Always confirm with your DM when choosing a background outside of the ones included in the Player’s Handbook. Even though these backgrounds have been published by WOtC, it doesn’t necessarily mean that your DM will allow them in their campaign. The table below contains a quick reference for all of the backgrounds available in official D&D 5e sources. What backgrounds are available in DnD 5e? Depending on the background you choose, you are provided a number of boilerplate suggested characteristics that can help shape your character’s personality by defining their Personality Traits, Ideals, Bonds, and Flaws. When creating a character as described in the Player’s Handbook, a background is typically chosen after selecting the race, class, and ability scores of your character. Unless your character was born yesterday (which is very unlikely if they aren’t a Warforged), they will have a backstory.īackgrounds provide a way to express your character’s backstory through mechanical means, primarily through skill, language, and tool proficiencies, starting equipment, and roleplaying features.

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