Caged (5e Background)

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Caged[edit]

You grew up in a cage as a slave to humans. Every day, you were beaten for their entertainment, forced to fight monsters for their entertainment, or used as a lab rat. Because of the years of trauma, your face and body are hideously scarred, and you have to wear a mask so as not to scare other creatures. By some miracle, you're free now, whether that is because you escaped or because a human felt pity for you and decided to buy you and set you free.

Prerequisite: non-human race

Languages: Undercommon

Equipment: A set of traveler's clothes and a single gold coin

Feature: Trauma Endurance[edit]

Due to the trauma you have endured you gain proficiency in Constitution saving throws. Your hit point maximum decreased by 2, and whenever you gain a level thereafter, your hit point maximum increases by an additional 2 hit points.

Feature: Claustrophobic[edit]

Due to your experiences, you hate being imprisoned. When you're trapped in a small space and cannot move or you are chained/restrained, you will go into a panicked state, during which you can't cast or maintain concentration for spells. During this state, other creatures have an advantage on attack rolls against you.

Alternate Feature: Hideously Scarred[edit]

After years of torture your face and body are hideously scarred. Every time your skin regenerated it grew back stronger and more hideous.

You gain +1 Constitution and -1 Charisma, you gain a additional -1 Charisma when not wearing a mask or a other piece of clothing to cover you face


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