Trait System

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For those or you familiar with D&D, we basically merged feats and skills into one thing. If you understand what that means, you can skip the intro. The trait system was engineered with a couple different purposes in mind. The main purpose or the trait system was to give characters more versatility than the stats normally allow. The stats are important benchmarks, but not every character is exactly the same, despite having similar levels or fitness (or, in this case, the same body stat). In the show, we see some characters that are faster than others, and some that are stronger than others. Elfmann, during the grand magic games arc, has hilariously giant muscles, but isn't incredibly fast. Using just a single stat, body, doesn't allow for things like this. We could just separate the stats, but then min-maxing becomes far too easy.

But the above issue is not the only reason for the trait system. There are other things that characters can do that are in no way, shape, or form, accounted for simply by stats. Characters can be knowledgeable about certain topics, or be trained in various martial arts. Others may have reaction times that are far better than their analytic ability. Perhaps you want your character to be a trained healer, but not have healing magic. The possibilities are basically endless for traits you want your character to have.

A number or questions are brought up in freestyle roleplays that the trait system aims to answer. These main question that made us decide on using a trait system is taken from an old debate that experienced roleplayers have probably had at least once: "It doesn't say you can do that in your character's prorile. How are you able to do that in this thread?" On Wings or Fairy Tail, the answer is simple: if you don't have the trait for it, you can't do it. If you want your character to be completely fearless, then they will need that as a trait. If you don't have a trait, your character can't get that special effect. If your personality states you are fearless, then you should probably have several ranks in the fearless personality trait.

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One or the obvious potential issues with a trait system is how to prevent characters from just saying "I have all or the traits!" The simple solution was to just assign a number or points that characters can spend on traits. There were a couple or ways we could have done this. We could have gone with static points, but then a brand new character would have the same amount or traits as an S-Class mage. Considering a D-Class mage is just learning how to be a mage at all, it wouldn't make sense for their mind or body to be as well honed as an S-Class mage. However, all characters can have a great depth or personality, as that's related more to their history than their power as a mage. In order to symbolize this, personality traits are set to maximum right at the start, but the body and mind gain trait points over time. Soul, however, does not get you any trait points. Your soul stat, divided by 10, is the number or spells you can know.

For every stat point that you invest into body or mind, you receive one body and one mind trait point respectively. So a character with 10 body and 20 mind has 10 body trait points and 20 mind trait points. This means that as your character grows in terms or raw power, they will also grow in their skill at wielding it. By default, you get 100 personality points to play with. One or the important things to note is that note not all traits are created equal. Some traits will have more ranks than others, and some traits will cost more per rank than others. This is because some traits, like martial arts skill, will be useful in basically every thread you enter, but other skills, such as knowledge: plants, may only be useful once in a blue moon.

Without further ado, let's get on to the traits themselves. The following sections list all the traits you have to pick from.

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Trait Name: Unending Endurance
Cost per rank: 10
Maximum ranks: 5
Passive or Activated: Passive.
Effect: Increase your maximum stamina by 5% per rank.
Drawback: None.

Trait Name: Tough
Cost per rank: 10
Maximum ranks: 5
Passive or Activated: Passive.
Effect: Increase your maximum hitpoints by 5% per rank.
Drawback: None.

Trait Name: Musclebound
Cost per rank: 10
Maximum ranks: 5
Passive or Activated: Passive.
Effect: Increase your melee damage, maximum encumbrance, and lifting strength by 5% per rank.
Drawback: Cannot take the Titan's strength trait.

Trait Name: Titan's Strength
Cost per rank: 10
Maximum ranks: 5
Passive or Activated: Passive.
Effect: Increase your melee damage, maximum encumbrance, and lifting strength by 10% per rank.
Drawback: Decrease your speed by 5% and cannot take the Musclebound, Nimble, Faster than a Speeding Bullet, or Artful Dodger traits.

Trait Name: Nimble
Cost per rank: 10
Maximum ranks: 5
Passive or Activated: Passive.
Effect: Increase your speed by 5% per rank.
Drawback: Cannot take the Faster than a Speeding Bullet trait.

