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- $name : Random Playable Fantasy NPC Trait Generator
- $author : C Roald
- $description : A trait, quirk, or mannerism to make your NPC more fun and memorable. This list focuses on things the DM can role-play; something like "unusually big nose" might seem memorable, but it's lame to keep saying "oh yeah Jack has a big nose in case you forgot".
- $amount : 3
- $button : Describe!
- $trait
- A secret Angel of Charity, on vacation. Doesn’t really understand people.
- A simpleton, possessed by the ghost of a long-dead sorceress. Both sometimes talk.
- Always attempts to hide face
- Always looking for a hookup
- Always scratching self; says it’s nothing
- Always short of breath
- Anguished by unrequited love
- Argumentative
- Asks rhetorical questions and answers
- Big believer in the value of naps
- Blunt, insensitive, “just being honest”
- Calls PCs “Esteemed sir/madam”
- Calls everyone “Boyo"
- Can hook you up; likes to show off
- Carries pet hamster (named Boo)
- Chill dude
- Comically naive
- Complains constantly about trick knee
- Condescending, frowns at every request
- Constantly fiddling with a small dagger
- Cowardly
- Crafty and ambitious
- Crudely prejudiced against ____
- Depressed and fatalistic
- Devoted to pet dog, Wooster
- Drunk at every opportunity
- Dudley Do-right
- Eager to learn anything available
- Embarrassingly happy to help
- Enjoys touching face
- Enthusiast for foul and violent language
- Entirely avoids eye contact with anyone
- Excellent posture at all times
- Fastidious, neatnik
- Flamboyant, loves attention
- Flirtatious and charming
- Freeloader
- Generous to a fault
- Gesticulates wildly, but only with left arm
- Greatly exaggerates
- Hands in pockets, hunched shoulders
- Hard of hearing
- Hates children
- Haunted by recent tragedy
- Hawks and spits before speaking
- Helplessly gullible
- Highly impatient, rude
- Highly protective of someone specific, whether they need it or not
- Hooks thumbs in belt and bounces
- Hopeless romantic
- Incredibly earnest
- Intense; cannot stand still
- Interrupts others
- Inveterate gambler
- Irrepressibly cheerful
- John Wayne voice
- Kleptomaniac
- Laconic, imperturbable, says ‘Ayup’ a lot
- Laughs at strange/inappropriate moments
- Left eye is permanently squinty
- Lisps
- Manipulative, untrustworthy
- Nasal voice
- Nogoodnik
- Not nearly as talented as thinks s/he is
- Obsequious
- Obviously smitten with one of the PCs
- One hand always on half-cocked hip
- Ostentatiously cynical
- Overly dramatic, hard done by
- Pathological Liar
- Perpetual sniffle
- Persistently superstitious
- Peter Lorre voice
- Places chin on fist when thinking, while making the 'money' sign with the same hand
- Pretends to know what’s going on; never does
- Rebel without a clue
- Rigid, outspoken prude
- Sarcastic bastard
- Self-conscious about bad breath
- Self-deprecating
- Slouches terribly
- Smiles excessively
- Staggeringly lazy
- Stammers
- Starts each statement with "Yeah-yeah" or "Good-good" and licks left thumb.
- Starts nearly every sentence, "Well, the way I figger it..."
- Sucks his/her teeth when thinking
- Sweet but painfully dumb
- Takes every shortcut possible
- Talks like a pirate
- Talks too loud, oblivious to social cues
- Talks with hands
- Taps feet at every opportunity
- Terribly curious. About everything
- Terrifyingly enthusiastic
- Tilts head and nods when listening
- Too honest for own good
- Very concerned about appearance
- Wants to be a druid very badly; isn't working out so well yet
- Waxed moustache, twirls villainously
- Wedded to good-luck charm; it might even be real
- Weirdness magnet
- Wide-eyed, blinks a lot
- Will go to any length to lock eyes with someone
- Will snort anything once
- William Shatner voice
- Won't shut up about _____
- Won't talk above a whisper
- Won't tolerate the slightest disrespect
- Won’t speak more than a word or two at a time
- Wrings hands constantly
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