Backgrounds of Eberron

Choosing a background provides you with important story cues about your character’s identity. The most important question to ask about your background is what changed? Why did you stop doing whatever your background describes and start adventuring? Where did you get the money to purchase your starting gear, or, if you come from a wealthy background, why don’t you have more money? How did you learn the skills of your class? What sets you apart from ordinary people who share your background?

The following list is a list of all the possible backgrounds to present options in my campaigns. These backgrounds come from official Wizards of the Coast material, converted 3.5 Eberron material as well as from custom backgrounds I have come up with or found on the net that would apply very well to this setting.

For convenience I will have backgrounds that are listed in the Sword Coast Adventure Guide, Tome of Annihilationand the Haunted One from Curse of Strahd. Mainly they are listed here to have personality trait, ideal, bonds and flaws tables listed. Where ever possible I have worked to keep the backgrounds at either one, two, or four pages for ease of printing out. This is why there is no consistent number of items to roll from on each of those charts from one background to the next.

Background	Source	Page
Acolyte	PHB	127
Anthropologist	ToA	191
Archaeologist	ToA	192
Charlatan	PHB	128
City Watch	SCAG	145
City Watch Variant: Investigator	SCAG	145
Clan Crafter	SCAG	146
Cloistered Scholar	SCAG	146
Courtier	SCAG	146
Criminal	PHB	129
Criminal Variant: Spy	PHB	130
Deserter	BoE
Entertainer	PHB	130
Entertainer Variant: Gladiator	PHB	131
Farmer	BoE
Fisherman	BoE
Folk Hero	PHB	131
Foreign Infiltrator	BoE
Gladiator	BoE
Guild Artisan	PHB	132
Guild Artisan Variant: Guild Merchant	PHB	133
Harvester	BoE
Haunted One	CoS	209
Healer	BoE
Hermit	PHB	134
House Renegade	BoE
House Scion	BoE
Inheritor	SCAG	150
Inquisitive	BoE
Knight of the Order	SCAG	151
Legendary Lineage	BoE
Mercenary Veteran	SCAG	152
Noble	PHB	135
Noble Variant: Knight	PHB	135
Outlander	PHB	136
Pilgrim	BoE
Refugee	BoE
Restless Wanderer	BoE
Sage	PHB	137
Sailor	PHB	139
Sailor Variant: Pirate	PHB	139
Sailor Variant: Sky Sailor	BoE
Scholar-Adventurer	BoE
Sharn Noble	SCAG	152
Soldier	PHB	140
Tinkerer	BoE
Tinkerer Variant: Spare Parts	BoE
Urban Bounty Hunter	SCAG	153
Urchin	PHB	141
War-Torn Hero	BoE