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5e Background Design Guide

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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.

Abyssdweller Adept Adopted Afflicted Air Acrobat Alchemic Construct Alchemist Alcoholic Alcoholic Scientist Amnesiac Ancient Cultist Ancient King Ancient One Antiquarian Apothecary Arcana Spy Arcane Dominion Archaeologist Archivist Armed Escort Arranged Marriage Artist Arvoreen Keeper Aspirant Astronaut Balloon Mage Banker Barber Barmaid Battlesmith Beggar Bereaved Bodyguard Bounty Hunter

Butler Cattle Rustler Changeling Child of Ares Chronicler City Guard City Worker Clone Collector Combat Medic Confederacy of Feuding Houses Construct Courtesan Crazed Hermit Crusader Nation Cultist of the Ash-Veined Cursed Dandy Dark Lord Demonologist Denizen Detective Diplomat Disciple of the Obscure Disgrace Doctor Dog of the Military Dragon Trained Drunken Bum Duelist Earthling Elysium Knight Endless Soul Engineer

Envoy Eternal One Evil Cultist Ex-Blood Doll Executioner Exiled Ruler Experiment Explorer Falconer Fallen Hero Feared Fearful Feral Child Fey Child Firefighter Forgotten Fully Customizable Backgrounds Variant Rule) Gladiator, Variant God Touched Governess Gravetender Heir of a Fallen Kingdom Hellborn Herald of the Gods Heretic Hitman Hooded Figure House Worker Hunter Hunter Stalker Immortal Infected Inquirer Islander

Janitor Jester Knight Sororitas Law Bringer Librarian Lost Civilization Lover Loyal Priest 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 Mute Mystic Noble Dragon Tamer Noble Guard Nomad Oathbreaker Occult Investigator Of the Void

Otherworlder, Variant Otherworlder Planar Traveler Plane Walker Politician Prisoner Professional Assassin Prospector Psychic Psycho Puppeteer Redeemed Cultist Regime of the Dark Overlord Revenant Revolutionist Rider 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 Spy Squire Steampunker Storyteller Student of Magic Survivor Tailor Temple Guardian Test Subject The Chosen One Torturer Tragic Knight Transformed Monster Urban Vigilante Vagrant Trouper Vaquero Venator War Criminal Well Travelled Witch Doctor 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 DBZ Warrior

Dragonborn Genin

King's Ranger Marked by the Outsider

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 Cow History

Destined to be a Hero Disgruntled Barkeep

Farm Animal Fourth Wall Breaker

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 Abandoned Addict Altered State Amnesiac Anthropologist Apprentice of Disguise Arcane Augmented Bartender Beast Beastlike Chemical Savant Chief Guard Child

Conscript Divine Divine Servant Dominatrix Dragonshore Buccaneer Drow Breeding Slave Drunken Pirate Employee of Royalty Exile Experimenter Foreign Orphan, Variant Former Gladiator FortuneTeller

From The Past Futureborn Gambler Grey Creed Idiot Hero Innkeeper Inventor Isekai Jack of all trades Just a guy Law Bringer, Variant Lucky Fumbler Minion

Mortician Naga's Chosen Noble, Variant Nurse Oracle Paradox Paranoid Agent Pet Lover Pilot Possesed Body Proctor Prodigy Researcher

Rite of Rebirth Root Beer Founder Rover Savage Land Scout Seeker Shadow-Taken Shadow Bringer Shadow Touched Shipwright Slayer, Variant Star Pilot Stranded

Sword Saint The False Chosen One The greater Jeff Thug Time Traveller Town Apothecary Village Dunce Wandering Mercenary Warforged Witch Witch Hunter

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