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Entertainer background
Performance training and a life shaped by the stage.
Performance shaped your early life, whether through touring, fairs, music, acrobatics, or another stage tradition. You know the work behind an apparently effortless show.
Background benefits
- Ability choices: Strength, Dexterity, Charisma. Add +2 to one and +1 to another, or +1 to all three. These increases cannot raise a score above 20.
- Origin feat: Musician.
- Skill proficiencies: Acrobatics, Performance.
- Tool proficiency: One kind of Musical Instrument.
Starting equipment
Choose A: Musical Instrument (the chosen proficiency); Costume (2); Mirror; Perfume; Traveler's Clothes; 11 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.