12-14-2018, 01:04 PM | #31 | |
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Re: [Basic] Disadvantage of the Week: Honesty
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12-14-2018, 01:09 PM | #32 | |
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Re: [Basic] Disadvantage of the Week: Honesty
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GURPS disadvantages tend to represent rather extreme personality traits and that is more true for Honesty than for many others. |
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12-14-2018, 01:37 PM | #33 | |
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This doesn't mean that they don't have opinions about the laws or know when something's not in synch with their principles. They might rant about the speed limit being ridiculously low. Or, if it really bothers them, they may write to their representative to get it changed. Often they can be a real thorn in authority's side because instead of rolling their eyes at silly rules, they abide by them but then work hard to change them. In general, I have often heard the idea that you need to work to change the laws, but you can't just ignore the ones that you don't like. Obviously, Honesty doesn't work if the premise of the campaign requires frequent lawbreaking, but I've seen plenty of games where the players are at least ostensibly on the side of the law. In a recent DFRPG game, for example, the Honest knight played himself as an ardent supporter of the King's Law. (This didn't stop other PCs from being dishonest, but they quickly learned that they needed to keep such shenanigans off the knight's radar.) |
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12-14-2018, 01:55 PM | #34 | |
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Apart from that, yes Honesty is limited by the knowledge of the character. You have to know that something is illegal before your Honesty will tell you not to do that. If the speed limit sign is obscured than you can keep going at the same speed until you are made aware that you need to slow down to comply with the law. What more if you think that Honesty requires you to act in an insane manner, then you doing it wrong. Madmen do not get a +1 reaction modifier. |
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12-14-2018, 01:57 PM | #35 | |
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A buck private is on the other hand supposed to know not to kill an unarmed child or rape a woman. A High School football player does not need to know that some types of hazing are assault and forcible confinement as he does know they are sadistic bullying. Those two examples are more about CoH then Honesty though especially the later. One example of Honesty though is a Gentleman who refuses to duel because it is against the law even though the law never really enforces it. In this case it would be a difficult disadvantage as his Reputation can go on a nosedive.
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12-14-2018, 02:13 PM | #36 | |
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This is assuming the player wants to play an Honest character in good faith. If they just want to figure out a clever way to get avoid being disadvantaged, I would make them pay it off. |
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12-14-2018, 02:20 PM | #37 | |
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If you want a positive Repustation spend the CP to buy it outright and don't try and munchkin it out of a Disad.
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12-14-2018, 02:32 PM | #38 |
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Re: [Basic] Disadvantage of the Week: Honesty
Here's a scenario where Honesty and CoH might conflict dramatically:
Suppose there is a cop who sees a fellow cop engaged in corruption. Does he tell IA (and possibly testify in court) or does he be loyal to his "brother in blue".
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12-14-2018, 02:46 PM | #39 |
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12-14-2018, 03:25 PM | #40 | ||
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