Weaving, sewing, quilting, tapestries — these arts were part of what common people did in the times that inspire fantasy storytelling. It’s rare that these professions are featured as heroes, but they should be. They are community leaders or practitioners of the quiet circle, often of women unempowered in a society. From these origins one…
Adding Sports as a Tool to your 5th edition D&D game opens your table up to new stories and backgrounds for the characters.
Before you were a hero you were a Caravanserai, a keeper of an outpost that is inn, trade center, waypoint, and safe haven all at once. The traditional western trope of an innkeeper is provided as an alternate.
Whether the peoples in your fantasy world travel by land or water there will be those who specialize in getting others from place to place. This is another new background for 5e D&D.
Shave and a haircut? Two bits an’ a few minutes. I’ll fix those braids too.
Add the Barber to your D&D world.
Spelljammer’s errata says that every player should start with a Feat. With that becoming the new norm in 5e D&D you shouldn’t limit yourself to the three suggested Feats.
Getting rid of Traits, Ideals, Bonds and Flaws is a mistake that reduces story opportunities rather than expand story. There is another way.
Don’t be murdered by clerks, be the clerks that murder. This is another Background for 5th edition D&D.
You are a server of fine teas. Maybe you worked in a tea shop, or were a tea merchant, or were the tea master for a noble estate. You prepare teas and small bites of food for the thinking peoples in the area. This can be as simple as a cuppa or an elaborate ritual.
Often welcomed in strange towns, a messenger sometimes wears an official uniform of a ruling power and at others is a freelancer working without direction from above. You and your messenger companion are a symbol of civilization even in the furthest outposts.
Full Moon Storytelling 