Traits

Barter System: A way to add fixed strengths and weaknesses to your character is through the barter system! Outside of the free talent you gain from your profession, you may use the barter system to gain a few bonuses or penalties. The barter system is simple. You gain barter points by taking on a negative quirk, which may be spent on the positive quirks.

Note that you cannot take a positive quirk of the negative quirk you've accepted would contradict it. E.G: you cannot have 'blindness' and 'eagle eyes' at the same time.

Likewise, you cannot accept a better version of a positive quirk if you already have a lesser version. So, you cannot have "Eagle Eyes" if you already have "Amazing Vision." Conversely, you cannot have a worse negative quirk if you already have a lesser version. (Bad sight and blindness, for example)










Positives

Amazing Vision: You have exceptional sight. You tend to spot out-of-place things more easily than others, granting you a +1 bonus to perception checks based around your sight. (-1 Point)

Eagle Eyes: Your eyesight is not only exceptional, but you also tend to have greater aim as well. You gain a +3 bonus to perception checks regarding your sight. (-2 Points)

Dexterous: You are better with your hands than you are most people. You gain a +1 bonus to certain checks requiring careful hands. (Lockpicking, crafting, certain acrobatic checks. -1 Point)

Good Digestion: Your digestive system tends to process things better than others. +4 fortitude saves when you attempt to digest spoiled or rotted food, as well as poisonous natural substances (such as certain berries). (-1 point)

Good Immune system: Your body is capable of dealing with infections, poisons, and diseases better than most. You gain a +4 bonus to fortitude checks made to save against these. (-2 Points)

Hobbit: Your feet developed hard callouses that are capable of withstanding certain hazards. The tough hide allows you to move without penalty when barefoot or on certain terrain. (-1 point)

Strong Back: You're exceptionally strong at carrying things. Heavy lifting or carry-based checks receive a +3 bonus. (-1 point)

Packmule: Heavy lifting or carry-based checks receive a +4 bonus. Additionally, you tend to find more ways to stuff things into closed compartments more often. (-2 points)

Pretty face: Everyone just tends to enjoy looking at you or seeing your face.  Your personality may also help with this. Everyone loses -2 insight a day, so long as they're within your presence. Pretty Face's benefit does not stack with other sources of pretty face. (-1 Points)

Animal Empathy: You tend to have more sway for animals and creatures, gaining a +2 bonus to checks involving them. This is for woodland/common earth animals only. (-1 Point)

Beastmaster: You have more sway over all animals and creatures in general, granting a +3 bonus to checks involving them. This includes a few unnatural beasts specifically found within Paradox. (-2 Points)

Psychopath: You don't really experience trauma or guilt like most people do. Quite simply, you just don't care. You only gain 1/2 insight from all sources, and sometimes, gain none at all. (Including, but not limited to situations such as killing or harming something, excess blood, seeing certain creatures.) (-3 points)

Masochist: Although you can still feel pain, you generally feel pleasure from it instead! You lose 1-5 insight whenever something hurts you, depending on the amount of pain. Immense pain will still stress you out however. (Re: Losing an eye, breaking a bone.) (-2 Points)

Cenobite: You outright just love pain. So much that going without it can cause extra stress. However, getting hurt will always subtract 1-6 insight. (-3 Points)

Sadist: You enjoy inflicting suffering on others. Whenever you sufficiently harm or maim a target, subtract 1-6 insight. This is limited to only one target.

Athletic: Whether it's due to a healthy lifestyle or through just sheer luck, your body is naturally athletic, and you run out of energy a lot slower than most people. You gain a +2 bonus to stamina based checks, such as holding your breath, climbing, or sprinting for prolonged periods of time. (-2 points)

Strong Nose: You can detect scents easier than others, granting you a +2 bonus to perception checks relating to scent. (-1 Point)

Keen Hearing: You have better hearing, granting you a +2 bonus to auditory perception checks. (-1 Point)


Parkour: You're capable of moving across obstacles and terrain with relative ease, allowing you to move at full speed over objects such as cars, railing, or raised structures. (-2 points)

Martial Arts: You've trained in the use of some martial arts in the past, granting you the option of beginning with one of said martial arts. You gain a +2 bonus to unarmed attacks. Depending on the martial art, you may also be given unique attacks. (-2 Points)

Weapons Training: You've trained in using a specific weapon at some point. In addition to your normal weapon proficiency, you gain a broad weapon proficiency that covers multiple weapons. (The weapon trees are: Blunts, Axes, Bows, Long guns, Handguns, Heavy Weapons, Small weapons, or Swords) (-2 Points)

Drunken Brawler: You gain a bonus to your attacks while inebriated or drunk. The more drunk you are, the better your attacks. You still take the normal penalties to your dodging, however. (-2 points)

Negatives

Anxiety: You can't handle stress too well, and tend to suffer panic attacks if you're put under too much. Stressful situations tend to shake you up a bit, causing penalties to certain physical rolls. Being prone to panic attacks, you're also prone to gaining more insight. (Generally +5 insight for a panic attack.(+2 points)

Nymphomania: You need to 'blow off steam' pretty often. Leads to certain frustrations that grant insight penalties over time. (+2 Points)


