Variant Honesty - Guilt Complex

[malloyd]

Originally Posted by Anders

I don't really like the mechanism for Honesty

I'd recommend not tying any variation to Honesty at all. That disadvantage is fundamentally internally contradictory, so trying to modify it, inheriting all the contradictions and the nearly 30 year long history of arguments over what it "really" means - carefully unresolved by anything official - isn't very helpful. Write an entirely new one.

I'm not convinced it needs a specific mechanic, any more than any other Code of Honor, and indeed I think a lot of disadvantages that have one suffer for it, because it *encourages* violating the disadvantage. If you violate a disadvantage and the enforcement mechanic is you lose xp, or have to buy it off, that's a much more effective discouragement to playing out of character than "my character is depressed" is ever going to be.