Trait Name: Faster than a Speeding Bullet
Cost per rank: 10
Maximum ranks: 5
Passive or Activated: Passive.
Effect: Increase your speed by 10% per rank
Drawback: Decrease your melee damage, maximum encumbrance, and lifting strength by 5% per rank and cannot take the Nimble, Musclebound, or Titan's Strength traits.

Trait Name: Artful Dodger
Cost per rank: 10
Maximum ranks: 5
Passive or Activated: Passive.
Effect: You can dodge as if your speed was 10% higher per rank.
Drawback: You cannot take the Titan's Strength or Skillful Blocker traits.

Trait Name: Skillful Blocker
Cost per rank: 10
Maximum ranks: 5
Passive or Activated: Passive.
Effect: You block as if your strength was 10% higher per rank.
Drawback: You cannot take the Artful Dodger or Faster than a Speeding Bullet traits.

Trait Name: Magic Blocker
Cost per rank: 10
Maximum ranks: 5
Passive or Activated: Passive
Effect: You can block 10% of incoming magic damage per rank.
Drawback: Requires 5 ranks in Skillful blocker, and you cannot take the nimble trait.

Trait Name: Acrobatic
Cost per rank: 2
Maximum Ranks: 3
Passive or Activated: Passive
Effect: Rank 1: You always land on your feet, and can execute basic acrobatic maneuvers (Cartwheels, round-offs, somersaults, etc.) while unarmored or lightly armored.
Rank 2: You can perform basic acrobatic maneuvers in heavy armor, and can perform advanced acrobatic maneuvers (the kind of stuff you see in Parkour videos) while in no armor or light armor.
Rank 3: You can perform advanced acrobatic maneuvers in heavy armor.
Drawback: Requires a body stat of 20 per rank.

Trait Name: Intimidation
Cost per rank: 5
Maximum ranks: 5
Passive or Activated: Activated.
Effect: If you have more ranks in this trait than the target has ranks in the fearless personality trait, then you can force them to be afraid of you. At a 1-2 rank difference, it should be noted in their writing, but will not have any effect beyond them being afraid. At a 3-4 rank difference, the target will be so afraid that they will deal 25%/50% less damage. At a 5 rank difference, they will be unable to stay in combat with you, and will flee.
Drawback: -5% of your maximum stamina per post in which you are attempting to be intimidating. Requires a minimum body stat of 50 to use.

Trait Name: Seduction
Cost per rank: 5
Maximum ranks: 5
Passive or Activated: Activated by flirting with the target.
Effect: Rank 1: The target will think you are incredibly attractive, but will not act on it.
Rank 2: They will begin to act on their attraction in private, but only if it is within their personality to do so, and they are not in a monogamous relationship.
Rank 3: They will be more willing to act on your advances in private, and will do so regardless of their personality, unless they are already in a monogamous relationship.
Rank 4: They will act on your advances in private, regardless of their overall personality and relationship status.
Rank 5: They will actively agree to your advances, even in public or in front of their significant other.
Drawback: Cannot be used in combat. Can be resisted by the other person having ranks in Seduction (partial resistance: their ranks in seduction are subtracted from yours), if the other person has the asexual personality trait (complete resistance), or if they are the wrong sexual orientation (reduces your effectiveness by 4 ranks). This can also be resisted with the Honorable personality trait, but only if the target is in a monogamous relationship.

Trait Name: Stealth
Cost per rank: 25
Maximum Ranks: 3
Passive or Activated: Activated.
Effect: At all ranks, this skill cannot be used in combat. In can be used to aid an attempt to flee combat, or to increase the chances of landing the first attack of a fight.
Rank 1: You are able to move silently while unarmored or in light armor, such as leather, and can easily vanish in a crowd of people, provided you don't stick out too much. The distance at which people can identify you is reduced to 50% of the normal value. If the first attack of a fight is launched from stealth, it is 50% harder to defend against.
Rank 2: You are able to move silently while in medium armor, such as chain-mail, and can vanish in any crowd of people or dark corner. The distance at which people can identify you is reduced to 25% of it's normal value. If the first attack of a fight is launched from stealth, it is twice as hard to defend against.
Rank 3: You are able to move silently while in heavy armor, such as plate-mail, and can vanish simply by walking around a corner, or stepping into the shadows. People cannot identify you. If the first attack of a fight is launched from stealth, it is 150% harder to defend against.
Drawback: None.

