Finer grained self-control

[Bruno]

Originally Posted by mhd

Greed is another issue, but as I never quite understood why that is 15 points in the first place, I'll just mark it down a bit.

Greed causes acute inter-party conflict. Greed causes one PC to hide treasure from the others, to conceal extra profits or bonuses they earned from a shared employer, to skim off party sales, and to steal things right out of other players pockets/backpacks. That causes really bad feelings.

Two PCs with Greed is a disaster waiting to happen. Their shared motivation can quickly turn into us-vs-them, and then once they get away with the goods, they rapidly degenerate into Me-Vs-You. Or they flat out fight with each other, accusing one another of hiding treasure that the other wants.

Problems that may result in angry PCs kicking you out of the party/murdering you/turning you into the authorities for imprisonment long enough to remove you from the campaign are pretty big problems. Greed is worse than many other obnoxious Disads, in that many people regard money earned as their "score" - both in games and in real life. A person who is not personally greedy can feel particularly wounded when their PC has money stolen from them. Heck, that's the quickest way I know to get PCs to chase after someone in particular - have that person steal something from them. It makes players furious in a way that attempted murder just doesn't.