** Not my creation, from The Background Omnibus. Use for interesting character roleplay.**
You don’t belong in this world. You come from an alien realm where magic doesn’t exist, technology is far more advanced, and the adventures you now face used to be confined only to fiction. You don’t know why you were brought here, but you are trying to make the best of a perplexing situation.
Consider how long you have been here, and how you have managed to procure the powers associated with your class since arriving. Have you been stuck here for years, learning the art of some class as a way to survive? Did you appear not only in an unfamiliar place but also in an unfamiliar body, maybe of some inhuman race that doesn’t exist in your own world, which comes with instinctual powers and talents that you’re still learning to command? Also think about your previous life, what skills it would have taught you, and how those now apply to your new life.
Because Displaced characters are implied to have come from modern-day Earth, there’s a chance that they may have played Dungeons & Dragons as a game. This could potentially serve as a way to justify how the character knows things about game mechanics and monsters that would otherwise seem like metagaming. Make sure the DM is comfortable with your character having this sort of knowledge in-game before characterizing them that way.
Suggested Characteristics
Displaced characters are strangers in a strange land, stuck in a place where everything they thought was fictional is now real. They might see this as a call of action to become a protagonist like in all the stories they grew up with, or they may only care about making it out of these adventures alive. Either way, they are defined by a culture that those around them can’t come close to relating to.
| d1 | Personality Trait |
|---|---|
| 1 | 1: I’m taking this predicament as a chance to reinvent myself into a better, stronger person. 2: I have trouble pronouncing all these weird fantasy names. 3: Back home I was nobody, so I’m amazed whenever I pull off something crazy and heroic. 4: When some |
| d1 | Ideal |
|---|---|
| 1 | 1: Heroism. Now that I have the power to be a hero, I want to use it for good. (GOOD) 2: Fun. While I’m here, might as well explore and go on crazy adventures. (CHAOTIC) 3: Domination. With my modern mind and technology, I could bring this barbaric world t |
| d1 | Bond |
|---|---|
| 1 | 1: I will do whatever it takes to get back home. 2: I try my best to be a representative for my world that my people could be proud of. 3: Magic fascinates me, and I want to understand how it works, maybe even scientifically. 4: I want to build a life for |
| d1 | Flaw |
|---|---|
| 1 | 1: I cower in the face of real danger. 2: I’m convinced that I’m delusional, and that nothing I do in this world really matters. 3: I don’t know how to research anything without the help of the internet. 4: I make up stories about who I am and where I’m fr |
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