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05-12-2018, 10:34 PM | #12 | |
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Re: [Basic] Disadvantage of the Week: Delusions
Oh! I forgot to ask about whether or not "You can be right but still be crazy" is a requirement or just an option.
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For most of it, it seems like the Delusion would change, but it would simply become a different Disadvantage worth (roughly) the same CP if the amount of people who think the "true Delusion" is a "regular Delusion" hasn't changed enough to warrant changing the cost it would have if a new character suddenly showed up with it. If the Delusion being found to be true involved something worth rewarding, any CP difference in favor of the PC in question might be worth writing off as that player's reward for the session. Crunching the numbers for what a Delusion that is now a weird combination of an Odious Personal Habit, Reputation, etc. might be the RAW approach, but I'm wondering if it might be better for there to just be a Modifier that handles this. Probably "Variable", fluctuating based on the number of PC's and NPC's who are also aware of "the truth".
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Rationalising the exceptions was entertaining for the player, and let the character maintain his original beliefs for a while. But as the character gained military knowledge, it became clear that the belief was wrong. Entrenchments were still part of war, but WWI trench fronts had been a response to particular circumstances, which didn't apply any more. Further, all sides in WWII wanted to avoid their reappearance, because of their appalling consumption of soldiers. Maintaining the delusion at that point would have required increasing its value and becoming somewhat crazy. Since the character's personal story arc wasn't compatible with that, buying off the delusion was the right thing to do.
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I have a bunch of weird ideas but they don't particularly control my life, so I don't get Delusion points for them. :)
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05-13-2018, 09:23 AM | #16 | |
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Now, arguing libertarian economics with people can be an Odious Personal Habit. How much of one depends on how often you do it. I hope mine isn't worse than quirk level; I don't do it with professional contacts, for example. It might be part of a more general quirk, Pedantry, or even quirk-level Fanaticism.
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05-13-2018, 12:57 PM | #17 |
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I tend to think of Gurps Delusion as just a negative reaction disadvantage based on a locally unpopular belief.
Light atheism in a hyper-religious setting, or light religiousness in a hyper-atheist setting could count. You're "nuts" regardless of how self-destructively you act.
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05-13-2018, 12:59 PM | #18 | |
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05-13-2018, 01:40 PM | #19 |
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There is of course another category of delusion. If you had a false belief that was entirely in line with the beliefs of the surrounding culture, but which you would adhere inflexibly without any ability to revise it based on evidence, even when a failure to do so could have, a belief like "There's no such thing as monsters" or "Women who are virtuous and modestly dressed need have no fear of assault" there will be no negative reactions from most people...but of course if you take such a delusion you will encounter evidence to the countrary and you will respond irrationally.
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