Backgrounds - D&D 4e Compendium

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• Aberrant Slayer

  Aberrant Slayer Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Elan Heritage feat Madness grows in the shadows, spawning new horrors to assail the world and corrupt it, twis...

• Accidental Initiate

  Accidental Initiate Type: Origin Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Follower of Avandra You had a happy childhood that involved a lot of running and playing, and your parents...

• Accursed Lineage

  Accursed Lineage Type: Legacy of Acererak Campaign Setting: General Whispers about your family's lineage haunted your childhood. Claims of being cursed, doomed, or otherwise touch...

• Adventurer's Scion

  Adventurer's Scion Type: Legacy of Acererak Campaign Setting: General One or both of your parents were adventurers and you grew up listening to stories about their achievements, t...

• Aerenal

  Aerenal Type: Geography Campaign Setting: Eberron The ancestral homeland of Eberron's elves, Aerenal is a realm that is alien to most of Khorvaire's inhabitants. Thick jungles and...

• Aglarond

  Aglarond Type: Campaign Campaign Setting: Forgotten Realms The Simbul, a mighty sorceress, once ruled Aglarond, serving as a bulwark against Thay's expansion. However, in the Simb...

• Airspur

  Airspur Type: Geography Campaign Setting: Forgotten Realms Airspur is the most powerful mercantile hub in all of Akanül and the ruling city of the region. Though the population is...

• Akanûl

  Akanûl Type: Campaign Campaign Setting: Forgotten Realms Genasi of Returned Abeir crafted a nation out of the severe geography left in the Spellplague's wake. Many of Faerûn's wid...

• Amn

  Amn Type: Campaign Campaign Setting: Forgotten Realms Five wealthy and powerful merchant houses control Amn. These so-called High Houses form the governing Council of Five, which...

• Ancestral Speaker

  Ancestral Speaker Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Thri-kreen race You have a strong tie to the Ancestral Khanate. You might have a particularly good memory an...

• Ancient

  Ancient Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Revenant When you awoke as a revenant, you discovered centuries had passed. Everyone you knew, loved, and hated is now...

• Apprentice of Sinister Cabal

  Apprentice of Sinister Cabal Type: Campaign Campaign Setting: Scales of War Adventure Path To call your fellow conspirators a “cult” is to credit them with more fervor and less in...

• Arcane Agent

  Arcane Agent Type: Society Campaign Setting: General You are a member of a secret arcane society. The public believes that your secret society is composed of thieves and assassins...

• Arcane Mercenary

  Arcane Mercenary Type: Society Campaign Setting: General You work for pay. You'll take coin if that's all your patron has to offer, but you prefer to be paid in magic. Magic items...

• Arcane Pariah

  Arcane Pariah Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Warlock You were a student to the finest wizard mentor. Yet, you grew bored with the old mage's sermonizing. Impatiently, you...

• Arcane Refugee

  Arcane Refugee Type: Society Campaign Setting: General A great conflagration of magic enveloped your home when you were a child. Your family fled, and your parents became bitter,...

• Arcane Sentinel

  Arcane Sentinel Type: Society Campaign Setting: General A great secret has been entrusted to you, and you are that secret's sentinel. Your secret might be your guardianship of a t...

• Arcane Student Who Saw Too Much

  Arcane Student Who Saw Too Much Type: Campaign Campaign Setting: Scales of War Adventure Path You've received extensive arcane training, but then you learned something sinister ab...

• Arcane Tracker

  Arcane Tracker Type: Society Campaign Setting: General You are on the trail of a wondrous thing. It might be a manifestation that appears only under a full moon or an eclipse, a s...

• Argonnessen

  Argonnessen Type: Geography Campaign Setting: Eberron The name Argonnessen brings a shudder to even the bravest explorers, for it is a land of mystery and fear. Vicious tides and...

• Arkhosian Totem Rager

  Arkhosian Totem Rager Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Dragonborn The totem ragers of ancient Arkhosia were an elite warrior order that practiced primal tradit...

• Artist

  Artist Type: Occupation Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Follower of Corellon You were a painter, a sculptor, a poet, a writer, or some other form of artist. What was your...

• Aspirant of the Watcher

  Aspirant of the Watcher Campaign Setting: General You were intrigued by Erak Cobb for a while, during which time you participated in the rites and ceremonies, communed with spirit...

• Assassin

  Assassin Type: Campaign Campaign Setting: Scales of War Adventure Path You've been trained in the thousand arts of death, sent to preemptively kill the powerful. What secret order...

• Astronomer

  Astronomer Type: Occupation Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Psionic Occultists claim that the stars in the night sky are windows into the Outside, and that to look upon th...

• Athlete

  Athlete Type: Occupation Campaign Setting: General You spent years earning your living as a competitive athlete. You might throw hammers, spears, or discs, or you could be a sprin...

• Aundair (City)

  Aundair (City) Type: Geography Campaign Setting: Eberron Aundair is two nations in one. Pastoral villages and farmlands line its borders or cluster around the keeps of the region'...

• Aundair (Small village)

  Aundair (Small village) Type: Geography Campaign Setting: Eberron Aundair is two nations in one. Pastoral villages and farmlands line its borders or cluster around the keeps of th...

• Auspicious Birth

  Auspicious Birth Type: Campaign Campaign Setting: Scales of War Adventure Path The circumstances of your birth were somehow blessed, and you grew up knowing you were somehow set a...

• Awakened

  Awakened Type: Birth Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Psionic Your birth was unremarkable. You were healthy and seemingly normal. Your parents or caretakers quickly noticed...

• Back Alley Bravo

  Back Alley Bravo Type: Occupation Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Sorcerer You have long settled scores at knifepoint. Did you work for a thieves' guild as an enforcer, or...

• Baernor Scion

  Baernor Scion Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Human You are a member of Everwatch's noble family. You might be next in line to take the throne, or you could be a distant r...

• Balance-Seeker

  Balance-Seeker Type: Campaign Campaign Setting: Dark Sun Prerequisite: Genasi You have communed with the spirits, walked the lands for miles around, and witnessed the ravages done...

• Baldur's Gate

  Baldur's Gate Type: Campaign Campaign Setting: Forgotten Realms Baldur's Gate has seen a recent restructuring of its government. After the city nearly fell to Grand Duke Valarken...

• Baldur's Gate (Shifter)

  Baldur's Gate (Shifter) Type: Campaign Campaign Setting: Forgotten Realms Prerequisite: Shifter Baldur's Gate bustles with lively trade, and its people go about their daily lives...

• Balic - Legionary

  Balic - Legionary Type: Geography Campaign Setting: Dark Sun You served as a foot soldier in the army of Balic for a time. Legionaries who finish their terms honorably gain severa...

• Balic - Patrician

  Balic - Patrician Type: Geography Campaign Setting: Dark Sun You were born into one of Balic's noble families. Your family owns a large estate outside the city-state and holds a s...

• Balic - Silt Sailor

  Balic - Silt Sailor Type: Geography Campaign Setting: Dark Sun You spent your youth as a deckhand in Balic's fleet of silt schooners, working the trade routes in the Estuary of th...

• Banished from the Order

  Banished from the Order Type: Occupation Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Follower of Ioun You were an excavator, trained by the Collectors to find a way into dangerous vau...

• Barovian Escapee

  Barovian Escapee Campaign Setting: General Most of the time, you lived a pleasant life in Barovia. Simple rules guided your existence: Obey the burgomaster. Do not consort with th...

• Barrister

  Barrister Type: Occupation Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Follower of Bahamut You worked within the legal system to uphold the law. Did you champion the innocent or punis...

• Basilisk's Gaze

  Basilisk's Gaze Type: House Medani Campaign Setting: Eberron Taldor d'Medani gave you mental training in preparation for joining the Basilisk's Gaze, a House Medani group that hun...

• Battlefield Wonderworker

  Battlefield Wonderworker Type: Occupation Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Eladrin, artificer Even at an early age, your aptitude for arcane magic differed from that of you...

• Beggar

  Beggar Type: Society Campaign Setting: General You have spent time on the streets collecting coin from pedestrians. Successful beggars evoke compassion from onlookers, so you have...

• Bereaved

  Bereaved Type: Psychology Campaign Setting: General You lost someone close to you and his or her death haunts you still. Who was this person and how did they fit into your life? A...

• Berserker

  Berserker Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Human Wild and fearless, you threw yourself into every battle, hoping to earn a place at Kord's side after a valiant...

• Berserker - Follower of Kord

  Berserker - Follower of Kord Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Follower of Kord You can't help it. When anger overtakes you, a crimson haze fills your vision, and the rage y...

• Besmirched Birthright

  Besmirched Birthright Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Dragonborn You come from a dishonored dragonborn clan. Whether recently or in the distant past, an indiv...

• Bestial

  Bestial Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Foulborn Heritage feat You exhibit animalistic features or characteristics. You could have a tail, gleaming eyes, or g...

• Birth - Among Another Race

  Birth - Among Another Race Type: Birth Campaign Setting: General You were born among a race other than your own. Did you grow up among mountain fortress, or in a halfling caravan?...

• Birth - Blessed

  Birth - Blessed Type: Birth Campaign Setting: General You received a great blessing from a complete stranger when you were born. What type of person blessed you? Was he or she ass...

• Birth - Cursed

  Birth - Cursed Type: Birth Campaign Setting: General You received a dire curse from a complete stranger when you were born. What type of person cursed you, and why? Did you ever s...

• Birth - Omen

  Birth - Omen Type: Birth Campaign Setting: General Your birth was marked by an unusual occurrence—perhaps a great storm, an eclipse, or the start or end of a battle. What was the...

• Birth - On Another Plane

  Birth - On Another Plane Type: Birth Campaign Setting: General You were not born in the world, but rather on another plane, such as the Feywild. What circumstances brought your an...

• Birth - Prophecy

  Birth - Prophecy Type: Birth Campaign Setting: General Your birth was foretold in a prophecy. What does the prophecy say about you and about your future? Who, if anyone, believes...

• Blackstaff Apprentice

  Blackstaff Apprentice Campaign Setting: Forgotten Realms Before you became a Blackstaff apprentice, the academies and private tutors you worked with provided a generalized curricu...

• Blademaster

  Blademaster Type: Society Campaign Setting: General A consummate duelist, you crossed blades with the best you could find and lived to tell of it. That is, until you met Liria Val...

• Blazestone

  Blazestone Type: Geography Campaign Setting: General Rugged peaks and belching volcanoes characterize Blazestone. In this forlorn region, toxic clouds rain ash across a barren lan...

• Bleakmire

  Bleakmire Type: Geography Campaign Setting: General Mist-shrouded wetlands, the Bleakmire is an ominous moor, where tall grasses conceal brackish waters and where gnarled trees st...

• Blessed of Zargon

  Blessed of Zargon Campaign Setting: General You were born to die. You have the sign of Zargon upon your brow—a birthmark that represents his horn—and your flesh is his food. You w...

• Bloodblade Soldier

  Bloodblade Soldier Type: Racial Prerequisite: Half-orc The best thing that ever happened to your tribe was when your orc forefathers were slaughtered in a bloody but one-sided civ...

• Bloodstone Runehammer

  Bloodstone Runehammer Type: Geography Campaign Setting: Forgotten Realms Prerequisite: Dwarf As a Runehammer, you're sworn to defend the dwarven holds of Bloodstone from monstrous...

• Bloodtangle

  Bloodtangle Type: Geography Campaign Setting: General Far to the south sprawls the Bloodtangle, a fecund expanse of rain forest sheltering an impassable landscape teeming with lif...

• Borderland Nobility

  Borderland Nobility Type: Society Campaign Setting: General Your father or mother is a ruler of an obscure fiefdom along the frontier. The territory is small and out of the way. N...

• Born of Avandra's Presence

  Born of Avandra's Presence Type: Origin Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Follower of Avandra Avandra was present at your birth, though none knew that she was there. Hidden...

• Born Under a Bad Sign

  Born Under a Bad Sign Type: Campaign Campaign Setting: Scales of War Adventure Path Your entire childhood was one superstitious omen after another. Individually, they're easy to i...

• Bozak Draconian

  Bozak Draconian Type: Racial Prerequisite: Dragonborn From the moment of your birth, you were a match for virtually any human soldier. Your natural aptitude for both magic and com...

• Brains

  Brains Type: Occupation Campaign Setting: General In any elaborate criminal enterprise, there's someone behind it who comes up with the plans, gathers the intelligence, and organi...

• Brash Duelist

  Brash Duelist Type: Adventurers Campaign Setting: Forgotten Realms You are from a well-born family in Sambral and have always lived in comfort. However, your temper has often got...

• Brawny Gnome

  Brawny Gnome Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Gnome You've always been stronger than your fellow gnomes, and because of that you didn't fit in fully with the o...

• Bregan D'aerthe Spy

  Bregan D'aerthe Spy Type: Campaign Campaign Setting: Neverwinter Prerequisite: Drow Drow train in stealth and the lore of the Underdark from a young age, and they rely upon falseh...

• Breland

  Breland Type: Geography Campaign Setting: Eberron Of all the Five Nations, Breland has made the greatest social and economic recovery following the war. Breland has vast tracts of...

• Bringers of Spring

  Bringers of Spring Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Eladrin The Pale Prince, the Lord of the Longest Night, is chief among those enemies arrayed against the wi...

• Broken Lands

  Broken Lands Type: Geography Campaign Setting: General The Broken Lands are an arid region marked by dramatic natural features: ravines, rock spires, and steep slopes with colorfu...

• Broken, Beaten, Scarred

  Broken, Beaten, Scarred Type: Racial Campaign Setting: Dark Sun Prerequisite: Mul Your scars and battered features tell your tale. You have known little more than abuse and hardsh...

• Brother in Battle

  Brother in Battle Type: Campaign Campaign Setting: Scales of War Adventure Path Not everyone needs to be chased across the world by black-cloaked assassins. You crave fighting, be...

• Burglar

  Burglar Type: Occupation Campaign Setting: General You specialize in breaking and entering. No lock's going to stop you; no security can catch you. Why did you become a burglar? W...

• Buried Alive (Dark)

  Buried Alive (Dark) Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Warlock You were trapped in a cave—the victim of an unfortunate accident or malice. Pinned beneath rubble, you wasted a...

• Calamity

  Calamity Type: Birth Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Psionic Your birth was a momentous event. The ground groaned. The dark sky split open, lashing the landscape with viol...

• Calimshan

  Calimshan Type: Campaign Campaign Setting: Forgotten Realms When the Calimemnon Crystal shattered during the Spellplague, it released the djinn Calim and his rival, the efreet Mem...

• Callidyrr Dragoon

  Callidyrr Dragoon Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Human or halfling A dragoon's rigorous daily training is a marvel of physical discipline. These learned defenders of the...

• Camp Follower

  Camp Follower Type: Society Campaign Setting: General You grew up in the wake of an army on the march, surviving on its scraps. Perhaps your parents were members of the army who l...

• Cannith Inventor

  Cannith Inventor Type: House Cannith Campaign Setting: Eberron You can't help thinking up new inventions—whether they're mechanical, magical, or a strange mix of the two. What's t...

• Cannith Tinker

  Cannith Tinker Type: House Cannith Campaign Setting: Eberron You served a stint with Cannith's Tinkers Guild, traveling from town to town and earning coin for House Cannith by fix...

• Cannith Warforged

  Cannith Warforged Type: House Cannith Campaign Setting: Eberron You're one of the warforged that House Cannith kept rather than sold to one of the Five Nations. What made you wort...

• Captive

  Captive Type: Occupation Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Follower of Bahamut You spent many years in a dragon's captivity. Was the dragon noble and virtuous or cruel and t...

• Caravan Scout

  Caravan Scout Type: House Orien Campaign Setting: Eberron You're accustomed to scouting out ahead of everyone else, making sure the road is safe for the valuables aboard a House O...

• Carnival Performer

  Carnival Performer Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Tiefling You grew up in a circus called Nightrule's Carnival Cavalcade. Its eerie chime-and-calliope music...

• Cat Burglar

  Cat Burglar Type: Campaign Campaign Setting: Scales of War Adventure Path You take an artisan's approach to large-scale burglary, stealing from the most well-protected treasure tr...

• Cerulean Adepts

  Cerulean Adepts Campaign Setting: General You have received your training with an eye toward understanding the importance of the foretold champion. You vigilantly listen for rumor...

• Chameleon

  Chameleon Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Foulborn Heritage feat Your skin alters its coloring to blend in with your surroundings. Although clothing diminishe...

• Champion of Bahamut

  Champion of Bahamut Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Dragonborn Whatever your class, you are a servant of Bahamut and seek to emulate him in all your actions....

• Changeling Imposter

  Changeling Imposter Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Changeling You drift from place to place, borrowing identities to help you disappear into the communities...

• Channeled Fury

  Channeled Fury Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Half-Orc Anger burns in your heart but you are its master, having conquered it long ago. With this focus, you c...

• Chaos Bound

  Chaos Bound Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Genasi You are untamed, passionate, and wild, as if you held the whole of the Elemental Chaos in your form. You ar...

• Charlatan

  Charlatan Type: Racial Campaign Setting: Dark Sun Prerequisite: Half-elf You respond to widespread scorn and suspicion by using your talents for ill gain. Defrauding the people wh...

• Chessenta

  Chessenta Type: Campaign Campaign Setting: Forgotten Realms Large pieces of Abeir fell in Chessenta, altering the landscape and setting off a series of devastating volcanic erupti...

• Child of Fate

  Child of Fate Campaign Setting: General You were born with a birthmark associated with a member of the Gloaming Court: a moon, a heart, or even the stylized loom shape of the Witc...

• Child of the Wildlands

  Child of the Wildlands Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Human Many human children are born to a far-flung homestead in a wilderness claimed and somewhat tamed...

• Child of Two Worlds

  Child of Two Worlds Type: Birth Campaign Setting: Eberron You were either born to parents on two different sides of the Last War, or you were raised half your life in one place an...

• Chimera Tribe Champion

  Chimera Tribe Champion Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Tiefling In the dark age after the falls of Bael Turath and Arkhosia, tieflings spread throughout the r...

