Planar Traveler (5e Background)
Planar Traveler
As a Planar Traveler, you through one means or another have managed to move between Planes. This may be through a means known or unknown to you, but never the less it has left a mark on you. You are now not only of one world, and those tied to the Planes can feel it. You may have managed to return to your Plane of origin, or you may be stuck on a new Plane. Have you been on this Plane for a long time, or are you a recent arrival? Do you know the means by which you traveled the Planes, or are you still searching for them? Maybe you're a grizzled veteran of Planar travel, or maybe this is your first time doing so.
Skill Proficiencies: Perception, Survival
Tool Proficiencies: Cartographer's Tools
Languages: Primordial
Equipment: A set of common clothes, Cartographer's Tools, a belt pouch containing 10 GP, and a special token of a Plane
Feature: Plane Marked
You are a being of many Planes, and they have all left a mark on you. As beings especially in tune with the Planes themselves, Elementals can feel these marks and see you at least partially as one of them. Intelligent elementals are neutral towards you, and will oftentimes attempt to open a dialogue before simply attacking you. This benefit, however, is not necessarily shared by those around you.
Suggested Characteristics
As a traveler of multiple Planes, you are among the most worldly beings imaginable.
| d8 | Personality Trait |
|---|---|
| 1 | I'm more at home with the land than with people. |
| 2 | I find living beings uninteresting. |
| 3 | I feel uncomfortable when i'm not on the move. |
| 4 | I don't like following paths laid out by others. |
| 5 | People who blindly follow others disgust me. |
| 6 | I have a thirst to see new things. |
| 7 | I'm not great at conversation. |
| 8 | I always want to be the leader. |
| d6 | Ideal |
|---|---|
| 1 | I use my knowledge to help those in need. (Good) |
| 2 | Due to my experiences, I am superior to everyone else and can do whatever I want to them. (Evil) |
| 3 | I will do anything to follow my path. (Chaotic) |
| 4 | The problems of others are theirs to deal with. (Neutral) |
| 5 | Once I start doing something, I am invested in finishing it. (Lawful) |
| 6 | My Planar travel has distanced me from others. (Any) |
| d6 | Bond |
|---|---|
| 1 | I left somebody in another Plane that I care for. |
| 2 | I always respect my traveling companions. |
| 3 | Anyone who can best me deserves my respect. |
| 4 | If someone saves my life, I will repay it tenfold. |
| 5 | I inherently treat travelers and wanderers with respect. |
| 6 | I will help free those who cannot leave themselves. |
| d6 | Flaw |
|---|---|
| 1 | I have a deep fear of (Pick a Plane) or anything related to it. |
| 2 | My experiences have resulted in me becoming cold towards others. |
| 3 | The way the Planes have marked me causes me to sometimes act in strange ways. |
| 4 | I have an obsession with the world around me. |
| 5 | I don't like strangers of any kind. |
| 6 | I sometimes feel that the whole world is against me, and sometimes even multiple worlds. |
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