DnD 5e Backgrounds
Your background is meant to represent your character’s life before
they became an adventurer. All characters must select a background
when the character is first created. Each background gives an
assortment of skill and tool proficiencies, alongside some extra
starting equipment at 1st level. They’ll also usually have 1 or 2
special features that grant your character some special roleplaying
opportunities, like knowledge of the local black markets, or free
passage on ships due to your previous life as a sailor. Most
backgrounds will also provide tables for your bonds, flaws, and
ideals, but these are optional suggestions and you aren’t required
to use them.
Your rogue might have gotten by the commanded audiences like a
jester or by a guild thief, your wizard could have been a sage
background 5e or using artisan tools and your fighter might have
been an courageous knight or also a grizzled soldier.