• Chosen of the Spirit Drake

  Chosen of the Spirit Drake Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Dragonborn From the moment you emerged from your egg, it's been clear that you were chosen to be th...

• Circus Performer

  Circus Performer Type: Occupation Campaign Setting: General You were born into the circus and grew up among acrobats, performers, magicians, and animals. In your formative years,...

• Citizen of Kiris Dahn

  Citizen of Kiris Dahn Campaign Setting: General You were born in the waning town of Kiris Dahn and spent your early years there. The citizens abandoned the already dilapidated tow...

• Civic Reformer

  Civic Reformer Type: Society Campaign Setting: General You study Nerathi lore, learning from the past to better the future. Perhaps you're inspired by great works of Nerathi liter...

• Civilization's Herald

  Civilization's Herald Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Human You are an idealist—a person who believes that civilization and the rule of law, while not flawles...

• Clan Kranos

  Clan Kranos Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Minotaur Your clan is honored to carry the name of Kranos the Uncrowned King. Kranos was a bold and unswerving her...

• Clan Sentune

  Clan Sentune Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Minotaur Your clan takes its name from Sentune, a famous philosopher who emphasized exploring paths. One cannot t...

• Clan Thavok

  Clan Thavok Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Minotaur Your clan traces its history back to the founding of the Labyrinth City of Leng. Thavok chose as his batt...

• Clanblade

  Clanblade Type: Racial Campaign Setting: Dark Sun Prerequisite: Dragonborn You grew up in an insular dragonborn clan. Early in your youth, you were apprenticed to an older relativ...

• Clandestine Courtier

  Clandestine Courtier Type: House Thuranni Campaign Setting: Eberron To the gossip traders in Khorvaire's noble courts, you were just another Thuranni hanger-on, possessed of enoug...

• Cloistered Priest

  Cloistered Priest Type: Campaign Campaign Setting: Scales of War Adventure Path You've grown up in the heart of religious worship, and you know the rituals and rites of your faith...

• Commissioned Officer

  Commissioned Officer Type: Occupation Campaign Setting: Eberron You held rank in one of the various militaries involved in the Last War, and you directed soldiers in the thick of...

• Con Artist

  Con Artist Type: Campaign Campaign Setting: Scales of War Adventure Path You've long made a living on the backs of the greedy, the gullible, and the unobservant. What sort of conf...

• Con Artist (Psionic)

  Con Artist (Psionic) Type: Occupation Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Psionic Your talent for reading people proved invaluable to your criminal career. You have always bee...

• Convert

  Convert Type: Divine Campaign Setting: General You were a member of the clergy of a different deity, but something made you change your allegiance. What deity did you worship befo...

• Corellon Dedicate

  Corellon Dedicate Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Elf Sehanine's children chose no side in the Kin Wars, and their neutrality won them scorn and self-imposed...

• Cormyr (General)

  Cormyr (General) Type: Campaign Campaign Setting: Forgotten Realms The Forest Kingdom emerged from the Spellplague largely unscathed but threatened from the north by the resurrect...

• Cormyr (Wheloon)

  Cormyr (Wheloon) Type: Campaign Campaign Setting: Forgotten Realms The Forest Kingdom emerged from the Spellplague largely unscathed but threatened from the north by the resurrect...

• Cosmopolitan Perspective

  Cosmopolitan Perspective Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Thri-Kreen race, Psionic Your burgeoning psionic abilities caused you to unwittingly tap into the col...

• Created

  Created Type: Birth Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Psionic You look like a typical member of your race, indistinguishable from others of your kind. But you are not truly...

• Crimson Curse

  Crimson Curse Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Tiefling You have the curse of a tiefling bloodline, but you bear a heavier burden than most. You suffer from th...

• Crusading Zealot

  Crusading Zealot Type: Campaign Campaign Setting: Scales of War Adventure Path Your calling is an intensely personal one. The voices of the gods themselves have sent you on your c...

• Crystalbrooker

  Crystalbrooker Type: Geography Campaign Setting: General You grew up in Crystalbrook, a small agricultural community on the plains near the Sildaine Forest and the town's namesake...

• Cult Escapee

  Cult Escapee Type: Campaign Campaign Setting: Scales of War Adventure Path At first the group appeared to be on to something big, and you wanted to be part. But when you saw how d...

• Cult Survivor

  Cult Survivor Campaign Setting: General You were young when the Cult of the Elder Elemental Eye held sway over all the surrounding lands, but not too young to remember. How could...

• Cultist

  Cultist Campaign Setting: General Cultists don't have to be experts in religion, but they do need to learn how to get around and practice their heretical beliefs without arousing...

• Cultural Assimilator

  Cultural Assimilator Type: Racial Campaign Setting: Eberron Prerequisite: Changeling Like most changelings, you've spent your time dwelling among the members of the other races. Y...

• Cunning Hypnotist

  Cunning Hypnotist Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Gnome You develop persuasive powers that you can use to beguile your subjects. It began as a simple parlor t...

• Curious Archeologist

  Curious Archeologist Type: Legacy of Acererak Campaign Setting: General Dungeons, ruins, and old tombs house the secrets of the past, and dedicated scrutiny can reveal much of old...

• Cursed

  Cursed Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Revenant A necromancer or dark priest cursed you with undeath, preventing you from ever knowing the peace you earned. T...

• Cutpurse

  Cutpurse Type: Occupation Campaign Setting: General A bump and a stumble later, you're 30 silver pieces richer and the guard is suddenly poorer by the same number. You are a pickp...

• Dalelands

  Dalelands Type: Campaign Campaign Setting: Forgotten Realms The northern Dales have largely prospered over the last century, thanks to a strong alliance with elf-ruled Myth Dranno...

• Dambrath (Shifter)

  Dambrath (Shifter) Type: Campaign Campaign Setting: Forgotten Realms Prerequisite: Shifter If the shifter race has a homeland in the Realms, it might be the dry plains of Dambrath...

• Darguun

  Darguun Type: Geography Campaign Setting: Eberron Depending upon one's point of view, Darguun is either the strong rightful heir of a defeated land, or it's a scab growing over th...

• Dark Apprenticeship

  Dark Apprenticeship Campaign Setting: General You were the youngest apprentice of an evil master, and the heroes who overthrew him saw the possibility for your redemption in the r...

• Dark Contract (Infernal)

  Dark Contract (Infernal) Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Warlock All deals are final, and whether entered into knowingly or tricked by fiendish bureaucracy, your immortal...

• Dead One

  Dead One Campaign Setting: General You are Vistani, but you, your family, or your clan is settled rather than nomadic. This is very atypical for the Vistani, so much so that itine...

• Dead Rat Deserter

  Dead Rat Deserter Type: Campaign Campaign Setting: Neverwinter Prerequisite: Human, half-elf, or halfling The Dead Rats are known in Luskan for their subtlety, their skill at burg...

• Deep Seer

  Deep Seer Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Drow You peer into the cyclopean depths, watchful for the secrets the darkness can reveal. You use your mind's power...

• Deep Wastes

  Deep Wastes Type: Campaign Campaign Setting: Encounters You hail from beneath the Dalelands, born in an area of the Underdark called the Deep Wastes. Though Valan Jaelre's drow ha...

• Defender of the Oppressed

  Defender of the Oppressed Campaign Setting: General Though the great empires of the world have fallen, tyranny still reigns on a small scale in many places. You swore to bring dow...

• Demon Wastes

  Demon Wastes Type: Geography Campaign Setting: Eberron At the northwestern edge of Khorvaire, the blasted lands form a twisted window into the past. For here, where monsters roam...

• Deneith Bodyguard

  Deneith Bodyguard Type: House Deneith Campaign Setting: Eberron A member of House Deneith's Defenders Guild, you gave up a life among the Blademarks to guard an important personag...

• Deneith Mercenary

  Deneith Mercenary Type: House Deneith Campaign Setting: Eberron You served with House Deneith's Blademarks Guild during the Last War. What major battles did you take part in, and...

• Desert Miner

  Desert Miner Type: Racial Campaign Setting: Dark Sun Prerequisite: Dwarf Great toil often yields great rewards. You come from a clan of miners who laboriously scratch and claw bur...

• Deserter

  Deserter Type: Adulthood Campaign Setting: Eberron You refused to volunteer to fight in the Last War, and in the latter years, when many of the nations passed laws requiring servi...

• Desperate Loner

  Desperate Loner Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Halfling Your wide, easy smile hides a deep-seated insecurity and fear of abandonment. Whatever the limits of...

• Desperate Measures

  Desperate Measures Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Warlock Fate was against you, and you were left with no choice but to make your pact. Did you do so to save yourself or...

• Detective

  Detective Type: Campaign Campaign Setting: Scales of War Adventure Path You have a justifiable pride in your powers of observation and deduction, and you take a delight in surpris...

• Deva - Brink of Corruption

  Deva - Brink of Corruption Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Deva In your most recent past life, your spirit was corrupted. Your evil was so great that you were...

• Deva - Brink of Enlightenment

  Deva - Brink of Enlightenment Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Deva You were an incredibly advanced soul during your most recent past life, close to achieving...

• Deva - Forgotten Lifetime

  Deva - Forgotten Lifetime Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Deva Although your memory of your past lives is vague, there is one—your most recent—that you can't...

• Deva Regressor

  Deva Regressor Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Deva Your past lives haunt you from the fringes of your consciousness. They emerge to take charge of your body...

• Deviant

  Deviant Type: Psychology Campaign Setting: General You have an unwholesome or unhealthy interest in the dead. What, exactly, was your interest? Did you experiment with necromancy?...

• Devil's Pawn

  Devil's Pawn Type: Campaign Campaign Setting: Neverwinter Many of your ilk have a silver tongue when it comes to deception, and you might be one of them. It's also possible that d...

• Disbeliever

  Disbeliever Type: Divine Campaign Setting: General In your early life, you never had much respect for gods, but something changed your mind. You still don't know if you can trust...

• Disciplined Soldier

  Disciplined Soldier Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Dragonborn Martial excellence is your foremost desire, for you believe that it symbolizes excellence of ch...

• Disgraced

  Disgraced Type: Society Campaign Setting: General You are the child of a tribal chieftain, raised with the expectation that you would one day take on that position. After years of...

• Disgraced Noble

  Disgraced Noble Campaign Setting: General Disgraced nobles don't spend as much time cavorting with society's elite as their more esteemed peers, but they still remember the rules...

• Disgraced Pragmatist

  Disgraced Pragmatist Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Elan Heritage feat Once, you thought it possible to fight the Far Realm and its horrors. Yet for every ab...

• Disgraced Scion

  Disgraced Scion Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Dwarf You broke with your people's traditions, abandoning their guilt and shame to seek your own path. So ingr...

• Divinely Inspired

  Divinely Inspired Type: Divine Campaign Setting: General Following your divine path seems as natural to you as breathing air. You never heard the call to religion because it's alw...

• Domain Refugee

  Domain Refugee Campaign Setting: General You were born in a domain of dread, a region shaped and controlled by a dark power whose corruption and evil is often boundless. Who was t...

• Dragon Coast

  Dragon Coast Type: Campaign Campaign Setting: Forgotten Realms Westgate is among the freest and the most disreputable locations in Faerûn, a place where coin can purchase anything...

• Dragon Totem Clan

  Dragon Totem Clan Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Dragonborn For all their elemental power and keen intellect, dragons are creatures of the natural world as m...

• Dragon Totem Warrior

  Dragon Totem Warrior Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Dragonborn In the way that some barbarians adopt totem animals that embody the qualities they aspire to,...

• Dragon-Blooded Spellcaster

  Dragon-Blooded Spellcaster Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Dragonborn Arcane power is in your nature, part and parcel of the same elemental forces that power...

• Dragon-Bound Arcanist

  Dragon-Bound Arcanist Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Dragonborn You learned the practice of magic from an actual dragon. It's rare for dragons to cast spells...

• Dragon's Path

  Dragon's Path Type: House Thuranni Campaign Setting: Eberron This mystical order within House Thuranni tries to uncover the secrets of the Draconic Prophecy, but unlike the prophe...

• Dragonbonded Clan

  Dragonbonded Clan Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Dragonborn Your clan is still bonded to the service of a dragon, just as it was before the rise of Arkhosia....

• Dragonborn - Arcane Mercenary

  Dragonborn - Arcane Mercenary Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Dragonborn Many dragonborn earn a living selling their services as mercenaries, caravan guards,...

• Dragonborn - Brush with the Past

  Dragonborn - Brush with the Past Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Dragonborn At some point in your life, you encountered some element of dragonborn history. Yo...

• Dragonborn - Dishonored

  Dragonborn - Dishonored Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Dragonborn Some magnificent failure on your part resulted in the utter loss of your honor. Many dragon...

• Dragonborn - Rare Egg

  Dragonborn - Rare Egg Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Dragonborn The egg that you hatched from was unusual in a way that dragonborn consider auspicious. It mi...

• Dragonborn Iconoclast

  Dragonborn Iconoclast Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Dragonborn Though you worship a recognizable deity of the traditional pantheon, you do so in a way that...

• Dragonborn Madness

  Dragonborn Madness Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Dragonborn You are insane, or at least you believe yourself to be. The thoughts and emotions others experie...

• Draj - Calmec Scribe

  Draj - Calmec Scribe Type: Geography Campaign Setting: Dark Sun Your family belongs to one of the scholar, or calmec, clans. You have studied writing, history, astrology, and theo...

• Draj - Jasuan Knight

  Draj - Jasuan Knight Type: Geography Campaign Setting: Dark Sun You were born in one of the heroic clans as a noble of Draj. You spent your youth scouring the surrounding lands fo...

• Draj - Pochte Trader

  Draj - Pochte Trader Type: Geography Campaign Setting: Dark Sun You were raised in a pochte clan, a family group dedicated to mercantile pursuits. Tsalaxa is the largest and best-...

• Driven into Hiding

  Driven into Hiding Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Changeling You wear your disguise out of fear. You might live in a land where all changelings are hunted, o...

• Driven to Vengeance

  Driven to Vengeance Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Mul Winning freedom was a start, but it wasn't the end. What use is it to be free when the tyrants will ju...

• Droaam

  Droaam Type: Geography Campaign Setting: Eberron Droaam is a land of monsters, creatures that—to the outside eye—make even the goblin tribes of Darguun look civilized. The mountai...

• Drow - Orphan

  Drow - Orphan Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Drow The drow community in which you were born no longer exists. Perhaps an army of dwarves or elves wiped it fr...

• Drow - Outcast

  Drow - Outcast Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Drow You were cast out from the city of your birth, most likely because of your failure to comply with the evil...

• Dune Ride

  Dune Ride Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Human You were a warrior in Sunspray, gifted with a noble steed and trained to kill Shaitan's servants on the battle...

• Durpar

  Durpar Type: Campaign Campaign Setting: Forgotten Realms Durpar consists of the city of Vaelan, the town of Assur, and a handful of scattered keeps. Although largely forgotten by...

• Durpar (Shifter)

  Durpar (Shifter) Type: Campaign Campaign Setting: Forgotten Realms Prerequisite: Shifter The near-forgotten land of Durpar cowers in the shadow of the Beastlands, harboring horror...

• Dusk Envoy

  Dusk Envoy Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Elf Factions within dusk elf communities push for reconciliation with elves and eladrin. They face strong oppositio...

• Dust-Treader Skald

  Dust-Treader Skald Type: Racial Prerequisite: Half-orc For years, your tribe acted as the ambassadorial force serving the Kingdom of Many-Arrows. The other races were more comfort...

• Dwarf - Ancestral Home Lost

  Dwarf - Ancestral Home Lost Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Dwarf During your youth, your clan's ancestral home was conquered by enemies or destroyed in a nat...

• Dwarf - Dedicated to an Ancestor

  Dwarf - Dedicated to an Ancestor Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Dwarf You were born on the same day of the year as one of your clan's ancestral heroes, and y...

• Dwarf - Outcast

  Dwarf - Outcast Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Dwarf Your family and clan have cast you out, severing the ties that are so important to the members of your r...

• Early Life - Child Prodigy

  Early Life - Child Prodigy Campaign Setting: General Your talents were recognized early and lauded by your community, which was very impressed with you. Did you resent it or love...

• Early Life - Divine Companionship

  Early Life - Divine Companionship Campaign Setting: General You spent some time in the company of a god, exarch, or other divine influence. Do you feel more blessed than most? Do...

• Early Life - Imprisoned

  Early Life - Imprisoned Campaign Setting: General Rightly or wrongly, you were convicted of a crime and thrown in prison. How did being in prison at such a young age make you the...

• Early Life - Invited Underground

  Early Life - Invited Underground Campaign Setting: General A band of mischievous dwarves accept you into their band of troublemaking misfits for a while. Where are they now? What...

• Early Life - Isolated

  Early Life - Isolated Campaign Setting: General You were unable or not permitted to associate with many people. Was the isolation well meant or cruel? Associated Skills: Perceptio...

• Early Life - Kidnapped

  Early Life - Kidnapped Campaign Setting: General Someone took you from the life you knew to give you another one. Did you ever return? Is your kidnapper still out there? Associate...

• Early Life - Lost Everything

  Early Life - Lost Everything Campaign Setting: General A ruthless attack by monsters robbed you of all you knew. What sort of vengeance do you plan for the creatures that did this...

• Early Life - Social Outcast

  Early Life - Social Outcast Campaign Setting: General You were the butt of many jokes and treated poorly by your peers. Have you revenged yourself on your tormentors, or have you...

• Early Life - Test Subject

  Early Life - Test Subject Campaign Setting: General You were subjected to tests arcane or alchemical, probably against your will. Do you still have visible signs of the testing, s...

• Early Life - Well-Loved

  Early Life - Well-Loved Campaign Setting: General Everyone wanted to be your friend, or at least thought to be your friend. Did you resent their false attention, or did you revel...

• Earth Steward

  Earth Steward Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Dwarf It is your duty to safeguard the natural stone and be a steward for the gifts the spirits offer to your pe...

