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Old 09-09-2018, 10:20 AM   #7
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Default Re: Empathy with low IQ

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Originally Posted by Phil Masters View Post
Frankly, the Empathy mechanics badly need fixing. As written, it would be a plausible tactic for a low-IQ character to take Sensitive and then act on the opposite of what it tells them.

Just having failed rolls mean "You're not sure, you don't get a read here", with only critical failures mean actively bad results, would be much better.
But you want to play in character as much as possible. If your character felt a certain person was a traitor, what would he/she do in that situation? Act it out.
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