Traits are different features you select to give your character mechanical skills, benefits, and boons. You typically start off with 2 traits + your Heritage trait. Humans' racial trait lets them choose their own, for a total of 3 chosen traits.
Below is the list of current available Traits!
You gain advantage when Testing to do acrobatic tricks such as tumbling, long-distance jumps, climbing, and maintaining balance.
Provided the right reagents and recipes, you can mix potions, elixirs, and poisons. You also gain advantage when identifying unknown liquids.
You have mastered wearing armor like a second skin. When wearing any form of armor, you have an extra 3 Hit Points that must be lost before you take physical damage. These hit points cannot be healed and must be restored via repairing your armor. It takes a full 8 hours to repair all 3 Hit Points.
You can select Improvised Weapons as a Weapon Group. You do not get to pick a Weapon to Master. Instead, when fighting with any Improvised Weapons, you get one extra improvised attack each turn.
You are able to communicate with animals. This form of communication is primitive and very simplistic. This is somewhat magical in nature, as you are able to understand them as well as a person.
You can attack with primal and furious rage. When you make an attack within near range, you can choose to make that attack at Disadvantage. If you do and succeed, you deal an additional damage with that attack.
You can make a Test at disadvantage, restoring 1 Depletion point to any object on a success. You make any Test related to Blacksmithing knowledge at Advantage.
While fighting Unarmed, your Evade actions Test with 2d6 (instead of 1d6.)
You have Advantage on Tests to convince someone of something or otherwise influence them.
If your attack drops an enemy to 0 Hit Points, you may immediately make an extra attack with Disadvantage.
You do not suffer Disadvantage for having your sight impaired.
When an adjacent ally is hit, before Evade Tests are made, you may choose to have that attack hit you instead.
When an attack would reduce you to 0 Hit Points, it instead reduces you to 2 Hit Points. You can do this once per day.
While you are intoxicated, you may Evade without spending an action. However, you have Disadvantage on all rolls that require careful and delicate manipulation, social grace, or might be severely impacted by your intoxication
You gain Advantage when attempting to find your way through a dungeon or cave system and when attempting to find treasure or identify creatures native to dungeons or caves.
You gain Advantage when Testing to see if you know specific information.
When Testing to recall information you have seen or heard previously—even in passing—you succeed on a roll of 2, 3, 4, 5, or 6.
Once per day, you may take one turn (two actions) to reduce your HP maximum by two and summon a spirit in the shape of an animal, no larger than a medium-sized dog. This familiar appears within 5 feet of you.
You may only have one familiar at a time. Familiars have 1 Hit point and a movement speed of 25 feet, and cannot attack. They cannot speak, but can communicate telepathically with their summoner. If a familiar’s Hit Points are reduced to 0, or if it moves more than 50 feet away from you, it vanishes, and your HP maximum returns to normal.
Your speed increases from 25 feet to 30 feet. You gain Advantage on Tests when chasing or running.
As an Action, you can Test 2d6 to heal a creature other than yourself. If the Test is successful, the target creature is healed for 2 Hit Points. Once per day, you may make this Test, curing one non-magical poison or disease on a success. You must be next to the creature to heal it. This trait can be flavored to be magical healing or non-magical healing at your discretion!
You gain Advantage when Testing to discern whether or not someone is telling the truth or lying.
You may reroll one Test per day.
When using the Focus Action, your next attack with a ranged weapon is successful on a Test of 3, 4, 5, or 6, and deals 2 damage instead of 1.
You can select Unarmed as a Weapon Group to be proficient with. You must select a particular martial arts attack as your Mastered Weapon.
You gain Advantage when Testing to pick locks, steal, or do sleight-of-hand.
Once per day, you can use an action to create 1d6 magical snacks. These snacks can be fed to a creature using an action, healing the affected creature 1 HP. The snacks lose their magical effect after 8 hours. In addition, You have advantage on all cooking related Tests.
If an enemy within range fails to hit with an attack against you, you may immediately make an attack with Disadvantage against that enemy.
You gain Advantage when Testing to gain information about your surroundings or find things that may be hidden. You gain this even while asleep.
When you roll for Depletion, you can choose to reroll once per day. You must keep the second result. You have 9 inventory slots instead of 6.
You are able to reload a Ranged Weapon and fire it in one Action.
You gain Advantage on all Save Tests.
While wielding a shield, Test with 2d6 on Evade or Squirmy Tests instead of 1d6. If you choose this Trait, your Adventurer gains a shield at Adventurer creation.
You gain Advantage when Testing to hide or sneak around without others noticing you.
You have spent years learning the sacred language of the arcane, allowing you to read powerlaced words from magic scrolls.
To use a magic scroll, they must be holding it, and then simply perform a standard 2d6 Test. A success results in the casting of the scroll’s ability, but it also destroys the scroll. If you fail your Test, the scroll is not destroyed, but you obviously do not successfully cast the spell.
Your family carries magic in the blood, and while the centuries have diluted the power, you are still able to subtly influence the world around you by merely willing it to happen.
