Backgrounds

Your character’s background represents what they did or who they were before starting their adventure. Think of background sort of like your character’s class, though it’s more of a starting point, and less determinative of your character’s future than a class option would be. Your background gives you your starting proficiencies and a few features. Some perks do require specific proficiencies, however, so do be aware of that. If you want to create a character who engages the dark and taboo of magic, a soldier who’s never read an occult treatise in his life would make a poor starting point.   These are not all the possible backgrounds that exist. Feel free to workshop a background for your character with your Game Master. Pick 4 to 6 skills to have proficiency points in, plus a few free points. A background should grant a total of +7 Skill proficiency or +6 Skill proficiency and +2 language proficiency.  

Antiquarian

• History: +3
• Intuition: +1
• Investigation +1
• Occult: +1
• +2 language proficiency

Craftsman

• Dexterity: +2
• Grit: +1
• Melee: +1
• Technology: +3

Cultist

• History: +2
• Occult: +3
• Speech: +1
• Stealth: +1
• +1 language proficiency

Doctor

• Dexterity: +2
• Intuition: +1
• Medicine: +3
• Technology: +1
• +1 language proficiency

Entertainer

• Acrobatics: +1
• Dexterity: +1
• Drama: +3
• Speech: +2

Gangster

• Dexterity: +1
• Firearms: +2
• Melee: +2
• Speech: +2

Homesteader

• Athletics: +2
• Firearms: +2
• Medicine: +1
• Melee: +1
• Nature: +1

Investigator

• Awareness: +1
• Intuition: +2
• Investigation: +3
• Speech: +1

Labourer

• Athletics: +3
• Grit: +1
• Melee: +2
• Technology: +1

Magnate

• Eloquence: +1
• Intuition: +2
• Speech: +3
• Technology: +1
• +1 language proficiency

Pugilist

• Athletics: +2
• Melee: +3
• Drama: +1
• Grit: +1

Sailor

• Acrobatics: +1
• Athletics: +2
• Dexterity: +1
• Nature: +2
• +2 language proficiency

Scavenger

• Grit: +3
• Melee: +2
• Stealth: +1
• Nature: +1

Soldier

• Athletics: +2
• Firearms: +3
• Medicine: +1
• Melee: +1

Tribal

• Awareness: +1
• Athletics: +1
• Medicine: +1
• Melee: +2
• Nature: +2