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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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Combat

You are dedicated to defending members of your family.

Ultimate Campaign
Magic

Once per day when you cast a divination spell, you can cast that spell as if your caster level were 1 level higher in the appropriate class.

Ultimate Campaign
Social

You have lived a physically taxing life, working long hours for a master or to support a trade.

Ultimate Campaign
Magic

Once per day, you may make a Strength- or Constitution-based ability check or skill check using you eidolon's ability score in place of your own.

Ultimate Campaign
Regional

The time you spent leaping between slippery logs as they whirled down the river to market taught you how to keep your footing.

Applies to: Forest
Ultimate Campaign
Regional

The time you spent leaping between slippery logs as they whirled down the river to market taught you how to keep your footing.

Applies to: forest
Advanced Player's Guide
Drawback

Your love for another occupies your every thought, and you become despondent when you are away from that person.

Ultimate Campaign
Magic

You were raised, either wholly or in part, by a magical creature, either after it found you abandoned in the woods or because your parents often left you in the care of a magical minion.

Ultimate Campaign
Magic

You were raised, either wholly or in part, by a magical creature, either after it found you abandoned in the woods or because your parents often left you in the care of a magical minion.

Advanced Player's Guide
Magic

One of your parents was a gifted spellcaster who not only used metamagic often, but also developed many magical items and perhaps even a new spell or two—and you have inherited a fragment of this greatness.

Advanced Player's Guide
Magic

One of your parents was a gifted spellcaster who not only used metamagic often, but also developed many magical items and perhaps even a new spell or two—and you have inherited a fragment of this greatness.

Ultimate Campaign
Magic

Either from inborn talent, the whimsy of the gods, or obsessive study of strange tomes, you have mastered the use of a cantrip.

Advanced Player's Guide
Magic

Either from inborn talent, the whimsy of the gods, or obsessive study of strange tomes, you have mastered the use of a cantrip.

Ultimate Campaign
Magic

Your early magical training involved study of the properties and creation of magic items.

Ultimate Campaign
Religion

Your faith in magic allows you to reflexively use the energy of any spell effect on you to save you from death.

Advanced Player's Guide
Religion

Your faith in magic allows you to reflexively use the energy of any spell effect currently on you to save you from death.

Ultimate Campaign
Magic

Once per day as a swift action, you can lose a single 1st-, 2nd- or 3rd-level magus spell to regain 1 arcane pool point.

Ultimate Campaign