Traits

Traits

From Eclipse Phase Core Book

Positive Traits

Adaptability

Cost: 10 (Level 1) or 20 (Level 2) CP Resleeving is a breeze for this character. Apply a +10 modifier per level for Integration Tests and Alienation Tests (p. 272, Core).

Allies

Cost: 30 CP The character is part of or has a relationship with some influential group that they can occasionally call on for support.

Ambidextrous

Cost: 10 CP The character can use and manipulate objects equally well with both hands. They do not suffer the off-hand modifier (as noted on p. 193, Core). This trait can be taken multiple times for morphs with multiple limbs.

Animal Empathy

Cost: 5 CP Apply a +10 modifier to Animal Handling skill tests or whenever the character makes a test to influence or interact with an animal.

Brave

Cost: 10 CP The character receives a +10 modifier on all tests to resist fear or intimidation.

Common Sense

Cost: 10 CP Once per game session, the player may ask the gamemaster what choice they should make or what course of action they should take, and the gamemaster should give them solid advice based on what the character knows. Alternately, if the character is about to make a disastrous decision, the gamemaster can use the character’s free hint and warn the player they are making a mistake.

Danger Sense

Cost: 10 CP The character has an intuitive sixth sense that warns them of imminent threats. They receive a +10 modifier on Surprise Tests (p. 204, Core).

Direction Sense

Cost: 5 CP The character receives a +10 modifier for figuring out complex directions, reading maps, and remembering or retracing a path they have taken.

Eidetic Memory

(Ego or Morph Trait) Cost: 10 CP Much like a computer, the character has perfect memory recall. They can remember anything they have sensed, often even from a single glance. This works the same as the eidetic memory implant (p. 301, Core).

Exceptional Aptitude

Cost: 20 CP The character may raise one of their maximum aptitude up to 10 points over the normal aptitude cap (30 for flats, 35 for splicers, 40 for all others). Note that this trait just raises the maximum, it does not give the character 10 more aptitude points. This trait may be taken only once.

Expert

Cost: 10 CP The character may raise one learned skill over 80, to a maximum of 90, during character creation. This trait does not actually increase the skill, it just raises the maximum. This trait may only be taken once.

Fast Learner

Cost: 10 CP The character improves skills and learns new ones in half the time it normally takes (see Improving Skills, p. 152, Core).

First Impression

Cost: 10 CP Apply a +10 modifier on social skill tests when the character is interacting with another character for the first time only.

Hyper Linguist

Cost: 10 CP The character requires one-third the normal amount of time and experience to learn any language (see Improving Skills, p. 152). The character can also learn any human language in one day simply by constant immersive exposure to it. Additionally, the character receives a +10 modifier when attempting to interpret languages they don’t know.

Improved Immune System

(Morph Trait) Cost: 10 (Level 1) or 20 (Level 2) CP At Level 1, apply a +10 modifier whenever making a test to resist infection or the effects of a toxin or drug. At Level 2, increase this modifier to +20. This trait is only available to biomorphs.

Innocuous

(Morph Trait) Cost: 10 CP Apply a –10 modifier to all tests made to spot, describe, or remember the character. This modifier does not apply to psi or mesh searches.

Limber

(Morph Trait) Cost: 10 (Level 1) or 20 (Level 2) CP At Level 1, the character can smoke with their toes, do the splits, and squeeze into small, cramped spaces. At Level 2, they are double-jointed escape artists. Each level provides a +10 modifier to escaping from bonds, fitting into narrow confines, and other acts relying on contortion or flexibility. This trait is only available to biomorphs.

Math Wiz

Cost: 10 CP Apply a +30 modifier on tests involving math calculations.

Natural Immunity

(Morph Trait) Cost: 10 CP The morph has a natural immunity to a specific drug, disease, or toxin. It may not be applied to nanodrugs or nanotoxins. This trait is only available to biomorphs.

Pain Tolerance

(Ego or Morph Trait) Cost: 10 (Level 1) or 20 (Level 2) CP Level 1 allows them to ignore the –10 modifier from 1 wound. Level 2 allows them to ignore the –10 modifiers from 2 wounds. This trait is only available for biomorphs.

Patron

Cost: 30 CP The character has an influential person in their life who can be relied on for occasional support.

Psi

Cost: 20 CP (Level 1), 25 CP (Level 2) The character may purchase and learn psi sleights (p. 223). At Level 1, the character may only use psi-chi sleights. At Level 2, the character may use both psi-chi and psi-gamma sleights.

Psi Chameleon

(Ego or Morph Trait) Cost: 10 CP Apply a –10 modifier to any attempts to locate or detect the character via psi sleights.

Psi Defense

(Ego or Morph Trait) Cost: 10 (Level 1) or 20 (Level 2) CP At Level 1, apply a +10 modifier to all defense tests made against psi attacks. At Level 2, apply a +20 modifier.

