Category Archives: Parsantium

Here’s a 5e Old Quarter Commoner background for Parsantium: City at the Crossroads. OLD QUARTER COMMONER You come from a poor family struggling to make ends meet in the Dock Ward or Poor Ward of the Old Quarter. You might be a Sampuran belonging to the shudra caste, a half-orc or an Aqhrani. Either way, you toil awayContinue reading “Old Quarter Commoner 5e Background”

Here’s a 5e Bureaucrat background for Parsantium: City at the Crossroads. BUREAUCRAT You have served in Parsantium’s vast and complex bureaucracy as one of the “beardless”, a junior civil servant. If male, you may be a eunuch, born to a poor family who handed you over to the authorities for schooling in return for a well-paid government jobContinue reading “Bureaucrat 5e Background”

Here’s a 5e Gladiator background for Parsantium: City at the Crossroads. GLADIATOR You have fought many times on the sands of the Hippodrome to entertain the crowds, killing and maiming wild beasts and your fellow gladiators for money and glory. You were either raised from an early age to fight in the stadium, were sent thereContinue reading “Gladiator 5e Background”

Here’s a new race for 5th edition Parsantium games – the vanara. I originally wrote this in 2014 for a game I ran at Dragonmeet, but went on to use it for my character Kamalesh, a vanara cleric of Hanuman with the trickery domain, which I played in my friend Graham’s game, originally set inContinue reading “Vanara – New 5e Race”