• East Rift

  East Rift Type: Campaign Campaign Setting: Forgotten Realms The East Rift consists of a country-sized shelf overlooking a cavernous abyss. Waters from various seas spill down from...

• Eladrin - Drowscarred

  Eladrin - Drowscarred Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Eladrin You carry a personal mark of an encounter with the drow—perhaps a physical scar, but more likely...

• Eladrin - Estranged Fey

  Eladrin - Estranged Fey Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Eladrin You were born in the world and never visited the Feywild before the start of your adventuring...

• Eladrin - Noble Birth

  Eladrin - Noble Birth Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Eladrin One of your parents is a noble eladrin. What was your noble parent's title? (Bralani of autumn w...

• Eldeen Reaches

  Eldeen Reaches Type: Geography Campaign Setting: Eberron A largely untamed region, the Eldeen Reaches is home to both simple farmers, practitioners of the most primal magic, frien...

• Eldritch Harlequin

  Eldritch Harlequin Type: Campaign Campaign Setting: Scales of War Adventure Path Your tie to the mysterious and fey places in the world is particularly strong. You've always been...

• Elf - Fey Ally

  Elf - Fey Ally Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Elf You are very familiar with the Feywild and have close ties to your eladrin cousins or to other fey creature...

• Elf - Urban Elf

  Elf - Urban Elf Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Elf You were raised in a city where another race was dominant. What drove your family to the city? Do your peo...

• Elf - Wild Elf

  Elf - Wild Elf Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Elf You come from a particularly wild tribe, considered primitive by other elves. Why is your tribe so isolated...

• Elfharrow

  Elfharrow Type: Campaign Campaign Setting: Forgotten Realms The Elfharrow badlands, known in prior days as the Bandit Wastes, extend as far north as the Dead Vale, as far west as...

• Embalmer

  Embalmer Type: Occupation Campaign Setting: General You prepared corpses for burial, removing organs and fluids to preserve them against rot. Was this an acceptable profession in...

• Empath

  Empath Type: Occupation Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Ardent Long before you came into your psionic powers, you had a knack for reading the emotions in other people. You...

• Enlightened Prodigy

  Enlightened Prodigy Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Kalashtar, Psionic As a child of a psychic race, it is unsurprising that you developed psionic power and c...

• Enlisted Soldier

  Enlisted Soldier Type: Occupation Campaign Setting: Eberron You served on the front lines of the Last War, shoulder to shoulder with dozens, even hundreds, of others. For years, a...

• Ennui

  Ennui Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Shadar-Kai Plagued with the pervasive despair characterizing the Shadowfell, you fill the hole in your heart with servic...

• Eternal Journey

  Eternal Journey Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Minotaur Somewhere during your quest to slay your inner beast, you became lost, unable to move back and too co...

• Eternal Seekers

  Eternal Seekers Campaign Setting: General You've been seeking something your entire life, even if you didn't initially realize what. Now that you know about your psionic abilities...

• Everwatch Conscript

  Everwatch Conscript Campaign Setting: General When you lived in Everwatch, you were part of the city milita. You learned how to handle a spear and shield well enough to stay alive...

• Exiled Survivor

  Exiled Survivor Type: Racial Campaign Setting: Dark Sun Prerequisite: Half-elf Elves often drive out a tribe member who gives birth to a half-elf child, a fate tantamount to a dea...

• Exotic Appearance

  Exotic Appearance Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Foulborn Heritage feat You possess an unusual appearance, typically involving hair, eye, or skin coloration....

• Exotic Gladiator

  Exotic Gladiator Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Dragonborn You have fought for sport—not for your own enjoyment, but for the entertainment of others. You wer...

• Experimental Prototype

  Experimental Prototype Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Warforged Legions of warforged rolled out from the creation forges, built to be ultimate soldiers. But...

• Explorer of the World

  Explorer of the World Type: Racial Campaign Setting: Dark Sun Prerequisite: Thri-kreen race The odd creatures around you are covered in soft flesh instead of chitin, and they exud...

• Explorer/Guide

  Explorer/Guide Type: Campaign Campaign Setting: Scales of War Adventure Path Ever since you saw your first map, you wanted to know what the lands beyond the margin looked like. An...

• Extra Muscle

  Extra Muscle Type: Adventurers Campaign Setting: Forgotten Realms You spent several years working as a bodyguard for a successful tarn-trader (information broker) in one of the mo...

• Failed Thane

  Failed Thane Type: Society Campaign Setting: General Once you were a leader of your people—perhaps a thaneborn barbarian using your magnetism and power to bend them to your will,...

• Fainéant Apprentice

  Fainéant Apprentice Type: Occupation Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Eladrin, warlock Despite your natural talent for magic, you never particularly cared for formal instru...

• Faith Leech

  Faith Leech Campaign Setting: General Some people put faith in these powerful creatures that call themselves gods. You are more down to earth. Ever since learning that gods can di...

• Fallen Star

  Fallen Star Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Deva A deva's transformation into a creature of evil is a terrifying experience. Rather than hold the darkness at...

• Family Tradition

  Family Tradition Type: Divine Campaign Setting: General You come from a long family line with members devoted to religion. Does the tradition of worship in your family extend to e...

• Feed the Debt

  Feed the Debt Type: Racial Campaign Setting: Dark Sun Prerequisite: Tiefling A debt hangs over you, one that can be satisfied only with blood. Before you die, you must send a wort...

• Feral Exile

  Feral Exile Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Tiefling After the fall of Bael Turath, thousands of tieflings wandered through the wild. Your ancestors discovere...

• Feral Raider

  Feral Raider Type: Racial Campaign Setting: Dark Sun Prerequisite: Goliath You were a merciless raider, plundering villages and settlements for water, food, and other supplies. Yo...

• Fervent Commander

  Fervent Commander Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Dragonborn Passion drives you. Like many dragonborn, you experience emotion deeply—you become furious, not a...

• Fey Beast Tamer

  Fey Beast Tamer Campaign Setting: General You have learned to exploit your bond with a creature from the Feywild, learning much about your own world or the workings of the fey rea...

• Fey Blood

  Fey Blood Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Follower of Corellon Some distant ancestor was an elf, eladrin, drow, or other fey humanoid. Though the generations...

• Fey Exile

  Fey Exile Type: Society Campaign Setting: General Your ancestors were rescued by the former Empress Amphaesia before the fall of Nerath and brought to the Feywild to dwell with he...

• Fey Inheritor

  Fey Inheritor Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Eladrin, Elf, Half-Elf, or Gnome, Psionic Many fey resent psionics users, feeling that they debase magic and enc...

• Fire in Your Veins

  Fire in Your Veins Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Tiefling You have traced your ancestry to House Zolfura, not that you needed dusty tomes or wrinkled sages...

• Fists of Zuoken

  Fists of Zuoken Campaign Setting: General Fists of Zuoken disciples either raised you or trained you. From an early age, you've worked to balance the needs of mind and body. You h...

• Flamescarred

  Flamescarred Type: Adventurers Campaign Setting: Forgotten Realms You had a good life in Tarmalune until the worst of all fears came to pass—a gout of fiery death delivered from t...

• Followed a Cult

  Followed a Cult Type: Divine Campaign Setting: General You participated in a cult and worshiped a false god before you saw the true path. Did you follow a mortal demagogue, or was...

• Follower of Sahemi

  Follower of Sahemi Type: House Jorasco Campaign Setting: Eberron Sahemi the Emissary is a House Jorasco half ling who came back to the House after a sojourn in the Eldeen Reaches,...

• Follower of the Great One

  Follower of the Great One Type: Racial Campaign Setting: Dark Sun Prerequisite: Thri-kreen race You experienced a potent vision—a triggered racial memory that showed you images of...

• Forest Ridge - Acclimated Trader

  Forest Ridge - Acclimated Trader Type: Geography Campaign Setting: Dark Sun You grew up as a trader dealing with the halfling tribes and were introduced to the Forest Ridge by an...

• Forest Ridge - Liberator

  Forest Ridge - Liberator Type: Geography Campaign Setting: Dark Sun Too many halflings have found themselves enslaved by the wicked sorcerer-kings, and it is time to free them at...

• Forest Ridge - Spirit Guided

  Forest Ridge - Spirit Guided Type: Geography Campaign Setting: Dark Sun The jungle spirits whisper in your dreams, warning about a coming cataclysm. Will the catastrophe affect yo...

• Forest Warden

  Forest Warden Type: Campaign Campaign Setting: Scales of War Adventure Path You regard yourself as part of the natural world—but you're the part of the natural world that nurtures...

• Forked Tongue - Merchant/Trader

  Forked Tongue - Merchant/Trader Type: Geography Campaign Setting: Dark Sun You are (or were) employed by a Forked Tongue trading post, perhaps as a local guide, as muscle for a ma...

• Forked Tongue - Ruin Gleaner

  Forked Tongue - Ruin Gleaner Type: Geography Campaign Setting: Dark Sun Countless small ruins litter the lands around the estuary. You search out the places of the ancients and pi...

• Forked Tongue - Village Speaker

  Forked Tongue - Village Speaker Type: Geography Campaign Setting: Dark Sun You come from a remote estuary village where the moods of the elemental spirits are a matter of life and...

• Former Barbarian

  Former Barbarian Type: Campaign Campaign Setting: Scales of War Adventure Path Your formative years were spent as part of an indigenous tribe of hunter-gatherers. As a nomad, you...

• Former Cult Sympathizer

  Former Cult Sympathizer Campaign Setting: General You have done terrible things, acts that still have you waking in a cold sweat more than a decade later. You had killed before an...

• Former Gladiator

  Former Gladiator Type: Campaign Campaign Setting: Scales of War Adventure Path You've grown up fighting for the amusement of the crowd. Did you seek out this life, or was it thrus...

• Fortune Teller

  Fortune Teller Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Tiefling Your talent for observation served you well as a teller of fortunes. Like the other charlatans who wor...

• Found in the Wild

  Found in the Wild Type: Birth Campaign Setting: General You were discovered wandering in the wilderness at a very young age, and you have little memory of your early past. You spe...

• Found Religion Among Others

  Found Religion Among Others Type: Divine Campaign Setting: General You gained your appreciation of your deity in a culture not your own, and you worship in a manner unfamiliar to...

• Founder

  Founder Type: Occupation Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Follower of Erathis You helped found a community. Where was it? Why was it created? You might have helped to plan...

• Foundling

  Foundling Campaign Setting: General You were abandoned in your infancy, and the compassionate one who discovered you was an instructor at the academy. Did the entire school parent...

• Free Spirit

  Free Spirit Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Halfling The ultimate symbol of primal power, to your eyes, is the ever-changing, relentless rush of water. The sp...

• Freed Slave

  Freed Slave Type: Occupation Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Follower of Sehanine You toiled under harsh masters until you were freed by one of Sehanine's champions. After...

• Freedom's Call

  Freedom's Call Type: Racial Campaign Setting: Dark Sun Prerequisite: Mul You have been a slave all your life, and you want nothing more than to be free. Who owns you? What are you...

• Friend of an Eladrin House

  Friend of an Eladrin House Type: Occupation Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Bard In your wanderings far from the mortal world, you met illustrious members of an eladrin ho...

• Frog Hunter

  Frog Hunter Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Human You are a hunter, a spearer of frogs. A steady hand and keen eye are required to bring down your elusive pre...

• Frostfell (Primal Power)

  Frostfell (Primal Power) Type: Geography Campaign Setting: General Far to the north, beyond lands even partially civilized by mortals, stretches the wintry realm of the Frostfell....

• Fugitive from a Vengeful Rival

  Fugitive from a Vengeful Rival Type: Campaign Campaign Setting: Scales of War Adventure Path You've angered someone powerful enough to make you a fugitive. Every month brings new...

• Gang Leader

  Gang Leader Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Tiefling You grew up on the streets, living on the wrong side of the law. One day something inside you changed, an...

• Genasi - Academic Exhibit

  Genasi - Academic Exhibit Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Genasi Perhaps they created you, perhaps they summoned you, or perhaps they simply found you—however...

• Genasi - Chaos Burn

  Genasi - Chaos Burn Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Genasi You spent some part of your early life in the Elemental Chaos—perhaps living in the efreets' City o...

• Geography - Desert

  Geography - Desert Type: Geography Campaign Setting: General You were raised in an arid wasteland, such as a sandy desert or rocky badlands. How did you and your family survive? D...

• Geography - Forest

  Geography - Forest Type: Geography Campaign Setting: General You were raised in a wooded region, such as a forest or a jungle. Did you survive by foraging, or were you and your fa...

• Geography - Mountains

  Geography - Mountains Type: Geography Campaign Setting: General You were raised among the cold, craggy peaks of a mountain range. How often did you visit the lowlands as you were...

• Geography - Urban

  Geography - Urban Type: Geography Campaign Setting: General You were raised in a large city. What part of the city did you grow up in? Did you stick to that area, or did you explo...

• Geography - Wetlands

  Geography - Wetlands Type: Geography Campaign Setting: General You were raised in a swamp, a river delta, or another marshy area. Which did you learn first—to walk or to swim? Do...

• Ghallanda Dawn-Builder

  Ghallanda Dawn-Builder Type: House Ghallanda Campaign Setting: Eberron You were part of Chervina the Architect's Dawn-Builder retinue, constructing new House Ghallanda enclaves fa...

• Ghallanda Enclave Guard

  Ghallanda Enclave Guard Type: House Ghallanda Campaign Setting: Eberron You were responsible for keeping everyone safe within a Ghallanda enclave, no matter what nations, Houses,...

• Ghorad'din Recruit

  Ghorad'din Recruit Type: House Kundarak Campaign Setting: Eberron You received extensive training in the arts of stealth and subterfuge from the Ghorad'din, a secretive order that...

• Ghost of Nerath

  Ghost of Nerath Type: Occupation Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Battlemind From the day you were born, you were told the tales of blood and bravery that marked the empire...

• Githzerai - Cenobite Initiate

  Githzerai - Cenobite Initiate Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Githzerai You were raised and trained in a githzerai monastery in the Elemental Chaos or in a re...

• Githzerai - War Band Survivor

  Githzerai - War Band Survivor Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Githzerai You joined a githzerai war band that either traveled to the world or originated in it....

• Gladiator - Follower of Kord

  Gladiator - Follower of Kord Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Follower of Kord You found your faith in Kord in the blood-flecked dust and the echoing cheers of the mob. It...

• Glamoured (Fey)

  Glamoured (Fey) Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Warlock Ensorcelled by a fickle patron, you were drawn into your pact against your will or better judgment. How do you rega...

• Gloaming Guardian

  Gloaming Guardian Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Elf Dusk elves protect their communities from trespass thanks to the gloaming guardians' efforts. Deadly sen...

• Gnome - Estranged Fey

  Gnome - Estranged Fey Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Gnome Your parents abandoned the Feywild before your birth and never returned. Did your family leave the...

• Gnome - Fomorian Captivity

  Gnome - Fomorian Captivity Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Gnome You were the captive of a fomorian overlord. Was your family captured, or were you born into...

• Goblin Foe

  Goblin Foe Campaign Setting: General The disgusting creatures of the goblin family (goblins, hobgoblins, and bugbears) have earned your unending enmity. Did someone close to you g...

• God Hater

  God Hater Campaign Setting: General Whether it is one god or all, you have turned against the powers of divinity. You feel the world does better without them. You found out that g...

• Gold Dwarf

  Gold Dwarf Type: Racial Campaign Setting: Neverwinter Prerequisite: Dwarf Gold dwarves have a long history of living beneath the earth and dealing with its denizens, particularly...

• Goliath - Lightlost

  Goliath - Lightlost Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Goliath Your tribe members, brought near starvation by drought, followed a mountain spring to an undergrou...

• Goliath - Skywatcher

  Goliath - Skywatcher Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Goliath You were a respected advisor to your tribe. You helped your people avoid overhunting and overharv...

• Grave Digger

  Grave Digger Type: Occupation Campaign Setting: General You dug graves and prepared gravesites for the funerary rites. How did you see your profession? Did you ever experience any...

• Gray Vale

  Gray Vale Type: Campaign Campaign Setting: Forgotten Realms Gray Vale has grown into a trade center in the North in large part due to the success of Loudwater. This small town has...

• Great Dale

  Great Dale Type: Campaign Campaign Setting: Forgotten Realms Trade has collapsed along the Great Road, leaving the defenders of Yeshelmaar as the last bastion of civilization in t...

• Green Moss Guide

  Green Moss Guide Type: Racial Prerequisite: Half-orc You have spent most of your life traveling between the lands of your people, on the tundra to the north of the Spine of the Wo...

• Grifter

  Grifter Type: Occupation Campaign Setting: General You swindle others out of their wealth through deception and misdirection. You might have been a small-time con artist, playing...

• Gritty Sergeant

  Gritty Sergeant Type: Campaign Campaign Setting: Scales of War Adventure Path You've led people into battle and had them bleed on you as they died. But many of them lived to fight...

• Guardian Contemplative

  Guardian Contemplative Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Minotaur Your people are a race of fierce warriors, but you know more effective ways to accomplish your...

• Guardian Sentinel

  Guardian Sentinel Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Minotaur Your clan once turned from the demon lord Baphomet to embrace the Philosophy of the Labyrinth. Yet...

• Guide

  Guide Type: Occupation Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Follower of Corellon You put your knowledge about the countryside to good use as a guide. Where did you work? What s...

• Guiding Hand

  Guiding Hand Campaign Setting: General Innocents and the natural world must be protected. As a recipient of the great gift of psionic power, you are obligated to shield the weak a...

• Gulg - Enlightened Seer

  Gulg - Enlightened Seer Type: Geography Campaign Setting: Dark Sun You exhibited talent in the Way and were taken from your family to study in the seer dagada. Were you equal to t...

• Gulg - Judaga

  Gulg - Judaga Type: Geography Campaign Setting: Dark Sun You were a headhunter, an esteemed warrior in your community. Because warriors make up the noble class of the dagadas, you...

• Gulg - Paper Wasp

  Gulg - Paper Wasp Type: Geography Campaign Setting: Dark Sun You were a member of the Paper Nest, a clandestine society of advisors and confidants to the sorcerer-queen. Taking th...