Spell-Touched are able to subtly affect their surroundings; they can produce small illusory objects, make small objects turn invisible, conjure light sources or phantom sounds from nowhere, manipulate and move small objects, or even ignite or douse small flames, just to name a few examples. Spell-Touched individuals are also able to sense magic around them or in items.
To use this ability, simply describe in detail what you are trying to do and perform a standard 2d6 Test. If you are trying to manipulate an object, you must have eye contact with it.
Note: DM's reserve the right to declare that what you are attempting to do is beyond your capability; spell-touched is meant mainly for subtle effects.
You can perform a simple Attack with magic, such as a magic bolt. This is treated just like any other attack in Combat and requires an Action and a successful 2d6 Test.
You gain Advantage when Testing to do something with brute force.
You gain Advantage when Testing to hunt or forage for food, find water, seek shelter, or create shelter in the wild.
You gain 2 additional Hit Points.
You have Advantage on Tests to track a person, creature, or animal. While outside, you can also locate true north without Testing.
You gain Advantage when Testing to create, locate, and disarm traps. You also gain Advantage on Save Tests against traps.
You are able to instantaneously travel from one place to another. Your magic follows the guidelines below. To take this trait, you cannot have either of the traits Spell Reader or Spell-Slinger.
♦ You can teleport to any place you have been physically present, once per day.
♦ Teleporting requires at least two Actions: First, concentrate on your destination. Second, Test. If you fail the Test, you may try again with your next Action(s), but taking any other Action (Move, Attack, etc.) before successfully teleporting breaks your concentration and requires you to start the process again.
♦ Upon arriving at a new location, you must make a Save Test to avoid being disoriented for 1d6 turns.
◊ Disorientation, or teleportation sickness, can take various forms, including: amnesia, being limited to one Action per turn, Disadvantage on all Tests, inability to use magical Traits, loss of one or more senses, screaming incoherently, etc.
You gain Advantage on Initiative Tests.
Prestige Traits are a type of Trait that requires a qualifying Trait to take. They provide power beyond that of a normal trait, but you may only ever have one Prestige Trait. These special traits represent the penultimate power of your character, as such you can only take a Prestige Trait in your final Trait slot.
You have an exceptional connection with nature, beyond that of most. To take this trait, you must have the Beastspeaker Trait.
After you select this Trait, you gain an Animal Companion. To create your Animal Companion, use the Animal Companion generation rules below.
Animal Companions are the providence of Archdruids, powerful creatures that follow the call of nature, and serve alongside as friends and allies. All animals have the same Animal Traits, having a basic melee attack, and one bonus trait from the list below. They also get two Traits from the Player Trait List that can make some level of sense when applied to animals. Animal Companions are exceptionally unique and should be different than a standard of their kind, but they should not have access to magic, or other Adventurer-specific abilities.
Animal Type List:
Small Creature
Little, fast, easier to maintain, this type represents small cats, dogs, or birds.
4 Hit Points
Small Creatures get the Evasive and Sneaky Traits. If it is a bird, it also gains the Fly Trait.
Evasive: Whenever you are attacked, you may roll a d6. On a success, the attack misses. This does not stack with Evade.
Fly: This creature can fly up to 60 feet an action.
Sneaky: You gain Advantage when Testing to hide or sneak around without others noticing you.
Medium Creature
A medium creature represents an animal such as a medium hunting cat (like a leopard or bobcat), a wolf, a deer, or some other form of animal a little smaller, to a little bigger than human.
6 Hit Points
Medium Creatures get the Maul Trait.
Maul: As one action, this creature can make three attacks with Disadvantage.
Large Creature
A large creature represents horses, stags, large hunting cats (like tigers or lions), or bears.
8 Hit Points
Large Creatures get the Crushing Blow Trait.
Crushing Blow: All attacks this creature makes deal 2 damage.
You have advanced arcane magic beyond the ken of normal folks and even other spellcasters. To take this trait, you must have Scroll-Reader or Spell-Touched.
After you select this Trait, you must pick one of the Magical Disciplines below to specialize in.
CRYSTAL MAGIC, uses the power of the mystical to influence emotions, feelings, and thoughts.
Communicate: You may communicate via distances to any being you are aware of. If they are within sight, this does not require a Test. If they are not within sight, you must Test successfully. If they are further than 100 miles away, you must Test with Disadvantage.
Pacify: Test to quell the negative emotions in a target. If successful, you gain Advantage on your next roll against that Target.
Timeview: Test. If successful, gain one detail about the history of an object or location you can touch or see. You can only do this once per item.
Unsettle: Test with Disadvantage. If you are successful, one enemy suffers Disadvantage on all Tests until the start of your next turn.
RUBY MAGIC, uses the innate properties of the fire, volcanoes, and mystic birds to unlock raging infernos of power.
Licking Flames: Make a Ranged Attack Test. Anything you hit must make a Save or catch on fire. Each round they are on fire, they take one damage. The Fire can be put out by spending an Action, or after 3 rounds, whichever comes first.
