Backgrounds for Cyberpunk 5E

2025 · Sourcebook (rules/options to enhance play)

Backgrounds for Cyberpunk 5E

This supplement provides 30 cyberpunk-themed backgrounds for use in 5E-based campaigns, replacing standard backgrounds with options suited to megacities, corporate control, digital crime, and dystopian street life. Each background represents a character’s former profession, lifestyle, or personal history, granting skill and tool proficiencies, equipment, and a distinctive feature. Backgrounds also provide story hooks involving contacts, enemies, past employers, and other connections, and can be adapted for other high-tech or dystopian settings.

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