Inspirational Background (5e Variant Rule)

Inspirational Background

Your background has helped you grow and become the person that you are today. People from similar backgrounds tend yo be inspired in the same way.

All background has a condition that generates inspiration. Here is the list:

Acolyte

Fate Must Wait: Resurrect anyone in your party.

Unified Spirit: Pray to your god at the matching holy place

Saving the Believers: Safely free or protect a priest or a follower.

Needs of the Many: Persuade the a person to help multiple people in their time of need.

Charlatan

A Better Offer: Convince a group of your enemies to attack a different group of your enemies.

A Friend to All: Gain access to a forbidden or restricted area peacefully by lying to the guard.

Cheese Your Way Through: Talk your way past a group of enemies and avoiding the conflict

One of Us: Use a disguise to peacefully bypass the security.

The Importance of Networking: Talk your way into a gang's or criminal's Hideout.

Not My First Time: Resist the zone of truth spell or other methods to forcibly tell the truth

Shuffling the Board: Rig of any board game

Takes One to Know One: Expose the truth of a long term scam

Criminal

A Fine Fortune: Steal an item worth at least 1000 gold.

Culling the Crowd: Use poison to kill enemies in camp.

Escape Artist: Escape from jail after being arrested.

Heretic: Steal the Idol of a God in a place where they are actively being worshipped.

Jailbreaker: Smuggle someone out of jail

Entertainer

Celebrant: Enjoy a dance with strangers

Life of the Party: join a party hosted by your enemy

Feel the Beat: Successfully preform on an instrument that you have never played before

A Story of the Ages: Turn someone to your side with a well-timed tale.

The Price of Art: Free an artist from jail

A Story You Won't Believe: Pass all Performance checks when telling a tall tale to someone.

Folk Hero

A Lethal Endeavor: Escort a civilian from certain death

A Timely Rescue: Save a prisoner that is going to be killed

Fate Worse Than Death: Save a person from their torturers.

Guardian of the Forgotten: Save someone that other rescuers failed to save or save someone that everyone that no one would have cared if they were rescued.

Rescued From the Flames: Save anyone from a great fire

Breakout!: Break out and save all of the prisoners in a corrupt or evil prison.

No Strings to Hold Them Back: Release the slaves from their enslavement.

Power Corrupts: Defeat a major figure in the corrupted town.

Guild Artisan

A Golden Masterpiece: Sell an item worth at least 1000 gold.

A New Vision: Reforge a broken magic item.

Art Endures: Craft something in a magical Forge.

Expert Opinion: Evaluate a ruins and share your findings with an expert, like a mason, about your findings.

In Working Order: Repair a mechanical device

The Finest Ingredients: Create a masterwork item with the highest quality item.

Valued Costumer: Trade with someone who has High approval of you.

Noble

Dragon's Hoard: Have at least 2000 gold among the party.

Fine By Me: Use your wealth to bribe a guard.

Soul for Sale: Acquire a Soul Coin for your personal collection

Bodyguards for Hire: Recruit the "uncivilized" folks (folks that have no use for gold) to protect you.

Entitled: Earn a title from your deeds.

Taxes? Never Heard of 'Em: Don't give any gold to corrupt people and governments

Alms for the Unfortunate: Donate something to the refugees or a group of people in need.

Procedures be Damned: Illegally enter into a restricted or forbidden location when it is possible to wait to get the proper paper work to go in legally.

Outlander

Abyss Jumper: Enter the Underdark or a dangerous location by jumping into a dark hole.

Cub Tamer: Successfully tame a wild and dangerous cub.

Nest Egg: Take an item from a monster's nest or den.

From Head to Toe: Explore all sections of a dungeon, cave, or city.

Gifts of the Wilds: Give raw goods as a donation.

Horizon Walker: Travel through a new portal.

Primary Needs: Tame a dinosaur, making it non-hostile.

Sage

All Knowledge Is Worth Having: Finish reading a book that is cursed or contain information that most people prefer to not know.

Whispers from the Grave: Glean some wisdom from speaking with the dead.

Snuffed Spark: Find the dead person's journal.

Achievement Hunter: Complete side quest or a major plot point in the main plot.

Lore Dump: Learn about the lore

Soldier

One For The Ages: Survive a fight in which you kill ten or more enemies.

Pentacrush: Kill 5 enemies in a single turn.

Strategist: Defeat a powerful foe in one strike.

A Headless Horde: Kill every leader in the enemy's camp.

Warrior of the Hells: Kill the cultist leader

Return to Sender: Kill a powerful creature, like a devil, and in the process returning them back to their home plane.

Double-Tap: Kill a creature twice or more

Sharing the Spoils: Donate to the refugees or a group of people in need.

Urchin

Born Innocent: Save the a baby or child creature

Protect Your Own: Protect the child

You Can't Take It With You: Loot the dead creatures before their corpses are thrown into the river, burned, down a deep hole, and any other ways that makes a loot unachievable or hard to get.

Child at Heart: Play games with children

Hunger Never Fades: Donate food or money to an orphanage. Or eat with the orphans

Haunted One

Killing Spree: Kill 5 enemies in a single round.

Creatures of Bloodlust: Recruit the mercenaries by using or promising the corpses of your enemies as payment.

Fresh Kindle for the Fire: let a building or structure burn and do nothing to save the people inside

Grabbing the Poker with Both Hands: Torture someone

Now It's a Party!: Poison the stolen the drinks and the slaughtering the victims before the poison takes effect.

Reuniting Friends: kill a creature with strong ties with a dead friend.

Bleeding the Corpse Dry: Kill the necromancer.

Fly-Swatter: Kill the trickster winged fey.

Lack of Moderation is Key: Kill the brewer with his own brew.

Too Easy: Execute the useless and harmless creatures

How High They Fall: kill a demi-god or god

Kill 'Em While They're Young: Execute the newborn creature

Re-tasting the Kill: kill a person several times

Weak Gifts for Weak Beings: Take the measly offerings to the gods for yourself.

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