Picking the best personality traits during character creation or breeding the best ones in your future heirs can significantly affect how your game plays out. Traits define your character and dictate the options you have for specific events, how stressed your character gets, and who you may or may not be able to murder. Check out the information below to make sure you’re setting your character up for success in the LIfestyle tree you plan to play them in.
Best Overall
Some traits are excellent no matter which Lifestyle tree you plan to go down. These are top-tier traits since they can be used for any character.
1. Patient
What makes it great:
- Boost to hostile scheme resistance
- Increased vassal opinion
- Small boost to Learning
What to look out for:
- The character will have a lower opinion of Impatient characters and vice versa
2. Temperate
What makes it great:
- Small health boost
- Small boost to Stewardship (all characters could do with more money)
What to look out for:
- The character will have a lower opinion of Gluttonous characters and vice versa
3. Gregarious
What makes it great:
- Small boost to Diplomacy
- Boost to Attraction
- Boost to personal scheme power
- You’ll get some good bonus options when throwing a feast, as well as lose stress by feasting!
What to look out for:
- The character will have a lower opinion of Shy characters and vice versa
4. Content
What makes it great:
- Small boost to Learning
- Boost to stress loss
- Boost to Vassal opinion
- Boost to Liege opinion
What to look out for:
- Small loss to Intrigue
- The character will have a lower opinion of Ambitious characters and vice versa.
Best for Stewardship, Learning, and Diplomacy
5. Diligent
What makes it great:
- Small boost to Diplomacy
- Boost to Stewardship
- Boost to Learning
- Enables Develop capital decision
- You’ll lose stress via Hunting!
What to look out for:
- It makes it harder to lose stress
- The character will have a lower opinion of Lazy characters and vice versa
6. Calm
What makes it great:
- Small boost to Diplomacy
- Small boost to Intrigue
- It makes it easier to loose stress
- It makes it easier to discover schemes
What to look out for:
- It makes your dread decay faster
- The character will have a lower opinion of Wrathful characters and vice versa.
7. Forgiving
What makes it great:
- Small boost to Diplomacy
- Small boost to Learning
- It makes your prisoners like you more
- Enables Abandon Hook interaction
What to look out for:
- Small loss to Intrigue
- Increased stress gain for Blackmail, Murder, Torture, Imprisonment, and Title Revocation
- The character will have a lower opinion of Wrathful characters and vice versa.
Best for Martial and Intrigue
8. Brave
What makes it great:
- Small boost to Martial
- Boost to Prowess
- Boost to Vassal Opinion
- Boost to Attraction Opinion
- You’ll lose stress via Hunting!
What to look out for:
- There is a +100% increase in your chance of dying or being captured in battle
- The character will have a lower opinion of Craven characters and vice versa
9. Wrathful
What makes it great:
- Small boost to Martial
- Boost to Dread
- Enables Punish Criminal interaction
What to look out for:
- Small loss to Diplomacy
- Small loss to Intrigue
- The character will have a lower opinion of Calm characters and vice versa
10. Sadistic
What makes it great:
- You can murder your family - If you’ve played CK3 for any length of time, you know how important this can be
- Small boost to Intrigue
- Boost to Prowess
- Boost to Natural Dread
- You can lose stress from executing and murdering people
What to look out for:
- Loss of general opinion (probably ‘cause you’re murdering your family)
- The character will have a lower opinion of Compassionate characters and vice versa.
Are there any personality traits that make your top 10 not listed above? Let us know in the comments below!
