandering Mercenary War Criminal Warforged Warrior of a Lost Age Well Travelled Wielder of the Old One 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 Space Marine Stand User

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

Space Janitor

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 Anthropologist Apprentice of Disguise Armed Escort Assassins Creed Beast Beastlike Chemical Savant Chief Guard Child

Conscript Cow History Crazed Hermit Divine Servant Dominatrix Drow Breeding Slave Employee of Royalty Experimenter Foreign Orphan, Variant Former Gladiator From The Past

Futureborn Gay Hunter Hunter Stalker Idiot Hero Inventor Isekai Jack of all trades Law Bringer, Variant Lost Children Minion

Naga's Chosen Negotiator Noble, Variant Of the Void Oracle Paradox Paranoid Agent Pet Lover Pilot Primogenitor Proctor

Prodigy Researcher Rite of Rebirth Root Beer Founder Savage Land Scout Shadow-Taken Shadow Bringer Shadow Touched Shipwright Slayer, Variant

Star Pilot State Alchemist Strickland Propane Employee Sword Saint Tempter Thug Town Apothecary Village Dunce Wanderer Witch Witch Doctor

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