Phobomancy: Fear-based Magick part 2

[Carl L. Congdon]

Gregory Paul Stolze wrote:

> Hm... maybe I'd have the taboo being "go into therapy," with the
> games-wonkage bit being that if you ever get anyone else's help with taking
> dots off your stress meter (either failed or hardened) you lose the charges
> you're carring.  People would still go to therapy when they got desperate,
> but it would make scheduling interesting - and eventually people would know
> you gotta kack the phobomancer when he's coming out of his therapist's
> office.  (Just like you kack the epideromancer when she's coming out of her
> doctor's office.)

    I like, especially because the alternative to *not* getting therapy is
going bugfuck-loony, which can leave you even more powerless than therapy.
Plus, this allows for those vigilante tendencies I mentioned in my first post.
But, for the big question: should we actually allow this for PCs? I keep
thinking of it as an NPC rival school which everyone hates.

But I'm starting to see player potential....or maybe I need therapy myself.

--
Poets, priests, and politicians
Have words to spend for their positions
Words that scream for your submission
And no one's jamming their transmission...
And when their eloquence escapes me
Their logic ties me up and rapes me
 -The Police, "De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da"