• Halaster's Clone

  Halaster's Clone Campaign Setting: Forgotten Realms Your time spent orienting yourself in Halaster's safe house has bolstered your knowledge of the arcane or given you some of Hal...

• Half-Elemental Refugee

  Half-Elemental Refugee Type: Campaign Campaign Setting: Dark Sun Prerequisite: Genasi Your Silt Sea enclave stood hidden for generations, safe from storm and raid. It was impervio...

• Half-Elf - Cultural Half-Elf

  Half-Elf - Cultural Half-Elf Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Half-Elf Unlike most half-elves, you were raised as part of a half-elf community. Your parents we...

• Half-Elf - Outcast

  Half-Elf - Outcast Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Half-Elf You were born in circumstances that made you unwelcome—in a community of elves where humans were h...

• Half-Elf - Wanderer

  Half-Elf - Wanderer Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Half-Elf You have never lived in one place for more than a few months at a time. Why do you travel so much...

• Half-Giant Laborer

  Half-Giant Laborer Type: Racial Campaign Setting: Dark Sun Prerequisite: Goliath You spent your life toiling for a master, using your great strength in a stone quarry or your migh...

• Half-Orc - First Generation

  Half-Orc - First Generation Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Half-Orc One of your parents was a human, and the other was an orc. What circumstances brought the...

• Half-Orc - Orc Birth

  Half-Orc - Orc Birth Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Half-Orc The child of an orc and a half-orc, you were born and spent your early years among orcs. You mig...

• Half-Orc - Stormtouched

  Half-Orc - Stormtouched Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Half-Orc Many half-orcs hold Kord in particular respect, even if they don't acknowledge him as the cre...

• Halfling - Avandra's Kiss

  Halfling - Avandra's Kiss Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Halfling Your birth was accompanied by an unusual occurrence that your family regarded as a sign of...

• Halfling - Banned

  Halfling - Banned Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Halfling You have been cast out of your community, and members of your own family are forbidden to speak to...

• Halfling - High Roller

  Halfling - High Roller Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Halfling Though you spent most of your time with the other members of your clan, you voyaged into other...

• Halfling - River Scout

  Halfling - River Scout Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Halfling You know the courses of winding rivers and the locations of churning rapids. Any expedition yo...

• Halfling - Storyteller

  Halfling - Storyteller Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Halfling You are a font of halfling folklore, able to spin fables and legends relevant to virtually any...

• Hand-For-Hire

  Hand-For-Hire Type: Adventurers Campaign Setting: Forgotten Realms As a child, you were always scrabbling for better things—good food, a nice place to sleep, clean clothes—and you...

• Harper Agent

  Harper Agent Type: Campaign Campaign Setting: Neverwinter In one sense or another, lies come more naturally to you than truth, either in the telling or the hearing. You are a diff...

• Haunted Survivor

  Haunted Survivor Type: Racial Campaign Setting: Dark Sun Prerequisite: Eladrin The ancestral realms of your people are collapsing and decaying. Every year, more and more of the La...

• Haunted Veteran

  Haunted Veteran Type: Campaign Campaign Setting: Scales of War Adventure Path You saw things in the war that no one should have to see, and the horrors of war changed your persona...

• Heartless Mercenary

  Heartless Mercenary Type: Racial Campaign Setting: Dark Sun Prerequisite: Half-elf Finding no practical line of work in your community, you resorted to less noble means to make en...

• Heaven's Weapon

  Heaven's Weapon Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Tiefling Too often tieflings wander without purpose. They seek something in the world that they cannot find wi...

• Heir of Delzoun

  Heir of Delzoun Type: Campaign Campaign Setting: Neverwinter Prerequisite: Dwarf Your study of your people's past glory—a part of daily life in all the dwarven communities that ar...

• Heir to Power

  Heir to Power Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Tiefling, Psionic From the first time your psionic power manifested, you have been consumed by the feeling that...

• Hellfire Heir

  Hellfire Heir Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Tiefling Some tieflings think of the ancient story of their race's origin as a fairytale or as events so long pa...

• Hellion

  Hellion Type: Society Campaign Setting: General You grew up on the streets and learned everything you know in filthy alleys, backroom brawls, and rooftop gang fights. As a youngst...

• Hereditary Psionics User

  Hereditary Psionics User Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Dragonborn, Psionic Several of Arkhosia's noble households boasted psionic talent and stood at the fo...

• Heretic

  Heretic Type: Divine Campaign Setting: General You worship the same god or gods as others who share your choice, but you see those deities differently. You believe some legend in...

• High Imaskar

  High Imaskar Type: Campaign Campaign Setting: Forgotten Realms High Imaskar stands on the ruins of ancient Mulhorand, a nation shattered nearly a century ago by the Spellplague, i...

• High Roller

  High Roller Type: Adventurers Campaign Setting: Forgotten Realms Fortune favors the bold, and sometime in the recent past, you took a big risk and came out ahead. Spending much of...

• Histachii

  Histachii Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Human Your golden eyes set you apart from your kin for they marked you as histachii, touched by Merrshaulk. Your kin...

• Holy Killer

  Holy Killer Type: Occupation Campaign Setting: General As a trained practitioner of deception, you have spent a good portion of your life in service to your temple as an informati...

• House of Lies

  House of Lies Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Tiefling You don't know the house from which you're descended. At least, you're not sure. Maybe it's one of the...

• Howling Plains

  Howling Plains Type: Geography Campaign Setting: General To an outsider, the leagues of grasslands seem empty, but that is far from the truth. Birds nest in the undulating stalks....

• Hulking

  Hulking Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Foulborn Heritage feat You are exceptionally large for your race. Your size doesn't change, but you might be tall, bro...

• Human - Ancestral Holdings

  Human - Ancestral Holdings Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Human Your family carried a significant noble title during the height of the empire of Nerath, but...

• Human - Heir of the Forgotten Gods

  Human - Heir of the Forgotten Gods Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Human A sign at your birth or some event in your life pointed to the influence of a god tha...

• Hunter

  Hunter Type: Racial Campaign Setting: Dark Sun Prerequisite: Halfling Your people believe that all creatures are either predator or prey, and you consider yourself to be the consu...

• Ikemmu

  Ikemmu Type: Geography Campaign Setting: General You hail from the mighty shadar-kai city of Ikemmu. With its proximity to the multiple planes, you have learned to adapt to hostil...

• Iliyanbruen Guardian

  Iliyanbruen Guardian Type: Campaign Campaign Setting: Neverwinter Prerequisite: Eladrin As a native of the Feywild, you might understand the intricacies of magic as thoroughly as...

• Imbuer

  Imbuer Type: Campaign Campaign Setting: Scales of War Adventure Path The blending of magical power with mundane objects has been your forte, and you delight in the creation of new...

• Impiltur

  Impiltur Type: Campaign Campaign Setting: Forgotten Realms Impiltur's fortunes failed when the Sea of Fallen Stars withdrew, drying up the vibrant ports of the cities that served...

• Incomplete Creation

  Incomplete Creation Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Warforged You never emerged intact from the creation forges like the others of your race. No, your “birth”...

• Indulged Scion

  Indulged Scion Campaign Setting: General You might not be a natural at the arcane arts, but you have enough money to make up the difference. While at the academy, did you live ben...

• Infernal Slave

  Infernal Slave Campaign Setting: General In exchange for hellfire's gift, the devils demand you work evil in the world. They urge you to tempt, corrupt, and destroy. If you embrac...

• Initiate of al-Shaphal

  Initiate of al-Shaphal Campaign Setting: General The Temple of Reason recruits initiates from the city's youth by scooping up preadolescents to mold their beliefs and attitudes ab...

• Inquisitive

  Inquisitive Type: Occupation Campaign Setting: Eberron For you, adventuring isn't about great wealth or fighting blatant, monstrous evils in the wild—it's about protecting society...

• Instructor's Child

  Instructor's Child Campaign Setting: General One of your parents is or was an instructor at the academy, and you spent your youth there. Were you introduced around the school and...

• Inverness Survivor

  Inverness Survivor Campaign Setting: General You were there when the ghost of Salazar Vladistone demanded single combat with Brother Splintershield, the leader of the Inverness se...

• Iron Gatekeeper

  Iron Gatekeeper Type: House Kundarak Campaign Setting: Eberron The Iron Gate, part of the Warding Guild, is a select group of dwarf guards who supplement House Kundarak's magic wa...

• Iron Mind

  Iron Mind Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Dwarf or Mul, Psionic As you learned to control your unbidden power and sought out teachings beyond the interest of...

• Isolated

  Isolated Type: Society Campaign Setting: General You have lived most of your life isolated in the wilderness, and you're unfamiliar with the customs of those who dwell in cities a...

• Isolated (Psionic)

  Isolated (Psionic) Type: Society Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Psionic You were raised in a secret society that sniffs out psionic talent, then guides its development in...

• Ivory Triangle - Beleaguered Sentry

  Ivory Triangle - Beleaguered Sentry Type: Geography Campaign Setting: Dark Sun After spending years protecting a crumbling fortress from raiders, storms, and monsters, you set out...

• Ivory Triangle - Driven Bounty Hunter

  Ivory Triangle - Driven Bounty Hunter Type: Geography Campaign Setting: Dark Sun You hunted slave and criminal alike, chasing down those on the run and bringing them back to face...

• Ivory Triangle - Hardened Traveler

  Ivory Triangle - Hardened Traveler Type: Geography Campaign Setting: Dark Sun You have crossed the Ivory Triangle more times than you can count, each trip more harrowing than the...

• Ivory Triangle - Wanted in the Seven Cities

  Ivory Triangle - Wanted in the Seven Cities Type: Geography Campaign Setting: Dark Sun You have earned a death sentence that you can't shake. With few places left for you to run,...

• Jorasco Investigator

  Jorasco Investigator Type: House Jorasco Campaign Setting: Eberron You have a keen interest in rare poisons, exotic diseases, and mysterious ailments that have no known cause. In...

• Jorasco Medic

  Jorasco Medic Type: House Jorasco Campaign Setting: Eberron House Jorasco sold its services to all the major combatants in the Last War, and you tended to wounded soldiers in the...

• Kapak Draconian

  Kapak Draconian Type: Racial Prerequisite: Dragonborn You are as slippery as a kender and as deadly as a minotaur. When you set your sights on a foe, it is as good as dead. Associ...

• Karrnath

  Karrnath Type: Geography Campaign Setting: Eberron Once the strongest bastion of the Five Nations, Karrnath suffered terribly during the Last War. A proud military tradition and a...

• Keen Senses

  Keen Senses Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Foulborn Heritage feat You have keen senses thanks to extra eyes, eyestalks, spare ears, antennae, or particularly...

• Keeper of Hate

  Keeper of Hate Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Dwarf Forgeborn dwarves rely on the Keepers of Hate to maintain the ledgers in which they record the wrongs don...

• Keeper of the Flame

  Keeper of the Flame Type: Society Campaign Setting: General For years you have tended a spark of the Flame Imperishable which burns as a beacon of hope within a shrine that still...

• Keepers of the Internal Sun

  Keepers of the Internal Sun Campaign Setting: General Nothing is more important than the acquisition and safekeeping of knowledge. If we don't understand what has come before, how...

• Khyber

  Khyber Type: Geography Campaign Setting: Eberron It is a realm without hope, without sanity, without light—but not without life. Endless darkness, crushing rock, winding corridors...

• Knife Enthusiast

  Knife Enthusiast Type: Occupation Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Sorcerer You earned your living through knife fighting matches in the seedier parts of town. Were you rai...

• Knowledge Hunter

  Knowledge Hunter Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Thri-kreen race Thri-kreen recognize that knowledge is power. Belief in the Ancestral Khanate gives the gathe...

• Kord Clan

  Kord Clan Type: Origin Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Dwarf You are a member of the Kord Clan. Were you born to the clan, or did unfortunate circumstances lead to your jo...

• Korunda Vault-Keeper

  Korunda Vault-Keeper Type: House Kundarak Campaign Setting: Eberron You spent your youth guarding the countless underground vaults below Korunda Gate, the largest enclave of House...

• Last Legionnaire

  Last Legionnaire Type: Society Campaign Setting: General You are one of the few brave soldiers left in the final struggling legions of the empire, still fighting under the imperia...

• Last of the Breed

  Last of the Breed Type: Campaign Campaign Setting: Scales of War Adventure Path You were part of an elite order of roving guardians—but they're all gone and only you remain. What...

• Last of the Clutch

  Last of the Clutch Type: Racial Campaign Setting: Dark Sun Prerequisite: Thri-kreen race As a result of battle or tragedy, the other members of your birth clutch were slain or cap...

• Last of the Line

  Last of the Line Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Tiefling You are the last remaining descendant of a noble house of Bael Turath. You have no family; every las...

• Laudable Legacy

  Laudable Legacy Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Dragonborn Your clan claims at least one notable individual member or associated family, someone who has broug...

• Lawmaker

  Lawmaker Type: Occupation Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Follower of Erathis You served as a politician or judge. The law was literally in your hands as warrants and stat...

• Lhazaar Principalities

  Lhazaar Principalities Type: Geography Campaign Setting: Eberron Lhazaar is either a wretched nation of pirates, outlaws, murderers, and brawlers, or the home of the world's best...

• Liondrake's Roar Mercenary

  Liondrake's Roar Mercenary Type: House Tharashk Campaign Setting: Eberron During the latter days of the Last War, you served with the Liondrake's Roar, a House Tharashk mercenary...

• Llewyrr Elf

  Llewyrr Elf Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Eladrin Llewyrr elves study the natural world and master arcane magic. A long-standing cooperation with the druid...

• Longbridge Local

  Longbridge Local Campaign Setting: General You grew up in Longbridge during the last days of the ice iron rush and can remember running back and forth across the river, pounding t...

• Lost Drifter

  Lost Drifter Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Mul Since gaining your freedom, you have been adrift, unable to settle down and make yourself a home. How did you...

• Lost Kin

  Lost Kin Type: Legacy of Acererak Campaign Setting: General When you were young, a beloved relative—a parent, sibling, or another family member—left with an adventuring company in...

• Lost Love

  Lost Love Type: Occupation Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Follower of Sehanine You have lost a loved one, and it had a profound impact on you. Was it a romantic partner,...

• Lucky Child

  Lucky Child Campaign Setting: General You were born when, by all rights, such a birth should have been impossible, making you either a blessing or a curse for your surprised paren...

• Luruar

  Luruar Type: Campaign Campaign Setting: Forgotten Realms The past century saw several smaller forests merge into the Glimmerwood. Although the cities of Everlund, Silverymoon, and...

• Luruar (Shifter)

  Luruar (Shifter) Type: Campaign Campaign Setting: Forgotten Realms Prerequisite: Shifter Luruar, or the Silver Marches, is a safe and friendly place to visit. Its well-maintained...

• Luskan

  Luskan Type: Campaign Campaign Setting: Forgotten Realms A mire of despair, Luskan is a city of rotting buildings and filth-choked streets. Corpses lie where they fall, and packs...

• Luskan (Shifter)

  Luskan (Shifter) Type: Campaign Campaign Setting: Forgotten Realms Prerequisite: Shifter Luskan is described by its inhabitants as the armpit of the world, and you can attest to t...

• Lyrandar Airship Sailor

  Lyrandar Airship Sailor Type: House Lyrandar Campaign Setting: Eberron You are at home on the deck of an airship, traversing the skies of Eberron. You have flown through massive t...

• Lyrandar Privateer

  Lyrandar Privateer Type: House Lyrandar Campaign Setting: Eberron You served on House Lyrandar's elemental galleons, keeping shipping routes safe from piracy and monster attacks....

• Lyrandar Raincaller

  Lyrandar Raincaller Type: House Lyrandar Campaign Setting: Eberron You traveled with a crew of raincallers, performing weather-improving rituals for landed nobles, armies, and gov...

• Mad Wanderer

  Mad Wanderer Type: Campaign Campaign Setting: Eberron Prerequisite: Follower of the Traveler Those who truly devote themselves to the ways of the Traveler roam the world, accompli...

• Maelstrom

  Maelstrom Type: Geography Campaign Setting: General The Maelstrom is a never-ending whirlpool of the sea, shrouded in constant storms, spewing thunder and mist as it inundates the...

• Magic Scholar

  Magic Scholar Type: Campaign Campaign Setting: Scales of War Adventure Path You believe that magic is the key to unlocking fundamental secrets of the universe, and you'll eagerly...

• Magpie

  Magpie Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Shifter Living in the shadows of the city, your pack learned to find treasures where others see only trash. Your skill...

• Market Thief

  Market Thief Type: Racial Campaign Setting: Dark Sun Prerequisite: Elf From your early childhood, you mastered the arts of chicanery, deceit, and petty theft. Your tribe roamed fr...

• Marshal's Deputy

  Marshal's Deputy Type: House Deneith Campaign Setting: Eberron As a Sentinel Marshal, you rode the trails with the best House Deneith has to offer, learning what you could while h...

• Martial - Bearer of the Heirloom

  Martial - Bearer of the Heirloom Campaign Setting: General You have inherited a martial heirloom that has been passed through the generations. It might be a weapon, a shield, a he...

• Martial - Disenchanted

  Martial - Disenchanted Campaign Setting: General You once had an undeniable talent for magic. You took to your arcane lessons and studied carefully, fascinated by magic. Then, pus...

• Martial - Garrison Child

  Martial - Garrison Child Campaign Setting: General You are the child of military parents who lived in a garrison. Your parents spent your youth drilling and going on patrol, so yo...

• Martial - Guild Orphan

  Martial - Guild Orphan Campaign Setting: General After you were abandoned, members of the thieves' guild took you in. You have a mastery over locks, traps, and mechanical devices...

• Martial - Local Hero

  Martial - Local Hero Campaign Setting: General You never trained in a military academy or participated in a military company. You weren't an apprentice to a master thief or a squi...

• Martial - Scion of a Legend

  Martial - Scion of a Legend Campaign Setting: General You have spent your life in the shadow of your mother's or father's martial reputation. You might be the latest descendant in...