Paranoia: You tend to suffer through delusions and grow anxious of upcoming events. At times, you will randomly worry about certain things, despite it generally being perfectly fine. Paranoia also tends to come with delusions or random beliefs stemming up, and can grant you insight at random times. (+2 points)

Clumsy: You take a -2 penalty to stealth checks. You also tend to stumble around on failed agility checks. (+1 points)

PTSD: You suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder! Something in the past has somehow scarred you so well that anything that would pertain to that past can potentially send you through fits. These fits can range widely from full on visual hallucinations to great stress, raising your insight either way. (+3 points)

Narcolepsy: You suffer from the effects of Narcolepsy. Narcolepsy causes you to randomly pass out at any given moment, no matter what the circumstance. Your character must pass a check every so often or randomly pass out. (+3 Points)

Schizophrenia: You suffer from Schizophrenia, and will periodically go through hallucinations; auditory or visible, and in some occasions, delusions or beliefs. Schizophrenics need medication, lest they start randomly gaining insight and seeing hallucinations. Some of which can physically harm them at higher insight. Schizophrenics are also perpetually at 20 Insight, unless medication is taken. (+3 points)

Insomniac: You simply cannot sleep easily. Even when comfortable or under good circumstances, you just have trouble drifting off. Every  sleep attempt requires a coinflip. (Heads Indicates success). Failure to pass this check causes your character to remain awake for 1d2 hours.(+2 Points)

Gourmet: You are exceptionally picky about your meals. You must always add some sort of flair or extra seasoning to make the food interesting, otherwise, you gain insight for eating 'normal' food. Fortunately, high quality gourmet food lowers your insight more than usual. (+1 point)

Note that failing to get sufficient sleep does apply actual in-game penalties over time. (Particularly insight gains)  (+1 Point)

Hard of hearing: You have trouble hearing things. You may not be completely deaf, but you might as well be legally. -3 penalty to sound-based perception checks. (+1 Point)

Deaf: You cannot hear. You don't get perception checks relating to sound unless through special circumstances. (E.G Hearing aids. +3 Points)

Bad sight: You have trouble seeing things. You're legally blind, and suffer a -3 penalty to sight-based perception checks. (+1 Point)

Blindness: You cannot see. (+3 Points)

Claustrophobia: You despise cramped spaces and conditions. When in a closed space, you have a tendency to gain insight over time if you remain enclosed for too long. You also receive penalties that increase in severity with your insight. (+2 Points)

Albino: You're albino. You lack any skin pigment and as a result sunburn very easily. The rays also tend to bug your eyes enough to warrant sunglasses. Suffer a perception penalty when in sunlight. (+1 Point)

Vegetarian: You dislike eating meat. You take an insight hit when forced to eat it, and also become nauseated. (+1 point)

Vegan: Similar to vegetarian, except you dislike eating anything from animals. Period.  (+2 Points)

Trigger Happy: When shooting a firearm, you must succeed a will save or fire 1-3 additional times. (+1 Point)

Squeamish: Blood, guts, or gore disgust you. The very sight of such things is enough to turn your stomach upside down. (+1 Point)

Lycanthropy: You think you're a fucking werewolf. You find it very difficult to sleep at night, and also have the insatiable urge to howl for no reason when the moon is out. (+2 points)

Hypochondria: You have anxiety about your own health, and tend to irrationally fake illnesses. Certain situations will trigger your character into going through fake symptoms that apply the normal penalties; they cannot die through these fake symptoms. Additionally, actual poisons or infections that you suffer will cause you to fake the symptoms long after treatment, effectively making you go through the symptoms twice as long. (+2 points)

Vampirism: You think you're a creature of the night!  As such, you find it difficult to well, sleep at night! You are comfortable with drinking blood, and actually have a huge urge to do so when you see it. You can resist this urge, but doing so will raise insight if you fail to feed at least once. (+2 Points)


Big Boned: Youre a little chunky. As a result, youre a bit less athletic than others. You suffer a -2 penalty related to stamina or outrunning things. (+1 Points)

Morbidly obese: You're not fat, just fluffy! You suffer a -4 penalty related to stamina or outrunning things. (+2 Points)

Stress Eater: You eat when you're stressed. Should there be a situation that gives you an insight gain, you must eat something or gain an additional +2 insight. (+1 Point)

Gluttony: You need twice the amount of meals than normal to prevent yourself from gaining insight. That is, two meals per day otherwise you gain +2 insight per missed meal. (+2 points)

Asthmatic: Congratulations. You follow the trope of being that one character that needs an inhaler and suffer the severe physical limitations of asthma! (+2 points)

Addictive Personality: You tend to grow addicted to things much more often than other people. You gain habits or get addicted to illicit substances much easier. (+1 Point)

Bad Temper: You tend to get a little pissed off easily. There are some times where you will outright be provoked into fighting something. Things also don't settle well with you; as a result, you gain an additional +2 insight when gaining insight from stressful situations. (+2 Points)

Alcoholic: You need your booze! You must drink at least one serving of an alcoholic beverage a day, otherwise, you take a +2 hit to your insight. (+1)

Smoker: You're a habitual smoker, and tend to get jittery without a bit of a fix. You take a +2 hit to insight if you don't smoke for a day. (+1)

B.O: You have body odor issues. As a result, you not only tend to smell bad near your allies, but attract creatures more easily. (+1)