D&D 5E Backgrounds

Player's Handbook

• • Acolyte

  • Charlatan

  • Criminal

    • Variant Criminal: Spy

  • Entertainer

    • Variant Entertainer: Gladiator

  • Folk Hero

  • Guild Artisan

    • Variant Guild Artisan: Guild Merchant

  • Hermit

  • Noble

    • Variant Noble: Knight

  • Outlander

  • Sage

  • Sailor

    • Variant Sailor: Pirate

  • Soldier

  • Urchin

Curse of Strahd

• • Haunted One

Ghosts of Saltmarsh

• • Fisher

  • Marine

  • Shipwright

  • Smuggler

Plane Shift (Magic: The Gathering)

• • Dissenter (Plane Shift: Amonkhet)

  • Initiate (Plane Shift: Amonkhet)

  • Inquisitor (Plane Shift: Innistrad)

  • Vizier (Plane Shift: Amonkhet)

Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide

[Five of these backgrounds are little more than variants of PHB backgrounds, but are not identified as such in the book.]

• • City Watch

    • Variant City Watch: Investigator

  • Clan Crafter [variant Guild Artisan]

  • Cloistered Scholar [variant Sage]

  • Courtier

  • Faction Agent

  • Far Traveler

  • Inheritor

  • Knight of the Order

  • Mercenary Veteran [variant Soldier]

  • Urban Bounty Hunter

  • Uthgardt Tribe Member [variant Outlander]

  • Waterdhavian Noble [variant Noble]

Tomb of Annihilation

• • Anthropologist

  • Archaeologist

Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron

• • House Agent