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Trait Name: Detective
Cost per rank: 5
Maximum Ranks: 4
Passive or Activated: Passive.
Effect: Rank 1: Double the amount of hints or solutions you can receive per thread.
Rank 2: Increase your Analytic Ability by one level, but you lose the rank one perk.
Rank 3: Combine rank 1 and 2.
Rank 4: Increase your analytic ability by two levels.
Drawback: None.

Trait Name: Lightning Reflexes
Cost per rank: 10
Maximum Ranks: 5
Passive or Activated: Passive
Effect: Increase the speed you can react to by 5% per rank.
Drawback: Cannot take the Detective Trait.

Trait Name: Meditative Rest
Cost per rank: 10
Maximum Ranks: 5
Passive or Activated: Passive.
Effect: When you rest, you regain 20% more stamina per rank.
Drawback: None

Trait Name: Knowledge
Cost per rank: 1 for narrow categories, 2 for broad ones. (PM an admin if you're unsure if the category you want knowledge is narrow or broad).
Maximum Ranks: 3
Passive or Activated: Passive.
Effect: You can take this skill multiple times for different categories.
Rank 1: You know roughly as much as is on the average wikipedia page.
Rank 2: You know roughly as much as someone with a 4-year degree in this subject.
Rank 3: You are a complete expert in this field, and are in the top 5% of Ph.d's on the subject.
Drawback: None.

Trait Name: Scavenger
Cost per rank: 5
Maximum Ranks: 7
Passive or Activated: Activated
Effect: You can scavenge D/C/B/A/S/SS/SSS monsters. One class per rank of this trait. Scavenging a monster involves the removal of any and all valuable parts of a monster that can be used for item-creation. Generally speaking, a scavenged monster will net you a 25% discount on one item that is related to the scavenged monster. It should be noted that this counts on a piece-by-piece basis for armor.
Drawback: Requires a Scavenger Capsule of a class at least equal to that of the monster. Capsules cost 100/500/1,000/5,000/20,000/100,000/1,000,000 Jewels, and always weigh 1 pound. 

Trait Name: Wilderness Tracking
Cost per rank: 2
Maximum Ranks: 5
Passive or Activated: Activated.
Effect: Rank 1: You can follow trails up to 30 minutes old.
Rank 2: You can follow trails up to 6 hours old.
Rank 3: You can follow trails up to 12 hours old.
Rank 4: You can follow trails up to 24 hours old.
Rank 5: You can follow trails up to 72 hours old.
Drawback: None.

Trait Name: Persuasion
Cost per rank: 10
Maximum ranks: 3
Passive or Activated: Activated
Effect: Rank 1: You are slightly better at convincing others to do what you want, and they will do so unless it would be out of character for them to do so. They can also resist if they are any lawful alignment, and you are trying to persuade them to do something illegal.
Rank 2: Others will now be willing to commit minor crimes, or go slightly out of character at your request.
Rank 3: Others will be willing to commit major crimes, such as murder or treason, at your request. They will be willing to do things that are considerably out of character for you.
Drawback: If the target has the Stubborn personality trait, your effective persuasion level is reduced by 2.

Trait Name: Perform
Cost per rank: 1
Maximum Ranks: 3
Passive or Activated: Activated
Effect: You can take this rank multiple times. For every time you take it, choose a musical instrument, vocals, dancing, or some other performing art.
Rank 1: You are now competent enough to play relatively basic melodies.
Rank 2: You have reached a very high level of performing ability, and people enjoy listening to you play.
Rank 3: You are finally a virtuoso. At this rank, you are talented enough to multitask while performing, allowing you to use multiple types of performance at once. Only one type of perform needs this skill to perform two things at once. You can generally perform as many things as is physically possible, but only one type of perform can have less than a rank 3.
Drawback: None.

