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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 Adventurer Adventuring Royalty Afflicted Air Acrobat Alchemic Construct Alchemist Alcoholic Alcoholic Scientist Amnesiac Ancient Cultist Ancient One Antiquarian Apothecary Arcana Spy Arcane Augmented Arcane Dominion Archaeologist Armed Escort Arranged Marriage Artist Arvoreen Keeper Aspirant Astronaut Balloon Mage Banker Barmaid Battlesmith Beggar Bereaved Bodyguard Bounty Hunter Butler

Cattle Rustler Changeling Child of Ares Chronicler City Guard City Worker Combat Medic Confederacy of Feuding Houses Conscript Construct Cook Courtesan Crazed Hermit Crusader Nation Cursed Dandy Dark Lord Demonologist Denizen Detective Diplomat Disciple of the Obscure Disgrace Disowned Noble Divine Doctor Dog of the Military Dragon Trained Drow Breeding Slave Drunken Bum 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 Feared Fearful Feral Child Fey Child Firefighter Forgotten Fully Customizable Backgrounds Variant Rule) Gambler 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 Innkeeper Inquirer Isekai Islander Janitor Jester Knight Sororitas Law Bringer Librarian Lone Survivor Lost Civilization Lover Lumberjack Mage Hunter 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 Princess/Prince Prisoner Professional Assassin Prospector Psychic Psycho Puppeteer Redeemed Cultist Regime of the Dark Overlord Revenant Revolutionist Rider Roamer Royal Cavalryman Royalty Runaway Salesman Savage Land Scavenger Scout Secret Seeker Sentinel Serial Killer Sex Worker Shadow Bringer

Shadow Thieves' Guild Member Shipwright Simpleton Slayer Smuggler, Variant Smuggler Soulless Spirit Medium Split Personality Spy Squire Storyteller Student of Magic Survivor Tailor Temple Guardian Test Subject The Chosen One Transformed Monster Urban Vigilante Vagrant Trouper Vaquero Venator Wandering Mercenary War Criminal Warforged Well Travelled Witch Doctor Witch Hunter 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

DBZ Warrior Dragonborn

Genin King's Ranger

Space Marine 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 Altered State Amnesiac Apprentice of Disguise Archivist Barber Bartender Beastlike Chemical Savant Chief Guard Clone

Collector Divine Servant Dominatrix Drunken Pirate Foreign Orphan, Variant From The Past Futureborn Grey Creed Idiot Hero Inventor Jack of all trades

Just a guy Law Bringer, Variant Loyal Priest 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 Rival Rover Sadistic Assassin

Shadow-Taken Shadow Touched Slaver Slayer, Variant Sleuth Steampunker Stranded Sword Saint Test The False Chosen One The greater Jeff

Thug Torturer Town Apothecary Village Dunce Witch Wolf Knight Wronged Hero

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