Major Defects

Whether due to a vow or natural inclination, you do not fight women. [or men depending on society]

Effect: You may not attack (or aid another in attacking) a female of your race.

Furthermore, you take a -2 penalty to attacks against female humanoids of any sort.

This Defect Disables itself if the female is the aggressor in combat,

Note: this trait is using default Male-> female Parameters and obviously other variations exist, regardless of gender you can take this trait and reword it as necessary to target whichever valid gender depending on the society in question.

SP - 4

You prefer being part of a group/team/pack

Roleplaying Ideas: Enthusiastic team member, life and soul of the party

Effect: You relish the companionship and camaraderie of your team to the point that you don't function so well on your own. When out of sight of companions or party members you are effectively 'Shaken'.

Additionally, you must nominate a 'boon companion'. If that companion falls in battle you will ignore your own orders and rush to save that person, even if doing so would invoke attacks of opportunity (though optimum path may be taken if movement allows).

SP - 4

You don't take advantage of others in combat.

Prerequisites: 'Honorable class'

Penalty: You do not get attacks of opportunities on others when they provoke them from moving.

5 SP

No way you are going to wait for anything.

Penalty: You are unable to ready an action or delay your turn.

5 SP

Your devotion to your own beauty tends to be distracting.

Roleplaying Ideas: The narcissist is well-known to pause and admire themselves while looting a treasure chest. This might actually trigger a cursed mirror, however...

Effect: Whenever you see yourself in a reflective surface, you are fascinated by it for 1d4 rounds.

Additionally, if you take a full HD's worth of damage (for example, if a Wizard takes 4 damage) in one attack, you become shaken until you spend a standard action to check themselves to see if they've been made any less beautiful from the attack. Failure to do so will leave the character shaken until they do. Characters with different HD values must use their lowest value HD for this purpose.

5 SP

You have no substance in your spell Spheres.

Prerequisites: Access to Psionics or Magic

Penalty: You get a -1 penalty on the DC for all the spells and spell-like abilities you cast from the chosen Magical Arts skill, this defect can be taken more then once, each time targeting a different Magical Arts skill, you may also select Psionic skills for this defect.

Gain 4 SP

Thin Blood

When cut you bleed more than most.

Penalty: Double any bleed damage you receive.

Gain 4 SP

Your physical attacks lack power.

Prerequisites: Strength less than 13

Penalty: You gain a -2 penalty on all physical damage rolls you make. This penalty to damage stacks with other damage roll penalties.

5 SP

You get startled and have a hard time figuring out whats is best to do.

Penalty: You get a -6 penalty on initiative checks.

5 SP

You just have the bad habit of stepping into a punch.

Prerequisites: Dexterity less than 13

Penalty: You gain a -2 dodge penalty to your Defense.A condition that makes you lose your Dexterity bonus to Defense also makes you lose this penalty.

5 SP

When you shoot, throw, sling, or toss anything you never hit unless very lucky.

Penalty: You receive a – 6 penalty on all ranged attack rolls including ranged touch attacks.

5 SP

Character finds it hard to see things at greater distances.

Roleplaying Ideas:

Characters can hide their faces with large brimmed hats, and prefer to listen to what is around them. Due to there vision problems, they focus on reacting to threats closer to them. They may also ally with someone that is better at distance fighting or just less effective at close combat.

Effect: The penalty for Perception(Spot) checks increases to -2 per 10 feet of distance. Also due to their inability to see things coming they get a -2 penalty to Initiative Checks.

Normal: Perception(Spot) checks have a penalty of -1 per 10 feet.

5 SP