[UA] Invisible Rules

[Mark Fender]

> >FWIW, it didn't work on my players. But I think that's more to do
> >with the fact that they're playing characters based on their real
> >life selves, so having a low Mind is just too demeaning...
>
> But they didn't find a low Body or Soul demeaning? Odd.

I'm 1.7m and weigh about 55kg.  I'd not rate myself as having a 
particularly good Body skill if I were playing myself.  Good stamina might 
jump it up to about a 40, but I'd doubt much higher.

That's not demeaning; that's having a clear view of self.

Then a clear sense of self would perhaps not rate the Mind so high, which 
was the original point. I just find it interesting that players would have 
a hard time assigning themselves low Minds but have no problem assigning 
themselves a low Body or Soul. Now, maybe as gamers we have no problems 
with rating our Body's low, but a football player might have a more 
difficult time with that. And the Soul just bothers me. Are we so callous 
as to rate our Souls low? Do we not think a moral compass is important?

And what's the correlation between gamers having high Minds for those 
Stress checks, yet the news stories continue to trickle in of gamers 
confusing fantasy with reality?

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