We provide your one-stop list for personality traits, as well as a fun exercise to create dynamic characters!
Personality traits are one of our top things to decide when creating a character. And unless you already have some inspiration, it can be a daunting task! We hope this comprehensive list is your final stop for a full list of personality traits. Use it to pick ones to help in your character creation! Or workout your character building muscles through the exercise below!
Character Building Exercise: Choose five numbers randomly, or use one of those random number generation tools online. Or roll a d100 five times! Write down those five traits and create a character out of them. Decide how this personality happened. What in the character’s past caused these traits to form? How do they use them? Do they fully understand them? If there are contradicting ones, what caused this internal battle?
- Adventurous
- Affectionate
- Aggressive
- Altruistic
- Ambitious
- Arrogant
- Artistic
- Assertive
- Boastful
- Calm
- Capable
- Carefree
- Careful
- Charming
- Childish
- Clever
- Confident
- Controlling
- Cooperative
- Cowardly
- Curious
- Decisive
- Distracted
- Distrusting
- Dominant
- Eloquent
- Energetic
- Expressive
- Faithful
- Fearless
- Friendly
- Funny
- Generous
- Greedy
- Grumpy
- Gullible
- Happy
- Hedonistic
- Helpful
- Homebody
- Honest
- Humble
- Hyper
- Idealistic
- Imaginative
- Impatient
- Independent
- Industrious
- Insecure
- Intelligent
- Inventive
- Jealous
- Judgmental
- Lazy
- Logical
- Loud
- Loyal
- Manipulative
- Materialistic
- Mature
- Mean
- Melodramatic
- Mischievous
- Noble
- Nosy
- Obedient
- Observant
- Obsessive
- Open-Minded
- Optimistic
- Organized
- Outgoing
- Patient
- Persuasive
- Pessimistic
- Pompous
- Proud
- Quiet
- Realistic
- Rebellious
- Resilient
- Resourceful
- Reverent
- Rowdy
- Sarcastic
- Selfish
- Sensitive
- Short-Tempered
- Shy
- Sincere
- Stoic
- Studious
- Sweet
- Thoughtful
- Trusting
- Unassuming
- Unreliable
- Unstable
- Vibrant
- Wise
