Backgrounds and Modern Day!

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While D&D doesn't have your typical modern background, many can easily be associated with something in the modern day. City Guard can be a cop, Entertainer can be an influencer or movie actor, Hermit can range from isolated researcher to armchair NEET.

 

These backgrounds will give you access to proficiency in 'non'-d&d skills, abilities, and weapons. For instance, a sage, scientist, and hermit with the right explanation can be considered proficient in any computer-based skill.

 

Meanwhile, backgrounds like Soldier, Urban Bounty Hunter, and Investigator will turn firearms into a martial weapon category, allowing fighters, barbarians, and rangers to use them without hesitation.

 

Finally: No use of enhanced setting-specific backgrounds. No lorehold or witherbloom backgrounds for example. If you're unsure, contact me.