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Sword Coast Legends

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Character Background Stories and Bonuses

Description of Character Background Stories and Bonuses to choose during character creation in Sword Coast Legends video game. Knight, Noble, Outlander, Pirate, Sage, Sailor, Soldier, Spy, Urchin, Acolyte, Charlatan, Criminal, Entertainer, Folk Hero, Gladiator, Guild Artisan, Guild Merchant, Hermit.

KNIGHT

A knighthood is among the lowest noble titles in most societies, but it can be a path to higher status. As an emblem of chivalry and the ideals of courtly love, you might include among your equipment a banner or other token from a noble lord or lady to whom you have given your heart - in a chaste sort of devotion.

Starting Gold: 25

Attribute Bonus: +1 Strength

Passive Bonus: +1 to Physical Damage dealt

NOBLE

You understand wealth, power, and privilege. You carry a noble title, and your family owns land, collects taxes, and wields significant political influence. You might be a pampered aristocrat unfamiliar with work or discomfort, a former merchant just elevated to the nobility, or a disinherited scoundrel with a disproportionate sense of entitlement. Or you could be an honest, hard-working landowner who cares deeply about the people who live and work on your land, keenly aware of your responsibility to them.

Starting Gold: 800

Starting Items: Cormyr Brandy (3), Vilholn Cherrybread (2)

OUTLANDER

You grew up in the wilds, far from civilization and the comforts of town and technology. You've witnessed the migration of herds larger than forests, survived weather more extreme than any city-dweller could comprehend, and enjoyed the solitude of being the only thinking creature for miles in any direction. The wilds are in your blood, whether you were a nomad, an explorer, a recluse, a hunter-gatherer, or even a marauder. Even in places where you don't know the specific features of the terrain, you know the ways of the wild.

Starting Gold: 10

Attribute Bonus: +1 Constitution

Passive Bonus: -2 to all physical damage taken

PIRATE

You spent your youth under the sway of a dread pirate, a ruthless cutthroat who taught you how to survive in a world of sharks and savages. You've indulged in larceny on the high seas and sent more than one deserving soul to a briny grave. Fear and bloodshed are no strangers to you, and you've garnered a somewhat unsavory reputation in many a port town.

Starting Gold: 15

Attribute Bonus: +1 Dexterity

Passive Bonus: -1 to Thunder, Lightning and Cold damage taken

SAGE

You spent years learning the lore of the multiverse. You scoured manuscripts, studied scrolls, and listened to the greatest experts on the subjects that interest you. Your efforts have made you a master in your fields of study.

Starting Gold: 10

Attribute Bonus: +1 Intelligence

Passive Bonus: +1 to Fire, Cold, Lightning, Force, Psychic and Thunder damage dealt

SAILOR

You sailed on a seagoing vessel for years. In that time, you faced down mighty storms, monsters of the deep, and those who wanted to sink your craft to the bottomless depths. Your first love is the distant line of the horizon, but the time has come to try your hand at something new.

Starting Gold: 10

Attribute Bonus: +1

Constitution Passive Bonus: -1 to Thunder, Lightning and Cold damage taken

SOLDIER

War has been your life for as long as you care to remember. You trained as a youth, studied the use of weapons and armor, learned basic survival techniques, including how to stay alive on the battlefield. You might have been part of a standing national army or a mercenary company, or perhaps a member of a local militia who rose to prominence during a recent war.

Starting Gold: 10

Attribute Bonus: +1

Strength Passive Bonus: +1 to Physical Damage dealt

Starting Items: Healing Potion (2)

SPY

Although your capabilities are not much different from those of a burglar or smuggler, you learned and practiced them in a very different context: as an espionage agent. You might have been an officially sanctioned agent of the crown, or perhaps you sold the secrets you uncovered to the highest bidder.

Starting Gold: 50

Attribute Bonus: +1

Dexterity Passive Bonus: +10% gold found

URCHIN

You grew up on the streets alone, orphaned, and poor. You had no one to watch over you or to provide for you, so you learned to provide for yourself. You fought fiercely over food and kept a constant watch out for other desperate souls who might steal from you. You slept on rooftops and in alleyways, exposed to the elements, and endured sickness without the advantage of medicine or a place to recuperate. You've survived despite all odds, and did so through cunning, strength, speed, or some combination of each.

