Trait questiom


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Grand Lodge

Precocious Spellcaster seems like a great trait.

It is listed as a regional trait. What region does it belong to? I might want to use it in a PFS game. Is that possible?


The region is Taldor. It is PFS legal so far as I know.


Krunchyfrogg wrote:
Precocious Spellcaster seems like a great trait.

It is not. Please, don't waste your trait on something crappy like this.


It's decent early on for a blaster but its value drops off once Burning Hands stops being your go-to spell when you get access to Fireball. An extra 5' of range on Ray of Frost is better than a kick in the pants for a blaster too but it doesn't benefit you much more than that on your 0 level spell.

Grand Lodge

If this trait is crappy, what are some good spellchuckin' traits?


Magical Lineage is pretty good...

Magical Lineage

One of your parents was a gifted spellcaster who not only used metamagic often, but also developed many magical items and perhaps even a new spell or two—and you have inherited a fragment of this greatness.

Benefit: Pick one spell when you choose this trait. When you apply metamagic feats to this spell that add at least 1 level to the spell, treat its actual level as 1 lower for determining the spell's final adjusted level.

Grand Lodge

One PFS option is to take Extra Traits as a feat for something like Precocious spellcaster (and some other trait) early (when Precocious spellcaster is doubling the effect of some spells.) Then retrain the feat later once you've got higher level spells and/or metamagic feats, and take Extra Traits again with different traits to take Magical Lineage for the better spells you have access to later.

Grand Lodge

Wait, you can retrain traits?

How/where can I read about this?


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Krunchyfrogg wrote:

Wait, you can retrain traits?

How/where can I read about this?

You can't retrain traits, but you can retrain feats. So if you took the feat "additional traits" then you could trade it out for a different feat, or the same feat but with different traits.

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