• Masked Lord

  Masked Lord Campaign Setting: Forgotten Realms Your identity might be secret, but your duties often place you in the public eye. Years of service to Waterdeep have honed your stat...

• Memory Seeker

  Memory Seeker Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Tiefling Everyone said the decaying castle was dangerous, but what better place for adolescents to play than an...

• Mental Bastion

  Mental Bastion Type: Racial Campaign Setting: Eberron Prerequisite: Kalashtar The dual spiritual nature of your mind is abnormally strong, perhaps because you are descended from a...

• Merchant Hunter

  Merchant Hunter Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Thri-kreen race Your pack gave up the hunt for survival and undertook the hunt for wealth and, perhaps, power....

• Merchant Prince

  Merchant Prince Type: Campaign Campaign Setting: Scales of War Adventure Path You've always had a knack for mercantile affairs, and nothing pleases you more than a deal that's pro...

• Merciless Brigand

  Merciless Brigand Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Mul Freedom is sweet, but surviving is sweeter. You fled into the wilds and lived as a bandit for a time. We...

• Minotaur - Baphomet Clan Exile

  Minotaur - Baphomet Clan Exile Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Minotaur Your clan succumbed to the lies and promises of Baphomet's cultists, and all your livi...

• Minotaur - Silenced Beast

  Minotaur - Silenced Beast Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Minotaur The voice of the beast within you is silent. Its savagery has no hold over you, and its cal...

• Mirror Mind

  Mirror Mind Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Changeling, Psionic A changeling who grows up in another race's community might lack a strong sense of identity, t...

• Missing Master

  Missing Master Type: Campaign Campaign Setting: Scales of War Adventure Path Your mentor disappeared under mysterious circumstances, and you've been trying to find him or her ever...

• Missionary Life

  Missionary Life Type: Divine Campaign Setting: General You or your parents struck out into the wilds to spread the word of your god. Did you travel all over, or stay in one place...

• Mist-Touched

  Mist-Touched Type: Adulthood Campaign Setting: Eberron You have been touched, body and soul, by the dead-gray mists of the Mournland. Did you witness the Day of Mourning? Have you...

• Monastic

  Monastic Type: Society Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Psionic You lived for years in a monastery, studying, training, and learning life lessons from your masters. You mig...

• Monastic (Avandra)

  Monastic (Avandra) Type: Occupation Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Avenger The monastery defined your early life. You might have trained in a secluded temple, hidden high...

• Monastic (Bahamut)

  Monastic (Bahamut) Type: Occupation Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Avenger The monastery defined your early life. You might have trained in a secluded temple, hidden high...

• Monastic (Corellon)

  Monastic (Corellon) Type: Occupation Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Avenger The monastery defined your early life. You might have trained in a secluded temple, hidden hig...

• Monastic (Erathis)

  Monastic (Erathis) Type: Occupation Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Avenger The monastery defined your early life. You might have trained in a secluded temple, hidden high...

• Monastic (Ioun)

  Monastic (Ioun) Type: Occupation Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Avenger The monastery defined your early life. You might have trained in a secluded temple, hidden high in...

• Monastic (Kord)

  Monastic (Kord) Type: Occupation Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Avenger The monastery defined your early life. You might have trained in a secluded temple, hidden high in...

• Monastic (Melora)

  Monastic (Melora) Type: Occupation Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Avenger The monastery defined your early life. You might have trained in a secluded temple, hidden high...

• Monastic (Moradin)

  Monastic (Moradin) Type: Occupation Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Avenger The monastery defined your early life. You might have trained in a secluded temple, hidden high...

• Monastic (Pelor)

  Monastic (Pelor) Type: Occupation Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Avenger The monastery defined your early life. You might have trained in a secluded temple, hidden high i...

• Monastic (Raven Queen)

  Monastic (Raven Queen) Type: Occupation Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Avenger The monastery defined your early life. You might have trained in a secluded temple, hidden...

• Monastic (Sehanine)

  Monastic (Sehanine) Type: Occupation Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Avenger The monastery defined your early life. You might have trained in a secluded temple, hidden hig...

• Monster Hunter

  Monster Hunter Type: Campaign Campaign Setting: Scales of War Adventure Path Other people run away screaming when they see a monster. You run toward it screaming. You like testing...

• Moon Elf

  Moon Elf Type: Racial Campaign Setting: Neverwinter Prerequisite: Eladrin The widely traveled moon elves find it useful to know many languages, and to learn more about other peopl...

• Moonshae Isles

  Moonshae Isles Type: Campaign Campaign Setting: Forgotten Realms The Moonshae Isles are a land apart from the rest of Faerûn, marked by towering mountains, dark forests, and ancie...

• Moonshae Isles (Shifter)

  Moonshae Isles (Shifter) Type: Campaign Campaign Setting: Forgotten Realms Prerequisite: Shifter The Moonshae Isles hold many dangers, but few are so openly threatening as the isl...

• Moonstruck Hunter

  Moonstruck Hunter Campaign Setting: General One night, when the moon was full, you followed a spectral stag that led you deep into the wilderness. There you danced with a member o...

• Mournland (Cyre)

  Mournland (Cyre) Type: Geography Campaign Setting: Eberron Cyre is no more. The Purple Jewel of Galifar's Crown, the most beautiful and artistically advanced of the Five Nations,...

• Mror Holds

  Mror Holds Type: Geography Campaign Setting: Eberron Ancestral home to all of Khorvaire's dwarves, the Mror Holds are located in a rugged frontier region of rocky plains and cragg...

• Muscle

  Muscle Type: Occupation Campaign Setting: General The criminal's trade makes enemies as often as it makes money. To keep the law at bay and outraged marks from getting too close,...

• Myth Drannor

  Myth Drannor Type: Campaign Campaign Setting: Encounters The eladrin city-state of Myth Drannor seems like a place out of time in comparison to the human-dominated settlements of...

• Myth Drannor (FRPG)

  Myth Drannor (FRPG) Type: Campaign Campaign Setting: Forgotten Realms Several elven realms have stood in the forest of Cormanthor for thousands of years. The current incarnation o...

• Mythspeaker

  Mythspeaker Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Kalashtar Dal Quor is the region of dreams, and it holds other spirits beyond the quori. Here stories come to die...

• Naive Arrogance

  Naive Arrogance Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Warlock You know the consequences, but you are strong enough to withstand the patron's influence without corruption—or at l...

• Narfell

  Narfell Type: Campaign Campaign Setting: Forgotten Realms Wintry storms blow death into Narfell from the frigid north, and the temperatures plunge deeper each year, scouring the l...

• Narrow Way Clan

  Narrow Way Clan Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Minotaur You are a heretic—someone obscene and mad. Even your thoughts are dangerous and must not be heard. An...

• Natural - Follower of Kord

  Natural - Follower of Kord Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Follower of Kord It's not your fault you were born the biggest and the strongest. You don't exercise. Strength h...

• Natural Chameleon

  Natural Chameleon Type: Racial Campaign Setting: Eberron Prerequisite: Changeling During your youth, you were forced to hide rather than rely on your ability to change shape, and...

• Nature's Protector

  Nature's Protector Type: Racial Campaign Setting: Dark Sun Prerequisite: Halfling You commit your life to protecting the few natural resources left in the world. Is this task inhe...

• Necromancer's Chattel

  Necromancer's Chattel Type: Legacy of Acererak Campaign Setting: General The Bleak Academy keeps a stable of living slaves to murder and animate as undead when they come of age. L...

• Nelanther Isles

  Nelanther Isles Type: Campaign Campaign Setting: Forgotten Realms Born from the swelling trade routes between the Sword Coast and southern mercantile centers, the Nelanther Isles...

• Netheril

  Netheril Type: Campaign Campaign Setting: Forgotten Realms The Empire of Netheril has been reborn, thanks to the return of its residents from their centuries-long exile in the Sha...

• Neverwinter Noble

  Neverwinter Noble Type: Campaign Campaign Setting: Neverwinter Prerequisite: Human You are well versed in a particular subject appropriate to a young noble scion. Perhaps you spen...

• Nibenay - Gifted Dancer

  Nibenay - Gifted Dancer Type: Geography Campaign Setting: Dark Sun The Nibenese see dance as their gift to the world. The dramatic liaka-ih style features whirling dancers in veil...

• Nibenay - Walker of the Exalted Path

  Nibenay - Walker of the Exalted Path Type: Geography Campaign Setting: Dark Sun The monasteries of the Exalted Path teach their students to accept authority and endure its excesse...

• Nightmares of Defiling

  Nightmares of Defiling Type: Campaign Campaign Setting: Dark Sun During the Cleansing Wars, the sorcerer-kings systematically exterminated many of the races that dwelt on Athas. T...

• Noble Bred for War

  Noble Bred for War Type: Campaign Campaign Setting: Scales of War Adventure Path You're part of a noble family with an ancestral mandate to safeguard the lands in your care. Often...

• Noble Scion

  Noble Scion Type: Campaign Campaign Setting: Scales of War Adventure Path You grew up as one of the best and brightest, having access to more training and more opportunity than an...

• Noble's Guard

  Noble's Guard Type: Racial Campaign Setting: Dark Sun Prerequisite: Goliath You served in the war band or palace guard of a great noble. In which city-state did you serve? Was you...

• Oathbound Death-Seeker

  Oathbound Death-Seeker Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Dwarf You have sworn an oath to your ancestors to avenge some wrong done to your people, and you let yo...

• Oathbound Fellow

  Oathbound Fellow Campaign Setting: General You belonged to one of the school's serious secret societies. Do you maintain secret contact with your fellows in sworn secrecy? Does th...

• Occupation - Artisan

  Occupation - Artisan Type: Occupation Campaign Setting: General You had a skilled occupation dedicated to a particular craft, such as baking, blacksmithing, carpentry, or cobbling...

• Occupation - Bounty Hunter

  Occupation - Bounty Hunter Type: Occupation Campaign Setting: General You hunted down fugitives from justice, tracking them down and bringing them in for the rewards on their head...

• Occupation - Criminal

  Occupation - Criminal Type: Occupation Campaign Setting: General You lived on the wrong side of the law. What sorts of crimes did you commit? Did you enter a life of crime by nece...

• Occupation - Entertainer

  Occupation - Entertainer Type: Occupation Campaign Setting: General You were a dancer, a singer, an acrobat, a storyteller, or another kind of performer. Were you a solo entertain...

• Occupation - Executioner

  Occupation - Executioner Type: Occupation Campaign Setting: General You were the hand of justice—an executioner charged with dispatching the guilty. Did you enjoy this work or did...

• Occupation - Farmer

  Occupation - Farmer Type: Occupation Campaign Setting: General You worked on a farm, learning the ways of the natural world. Did you raise livestock, crops, or both? Did your farm...

• Occupation - Foe Killer

  Occupation - Foe Killer Type: Occupation Campaign Setting: General You fought and killed your people's enemies. What sorts of creatures do you define as enemies of your people? Do...

• Occupation - Guerrilla

  Occupation - Guerrilla Type: Occupation Campaign Setting: General You fought for an oppressed people, working in the shadows to free them from their oppressors. Were your people c...

• Occupation - Hired Killer

  Occupation - Hired Killer Type: Occupation Campaign Setting: General You killed people for a living. Were there jobs you wouldn't take? What led you to this line of work? How did...

• Occupation - Hunter

  Occupation - Hunter Type: Occupation Campaign Setting: General You are a skilled hunter. Did you hunt animals or monsters? Did you hunt to support a family or were you a loner? Wh...

• Occupation - Infiltrator

  Occupation - Infiltrator Type: Occupation Campaign Setting: General You infiltrated enemy ranks, working from within to ferret out secrets or disrupt plans. Who did you work for?...

• Occupation - Mariner

  Occupation - Mariner Type: Occupation Campaign Setting: General You worked aboard a ship. Was it a river boat or a sailing ship? Were you a deckhand, a pilot, a marine, or an offi...

• Occupation - Merchant

  Occupation - Merchant Type: Occupation Campaign Setting: General You were engaged in the buying and selling of goods. What kinds of goods did you buy or sell? Were you an honest m...

• Occupation - Military

  Occupation - Military Type: Occupation Campaign Setting: General You served in a military organization, such as an army or a city guard. Were you conscripted, or did you volunteer...

• Occupation - Mystic Slayer

  Occupation - Mystic Slayer Type: Occupation Campaign Setting: General You were a trained killer who focused on eliminating magical or magic-using targets. For whom did you work? H...

• Occupation - Poison Master

  Occupation - Poison Master Type: Occupation Campaign Setting: General You were a master of poisons. How did you learn this trade? What sorts of enemies did you use poison against?...

• Occupation - Punisher

  Occupation - Punisher Type: Occupation Campaign Setting: General You were wronged at a point in the past and you worked for revenge, perhaps turning to a life of punishing similar...

• Occupation - Revolutionary

  Occupation - Revolutionary Type: Occupation Campaign Setting: General You fomented rebellion in your homeland. What sort of government did you fight? What sorts of crimes and inju...

• Occupation - Scholar

  Occupation - Scholar Type: Occupation Campaign Setting: General Your life once revolved around knowledge. What area of scholarship was your domain? Were you a teacher or a scribe,...

• Occupation - Thief

  Occupation - Thief Type: Occupation Campaign Setting: General You were a thief. Were you a cutpurse, a burglar, a grifter, or something else? Were you driven to thievery by necess...

• Occupation - Thug

  Occupation - Thug Type: Occupation Campaign Setting: General You were a thug, such as an enforcer, a tough, or a bodyguard. Did you work for anyone? If so, who? What sorts of miss...

• Occupation - Zealous Slayer

  Occupation - Zealous Slayer Type: Occupation Campaign Setting: General You had a revelation from the gods, or you think you did, and saw it as your life's work to destroy the enem...

• Officer Who Came Out of Retirement

  Officer Who Came Out of Retirement Type: Campaign Campaign Setting: Scales of War Adventure Path You gave up a life in the army or the city watch long ago, but somehow you wound u...

• Oghma's Faithful

  Oghma's Faithful Type: Campaign Campaign Setting: Neverwinter Worship of Oghma demands a studious interest in learning and an inquisitive spirit. The way these traits manifest in...

• On the Run from the Devil

  On the Run from the Devil Type: Campaign Campaign Setting: Scales of War Adventure Path You've made an eldritch bargain, but you no longer like the terms. Accordingly, you're tryi...

• Orc Slayer

  Orc Slayer Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Dwarf All forgeborn warriors must contend with the elemental corruption inside them, but not all are so successful...

• Order of the Golden Cup

  Order of the Golden Cup Type: Geography Campaign Setting: Forgotten Realms Prerequisite: Human Though they're no longer permitted to worship in the open, Ilmataran faith remains s...

• Orien Courier

  Orien Courier Type: House Orien Campaign Setting: Eberron You took part in delivering time-sensitive or high-risk parcels for House Orien, including diplomatic packets, rare magic...

• Orien Smuggler

  Orien Smuggler Type: House Orien Campaign Setting: Eberron You work in the part of the house that doesn't officially exist—those who use the Mark of Passage to pass through border...

• Orphan of the Gibbering Massacre

  Orphan of the Gibbering Massacre Type: Origin Campaign Setting: General You became aware that you were different from a young age. Perhaps your parents flinched in fear when you t...

• Ostracized

  Ostracized Type: Society Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Psionic Many characters born with psionic talent find the guidance, comfort, and understanding that allows them to...

• Out for Revenge

  Out for Revenge Type: Divine Campaign Setting: General You follow your god not because you believe in what the god stands for, but because you and your deity have a common enemy....

• Pack Outcast

  Pack Outcast Type: Campaign Campaign Setting: Neverwinter Prerequisite: Human or shifter Having been raised in the wild and thus possessing all the instincts of the wolf, you have...

• Pact

  Pact Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Revenant You forged a pact with the Raven Queen when you lived, promising to serve her in death in exchange for a benefit...

• Padding Wolf

  Padding Wolf Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Human You were a scout for Wolfstone, sent out onto the glacier to ascertain enemy movements, numbers, and suppli...

• Paranoid Manipulator

  Paranoid Manipulator Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Drow, Psionic In a society built on betrayal, secrets, deception, and murder, the ability to tap into tho...

• Parentage - Cult Raised

  Parentage - Cult Raised Type: Birth Campaign Setting: General An abyssal cult purchased you to raise as one of their own, possibly to use as a weapon someday. Did you resist your...

• Parentage - Draconic Adoption

  Parentage - Draconic Adoption Type: Birth Campaign Setting: General You were adopted by a dragon. What sort of dragon was it, and how did it treat you? Associated Skills: Arcana A...

• Parentage - Ill-Omened

  Parentage - Ill-Omened Type: Birth Campaign Setting: General When you were born, the moon turned red or birds died mid-flight and fell from the sky. Do the omens still strike you?...

• Parentage - Immortal Guardians

  Parentage - Immortal Guardians Type: Birth Campaign Setting: General Angels raised you for a higher purpose, though whether you were taken from or given by your parents is a myste...

• Parentage - Impoverished

  Parentage - Impoverished Type: Birth Campaign Setting: General Your parents were dirt poor and couldn't provide you with a thing. Did you resolve to do better for yourself or for...

• Parentage - Minstrel Family

  Parentage - Minstrel Family Type: Birth Campaign Setting: General Your family traveled and performed for your supper. Now that you have moved on, how is the troupe getting on? Ass...

• Parentage - Monk Business

  Parentage - Monk Business Type: Birth Campaign Setting: General The quiet people of a monastery raised you and taught you their ways. Are you still in touch with the monks, and wh...

• Parentage - Noble

  Parentage - Noble Type: Birth Campaign Setting: General You were born into a family of wealth and power. Which great family is it, and what is the source of their wealth? Associat...

• Parentage - Orphan

  Parentage - Orphan Type: Birth Campaign Setting: General You were left in an orphanage with no trace of your parents. Have you sought information regarding your lineage? Associate...

