Obsessions motivating "all actions"

[Varyon]

Originally Posted by Stormcrow

The sentence about rationalizing all of your actions as an attempt to reach your goal is followed by the sentence about making a self-control roll to deviate from your goal. The self-control roll cancels out the need to rationalize. If I've got an Obsession to "kill all goblins" and I succeed at a self-control roll to "save my friend even though it doesn't kill any goblins," I don't have to rationalize saving my friend as a way to reach my goal of killing all goblins. Successful self-control rolls make exceptions to the need to rationalize.

Under that interpretation, GS would have to have his Obsession at Quirk level - basically any time a friend asks him to do something non-goblin-related for them, he does it (or at least makes an attempt), so long as it doesn't get in the way of killing goblins. If he has to make a self-control roll to do anything that he doesn't rationalize as helping him with his goal, even having it at the (15) level is going to result in him acting out of character.

Really, the DFRPG version works a lot better for him, as well as for the vast majority of Obsessed characters in fiction.