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Message: <blockquote data-quote="nikolai" data-source="post: 1388008" data-attributes="member: 10130">Psion, could you talk about your dislike of the traits and flaws system a little more?From what I've seen and heard of the <a href="https://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/iw/20040111a&page=4" target="_blank">system</a> they seem to have designed it so that the disadvantage will count, and that their effect is worse than the advantages. Things like these for the down-side of traits:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">-1 penalty on Spot checks (or Spot and Listen checks),</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">-2 penalty on Dexterity-based skills,</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">-1 penalty to your Armor Class,</li> </ul>Or these for flaws:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">-6 to Initative,</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">-3 to Will Saves</li> </ul>Don't seem that broken. I don't yet have the book, so I may well be missing something. But it seems to me things like spot, listen, and balance checks have specific effects on individual characters, and are hard to opt out of. Character can minimise their impact, but can't choose not to use them.Oh, and what proportion of non-broken flaw/traits are there? This sort of system is very vulnerable to the weakest link in the chain, so could you fix it by crossing out those that don't work on a case-by-case basis? Sorry for the long post, traits/flaws are one of the big draws of UA for me.</blockquote>