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Dnd 5e backgrounds homebrew7/27/2023 Thieves’ Guild or Criminal Family (leg-breaker)įeature: Legal System (or “Legal” System) Or did you burn bridges escaping your employer’s service? d6Ĭraft Guild (thief-taker or caravan guard) If you still work for them, maybe they’re a continuing source of adventure hooks. Tool Proficiencies: One type of gaming set, vehicles (land)Įquipment: Club, a badge or token of office, a broadsheet or contract with a bounty for a target, gaming set, hooded lantern, manacles, traveler’s clothes, 5 gp for bribe Employer Skill Proficiencies: Investigation, Intimidation Which set of laws concerned you, and which side of those laws did you come down on? When you choose this background, work with your DM to establish who your employer was and what kinds of “cases” you handled. If the enforcer is sufficiently feared, there are a lot fewer infractions in the first place. Discerning infractions requires more careful thought and evidence collection than most realize. Their skills and motivations are strikingly similar, and the most cynical of them often note that legal codes are little more than a dividing line between teams. Bounty hunters, city guards, inquisitors, thief-takers, vigilantes, leg-breakers… any of them might belong to this background. You worked, or still work, in the field of enforcing rules – either the laws of society or the secret codes of behavior of an organization. But if, like me, many of your favorite characters are cops, detectives, bounty hunters, vigilantes, thief-takers, or inquisitors… read on. All in all I’m impressed with how many character concepts are thoroughly covered by the Backgrounds that are in the book. That’s sufficient for the majority of campaigns – I don’t think WotC “did it wrong” on this by any means. The Player’s Handbook doesn’t offer a Bounty Hunter per se, though – instead, it’s a minor option within Outlander. Since the setting runs more toward late-Renaissance and early-colonial rather than the core medieval setting of most campaigns, players used that background to cover slightly more modern law-enforcement concepts as well. In my campaign, the Bounty Hunter background in the playtest documents was one of the more popular options. 11 Aug, 2014 in 5e DnD / Aurikesh / free content by Brandes Stoddard
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