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Originally Posted by Mailanka
On the other hand, a penalty is a penalty, and he got points for it. It might make more sense to say that it doesn't apply at all, not because he isn't scary, but because the sky pirates hate him so damn much that they're likely to keep fighting him anyway. In any case, because it's a negative reputation, it will tend to prevent him from getting what he wants. It's a disadvantage, after all, and thus should generally hamper him.
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There a bunch of things that give both benefits and problems. Indeed reputation is one of them. For example take the rep of Bob the Orc Slayer. Orcs hate him since he poisoned a village full of orcs and always react at -4. Elves on the other hand think that was cool so react at +2. The reputation comes to a -5 disadvantage.
Now if you do have bonuses from a negative rep, you probably want additional penalties. So in the above rep Bob would probably get a bonus to convincing people they were poisoned, or he was an expert on poisons or whatever. On the other hand, he'll be a prime suspect if someone poisons Elven the well of the village he's in.