Select this to create a custom background according to the rules presented in the Dungeon Master's Guide (5.5e, 2024). This background aims to include access to every Origin feat on D&D Beyond (regardless of setting), as well as all Planar Pact feats and Dark Gift feats. Some of these feats are not appropriate for every campaign and should only be selected with Dungeon Master approval.
- Increase up to three Ability Scores of your choice.
- Select two Skill Proficiencies of your choice.
- Select one Tool Proficiency of your choice.
- Select one Language of your choice
- select from the entire language catalog, in case an exotic language is needed (these are not options via the standard interface)
- leave blank if your character already has access to Common plus two other languages (newer backgrounds sometimes handle this, older species do, too).
- Select one Origin Feat of your choice from Origin category (also Planar Pacts and Dark Gifts with DM Approval). Your options have been updated to include the following sources:
- The Player's Handbook (5.5e, 2024)
- Forgotten Realms: Heroes of Faerun (2025)
- Astarion's Book of Hungers (2025)
- Exploring Eberron (5.5e, 2026)
- D&D Beyond Drops (2026, includes Planar Pacts)
- Ravenloft: The Horrors Within (2026, includes Dark Gifts)
- Vampire: the Masquerade-Bound by Blood (2026)
- Arcana Unleashed (2026)
- Select one set of clothing, purchased from the alotment of 50 gp.
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