Quirks, Non Quirks & general silliness .

Maz · 02-18-2019, 06:40 AM

I'm with the others. I'm not really harsh when it comes to quirks. In fact I tend to allow people 5 pts from quirks even if they do not fill them out right away. Then they are open to be filled out during play (sometimes heavily encouraged by other players).

However I would veto Quirks that would never come into play. Or Quirks that are really played as full fledged disadvantages.

But basically if I can imagine a situation, however contrived, where the Quirk could come into play. I would probably allow it.

For instance. The "wears sock inside out". (From Finding Forrester). My initial reaction is "No. That's a character trait, not worth a quirk". But then, giving it a minute I could see it coming up in a situation where people are in a disguise or someone is impersonating the character or something like that. I can just imagine a scene where the characters are going undercover as soldiers and an officer notice that characters socks being wrongly on and chewing him out for it, causing unwanted attention. And so I would allow it. It might never come up, but I would look for an opportunity for it to happen.

02-18-2019, 06:40 AM	#6
Maz Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Denmark	Re: Quirks, Non Quirks & general silliness . I'm with the others. I'm not really harsh when it comes to quirks. In fact I tend to allow people 5 pts from quirks even if they do not fill them out right away. Then they are open to be filled out during play (sometimes heavily encouraged by other players). However I would veto Quirks that would never come into play. Or Quirks that are really played as full fledged disadvantages. But basically if I can imagine a situation, however contrived, where the Quirk could come into play. I would probably allow it. For instance. The "wears sock inside out". (From Finding Forrester). My initial reaction is "No. That's a character trait, not worth a quirk". But then, giving it a minute I could see it coming up in a situation where people are in a disguise or someone is impersonating the character or something like that. I can just imagine a scene where the characters are going undercover as soldiers and an officer notice that characters socks being wrongly on and chewing him out for it, causing unwanted attention. And so I would allow it. It might never come up, but I would look for an opportunity for it to happen.