"Absolute" Mental Disadvantages

Bathawk · 11-28-2022, 12:33 PM

Hello

Most Mental Disadvantages have a modifiable cost based on how hard it is to resist...a kleptomaniac who rolls to see if he can avoid stealing the silverware at the Senator's party, Or the Indecisive character trying to decide between the blue door or the red door as the Orcs close in

But what about Disadvantages that can't be resisted? Like the android who MUST remain truthful even if it means his friends will be lead into a trap, or the avatar of the goddess of slaughter, who must slay her enemies no matter what (bloodlust) as it is tied to her nature?

Likewise what about physical disadvantages that are no absolute? Much rarer, but for example, the paraplegic whos condition is psychosomatic and can be temporarily ignored with an act of will.....or a certain fictional lawyer who believed he was allergic to electricity (weakness)

11-28-2022, 12:33 PM	#1
Bathawk Join Date: Oct 2007	"Absolute" Mental Disadvantages Hello Most Mental Disadvantages have a modifiable cost based on how hard it is to resist...a kleptomaniac who rolls to see if he can avoid stealing the silverware at the Senator's party, Or the Indecisive character trying to decide between the blue door or the red door as the Orcs close in But what about Disadvantages that can't be resisted? Like the android who MUST remain truthful even if it means his friends will be lead into a trap, or the avatar of the goddess of slaughter, who must slay her enemies no matter what (bloodlust) as it is tied to her nature? Likewise what about physical disadvantages that are no absolute? Much rarer, but for example, the paraplegic whos condition is psychosomatic and can be temporarily ignored with an act of will.....or a certain fictional lawyer who believed he was allergic to electricity (weakness)