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Using the rules here, you can build a Background from scratch or customize a premade Background, focusing on details related to the backstory you have in mind for your character.
When you build a Background, your character gains the features in the “Background Features” section below. As you make choices for those features, think about your character’s past. Where did they spend most of their time? What did they do for a living? What capabilities and possessions did they acquire? What language did they learn from their family, associates, or studies? How did their past affect their ability scores?
If you instead decide to customize a premade Background, you can choose any features in that Background and replace them with the features below of the same name. For example, if you want to change a Background’s Language feature, you can replace that feature with the Language feature below.
Background Features
- Ability Scores. When you determine your character’s ability scores, choose two of them, and increase one by 2 and the other one by 1. Alternatively, choose three ability scores, and increase each of them by 1.
- Skill Proficiencies. Choose two Skills. Your character gains Proficiency in them.
- Tool Proficiency. Choose one tool. Your character gains TOOL PROFICIENCY with it.
- Language. Choose one language from the Standard Languages and Rare Languages tables (these appear later in the document). Your character knows that language.
- Feat. Choose one 1st-level . Your character gains that Feat.
- Equipment. Your character gains 50 GP to spend on starting equipment. The character keeps any unspent GP as spare coin.