Rapid Healer

(Morph Trait) Cost: 10 CP Reduce the timeframes for healing by half, as noted on the Healing table, p. 208. This trait is only available to biomorphs.

Right at Home

Cost: 10 CP The character chooses one type of morph (splicer, neo-hominid, case, etc.). When resleeving into this type of morph, the character automatically adjusts to the new body, no Integration or Alienation Test needed, suffering no penalties and no mental stress.

Second Skin

Cost: 15 CP If your character background or faction enforces a restriction on your starting morph (for example, uplifts must start with an uplift morph), this trait allows you to ignore that restriction and purchase a starting morph of your choice.

Situational Awareness

Cost: 10 CP The character does not suffer the Distracted modifier on Perception Tests to notice things even when their attention is focused elsewhere, or when making Quick Perception Tests during combat.

Striking Looks

(Morph Trait) Cost: 10 (Level 1) or 20 (Level 2) CP On social skill tests where the character’s beauty may affect the outcome, they receive a +10 (for Level 1) or +20 (for Level 2) modifier. This modifier is ineffective against xenomorphs or those with the infolife or uplift backgrounds. This trait is only available to biomorphs. This modifier may be purchased for uplift morphs, but at half the cost, and it is only effective against characters with that specific uplift background (i.e., neo-avians, neo-hominids, etc.). The one drawback to this trait is that the character is more easily noticed and remembered.

Tough

(Morph Trait) Cost: 10 (Level 1), 20 (Level 2), or 30 (Level 3) CP Increase their Durability by +5 per level (+5 at Level 1, +10 at Level 2, and +15 at Level 3). This also increases Wound Threshold by +1, +2, and +3 respectively.

Zoosemiotics

Cost: 5 A character with this trait and the Psi trait does not suffer a modifier when using psi sleights on nonsentient or partly-sentient animal species.

Negative Traits

Addiction

(Ego or Morph Trait) Bonus: 5 CP (Minor), 10 CP (Moderate), or 20 CP (Major) Addiction comes in two forms: mental (affecting the ego) and physical (affecting the biomorph). Minor: If they fail to get their weekly dose, they suffer a –10 modifier on all actions until they get their fix. Moderate: Apply a –20 modifier to all of the character’s actions until they get their fix. Additionally, a character with this level of addiction suffers a –5 DUR penalty. Major: They face cravings every 6 hours, and suffer a –10 DUR penalty as their health is affected. If they fail to get their regular dosage, they suffer a –30 modifier on all actions until they do.

Aged

(Morph Trait) Bonus: 10 CP Reduce the character’s aptitude maximums by 5, and apply a –10 modifier on all physical actions. This trait may only be applied to flat and splicer morphs.

Bad Luck

Bonus: 30 CP The gamemaster is given a pool of Moxie points equal to the character’s Moxie stat, which also refreshes at the same rate as the character’s Moxie. The gamemaster can use this bad Moxie to cause the character to automatically fail, flip-flop a roll, and so on. Gamemasters who might be reluctant to sabotage the character should remember that the player asked for it by purchasing this trait.

Blacklisted

Bonus: 5 or 20 CP In game terms, the character is barred from having a Rep score higher than 0 in one particular reputation network. The bonus for this trait is 20 CP if chosen for the rep network pertaining to the character’s own starting faction, and 5 CP if chosen for any other.

Black Mark

Bonus: 10 (Level 1), 20 (Level 2), or 30 (Level 3) CP In game terms, the character picks one faction. Every time they interact with this faction (such as a Networking Test) or with an NPC from this faction (Social Skill Tests) who knows who the character is, they suffer a -10 modifier per level.

Combat Paralysis

Bonus: 20 CP Anytime violence breaks out around the character, or they are surprised, the character must make a Willpower Test in order to act or respond in any way. If they fail the test, they lose their action and simply stand there, remaining incapable of reacting to the situation.

Edited Memories

Bonus: 10 CP At some point in the character’s past, the character had certain memories strategically removed or otherwise lost to them. This is a tool the gamemaster can use to haunt the character at some future point with ghosts from their past.

Enemy

Bonus: 10 CP At some point in their past, the character made an enemy for life who continues to haunt them.

Feeble

Bonus: 20 CP The character is particularly weak with one aptitude. That aptitude must be purchased at a rating lower than 5, and may never be upgraded during character advancement. The aptitude maximum is 10, no matter what morph the character is wearing.

Frail

(Morph Trait) Bonus: 10 (Level 1) or 20 (Level 2) CP Its Durability is reduced by 5 per level. This also reduces Wound Threshold by 1 or 2, respectively.

