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The Snare Crafting skill feat is required to create snares. The only requirement is that the character be trained in Crafting.
How can I build a level 1 ranger with Snare Crafting? Typically initial skill feats come from a character's background, but I'm not aware of a background that provides it. Are there any other options?
Snare Crafting is a General feat, which means a Versatile Heritage Human can take it at level 1, as can any human (or half-elf or half-orc) who takes the General Training ancestry feat.
P. 60 defines a background as consisting of
Each background listed here grants two ability boosts, a skill feat, and the trained proficiency rank in two skills, one of which is a Lore skill. If you gain the trained proficiency rank in a skill from your background and would then gain the trained proficiency rank in the same skill from your class at 1st level, you instead become trained in another skill of your choice.
The backgrounds listed in the book should not be viewed as a narrow set of options, but rather a list of examples to help give you an idea of how to establish your character in the world.
In addition to being Human/Half-Elf/Half-Orc, you could be a Kobold! The level 1 Kobold feat Snare Setter gives you Snare Crafting for free... and if you like snare crafting, then there are some excellent reasons to be a Kobold.
If you are using the variant Deep Backgrounds, then you can get it via having the Robbed Major Childhood Event. It's number 16 on the table.
