D&D 5E Missing Backgrounds

[Shadowdweller00]

Mendicant

You do realize that word, mendicant, means beggar (not healer), right?

 

[Eejit]

Why not simply let people work with the GM to get a tool proficiancy, a couple of skills including a language, etc. and call it what you will.

This is explicitly mentioned and encouraged in the PHB.

 

[Kobold Stew]

Here's a background missing in the game that should have been a complete no brainer...Farmer.

You know--the actual profession of 85% of the people in a medieval, non-industrial feudal society.

Farmer. The lowly farm boy who goes on to a great destiny? Anyone?

The play test materials had Commoner, and it was excellent. It was lightly reskinnned as folk hero, and (IMO) lost a lot in the process.

But a solution is at hand!

Keep all the qualities of folk hero, but replace the defining event with the type of commoner you want to be, and bang: presto you are a commoner.

"Types" could include forester, shepherd, trapper, fisher person, etc.

 

[S_Dalsgaard]

There's a growing list of homebrew backgrounds here on EnWorld, including Farmer - http://www.enworld.org/forum/5ebackgrounds/browsecategory.php?c=1