Going Berserk on your friends?

[JulianLW]

I am persuaded by folks on this thread - especially whswhs, who of course wrote Social Engineering, including the rule about Sense of Duty giving a bonus to Will rolls in resisting Interrogation that that gave me the idea in the first place - that SoD shouldn't give a bonus to Berserk rolls to resist attacking friends.

But I do think that there should be a perk: Will Never Hurt [Named Friend, Ally, Dependent, Whatever].

Spending one point to have a special immunity to attacking one person seems about right to me, and it's 50% of the points you'd get back to have a SoD to one person. Spend one of 'em to make that SoD matter, given your other mental/emotional problems.

[Tuk the Weekah]

Originally Posted by corwyn

I remember running a game in Harn with a Viking Runepriest with Berserk - he called it a viking pacifist. In one encounter, all the foes were dead and he was still revved up. The party's archer shot him in the leg. Then the party just sat around until he came out of it.

Was that Grimr? I don't remember doing that.

[corwyn]

Originally Posted by Tuk the Weekah

Was that Grimr? I don't remember doing that.

Nope, that was Chris' pacifist viking. He eventually died in that game's finale post big-bad death when he had to make 4 more death rolls without Berserk.

Grimr didn't have Berserk, did he?