Whether a character with the royalty background is heir to the throne of the kingdom where your campaign takes place or to a distant but powerful nation in the same world, the character is situated in a special position within the narrative. These rare backgrounds can give a player a significantly different roleplaying experience by setting their character up with a history or legacy beyond the norm. While most backgrounds are available to any character, some backgrounds are so unusual that just having them makes a character rare and extraordinary. Rare Backgrounds Source Advanced Player's Guide pg. Skill feats expand the functions of your skills and appear in Chapter 5: Feats. If you'd like some suggestions, the Common Lore Subcategories section in the Lore skill page lists a number of Lore skills that are suitable for most campaigns. If a Lore skill involves a choice (for instance, a choice of terrain), explain your preference to the GM, who has final say on whether it's acceptable or not. Lore skills represent deep knowledge of a specific subject. If you gain the trained proficiency rank in a skill from your background and would then gain the trained proficiency rank in the same skill from your class at 1st level, you instead become trained in another skill of your choice. Each background listed here grants two ability boosts, a skill feat, and the trained proficiency rank in two skills, one of which is a Lore skill. This decision is permanent you can't change it at later levels. 60 4.0Īt 1st level when you create your character, you gain a background of your choice.
The rule would thus mean that animal companions don't actually live any longer, since they normally stop being companions first and also that if they had exceeded their natural lifespan and you stopped having them be your companion they'd fall over dead from old age), whereas 'serving as an animal companion extends an animal's natural lifespan by one year for each year served, at the cost of one year of the master's lifespan' or some such would be fine, since the added age remains when the animal is no longer a companion.General Backgrounds | Legacy Backgrounds | Regional Backgrounds Abomination Vaults | Age of Ashes | Agents of Edgewatch | Blood Lords | Crown of the Kobold King | Extinction Curse | Fists of the Ruby Phoenix | Gatewalkers | Kingmaker | Outlaws of Alkenstar | Pathfinder Society | Quest for the Frozen Flame | Sky King's Tomb | Stolen Fate | Strength of Thousands | The Fall of Plaguestoneīackgrounds Source Core Rulebook pg. Just be aware that 'animal companions live longer than normal' will be weird and probably shouldn't be a thing (since animal companion status is temporary and you can swap animal companions whenever, and are supposed to do so when changing environments. Your companion living longer naturally won't really break anything mechanically, and there are a bunch of cool ways to handle it, so it'll probably be ok. Technically this means it doesn't extend the lifespan, RAW, but basically animal aging is outside the scope of the RAW and your GM will have to come up with a subsystem (or at least generate/'research' a lot of content) if they want to include it in their game. It is thus entirely unsurprising that how becoming an animal companion affects a creature's natural lifespan is not addressed anywhere in the rules. Ages are not given for any animals and it is not reasonable to assume that their age progression is intended to model real life progression, though it is clear that they do age and and have the normal age categories all creatures have (it's much more clear in the actual text in the book than in this SRD link, though, but basically, everybody has 'Adult, Middle Aged, Old, and Venerable' as age categories as a general rule, and animals don't have any indication that they are exceptions to this). Ages and age categories are given for only a very small subset of creatures the core player races, a handful of other player races, and the occasional monster.
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