Your mother and father ran their own shop. The Latch Key Kid is perfect for the Acolyte, Urchin, Outlander, or Criminal, background 5e. For you, adventure is what you make it, your independent, self reliant, and adventure calls. With the starting equipment you ‘acquired’ during your adventures as a kid, you set out, never looking back, and never truly missed. Reaching adulthood, you outgrew your town, feeling frustrated and bored by it. If you were caught you were rarely punished (alignment seed). That meant you explored places you were not allowed (that abandoned mine in the woods), and played with things you weren’t supposed to (like weapons or magic). Your parents took little interest in your activities and whereabouts. Your parents were normal, and not retired adventurers or super skilled at any craft. The town you lived was small, on the frontier with few formal laws. You had a relatively stable family upbringing, and sought adventure wherever you could manufacture it. Click on my article on Playing Kids in D&D 5e for inspiration. Maybe even get your Dungeon Master (DM) to run a session with the party as kids to explore your background. Use these ideas as a jump off point to think about your character’s development. Her parents were both very happy because it was one less mouth to feed and brought some prestige to the family.īelow I have created 10 D&D PC backgrounds that don’t have dead parents. Kasline was noticed by the temple of Avánthe and became a priestess. My character was a ‘Latch Key Kid’ who found she could channel magic. Her background is an Urchin but I didn’t want her to have dead parents. Barker run by my good friend Vad at Restenford. She is a priestess of Avánthe in the Tékumel campaign setting by M. I am currently playing a female human divine soul sorcerer named Kasline. I recently explored this avenue myself with my regular Friday night D&D game on Foundry and Discord. It’s an easy out for a PC who doesn’t want family connections. Dead parents free the protagonist to act without fear of reprisal on their family. Movies often feature dead parents like Batman, Spiderman, Finding Nemo, Lion King, and Bambi. Killed by either by the bad guy in the campaign (lord wizard, crime boss) or by some stroke of bad luck (fire, war, pestilence). Your character is adventuring because both parents are dead and that’s their background 5e. It’s kind of a dark joke in Dungeons and Dragons 5e. Fire Giant King Snurre confronts an unwelcome guest.
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