• Parentage - Raised by Wolves

  Parentage - Raised by Wolves Type: Birth Campaign Setting: General You crawled, then ran, with a pack of wild animals. Do you have great respect for the beasts, or are you putting...

• Penitent

  Penitent Type: Divine Campaign Setting: General You did something you're not proud of, a crime that still haunts your thoughts. What did you do? Were you a worshiper of your god w...

• People of the Gold Dragon

  People of the Gold Dragon Type: Society Campaign Setting: General You come from a tribe of primal barbarians conquered by Magroth after he slew Ayunken-vanzen and lit the Flame Im...

• Perfect Recollection

  Perfect Recollection Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Revenant You awoke in death with a perfect memory of who you once were, the people you cared for, and all...

• Persecuted

  Persecuted Type: Occupation Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Follower of Sehanine You lived under a regime that hunted those like you. Was it because of your race or faith?...

• Phiarlan Archivist

  Phiarlan Archivist Type: House Phiarlan Campaign Setting: Eberron The headquarters of House Phiarlan's Demesne of Memory in Fairhaven has a library containing much of the intellig...

• Pivotal Event - Amazing Creation

  Pivotal Event - Amazing Creation Campaign Setting: General Your research bore fruit, and everyone wants a taste. The magic item or ritual you created has been stolen, or people wa...

• Pivotal Event - Divine Decree

  Pivotal Event - Divine Decree Campaign Setting: General A god or godly envoy gave you a quest, which you dare not refuse. Who was it, and how much progress have you made since the...

• Pivotal Event - Escape

  Pivotal Event - Escape Campaign Setting: General You managed to escape from your previous life, which might have been miserable or just stifling. Whom did you leave behind, where...

• Pivotal Event - Murder

  Pivotal Event - Murder Campaign Setting: General Tragedy—and a villain—took the life of a family member or close friend. Who died, and what do you wish you'd told that person? Did...

• Pivotal Event - Portal Mishap

  Pivotal Event - Portal Mishap Campaign Setting: General You were teleported across the world to an unfamiliar place far from home. Did you return home, or are you still in that di...

• Pivotal Event - Possession

  Pivotal Event - Possession Campaign Setting: General You spent a period possessed by a demon, unable to prevent the atrocities it committed with your body. Are you trying to corre...

• Pivotal Event - Transformation

  Pivotal Event - Transformation Campaign Setting: General A magical accident transformed you into another creature. (You might still be that creature if it is a PC race.) What is y...

• Pivotal Event - Unwholesome Journey

  Pivotal Event - Unwholesome Journey Campaign Setting: General The Far Realm claimed you, and you wandered there for a time. Did your time there make you stronger of mind, or weake...

• Pivotal Event - You Die

  Pivotal Event - You Die Campaign Setting: General You died, either through foul play or by accident, and some person or event brought you back to life. Do you know what returned y...

• Pivotal Event - You Kill

  Pivotal Event - You Kill Campaign Setting: General Through accident, error, or misbegotten intention, you were responsible for the death of an ally, friend, or loved one. Who was...

• Pledged Scout

  Pledged Scout Type: Occupation Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Follower of Sehanine You found Sehanine's teachings to your liking from an early age, and after your coming-...

• Political Rebel

  Political Rebel Type: Campaign Campaign Setting: Scales of War Adventure Path You struggle against political injustice. Perhaps the nobles are oppressing the serfs, the church is...

• Primal Fey

  Primal Fey Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Eladrin or Gnome The primal spirits inhabit and protect the natural world. The echo planes—the Feywild and the Shad...

• Primal Omen

  Primal Omen Type: Birth Campaign Setting: General Great Watcher sent signs to herald your birth: patterns in the sky or in the flights of birds, whispers in the leaves of the fore...

• Primal Soul

  Primal Soul Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Genasi Many genasi gravitate toward the places in the world that reflect the elemental nature of their own being;...

• Prison Conversion

  Prison Conversion Type: Campaign Campaign Setting: Scales of War Adventure Path You did something bad enough to result in your imprisonment, but while there, your life changed. Up...

• Prophecy Sage

  Prophecy Sage Type: House Sivis Campaign Setting: Eberron House Sivis tries to keep track of the Draconic Prophecy, and you were part of that effort. You took part in diplomatic m...

• Prophesied Master

  Prophesied Master Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Tiefling Portents presaged your birth, and arcane forces gathered to welcome you into the world. You are the...

• Prophetic Sanctification

  Prophetic Sanctification Type: Occupation Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Cleric You have preternatural insight that frequently leads you to find omens in events that seem...

• Protégé of the Circle

  Protégé of the Circle Type: Occupation Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Avenger A citizen of a large city, you were secretly selected by avengers of the Unbroken Circle to...

• Provincial Renegade

  Provincial Renegade Type: Society Campaign Setting: General Nerath is dead, and if you have anything to say about it, it'll stay that way. As a citizen of a former rebellious prov...

• Psiforged

  Psiforged Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Warforged You are warforged, but you are different from other members of your race. You have an unusual awareness—an...

• Psionic Academy Dropout

  Psionic Academy Dropout Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Tiefling Your parents recognized your natural talents before you could walk. Some called your unusual...

• Psionic Artifice

  Psionic Artifice Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Warforged, Psionic For reasons unknown, you emerged from the creation forge with powers that marked you as a...

• Psionic Descendant

  Psionic Descendant Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Human You claim descent from a great psionic hero who fought against aliens from the Far Realm long ago. Wh...

• Psychic Hunter

  Psychic Hunter Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Shifter, Psionic You come from a clan of shifters that dwells far from civilized regions. Your people have refu...

• Purified Soul

  Purified Soul Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Deva You fell from grace and lived many lifetimes as a rakshasa. For some reason, a god intervened and lifted yo...

• Q'barra

  Q'barra Type: Geography Campaign Setting: Eberron A wild land of untamed frontiers extends beyond the Endworld Mountains. Here, fugitives from the Last War found an unclaimed regi...

• Quori Nightmare

  Quori Nightmare Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Kalashtar Although she does not dream, the quori nightmare can touch the dreams of others. She hears the whisp...

• Raam - Badna Dedicate

  Raam - Badna Dedicate Type: Geography Campaign Setting: Dark Sun The Badna priesthood maintains innumerable shrines and leads the people in prayers to the elusive god who chose Ab...

• Raam - Dedicated Rebel

  Raam - Dedicated Rebel Type: Geography Campaign Setting: Dark Sun You fight alongside other disaffected citizens, battling the templars and mansabdars to oust Abalach-Re and right...

• Raam - Honest Mansabdar

  Raam - Honest Mansabdar Type: Geography Campaign Setting: Dark Sun The mansabdars, ostensibly charged with enforcing the laws of Raam, are thugs and criminals more interested in t...

• Racial Devotee

  Racial Devotee Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Changeling You have chosen to imitate a race because you idealize the race or think that it best represents you...

• Raised

  Raised Type: Psychology Campaign Setting: General You died and were restored to life. What were the circumstances of your death? Who raised you? Why did you come back? Do you reca...

• Raised as Another

  Raised as Another Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Changeling Your changeling parents wore the guise of another race and have passed that on to you. You might...

• Raised by Wild Beasts

  Raised by Wild Beasts Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Tiefling Like too many other unfortunate tiefling children, your parents left you to die in the wild. Ye...

• Raised in the Unseen Path

  Raised in the Unseen Path Campaign Setting: General Although some rangers come to the Unseen Path when their adventuring career has already begun, others develop their abilities b...

• Rashemen (Shifter)

  Rashemen (Shifter) Type: Campaign Campaign Setting: Forgotten Realms Prerequisite: Shifter Rashemen is a land of stories. Village elders draw children close to the fire, not with...

• Reaver

  Reaver Campaign Setting: General You were raised from birth to withstand the heartless weather of your homeland and to greet your enemies with utter savagery—the kind of brutality...

• Rebel

  Rebel Type: Occupation Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Follower of Bahamut You fought against a corrupt regime to end its tyrannical ways. Were you part of a larger organi...

• Recent Convert

  Recent Convert Type: Campaign Campaign Setting: Scales of War Adventure Path You weren't always the religious sort. But you recently had a supernatural experience that changed you...

• Recent Life - Demon-Hunter

  Recent Life - Demon-Hunter Campaign Setting: General You traveled the world, hunting demons and forcing them back into the Abyss where you could. How many notches are on your belt...

• Recent Life - Explorer of the Ancient

  Recent Life - Explorer of the Ancient Campaign Setting: General The rich history and great treasures of lost civilizations attracted your attention and your effort. How did you sp...

• Recent Life - Fighting Undead

  Recent Life - Fighting Undead Campaign Setting: General Servants of a great necromancer plagued the land, and you fought the threat. Has it been defeated? Associated Skills: Relig...

• Recent Life - Freeing Slaves

  Recent Life - Freeing Slaves Campaign Setting: General You were working to abolish the slave trade within a local community. Did you succeed? Associated Skills: Diplomacy, Thiever...

• Recent Life - Lost in the Feywild

  Recent Life - Lost in the Feywild Campaign Setting: General After stepping through a portal to the Feywild, you were unable to find your way back. How did you finally return? Asso...

• Recent Life - Mercenary Work

  Recent Life - Mercenary Work Campaign Setting: General The money was good enough to justify taking continued employment as a paid soldier. What contacts do you retain from that ti...

• Recent Life - Peaceful Life

  Recent Life - Peaceful Life Campaign Setting: General You chose a quiet life of farming, keeping a shop, or running the family business. What ended that period for you? Associated...

• Recent Life - Spreading the Word

  Recent Life - Spreading the Word Campaign Setting: General Wherever you have gone, you have done the work of your deity. Have you won converts or made enemies? Associated Skills:...

• Recent Life - Teambuilding Exercise

  Recent Life - Teambuilding Exercise Campaign Setting: General You were traveling in search of allies. Did you find anyone before your current group, and was there something specif...

• Recent Life - Valued Prisoner

  Recent Life - Valued Prisoner Campaign Setting: General You were one of a few prisoners kept in good health because of information you possessed. What did you know, and did you sp...

• Reclaimed Birthright

  Reclaimed Birthright Type: Campaign Campaign Setting: Dark Sun Prerequisite: Genasi You are fascinated by the lorekeepers' stories, and the more you learned, the more you felt you...

• Reclusive Mystic

  Reclusive Mystic Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Elf You have retreated from the world's distractions to contemplate existence's meaning in isolation. Your se...

• Red Pilgrim

  Red Pilgrim Type: Society Campaign Setting: General Through trials of blood you have survived the red pilgrimage, a journey only the bravest or most foolhardy Nerathi descendants...

• Redeemer of the Desecrated

  Redeemer of the Desecrated Campaign Setting: General Holy sites deserve respect and require protection. Across the world, especially amid ruins and in the lairs of monsters, divin...

• Redemption

  Redemption Type: Occupation Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Follower of Bahamut You spent your life as a slave to darkness. What sort of wicked deeds did you perform? What...

• Redemption Seeker

  Redemption Seeker Type: Campaign Campaign Setting: Scales of War Adventure Path Somewhere in your past, you behaved less than honorably. Perhaps it was a moment of ill-considered...

• Reformed Villain

  Reformed Villain Campaign Setting: General Although you have repented for your wickedness, your crimes and vile acts haunt you still. What did you do to qualify as a villain? What...

• Refugee

  Refugee Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Halfling Maybe an orc horde rampaged through your valley or a militant dragonborn army marched on the nearby kingdom o...

• Refugee (Eberron Player's Guide)

  Refugee (Eberron Player's Guide) Type: Adulthood Campaign Setting: Eberron Your home is gone, destroyed in the Last War, or perhaps annexed by a nation whose oversight you refuse...

• Refugee (Primal Power)

  Refugee (Primal Power) Type: Birth Campaign Setting: General You were once a champion among your people, but your life changed when your community was attacked by trolls. You foug...

• Refused Admittance

  Refused Admittance Campaign Setting: General Despite your natural talent and early skill, the dean of students turned you away, yet you still learned from the academy. Did you pur...

• Rejected Inheritance

  Rejected Inheritance Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Tiefling Many tieflings grow up knowing only a handful of their own kind. You weren't so fortunate. Your...

• Reluctant Pawn of Tiamat

  Reluctant Pawn of Tiamat Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Dragonborn Your divine powers come from Tiamat, but it hardly seems fair to say you worship the evil...

• Remnant Legacy (Vestige)

  Remnant Legacy (Vestige) Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Warlock You claim ancestry or influence from a vestige. Are you fixated by tasks left undone by vestiges? You migh...

• Renegade

  Renegade Type: Occupation Campaign Setting: General You have spent many years walking the roads, and though many know you, few know your origin. You are the lone survivor of a mys...

• Renegade Mercenary

  Renegade Mercenary Type: Racial Campaign Setting: Dark Sun Prerequisite: Halfling You have turned away from the old ways, abandoning your people to find your fortune in the lowlan...

• Renegade Red Wizard

  Renegade Red Wizard Type: Campaign Campaign Setting: Neverwinter Prerequisite: Wizard (mage) You might have gravitated toward an aspect of your training as a Red Wizard, learning...

• Restless Dead

  Restless Dead Type: Legacy of Acererak Campaign Setting: General Undead horrors stalk the countryside in your homeland, preying on the living and staining the land with their evil...

• Resurrectionist

  Resurrectionist Campaign Setting: General You are truly devoted, to the point that you actively seek to bring back to life the powers to which you pray. Returning a dead god to li...

• Revered Elder

  Revered Elder Type: Occupation Campaign Setting: General You are no brash youth embarking on a life of adventure before settling into a respectable adulthood. Your younger days ar...

• Ringing Mountains - Isolated Monastery

  Ringing Mountains - Isolated Monastery Type: Geography Campaign Setting: Dark Sun You were raised in one of the monasteries or shrines hidden in the high vales. There you trained...

• Ringing Mountains - Mountain Tribe

  Ringing Mountains - Mountain Tribe Type: Geography Campaign Setting: Dark Sun Your people were hill folk: herders, mountaineers, and sometimes raiders. Life was hard but free—the...

• Ringing Mountains - Prospector

  Ringing Mountains - Prospector Type: Geography Campaign Setting: Dark Sun A handful of tough, resourceful miners eke out a living in the Ringing Mountains by digging for metal dep...

• River Guardian

  River Guardian Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Halfling You have trained in the Flowing River, a fighting style devised by your people. On mastering the art,...

• River Smuggler

  River Smuggler Type: Campaign Campaign Setting: Scales of War Adventure Path You've plied the rivers and coastlines of the world, making a little money on official cargo and a lot...

• Road of Kings - Druid Initiate

  Road of Kings - Druid Initiate Type: Geography Campaign Setting: Dark Sun You studied under a guardian druid who protected a rare oasis, spring, or place of the spirits in the des...

• Road of Kings - Failed Merchant

  Road of Kings - Failed Merchant Type: Geography Campaign Setting: Dark Sun Catastrophe brought your enterprise to ruin. Were you affiliated with a merchant house? Does this house...

• Road of Kings - Yaramite Descendant

  Road of Kings - Yaramite Descendant Type: Geography Campaign Setting: Dark Sun Once your people called the ruined city-state of Yaramuke home. When Hamanu of Urik destroyed your c...

• Rogue Scholar

  Rogue Scholar Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Tiefling Others might have learned their magic in stuffy schools or from learned masters, but you're self-taught...

• Runaway

  Runaway Type: Occupation Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Follower of Sehanine You are on the run from a harsh authority. Did you commit an actual crime, or were you falsel...

• Sage

  Sage Type: Occupation Campaign Setting: General You have dedicated your life to a careful study of nature, learning its cycles and rhythms. You see the world in a very different w...

• Salvation

  Salvation Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Shadar-Kai All shadar-kai face oblivion, because that is the price exacted by the Raven Queen for being spared age a...

• Sand Raider

  Sand Raider Type: Racial Campaign Setting: Dark Sun Prerequisite: Elf Life in the desert is hard. You come from a tribe of nomadic herders, a desert people who must move from plac...

• Sandstorm Caller

  Sandstorm Caller Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Dragonborn Your clan inhabits a remote and harsh wilderness, such as a stormy desert, and strives to live in...

• Sarifal

  Sarifal Type: Regional Campaign Setting: Forgotten Realms Sarifal's borders encompass the large isle of Gwynneth, once home to the human realm of Corwell. Those longtime settlers...

• Sarifal Feywarden

  Sarifal Feywarden Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Any fey race but drow The fey of Sarifal are uniquely attuned to the world around them. They have a Feywild connection th...

• Sarlona

  Sarlona Type: Geography Campaign Setting: Eberron Torn by ages of war, paranoia, rampant magic, and human exodus, Sarlona is a continent deeply affected by the ravages of the past...

• Saved from the Noose

  Saved from the Noose Campaign Setting: General Only the timely intervention of the headmaster, who saw your astounding natural talent, saved you from execution. Was the sentence d...

• Scholarship Student

  Scholarship Student Campaign Setting: General You never thought you'd have a chance at schooling because of the cost, but the scholarship makes it affordable. Barely. Did you envy...

• Scholastic Stowaway

  Scholastic Stowaway Campaign Setting: General You never enrolled at the academy at all, instead hiding in the tunnels and unused classrooms to spy on lessons. Were you ever discov...

• School of Unmatched Excellence

  School of Unmatched Excellence Campaign Setting: General As a psionics user, it is your right and responsibility to govern mortals who lack psionic abilities—even if they do not w...

• Scion of an Ancient Bloodline

  Scion of an Ancient Bloodline Type: Campaign Campaign Setting: Scales of War Adventure Path Your circumstances might be reduced at the moment, but the nigh-mythical sorcerer-kings...

• Scion of Blood

  Scion of Blood Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Tiefling You are a member of House Kahlir. You know this because one of your ancestors came to you and told you...

• Scion of Patricians

  Scion of Patricians Type: Society Campaign Setting: General You're of noble blood and descended through an unbroken Nerathi pedigree. You grew up with stories of your ancestors' w...

• Scion of Shadow

  Scion of Shadow Type: Campaign Campaign Setting: Neverwinter Prerequisite: Human, shadar-kai, or shade As one of the Shadovar, you are most at home in the darkness, and you might...

