The Ultimate Trait Book !

[Escher]

The Ultimate Trait Book is released ! (UPDATED 1.10 Added two Good Gadget Traits from the 12th Doctor Sourcebook: Charm and Cloaked)

Within these pages lie every single published Trait for the first edition of the Doctor Who Roleplaying Game !

Great for players and GMs alike, whether you are creating new characters, NPCs, aliens, apocalyptic weapons, gadgets, a TARDIS, spacecraft or a base, this book will be invaluable as a reference to all Gamesmasters or players of the Doctor Who Roleplaying Game.

Note: the Military Rank Trait has been expanded to include equivalent ranks for the navy and air force.

Thanks to Misterharry, whose 'DWAiTS Attributes, Skills & Traits Summary' was invaluable in making this compilation.

Have the greatest of fun using this book and please report any errata here, thank you !

DOWNLOAD (Printer Friendly): The Ultimate Trait Book 1.10.pdf (662.17 KB)

Also: I've added a 'Normal Person's Trait Book', for when you don't want to sift through 72 pages of Traits just to write-up 'mundane' characters.

When you need to create an historical or everyday person, untouched by alien influence, Time Lords, or any paranormal activity, this is your guide.

Inside you will find Traits used by utterly pedestrian everyday people and figures from history. None of these Traits are otherworldly or paranormal in scope. Famous Kings and Queens, Politicians, Artists and legends from history are here inside these pages, as well as Crooks, Soldiers, Psychopaths, Angst-Ridden Teenagers, Tortured Artists, Argumentative Shopkeepers and Nosey Journalists.

DOWNLOAD: The Normal Persons Trait Book 1.05.pdf (199.31 KB) UPDATED 5th October 2023

[grinch]

‘Tis a thing of beauty Escher!

[Escher]

Thank you! Updated with a very small spacing correction.

I'd avoid printing it out in full until any errata has been reported.

[misterharry]

This is excellent, Escher - it'll certainly be in regular use for the EU project!

[Escher]

Thank you! I've also added a 'Normal Person's Trait Book' to the original post. Just 19 pages of utterly mundane Traits for 'normal' characters.

With the Traits book and good source material you can make some quite interesting historical characters. Having all the Traits to hand in one book opens a world of possibilities.

[Escher]

Update 1.07 - updated both books with minor font corrections.

[Escher]

UPDATE 1.08

I corrected the Spaceship Trait 'Spaceship Scale' to include the fact that the TARDIS is Spaceship Scale. As such, any normal-scale weapons won't harm it and its Armour 30, and Hit Capacity are both Spaceship Scale.

Spaceship Scale weapons damage is multiplied by 10 against normal-scale targets.

Any damage from Spaceship-Scale weapons against the TARDIS will have their results knocked down two levels of success from the Forcefield (Major Trait) before it even hits the Armour, and even then, with the TARDIS Hit Capacity in the thousands, the damage will be felt rather than suffered.

This is a rather embarrassing piece of errata, as I was in fact the author of the original game rule in Silurian Age.

[drinkplentyofmalk]

This is incredible; this is going to save me hours of flicking through different PDFs to try and remember the difference between Ruthless/Relentless, machine and robot, and why the heck my version of the Eleventh Doctor sourcebook doesn't seem to have Trade Value. And the decision to make a streamlined version with the more universal traits is also going to be of tremendous use!

[misterharry]

Jun 6, 2023 18:32:54 GMT drinkplentyofmalk said:

and why the heck my version of the Eleventh Doctor sourcebook doesn't seem to have Trade Value.

That's because it's in the 11th Doctor core rules (in the Gamemaster's Guide) rather than the 11th Doctor sourcebook - my bad for using very similar codes for these two in my traits list!

[Escher]

Jun 6, 2023 18:32:54 GMT drinkplentyofmalk said:

This is incredible; this is going to save me hours of flicking through different PDFs

Exactly. Having all the Traits in one location opens up a world of possibilities.

I've found it's now easier, faster and more fun to create incredibly realistic, detailed and rich characters.

[Escher]

The Normal Person's Trait Book updated to version 1.01. Some minor layout corrections.

[Catsmate]

Excellent work, and a lot of very useful effort on your part. Thanks for this Escher .

[greyhame]

Thank you for this - it will be incredibly useful for us.

[Escher]

You're welcome!

UPDATED the Normal Person's Trait Book - removed the Outsider Trait (Time Lord Trait).

[Rassilon]

Stickied.

[Escher]

UPDATED: The Ultimate Trait Book and The Normal Person's Trait Book

Two Traits added - Disguise and Escapology Training - thanks Misterharry.

[soultaker666212]

This is very useful indeed, thanks for making this Escher. I can see this coming in very handy!

[Curufea]

Do you mind if I added to the Matrix website to make it a more searchable content? It's got some handy tagging things it can use.

[Marnal]

This is amazing! Thank you so much!

[Escher]

Jun 26, 2023 2:55:09 GMT Curufea said:

Do you mind if I added to the Matrix website to make it a more searchable content? It's got some handy tagging things it can use.

Sure!

[Escher]

Update 1.091: corrected a single grammatical error on the index - TARDIS Trats (Traits).

[Escher]

UPDATE 1.10: Added two missing Good Gadget Traits from the 12th Doctor Sourcebook: Charm and Cloaked.

[Escher]

The Normal Persons Trait Book updated to 1.05 - added 'Relentless' from the 11th Doctor Sourcebook (Thank you Misterharry).

[tampahawke]

Thank you SOOO much for these!!!1 i cannont begin to excalim how usefull these will be for me !!! thank you gagin for all your hard work!! much Appreciated!!