ability
Sage background
Scholarly training in history and arcane knowledge.
Access to libraries and teachers shaped your curiosity. Study gave you historical knowledge, arcane training, and a small selection of wizard spells.
Background benefits
- Ability choices: Constitution, 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: Magic Initiate (Wizard).
- Skill proficiencies: Arcana, History.
- Tool proficiency: Calligrapher's Supplies.
Starting equipment
Choose A: Quarterstaff; Calligrapher's Supplies; Book (history); Parchment (8 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.