That said, with a little work you can fill your niche as a primary damage dealer in the front lines while staying reasonably safe thanks to your spells and later parts of your kit. As always, please check with your DM before using it.Hexblade warlocks are an interesting subclass: they can easily be a trap because their apparent versatility can leave you wanting to have many tools at your disposal only to discover that none of them quite satisfy the way that the more specialized subclasses can. While they are still legal backgrounds, you may wish to check with your DM before using any of them.Īdditionally, any source that starts with "PS" is part of the Plane Shift series and is not inherently allowed. Rather, it was created and introduced by the Adventurers League. These custom features can be found on the Additional Background Features page.Īn "AL"-marked background refers to content that was not released in the source listed. If you can't find a feature that matches your desired background, work with your DM to create one.Ĭertain books have released custom background features not featured on any background list. Finally, choose two personality traits, one ideal, one bond, and one flaw. If you spend coins, you can't also take the equipment package suggested for your class. You can either use the equipment package from your background or spend coins on gear. 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 might want to tweak some of the features of a background so it better fits your character or the campaign setting.
You can pick characteristics, roll dice to determine them randomly, or use the suggestions as inspiration for characteristics of your own creation.
If you use the optional rule to spend coins on gear, you do not receive the starting equipment from your background.Ī background contains suggested personal characteristics based on your background. Some backgrounds also allow characters to learn additional languages beyond those given by race.Įach background provides a package of starting equipment.
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. Each background gives a character proficiency in two skills.
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