The Traits:

One of your hands is a lot more dominant than the other.

Two handed weapons pose a problem for you (-25 points), but you

receive a 15 point bonus when using one handed guns.

Your attacks show finesse. While you make less base damage (-5), your

critical hit chance is raised by ten.

Your attacks lack finesse, but by all that is holy, whoever you hit knows

he wasn't kissed. You do +4 points of base damage in close combat, but

your critical hit chance in close combat is reduced by -5.

You always shoot from the hip. Every shot costs one AP less, but you're

unable to shoot well aimed.

You learned less combat skills growing up. For that reason you loose ten

points on 'handguns', 'rifles', 'heavy weapons', 'unarmed', 'melee' and

'tactics'. On the other hand your skills, 'persuade/convice' 'empathy',

'social adaptation', 'trade/haggle' and 'seduce/beguile' are raised by ten

points.

You get addicted twice as fast to chems as other people. On the other

hand, you recover twice as fast from cold turkeys or even a hangover.

People of the other sex are just drawn to you – those of your own

slightly despise you. Hey, at least about 50% of people like you enough

that you gain a plus ten bonus on any social interaction to the

'beguile/seduce' skill … with the rest you receive -10 on that skill and

on 'persuade/convince'.

You put more effort and time in developing your many skills, which is why you receive +5 skill points whenever you reach a new  experience level. On the other hand, you gain a perk only every fourth level.

Ghouls and Super Mutants with this trait gain a perk every five levels.

You've grown accustomed to the clear sights of a scope. You receive +2

on perception for the range detection with any scoped weapon, but loose

2 points on perception for any without a scope.

You just are an athlete with an athletic body. You receive a +10 bonus

on 'throwing', 'unarmed', 'melee', 'body control' & 'climbing', but loose

ten points on 'natural sciences', 'history', 'geography and politics' and

'tactics'.

Maybe you grew up on a ranch, or had for whatever reason more

contact to farm animals than to people. You receive +15 on the skills

'Riding' & 'Training' but loose 10 points on social interaction for

'trade/haggle', 'beguile/seduce' and 'persuade/convince'.

You're just a creature of the night. During the day you loose one point

each on Perception and Intelligence – at nights, you gain one on those

stats as a bonus. This is based upon the clock, not the lighting.

Can only be chosen by Ghouls.

You glow in the dark, thereby saving on batteries for your flash lights.

You receive plus one on perception … but every enemy has a +10 bonus

on hitting you. Please check the radiation rules for more details.

You spent your youth looking into monitors and broken machines. You

receive +10 points on 'computer skills', 'repairing (mechanics)',

'repairing (electronics)' & 'gun smiting', but loose one point on

perception.

Can only be chosen by Super Mutants

The FE-Virus has let your hands grow to ginormous size – even for a

Super Mutant. You loose ten points on the skills 'repairing (mechanics)

& 'repairing (electronics)', but gain +10 on unarmed and make +2 base

damage in close combat.

A lot of effort has been spent on teaching you sciences and art during your childhood. But they neglected your physical training.

You receive +10 on the skills: 'natural sciences', 'music', 'history',

'geography and politics', and 'tactics', but you loose 10 points on the skills 'unarmed', 'training', 'climbing' and 'body control'.

You know how to take care of any hurt – of body or of mind, but you

have a hard time inflicting such pain. You gain +10 on the skills 'doctor', 'first aid' & 'empathy' but loose 5 points on 'handguns', 'rifles' & 'heavy weapons' and due to your nagging conscience you gain a 20 points difficulty every time you try to tell someone a lie.

You're of average height, have an average face framed by average hair.

You don't attract attention. On the other hand, you don't attract attention.

You receive a +10 bonus on 'disguising' but have 10 points difficulty on

'beguile/seduce'.

You love the great outdoors and want to spend your whole time there.

You gain a +10 bonus on 'survival', 'trapping', 'hunting traps', 'knots' &

'climbing'. But you loose two points of perception in urban

environments [when testing on perception].

Tests on sensual acuity in urban environments are also handicapped by

20 points.

It's your great hobby to create stuff that goes BOOM or KABLAMM!

You receive +15 points on 'gun smiting', 'explosives' and 'hunting traps',

but loose -2 points on perception because one of your experiments once

literally blew up in your face.

You spent a lot of time in the wasteland, toughening up and learning to survive. You receive +10 on 'survival', 'hunting traps', 'tracking' &

'knots'. But you loose 15 points on 'computer skills' and 'repairing

(electronics).

