ability
Scribe background
Documents, careful research, and attention to detail.
Preserving and producing documents trained your attention to detail. Your work might have served a library, office, monastery, employer, or private clientele.
Background benefits
- Ability choices: Dexterity, 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: Skilled.
- Skill proficiencies: Investigation, Perception.
- Tool proficiency: Calligrapher's Supplies.
Starting equipment
Choose A: Calligrapher's Supplies; Fine Clothes; Lamp; Oil (3 flasks); Parchment (12 sheets); 23 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.