[UA] Madness

[Susan Dohnim]

>From: Jeff Wikstrom <jeffwik at 333.org>
>
>Which is certainly a reasonable thing.  You take a high Body if you want to 
>be able to take a punch, a high speed if you want to be able to run away 
>from things, and a high soul for magick powers; a high mind means 
>resistance to psychosis and tendency towards sociopath.  I guess I'll just 
>do the straightforward thing, which is emphasize callousness.
>
>They're all quite delicate though, so maybe after Mister Fuck-That-Noise 
>beats them with a tire iron, they'll reconsider having Bodies and Speeds of 
>40.

Of course, as a Trickster I'm a naturally likable guy, and the Lady has her 
own protections, so we're both set against your usual random acts of 
violence. I mean, this ain't D&D -- if you leave people alone they'll tend 
to not try to kill you with tire irons. Poor crazy urbanomancer is fucked 
though :). (And let's face it, I and the Lady are fucked too, because Jeff 
thinks we're taking advantage of him with having a Mind of 70.)

FYI I didn't take a Mind of 70 bcs of fear of madness . . . I took it 
because I needed more points for the Tricky skill set I was looking for. But 
I gotta admit that I'd be scared to death to play a character with a Mind 
<=50, unless I had already come to terms with the idea of going batshit all 
the time.

I don't know what the solution to that is, though. Everything I can come up 
with ends up benefitting the guys with a high Mind skill.

And let's face it -- if Mind wasn't important, what good max-minner would 
put much into it? Everyone would be walking around with high Body/Speed and 
a Mind of 30. "Yeah I'm just a high-school dropout but I've got a high 
Soul!" It'd be a mega-dump stat.

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