Outlander

"You grew up in the wilds, learning to survive far from the comforts of civilisation. Surviving unusual hazards of the wild will enhance your prowess and understanding."

Background Features

• Athletics Proficiency: Gain Proficiency with Strength (Athletics) Ability Checks.
• Survival Proficiency: Gain Proficiency with Wisdom (Survival) Ability Checks.

Background Goals

Performing certain actions that align with this background will reward Inspiration. These goals can be accomplished by any member of the active party, and Inspiration points are pooled, up to a maximum of 4.

Act One

Wilderness

• A Mother's Fury: Triumph over the mother Owlbear.
  • Does not require actually fighting the Owlbear. Convincing her not to attack using Speak with Animals is sufficient.
• Sticky Fingers: Secure the pouch from the spider crevice.

The Risen Road

• Cursebreaker: Discover the curse of Yeenoghu and destroy his hyenas.
• Rock Steady: Survive the bandit's rolling boulder trap.

Sunlit Wetlands

• Eyes Of The Wild: See past the illusion covering the swamp.
• Walking On Air: Successfully use a fairy ring.
  • "Fairy ring" refers to the mushroom cirlces found in the Sunlit Wetlands and Underdark.

Goblin Camp

• Cub Tamer: Successfully tame the owlbear cub.

Underdark

• A Noble Endeavor: Effectively use a noblestalk mushroom.
• Abyss Jumper: Enter the Underdark through the bottomless well.
• Clever Cuckoo: Steal from the giant bird's nest in the Underdark.
• Mushroom Enthusiast: Destroy each kind of hazardous Underdark mushroom.
• Nest Egg: Take an item from the Carrion Crawler nest.

Grymforge

• The Floor Is Lava: Defeat the Lava Elemental in the lava lake.

Act Two

Shadow-Cursed Lands

• Bumps in the Dark: Conquer three combat encounters in the Shadow-Cursed Lands.
• Child's Play: Beat Oliver at hide and seek without alerting the shadow creatures.
• Embracing the Environment: Survive two rounds of the shadow curse.
• No Cursed Stone Left Unturned: Explore each key area of the Shadow-Cursed Lands.
• Sleeping in the Dark: Take a full Long Rest in the Shadow-Cursed Lands.

Reithwin Town

• I've Had Worse: Successfully drink and resist the negative effects of the brewer's concoction.

Moonrise Towers

• Delving into the Deep: Enter the oubliette... for better or for worse.
• Grove Keeper's Keeper: Protect Halsin's portal while he saves the spirit of the land.
• Mutual Respect: Meet Steelclaw the tadpole-hunting cat.
• Never Liked Stairs: Enter a restricted area in Moonrise Towers from the outside.

Gauntlet of Shar

• Always a Step Ahead of the Darkness: Reach Nightsong without having been affected by the shadow curse.
• Tools of the Trade: Obtain the orthon's crossbow.

Mind Flayer Colony

• From Head to Toe: Explore all sections of the mind flayer colony.

Act Three

Rivington

• Cat's Got Your Tongue?: Find the missing letters.
• Enlisted Avian: Meet Commander Lightfeather.
• Gifts of the Wilds: Give raw goods as a donation.
• Primary Needs: Tame the dilophosaurus, making it non-hostile.
• Macabre Hunt: Find all the pieces of Dribbles' body and return them to Lucretious.
• Solemn Farewell: Witness the Gur funeral.

Lower City

• Beneath the Gate: Enter the Undercellar.
• Catastrophic Structural Failure: Blow up the Steel Watch Foundry.
• Down to the Depths Below: Enter the Iron Throne.
• For Once, a Warm Meal: Obtain room and board at the Elfsong Tavern.
• Horizon Walker: Travel through the House of Hope portal.
• Nature of the Beast: Discover the fate of the Githyanki egg.
• The Face of Evil: Reach the Temple of Bhaal.