Bodyguard Background

You have spent your life protecting someone else's. Perhaps it was a noble, or a powerful crime boss; maybe even a brutal warlord. Maybe instead of someone more powerful than you, it was a physically weaker companion or family member. Whatever the case, your life up to this point has been focused around protecting someone.

Skill Proficiencies:  Choose two from Insight, Intimidation, and Perception.

Tool Proficiencies:  You have proficiency in Vehicles (Land).

Languages:  You gain a language of your choice.

Equipment:  A symbol or keepsake from one of the people you guarded (possibly denoting rank), a book of troublemakers who caused continuous problems for one of your charges, a pair of manacles, a set of common clothes, and a belt pouch containing 10 gp.

Feature: Eye of the Guardian

You have a keen eye when it comes to safety. Your companions and yourself can travel at a normal speed through crowds; and you can always pick out the safest route to take through a town or city. This doesn't account for unseen or hidden dangers, such as a lair of vampires hiding in the noble quarter; but you can easily avoid slums and areas where thugs might hang around.

Suggested Characteristics
Body guards are generally good at protecting; whether they're protective by nature or simply good at their job is up to you.

Their skill at guarding and noticing dangers, as well as their relationship to their charges, affect how they act and think. Their flaws could be being overly protective or hesitant, or maybe something that somehow compromises their guarding abilities.