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Addict

Background
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Tweaked from 5eYou already know this as 5e Acolyte (likely) — Like the Acolyte, this is a roleplay-flavored background granting two social-skill proficiencies and a contact-network feature — but instead of a faith community offering free temple healing, you have an addict's underworld network for sourcing and identifying substances. ✨

You hammer down your fifth bottle of the night, do your last bit of snuff, and bid farewell to the seedy cantina barman. You stagger onto the streets and find a nearby alley in which you empty the night's contents. To many, the next morning's hangovers would be hell. To you, they're a ritual.

Feature: Addicted. You've been abusing substances for a long time. You always know who to talk to and where to find substances, and you can often identify them in their raw form.

Skill Proficiencies. Choose two from Deception, Performance, Persuasion, and Sleight of Hand

Addicts can be rude and uncouth, wearing their addiction visibly, or they might hide that addiction and appear to function normally. Importantly, and varying with every addict, why are you addicted? To forget the past? To drown your sorrows? Or are you simply chasing the dragon?