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Acolyte background
Religious service with ritual training and introductory divine magic.
Service in a religious community gave you training in rituals, beliefs, and a little divine magic. Choose the temple, faith, or people that shaped that service.
Background benefits
- Ability choices: Intelligence, Wisdom, Charisma. Add +2 to one and +1 to another, or +1 to all three. These increases cannot raise a score above 20.
- Origin feat: Magic Initiate (Cleric).
- Skill proficiencies: Insight, Religion.
- Tool proficiency: Calligrapher's Supplies.
Starting equipment
Choose A: Calligrapher's Supplies; Book (prayers); Holy Symbol; Parchment (10 sheets); Robe; 8 GP. Alternatively, choose B: 50 GP, without package A.
Your class grants its own starting equipment separately. The background describes earlier experience; its narrative details can be changed without adding mechanical benefits.