Big pile of homebrew race traits


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I really like the pathfinder race builder system, and I enjoy making races with it. Over the years, I've made a lot of homebrew race traits, and I recently gathered them up into one big file and sorted them out. Turns out I've accumulated over 80 assorted traits and weaknesses. Maybe folks here might like to use them to create some new species to take on adventures.

Mind you, most of these have not been playtested, and I'm the first to admit that their balance may be wonky. I welcome any suggestions or advice on how to improve these race traits. Or, if you have ideas for more traits to add to the list, I'd be glad to add them, and to credit their maker in the document.

Homebrew Pathfinder Race Traits

(Apologies for posting this in the wrong section previously.)


Added Flawless Recall, Earth Dive, and Natural Projectile to the trait list. They're in the Feats and Skills, Movement, and Offense categories respectively.


Added Adrenaline, Engulf, Armor Adept, Soul, and Soulless to the list. Adrenaline and Engulf are offense traits, Armor adept is Defense, Soul is other, and Soulless is a weakness.


Added space step, a poor man's dimension door. It's under magical race traits.


I like the creativity and the options you're bringing. Keep it up!


Thanks! I hope you're enjoying the new traits. If you have ideas for them, or how to improve their balance, let me know. Anyway, I've added Chameleon, Terrain Vision, Arcane spell aptitude, Armor Familiarity, and External Mind weakness to the google doc's list. Chameleon is a skill and feats trait, Terrain Vision is a senses trait, Arcane Spell Aptitude is a familiarity trait, Armor Familiarity is a defense trait, and External Mind is a weakness trait.


Added Spinnerets and Healing Secretions. Spinnerets is under Other traits, and Healing Secretions is a skill trait.

Also, I'm planning on nerfing Blue Magic. I realized it could be abused by buying scrolls and casting the spells on yourself. Changes will be coming soon.

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