10-02-2019, 11:42 AM | #11 |
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Re: How to portray shunning?
Can characters have a Secret (interacts with shunned people in private)?
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10-02-2019, 11:45 AM | #12 | |
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10-02-2019, 12:02 PM | #13 | |
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10-02-2019, 12:23 PM | #14 |
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10-02-2019, 08:20 PM | #15 | |
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10-02-2019, 11:55 PM | #16 |
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Re: How to portray shunning?
Outlaw (Shunned) -15 + whatever resource and status loss is campaign appropriate is the easy approach to this, IMO at least
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10-03-2019, 04:41 AM | #17 | |
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The Basic Set says, p. 162: "A “quirk” is a minor feature that sets you aside from others. It has a negative point value, but it is not necessarily a disadvantage. ... However, you must roleplay them." Now, if the campaign was entirely set within an Amish community, and every PC and NPC was an Amish, maybe the Quirk would make no sense. But if the campaign also wanders away, and some PCs and many NPCs are not Amish and thus not bound by this, while OTOH the GM plans to have a couple of shunned NPCs having a major role... then I stand by my [-1]. |
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10-03-2019, 10:26 AM | #18 | |
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For the group that practices shunning, I'd call it a 0-point feature of their legal code. For someone who is being shunned, it's probably a -3 or -4 Reputation. It's not a Social Stigma, unless part of being shunned involves being painted white, made to wear certain clothes (effectively an "I'm shunned" uniform) or otherwise made instantly recognizable as someone to be shunned by that group. Otherwise, it's a Reputation and affected by both group size within the campaign area and frequency of recognition. If you're being shunned by Mormons in Utah in the 1870s-1880s, that's barely a quirk if the characters are globe-trotters, a small group if they regularly travel across the U.S.A., a medium sized group if they're confined to the Old West, and somewhere between a large group and everyone if the setting is Utah. [And might be a Secret (possible death) if the Avenging Angels are taking an interest in you, but that's probably crossed out of shunning.] Likewise the bigger the group practicing the shunning, the less likely the character is to be recognized as someone who should be shunned as he leaves his locality, either because the members that far away haven't heard that he's to be shunned, or they don't know that he's "Herbert Bloggins, who has been declared shunned," and as long as Herbert Bloggins doesn't feel compelled to tell them so … Last edited by Curmudgeon; 07-17-2020 at 09:03 PM. Reason: spelling |
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10-03-2019, 10:43 AM | #19 | |
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Shunning is most hurtful because it's liable to strip the subject of most people they know and most of their support structure. Unfriendly behavior on the street is only a big problem if you continue trying to live in the location (which does happen). I suspect Social Stigma (Excommunicated) is the most appropriate disadvantage. Note: this group's activities are confined to the late 1830's in Missouri, though their memory lasted beyond that. If you are at all interested in historical accuracy or portrayal of real-life religions.
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10-03-2019, 10:59 AM | #20 |
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Re: How to portray shunning?
Fair enough. I've only ever heard of them through western novels (set in the time period I gave, which had them active in Utah). I wasn't sure they were even a real thing.
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