Wishlist: Traits as items

[magicmasterp]

Other games use the item tab to create equipment, loot or entire classes that can be drag-and-dropped onto characters.
It would be cool if you could develop similar functionality for Cortex: imagine pregenerated, complex assets/complications that the GM can just drop on a character.

[Secular12]

This is in my radar. There is specifically a "hitch" in the idea and that is that trait sets are custom. That being the case we cannot predefine the items "categories". And if we had a field on the item called "Trait Set" where the trait set it goes to is typed in (or a select option by reading the actor settings) what happens if it is misspelled, or if the trait set doesn't exist (because either the trait set was deleted, or the item was made for another game)? Should it create the trait set for the player, but this would cause problems when clicking "Update Settings" on a character sheet. Should it just not add the item and throw a display window that says "could not find a trait set for this item"? I feel the latter makes the most sense.

Finally say we do the dropdown trait set selection in the item edit, what happens if that trait set gets removed from actor settings when you edit the item again, that trait set will no longer be in the drop down, should it preselect something else?

[magicmasterp]

IANAC so I have no idea how stupid/complicated my suggestions are.
The dropdown idea sounds good (but having thought about all the problems you mentioned sounds like a lot of work).
Another idea could be to have a separate "item trait" hard coded where item traits get added (and hidden if empty?) and just have labels that the GM fills in themselves. Having items added as custom traits in a trait set protects them from setting updates right?

For example: