I'm working on a character at the moment and looking over traits. One that caught my eye was the Adopted trait, which reads
You picked up a race trait from your adoptive parents and society, and may immediately select a race trait from your adoptive parents’ race.
I'm a little unclear on what that means, exactly. I get that I could use it to give a human the half-orc trait Darkvision 60ft, however, can it also be used to take the ability trait half-orc's get, granting him another +2 to any one ability of his choosing?
Would it apply to any alternate racial traits they got as well, where I could take Acute Darkvision instead?
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Not what you think it means. There's a difference between racial traits (what you're thinking of) and race traits.
Race traits are just Traits that have a race requirement. Adopted lets you pick a third trait that is of another race than your own.
For example, you could be human, take the Adopted trait, and choose a trait that requires you to be an elf. Then pick a third trait (Adopted + the race trait effectively count as 1 trait).
Oh, duh. That makes perfect sense (and is considerably less broken) thanks!