City Watch 5E Background

As a dnd city watch you have been served the community at where you’ve grew up, also standing like its one of first lines of the defense which is against to the crime. Of course you were not the soldier, and also directing your gaze’s outward at any possible enemies. But instead of this, your service that you’ve done to your hometown was to help the police its populace, which is to protecting the citizenry from all of the lawbreakers and malefactors of every stripe.

Actually, you might be one of the parts of city watch of waterdeep, and also the baton-wielding police force of the city of Splendors, they are protecting the common folk from thieves and also from rowdy nobility alike. Of course you might’ve been one of the valiant defenders of the Silverymoon and also the member of the Silverwatch or even one of the magic-wielding Spellguard too.

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Probably, you might have hail from the Neverwinter and have been served like one of its Wintershield watchmen, also the newly founded branch of the guards those whoever vow to keep on safe the city of the skilled hands.

Even though if you’re not the city-born or the city-bred, how ever this background can able to be described all of your early years like the member of enforcement. Most of the settlements of any size that have their personal and special constables and police forces too, and even the smaller forces and even the smaller communities that have sheriffs and the bailiffs those who have stabd to ready for being protected their community, even though that you’re most likely to be welcome in the former locations rather than after.

Skill Proficiencies

Athletics, Insight

Tool Proficiencies

None

Languages

Two of your choice

Equipment

A uniform in the style of your unit and indicative of your rank, a horn with which to summon help, a set of manacles, and a pouch containing 10 gp

Suggested Characteristics

In suggested characteristics your bond has likely to be either associated by your fellow watch members or by the watch organization itself and also almost certainly concerns to your community. Perhaps your ideal would be involved to the fostering of peace and safety too. almost an investigator is likely to be have an ideal for being connecting to achieving justice with simply successfully solving the crimes.

Bond

D6Options For Bond
1I would still lay down my life for the people I served with.
2Someone saved my life on the battlefield. To this day, I will never leave a friend behind.
3My honor is my life.
4I'll never forget the crushing defeat my company suffered or the enemies who dealt it.
5Those who fight beside me are those worth dying for.
6I fight for those who cannot fight for themselves.

Ideal

D6Options For Ideal
1 Greater Good. Our lot is to lay down our lives in defense of others. (Good)
2 Responsibility. I do what I must and obey just authority. (Lawful)
3 Independence. When people follow orders blindly, they embrace a kind of tyranny. (Chaotic)
4 Might. In life as in war, the stronger force wins. (Evil)
5 Live and Let Live. Ideals aren’t worth killing over or going to war for. (Neutral)
6 Nation. My city, nation, or people are all that matter. (Any)

Flaws

D6Options For Flaws
1The monstrous enemy we faced in battle still leaves me quivering with fear.
2I have little respect for anyone who is not a proven warrior.
3I made a terrible mistake in battle that cost many lives—and I would do anything to keep that mistake secret.
4My hatred of my enemies is blind and unreasoning.
5I obey the law, even if the law causes misery.
6I’d rather eat my armor than admit when I’m wrong.

Personality Traits

D8Options For Personality Traits
1I’m always polite and respectful.
2I’m haunted by memories of war. I can’t get the images of violence out of my mind.
3I’ve lost too many friends, and I’m slow to make new ones.
4I’m full of inspiring and cautionary tales from my military experience relevant to almost every combat situation.
5I can stare down a hell hound without flinching.
6I enjoy being strong and like breaking things.
7I have a crude sense of humor.
8I face problems head-on. A simple, direct solution is the best path to success.

Feature: Watcher’s Eye

Your all types of experiences in all of the enforcing the law and also dealing by the lawbreakers, which gives you the feel for the local laws and also the criminals. You also can easily find all types of local outpost of the watch or even a similar organization too and also just as an easily pick out a dens of a criminal activity in the community, even though you’re almost likely to be welcome into the former locations rather than to the later.

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Variant City Watch: Investigator

It is most seldom than to watch or patrol members are the community’s investigators those whoever are responsible for solving the crimes after the fact only. Al though such type of folks are rarely found in such type of ritual areas, almost all of the settlements of the decent size has at least been one or two watch members those whoever can have the skill to investigate the crime scenes and even the track down criminals. Any how, if your primary experience was like an investigator, that you’ve proficiency only in Investigation rather than in an Athletics.

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