Just another blah question

[Celjabba]

Originally Posted by David Johnston2

Having a sense of duty to your home town means not leaving it except in pursuit of something that will help it.

Not necessarily. I can certainly see a character with sense of duty (his former hometown), who live elsewere, but still care a lot about his old hometown, keep in contact and stay informed about what happen, use his political or economic influence toward for the better of his hometown or from displaced fomer citizens, and would head home in an hurry if news of a problem reach him. He would also refuse or act again any act that would harm his hometown.
But he may very well never see his hometown again.
Quite a few heroic characters are like that : exiled but still protective of their origin. For example, Marvel Thor could probably claim sense of duty to Asgard .

Wether or not such a sense of duty is worth much as a disadvantage is left to the GM...

Celjabba

[Flyndaran]

I'm now picturing a military person on deployment. Even if they have a Sense of Duty to their spouse, it's not like they can just up and go AWOL. I believe even hardship paperwork isn't exactly immediate either.

[Bruno]

Originally Posted by Flyndaran

I'm now picturing a military person on deployment. Even if they have a Sense of Duty to their spouse, it's not like they can just up and go AWOL. I believe even hardship paperwork isn't exactly immediate either.

This is a classic case of a conflict between two disads: Duty and Sense of Duty (or possibly two different SoDs). There's two ways to approach this.

One: forbid conflicting disads; this certainly cuts down on paperwork, but you can't anticipate every situation that might or might not result in conflict.

Two: Deal with the character angst IC, and as the player, resign yourself to the possibility of violating one of your disads, for the normal penalties of such. Obviously the best route out is to find some way to fulfill both, but if that was easily possible, we wouldn't be talking about it as a conflict case. :)

If you end up with two disads conflicting that would cause you to gain no CP for the session for violating them, and you can't find a way to fulfill both of them, you may just be stuck not getting CP for that session. Crap happens, and that's why disads aren't free points.