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The Great Trait Update (Character Trait Overhaul)

This mod is completely functional, but no longer receives balancing or content updates. if you are interested in a version that also alters faction bonuses and adds legendary lord skill trees, may I suggest its pseudo-successor, Leaders of Legend?

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It's no secret that most generic lord/hero background skills in the vanilla game are genuine trash - Disciplined and its +2MA to army is one of the few vanilla ones I wait for on most lords, and while a few factions have powerful and fun generic options like the Dark Elf Spiteful (3 melee attack / 5% weapon damage to army) or Chaos's Infernal Dominance (+5MA to army), most wallow in wonderful effects like a massive +5 armor and +3 melee defense to lord only.

So! This mod aims to fix that. Generic traits were split up into three main categories (battle, self, utility) and made much more distinct and meaningful; a self-buffing combat trait will actually make a generic lord pretty damn scary, while there are now multiple different army buffs to pick from rather than JUST Disciplined for most factions.

This applies to most generic traits, including faction specific ones like High Elf influence heroes - but I did NOT touch the strongest existing traits, influence or otherwise; Administrator, Punitive, Wise, Infernal Dominance, etc. remain untouched. The goal is to significantly increase player choice not just make Punitive even more overpowered.

Legendary Lords are not affected.

Please let me know if a trait doesn't work, or seems way too strong or too weak compared to others!

Balance

• Most generic traits were roughly balanced against strong traits like Spiteful, Infernal Dominance, etc, or somewhat worse versions of the high influence traits. High Elf Influence traits were balanced against the better influence traits, ex. Punitive.
  
  
• The overall power level of generic lords IS increased. However, this is not player biased; enemy legendary and generic lords alike will be much scarier and more varied. Overall campaign difficulty seems slightly harder since it's not just your Disciplined guys vs useless traits.

Compatibility

• Save game compatible.
  
  
• Poor SFO compatibility, it doesn't crash but they don't play well together. Not recommended.
  
  
• Completely Radious compatible, with no known issues!
  
  
• Otherwise Mod compatibility SHOULD be very good; if another mod edits the same effect in the same trait, one will win out but it shouldn't crash or anything. May have balance issues if combined with other trait-editing mods that add separate effects. Mods that add custom effects to lords/traits will not be affected by this one.