[UA] Loser Newbie Question

[Greg Stolze]

>Okay, to become a sociopath, you must be hardened completely -- ten ranks
>-- in >all the madness axes (you can tell I'm a Loser Newbie because I
>don't know the >right terms).  When you succeed a check, you gain a
>hardness rank, but you only >make a check if the number of the check is
>greater than the number of hardened >ranks you have on that axis.  So,
>then, if you have nine hardened ranks, you >aren't fazed by anything short
>of a level ten challenge.  I understand this.  >So you can only become a
>sociopath if you are subjected to... well, jeez.  Are >there even that
>many rank-10 Unnatural challenges out there?  Am I >understanding this
>properly?  From the history of the sample sociopath >character, Eponymous,
>this sounds like a misunderstanding -- it doesn't read >like he was ever
>subjected to rank-10 Unnatural, Helplessness, or Isolation >checks.  Self
>and Violence, sure, but...

Well, the standard developer hand waving would be "There's a lot of stuff
in his past that's never been described."  Your understanding of the
sociopathy rules is correct.  Note that there are a number of magickal and
avatar effects that can force artificially high checks on a character.
(Yeah, that's it!  It's MAGICK!)

-G.

If the reinstatement of capital punishment was clearly doing nothing to
reduce the number of murders in those states permitting it, it certainly
appeared to be cutting down on the number of confessions.
        -Dr. Douglas Ubelaker

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