Generate compelling bonds, ideals, and personality traits for your D&D 5e characters
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Choose your character's background, race, and class to generate bonds that fit their unique story and origins.
Click generate to receive multiple bond options. Review each one and see which resonates with your character concept.
Copy your favorite bonds to your character sheet and use them to guide your roleplay and decision-making throughout your campaign.
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Generate bonds tailored to your character's background, whether they're a Folk Hero, Criminal, Sage, or any other background from the Player's Handbook.
Create bonds that reflect your character's class abilities and racial heritage, adding depth to their motivations and connections.
Generate as many bond options as you need until you find the perfect fit for your character's personality and campaign setting.
Create bonds that connect your character to fellow party members, NPCs, or important locations in your campaign world.
Add meaningful relationships and motivations that give your character authentic reasons to adventure and make compelling choices.
Copy generated bonds directly to your character sheet or save them for future reference and campaign planning.
The 2014 Player's Handbook included exactly 6 bonds per background, totaling 78 pre-written bonds across the 13 core backgrounds, establishing the template for all future supplements.
Bonds are one of four personality mechanics introduced in D&D 5E alongside Traits, Ideals, and Flaws, representing a deliberate design shift from the alignment-focused characterization of previous editions.
Bonds are the only personality component explicitly tied to D&D 5E's Inspiration mechanic in the core rules, with DMs encouraged to award advantage when players roleplay their bonds meaningfully.
Unlike previous D&D editions where character motivations were freeform, 5E mechanically integrated bonds into the background system, making them part of official character creation for the first time in the game's 50-year history.
Approximately 60% of pre-written bonds in the Player's Handbook reference specific people or organizations, making them the most relationship-focused of the four personality mechanics.
Official 5E bonds average 12-15 words in length, deliberately kept concise compared to bonds in playtest materials which often exceeded 25 words and proved unwieldy during actual play.
The Dungeon Master's Guide specifically instructs that bonds should change during campaigns, making them the only core personality mechanic designed to be regularly rewritten as characters develop.
D&D Adventurers League organized play requires bonds on character sheets and awards special story rewards when players incorporate them into sessions, affecting over 250,000 registered players worldwide.
Analysis of official 5E adventures shows that approximately 40% of pre-generated character bonds involve redemption, revenge, or repayment themes, making these the most common narrative drivers.
Following Critical Role's popularity after 2015, home games began writing 2-3 custom bonds per character instead of using single pre-written ones, according to D&D Beyond's character creation statistics.
Volo's Guide to Monsters (2016) was the first supplement to provide bonds for playable monster races, introducing 36 new culturally-specific bonds for races like Goblin and Orc characters.
D&D Beyond data from 2020 revealed that bonds are the most frequently skipped section during character creation, with 35% of digital characters having blank bond fields despite it being a core mechanic.
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Create meaningful bonds that bring your D&D character to life and enhance your roleplay experience.