Sailor background

Shipboard work taught you balance, navigation, and the habits of life away from shore. Decide which vessel, crew, or port you still consider home.

Background benefits

• Ability choices: Strength, Dexterity, Wisdom. Add +2 to one and +1 to another, or +1 to all three. These increases cannot raise a score above 20.
• Origin feat: Tavern Brawler.
• Skill proficiencies: Acrobatics, Perception.
• Tool proficiency: Navigator's Tools.

Starting equipment

Choose A: Dagger; Navigator's Tools; Rope; Traveler's Clothes; 20 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.