Category Archives: Parsantium

Rolling or choosing a trinket is one of my favourite bits of creating a new 5th edition character. Here are 20 trinkets with a Parsantine twist to supplement those in the Player’s Handbook. My vanara cleric, Kamalesh, rolled 13 on this table, and this item (which turned out to hold a vital organ of aContinue reading “20 Parsantine Trinkets”

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 Parsantium: City at the Crossroads or any 5th edition game – 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 myContinue reading “Vanara – New 5e Race”