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Message: <blockquote data-quote="knightofround" data-source="post: 4501470" data-attributes="member: 27884">I've noticed that all the traits you have listed are "positive" for the most part. What about powers that are good sometimes, but can also have nasty side-effects?Again, borrowing from the heroes example, one player might have a very strong listening ability which gives them a bonus to perception checks. However, they can also be weakened by loud noises, and get something like sonic/thunder vulnerability.The character who doesn't need to sleep simply cannot sleep -- because their body won't shut down, it takes them longer to heal than everyone else. They need a full days rest to recover their HP rather than an extended rest. On the other hand, because he doesn't need to sleep they have a lot more time on their hands to do things, so they get a racial bonus to all skill checks, and they are allowed to retrain their abilities whenever they want instead of only once/level.Another character might be extremely empathic, and can gauge the emotions of others very well...like a  bonus to insight, diplomacy, and intimidate. However as the ability progresses, they discover that they can also actually feel the pain that other people suffer. You could make up a mechanic when the ability progesses that they have to make a will save against taking subdual damage whenever an enemy is killed is or something like that.That way you can have the abilities scale up in power over time, but the negatives scale up as well to compensate for it so it isn't too game-breaking.</blockquote>

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