voting on traits

[pants10]

I've been running a game for a bit now, and we have gotten the PCs in a place with their beliefs and instincts so that everybody has at least 1 come up in a session. This is not true for traits. For the most part the traits are call-on traits (like plain face) that don't have much RP, or they are traits my players don't enjoy much by role-playing ("I vow to drink at anytime I can").

We have all decided that we'd be interested in getting more traits, however there is no interest in making new characters as everybody it attached to the current. The only problem is that voting more traits on to characters seems wierd. Like, what excuse do we have that a character should gain a trait? Do players have to role-play like they have the trait 1st, then it gets voted on when they do well enough?


How have other people delt with this? And is it realistic to vote-on a call-on trait for anything?

[luke]

We do trait votes all the time. Vote on new character traits based on the way the players have been portraying their characters.

I started the Burning THAC0 game with Born Under Silver Stars as my only character trait. I got Sanguine, Guide, and Slow to Anger voted on in play. Later, as my character grew more desperate, I had Sanguine voted off.

I've also had Penny-wise and Wolverine voted on, because I was always making Resources and Health tests and spending artha on them.

-L

[pants10]

Thank you. I'll have to look over the traits list and see what is appropriate.

I guess thats the fair echange for spending artha before shade shifting.

[DarrenMantle]

Since we're on the subject of Trait voting, I was a little fuzzy on how the mechanics of Trait voting for Call-On and Die traits. Clearly you're eligible to have such traits voted on when you spend Artha on your Beliefs, as that's detailed in the Artha chapter, but can people nominate and vote for these traits based solely on the way you've played your character - even if no artha was spent in a way that directly relates to the nominated trait? Thanks!

[luke]

Yeah, you can get them both ways.