You've toppled governments, either through violence, subterfuge, or calculated manipulation. Your path is marked by the ruins of former empires and the fear or admiration of those who remember your deeds. Whether driven by ideology, power, or survival, you excel at dismantling authority and have gained an array of skills suited to this dangerous calling. When you choose this background, select one of the following methods by which you most often bring down regimes: Bloody Revolt, Subtle Subterfuge, or Calculated Manipulation. (separate backrounds) Each method grants unique proficiencies, equipment, and personality traits.
Characters with the Subtle Subterfuge option in the Regime Breaker background have brought down governments or institutions through covert and secretive means, relying on infiltration, espionage, and stealth. These characters thrive in shadows, gathering information, and creating opportunities to weaken their opponents from within. They rely on keen perception, wisdom, and silent manipulation to achieve their goals without detection.
- Skill Proficiencies: Skill Proficiencies: Insight, Stealth
These skills reflect the character’s ability to read people and situations while moving without drawing attention. Insight allows them to detect hidden motives, and Stealth aids in remaining unnoticed, both essential for their covert activities. - Tool Proficiencies: Tool Proficiency: Disguise Kit
With proficiency in the disguise kit, you can alter your appearance and create disguises, allowing you to infiltrate various places without being recognized. - Languages: Language: A covert or secretive language (e.g., Thieves' Cant or Undercommon)
This language grants you access to hidden networks, subversive conversations, or underground communication. - Equipment: Equipment:
- A small vial of poison: This vial is a last-resort tool, whether for intimidation, defense, or sabotage.
- A set of dark clothing with a hood: Practical attire for stealth operations, helping you blend into shadows.
- A forged letter of introduction: This letter can allow you temporary access to guarded areas, posing as someone of importance or affiliation.
- A pouch with 15 gold pieces: A modest amount of money to cover expenses while on the move or to bribe individuals if necessary.
Feat: Skulker
You have honed your skills to remain unseen and unheard, even in dangerous situations. The Skulker feat enhances your ability to act undetected and to avoid being easily spotted or tracked.
- Skulker grants you:
- Ability to hide when lightly obscured: You can remain hidden in conditions where others might not.
- No disadvantage on Stealth in dim light: You’re adept at using shadows to your advantage.
- No revealing position when you miss with ranged attacks: You remain undetected even when you strike from afar.
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