You really learned to live and enjoy the beautiful things in live. You gain

+10 on the skills 'gambling', 'card games', 'animation' & 'carousing'.

However you do loose ten points on 'social adaptation', 'natural sciences'

& 'tactics'.

Maybe you grew up in a Vault or a similarly confined space, maybe you

had some special kind of trauma: either way, you don't just feel funny

when you're outside, you get sick and have panic attacks.

As soon as you see a true horizon, every test on Perception and

Intelligence as well as on any skill that (according to the master)

requires concentration is heavily penalized.

Please make out the details with the master.

Maybe you spent all your time since birth running around with caravans

and never really lived in a house or maybe your greatest fear has always

been to buried alive: in closed rooms or cramped confines you don't just

feel funny, you have full blown panic attacks.

If the space around you is too small, all tests on perception and

intelligence as well as on any skill that (according to the master)

requires concentration is heavily penalized.

Please make out the details with the master.

You're addicted to sexual satisfaction. This addiction shows in that you're easily seduced and through the compulsion to 'fulfill this need' at least daily, as well as other, more subtle symptoms.

Nymphomanic characters are for example easily distracted by just a

smile coming from a potential partner.

Details are left to the player and master.

Your sleep is unquiet and full of nightmares. It's very improbable that

you rise well rested (-5 on the endurance test for sleep).

(NOT a trait that can be chosen by Ghouls)

For whatever reason you're twice as susceptible to radiation as your

fellow humans (or fellow Super Mutants). Effectively this means that

you can double the radiation value you experience.

Your body is especially susceptible to poisoning, compared to your

fellow humans (or similar  creatures). Effectively this means, that the amount of hit points lost to poison is doubled. You metabolize poison as fast as others however and in any other respect, the poison rules stay the same.

If you've always been a sickly child or if that just happened someday

does not really matter. Your immune system is sub par. Really sub par. If

you see someone near you sneezing, you should start considering

buying an expensive NBC protection suit. How susceptible to sickness

you are and how you suffer beneath that (for example a bad case of

never ending sniffles) is subject to a master's ruling.

This character is addicted to alcohol induced intoxication.

If such a character has no recourse to alcohol all tests on skills are

handicapped by 30 points, all tests on character stats by 3 points.

Does he have recourse to alcohol (enough to count as slightly tipsy) all

handicaps are reduced to 5 for the skills and 1 for the character stats.

This character is addicted to New Reno's notorious and most famous

export good: Jet. At least 5 canisters a day are needed to prevent

withdrawal symptoms. The effects of Jet and Jet withdrawal can be

looked up in the equipment list 'chems'.

This character is addicted to Buffout, a pre war drug that was especially

popular with body builders. A complex mix of steroids, amphetamines

and similar ids and ines, Buffout gives you the strength of a raging

Brahmin bull. An addict needs at least 3 pills a day.

The effects of Buffout and Buffout withdrawal can be looked up in the

equipment list 'chems'.

Originally developed by the Russian military to create a kind of super

solder. The experiment failed by half: The test subjects grew more

aggressive and got enhanced bodily properties, but they also grew

unable to use tactics more complex than just run up to the enemy and

bite, beat, scratch and kick him. A Psycho addict needs at least 2 doses a

day.

The effects of Psycho and Psycho withdrawal can be looked up in the

equipment list 'chems'.

Served warm and flat or ice cold – you can't get enough of the most

popular soft drink of both the pre war time and the post war time.

The last time you tried to go two days without this sweet caffeinated

nectar, you shook so bad at the evening of the second day, that your

friends had to be real careful giving you the first few sips.

Without at least a liter a day of Nuka Cola (we're no bean counters here,

three standard 0,33 liter bottles count as a full one) this character gets

the shakes and can't concentrate anymore.

All tests on skills are handicapped by 25 points. The cold turkey would

last for three days. The handicap on the second day is -40. On the third

day only -15.

You have trouble learning new tricks. Your perk rate is reduced by one.

Normally that would mean, that as a human you now receive a perk

every 4 experience levels and for Ghouls and Super Mutants every 5.

Should another trait have changed your perk rate already, this is added

to that change.

Maybe you grew up with one of the savage tribes or just never received

your opportunity to learn your letters: you heard of the concept of

written words, but you can't use it yourself. Neither reading nor writing.

You own so little money and other goods, that Raiders that try to steal

from you not only laugh at you, they justify your slow murder at their

hands by “saving you from your financial woe”

You receive just a third of the starting capital of your class.