Trait Name: Martial Knowledge
Cost per rank: 15
Maximum ranks: 3
Passive or Activated: Passive
Effect: Rank 1: You have basic knowledge of one martial art or weapon form. This is equivalent to receiving a week of intensive training from a master, or few months of practice on your own. This reduces the cost of parrying to 2 stamina.
Rank 2: You have knowledge equivalent to a black-belt level. This generally takes around six months of one on one training with a master, or several years of casual instruction. This reduces the cost of parrying to 1 stamina. Successive physical attacks in the same post now cost 1, 2, 3, 6, 12, 24, etc stamina.
Rank 3: You are a true master of your discipline. This is generally equivalent to a high-dan blackbelt. You know everything there is to know about this form of fighting. This generally takes several years of study with other masters, or lots of combat experience. No further reductions in parrying stamina cost, but successive attacks in the same post now cost 1, 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, etc stamina per attack.
Drawback: Rank 2 requires B-class status, and Rank 3 requires A-class status.

Trait Name: Monster Tamer
Cost per rank: 10
Maximum Ranks: 3
Passive or Activated: Activated
Effect: This character can manipulate the actions of monsters, causing them to become docile. This is done in two steps. First, the Monster Tamer must locate the beast it wishes to tame. For Rank 1, they can tame E rank Monsters. Rank 2, D, and Rank 3, C. The Monster Tamer must then demonstrate dominance over the beast by beating it within an inch of its life. The base amount is 10% of its HP (if it has 100, must be brought down to 10 or lower). Characters with the Intimidate skill can more easily demonstrate dominance, raising the amount of health the monster can have by 5% per intimidate rank (a character with a 5 in intimidate would need to lower it to at least 35% of its health). These tamed monsters are incapable of combat by being broken in this manner, only being good as pets.
Drawback: These pets can not be used for combat in any way

Trait Name: Monster Master
Cost per rank: 15
Maximum Ranks: 3
Passive or Activated: Activated
Effect: A Monster Master can revive the feral tendencies in a monster, but maintain the loyal bonds of pet and master. They are able to retrain a current pet to be used for combat. This trait requires the equal rank of the trait Monster Tamer to be had before they can take this one.
Drawback: Only one combat trained pet can accompany the character in a thread.

Trait Name: Monster Knowledge Encyclopedia
Cost per rank: 10
Maximum Ranks: 2
Passive or Activated: Passive
Effect: Rank One: Your character knows the diet, habitat, lifespan, and typical behavior of all monsters.
Rank Two: Your character knows all the information listed on a given monster's page.
Drawback: Hefty point investment. Only worth it if you're planning to fight monsters often.

Trait Name: Monster Slayer
Cost per rank: 20
Maximum Ranks: 2
Passive or Activated: Passive
Effect: Rank One:You deal 10% more damage against all monsters. Monsters require 10% more stats when defending against you.
Rank Two:You deal 25% more damage against all monsters. Monsters require 25% higher stats when defending against you.
Drawback: Hefty point investment. Your character will probably be weaker in PvP, but will do amazing on anti-monster jobs.

Trait Name: Monster Blocker
Cost per rank: 20
Maximum Ranks: 2
Passive or Activated: Passive
Effect: Rank One:Monsters deal 10% less damage against you. Defending against monsters can be done with 10% lower stats than normal. Your strength is treated as 10% higher when blocking a monster's attack.
Rank Two:Monsters deal 25% less damage against you. Defending against monsters can be done with 25% lower stats than normal. Your strength is treated as 25% higher when blocking a monster's attack.
Drawback: Hefty point investment. Your character will probably be weaker in PvP, but will do amazing on anti-monster jobs.

