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Originally Posted by johndallman
I've only seen one PC played with Callous, but it was played to the hilt, and worth more than [-5].
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I thought I'd had this on one of my PCs in your games, but (according to my character archive) apparently not.
As described it's quite close to what used to be called sociopathy: "other people don't matter/aren't real, only my feelings are important". But I suppose it's less restrictive than Bully, in that it doesn't need to affect your behaviour a lot of the time; you can always justify acting pleasantly by saying "I need this person to think positively about me so that they'll do something I want later".
Some would argue that all humans do this kind of manipulative calculation all the time (but most of them are good at hiding it). I'll admit I do it sometimes…