# Trait suggestions RE + and/or - Morale for killing monsters

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**Created:** [January 18, 2014, 4:03am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/trait-suggestions-re-and-or-morale-for-killing-monsters/4789 "2014-01-18T04:03:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![Wayfarer](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/wayfarer/32/76_2.png) [@Wayfarer](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Wayfarer)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2014, 4:03am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/trait-suggestions-re-and-or-morale-for-killing-monsters/4789/1 "2014-01-18T04:03:20Z")

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I was thinking about how killing child zombies makes your character unhappy.

I was thinking that, in the given scenario, some folks might have qualms about that, yet some would not - an ideal of self-preservation. Sure, they’re kids, but they’re also literally ankle-biters…

Then I thought, well, why not just killing monsters in general could make a survivor feel good. Ridding the world of them, so to speak. So therefore a bonus to morale as a result.

To not make it OP, it could maybe kick in after killing 10 within, I dunno, 10 minutes or something. And to some fitting limit, such as 50.

Maybe two traits, one for ignoring -Morale for killing child zombies, and one for +Morale just for killing things. Probably pretty costly to pick up since it could be quite powerful.

Thoughts?

EDIT: There is another option I think for a generalised -Morale to killing things…it could be challenging, or plain crippling, but either way could be interesting. For building “pacifist” type characters perhaps.

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**Author:** ![superninjakiwi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/91b2a8/32.png) [@superninjakiwi](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/superninjakiwi)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2014, 4:23am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/trait-suggestions-re-and-or-morale-for-killing-monsters/4789/2 "2014-01-18T04:23:54Z")

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They have pacifist and berserker is planned. Choose psychopath if you just don’t care about killing things.