Arelith

You have 3 choices.

The skill based minor gifts have been combined as a single options due to option limitations.

As much as I like the other gifts, I often find myself picking one of the skill gifts if it's relevant. It's just too important to be more gooderer at the thing you want to do, but if we're being honest, if I don't have any relevant skills, I oscillate between the Gift of Wealth when I want an easier leveling experience, or the Gift of the Craftsman when I've got the skillpoints to fit craft mastery.

The other gifts feel like expressions of roleplay, and that's fine.

I hate the skill ones that are opposed checks because they feel too necessary. Ride would be fine, for example.

gift of tongues so i can avoid the god awful language system a little quicker than i would be forced to endure otherwise

can we just delete hardiness and have it built into barbarian/arcane-marauder/earthkin defender

The only ones I've never used are light and darkness. Worth noting that I have a strong preference for casters, though, where this would be entirely redundant.

The others each have their place, depending on the character I wanted to play. When I played an elf from a (lorewise) extremely influential family, Gift of Wealth helped me support the image of her having cash to burn. Languages was good for my linguist. Devotion was good for my character who had a good heart but a bad brain and flunked out of cleric training as part of her backstory. I even used Hardiness on a wild mage who was the kind to pop back up after an explosion with a "let's do that again!" attitude. I can't say I have a "favorite" since it's just a matter of matching character/backstory to gift.

Gift of crafting is slept on sometimes because people don't realize it's not just +10 crafting points per day, it's also +10 crafting skillpoints - which is HUGE

Easily the best minor gift, unless you're playing a hyper focused skill character and need/want the extra skills from a different minor gift

alignment? lawful good

race? aasimar

gift? of devotion

reprobate? rebuked

Gift of Tongues is my number 1 because the language learning system goes at a snail's pace otherwise. I also really like learning languages since while the system is slow, it's also VERY fun and something I really enjoy. I feel rather accomplished when I learn a language!

Gift of Devotion is a very close second- especially when I'm not playing with a diety that's particularly popular? Like the Triad, Lloth, Kossuth, so on, if it's not one of those finding an altar can be REALLY hard. Doubly so if it's not a diety with a lot of clerics- like Nature Spirits. I've long thought certain other classes like paladins or druids should be able to consecrate altars. The +0.1 piety gains from a Sacrificial Altar make me sad since I rather be RPing

I'll more rarely take a Skill Gift just depending on if I wanna be real good at something. Not nearly as often though, and when I do it's usually for some RP reason.

Gift of Craftsmanship.

I can't stop myself from taking it, even when I'm not playing a particularly crafty character. I just start reading over my options and think, "Well, crafting would be handy! I could make..." and it's over. I've selected it again and hit "Yes" when it asks me "Are you sure?"

Somebody stop me.