However Giant, unlike the Dwarf trait, also carries a few really quite good bonuses.įor the penalties there is a small health penalty equivalent to cramps or a headache although permanent. The opposite counterpart to the Dwarf trait carries with it some pretty undesirable penalties. Dueling is a good clean way to legally murder rivals too.įor Norse pagans and nomads the Left Handed trait is practically a good genetic trait on a par with Attractive. Winning duels is the fast path for ranking up in warrior lodges. Personal combat skills help on the battlefield but are primarily for winning duels. This is especially true for warrior focused lords who lead from the front. On the other hand (the right hand?) a strong bonus to personal combat skill is golden.

If the characters you interact with are not often Muslims or Christian priests then the opinion penalty is superfluous. However it also gives a healthy bonus of +15 to personal combat skill. The penalty is a moderate opinion penalty of -10 with Muslims and Christian priests. Left HandedĪlthough classed as a negative genetic trait Left Handed only has one small and situational penalty. Two of them however are not so bad and even sort of good. The blue heart icons for negative genetic traits are the dismay of all players. They can spoil a family line indefinitely. It is also because they can not be removed and they can keep coming back generation after generation. This is not only because the penalties are often strong. Negative genetic traits in Crusader Kings 2 are among the very worst traits to have. So follows a look at some of the more interesting but under appreciated traits of ck2. However some of the quirky traits our character can have are bad but also sort of good. That is universal for players of Crusader Kings 2. Certainly we don’t want to be inbred imbeciles. We all want to be diligent and ambitious geniuses or failing that brave and gregarious.

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