[UA] Loser Newbie

[James O'Rance]

Royal Minister of Stuff <yokeltania at yahoo.com> said:

<snip friendly and accepting speech>

 >>>I always gave players the benefit of the doubt and let
them fill up all, what, 50 notches before they become
complete sociopaths, but I like to let them THINK
they're pushing the envelope when the Unnatural or
Violence starts peeping over 8 or 9.<<<


The way I look at it, becoming hardened in all of your madness meters is one 
surefire way to become sociopathic. There are other ways.

Even in UA (certainly in RL) there must be sociopaths who have never seen 
anything supernatural, let alone become hardened to it.

As sociopaths are rarely much fun in a campaign (you kinda have to approach 
playing them as an exercise in acting, in my experience, rather than a 
standard character) it is very inconvenient (because you lose your 
flip-flops) for a PC to be a sociopath.

You can easily decide that a given GMC is sociopathic without giving him all 
five madness meters fully hardened. Just don't do it to PCs.

BTW, Eponymous has probably seen a lot in Abel's employ that would have 
hardened him to the Supernatural, Violence, Isolation, Self, and possibly 
Helplessness by now.


Cheers,

James O’Rance
“Divine being creates petting zoo. It gets out of hand.”
- The Bible (summarised by John W. Mangrum)

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