Barter System

Barter System

This is designed to let players begin with traits unique to their character. The Barter system provides bonuses or penalties to the player’s actions, granting them unique traits to live up to. Some of these bonuses (or penalties) can actually be earned in the dungeon.
For every positive trait you must have a negative trait; this is done through points. The player must have a balance of 0 or more points in order to be acceptable. Certain characters gain a free trait, depending on the dm’s discretion.

You cannot have a trait that contradicts the other. I.E Frail and Strong.

Each character may have up to 4 traits, for the sake of my sanity.

Positive Traits

Strong: STRONK. You can hit things harder, carry more weight, etc etc. Having strong as a trait increases the height limit to 6’7. +4

Mighty: Even stronger than the above. Mighty characters are pretty much muscle beasts, and can utilize weapons that aren’t meant to be
carried by the average person. Having Mighty as a trait increases the height limit to 7 feet. +6

Athletic: Your body is naturally faster, healthier, and overall better than the average person. You can handle tasks that require stamina much longer than most. +4

Sneaky: You’re skilled at being silent and using stealth. +3

Light Eater: You only require one square meal a day. +2

Resilient: You can tolerate punishment, as well as handle diseases better than others. +4

Warped Mind: You can tolerate seeing a little bloodshed here and there. +2

Sociopathy: You don’t bat an eye at blood or gore. You’re far less prone to insanity effects. +4



Negative Traits

Frail: You’re weaker than most people, and somewhat scrawny. -2

Short Temper: Keeping your temper in check is quite important. -2

Prone to Illness: You catch diseases easier than others. -2

Squishy: The definition of squish. You can’t really stand to carry anything too heavy due to being that 5% of the human race that consists of absolute bitches. -4

Clumsy: You have penalties to your balance, and tend to fail sneaking checks. -2

Klutz: Like Clumsy, except with the additional penalties of being so clumsy you can stab yourself by accident. -4

Minor Phobia: A fear of something simple such as: Snakes, spiders, etc.  Phobias do not stack. -2

Major phobia: A severe version of the above. Alternatively it could be a phobia that’s severe for the situation you’re in, I.E: Claustrophobia. -4

Overweight: You’re fat. You have trouble with all sorts of things. -3

Obese: You’re fucking fat. A more severe version of overweight. -4

Amputee: You’re missing a limb. -6. Stacks up to -12

Blind: A very obvious penalty. -6

Eye impairment: Severe (-4) or non-severe (-2). Causes things to be harder to see. Severe requires eyeglasses to properly see an enemy without being right in front of them.

Hard to hearing: You have trouble hearing things right. -2

Deaf: -4. You can’t hear at all, forfeiting any perception checks requiring auditory checks.

Severe mental disorder: Schizophrenia, Severe PTSD, MPD, EXTREME phobias that render you useless, Etc. -4