Revulsion vs. Phobia

Finalsora811 · 04-26-2012, 09:56 PM

As I see it, Phobia is you being scared of the object while Revulsion is if it enters your body, it hurts you indirectly. My question is, How would you model a Vampire's fear of Crosses? Would it be Phobia or Revulsion? Also, am I being dumb and is this in the books somewhere?

Finalsora811 · 04-26-2012, 10:00 PM

Found my own answer. I'm dumb. It's Dread.

Lord Carnifex · 04-26-2012, 10:10 PM

I'm glad we could help :)

~~smurf~~ · 04-27-2012, 04:15 AM

Fantastic response Lord C. Another satisfied customer.

Bruno · 04-27-2012, 07:13 AM

There's a problem-solving technique in the world of programming and software development called "Rubber Duck Debugging". We just witnessed a version of it in action here :D

PseudoFenton · 04-27-2012, 07:49 AM

In addition, just to weigh in with something so it seems as though we've helped. The opposites to these disadvantages are:
* Dependency, being the requirement to have an object with you, consume something specific, or go to a specific place regularly (chosen time period) or suffer cyclic injury on a shorter (but proportional) time period until you have.
* Draining, being the daily requirement to consume a specific thing, commit a specific act or otherwise expose yourself to a fleeting resource or you take injury which cannot be restored except by fulfilling these criteria.
* Maintenance, the need for skilled "upkeep" to prevent periodic (chosen time interval) HT loss and incapacitating affects which can only be alleviated by skilled care. In addition a minimum number of other people required to perform said "upkeep" can be specified (no less than 1 other though).

Through combination (as they can all stack) or selective use of these you can keep monsters/whatever near something rather than away from things (which is what Phobia, Revulsion and Dread model best). As such sometimes turning the conditions on their head as so to reverse the criteria being met can allow a much wider range of options of negative consequences for undesirable movement of a monster.

Obviously fleeing a cross should be Dread, but other monsters can be a little trickier and having more options of how to model different effects can be quite handy. (or at least I hope so now that I've written all of this up)

04-26-2012, 09:56 PM	#1
Finalsora811 Join Date: Dec 2011	Revulsion vs. Phobia As I see it, Phobia is you being scared of the object while Revulsion is if it enters your body, it hurts you indirectly. My question is, How would you model a Vampire's fear of Crosses? Would it be Phobia or Revulsion? Also, am I being dumb and is this in the books somewhere?

04-26-2012, 10:00 PM	#2
Finalsora811 Join Date: Dec 2011	Re: Revulsion vs. Phobia Found my own answer. I'm dumb. It's Dread.

04-26-2012, 10:10 PM	#3
Lord Carnifex Join Date: Oct 2005	Re: Revulsion vs. Phobia I'm glad we could help :) __________________ An ongoing narrative of philosophy, psychology, and semiotics: Et in Arcadia Ego "To an Irishman, a serious matter is a joke, and a joke is a serious matter."

04-27-2012, 04:15 AM	#4
~~smurf~~ Banned Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Bristol	Re: Revulsion vs. Phobia Fantastic response Lord C. Another satisfied customer.

04-27-2012, 07:13 AM	#5
Bruno Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Canada	Re: Revulsion vs. Phobia There's a problem-solving technique in the world of programming and software development called "Rubber Duck Debugging". We just witnessed a version of it in action here :D __________________ All about Size Modifier; Unified Hit Location Table A Wiki for my F2F Group A neglected GURPS blog

04-27-2012, 07:49 AM	#6
PseudoFenton Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Land of the Britons	Re: Revulsion vs. Phobia In addition, just to weigh in with something so it seems as though we've helped. The opposites to these disadvantages are: * Dependency, being the requirement to have an object with you, consume something specific, or go to a specific place regularly (chosen time period) or suffer cyclic injury on a shorter (but proportional) time period until you have. * Draining, being the daily requirement to consume a specific thing, commit a specific act or otherwise expose yourself to a fleeting resource or you take injury which cannot be restored except by fulfilling these criteria. * Maintenance, the need for skilled "upkeep" to prevent periodic (chosen time interval) HT loss and incapacitating affects which can only be alleviated by skilled care. In addition a minimum number of other people required to perform said "upkeep" can be specified (no less than 1 other though). Through combination (as they can all stack) or selective use of these you can keep monsters/whatever near something rather than away from things (which is what Phobia, Revulsion and Dread model best). As such sometimes turning the conditions on their head as so to reverse the criteria being met can allow a much wider range of options of negative consequences for undesirable movement of a monster. Obviously fleeing a cross should be Dread, but other monsters can be a little trickier and having more options of how to model different effects can be quite handy. (or at least I hope so now that I've written all of this up) __________________ ...like a monkey with a wrench.