Self-Control Rolls for Odious Personal Habits?

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Originally Posted by David Johnston2

Here's the problem. You can't really control what other people think of you.

I'm not sure I buy that. What if I'm not racist at all, but people think I am? Is that Odious Personal Habit (Racist) -2 [-10]? I rather think it's more likely to be Reputation (Racist) -2 [-10]. A reputation is what people think of you. An Odious Personal Habit is something you do. It's a habit. It's like Callous or No Sense of Humor. It's not that people think of you as being this way, it's that you are this way.

This does cause some problems (You can look up threads arguing about Callous and "Crazy Eyes"), but these disadvantages aren't about what people think of you, it's how they react to your behavior.