Traits

[Portia Bianca Rosalind Cutty]

This is the current list of trait modifiers and detractors for use.

Trait modifiers are traits that boost and make the characters more Sueish or Stuish. Buying trait modifiers costs points.

Trait detractors are normal/unhelpful/balancing traits that make characters less Sueish or Stuish. Detractors, overall, make your character more dimensional. Buying trait detractors gives you points.

All student characters begin with thirty trait points and may gain points each year.

Teacher characters begin with forty points.

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No hard limit will be placed on the buying of detractor traits, but try and control your buying in that area since in general it will only make your character more balanced and rounded out, even with the power increase that goes with more points available for modifiers.

A good rule of thumb is to try to not double the amount your character originally starts with.

[Portia Bianca Rosalind Cutty]

This section holds modifier traits. These cost points.

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Appearance (2 Point)

Strange Natural Hair color
Strange Natural Eye Color
Multicolored Natural Hair
Changing Eye color
Smells nice
Heterochromatic eyes
Flawless skin
Beautiful/handsome
Cool scar(s)
Fangs
Cool marks other than scars
Multiple piercings
Tattoos
Trendy name
Wings

Abilities (6 Points)

Brilliant Sharpshooter
Brilliant hacker
awesome singing skill
awesome musical talent
wonderful dancer
multilingual
Awesome fighting skills
brilliant at (x)

Possessions (6 Points)

owns ancestral weapon
owns a katana
owns a scimitar
owns a broadsword
owns 'x' (type of weapon)
owns a magic amulet (that can do x; 'x' must be confirmed as okay by mod)
owns a spellbook (spells within spellbook should be confirmed as okay by mod)
owns a backpack, bag, purse of holding

Personality (6 points)

amnesiac
Pollyana Optimistic
pretend depressed
Evangelistic (Religion, Atheism, character's favored stance or idea, choose something)
'vegetarian'
'goth'

Life (10 Points)

Very Good Luck
Very Bad Luck
terrible past
adopted
rich
poor
royalty
heir
child of politician(s)
child of millionaire
foster kid
orphan
runaway
From nonexistent country
cyborg

Powerful skills (10 points)

genius (a required trait for joining at the youngest age possible)
fantastic healing
superhuman hearing
superhuman sight
superhuman stamina
superhuman strength
Telepathy
Telekinesis
elemental control
Healing abilities (heals others)
Animal communication
magical (please specify)

Oddities (20 Points)

Half human
third human
Elf
Fairy
Shapeshifter
Vampire
Immortal

[Portia Bianca Rosalind Cutty]

This section holds detractor traits. These give you points to use for more modifiers.


Appearance (2 point)

pudgy
bad hair
unattractive scar(s)
unattractive burns
visibly glitters
unfashionable
freckles
needs glasses

Personality (4 points)

extremely picky eater
gullible
violent
hypochondriac
kleptomaniac
pyromaniac
other mania (please specify)
hard worker (a required for joining at the earliest age possible)
exceedingly nervous
easily embarrassed
responsible
chronically late
antisocial
introvert
insomniac
actually depressed
sleeps too much
caffeine fiend

Life (small scale, four points, does not stack on larger life points)

gay (closeted)
youngest of siblings
divorced parents
vegetarian (for environmental reasons)
rural (grew up on farm or in countryside)
atheist


Abilities (5 points)

perpetually clumsy
bad at school
bad at exams
dyslexic
bad singer
bad at sports
cannot control special power (must have special power from modifer set)

Health (6 points)


aesthetically displeasing disease
allergic (to x; add .67 points for each allergy that is common)
amputee
blind
colorblind (specify to what degree)
requires a wheelchair
requires crutches
requires a cane
frail (weak muscles and/or bones; does not stack with requiring a wheelchair)
obese
asthmatic
bipolar disorder
multiple personality disorder
obsessive compulsive disorder
attention deficit disorder
other mental disorder (please specify)
phobia (fear of X; must be something that can and will apply in the game, such as a fear of heights, the dark, water, horses, and so forth)
Needs therapy (if for something other than terrible past or amnesia)
vegetarian (for health reasons, cannot eat meat without getting actually sick)

Life (8 points)

pious
minority
middle class
working class
has large family
gay (does not stack with earlier one)
vegan (will not eat or wear animal products for environmental concerns)
unclaimed/unwanted illegitimate child (is one, not has one!)
hoarder (keeps everything to the point of impracticality.)

Nullifiers (Cancel out point loss of corresponding required trait)

Traumatised (must have terrible past modifer)
PTSD (must have terrible past modifer)
Needs therapy (requires terrible past or amnesia)

[Portia Bianca Rosalind Cutty]

Suggestions

Suggestions are always accepted for new traits, both modifiers and detractors and may be posted here.

