*lightning strikes thread* It lives!!!!!!
I'm bored and have been taking a crack at this, but I've run into a few snags.
I don't have access to GURPS Girl Genius - do Sparks have Quick Gadgeteer in that, or only standard Gadgeteer?
I put in "Compulsive Sciencing" (based on the other "Compulsive [so-and-so]" disadvantages). It seems like a close fit in general, but there's an unintended interaction with Berserk.
It seems like possibly either Sparks in general or some Sparks should have the actual Berserk disadvantage as well as any house-ruled "ze madness" disadvantage (see, for instance, Gil's fight with Vole after the Siege of Mechanicsburg), and Compulsive Sciencing interacts awkwardly with the Berserk disadvantage.
If you have to go a whole day without doing your Compulsive thing you have the Bad Temper disadvantage instead until you do. (Which, in itself, seems a close fit for the comic). And, RAW, even if you have a high self-control number for Berserk, failing a Bad Temper check automatically means you go Berserk, which seems excessive.
Does it seem reasonable to just rule that in this case it
doesn't go to Berserk, or maybe have it go to the "ze madness" disadvantage rather than directly to Berserk?
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Originally Posted by naloth
If you read the description, Fanaticism is basically a 15 point version of obsession that pushes it from rationalizing all your actions to reach "the" goal to include any sacrifices necessary (your life, other lives, whatever) to reach "the" goal. Extreme Fanaticism also includes bonuses for resisting things that would cause you to betray or divert from your goals.
Are sparks willing to kill themselves and others for the invention or just people that devote all their time to a goal?
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On re-reading the Fanaticism description, Naloth is quite right, it is Fanaticism. Fanaticism is phrased in a way that assumes that it's about a group or ideal rather than about a goal like Obsession, which makes it seem like it wouldn't apply to this, but RAW it doesn't
have to be.