Trait Name: Bedrocker
Cost per rank: 1
Maximum Ranks: 5
Passive or Activated: Activated (Oh baby)
Effect: Rank One: Your character knows how to please people in bed, but only if they are experienced with that partner.
Rank Two: Your character can now please a new partner using fairly normal methods after only a single time in bed with them.
Rank Three: You've gotten a bit kinkier, and now have knowledge of how to use fetishes to your partner's delight!
Rank Four: You are now good enough in bed to satisfy a partner the first time you sleep with them.
Rank Five: At long last, you are basically a God in the sack. Nothing is beyond you in bed anymore!
Drawback: Sex isn't exactly the focus of this RP. You're welcome to do it in an X-rated thread, but this site isn't designed to be a smut-site.

Trait Name: Cannibalistic Spell Casting
Cost per rank: 30
Maximum ranks: 1
Passive or Activated: Activate by hitting oneself with a melee attack in order to fuel the spell
Effect: The true masochist can now fuel their spells by inflicting a wound on themselves and using the energy in their blood instead of using up stamina. This energy is equal to 50% of the cost of the next spell you activate. Damage is a normal melee attack that you could make to yourself.
Drawback: Must have all ranks of Masochist in order to use. The melee attack auto hits successfully and the damage cannot be redirected or prevented in anyway. Finally, your stamina when you activate this trait must be equal or lower then 1/4th of your maximum amount of stamina that you have. This trait can only be used only once in a single combat.

Trait Name: Pain Tolerance
Cost per rank: 5
Maximum Ranks: 4
Passive or Activated: Passive
Effect: Rank One: Your character is able to ignore pain from wounds that do 20% of their health or less in a single attack.
Rank Two: Your character is able to ignore pain from wounds that do 30% of their health or less in a single attack.
Rank Three: Your character is able to ignore pain from wounds that do 40% of their health or less in a single attack.
Rank Four: Your character is able to ignore pain from wounds that do 50% of their health or less in a single attack.
Drawback: None.

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All traits in this section can be acquired with either body or mind points.


Trait Name: Sharp Sense
Cost per rank: 5
Maximum ranks: 3
Passive or Activated: Passive.
Effect: Increase the effectiveness of one sense (Sight, hearing, or smell) by one row on the senses chart per rank. This trait can be taken multiple times for multiple senses.
Drawback: None.

Trait Name:Durable
Cost per rank: 1
Maximum Ranks: 3
Passive or Activated: Passive
Effect: Rank One: Your character doesn't mind a bit of wear and tear on their physical body. They will still be normally effected by everything in combat, but their body is tough enough to easily ignore most blisters and everyday effort.
Rank Two: Your character can go longer without food and water than usual before they feel ill effects. By default, you need about 2000 kcals a day and at least a liter of water to be in good shape. Durable characters can survive on half that much for up to a week at a time before it catches up with them.
Rank Three: Your character can survive in relatively extreme temperatures without the proper clothing. They will still suffer damage from things like fire and cold magic, or if they jump into a volcano, but they can ignore things about as well as Gray ignores the cold.
Drawback: This trait is purely for flavor, and you will still need to eat enough food and drink enough water to make up for what you have missed out on eventually.

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It should be noted that you are required to pick a sexuality out of this list. They cost different amounts because of how effective they are against seduction, as well as how easy it makes finding a mate.

Trait Name: Bisexual
Cost per rank: 0
Maximum Ranks: 1
Passive or Activated: Passive
Effect: You are attracted to people of any gender.
Drawback: This means anyone can seduce you. You also have the issue of never knowing whether or not someone is the "correct" sexual orientation. You are generally even more likely than a homosexual to be rejected based on your sexual preferences.

Trait Name: Heterosexual
Cost per rank: 5
Maximum Ranks: 1
Passive or Activated: Passive
Effect: You are only attracted to others of the opposite gender. You generally get the enjoyment of knowing that most people you're interested in are the correct sexual orientation, and so romance is easier for you.
Drawback: You can be seduced by the opposite gender.