• Scion of the Granite Tower

  Scion of the Granite Tower Type: Geography Campaign Setting: Forgotten Realms Prerequisite: Human or Half-Elf As blood scion of Bodvar the Black, you are charged with the defense...

• Scorned Noble

  Scorned Noble Type: Campaign Campaign Setting: Scales of War Adventure Path You grew up as one of the best and brightest, but what happened to send you away from your life of priv...

• Sea Chaplain

  Sea Chaplain Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Follower of Melora You have lived a stone's throw from the sea your entire life, learning its secrets. For as long as you can...

• Sea Dog - Follower of Kord

  Sea Dog - Follower of Kord Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Follower of Kord Every sailor worth his salt prays to Kord from time to time. To do otherwise is to invite his s...

• Sea of Dust

  Sea of Dust Type: Geography Campaign Setting: General The Sea of Dust was once a verdant land, destroyed by unchecked magic in a storm of hatred and destruction. The power release...

• Sea of Silt - Archipelagan

  Sea of Silt - Archipelagan Type: Geography Campaign Setting: Dark Sun You grew up in one of the tiny villages hidden among the mudflats of the remote coasts. Most Athasians fear s...

• Sea of Silt - Silt Pirate

  Sea of Silt - Silt Pirate Type: Geography Campaign Setting: Dark Sun Small, vicious crews of silt pirates lurk along the lonelier coasts, preying on silt skimmers loaded with trad...

• Seducer

  Seducer Type: Campaign Campaign Setting: Scales of War Adventure Path You can't keep away from romantic liaisons with the attractive and the alluring. And after practice, you're g...

• Seeker for the Lost Clan

  Seeker for the Lost Clan Type: Campaign Campaign Setting: Scales of War Adventure Path Some say you are the last of your breed, but you don't think so. Although your family is gon...

• Seeker of Illefarn

  Seeker of Illefarn Type: Campaign Campaign Setting: Neverwinter Prerequisite: Eladrin, elf, half-elf You grew up in the wilder parts of the North and have learned the value of sel...

• Seeker of Rumor

  Seeker of Rumor Campaign Setting: General You managed to locate and then studied at the Hidden Academy, Rumor, the magical university believed by many to not even exist. By tailor...

• Seeking Penitence

  Seeking Penitence Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Warlock Long is the list of your transgressions, but your patron represents a chance to wash away the stains of a sordid...

• Seeking Redemption

  Seeking Redemption Type: Racial Campaign Setting: Dark Sun Prerequisite: Tiefling Killing others to settle your debt only reinforces the evil that stains your soul. There must be...

• Seer

  Seer Type: Occupation Campaign Setting: General You peered through time's veil to perceive the future and learn the fates of those around you. Were you a fake, or did you have a g...

• Seer (Psionic)

  Seer (Psionic) Type: Occupation Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Psionic Strange dreams have regularly troubled your rest, some more peculiar than others. These dreams were...

• Self-Improvement Expert

  Self-Improvement Expert Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Warforged When your joints squeak or a connecting fiber tears, you could fix it easily. But why not re...

• Sellsword

  Sellsword Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Tiefling Mercenary isn't quite the right word. It sounds too formal, too militaristic. No, you worked for a living,...

• Sembia (Shifter)

  Sembia (Shifter) Type: Campaign Campaign Setting: Forgotten Realms Prerequisite: Shifter Many Sembians focus on maintaining appearances. Others remain watchful for weakness or sig...

• Sentry

  Sentry Type: Occupation Campaign Setting: General You have served as a sentry on the far-flung borders of some realm or region. You received martial training to equip you with the...

• Servant of the Light

  Servant of the Light Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Kalashtar The renegade quori were driven from Dal Quor because of their faith in the Path of Light, and t...

• Sewer Wretch

  Sewer Wretch Campaign Setting: General Your family was poor, and you grew up in the Graves. There you learned to hunt rats, scavenge, and thieve to survive. You also encountered t...

• Shadow Acrobat

  Shadow Acrobat Type: House Phiarlan Campaign Setting: Eberron You were part of the traveling troupe known as the Carnival of Shadows, a group of dancers, acrobats, and musicians w...

• Shadow Marches

  Shadow Marches Type: Geography Campaign Setting: Eberron A land of fetid marshes and biting insects, primitive tribes and slithering serpents, the Shadow Marches is a region the r...

• Shadowdale

  Shadowdale Type: Campaign Campaign Setting: Encounters You're a native of Shadowdale, well familiar with the stories of drow invasions from under Old Skull. Your homeland shows fe...

• Shard of Io

  Shard of Io Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Dragonborn The divine power you wield is a tiny fragment of Io's own power—a mote of divine light that emerged fro...

• Shardmind - God Shard

  Shardmind - God Shard Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Shardmind You believe that each shardmind must seek to acquire as much personal power as possible. Since...

• Shardmind - Shard Slayer

  Shardmind - Shard Slayer Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Shardmind You believe that when a shardmind dies, its animating life force returns to the site of the...

• Shardmind - Thought Builder

  Shardmind - Thought Builder Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Shardmind You seek to create a new Living Gate and to imbue it with the psionic power necessary to...

• Sharn

  Sharn Type: Geography Campaign Setting: Eberron Although part of the nation of Breland, Sharn is a society in its own right. People and cultures of nearly every imaginable sort ar...

• Shield Dwarf

  Shield Dwarf Type: Racial Campaign Setting: Neverwinter Prerequisite: Dwarf Shield dwarves have a long history of struggle for survival in the wilderness of the North, fighting ag...

• Shifter - City Shifter

  Shifter - City Shifter Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Shifter Your tribe was forced off its lands at some point during the last century, and you were born an...

• Shifter - Moonspeaker

  Shifter - Moonspeaker Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Shifter You were a moonspeaker, a religious leader who traveled among different shifter communities. Tha...

• Shifter - Persecution

  Shifter - Persecution Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Shifter You or your family endured a period of persecution, during which shifters were imprisoned or kil...

• Shipmaster's Aide

  Shipmaster's Aide Type: Adventurers Campaign Setting: Forgotten Realms When you were young, your parents encouraged you to learn a trade in the shipbuilding industry. You were app...

• Sidhe Lord

  Sidhe Lord Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Half-elf or race with fey origin You have learned how to deal with others from your position of power. You might accomplish that...

• Sildaine

  Sildaine Type: Geography Campaign Setting: General You grew up in the ancient Sildaine Forest, maybe in the elven village that stands alongside the Crystalbrook as it runs through...

• Silent Hunter

  Silent Hunter Type: Campaign Campaign Setting: Scales of War Adventure Path From a young age, you were trained to track, stalk, and bring down your prey. The hunter's outlook is n...

• Silver Wind's Envoy

  Silver Wind's Envoy Type: Campaign Campaign Setting: Dark Sun You have been called by Silver Wind to end her imprisonment. The harsh winds of the desert deliver her missives to yo...

• Sisthera Master

  Sisthera Master Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Eladrin You have mastered the beautiful dance of sisthera and use it to clear your mind and body of all poison...

• Skilled Artisan

  Skilled Artisan Type: Racial Campaign Setting: Dark Sun Prerequisite: Dwarf Your clan resides in one of the city-states, where its members are respected as expert artisans or engi...

• Slave

  Slave Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Halfling You were kept as a slave or indentured servant and forced to do menial labor for those more privileged. You esc...

• Society - Noble

  Society - Noble Type: Society Campaign Setting: General You are a member of the aristocracy. Does your family have a noble rank? Are you the heir to a title, and if so, how many p...

• Society - Poor

  Society - Poor Type: Society Campaign Setting: General You grew up without a steady income. Were your family members peasants, servants, or unskilled laborers? Did you and your fa...

• Society - Wealthy

  Society - Wealthy Type: Society Campaign Setting: General You grew up rich, never wanting for anything. What was the source of this wealth? Was it inherited, or did your family wo...

• Son of Alagondar

  Son of Alagondar Type: Campaign Campaign Setting: Neverwinter You've lived a tough life, always yearning for justice that never comes. You are suspicious by nature and know your b...

• Sorrowful Existence

  Sorrowful Existence Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Deva You escaped the eternity as a rakshasa but at a terrible price. You recall with perfect clarity every...

• Southern Wastes - Secret Order

  Southern Wastes - Secret Order Type: Geography Campaign Setting: Dark Sun You belong to an elemental cult or a priesthood, a secret society that teaches reverence for the primal p...

• Southern Wastes - Tamwar Dervish

  Southern Wastes - Tamwar Dervish Type: Geography Campaign Setting: Dark Sun You come from the Tamwar, nomads who live on the edge of the Endless Sand Dunes. As a youth you were ch...

• Spellscale

  Spellscale Type: Racial Campaign Setting: Dark Sun Prerequisite: Dragonborn You are the heir to a tradition of arcane magic dating back to the earliest days of your race. You sell...

• Spellscarred Harbinger

  Spellscarred Harbinger Type: Campaign Campaign Setting: Neverwinter The specific nature of your spellscar has unlocked knowledge that you can benefit from—bizarre secrets of the m...

• Spirit Binder

  Spirit Binder Type: Campaign Campaign Setting: Dark Sun The nganga of Gulg are taught that the primal spirits desire the destruction of their city. The most gifted among them are...

• Spirit Clutch

  Spirit Clutch Type: Campaign Campaign Setting: Dark Sun As an orphan growing to maturity among the thri-kreen, you had no true clutch; instead, you were adopted and guided by the...

• Spirit Hunter of the White Worm

  Spirit Hunter of the White Worm Type: Geography Campaign Setting: Forgotten Realms Prerequisite: Human Your people have roamed the frozen tundra of northern Vaasa for uncounted ce...

• Spirit of Two Worlds

  Spirit of Two Worlds Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Half-elf or Half-orc You are the child of a city-dwelling human and either an elf from a particularly wil...

• Spirit Possessed

  Spirit Possessed Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Goliath A spirit entered your body while you slept, and now it won't leave. The spirit makes you see things a...

• Spirit Soul

  Spirit Soul Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Deva You believe that your race has a dual essence, that upon your death one part of that essence reincarnates in...

• Spysong Troubadour

  Spysong Troubadour Type: Geography Campaign Setting: Forgotten Realms Prerequisite: Human You are member of an elite spy network, collecting intelligence across the breadth of the...

• Squire

  Squire Type: Occupation Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Follower of Bahamut You studied under a famous knight, serving the warrior until you mastered the talents she taugh...

• Stargazer (Star)

  Stargazer (Star) Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Warlock You've always thought best under the light of the stars. Do you value their placid beauty? Do the constellations h...

• Still Water

  Still Water Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Shadar-Kai The solution to the crushing boredom afflicting your people was acceptance. You studied beneath an enli...

• Stone Runner

  Stone Runner Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Shifter You were born on the ledge of a tower, and you took your first steps on the edge of a roof. The city is y...

• Stormchaser

  Stormchaser Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Wilden All wilden share a spiritual connection to the elemental fury of nature in their aspect of the destroyer. H...

• Street Urchin

  Street Urchin Type: Campaign Campaign Setting: Scales of War Adventure Path You grew up on the mean streets of an urban metropolis, and you quickly found safety amid numbers of li...

• Struck By Lightning - Follower of Kord

  Struck By Lightning - Follower of Kord Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Follower of Kord You were a weakling and a coward, bullied and intimidated by too many people to cou...

• Student of Callanar

  Student of Callanar Campaign Setting: General You spent ten years studying at the White Spires of Callanar where you learned to perform magic, uncovered arcane lore, and learned o...

• Student of Darkness

  Student of Darkness Campaign Setting: General Either because of unfortunate circumstances or a bad decision, you found yourself learning the craft of arcane magic in Shadowdeep. Y...

• Student of Ironstone

  Student of Ironstone Campaign Setting: General You spent your youth studying the arts of war and magic at Ironstone Academy. In addition to the arcane instruction that everyone re...

• Student of Ruald

  Student of Ruald Campaign Setting: General You trained under the swordmaster Ruald in Everwatch and honed your natural talents until you could hold your own in battle. The swordma...

• Student of the Ninefold Path

  Student of the Ninefold Path Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Dragonborn In ancient Arkhosia, a society of bards, wizards, and sorcerers called the Order of th...

• Substance of Thought

  Substance of Thought Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Genasi, Psionic A small number of genasi philosophers do not subscribe to well-known psionics origin theo...

• Sun Elf

  Sun Elf Type: Racial Campaign Setting: Neverwinter Prerequisite: Eladrin Sun elves take pride in their skill regarding matters of the mind and of discourse. A long history of rela...

• Surgeon

  Surgeon Type: Occupation Campaign Setting: General You used advanced healing techniques to help the sick and dying. Were you a bonesaw, hacking off limbs to save soldiers' lives,...

• Survivor

  Survivor Type: Occupation Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Follower of Bahamut You survived a terrible calamity that forever changed your course. Were you the only survivor...

• Survivor of Drow Raiders

  Survivor of Drow Raiders Type: Society Campaign Setting: General Your life was comparatively peaceful before the night of fire and death, when a drow raiding party in search of tr...

• Sword-for-Hire

  Sword-for-Hire Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Mul Fighting and toiling are the only things you know. Luckily for you, something always needs fixing and someo...

• Sybaran

  Sybaran Type: Geography Campaign Setting: General You are a citizen of Count Varis's city of Sybar, a small but cosmopolitan place where several trade routes converge. The city of...

• Tablelands - Herder

  Tablelands - Herder Type: Geography Campaign Setting: Dark Sun You hail from the nomadic clans that wander the scrub plains and badlands, tending flocks of goats, erdlus, kanks, o...

• Tablelands - Hopeful Entrepreneur

  Tablelands - Hopeful Entrepreneur Type: Geography Campaign Setting: Dark Sun You work for yourself, owing no allegiance to any merchant house. What goods do you trade? How do you...

• Tablelands - Land's Guardian

  Tablelands - Land's Guardian Type: Geography Campaign Setting: Dark Sun You swore an oath to the land's spirits that you would protect a particular region from harm. What part of...

• Talenta Plains

  Talenta Plains Type: Geography Campaign Setting: Eberron An enormous stretch of pristine grasslands and rolling hills that fade slowly into the wastes of the Blade Desert, the Tal...

• Tarmalune

  Tarmalune Type: Regional Campaign Setting: Forgotten Realms A free-wheeling, high energy trade port that is the most wealthy and prosperous of the independent mercantile cities kn...

• Tasker's Dream

  Tasker's Dream Type: House Sivis Campaign Setting: Eberron You were involved with House Sivis's psionics and linguistic research headquarters in Krona Peak. What inquiries were yo...

• Tattooed Warrior

  Tattooed Warrior Type: Racial Campaign Setting: Dark Sun Prerequisite: Mul Most enslaved muls bear tattoos that designate ownership, occupation, victories, or training. These deco...

• Telosian Scamp

  Telosian Scamp Type: Geography Campaign Setting: Forgotten Realms Prerequisite: Halfling The only thing more wretched in Vaasa than a serf is a scamp. This derogatory term coined...

• Tempest's Child - Follower of Kord

  Tempest's Child - Follower of Kord Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Follower of Kord They say you were born to serve Kord. Your birth occurred on a battlefield and during t...

• Temple Foundling

  Temple Foundling Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Tiefling An unwanted child rarely finds safe haven in the world, and an unwanted tiefling baby fares even wor...

• Tethyr (Shifter)

  Tethyr (Shifter) Type: Campaign Campaign Setting: Forgotten Realms Prerequisite: Shifter The noble Janors of Zazesspur hide a terrible secret—many of them can shed their skins. Th...

• Tharashk Gatekeeper

  Tharashk Gatekeeper Type: House Tharashk Campaign Setting: Eberron You trained with the druidic arm of House Tharashk, using the Mark of Finding to discover and secure the seals t...

• Tharashk Prospector

  Tharashk Prospector Type: House Tharashk Campaign Setting: Eberron Dragon shards have had a grip on your heart since you were a child, and you've scoured the Shadow Marches in sea...

• Thay

  Thay Type: Campaign Campaign Setting: Forgotten Realms Hardship and deprivation define existence in Thay. Undead roam the land, twitching legions of rotten flesh that wait for the...

• The Basilisk Society

  The Basilisk Society Type: Origin Campaign Setting: General You fled when you learned the hidden purpose behind Basilisk, the secret society to which you belonged. Basilisk swore...

• The Breach

  The Breach Type: Geography Campaign Setting: General A roiling, seething realm polluted by chaotic energy, the Breach features lightning gathered in pools, thunder rocking the gro...

• The Dalelands (Shifter)

  The Dalelands (Shifter) Type: Campaign Campaign Setting: Forgotten Realms Prerequisite: Shifter A shepherd looks to the rising moon and begins to urge his flock home, despite the...

• The Demon Binder

  The Demon Binder Type: Origin Campaign Setting: General When a minor demon possessed your true love's body, you did not have the heart to strike the killing blow. Instead you offe...

• The Five Wraiths

  The Five Wraiths Type: Origin Campaign Setting: General You are dying, but not by normal means. You recently discovered a remarkable ancient ritual that, if performed perfectly, w...

• The Frostfell (Eberron Player's Guide)

  The Frostfell (Eberron Player's Guide) Type: Geography Campaign Setting: Eberron The Frostfell stretches across Eberron's northern reaches and is a land of blinding snow, creaking...

• The Great Dale (Shifter)

  The Great Dale (Shifter) Type: Campaign Campaign Setting: Forgotten Realms Prerequisite: Shifter At the full moon, wolves gather outside the village of Bezentil in the Great Dale...

• The High One Falls

  The High One Falls Type: Origin Campaign Setting: General In a prophetic vision, the high priest of your people saw you slay the ruler of your land. Your possible future act again...

• The Path of Thirty-Seven Obstacles

  The Path of Thirty-Seven Obstacles Campaign Setting: General Trained to think only of improving your own skills and standing victorious against foes, you have learned to withstand...

• The Wide-Open Mind

  The Wide-Open Mind Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Halfling, Psionic Like many psionics users, especially battleminds and ardents, you have long questioned yo...

