In the
Star Frontiersman Issue #03 Bill Logan featured a random trait table from the article "Fleshing out your Character".
Also included in the article was the following example:
For example, if you roll a 25 and a 98 then your character smells of exotic spices, perhaps from the food of his homeland or from some favored cologne or perfume, and is world-weary, perhaps because he’s traveled a great deal or hates layovers. He sighs and rolls his eyes at the prospect of long trips. This helps build an image of a character who’s exotic and has been everywhere, perhaps has friends or enemies on some worlds.
Below I have created a random trait generator. The possibilities are a single trait, dual traits and triple traits.
{List:TRAIT}
Allergic to something
Always listens to music
Always serious/severe
Believed dead
Birthmark
Bully/Aggressive
Can’t be serious
Clean Cut
Cocky/smart-ass
Collector
Composed, collected
Corny
Cut & dried, matter-of-fact
Cynical
Dead stare, look of a killer
Debonair
Deceitful
Dignified
Dirt poor family
Distinctive equipment
Distinctive facial feature
Dorky hobbies
Dusty/dirty
Enunciates clearly
Exotic scent
Fashionable
Fiddles & fidgets
Flamboyant dress
Flips a coin/believes in fate
Foppish
Friendly
Gambles
Gentle
Hand shakes
Hard of hearing
Has a criminal record
Has a secret
Has a twin
Heavy drinker
High voice
Honest
Honorable
Hooded
Illegitimate
Likes to eat
Likes to run
Likes to wear some color
Limp
Lisp
Loud
Low voice
Member of a Cult
Missing eye (wears patch)
Near-sighted
Nervous eye twitch
Oblivious
Outcast
Outgoing
Overconfident
Paranoid
Polite
Prejudiced against a race
Professional
Quiet
Religious
Reserved
Romantic
Scar(s)
Serves a master
Sexy as all get out (to your own species)
Shallow
Short-tempered
Sings/Whistles
Skilled entertainer
Skilled farmer
Slurs words/talks lazy
Smart, or convinced he is
Slouches, Bad posture
Stressed
Stutters
Superior
Superstitious
Suspicious
Sweaty
Tattoo(s)
Total jerk
Trembles/combat shakes
Unattractive
Uncommon walk
Unkempt
Unremarkable
Unusual blood type
Very long hair/antennae
Vigilante
Wealthy
Wears hats
Weirdness magnet
World-weary
{List:End}
{List:ROLL}
Your character posses the following trait: {TRAIT}.
Wowzers. Two traits. {TRAIT} and {TRAIT}.
Your character posses the following trait: {TRAIT}.
Wowzers. Two traits. {TRAIT} and {TRAIT}.
Your character posses the following trait: {TRAIT}.
Wowzers. Two traits. {TRAIT} and {TRAIT}.
Your character posses the following trait: {TRAIT}.
Wowzers. Two traits. {TRAIT} and {TRAIT}.
Your character posses the following trait: {TRAIT}.
Oh my goodness! Your character is {TRAIT}, {TRAIT} and {TRAIT}.
Your character posses the following trait: {TRAIT}.
Your character posses the following trait: {TRAIT}.
Wowzers. Two traits. {TRAIT} and {TRAIT}.
Your character posses the following trait: {TRAIT}.
Wowzers. Two traits. {TRAIT} and {TRAIT}.
Your character posses the following trait: {TRAIT}.
Wowzers. Two traits. {TRAIT} and {TRAIT}.
Your character posses the following trait: {TRAIT}.
Oh my goodness! Your character is {TRAIT}, {TRAIT} and {TRAIT}.
Your character posses the following trait: {TRAIT}.
Your character posses the following trait: {TRAIT}.
Wowzers. Two traits. {TRAIT} and {TRAIT}.
Your character posses the following trait: {TRAIT}.
Your character posses the following trait: {TRAIT}.
Your character posses the following trait: {TRAIT}.
Wowzers. Two traits. {TRAIT} and {TRAIT}.
Your character posses the following trait: {TRAIT}.
Wowzers. Two traits. {TRAIT} and {TRAIT}.
Your character posses the following trait: {TRAIT}.
Your character posses the following trait: {TRAIT}.
Wowzers. Two traits. {TRAIT} and {TRAIT}.
Oh my goodness! Your character is {TRAIT}, {TRAIT} and {TRAIT}.
{List:End}
{List:START}
{ROLL}
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