[Horror] Why Roll vs Corruption So Early?

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Originally Posted by Klark

Gary the PC has 12 points of Corruption. At the end of the week, he rolls Will at -1 per full 10 points of Corruption, so Will-1.

However, on a failure, he only converts Corruption to negative character points at a rate of -1 per *full* 25 points of Corruption.

This means, despite failing, Gary does not gain negative points nor reduce his Corruption total; he doesn't have enough to convert so nothing changes.

Yeah it seems odd, if we're going to bother with rolling when someone has 24 or fewer corruption all I can think is converting it to decimals, ie 1 point of corruption becomes -0.04 character points.

Unless perhaps there is a "round down" policy on whatever decimal result you get, so even 0.04 negative CP rounds "down" to a full -1 quirk?

Yet using the term "full" seems to speak against that interpretation.

H147's "bought at character creation" guidelines also only counts as -1 cp per 10 corruption too, a different ratio.

Seems like it'd be simpler to gain -1 cp per 10 corruption and maybe if you have fractions of 10 you just track a single decimal place of negative character points?

Of course I don't know any way to design quirks worth less than -1 cp, decile -0.1 to -0.9 quirks could be interesting though. Otherwise I just wouldn't convert the corruption.

As for starting off with 1-9 corruption instead of 10, decile perks would be cool too.

Like maybe 1 dr (crushing only -40% tough skin -40% ablative -80%) could be worth 0.2 cp?