Trait Name: Homosexual
Cost per rank: 5
Maximum Ranks: 1
Passive or Activated: Passive
Effect: You are only attracted to others of the same gender.
Drawback: You can be seduced by people of your own gender. Homosexuality is relatively rare, and so it may be harder to find a mate. You may also be rejected by some people because of your sexuality.

Trait Name: Asexual
Cost per rank: 10
Maximum Ranks: 1
Passive or Activated: Passive
Effect: You are completely immune to seduction, because you are uninterested in sex or physical intimacy.
Drawback: Finding someone to have a relationship with is quite challenging, as most people tend to want a physical element to their romantic involvements.

Trait Name:Brave
Cost per rank:5
Maximum Ranks:5
Passive or Activated: Passive
Effect:For every rank in this trait, a rank of Intimidate can be overcome passively, for the Courage of the character overpowers their fear
Drawback:None

Trait Name: ConMan/Woman
Cost per rank:10
Maximum Ranks:2
Passive or Activated: Passive
Effect:For every rank in this trait,the smooth lips of the character is able to reduce shop costs by 5%, get 5%more gold from sales, and get 5% more gold from completed jobs, by nature of their sweet talking.
Drawback:Cannot be Lawful Good Alignment, for Lawful Good characters find shame in such cons.

Trait Name:Pious
Cost per rank:10
Maximum Ranks:2
Passive or Activated: Passive
Effect:This person is exceptionally holy, and those who look upon him or her can easily know such a thing.

Rank One:At Rank 1, trying to influence characters of Good Alignment is easier, as they are more willing to put trust in the Pious character Can be accompanied by the persuasion trait,increasing its effectiveness by one rank for Good characters.

Rank Two:At Rank 2,characters of Good Alignment are very willing to put trust in the character,even willing to overlook some small sins. Neutral Characters are more willing to trust the character as well. Can be accompanied by the persuasion trait,increasing its effectiveness by two ranks for Good characters, one rank for Neutral.
Drawback:Characters of Evil Alignment are harder to influence, and deception of Evil characters is near impossible, especially at Rank 2. Cannot be of Evil Alignment.

Trait Name: Wicked
Cost per rank:10
Maximum Ranks:2
Passive or Activated: Passive
Effect:This person is exceptionally Dastardly, and those who look upon him or her can easily know such a thing.

Rank 1: At Rank 1, trying to influence characters of Evil Alignment is easier, as they are more willing to put trust in the Wicked character. Can be accompanied by the persuasion trait, increasing its effectiveness by one rank for Evil characters.

Rank 2: At Rank 2, characters of Evil Alignment are very willing to put trust in the character, even willing to overlook some goody-two shoes acts by the Evil character. Neutral Characters are more willing to trust the character as well. Can be accompanied by the persuasion trait, increasing its effectiveness by two ranks for Evil characters, one rank for Neutral.
Drawback:Characters of Good Alignment are harder to influence, and deception of Good characters is near impossible, especially at Rank 2. Cannot be of Good Alignment.

Trait Name: Alluring
Cost per rank: 15
Maximum Ranks: 1
Passive or Activated: Passive
Effect: Alluring characters are exceptionally attractive, and know how to use this to their advantage. They are naturally better at seduction and persuasion by 1 rank, but only if they have those traits.

Drawback: Honorable characters tend to dislike alluring ones. The seduction attempts of an alluring character will gain no benefit against honorable characters. Their persuasion attempts will actually suffer a -1 rank penalty against honorable characters, as these types are wary of others using charm to get what they want.

Trait Name:Studious
Cost per rank:10
Maximum Ranks:2
Passive or Activated: Passive
Effect:For every Rank or this trait,the character gains 10% more EXP. 
Drawback:Chaotic Characters cannot have more than 1 rank in this trait. This trait requires a Mind Stat of 20 per rank regardless of alignment.

