After a long long life filled with regrets and mistakes, you finally enter the soft embrace of demise, yet death may not be the end for one such as yourself, due to some unexplainable forces you found yourself back in time, either in your own skin or someone else, never the less, you brought back with you your entire life's memories until then as well as a greater than life goal. Now given a chance to right your wrongs, you live life again.
Work with your DM to determine the course of your previous life before being regressed as well as your new chance at life. Were you famous? Powerful? Influential?, Did you come from a powerful blood line or the slums? What caused your death last time? Did you return to your younger self?, did you return in someone else's skin? and most importantly, how far did you return?
- Skill Proficiencies: Three skills of your choice, or one skill of your choice as well as Expertise in the chosen skill.
- Tool Proficiencies: Any one tool or weapon of your choice.
- Languages: Common and one language of your choice
- Equipment: A set of common clothes , A pouch containing 30 gold, A single trinket that ties you to someone or thing that you’ve met/know in the future roll on the Regressed Table.
Your future knowledge allowed you to recreate a few things that you were aware of from the future.
| d10 | Regressed Table |
|---|---|
| 1 | A note containing the secret of someone you know in the future |
| 2 | A map you made yourself that leads you to something you came across in the future |
| 3 | The Ingredient list to a dangerous disease that was founded in the future |
| 4 | A sketch of a person or event that happened in the future |
| 5 | A diary you remade containing the contents of the near future |
| 6 | A list of important individual in the future |
| 7 | A set of clothes or crest with a secret symbol only known to the public in the future |
| 8 | A cook book of unintended foods |
| 9 | A hidden fortune worth 100 gold |
| 10 | A set of tool of your choice |
once per long rest you may ask the DM to give a brief exposition on one event, person, or item that you’ve had knowledge about in the future, the DM can enforce a history skill check if you aren't completely sure about the subject. This exposition can appears as you explaining to either your comrades or reminding yourself of the event, person or item you inquired about.
Suggested Characteristics
A regressed person is someone filled with regrets and motivated by a sole Goal. They use the future they know of to reach a new future where they desire.
| d8 | Personality Trait |
|---|---|
| 1 | I follow a strict guide in life that I enforce on myself to avoid ending up like my past life |
| 2 | I am goal oriented and only take action if I am sure it fits with my plans or knowledge |
| 3 | I cant see a person for who they are, I can only see them for who they become. |
| 4 | I am uncompromising in my words and actions |
| 5 | I try to bore all the burden myself |
| 6 | I am one to take the initiative to change the future |
| 7 | I distance myself and keep too many secrets to make any deep connections with others |
| 8 | I tend to focus on the future too much to notice my present circumstances |
| d6 | Ideal |
|---|---|
| 1 | Protect. I wish to stop a great evil from rising in the future. (Good) |
| 2 | Fairness. I or a loved one was wronged in the future and i seek to rewrite that wrong. (Lawful) |
| 3 | Revenge. I seek revenge against someone or a group of people whom betrayed me in the future. (Chaotic) |
| 4 | Greed. I want to use my knowledge and experience to take revenge and rise through the world. (Evil) |
| 5 | Freedom. I wish to escape from the bleak future that I knew. (Neutral) |
| 6 | Change. I want to live without regrets this time. (Any) |
| d6 | Bond |
|---|---|
| 1 | I have a lover in my past life, but they are unaware of my now. |
| 2 | Someone in my immediate circle wishes desperately for my downfall |
| 3 | Someone I trusted stabbed me in the back, and I will take my revenge them this time around. |
| 4 | A family member was lost in my last life just before i could help them, this time I did managed to save them. |
| 5 | I protect those who showed me kindness in my past life. |
| 6 | I have a contract with someone who benefits from my future knowledge. |
| d6 | Flaw |
|---|---|
| 1 | To change the future i have made many enemies and they would love nothing more than see my head on the end of a pike. |
| 2 | I don't expect the future to change and am often caught in the trappings that comes about from my actions. |
| 3 | To people I know in the future I often act as if I have already been acquainted with them for a long time. |
| 4 | I always try to bear more responsibility than I could handle. |
| 5 | I am too distant and cold to the point where my relationships starts falling apart. |
| 6 | I expect too much of my allies and often forget my own abilities. |
Perhaps you died in another world, or perhaps you died in this one, regardless you were given a new chance in life in a completely different body, in a completely different time. How will you live life this time around?
You gain one feat or Epic boon of your choice regardless of its prerequisite or requirements.
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Posted Nov 21, 2024This BG is meant to be pretty powerful, use at your own risk DM's