5e Backgrounds
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See Also
- Background Design (5e Guideline)
- Don't like how you are playing your character, who you are, or fed up with the DM? Make your background!
- 5e Guilds
- Here are some organizations that tie in with backgrounds, for more cohesive character and world building!
Backgrounds, Featured and Quality
These backgrounds have been vetted through the Featured Articles or Quality Articles process and are suitable for any normal campaign.
Backgrounds
Backgrounds without an improving, reviewing, or removing template present.
- Abandoned
- Abyssdweller
- Adept
- Adopted
- Afflicted
- Air Acrobat
- Alchemic Construct
- Alchemist
- Alcoholic
- Alcoholic Scientist
- Amnesiac
- Anarchist
- Ancient Cultist
- Ancient King
- Ancient One
- Anthropologist
- Antiquarian
- Apothecary
- Apothecary, Variant
- Apprentice of Disguise
- Arcana Spy
- Arcana Spy, Variant
- Arcane Augmented
- Arcane Dominion
- Arcane Repo Reaper
- Arcane Thief
- Archaeologist, Variant
- Armed Escort
- Arranged Marriage
- Artist
- Arvoreen Keeper
- Aspirant
- Assistant
- Astronaut
- Asylum Escapee
- Banker
- Barber
- Barmaid
- Bartender
- Battlesmith
- Beastlike
- Bedouin
- Beggar
- Bereaved
- Biologist
- Bodyguard
- Booyahg Acolyte
- Born of the Far Realm
- Botanist
- Bounty Hunter
- Butler
- Cannibal
- Carpenter
- Cattle Rustler
- Changeling
- Charlatan Thief
- Chief Guard
- Child
- Child of a War Deity
- Child Soldier, Variant
- Chimney Sweeper
- City Guard
- City Worker
- Clone
- Collector
- Combat Medic
- Confederacy of Feuding Houses
- Conscript
- Construct
- Crazed Hermit
- Crippled
- Crusader Nation
- Culinarian
- Cultist of the Ash-Veined
- Cursed
- Cursed, 2nd Variant
- Cursed, Variant
- Dandy
- Dark Lord
- Deluded "Noble"
- Demigod
- Demonologist
- Denizen
- Descendant
- Detective
- Disciple of the Obscure
- Disgrace
- Divine
- Dog of the Military
- Dominatrix
- Dragon Raised
- Dragon Trained
- Dragonshore Buccaneer
- Drow Breeding Slave
- Drunken Bum
- Drunken Pirate
- Duelist
- Duelist, Variant
- Earthling
- Elysium Knight
- Employee of Royalty
- Endless Soul
- Engineer
- Entomologist
- Envoy
- Eternal One
- Ex-Blood Doll
- Ex-Idiot
- Exile
- Exiled Ruler
- Experiment
- Experimenter
- Explorer
- Fallen Child
- Fallen Hero
- Fallen Noble
- Family Business
- Fated
- Feral Child
- Fey Child
- Feychild
- Forgotten
- Former Gladiator
- Formerly Petrified
- Fortune Teller
- From The Past
- Futureborn
- Gambler, Variant
- Gladiator, Variant
- God Touched
- Governess
- Gravetender
- Grung Tribe Member
- Gym Rat
- Harbinger of the End
- Heir of a Fallen Kingdom
- Hellborn
- Herald of the Gods
- Heretic
- Hired Guard
- Hitman
- Hopeless Romantic
- Hunter
- Hunter Stalker
- Immortal
- Infected
- Innkeeper
- Inquirer
- Intellectual
- Interplanar Merchant
- Interspecies Orphan
- Inventor
- Isekai
- Islander
- Jack Of All Trades
- Jester
- Jockey
- Knight Sororitas
- Law Bringer
- Law Bringer, Variant
- Librarian
- Linguistician
- Linked Spirit
- Lore Keeper
- Lost Civilization
- Lover
- Lucky Fumbler
- Lumberjack
- Mafioso
- Mage
- Maid
- Mailman
- Malfunctioning
- Marshal
- Master Inquisitor
- Matchmaker
- Mercenary
- Messenger
- Militant Assassin
- Military Asset
- Military Conscript
- Military Pilot
- Miner
- Minion
- Monastic
- Monastic Traveller
- Monster
- Monstrozoologist
- Mortician
- Mute
- Mystic
- Negotiator
- Noble Dragon Tamer
- Noble Guard
- Noble, 2nd Variant
