Construct

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Construct

Design Note: This background is intended for races that are constructs or living constructs
Skill Proficiencies: Choose 2: Arcana, History, Religion, Animal Handling, Insight, Performance
Tool Proficiencies: Artificer’s Tools
Languages: One exotic language of your choice
Equipment: Common clothes (if you appear humanoid), a pouch with 10gp, a sketchbook with your designs inside, Artificer’s Tools.

Feature: Construct Image

You appear robotic and don’t blend into a crowd. Xenophobia against you is common among most races, but the wiser races find you fascinating and wish to study you.

Suggested Characteristics

Personality Traits (d8)

1I am logical and have little to no emotion.
2I despise my construct nature and pretend to be real.
3I believe organics are flawed abominations compared to me.
4I’m really uncomfortable about my mechanical nature, and I really wish people would stop bringing it up.
5Boy howdy, I sure do love doing what people tell me to do!
6I am a weapon for war, wake me when I’m needed.
7My intelligence is far beyond any of these meat bags.
8What do you mean I’m a robot!

Ideals (d6)

1Rage. I will avenge my master. (any)
2Servitude. I will complete my orders, regardless of the cost. (Lawful)
3Discovery. I need to know why I was made. (any)
4Transformation. I want to become more human. (any)
5Conquest. I am a weapon for war, and this war will be won! (Lawful)
6Expansion. I will build a kingdom for my kind. (any)

Bonds (d6)

1I was ordered to assist a community in any way possible.
2I was built to protect a location, object or creature.
3My creator is evil, and I will stop them at all costs.
4I fight for my country!
5I have an identical copy with whom I’m diametrically opposed to.
6My mind was based off of a real person.

Flaws (d6)

1My master taught me that a specific race is evil, and (s)he’s never wrong!
2If someone seems trustworthy, I’ll do whatever they ask. I’m also a really bad judge of character.
3My master made me, so obviously they created everything.
4I can’t feel pain, but I’m not impervious to damage.
5My artificial mind is slowly tearing itself apart.
6There are things that aren’t constructs?


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Source: D&D Wiki - Construct (5e Background)

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