Genetic Defect

(Morph Trait) Bonus: 10 CP or 20 CP The morph is not genefixed, and in fact suffers from a genetic disorder or other impairing mutation. A genetic disorder that creates minor complications and/or occasional health problems would be worth 10 CP, a defect that significantly impairs the character’s regular functioning or that inflicts chronic health problems is worth 20 CP. This trait is only available for flats.

Identity Crisis

Bonus: 10 CP The character has difficulty identifying themselves in the mirror, photos, surveillance feeds, etc. They frequently forget the look and shape of their current morph, acting inappropriately, describing themselves by their original body, forgetting to duck when walking through doorways, etc. This is primarily a roleplaying trait, but the gamemaster may apply appropriate modifiers (usually –10) to tests affected by this inability to adapt.

Illiterate

Bonus: 10 CP Reduce the character’s Language skills by half (round down) whenever reading or writing.

Immortality Blues

Bonus: 10 CP The character only receives half the Moxie and Rez Points award for completing motivational goals. This trait may not be purchased by characters with the infolife or uplift backgrounds.

Implant Rejection

(Morph Trait) Bonus: 5 (Level 1) or 15 (Level 2) CP At Level 1, any implants acquired are more expensive as they required specialized anti-rejection treatments. Increase the Cost category of the implant by one. At Level 2, the morph cannot accept implants of any kind.

Incompetent

Bonus: 10 CP The character is completely incapable of performing a particular chosen active skill, no matter any training they may receive. They may not buy this skill during character creation or later advancement, and the modifier for defaulting to the linked aptitude of this particular skill is –10. This may not be used for exotic weapon skills, and should be used for a skill that could be of use to the character.

Lemon

(Morph Trait) Bonus: 10 CP This trait is only available for synthetic morphs. This particular morph has some unfixable flaws. Once per game session (preferably at a time that will maximize drama or hilarity), the gamemaster can call for the character to make a MOX x 10 Test (using their current Moxie score). If the character fails, the morph immediately suffers 1 wound resulting from some mechanical failure, electrical glitch, or other breakdown. This wound may be repaired as normal.

Low Pain Tolerance

(Ego or Morph Trait) Bonus: 20 CP Increase the modifier for each wound take by an additional –10 (so the character suffers –20 with one wound, –40 with another, and –60 with a third). Additionally, the character suffers a –30 modifier on any test involving pain resistance. This morph version of this trait is only available for biomorphs.

Mental Disorder

Bonus: 10 CP You have a psychological disorder from a previous traumatic experience in your life. Choose one of the disorders listed on p. 211.

Mild Allergy

(Morph Trait) Bonus: 5 CP The morph is allergic to a specific chosen allergen (dust, dander, plant pollen, certain chemicals) and suffers mild discomfort when exposed to it (eye irritation, sneezing, difficult breathing). Apply a –10 modifier to all tests while the character remains exposed. This trait is only available for biomorphs.

Modified Behavior

Bonus: 5 (Level 1), 10 (Level 2), or 20 (Level 3) CP At Level 1, the chosen behavior is either limited or boosted, at Level 2 it is either blocked or encouraged, and at Level 3 it is expunged or enforced (see p. 231 for details).

Morphing Disorder

Cost: 10 (Level 1), 20 (Level 2), or 30 (Level 3) CP The character suffers a –10 modifier per level on Integration Tests and Alienation Tests (p. 272).

Neural Damage

Bonus: 10 CP The character has suffered some type of neurological damage that simply cannot be cured. The affliction is now part of the character’s ego and remains with them even when remorphing.

No Cortical Stack

(Morph Trait) Bonus: 10 CP This means the character cannot be resleeved from the cortical stack if the character dies, they can only be resleeved from a standard backup. This trait is not available for flats.

Oblivious

Bonus: 10 CP They suffer a –10 modifier to Surprise Tests and their modifier for being Distracted is –30 rather than the usual –20 (see Basic Perception, p. 190).

On the Run

Bonus: 10 CP The character is wanted by the authorities of a particular habitat/station or faction, who continue to actively search for the character.

Psi Vulnerability

(Ego or Morph Trait) Bonus: 10 CP They suffer a –10 modifier when resisting such attacks. The morph version of this trait may only be taken by biomorphs.

Real World Naivete

Bonus: 10 CP Once per game session, the gamemaster may intentionally mislead the character when giving them a description about some thing or some social interaction. This falsehood represents the character’s misunderstanding of the situation, and should be roleplayed appropriately, even if the player realizes the character’s mistake.

Severe Allergy

(Morph Trait) Bonus: 10 (uncommon) or 20 (common) CP The morph’s biochemistry suffers a severe allergic reaction (anaphylaxis) when it comes into contact (touched, inhaled, or ingested) with a specific allergen. If exposed to the allergen, the character breaks into hives, has difficulty to breathing (–30 modifier to all actions), and must make a DUR Test or go into anaphylactic shock (dying of respiratory failure in 2d10 minutes unless medical care is applied). This trait is only available to biomorphs.

