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My gaming group has a question regarding the Adopted trait. Now it says that a character taking this trait may take a racial trait of their adopted race.
Now most of my group thinks that this means that you can take a racial trait from the trait section of the Advanced Players Guide, but the racial abilities of the various published races are also called traits. Which one do they get to choose from? I only ask because I'd like to know what was intended by the wording since the same term is used in two different contexts.
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This is probably one of the most asked questions on the forums.
Do not confuse "Race Traits" with "Racial Traits". They are completely different things.
Every race has Racial Traits. Things like Darkvision, or +2 Strength, or Skill Focus.
Every character may choose a Race Trait as one of their starting 2 traits, such as Warrior of Old, or whatever else is listed in the APG under Race Traits, in the back of the book.
Although they are both called "Traits", as long as you pay attention to Race vs Racial, you'll be fine.
Adopted gives you a race trait when you pick it. So you could pick elf's warrior of old, but you definitely can't take a racial trait such as human's extra feat. Otherwise everyone would be adopted.
Edit: Ninja'd by Nefreet's Edit. Same race trait example too!
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To put a fine point on it, the "traits" that a race gets in the race write up (from the PHB, Core Rules, APG or elsewhere) are akin to abilities that are inherent to that race.
The APG has trade offs of those abilities, one for the other, but never are they interchangeable or used at one of the two traits that the character gets as half feats (as some have called them) at their creation.
So traits such as those listed in the web handout are good, traits such as abilities under a race entry write up are something else.
They really shouldn't have called them 'traits', for precisely this reason. 'Backgrounds' would have worked perfectly.