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Soldier background
Military training, discipline, and experience of organized violence.
Military training gave you habits of discipline and violence. Choose the force you served, your role, and how you now understand the cause you were taught to defend.
Background benefits
- Ability choices: Strength, Dexterity, Constitution. Add +2 to one and +1 to another, or +1 to all three. These increases cannot raise a score above 20.
- Origin feat: Savage Attacker.
- Skill proficiencies: Athletics, Intimidation.
- Tool proficiency: One kind of Gaming Set.
Starting equipment
Choose A: Spear; Shortbow; Arrow (20); Gaming Set (the chosen proficiency); Healer's Kit; Quiver; Traveler's Clothes; 14 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.