Why is Broad-Minded a Quirk?

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Originally Posted by Mehmet

1- No 1 point Perk could guarantee "all alien things will get along with you as well as you get along with them" so the arguments that Broadminded has to be a Perk is void...

I note that the description does not say 'all', nor does it say 'as well as'. It's vague, but it's beneficial, so it should not be a Quirk. I think conceptually the described benefits would make an okay perk, but would do well to be written more specifically.

2- If the character faces an obviously (note the emulated narrow mindedness here) dangerous being, say, some pale bloke with long canine teeth and with a disturbing habit of speaking in a hissing voice, and if the character is NOT knowledgable about vampires, Broadmindedness requires him (Note the limitation in behaviour) to approach this character with, well, broadmindedness.

That's you'd think it should do, bearing in mind that it's supposed to be less bothersome than Xenophilia. I suppose in a future edition the text could be amended to reflect this better approach.

So no "I suspect this thing is going to mind trick me and drink my blood so I'm cautios, not making an eye contact and my hand is on my sword-hilt" kind of measures.

Well, the concept of Xenophilia does not require Gullibility. You are required to be attracted to their strangeness, but there is no requirement to ignore clear danger signals.