Split Personality

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Split Personality

Design Note: This background represents a fictional trope and does not represent dissociative disorders.
Skill Proficiencies: Choose two of the following: Deception, Intimidation, or Performance
Tool Proficiencies: Choose any one tool proficiency
Languages: Choose one language
Equipment: 15gp, a traveling journal with notes from the different personalities, a set of traveler's clothes, a cloak, a bedroll, a trinket that has value to one of the personalities.

Feature: Multiple Minds

Each of your personalities have a different alignment, which can influence how you behave. At any moment, one of your personalities can bubble to the surface, taking control of your person.

Suggested Characteristics

Personality Traits (d8)

1I often say what I am thinking out loud without realizing.
2I travel and explore to find another person like me.
3I tend to be blunt, or socially unaware.
4I have multiple names, I don’t always remember which applies to me now.
5I always look dumb when I'm thinking.
6I tend to fiddle with small objects like sticks or stones.

Ideals (d6)

1Comradery. I am committed to my new family (Good)
2Knowledge. I wish to find out the nature of my mind (Neutral)
3Malice. The voices in my head compel me to do bad things (Evil)
4Discipline. My personalities do not put me above the law (Lawful)
5Pleasure. I love to do my own thing (Chaotic)
6Expectation. I will not have to hide my existence when everyone accepts me (Neutral)

Bonds (d6)

1I have visions of an oncoming event.
2I left my masters side, and must forge my own path in life.
3I have random urges at inconvenient moments.
4I hear the voices of my personalities conversing in my head.
5Nothing can convince me to abandon my allies.
6I am easy to persuade, owing to my condition.

Flaws (d6)

1I am extremely erratic in my behavior.
2I am easily distracted by the world around me.
3I become distressed if I don’t talk out loud enough
4I don’t consider other people’s emotions.
5Sometimes I think I’m losing my mind.
6I am difficult to motivate.


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Source: D&D Wiki - Split Personality (5e Background)

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