09-30-2017, 05:54 AM | #21 |
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Re: [RPM] Mind Control
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09-30-2017, 09:01 AM | #22 | |
Join Date: Jun 2006
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Re: [RPM] Mind Control
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It confused me for quite a while too, but I think I understand the intent now. Slave Mentality is not a compulsion to obey orders - that's Reprogrammable - it simply prevents you from doing stuff *without* any. It's a lack of *initiative* more than anything. You could conceivably have Slave Mentality and some other disadvantage that prevents you from taking orders (say a complete inability to understand language) and basically never do anything. That just wouldn't be a very interesting character. Edit: I would however say that Slave Mentality is incompatible with Sense of Duty, because Sense of Duty *is* a kind of internal motivation, and by definition sufferers from Slave Mentality do not have any of those. It's incompatible with pretty much all self imposed disadvantages.
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09-30-2017, 12:38 PM | #23 | |
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Saskatoon, SK, Canada
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Re: [RPM] Mind Control
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Also, I'd note that Reprogrammable, in 3e, used to be "Reprogrammable Duty". I'm reasonably sure, based on that, that the intent is not to make someone who slavishly obeys the orders of one specific person to take Reprogrammable, Slave Mentality, and an additional Duty disad. |
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09-30-2017, 12:46 PM | #24 | |
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Saskatoon, SK, Canada
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Re: [RPM] Mind Control
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Personally, I lean towards the "always fails quick contests with a margin of 1" interpretation, because that means someone with Slave Mentality can't be swayed by an utterly terrible argument or story - someone has to be at least marginally decent at it to get it to work. That's because I feel the point value of Slave Mentality is quite adequately covered by the "lacks initiative" bit of it, and the idea of someone running hither and yon, pushed by contradictory orders or the instructions of whoever met them most recently, just seems silly to me. |
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