Burn & Ignite: Test with Disadvantage. If successful, you can cause any object roughly your size or smaller to burst into flames. Anyone touching these flames suffers 2 damage. To extinguish the flames, they must successfully Test with Disadvantage or spend an Action.
Extinguish: Make a Test. You may cause any flame or heat based effect to cool and cease.
Inner Maelstrom: Make a Test with Disadvantage. Everything within arms’ reach of you takes 3 Damage. You take 1 Damage.
UNDEATH MAGIC, uses the powers surrounding death and decay to summon undead servants and extend life past its bounds.
Instant Seance: Test to summon a local ghost or spirit to answer 2 questions. May be cast once per location per day. Ghosts mostly know about things that happened during their lifetimes (your GM may Test to see if the ghost has useful information).
Reverse Life: Test at disadvantage to reverse the body’s healing processes for yourself or another target within Close range. Target is healed by damage, and damaged by healing, until the start of your next turn.
Skull Bomb: Test to detonate the cranium of one zombie. Every creature within 10 feet of the zombie, hostile or not, must make a successful Save Test or take 1 damage from bone shrapnel. The zombie dies from this effect.
Summon Zombie: Test to summon a walking corpse to do your bidding. This zombie has 2 HP and will follow simple commands until destroyed or dismissed. You can control up to 2 zombies, if you surpass this limit the oldest zombie turns to ash. While within 50 ft, You can use an action to give your zombies commands, and zombies can only take a single action.
To take this trait you must have at least two of the following: Dark-Fighter, Nimble Fingers, or Sneaky.
While Hidden you gain the following benefits:
enemies have disadvantage to spot you.
your attacks deal 2 damage instead of 1.
you can choose to take Disadvantage on an attack to assassinate your target. If this attack hits, the target must make a Save Test. If they fail, they take 10 damage. If they succeed, they suffer 3 damage.
You are truly among the greatest of martial artists. To take this trait, you must have Drunken Master or Martial Artist. After you select this Trait, you must pick two of the Martial Disciplines to specialize in. They form your school of Martial Arts and combined create its title. you may select up to three Techniques from your chosen disciplines. You may only use one Technique per turn.
FIRE DISCIPLINE focuses the user’s Chi into near-magical effects, such as fiery fists, or breathing fire.
Chi Blast: You may make one Ranged Attack at Disadvantage that can target up to 3 Targets.
Smoldering Strike: Make an Unarmed Melee Attack. If successful, your Target ignites at the start of its next turn, taking 1 damage at the end of their turn for the next 2 turns. They can spend an action to smother the flames. This effect does not stack.
WATER DISCIPLINE is fluid and nourishing, providing defense and aid, agility and shapelessness.
Flowing River: Until the start of your next turn, when you Evade, you Evade with 3d6.
Surging Tide: Test. You may attack an opponent within 15 feet with an Unarmed Melee Attack. You move next to them.
EARTH DISCIPLINE deflects, supports, and absorbs, striking with rolling thunder, and standing firm.
Rockslide: Make an Unarmed Melee Attack. If you successfully damaged this opponent this turn, you may
immediately force them to make a Save Test or fall prone.
Mudslide: Test. If successful, an adjacent enemy's movement speed is halved on their next turn, and they have Disadvantage on their next action.
METAL DISCIPLINE focuses the user’s Chi into hardness, durability, and damage resistance.
Fist of Steel: Make an Unarmed Melee Attack. This Strike Deals 2 damage.
Will of Gold: Until the start of your next turn, whenever you are hit, make a Save Test. On a success, the damage is negated.
WOOD DISCIPLINE is growth, and resilience, recovering, adapting, and enduring your foes.
Healing Chi: Test. If successful, you can heal 2 Hit Points for an adjacent target or yourself.
Anchoring Roots: You cannot be moved from your location until the start of your next turn. Additionally, you heal 1 Hit Point.
Having mastered the art of magically moving yourself from place to place, you can now do the same for others. To take this Prestige Trait, you must have the Teleportation Mage Trait.
As a Transporter, you gain one additional teleport per day. You may also select two of the following powers (unless otherwise noted, all Trait: Teleportation mage Transporter powers follow all the Guidelines for Teleportation Mages).
♦ Test to take a single willing passenger with you when you teleport. The passenger must be in direct contact with your skin, and must make a Save Test upon arrival to avoid being disoriented for 1d6 Turns.
♦ Test with Disadvantage to take up to five willing passengers with you when you teleport. Passengers must be in direct contact with your skin, and must make Save Tests with Disadvantage upon arrival to avoid being disoriented for 1d6 Turns.
♦ Test to teleport a single willing passenger, while remaining behind yourself. The passenger must be in direct contact with your skin, and must make a Save Test upon arrival to avoid being disoriented for 1d6 Turns.
♦ Test with Disadvantage to teleport a single unwilling target, while remaining behind yourself. Target must be in direct contact with your skin, and must make a Save Test with Disadvantage upon arrival to avoid being disoriented for 1d6 Turn
