I’ve been reading through Ghosts of Saltmarsh this week! The book presents seven adventures, among them The Sinister Secret of Saltmarsh. You can run these adventures independent of one another, or you can string them all together in a campaign centering on the nautical town of Saltmarsh. To that end, the book offers information on how to work the Player’s Handbook backgrounds into the setting as well as four new backgrounds players can take.
This post presents four character sketches you can use for your Saltmarsh campaign. Each character has one of the four new backgrounds from Ghosts of Saltmarsh. You can use these as character inspiration or as NPCs.
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