Using Personality Traits

[Shostak]

Originally Posted by timm meyers

I like the idea of these "flip-side" traits.

Me too!

The best result from your suggestion I think, is just encouraging a player who chooses to portray a 10 factor "Bravery" to then list a qualifying trait like "cautiousness" to better define themselves.

I think I'd have Rash/Cautious be the poles there, with Brave matched by Cowardly.

Now how often we need to use these factors is up to the player and GM. They should be far and in-between if the player is a good role player. The session zero discussion of who the character is might be the only time for most traits?

Ideally they'd never need to be used outside Session Zero, because the player is just a non-stop roleplaying master. Realistically, the GM would probably invoke the trait once in a while as a reminder that it needs to be paid attention to. And, importantly, a player could choose to use it to subvert approaches to character action that might have more to do with what the player knows than how the character might act.