Trait Name:Honorable

Cost per rank:10
Maximum Ranks:1
Passive or Activated: Passive
Effect:If the character is in a monogamous relationship, the effect of Seduction is able to be resisted.
Drawback:None

Trait Name:Stubborn

Cost per rank:5
Maximum Ranks:2
Passive or Activated: Passive
Effect:Reduces the effectiveness or Persuasion by one Rank per level of Stubborn
Drawback:None

Trait Name:Paranoid
Cost per rank:15
Maximum Ranks:3
Passive or Activated: Passive
Effect:This kind of character is quite unstable, constantly afraid of attack from behind. The bonus for stealth attacks of equal or lesser rank are able to be completely negated.
Drawback:This character must be visibly effected by their paranoia, and have difficulties forming relationships. At Rank 3, this character is completely too paranoid for any sort of sentient interaction, and will attack or flee from anyone.

Trait Name:Rowdy

Cost per rank:5
Maximum Ranks:3
Passive or Activated: Activated
Effect:These characters are loud and distracting. They can attract attention to themselves, whether for good or for bad.

Rank 1:Anyone, up to three total people, within speaking range will be alerted to your presence when you choose to be rowdy. They may choose to ignore you, but they will know that you're there.

Rank 2:Anyone, up to seven total people, within speaking range will find you impossible to ignore, their attention focused on you. Up to three additional people will be alerted to your presence within shouting range.

Rank 3: Anyone within shouting range will be unable to ignore your presence.
Drawback:People that are unable to ignore you tend to be more aggressive. Also, only Chaotic characters can take this trait.

Trait Name: Wild
Cost per rank: 10
Maximum Ranks: 2
Passive or Activated: Passive
Effect: Rank One: +3 Ranks in Wilderness Tracking, +1 Rank of "Knowledge: Wilderness Survival", +1 Rank of Scavenger, +1 Rank of Durable.
Rank Two: +2 Ranks in Wilderness Tracking, +2 Ranks of Knowledge: Wilderness Survival, +1 Rank of Scavenger, +2 Ranks of Durable
Drawback: Your character must be "wild" and unused to the norms of living around people. These characters can never live in the cities, and are generally troubled by communicating with people. At rank 2, there is even a bit of paranoia towards cities, and the character will always avoid them if possible. If the character is forced into a city by plot purposes, they should be obviously bothered by the predicament IC.

Trait Name: Traveler
Cost per rank: 5
Maximum Ranks: 4
Passive or Activated: Passive
Effect: By default, the average character can only march for 8 hours a day. This trait increases the time per day you can spend traveling by 2 hours per rank.
Drawback: None.

Trait Name: Energetic
Cost per rank: 5
Maximum Ranks: 3
Passive or Activated: Passive
Effect:Rank One: Your character will not appear to be bothered by expending a bit of energy. They will show no signs of exertion at all until they reach 75% stamina.
Rank Two: From 74%-50% of your stamina, you will still only appear to be breaking a bit of a sweat, and will still appear to be good to go. However, on the inside, you will still be just as tired. You merely don't let that show.
Rank Three: You are so energetic, that there is no visible effort until you get below 50% stamina. From 49-25% stamina you will be breaking a healthy sweat, but still seem undaunted by this. From 24%-0% you still have the normal level of fatigue visible.
Drawback: Seemingly rapid changes in energy levels once you dip below a certain level. These are purely external traits, and you don't actually have any more stamina than normal.

Trait Name: Docile
Cost per rank: 10
Maximum Ranks: 1
Passive or Activated: Passive
Effect: Docile characters naturally do not seem like a threat. Unless they have weapons armed and pointed at you, chances are that your character won't start a fight with them.
Drawback: Evil characters ignore this trait.

Trait Name: Serious
Cost per rank: 10
Maximum Ranks: 1
Passive or Activated: Passive
Effect: You are able to ignore rowdy characters.
Drawback: This is because you are a total bore, and are focused on whatever you are doing.

