The Big Traits List
You know how hard it is sometimes to come up with a fun trait for your character? Maybe a huge list to choose form or roll on would help. I compiled the traits of all the characters in my campaigns (including the one I'm just a player in), and I'll go through notebooks and convention folders as well. There are already 102 traits - can we make it to 200 with your own contributions?
(I think it would be more fun to have traits that have already been written on a character sheet, whether it has seen play or not. Feel free to disregard, but please specify if you're posting traits you just came up wit.)
Here's the current list:
Alchemist
Anti-undead league
Apprentice castigator
Apprentice necromancer
Archer
Assassin
Astral smuggler
Astral plane explorer
Astral walker
Astrologist
Avatar of Justice and Wisdom
Bearfolk shaman
Black draconian
Blades ace
Bounty hunter
Brain in a jar
Bunker 666 citizen
Caravan guards brotherhood
Celestial Temple Order
Church of the Cross Bun
Den Tah Goul initiate
Diplomat
Docker
Doppelgänger
Elf
Entertainer
Etheral cartographer
Ex-Chained soldier
Exorcist
Explorer
Falotier of the Great Library
Footman
Forgotten Thulian jailer
Former gang member
Former leper
Former priestess of Xtrofor
Frogman of doom
Game keeper
General in the Crimson Crusades
Grave robber
Greyhawk clan
Guild of traveling entertainers
Half-elf
Half-giant
Hawkperson
Healthy carrier of the deathplague
Highwayman
Hunter
Illusionist
Initiate of the Shamanic Brotherhood
Journeyman alchemist of the Cascadine Order
Knight
Lizardfolk
Mantris
Monster hunter
Nobleman
Norseman
Now a stone golem
Orc
Paladin of Assana
Patrolman of Pénitence
Peddler
Penitent
Pilgrim of Saint Gladiolus
Poor lonesome space cowboy
Preacher
Priestess of Lex
Prince of Gox
Psi-knight
Psychopomp genet
Pyromaniac goblin
Ranger
Ratfolk
Renegade Monk
Reptile
Robot
Scavenger
Second-story man
Sergeant of arms
Shapechanger
Shugenja
Son of an alchemist
Sorcerer
Street urchin
Surgeon
Templar of Assana
Thief
Three-headed hellhound
Thulian scout
Thulian standard bearer
Trader
Trappers guild
Trash elf
Traveler of the Carmine Guild
Tribunal's envoy
Troblin
U.G.L.Y. syndicate leader
Unnoticed
Wallpiercer
Winger messenger
Young space cadet
Zealot of Shargaash
Maybe : Oracle, Dervish turner, Cultist, Executioner...
ReplyDeleteWhile scrolling / reading there was a mix-up and I read "Psychopomp gobelin" and I thought : who was awesome enough to play this character ? ^^
ReplyDeleteMagi max Hmmm, I might have skipped a folder. I don't remember your your character and some others who played recently.
ReplyDeleteI don't remember seeing him. Don't be as dense as your character now ;p
ReplyDeleteSorry for the inconvenience. Didn't mean to.
ReplyDeleteMagi max What inconvenience ? My reply was poorly phrased. Don't worry, it's all my bad.
ReplyDeleteI didn't see the "hellhound" of Docteur Chestel.
ReplyDeleteIn the games I run, I have too :
- an orcish suttler
- a goblin rider
- a scout kobold
- a blade dancer
- a plague bearer
The hellhound is there, under 'three-headed hellhound'.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the list!
Sorry... I read to quickly...
ReplyDeleteSticky, self regenerating, snailman(slowly gonzales), garou (stelech)
ReplyDeleteAnd not yet used
Flying egg, leaping bunny, very very big and fat irish (mac) , cheschire cat, vegan vampire, martial artist kangaroo, kangarou, flashy ghost, flowering mummy, undigestible grandmother,
and my son created a slugs tamer !
ReplyDeleteShadow eater fallen from the stars.
ReplyDeleteJust came up with that one. Sorry.
dumpster gnome, owlface, undead sea flamingo, opium frog, gingerbreadkin, voidbeaver, antlion, hidden tree, four imps in a big coat, minoceratops, reverse spider, existential brewer, emberclops, baron samedi, neon warden
ReplyDeletedemonbonded princess
ReplyDeleteJennifer Erixon These are cool. Have they all been seen in play?
ReplyDeleteEric Nieudan well i have played a dumpster gnome, i wanted to play a minoceratops once, played a demonbonded princess briefly, and am planning on playing an owlface soon, the others are just off the top of my head. didnt realize i was supposed to come up with ones already seen in play... whoops
ReplyDeleteor was it tricerataur? i think it was tricerataur. i have also put a lot of thought into undead sea flamingoes, opium frogs, gingerbreadkin, and voidbeavers
ReplyDeleteand it's not a neon warden, but i did once play a dayglo druid
ReplyDeleteoh and my adventure time character, doctor leprecat, the leprecat doctor!
ReplyDeleteI just think it would be cool to have a big table that says 'Stuck for a trait? Here's some of the shit that people have been coming up with.'
ReplyDeleteThat said, I won't be too picky about it. If it's been on a character sheet, even an imaginary one, it's good enough for me :)
so to reiterate:
ReplyDeletethose that have been played or on a charsheet:
dumpster gnome, dayglo druid, tricerataur, owlface, demonbonded princess, leprecat doctor
want to play some day:
undead sea flamingo, gingerbreadkin, voidbeaver, opium frog
What ? No cook, sewage worker, stone leper, seer, skin trader, talking cat, ghost, flesh ale brewer, nor haruspex?
ReplyDeleteGherhartd Sildoenfein these are all good ideas, but have they been played or written on a character sheet?
ReplyDeleteWarmakk in "les confins de rédemption" is a Shaman Orc.
ReplyDeleteWhen we play with Widou, my character, Markus, was a Stonemason. (You played a martian if i remember).
ReplyDeleteSébastien Oh yeah, was that the Veins of the Earth game?
ReplyDeleteYes and one more time in mushroom village, to collect taxes!
ReplyDeleteStone leper had been played in MM. All the others have been played with a homebrewed, HeroWars-inspired, trait system, except for flesh ale brewer which got no further than a character sheet. Cook was more exactly halfling cook btw.
ReplyDeleteI don't know if I can allow traits from other games... I'll take the leper though!
ReplyDeleteThat was game-ist ;)
ReplyDeleteAs long as it isn't gamist...
ReplyDeleteoh i forgot "vengeful minotaur", "theatrical illusionist", and "goblin-killer"
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ReplyDeleteZombie Post! These are the two groups I made for solo play.
ReplyDeleteGroup: The Renegades
Forester
Town Guard-turned independent
Elf Wizard
Mechani-Magical Artificer
Group: The Five Spice Gang
Cat Burglar
Retired Gladiator
Brute Squad
Cleric of Pnarrka, God of Finding Lost Things
Mentalist
Tomb Robber
Brett Slocum Thanks. I've added them to the list. We have 135 played traits now.
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