• Theologist

  Theologist Campaign Setting: General You are driven by sheer curiosity. The desire to know is all that is needed for you to turn your faith to a dead deity. You are curious about...

• Thoughtsinger

  Thoughtsinger Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Kalashtar For the kalashtar, emotions are an art form. A thoughtsinger weaves dreams for his or her audience, pr...

• Thousand Yard Stare

  Thousand Yard Stare Type: House Medani Campaign Setting: Eberron You've been where few people dare go: inside the Mournland. As part of a heavily armed, mounted column, you patrol...

• Thrane

  Thrane Type: Geography Campaign Setting: Eberron The center of the remaining Five Nations and the heart of the Silver Flame, Thrane has a heightened sense of its own importance. A...

• Thunderpeaks

  Thunderpeaks Type: Geography Campaign Setting: General Spine of the world, the Thunderpeaks have long been deemed insurmountable by travelers. No pass threads between the peaks, n...

• Thuranni Stonespur Recruit

  Thuranni Stonespur Recruit Type: House Thuranni Campaign Setting: Eberron You received assassin's training in the warrens beneath Stonespur Island in the Lhazaar Principalities. B...

• Tiefling - Dark Secret

  Tiefling - Dark Secret Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Tiefling At some point in your past, you did something truly evil. You escaped punishment, but if you w...

• Tiefling - Infernal Nightmares

  Tiefling - Infernal Nightmares Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Tiefling You are plagued by nightmarish visions that haunt your sleep. In your dreams, you have...

• Tiefling - Merchant Dynasty

  Tiefling - Merchant Dynasty Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Tiefling You grew up in a conclave of other tieflings, part of a large merchant family, surrounded...

• Tomb Robber

  Tomb Robber Type: Occupation Campaign Setting: General You survived by plundering tombs and graves, disturbing the dead to steal their treasures. Did you work alone or were you pa...

• Too Many Secrets

  Too Many Secrets Type: Occupation Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Follower of Ioun You were a respected field agent of the Collectors, following the trail of lost knowledg...

• Totemic Ally

  Totemic Ally Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Shifter An animal spirit watches over you and instructs you through the omens it leaves for you to find. How did...

• Touched by an Angel

  Touched by an Angel Type: Divine Campaign Setting: General You have encountered dangerous immortals for as long as you can remember, and a guardian angel taught you much of what y...

• Touched by Darkness

  Touched by Darkness Type: Legacy of Acererak Campaign Setting: General You might have served a necromancer in your youth, perhaps as an apprentice or possibly as guard or servant....

• Tower Graduate

  Tower Graduate Campaign Setting: General You learned magic at the Obsidian Tower. To supplement your main course of study, you chose one of three paths: Either delving into the to...

• Trained from Birth for a Specific Prophecy

  Trained from Birth for a Specific Prophecy Type: Campaign Campaign Setting: Scales of War Adventure Path The prophetic words were written in scripture long before you were born, a...

• Trapped in the Feywild

  Trapped in the Feywild Type: Occupation Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Bard A reluctant traveler, you became imprisoned or lost in the Feywild against your will. While th...

• Traveling Missionary

  Traveling Missionary Type: Campaign Campaign Setting: Scales of War Adventure Path Your calling is to bring the light of your chosen faith to the dark corners of the world. What p...

• Treasure Hunter

  Treasure Hunter Campaign Setting: General Fascinated by antiquity and the magical arts, you've long dreamed of finding and collecting ancient enchanted items. Do you plan to creat...

• Tree Talker

  Tree Talker Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Follower of Melora Your parents swear you could climb trees before you learned how to walk. You spent your childhood high in th...

• Tuathan

  Tuathan Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Human or half-elf Your blood pulses with the spirit of the Feywild, driving you toward action and excitement. You might be able to...

• Turathi Inquisitor

  Turathi Inquisitor Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Tiefling You learned the ancient interrogation techniques used by the Turathi Inquisitors in a time now nea...

• Turathi Slave Clan

  Turathi Slave Clan Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Dragonborn Your clan was enslaved by the tiefling rulers of Bael Turath, among the earliest casualties of t...

• Twilight Dreamers

  Twilight Dreamers Campaign Setting: General You focus your studies on whatever demonic, diabolical, or aberrant creature you believe imbued you with psionic power. When the natura...

• Two Sides of the Coin

  Two Sides of the Coin Campaign Setting: General You are a twin, yet yours was not a normal birth; you were brought into the world beneath an alignment of stars not seen since befo...

• Tymanther

  Tymanther Type: Campaign Campaign Setting: Forgotten Realms The devastation unleashed by the Spellplague ripped a portion of the dragonborn-ruled nation of Tymanchebar from Abeir...

• Tyr - Embedded Spy

  Tyr - Embedded Spy Type: Geography Campaign Setting: Dark Sun Tyr's newfound freedom has caused no shortage of consternation among the Seven Cities. The other sorcerer-kings have...

• Tyr - Freed Slave

  Tyr - Freed Slave Type: Geography Campaign Setting: Dark Sun Following Kalak's death, King Tithian outlawed slavery in Tyr. You were one of thousands set free. Do you think your l...

• Tyr - Noble of Conscience

  Tyr - Noble of Conscience Type: Geography Campaign Setting: Dark Sun You have enjoyed comfort and privilege throughout your life, but you know that your wealth was earned through...

• Tyr - Revolutionary

  Tyr - Revolutionary Type: Geography Campaign Setting: Dark Sun You worked to overthrow Kalak in the final months of his reign. Whether you spied on his nobles, preached rebellion...

• Underdark Survivor

  Underdark Survivor Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Drow You never saw the lightless depths beneath the earth as a place of death and unmoving stone. To your e...

• Underwild

  Underwild Type: Geography Campaign Setting: General The Underdark crawls with vile abominations that shun the rays of the sun. Populated by creatures such as drow and mind flayers...

• Unfettered Future

  Unfettered Future Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Tiefling You have turned your back on the so-called noble history of the tiefling race. Rather than reveling...

• Unhomed

  Unhomed Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Human You lived with the Unhomed for many years. You might have been born there, never setting foot on dry land before...

• Unlikely Primal Hero

  Unlikely Primal Hero Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Tiefling You didn't ask for this. You were perfectly happy with your life in the city. Well, maybe not ha...

• Unseelie Agent

  Unseelie Agent Campaign Setting: General Your continued contact with the Unseelie might have taught you much about their magic, or else your need to operate in secrecy has engende...

• Unstoppable Soldier

  Unstoppable Soldier Type: Racial Campaign Setting: Eberron Prerequisite: Warforged You've been trained—or built—to be the perfect killing machine. You are quick to take advantage...

• Upperdark Slave

  Upperdark Slave Type: Adventurers Campaign Setting: Forgotten Realms Slavers from an Underdark race, probably duergar or drow, captured you a long time ago. After spending years u...

• Urban Gnome

  Urban Gnome Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Gnome You grew up in a large town or city that had large buildings and many people. You're at home in the bustle o...

• Urban Shaman

  Urban Shaman Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Shifter The city is alive. You barter with the spirits of stone and steel, speaking with the ancient foundations...

• Urik - Gifted Potter

  Urik - Gifted Potter Type: Geography Campaign Setting: Dark Sun Pottery is the highest art form in Urik, and the pieces produced in the city-state are among the finest on Athas. Y...

• Urik - Scarred Miner

  Urik - Scarred Miner Type: Geography Campaign Setting: Dark Sun Urik's obsidian mines kill more slaves than the city's arena does. Miners who survive rarely do so without sufferin...

• Urik - Watchful Astronomer

  Urik - Watchful Astronomer Type: Geography Campaign Setting: Dark Sun The stars hold many secrets, and their movements can reveal the future. Urik is famed for its astronomers and...

• Uthgardt Barbarian

  Uthgardt Barbarian Type: Campaign Campaign Setting: Neverwinter Prerequisite: Human The Uthgardt have strong traditions of respecting strength and honoring the natural world. You...

• Vadalis Botanist

  Vadalis Botanist Type: House Vadalis Campaign Setting: Eberron House Vadalis sends you on expeditions across Khorvaire to find rare herbs, strange fruits, and other of the botanic...

• Vadalis Griffon Rider

  Vadalis Griffon Rider Type: House Vadalis Campaign Setting: Eberron In the final days of the Last War, armies started deploying Vadalis griffon riders against other griffon riders...

• Vadalis Handler

  Vadalis Handler Type: House Vadalis Campaign Setting: Eberron At the house's Erlaskar Manor enclave, you saw dozens of monsters gathered from all over Khorvaire. Your job was to s...

• Valenar

  Valenar Type: Geography Campaign Setting: Eberron The only true elven nation in Khorvaire, Valenar is also one of the youngest. Inhabited by a warrior people with no desire to mai...

• Vault-Warden of the Lost Ways

  Vault-Warden of the Lost Ways Type: Geography Campaign Setting: Forgotten Realms Prerequisite: Dwarf You trace your dwarven ancestry to Clan Namarforge, ruling house of ancient Sa...

• Veiled Warrior

  Veiled Warrior Type: Racial Campaign Setting: Dark Sun Prerequisite: Eladrin In a few places, the ancient lords of the eladrin maintain their shrinking Feywild domains and guard t...

• Vengeance

  Vengeance Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Revenant In the final moments before you died, you witnessed a terrible act—an experience so profound that death cou...

• Vengeful Royalty

  Vengeful Royalty Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Tiefling After the fall of Bael Turath, some tieflings retained power, ruling over isolated baronies and duch...

• Vet Who Can't Let Go

  Vet Who Can't Let Go Type: Campaign Campaign Setting: Scales of War Adventure Path You've mustered out of the army, but you're forever bound to military life and you still see eve...

• Veteran of a Religious War

  Veteran of a Religious War Type: Divine Campaign Setting: General You fought hard for a divine cause but later turned away from that life. Why did you take up arms for your god? I...

• Veteran of the Arena

  Veteran of the Arena Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Goliath You know what it takes to defeat an opponent and make no apologies for the lifestyle you have cho...

• Victim of Superstition

  Victim of Superstition Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Goliath, Half-Orc, or Minotaur, Psionic Not all goliaths, half-orcs, and minotaurs are intolerant of ps...

• Vigilant

  Vigilant Type: Racial Campaign Setting: Eberron Prerequisite: Kalashtar The kalashtar are watchful for agents of the quori, the Inspired, or other enemies of the Light. Whether yo...

• Vigilant Informant

  Vigilant Informant Type: Adventurers Campaign Setting: Forgotten Realms After having a tangle some time ago with the Vigilants, they offered you a deal—help them catch a violent c...

• Vile Scholar

  Vile Scholar Campaign Setting: General Long, glorious hours of study have turned you into a veritable font of dark lore. Knowledge is, after all, the most formidable and remorsele...

• Vilhon Wilds

  Vilhon Wilds Type: Campaign Campaign Setting: Forgotten Realms The Spellplague drained much of the water of the Vilhon Reach and unleashed the Plaguewrought Land upon the region....

• Voice of a Dozen Generations

  Voice of a Dozen Generations Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Deva, Psionic Accustomed to thinking in terms of souls and past lives, many devas subscribe to th...

• Voice of Pelor

  Voice of Pelor Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Human You were chosen to become a priest, a mystic and spokesperson in Pelor's clergy. Why were you selected? W...

• Wanderer

  Wanderer Type: Occupation Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Psionic As you walk the road ahead, you leave your past behind you where it belongs. When you came of age, you pu...

• Wandering Duelist

  Wandering Duelist Type: Campaign Campaign Setting: Scales of War Adventure Path You are an itinerant warrior—sometimes a conscript, sometimes a mercenary, but often just a wandere...

• Wandering Inn Traveler

  Wandering Inn Traveler Type: House Ghallanda Campaign Setting: Eberron You spent much of your adolescence in the half lings' ancestral homeland, the Talenta Plains. You traveled a...

• Wandering Master

  Wandering Master Type: Occupation Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Sorcerer You have improved your fighting skills with techniques from far off lands. Did you learn from ex...

• Wandering Mercenary

  Wandering Mercenary Type: Campaign Campaign Setting: Scales of War Adventure Path The art of war is one you know well, and you've marched with armies both to victory and to defeat...

• Wandering Zealot

  Wandering Zealot Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Half-Elf You champion a god, a belief, or some other cause, and you allow it to eclipse all other considerati...

• War Courier

  War Courier Type: House Sivis Campaign Setting: Eberron During the Last War, you were responsible for delivering top-secret orders to armies in the field. Which army did you work...

• Ward of the State

  Ward of the State Type: Occupation Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Follower of Erathis Orphaned or abandoned at a young age, you spent your childhood in the care of a magi...

• Ward of the Temple

  Ward of the Temple Type: Divine Campaign Setting: General You grew up in a temple. You ran barefoot there and played games in the shadow of statues. Why were you left at the templ...

• Warsmith

  Warsmith Type: Campaign Campaign Setting: Scales of War Adventure Path You make powerful weapons and armor, instruments of warfare both elegant and deadly. Who taught you your cra...

• Waterdeep

  Waterdeep Type: Campaign Campaign Setting: Forgotten Realms The Jewel of the North is a crossroads city hungry for coin and tolerant of outsiders. Long ago, the Lords of Waterdeep...

• Wayfinder

  Wayfinder Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Human No one knows the swamp's dangers better than you do, because it was your task to bring news to the neighboring...

• Western Hinterlands - Feral Foundling

  Western Hinterlands - Feral Foundling Type: Geography Campaign Setting: Dark Sun You were abandoned in the hinterlands and would have died if not for merciful spirits of nature. W...

• Western Hinterlands - Hunting Tribe

  Western Hinterlands - Hunting Tribe Type: Geography Campaign Setting: Dark Sun Your tribe lives off the land, keeping no herds and tending no fields. Life in the wilderness is har...

• Western Hinterlands - Outcast

  Western Hinterlands - Outcast Type: Geography Campaign Setting: Dark Sun You were expelled from the tribe of your birth, and all the world is against you. Did you commit a crime a...

• White Riders

  White Riders Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Eladrin The Winter Lands are short on resources and those living in them must range beyond their borders to gathe...

• Wild Elf

  Wild Elf Type: Racial Campaign Setting: Neverwinter Prerequisite: Elf Life in the wild demands an understanding of the natural world, and wild elves are renowned for their senses...

• Wild Hunter

  Wild Hunter Type: Occupation Campaign Setting: General Ordinary hunters stalk deer and other game quietly, and they prefer to strike from a distance with javelin, sling, or bow. B...

• Wilden - Ancient One

  Wilden - Ancient One Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Wilden The more you manifest Aspect of the Ancients, the more ancient secrets of the world ago whisper to...

• Wilden - Born of Ruin

  Wilden - Born of Ruin Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Wilden You were born in a place of defilement, where the corruption issuing from the Far Realm tainted t...

• Wilden - Destroyer

  Wilden - Destroyer Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Wilden The destroyer is nature's fury incarnate—the destruction embodied by hurricanes, tornadoes, and ligh...

• Wilden - Estranged Fey

  Wilden - Estranged Fey Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Wilden See the eladrin and gnome backgrounds of the same name. You were born in the world and have neve...

• Wilden - Hunted

  Wilden - Hunted Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Wilden Something seems to know of you—and to want you dead. Destruction has followed you for your entire life,...

• Wilden - Hunter

  Wilden - Hunter Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Wilden You seek out specific threats to the natural order, and when you find them, you eliminate them. Finding...

• Wilderness Loner

  Wilderness Loner Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Dragonborn The wilderness is your home, far from any city or village. You might have been a fugitive from a d...

• Windrise Ports

  Windrise Ports Type: Regional Campaign Setting: Forgotten Realms While Tarmalune is the largest and most influential of the independent cities known collectively as the Windrise P...

• Winterguard Marshal

  Winterguard Marshal Campaign Setting: General It is your responsibility as a member of the Winterguard to track down and apprehend outlaws, using both your arcane magic and your w...

• Wintertouched

  Wintertouched Type: Racial Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Eladrin The Pale Prince looms large in the Winter Lands, and while not the true sovereign of the Winter Court, h...

• Witch

  Witch Type: Occupation Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Follower of Corellon You were a witch, a hedge mage, or village wise person. Did you have genuine magical skill or w...

• Witness

  Witness Type: Occupation Campaign Setting: General Prerequisite: Follower of Bahamut You witnessed a terrible evil, an act so profane you feel as though you will never be clean ag...

• Wood Elf

  Wood Elf Type: Racial Campaign Setting: Neverwinter Prerequisite: Elf The skills of forestcraft and of negotiating have served wood elves well throughout the centuries. Wood elves...

• World Walker

  World Walker Campaign Setting: General Your nomadic life has taken you on countless strange trails. You are familiar with regions of the world, the Feywild, and the Shadowfell. Wh...

• Wrathwood

  Wrathwood Type: Geography Campaign Setting: General Blanketing a secluded valley, steeped in ancient magic, is the Wrathwood. This brooding forest has never felt the bite of an ax...

• Wrongs to be Righted

  Wrongs to be Righted Campaign Setting: General Dark forces in the Shadowfell wronged you in some way. You survived the experience, but you are left with bitter hatred for your per...

• Xen'drik

  Xen'drik Type: Geography Campaign Setting: Eberron South of Khorvaire, beyond the Thunder Sea, Xen'drik rises from the waves, beckoning to sage and explorer, merchant and adventur...

• Young Cutthroat

  Young Cutthroat Type: Campaign Campaign Setting: Scales of War Adventure Path You were the violent arm of an organized crime cartel, dispensing bloody punishment for real and imag...

• Zhengyian Blood Mage

  Zhengyian Blood Mage Type: Geography Campaign Setting: Forgotten Realms Prerequisite: Human, Half-Orc In the decades since the fall of the Witch-King, hidden Zhengyian relics have...

• Zilargo

  Zilargo Type: Geography Campaign Setting: Eberron Homeland to a gnome culture that predates the rise of Galifar, Zilargo appears to be a land of plenty, of peace and prosperity, a...