Trait Name: Masochist
Cost per rank: 5
Maximum Ranks: 4
Passive or Activated: Passive
Effect: One rank of pain tolerance is granted per rank of masochist. In addition, you will never be capable of screaming out in pain. Instead, your screams must be ones of visceral pleasure.
Drawback: Your character may be seen as either a pervert or insane, depending on who is judging them.

Trait Name: Insane
Cost per rank: 50
Maximum Ranks: 1
Passive or Activated: Passive
Effect: Your character is completely nuts, and ignores things like logic and emotion naturally. You are generally immune to persuasion and intimidation. You may be immune to other things, depending on how your exact type of insanity works. You should specify what things don't work due to your mindset in your personality section. This is a dominant personality trait, and everything else must make sense in terms of you having this trait.
Drawback: As was said before, you're completely nuts. You cannot form elaborate plans in battle or outside of it. You generally can't have any other traits that would make your character seem smart, such as Detective or most types of Knowledge. This does not include Martial Knowledge. Because this is a dominant trait, you may be hard-pressed to justify having other traits.

Trait Name: Scary
Cost per rank: 5
Maximum Ranks: 4
Passive or Activated: Activated by using Intimidation.
Effect: Rank One: Scary characters are naturally intimidating, and receive a +1 bonus to intimidation.
Rank Two: +2 bonus to intimidation.
Rank Three: You are so scary that you can now ignore the body stat requirement on intimidation.
Rank Four: You are a master of fear, and can intimidate people without exerting any stamina.
Drawback: Scary characters are usually hard to get along with, unless you are scary as well. If someone gets to know you, they may not believe you are all that scary, unless you are constantly attempting to intimidate them. However, this drawback can be counted if you also have the docile trait. If having both those traits doesn't make sense to you, look at Mirajane for an example.

Trait Name: Loyal
Cost per rank: 15
Maximum Ranks: 3
Passive or Activated: Passive
Effect: At all ranks, this trait will overwrite any other defenses you might have against seduction, persuasion, or intimidation, assuming it has to do with breaking your guild's rules.
Rank 1 - Loyal people are capable of ignoring up to two ranks of Seduction, Persuasion, and Intimidation attempts made against them, if it would go against the rules of their guild.
Rank 2 - Loyal people are capable of ignoring up to four ranks of Seduction, Persuasion, and Intimidation attempts made against them, if it would go against the rules of their guild.
Rank 3 - Loyal people are completely immune to Seduction, Persuasion, and Intimidation attempts made against them, if it would go against the rules of their guild.
Drawback: Must belong to a guild. Loyal people tend to get upset when somebody bad mouths their guild, leading to fighting. At rank 3, they will immediately initiate combat with someone who insults their guild, no matter how mild the insult. This trait will keep you from betraying your guild, but it won't help you the rest of the time. If you don't take 3 ranks is this trait, it may be a liability at times because of how it overwrites other defenses.

Trait Name: Knowledgeable
Cost per rank: 5
Maximum Ranks: 2
Passive or Activated: Passive
Effect: Your knowledge traits receive all receive +1 rank per rank you have in this trait. This does not apply to martial knowledge.
Drawback: None.

Trait Name: Light Sleeper
Cost per rank: 10
Maximum ranks: 1
Passive or Activated: Passive
Effect: Rank One: Unless a person is Stealthed, having Light Sleeper allows one to wake up from any type of noise within 20 feet.
Drawback: Only works while sleeping.

Trait Name: Early Riser
Cost per rank: 5
Maximum ranks: 3
Passive or Activated: Passive
Effect:

• Rank One: You need only 7 hours of rest in order to be fully healed and not exhausted rather than the full 8 hours. You haven’t fully taught your body to recover with only a little amount of sleep.
• Rank Two: Now you begin to be able to stay awake for larger amounts of time rather than having to sleep all night. You only need 6 hours of sleep rather than the full 8 hours.
• Rank Three: Having mastered the art of the Night Owl you now only need 5 hours of sleep to fully recover from wounds and exhaustion.

Drawback: none

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If you can think of something we forgot in this list, feel free to PM myself or roadrunner with a custom trait, using the template below.
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