[UA] Loser Newbie Question

[Nick Wedig]

>I asked this same question on the list a few months back,
but no one
>ever responded, so I assumed that I was the only person
who found this
>weird. I mean, "sociopath" has a real psychological
definition, and I'll
>bet that most sociopaths you run into as a psychiatrist
haven't gone
>through the 100+ madness checks at levels 1 through 10 it
takes to turn
>the average UA character into a UA-rules sociopath. Come
on, what
>happens _after_ you've tortured your entire family to
death and eaten
>their bodies while having sex with Cthulhu? You have to
repeat the
>experience a dozen times before making it into sociopath
territory, and
>hell, you've only _got_ one family.

There is a caveat in the madness section that the GM can
(should) inore madness rules for GMCs.  So the real
question is about PCs.  There are some rules-level reasons
for the sociopathology as they are, but not much in game.
 I'm uncertain how to resolve this, though.

>
>Eponymous' background makes no mention of the kinds of
event it takes to
>trigger rank 8-10 checks in Unnatural, Self, or
Helplessness, but his
>meters indicate that he must have engaged in those kinds
of activities
>multiple times... after having worked his way up to level
7 in every
>meter.

It also makes no explicit mention how long he's been
working for Abel.  Bein a thug for TNI for several years
should put you towards several level ten checks in all
variety of gauges.

>
>I remember proposing some rules to govern lesser levels of
>soicopathology, but I don't remember what they were. You
can check the
>list archive if you're curious.

Perhaps something like: if you're hardened to ten in the
gauge your Fear stimuli is, then you can't use it.  Attach
similar penalties to other gauges (ie, if you max two
gauges other'n your Fear gauge, you lose one of your other
stimuli, determined by GM).  Does that work?  It's more
harsh than original rules, but the end result's the same.

Mr. Teapot
minor sociopath.

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