Background (9e)
From Traditional Games Wiki
Once a player has chosen attributes and traits for their character, they then choose the characters background. A character's background explains how they came to develop their particular skills, although no individual part of a background can be more than +8.
The budget for background can change depending on the scope of the game, but the default is 12. Each individual section of a character's background must be interesting, not too general, but also not too specific.
Example Backgrounds
- Master alchemist
- Veteran of three different wars
- Raised by owlbears
- Once got lost in the spirit world for six months
- Time traveller from the distant future
- Assassin training
- Born into nobility
- Eight years of study at the Girrin Cathedral
- Orphan king of the city streets
