Why is Broad-Minded a Quirk?

[demonsbane]

Originally Posted by nick012000

Yes, there is. If you invite a monster in for a beer to tell his story, and he's just trying to get close enough to rip your throat out, it's a disadvantage. (...)

Seconded. You've put these examples, but there are many more, even in the real world. "Broad-Minded" can be good in some contexts, but in others it can be a really bad thing. It's a double-edged trait. Sometimes is needed to reject foreign influences for cultural survival because these influences can be, in various senses, harmful. It doesn't matter if many people today, in our globalized epoch, sees "Broad-Minded" only from its positive angles. Many civilizations entered into irreversible processes of decadence through the opening to foreign influences.

So, if it's a positive or negative trait, even an advantage or a disadvantage... that should be left entirely in hands of the GM/players' assumptions & campaign setting, as so many things. Overally speaking, I think "Broad-minded" makes more sense being classified as a Quirk, not a Perk nor an Advantage, because that keeps the trait in a more or less indeterminate status. The value or "Broad-Minded" is too variable and relative.