ability
Guard background
Watchful service protecting an entrance, boundary, or community.
Long hours watching an entrance, boundary, or crowded street trained your attention. Decide whose safety you were expected to protect and what the job taught you about authority.
Background benefits
- Ability choices: Strength, Intelligence, Wisdom. Add +2 to one and +1 to another, or +1 to all three. These increases cannot raise a score above 20.
- Origin feat: Alert.
- Skill proficiencies: Athletics, Perception.
- Tool proficiency: One kind of Gaming Set.
Starting equipment
Choose A: Spear; Light Crossbow; Bolt (20); Gaming Set (the chosen proficiency); Hooded Lantern; Manacles; Quiver; Traveler's Clothes; 12 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.