Self-Control Rolls for Odious Personal Habits?

[Rasputin]

Originally Posted by whswhs

I wouldn't ever start applying self-control or frequency mods to OPH.

Except that the Basic Set does that with a few disadvantages. Bully, for example, has a -2 reaction penalty for -10, which is basically an OPH, but there's also a self-control roll. Likewise, Sadism has a -3 to the reaction roll, as well as a self-control roll, all for -15. (The reaction penalty for Sadism is listed for "[t]hose who become aware of your problem" but Bully has no such qualifier.) Still, it's weird—if the self-control roll for Bully is for extra behavior, does that make others react even worse? Why doesn't it grant more negative points?

It's a bother, to be sure, and many of the frequency situations are better as a Reputation rather than an OPH, which is assumed to be operating all the time but it might not have caused a bad reaction this time. But there is precedent—Bully outright, and to a lesser degree Sadism.