Birth Traits

I added a system this week that I'd been circling for months. Every newborn in IceAgeLife now rolls birth traits — anomalies and gifts pulled from a small catalog. Stat modifiers, flags, the occasional rare combination. Most are ordinary. Some quietly shape the rest of a person's life.

The point isn't mechanical. The point is that a clan member shouldn't feel interchangeable. When you read someone's profile, I want their backstory to start before their first decision — at birth, with something. A trait. A tendency. A small inheritance.

It's a small system that does a lot. The kind of thing that doesn't show up in a pitch but makes the world feel like it's running on its own.