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Unusual Speciman Trait
You were born somewhat different from others of your race
You may only take this trait at first level, and it costs 2 trait slots.
Choose either a physical bonus (Str, Dex, Con) or a mental bonus (Int, Wis, Chr). You may swap it with another bonus of the same type. This may be used to counteract a negative.
For instance, a dwarf with this trait may have +2 Str, +2 Wis, -2 Cha; or just +2 Con (trading the Wisdom bonus to negate the charisma penalty).
Comments: I was initially going to make this a "1st level only" feat, but realized Paizo tends to make those into traits. So I made it a trait that costs 2 traits (effectively a feat, but a little more flexible).
Just as a matter of note, races seem to NEED the racial bonus in order to stay competitive in Pathfider. Sure you can have the odd elven fighter, but he's going to be mechanically inferior tO his full-strength counterpart.
This will give PCs more flexibility; in essence get us away from the human dominated world we seem to live in. It would make more unusual builds like dwarven wizards viable, and the Halfling outrider paladin would be much better
What are thoughts? I think it would be a fairly popular but not overpowered trait that would make the Pathfinder race-class selection much more diverse.