(If you spend coin, you canвЂ™t also take the equipment package suggested for your class.) Finally, choose two personality traits, one ideal, one bond, and one flaw. You can either use the equipment package from your background or spend coin on gear as described in the equipment section. To customize a background, you can replace one feature with any other one, choose any two skills, and choose a total of two tool proficiencies or languages from the sample backgrounds. You can pick characteristics, roll dice to determine them randomly, or use the suggestions as inspiration for characteristics of your own creation.Д¬ustomizing a Background You might want to tweak some of the features of a background so it better fits your character or the campaign setting. Suggested Characteristics A background contains suggested personal characteristics based on your background. If you use the optional rule to spend coin on gear, you do not receive the starting equipment from your background. See вЂњ Languages.вЂќД®quipment Each background provides a package of starting equipment. Languages Some backgrounds also allow characters to learn additional languages beyond those given by race. If a character would gain the same proficiency from two different sources, he or she can choose a different proficiency of the same kind (skill or tool) instead. In addition, most backgrounds give a character proficiency with one or more tools (detailed in вЂњEquipmentвЂќ). Proficiencies Each background gives a character proficiency in two skills (described in вЂњUsing Ability ScoresвЂќ). The most important question to ask about your background is what changed? Why did you stop doing whatever your background describes and start adventuring? Where did you get the money to purchase your starting gear, or, if you come from a wealthy background, why donвЂ™t you have more money? How did you learn the skills of your class? What sets you apart from ordinary people who share your background?

Your rogue might have gotten by as a guild thief or commanded audiences as a jester.Д¬hoosing a background provides you with important story cues about your characterвЂ™s identity. Your wizard could have been a sage or an artisan. Your fighter might have been a courageous knight or a grizzled soldier. Your characterвЂ™s background reveals where you came from, how you became an adventurer, and your place in the world. Once, per scene or encounter you can gain advantage to one roll for any social skill to retrieve information or rumours form the locals.Every story has a beginning. In addition, others of the same class are more likely to open up to you with information they might otherwise withhold from people of the higher classes. Of course this is only the case for short stays - if you stay on for longer, it is expected that you work (or pay) for your food. Wherever you go, as long as there is room and means, you will be allowed the hospitality of lower classes, giving you food and lodging for practically nothing, possibly just an hour or two light labour before bedtime. While others of higher station may look down on you because of your low birth, you peers know you for one of their own. The peasant classes look out for their own, because usually no-one else will. In addition you have a small pouch, and 10 gold pieces scraped together. You begin the game with a set of simple clothes, a tool from your previous trade, a small keepsake from your family, that probably isn't very valuable, but has great sentimental value to you. You gain medium proficiency with one artisan tool of your choice, as well as Vehicles (Land). You gain medium proficiency in Nature, and low proficiency in Animal Handling and Survival.

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