2.3 KiB
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Background
Backgrounds help to define a character's personal history before becoming an adventurer. When choosing a background, consider how it plays into your character's heritage and class. Did life as a soldier pave the way for you to become a fighter? Did a religious experience pull you away from a community that holds a different faith?
Your background may grant 02 🔵 Skill Descriptions#Skill Specialization, 02 🔵 Skill Descriptions#Knowledge Skills, and 02 🔵 Skill Descriptions#Language Skills. It also provides a starting set of 01 🔵 Equipment and 06 Qualities.
Elements of a Background
Skills
Each background grants +2 to two 02 🔵 Skill Descriptions and +1 to two other 02 🔵 Skill Descriptions. Players also get to choose an additional 02 🔵 Skill Descriptions to increase by 2 and another 02 🔵 Skill Descriptions to increase by 1.
Specialization
Backgrounds grant a single Novice 02 🔵 Skill Descriptions#Skill Specialization. The skill that this specialization is applied to is set to +5 and can not be increased by other benefits of this Background.
Language Skills
Backgrounds can grant one additional 02 🔵 Skill Descriptions#Language Skills on top of the languages learned from a Heritage or increase the level of a language already learned.
Knowledge Skills
Each background grants up to 4 02 🔵 Skill Descriptions#Knowledge Skills. Two of these skills are free for the player to choose.
Contacts
Each background grants at least 2 04 🔵 Interacting with Creatures#Contacts. Players may come up with the contacts but they should be approved by the GM. The upper limit of contacts a player can gain during character creation is limited by GM discretion.
Equipment
Each background provides a package of starting equipment.
Adventuring Motivation
A background contains suggested motivations to help inform your reasons for becoming an adventurer. You can roll to determine it randomly, pick one off the list, or use them as inspiration for creating your own motivation.
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