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Noble background

A privileged upbringing with historical and social training.

A privileged household taught you history, social expectations, and negotiation. Inherited standing may be useful, burdensome, disputed, or something you deliberately left behind.

Background benefits

  • Ability choices: Strength, Intelligence, Charisma. Add +2 to one and +1 to another, or +1 to all three. These increases cannot raise a score above 20.
  • Origin feat: Skilled.
  • Skill proficiencies: History, Persuasion.
  • Tool proficiency: One kind of Gaming Set.

Starting equipment

Choose A: Gaming Set (the chosen proficiency); Fine Clothes; Perfume; 29 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.

Source & compatibility

Source: Player's Handbook (2024) · page 183 · 2024.

Player's Handbook (2024), Wizards of the Coast; locally supplied reference, original publisher rights retained.