Professional Backgrounds
These are a list of Backgrounds I have made based on a characters profession prior to (or alongside) their adventuring career. Many of them come with an original accompanying Origin feat. In this case I have put a link on the page for your convenience. Check here(under construction) for a master table of all my backgrounds sorted by their assosciated ability score increases.
Blacksmith
Ability Scores: Str/Con/Int
Feat: Forge Master
Skill Proficiencies: Athletics, Investigation
Tool Proficiencies: Smith’s Tools
Equipment: Choose A or B: (A) Smith’s Tools, Book (Metals), Light Hammer, Traveller’s Clothes, 1 GP; or (B) 50 GP
Some of your most core memories are being singed from the heat of hot coals. Whether you were born into the forge or found you way to it, you will always find home by the heat of melting metal. You comprehend the difference a craftsman makes to their tools on a level many can’t begin to understand. The tolerance of a blade, it’s breaking point, the difference between forging for looks and practical use. Regardless, the conditions of the forge grant you a level of tenacity most revere, the lessons of discipline seared into you.
Doctor
Ability Scores: Dex/Int/Wis
Feat: Healer
Skill Proficiencies: Insight, Medicine
Tool Proficiencies: Herbalism Kit
Equipment: Choose A or B: (A) Healer’s Kit, 2 Pouches, Book (Anatomy), Traveller’s Clothes, 19 GP; or (B) 50 GP
You have trained in medicine from an early point. Herbs and Nutrition have been rigorously set in your head and conditions aplenty are known to you. Some people feel your abilities to aid others border on supernatural, but yo u know it’s just a matter of understanding. Many Doctors learnt their trade by going through some form of training, whether it was hours in the library or first hand shadowing a more experienced practitioner, generally both. Some however, end up in the trade in more esoteric ways.
Veteran
Ability Scores: Str/Dex/Wis
Feat: Martial Initiate
Skill Proficiencies: History, Survival
Tool Proficiencies: Choose one kind of Gaming Set
Equipment: Choose A or B: (A) Spear, Gaming Set (same as above), Bedroll, Mastiff, Traveller’s Clothes, 20 GP; or (B) 50 GP
You have survived worse than most will ever encounter and come out to tell the tale. Whether you were enlisted in a long past conflict or having survived a skirmish during what was meant to be a simple caravan escort, your wounds have had time to heal, but your heart knows the cold reality of mud blood and rations. Whoever you met, whoever you buried, you carry their stories now, alongside those of each scar you carry. You weren’t broken by what you experienced, but you were doubtlessly changed.