Charlatan is always the one who knows best how to make people vent their heart with just few minutes of discussion and how to make the most of their secrets for their own benefit. To know what is going inside the heart of people is a piece of cake for a Charlatan.

Charlatan is good at lying and makes sound scams a real-deal to the people. People seems to be running out of intellect when you offer something to them and people tend to believe whatever you brag about the thing.

With such expertise of interacting and bargaining with the people charlatan has some exponential Skill and Tool proficiencies.

Skill Proficiencies
Deception, Sleight of hand

Tool Proficiencies
Tool proficiencies of a Charlatan include Disguise kit and Forgery kit.

Equipment
Equipment is more or less same for the sample backgrounds, but they can be different with respect to the background.
Charlatan equipment includes; a set of clothes, a disguise kit, tools of cons of your choice (which players can see in the book what tools are included in it), and a belt pouch containing 15gp.

One of the interesting things in the background of a Charlatan is their FAVOURITE SCHEMES, which typically include their scam in which they are good at.
Players can roll a d6 to select the scam which can be attributed to them.

FEATURE: FALSE IDENTITY

A Charlatan has a personality that attracts everyone which they utilize to scam people. They also have a dark side of which no one know about. They are expert at forging documents which includes official papers and personal letters if they have seen the prototype of it.

Suggested Characteristics of a charlatan can be decided in the more or less same manner in which the suggested characteristics of an Acolyte are decided.

Conclusion
Background of Charlatan is interesting, unlike the background of an acolyte which seems to be sedentary in a sense that they have dedicated themselves to the temple or to any religious place but on the other hand Charlatan are dynamic and interesting because of their two different identities.

Forging documents in interesting though, but it is also a double edge sword of a Charlatan because they get things done for their benefit by creating fake credentials and by chance if they get caught while doing scam or other stuff it can get them in trouble. You can also learn more about dnd 5e backgrounds and choose background 5e.