Slow Learner

Bonus: 10 CP New skills are not easy for this character to pick up. The character takes twice as long as normal to improve skills or learn new ones (p. 152).

Social Stigma

(Ego or Morph Trait) Bonus: 10 CP In social situations where the character’s nature is known to someone who view that nature with distaste, fear, or repugnance, they suffer a –10 to –30 modifier (gamemaster’s discretion) to social skill tests.

Timid

Bonus: 10 CP This character frightens easily. They suffer a –10 modifier when resisting fear or intimidation.

Unattractive

(Morph Trait) Bonus: 10 CP (Level 1), 20 CP (Level 2), 30 CP (Level 3) The character suffers a –10 modifier on social tests for Level 1, –20 for Level 2, and –30 for Level 3. Only biomorphs may take this trait. This modifier does not apply to interactions with xenomorphs or those with the infolife or uplift backgrounds. This modifier may be purchased for uplift morphs, but at half the bonus, and it is only effective against characters with that specific uplift background (i.e., neoavians, neo-hominids, etc.).

Uncanny Valley

(Morph Trait) Bonus: 10 CP Morphs whose looks fall into this range suffer a –10 modifier on social skill tests when dealing with humans. This modifier does not apply to interactions with xenomorphs or those with the infolife or uplift backgrounds.

Unfit

(Morph Trait) Bonus: 10 CP (Level 1), 20 CP (Level 2) The morph is either not optimized for health and/or just in bad shape. Reduce the aptitude maximums for Coordination, Reflexes, and Somatics by 5 (Level 1) or 10 (Level 2).

VR Vertigo

Bonus: 10 CP The character experiences intense vertigo and nausea when interfacing with any type of virtual reality, XP, or simulspace. Augmented reality has no effect, but VR inflicts a –30 modifier to all of the character’s actions. Prolonged use of VR (gamemaster’s discretion) may actually incapacitate the character should they fail a WIL x 2 Test.

Weak Immune System

(Morph Trait) Bonus: 10 (Level 1) or 20 (Level 2) CP At Level 1, apply a –10 modifier whenever making a test to resist infection or the effects of a toxin or drug. At Level 2, increase this modifier to –20. This trait is only available to biomorphs.

Zero-G Nausea

(Morph Trait) Bonus: 10 CP The character suffers a –10 modifier in any microgravity climate. Additionally, whenever the character is first getting acclimated or anytime they must endure excessive movement in microgravity, they must make a WIL Test or spend 1 hour incapacitated by nausea per 10 points of MoF.

From Sunward Book

Positive Traits

Coronal Adaptation

(Morph trait) Cost: 30 CP Enables operation within the corona of a star, providing radiation shielding and propulsion along the solar winds. For biomorphs: +10 bonus to Free Fall skill tests when in the presence of strong electromagnetic fields, 10 points of Energy armor against heat and electromagnetic-based attacks (such as lasers, microwaves, and plasma weapons, but not explosions). Cannot survive outside the coronal environment (or similar environments) for more than a few days without extensive medical support. Coronal adaptation can only be applied to morphs that also have medichines (p. 308, Core).

High-Temperature Operation

(Morph trait) Cost: 10 CP The morph has been designed to operate only in high-temperature environments, enabling them to withstand temperatures up to 1,000 C. This trait provides 5 points of Energy armor against heat-based attacks (such as lasers, microwaves, and plasma weapons, but not explosions). Can only be applied to synthmorphs.

Negative Traits

Fast Metabolism

(Morph trait) Bonus: 5 CP The morph’s metabolism runs hot, requiring the character to eat two to three times as much food as a normal character with similar body mass. If the character is eating off their rep, they must expend two trivial favors each day for the additional food they require. If the character is unable to obtain enough food, they lose SOM at the rate of one point per day until they resume their usual caloric intake. This trait is only available for biomorphs (including uplifts and pods).

Planned Obsolescence

(Morph trait) Bonus: 5 CP The morph is a hypercorp model that requires periodic GSP (Genetic Service Pack) therapy. For every three months of game time, the character must spend credits equal to 10% the cost of the morph on GSP “upgrades.” If they fail to do so, the morph’s SOM is reduced by 5 until the character gets their GSP therapy. These penalties are cumulative over time (at 6 months, 9 months, etc.), but getting GSP therapy once removes all penalties. The morph stops accruing penalties when its SOM is reduced to 5. The SOM reduction is due to low level neural degradation, minor tumors, joint pain, and other problems that crop up and express later as hypercorp genetic designers working on tight budgets and tighter deadlines race to release morph models with extra value-added features. This trait is only available for biomorphs (including uplifts and pods).

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