Norrathians: Racial Traditions

Every character gains a racial trait at first level and at every 5th level. The tradition you get to select depends on the race and starting location you’ve chosen.

You may choose to delay your choice of a racial tradition, but only for a single character level. Racial traditions require no training, and are gained as soon as a tradition is chosen.

Traditions that may only be taken once are denoted by an asterisk (*).

Substitutional Traditions: Rather than choosing one of the traditions listed for your kin, you may substitute one of the following:

Ability Boost: You gain an inherent +2 bonus to any single ability score. (doubling: stacks)

Inherited Alliance: You gain a faction bonus of +4 to any one faction of your choice. Negative faction modifiers with this group can never exceed -2. (doubling: applies to different faction) (special: iksar may not select this substitutional tradition)

Locational Changes: If your character is a member of a guild in another location from which your race may originate for a period of at least 2 levels, your character may select a racial tradition specific to that starting location.

For instance, Jeena is a human rogue from Freeport. She may select racial traditions only for a Freeport native, but not for a Surefall Glade native. At level 7 she moves to Surefall Glade and begins training as a ranger. At level 9 she now has two levels of ranger and has belonged to a guild in the ‘Glade for at least two levels, so she becomes qualified to select any human racial tradition. However, she will never be able to select a tradition limited to half elves from Freeport or Surefall Glade.

Doubling: Some racial traditions may be chosen more than once. The “doubling” data refers to the bonuses granted when the tradition is selected additional times. If the entry simply says “stacks”, then the racial tradition’s benefits all stack with the previous benefits.