ability
Artisan background
Workshop experience, craft knowledge, and practical customer dealings.
Workshop training taught you to make useful things, notice defects, and deal with customers. Your craft and former workplace need not dictate your present loyalties.
Background benefits
- Ability choices: Strength, Dexterity, Intelligence. Add +2 to one and +1 to another, or +1 to all three. These increases cannot raise a score above 20.
- Origin feat: Crafter.
- Skill proficiencies: Investigation, Persuasion.
- Tool proficiency: One kind of Artisan's Tools.
Starting equipment
Choose A: Artisan's Tools (the chosen proficiency); Pouch (2); Traveler's Clothes; 32 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.