Character Traits

Like Specialities, Character Traits are more often than not hidden attributes, unknown at the time of recruiting a new named character. Also as with Specialities, Traits might in some cases remain hidden for the duration of the game, simply because that character never finds himself in a situation where his particular Trait becomes known. Unlike Specialities, however, quite often the Trait is known to the character himself, he just manages to keep it hidden from others... A character trait might be literally anything from a bad gambling habit to a fondness for inflicting horrific torture & pain. It might be a useful trait in certain situations, or it might simply cause you no end of problems. It might also be nothing more than a mildly amusing personality problem - though probably not amusing to the character concerned. There is no real way of determining this in advance, and no way of avoiding a particular character's trait possibly causing unforeseen problems in future. Such is life. Similarly, just because you don't yet know about a particular character's trait doesn't mean this trait isn't already causing you unknown problems in the background, which likely won't be revealed or understood until the trait itself is realized. It's also possible for some characters to develop certain traits over a period of time, purely as a result of the types of businesses they get into and the Orders they receive from you. Some secret traits might also generate Character Skeletons, if it's something about which this character is very ashamed - or which might put him in danger if it was to somehow became known to others of the Organization. Character Traits are one of the means by which the Vendetta game system brings its characters more 'alive', rather than being nothing more than faceless robots (as non-player characters tend to be in so many other games). However, for some players this might result in it occasionally seeming like they have more than their fair share of 'problem' characters, but you can rest assured that for every significant disadvantage of this type you find yourself facing, you also receive a significant advantage to balance things out. Vendetta goes to extra lengths to include such as character Specializations & Traits to make characters more varied individuals and thereby make the game world more realistic, but these are not purely randomly-generated as we have been very careful to maintain game balance & fairness.