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Traits Compendium

Browse background traits by type, source, and eligibility. Combat, social, faith, magic, race, and regional options all live here.

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Drawback

You feel compelled to correct every action and argument that contradicts your worldview.

Ultimate Campaign
Magic

You apprenticed for a time to a craftsman who often built magic items, and he taught you many handy shortcuts and cost-saving techniques.

Advanced Player's Guide
Magic

You apprenticed for a time to an artisan who often built magic items, and he taught you many handy shortcuts and cost-saving techniques.

Ultimate Campaign
Combat

Your concealed weapons strike fast and true.

Ultimate Campaign
Regional

You were born and raised in rugged badlands or hills, and you've become something of an expert at evading the predators, monsters, and worse that haunt the highlands.

Applies to: hills or mountains
Advanced Player's Guide
Regional

You were born and raised in rugged badlands or hills, and you've become something of an expert at evading the predators, monsters, and worse that haunt the highlands.

Applies to: Hills or Mountain
Ultimate Campaign
Faith

You were raised with heretical views that have made it difficult for you to accept most religious beliefs and often caused you or those you love to be treated as pariahs.

Advanced Player's Guide
Faith

You were raised with heretical views that have made it difficult for you to accept most religious beliefs and often caused you or those you love to be treated as pariahs.

Ultimate Campaign
Combat

When you watch and wait before attacking, your strike is true.

Ultimate Campaign
Social

The reputation of your bloodline grants you a degree of fearful respect.

Ultimate Campaign
Combat

When you are gravely wounded, you're stirred to greater combat focus.

Ultimate Campaign
Faith

You were born in a region where your faith was not popular, but you still have never abandoned it.

Ultimate Campaign
Faith

You were born in a region where your faith was not popular, but you never abandoned it.

Advanced Player's Guide
Social

Your position in society grants you special insight into others, and special consideration or outright awe from others.

Ultimate Campaign
Faith

A positive force, philosophy, or divine presence fills you with hope, and is a guiding force of inspiration.

Ultimate Campaign
Combat

Broken firearms are not problems—they are challenges.

Ultimate Campaign
Combat

You made your first kill at a very young age and found the task of war or murder to your liking.

Advanced Player's Guide
Combat

You made your first kill at a very young age and found the task of war or murder to your liking.

Ultimate Campaign
Magic

The bond between you and a close sibling is nearly mystical.

Ultimate Campaign