GURPS Fourth Edition Traits Sorter

Welcome to the GURPS Fourth Edition Trait Sorter. This utility will help you organize advantages, disadvantages, and skills into categories that suit your campaign.

First, choose the trait list to be sorted from the links below. Then browse the list, clicking on the appropriate button for each trait.

There is a checkbox to the right of each trait. This is the "non-standard" signifier. Clicking on this box will mark the trait with an asterisk for further comments (more on that later).

You'll notice that some traits default to "Allowed" and some to "Forbidden" (the exotic and supernatural). These defaults assume that most mundane traits, such as Absolute Direction and Truthfulness, will be available, while most exotic and supernatural traits, such as Speak with Animals and Unhealing, won't. It saves a huge amount of clicking for most GMs. In future versions of the Sorter, we plan on implementing a variety of defaults.

Once you have chosen the categories for all the traits, hit the Submit button. The Sorter will generate a list, organized by the headings you've selected for each trait.

This list can be copied into a word processor for easy manipulation (such as changing a heading from "Not Recommended" to "Requires Unusual Background [10]," or adding comments to the non-standard traits, like "Insomniac is worth -20 points"). Or it can be printed directly from most web browsers.

We hope you find this tool useful. Big thanks go to Roberto Hoyle for dealing with a never-ending stream of changes, reversals, and nitpicking. Discussions of the Sorter should take place on the GURPS portion of our webforums. Bug reports should go to webmaster@sjgames.com

Advantages Disadvantages Skills

Disadvantages

 Required   Recommended   Allowed   Not Recommended   Forbidden  Disadvantages
Absent-Mindedness
Acceleration Weakness
Addiction
Alcohol Intolerance
Alcoholism
Amnesia
Appearance
Attentive
Bad Back
Bad Grip
Bad Sight
Bad Smell
Bad Temper
Berserk
Bestial
Blindness
Bloodlust
Bowlegged
Broad-Minded
Bully
Callous
Cannot Float
Cannot Learn
Cannot Speak
Careful
Charitable
Chauvinistic
Chronic Depression
Chronic Pain
Chummy
Clueless
Code of Honor
Cold-Blooded
Colorblindness
Combat Paralysis
Compulsive Behavior
Confused
Congenial
Cowardice
Curious
Cursed
Deafness
Debt
Decreased Time Rate
Delusions
Dependency
Dependents
Destiny
Disciplines of Faith
Dislikes
Distinctive Features
Distractible
Disturbing Voice
Divine Curse
Draining
Dread
Dreamer
Dull
Duty
Dwarfism
Dyslexia
Easy to Kill
Easy to Read
Electrical
Enemies
Epilepsy
Extra Sleep
Fanaticism
Fat
Fearfulness
Flashbacks
Fragile
Frightens Animals
G-Intolerance
Gluttony
Greed
Gregarious
Guilt Complex
Gullibility
Habits or Expressions
Ham-Fisted
Hard of Hearing
Hemophilia
Hidebound
Honesty
Horizontal
Horrible Hangovers
Humble
Hunchback
Imaginative
Impulsiveness
Incompetence
Increased Consumption
Increased Life Support
Incurious
Indecisive
Infectious Attack
Innumerate
Insomniac
Intolerance
Invertebrate
Jealousy
Killjoy
Kleptomania
Klutz
Lame
Laziness
Lecherousness
Lifebane
Light Sleeper
Likes
Loner
Low Empathy
Low Pain Threshold
Low Self-Image
Low TL
Lunacy
Magic Susceptibility
Maintenance
Manic-Depressive
Megalomania
Minor Handicaps
Miserliness
Missing Digit
Mistaken Identity
Motion Sickness
Mundane Background
Mute
Nervous Stomach
Neurological Disorder
Neutered
Night Blindness
Nightmares
No Depth Perception
No Fine Manipulators
No Legs
No Manipulators
No Sense of Humor
No Sense of Smell/Taste
Nocturnal
Noisy
Non-Iconographic
Nosy
Numb
Oblivious
Obsession
Odious Personal Habits
On the Edge
One Arm
One Eye
One Hand
Overconfidence
Overweight
Pacifism
Paranoia
Personality Change
Phantom Voices
Phobias
Post-Combat Shakes
Proud
Pyromania
Quadriplegic
Reprogrammable
Reputation
Responsive
Restricted Diet
Restricted Vision
Revulsion
Sadism
Secret
Secret Identity
Self-Destruct
Selfish
Selfless
Semi-Upright
Sense of Duty
Sexless
Shadow Form
Short Attention Span
Short Lifespan
Shyness
Skinny
Slave Mentality
Sleepwalker
Sleepy
Slow Eater
Slow Healing
Slow Riser
Social Disease
Social Stigma
Space Sickness
Split Personality
Squeamish
Staid
Status
Stress Atavism
Stubbornness
Stuttering
Supernatural Features
Supersensitive
Susceptible
Terminally Ill
Timesickness
Total Klutz
Trademark
Trickster
Truthfulness
Uncongenial
Uncontrollable Appetite
Unfit
Unhealing
Unique
Unluckiness
Unnatural Features
Unusual Biochemistry
Very Fat
Very Unfit
Vow
Vulnerability
Weak Bite
Weakness
Wealth
Weirdness Magnet
Workaholic
Wounded
Xenophilia


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