Dd 5e homebrew backgrounds11/24/2023 Their expectation of persecution shapes their interactions, even with people who do not know about their cult connections. If you have left the cult, you can use the safehouse, drawing attention from the cult only 50% of the time.Ī rejection of socially-accepted belief or behavior, and adherence to strict and potentially isolating set of rules, defines the life of the cultist. Remote wilderness areas have one safehouse in any 100-square-mile area. Large cities always have a safehouse, while smaller settlements are 50% likely to have one. In such a network, you can find at least one loyal member of the cult, who can provide food and a safe place to rest for you and up to six people that you vouch for. You know the locations of your cult’s safehouses, shrines, and sanctums in many settlements and wilderness areas. Skill Proficiencies: Deception, and your choice of Arcana or ReligionĮquipment: A tattoo signifying membership in the cult, a book of heretical or blasphemous truths, 5 sticks of incense, vestments or robes of occult significance, sacrificial dagger, a set of common clothes, and a belt pouch containing 10 gp A cult without strictly enforced rules is soon stamped out by the forces of orthodoxy, however no matter what your cult’s nature, their dictates present challenges in the daily lives of adherents. It might be a cabal dedicated to arcane study, with an archmage or lich at its head. It might be a god, celestial, demon, devil, dragon, fey, or genie. Work with your DM to determine the nature of the cult’s devotion. In either case, you live at the crossroads of criminality and faith or arcane study. Or perhaps you’ve rejected its authority, and now the cult wants to bring you back into the fold… or silence you forever. You might still be active within the cult, receiving orders from its secret masters. You are, or once were, a member of a cult – a religious splinter sect or a secret society of occult study. As such, I think it’s especially well-suited to warlocks, but I love the idea of a setting like Midnight, where paladins have been driven underground. The Cultist background presented here is a fairly close cousin to it, but emphasizes an illegal or heretical sect or secret society. 27 Jun, 2018 in 5e DnD / Aurikesh / design ideas / free content / free gaming resources tagged Aurikesh / backgrounds / D&D 5e / personality features by Brandes Stoddardįor an upcoming project, I felt like the Acolyte background was a little too socially acceptable.
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