Background Instance

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    "url": "https://api-beta.open5e.com/v2/backgrounds/charlatan/?format=api",
    "key": "charlatan",
    "benefits": [
        {
            "name": "Ability Score Increases",
            "desc": "+1 to Charisma and one other ability score.",
            "type": "ability_score"
        },
        {
            "name": "Skill Proficiencies",
            "desc": "Deception, and either Culture, Insight, or Sleight of Hand.",
            "type": "skill_proficiency"
        },
        {
            "name": "Tool Proficiencies",
            "desc": "Disguise kit, forgery kit.",
            "type": "tool_proficiency"
        },
        {
            "name": "Suggested Equipment",
            "desc": "Common clothes, disguise kit, forgery kit.",
            "type": "equipment"
        },
        {
            "name": "Many Identities",
            "desc": "You have a bundle of forged papers of all kinds—property deeds, identification papers, love letters, arrest warrants, and letters of recommendation—all requiring only a few signatures and flourishes to meet the current need. When you encounter a new document or letter, you can add a forged and modified copy to your bundle. If your bundle is lost, you can recreate it with a forgery kit and a day’s work.",
            "type": "feature"
        },
        {
            "name": "Adventures and Advancement",
            "desc": "If you pull off a long-standing impersonation or false identity with exceptional success, you may eventually legally become that person. If you’re impersonating a real person, they might be considered the impostor. You gain any property and servants associated with your identity.",
            "type": "adventures_and_advancement"
        },
        {
            "name": "Connection and Memento",
            "desc": "Roll 1d10, choose, or make up your own.\r\n\r\n### Charlatan Connections\r\n\r\n1. A relentless pursuer: an inspector who you once made a fool of.\r\n2. A relentless pursuer: a mark you once cheated.\r\n3. A relentless pursuer: a former partner just out of jail who blames you for everything.\r\n4. A former partner now gone straight who couldn’t possibly be coaxed out of retirement.\r\n5. A respected priest or tavernkeeper who tips you off about rich potential marks.\r\n6. The elusive former partner who ratted you out and sent you to jail.\r\n7. A famous noble or politician who through sheer luck happens to bear a striking resemblance to you.\r\n8. The crook who taught you everything and just can’t stay out of trouble.\r\n9. A gullible noble who knows you by one of your former aliases, and who always seems to pop up at inconvenient times.\r\n10. A prominent noble who knows you only under your assumed name and who trusts you as their spiritual advisor, tutor, long-lost relative, or the like.\r\n\r\n### Charlatan Mementos\r\n\r\n1.  A die that always comes up 6.\r\n2. A dozen brightly-colored “potions”.\r\n3. A magical staff that emits a harmless shower of sparks when vigorously thumped.\r\n4. A set of fine clothes suitable for nobility.\r\n5. A genuine document allowing its holder one free release from prison for a non-capital crime.\r\n6. A genuine deed to a valuable property that is, unfortunately, quite haunted.\r\n7. An ornate harlequin mask.\r\n8. Counterfeit gold coins or costume jewelry apparently worth 100 gold (DC 15 Investigation check to notice they’re fake).\r\n9. A sword that appears more magical than it really is (its blade is enchanted with continual flame and it is a mundane weapon).\r\n10. A nonmagical crystal ball.",
            "type": "connection_and_memento"
        }
    ],
    "name": "Charlatan",
    "desc": "[No description provided]",
    "document": "https://api-beta.open5e.com/v2/documents/a5e-ag/?format=api"
}