Starting Gold: 5

Attribute Bonus: +1

Dexterity Passive Bonus: +10% move speed

ACOLYTE

You have spent your life in the service of a temple to a specific god or pantheon of gods. You act as an intermediary between the realm of the holy and the mortal world, performing sacred rites and offering sacrifices in order to conduct worshipers into the presence of the divine. You are not necessarily a cleric, performing sacred rites is not the same thing as channeling divine power.

Starting Gold: 15

Attribute Bonus: +1 Wisdom

Passive Bonus: +3 to all healing given

Starting Items: Scroll of Restoration (2), Scroll of Shatter

CHARLATAN

You have always had a way with people. You know what makes them tick, you can tease out their hearts' desires after a few minutes of conversation, and with a few leading questions you can read them like they were children's books. It's a useful talent, and one that you're perfectly willing to use for your advantage.

Starting Gold: 15

Attribute Bonus: +1 Charisma

Passive Bonus: +2 to Wisdom and Charisma saves

CRIMINAL

You are an experienced criminal with a history of breaking the law. You have spent a lot of time among other criminals and still have contacts within the criminal underworld. You're far closer than most people to the world of murder, theft, and violence that pervades the underbelly of civilization, and you have survived up to this point by flouting the rules and regulations of society.

Starting Gold: 50

Attribute Bonus: +1 Dexterity

Passive Bonus:+2 to Lockpicking

ENTERTAINER

You thrive in front of an audience. You know how to entrance them, entertain them, and even inspire them. Your poetics can stir the hearts of those who hear you, awakening grief or joy, laughter oranger. Your music raises their spirits or captures their sorrow. Your dance steps captivate, your humor cuts to the quick. Whatever techniques you use, your artis your life.

Starting Gold: 15

Attribute Bonus: +1 Charisma

Passive Bonus: Nearby allies heal for 1 hit point every 10 seconds

FOLK HERO

You come from a humble social rank, but you are destined for so much more. Already the people of your home village regard you as their champion, and your destiny calls you to stand against the tyrants and monsters that threaten the common folk everywhere.

Starting Gold: 10

Attribute Bonus: +1 Charisma

Passive Bonus: +1 to Physical Damage dealt

GLADIATOR

A gladiator is as much an entertainer as any minstrel or circus performer, trained to make the arts of combat into a spectacle the crowd can enjoy. This kind of flashy combat is your entertainer routine, though you might also have some skills as a tumbler or actor.

Starting Gold: 15

Attribute Bonus: +1 Strength

Passive Bonus: +50% bonus experience from defeating beasts, 41 to hit and damage versus beasts

GUILD ARTISAN

You are a member of an artisan's guild, skilled in a particular field and closely associated with other artisans. You are a well-established part of the mercantile world, freed by talent and wealth from the constraints of a feudal social order. You learned your skills as an apprentice to a master artisan, under the sponsorship of your guild, until you became a master in your own right.

Starting Gold: 15

Attribute Bonus: +1 Intelligence

Starting Items: Healing Potion (5), Scroll: Summon Monster (3), Scroll: Cone of Cold, Thunderstone (2)

GUILD MERCHANT

You belong to a guild of traders, caravan masters, and shopkeepers. You earn a living by buying and selling the works of others (or the raw materials artisans need to practice their craft). Your guild might be a large merchant consortium (or family) with interests across the region. Perhaps you transported goods from one place to another, by ship, wagon, or caravan, or bought them from traveling traders and sold them in your own little shop. In some ways, the traveling merchant's life lends itself to adventure far more than the life of an artisan.

Starting Gold: 50

Attribute Bonus: +1 Wisdom

Starting Items: Healing Potion (5), Oil of Sharpness, Potion of Hill Giant Strength, Healer's Kit (2)

HERMIT

You lived in seclusion - either in a sheltered community such as a monastery, or entirely alone - for a formative part of your life. In your time apart from the clamor of society, you found quiet, solitude, and perhaps some of the answers you were looking for.

Starting Gold: 5

Attribute Bonus: +1 Wisdom

Passive Bonus: +2 to Radiant, Necrotic and Psychic damage dealt, -2 Radiant, Necrotic and Psychic damage taken

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