[miah]

How does the modifier for the allergies work?

[Less Than Beta East Tundra]

How about unusual items as a modifier, like a spell book or a backpack that's larger on the inside than the outside?

[Portia Bianca Rosalind Cutty]

Apr 30, 2010 22:09:08 GMT -5 miah said:

How does the modifier for the allergies work?

The allergic trait is worth six points. You get an additional .67 points for each common allergy.

So, say your character is allergic to strawberries. This is a base of six points.

If they are also allergic to animal dander, add on an additional .67 points.

Each three additional allergies gives your character another two points to spend.

So, if your character was allergic to strawberries (+6), animal dander (+.67), bees (+.67), and peanuts (+.67) they get a total of eight extra points.

[Portia Bianca Rosalind Cutty]

May 1, 2010 12:27:28 GMT -5 Less Than Beta East Tundra said:

How about unusual items as a modifier, like a spell book or a backpack that's larger on the inside than the outside?

That sounds like an excellent idea.

[miah]

How about points add-ons for faked/self diagnosed/silly effects/just used as an excuse mental disorders?

For instance--"Mary Sue #3573 has 'OCD'. Her obsession is that her hair is perfectly normal, straight, thin, and brown. She is compelled to spend at least an hour per day ogling 'special' Mary Sue hair, while wangsting about how it sucks to be normal.

Marty Stu # 5938 enjoys being violent and throwing cars around to see how well they smash. He blames his violence on 'bipolar', and says he cannot help his behaviors, so everyone should be going 'oh poor thing' instead of trying to arrest him for smashing their cars. Of course, they do, and he is never charged with any of the damage he does.

Anyway, things like that.

[Portia Bianca Rosalind Cutty]

May 3, 2010 13:58:35 GMT -5 miah said:

How about points add-ons for faked/self diagnosed/silly effects/just used as an excuse mental disorders?

For instance--"Mary Sue #3573 has 'OCD'. Her obsession is that her hair is perfectly normal, straight, thin, and brown. She is compelled to spend at least an hour per day ogling 'special' Mary Sue hair, while wangsting about how it sucks to be normal.

Marty Stu # 5938 enjoys being violent and throwing cars around to see how well they smash. He blames his violence on 'bipolar', and says he cannot help his behaviors, so everyone should be going 'oh poor thing' instead of trying to arrest him for smashing their cars. Of course, they do, and he is never charged with any of the damage he does.

Anyway, things like that.

Not quite sure what you mean, would you mind explaining further?

[Destiny Valencia Everett]

Like "pretend depressed", only with other mental disorders.

[Portia Bianca Rosalind Cutty]

May 3, 2010 15:14:56 GMT -5 Destiny Valencia Everett said:

Like "pretend depressed", only with other mental disorders.

Ah, yes, would work, use same point value as. I'll add something along those lines in later.

[Less Than Beta East Tundra]

What about being from heaven or hell or some other otherworldly dimension that's a bit too vague to be a country?

EDIT: Also, what point value would brain damage resulting in unusual behavior be?

[Portia Bianca Rosalind Cutty]

May 4, 2010 19:36:17 GMT -5 Less Than Beta East Tundra said:

What about being from heaven or hell or some other otherworldly dimension that's a bit too vague to be a country?

EDIT: Also, what point value would brain damage resulting in unusual behavior be?

Being from heaven, hell, random dimension would go under the same category.

And brain damage related items would go under the health section, I guess, along with the other mental health related things.

That said, for everyone reading, even if your characters hit one of these things, I will go and say right now that if it's just a minor thing and isn't something that is going to be played up, it doesn't need to be added for the point usage.

[Damien Griffiths]

Oh, I see you made a modifier for divorced parents. That's definitely going to filter in for Damien.

[William Jason Fredericks]

How much for superhuman sense of smell/taste? I'm more interested in the taste but taste and smell are closely related in terms of senses. Smell would be pretty useful at times too.

[Portia Bianca Rosalind Cutty]

May 8, 2010 1:02:45 GMT -5 William Jason Fredericks said:

How much for superhuman sense of smell/taste? I'm more interested in the taste but taste and smell are closely related in terms of senses. Smell would be pretty useful at times too.

I would say that would go under the same area as superhuman stamina and so on, and as you say, they are closely linked, so would be grouped together.

Though I can't help but wonder why anyone would want superhuman taste.

[Druu Tandy]

Any chance of getting a technopathy modifier?

[Portia Bianca Rosalind Cutty]

May 8, 2010 21:29:42 GMT -5 Druu Tandy said:

Any chance of getting a technopathy modifier?

That would be thrown in under Powerful Skills for ten points.