05-10-2021, 04:36 AM | #31 | |
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Re: Examples of failed self-control rolls in fiction
In Charles de Lint's Newford books Jilly Coppercorn fails Charitable and Compulsive Generosity rolls so often she comes across as naïve to people who don't really know her. (She's extremely street smart, but has a 6 for her control number.)
The Crow Girls have quite a few Disadvantages related to acting goofy and childish (probably to the point of an Odious Personal Habit), but only when they're together. Individually they're introspective and level-headed. (I'd argue, though, they don't even try to control themselves.)
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05-10-2021, 07:16 AM | #32 |
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Re: Examples of failed self-control rolls in fiction
Probably more a function of Sense of Duty or the like - although it could have been a function of the Ring making anyone who encountered it wanting to keep it for themselves. Arguably, the Ring Afflicts Obsession (Possess the Ring) on anyone who sees or touches it. Most of the Fellowship either made their Self Control Roll or successfully resisted the Affliction, but Boromir failed at both - and so did Frodo, both at the Council of Elrond and later, in Mount Doom.
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05-10-2021, 08:02 AM | #33 |
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Re: Examples of failed self-control rolls in fiction
Frodo didn't volunteer to take the ring despite his better judgment. He volunteered to take it because "this task is appointed for you, Frodo; and that if you do not find a way, no one will."
In other words, he wasn't trying to resist doing something he didn't want to do; he was trying to motivate himself to do what he knew only he could do. |
05-10-2021, 08:09 AM | #34 | |
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05-10-2021, 08:19 AM | #35 |
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Re: Examples of failed self-control rolls in fiction
Is that a self-control roll, or just a failed contest against Saffron's manipulation? Does he demonstrate Lecherousness anywhere else?
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Re: Examples of failed self-control rolls in fiction
No; Inara's friend who is running the brothel even comments on the fact he isn't taking any of his payment "in kind" (Jayne, meanwhile, probably burns through the bulk of his payment in this manner). It really is a function more of Saffron's skills - a man can only resist so much temptation (Jayne, meanwhile, may well have succumbed to his own Lecherousness when he offered to trade Vera for Saffron; Jayne's whole character concept seems to revolve around failing a lot of SC rolls...).
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05-10-2021, 09:20 AM | #38 |
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Re: Examples of failed self-control rolls in fiction
Ben Grimm fails Bad Temper rolls now and then.
Wolverine has improved his control of Berserk in this character history, but still loses it against Sabretooth from time to time. |
05-12-2021, 07:57 PM | #39 |
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Re: Examples of failed self-control rolls in fiction
Almost any act ever performed by 'Half-Cocked' Jack Shaftoe (aka L'Emmerdeur, aka Quicksilver, aka Ali Zaybak, aka Jack the Coiner, etc, etc.) in The Baroque Cycle trilogy by Neal Stephenson. I re-read the entire series every year or two.
He even calls the tendency his "imp of the perverse". But he sort of has an excuse, what with being half-mad from advanced syphilis... The best thing Stephenson ever wrote, though admittedly it is NOT for everyone.
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River sees the Blue Suns logo on Cobb's shirt, falls prey to her Flashbacks trait, and slashes it with a knife while he is still wearing it. Heck, River is a poster-girl for "super powerful character whose player did not realize he was crippling her by taking all those mental Disadvantages to pay for her psychic powers and cinematic fighting style".
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