Your feet ache at the memory of countless hours spent at your post in the tower. You were trained to maintain vigilance, with one eye scanning the horizon for marauders emerging from the nearby forest and the other scrutinizing the streets within the walls, ever watchful for cutpurses and troublemakers.
You dedicated yourself to the community where you grew up, standing as its first line of defense against crime. Unlike soldiers focused on external threats, your service centered on policing your hometown, safeguarding its citizens from lawbreakers and malefactors of all kinds.
Even if your roots lie outside urban confines, this background can reflect your formative years in law enforcement. Most settlements of any size have constables or police forces, while even smaller communities boast sheriffs and bailiffs prepared to safeguard their inhabitants. No matter where you came from, your commitment to protecting your community has defined who you are.
- Ability Scores: Strength, Intelligence, Wisdom
- Feat: Alert
Origin FeatYou gain the following benefits.
Initiative Proficiency. When you roll Initiative, you can add your Proficiency Bonus to the roll.
Initiative Swap. Immediately after you roll Initiative, you can swap your Initiative with the Initiative of one willing ally in the same combat. You can’t make this swap if you or the ally has the Incapacitated condition.
- Skill Proficiencies: Athletics and Perception
- Tool Proficiencies: Choose one kind of Gaming Set
- Equipment: Choose A or B: (A) Spear, Light Crossbow, 20 Bolts, Gaming Set (same as above), Hooded Lantern, Manacles, Quiver, Traveler’s Clothes, 12 GP; or (B) 50 GP
Your experience in enforcing the law, and dealing with lawbreakers, gives you a feel for local laws and criminals. You can easily find the local outpost of the watch or a similar organization, and just as easily pick out the dens of criminal activity in a community, although you’re more likely to be welcome in the former locations rather than the latter.
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