- Noble, Variant
- Nomad
- Nurse
- Oathbreaker
- Occult Investigator
- Occultist
- Oracle
- Otherworlder, 2nd Variant
- Otherworlder, Variant
- Paranoid Agent
- Pet Lover
- Pilot
- Planar Traveler
- Plane Walker
- Politician
- Possesed Body
- Powerless Mage
- Primitive Tribe
- Primogenitor
- Prisoner
- Proctor
- Prodigy
- Professional Assassin
- Professional Assassin, Variant
- Prospector
- Psychic
- Psycho
- Puppeteer
- Redeemed Cultist
- Regime of the Dark Overlord
- Religious Fraud
- Researcher
- Retired Hero
- Retired Performer
- Revenant
- Revolutionist
- Rider
- Ringleader
- Rite of Rebirth
- Rival
- Roamer
- Royal Cavalryman
- Runaway
- Sadistic Assassin
- Sage's Assistant
- Salesman
- Savage Land
- Scavenger
- Scout
- Scribe
- Sea Nomad
- Sealed One
- Secret
- Sentinel
- Serial Killer
- Sewer Dweller
- Sex Slave
- Sex Worker
- Shadow Thieves' Guild Member
- Shadow Touched
- Shipwright, Variant
- Side Character
- Simpleton
- Skeleton Fairy
- Slaver
- Slayer
- Slayer, Variant
- Smuggler
- Smuggler, Variant
- Soulless
- Spirit Medium
- Spiteful
- Split Personality
- Spy, Variant
- Steampunker
- Storyteller
- Stranded
- Student of Magic
- Survivor
- Tailor
- Tavern Waiter
- Temple Guardian
- Tempter
- Test Subject
- The Chosen One
- Time Frozen
- Time Traveller
- Torturer
- Tourist
- Town Apothecary
- Townie
- Tragic Knight
- Transformed Monster
- Tribal Chieftain
- Tribe Royal
- Troubled Artist
- Tutor
- Undertaker
- Unseen Academy Reject
- Urban Vigilante
- Vagrant Trouper
- Vampire
- Vaquero
- Venator
- Village Dunce
- Wanderer
- Wandering Mercenary
- War Criminal
- Warforged
- Warrior of a Lost Age
- Wayfinder Guild)
- Well Travelled
- Wielder of the Old One
- Witch
- 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
- Adventuring Royalty
- Avenger
- Blood Harden Cat
- Clan Cats
- D.A.T.S. Guild)
- DBZ Warrior
- Digi-Brawler
- Digi-Destined
- Dragonborn
- Feral Cat
- Genin
- Inked Fate
- Inscribed
- King Of Games
- King's Ranger
- Kinred Cat
- Lost Child
- Marked by the Outsider
- Narrator
- Otherworlder
- Persona User
- Piltoveran
- Priest Cat
- Shadow
- Space Marine
- Stand User
- State Alchemist
- Transmutation Alchemist
- Tribal Cat
- Twoleg's Cat
- Unkindled
- Zaunite
April Fools Backgrounds
Backgrounds with a more comedic twist.
Incomplete Backgrounds
Backgrounds with one or many improving, reviewing, or removing templates present. Please help work on the problem presented on the template.
- Abyssal Returner
- Addict
- Apprentice of the Archlich
- Assassins Creed
- Balloon Mage
- Born of Darkness
- Businessman
- Child Of the Great Dragon
- Child Soldier
- Cow History
- Creed of Crows Guild)
- Cursed Dragon (Chromatic)
- Darkness Incarnate
- Defyer of Fate
- Deity
- Delinquent
- Determined One
- Divine Servant
- Dragon Warrior
- Endless Divine Soul of Darkness Incarnate
- Escaped Experiment
- Fallen Deity
- Feared
- Fearful
- Former Cultist
- Hidden
- House Worker
- Imperial Legion
- Kroog
- Lone Soldier
- Made by the Gods
- Member of The Court of Gaia
- Mighty Steed
- MLM Owner
- Moral Anti-Realism
- Navy SEAL
- Nordguard
- Of The Void
- One Soul, Two Bodies
- Outcast
- Paleontologist
- Plan B
- Plant Being
- Poor Man's Poison
- Pre-Bronze Age Civiliization
- Protecter
- Red Palm
- Royalty
- Scientist
- Seamstress
- Second Soul
- Shepherd
- Singer
- Solid
- Sorcerer Family
- Splitting Body
- Stormcloak
- Traucer
- Tsuguko (Demon Slayer Supplement)
- Twin Bond
- Warlord
- Wilting Spider
- Wise one
