{"id":20,"date":"2009-09-16T02:06:43","date_gmt":"2009-09-16T02:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deathcookie.com\/home\/new-rule-flaws\/"},"modified":"2023-03-02T14:36:53","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T14:36:53","slug":"new-rule-flaws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deathcookie.com\/home\/new-rule-flaws\/","title":{"rendered":"New Rule: Flaws"},"content":{"rendered":"

Characters in fiction often have disadvantageous quirks and foibles that, while annoying, aren\u2019t really Weaknesses in QAGS terms. Willow Rosenberg\u2019s \u201cfrog fear\u201d is a good example of this kind of thing, as is her pal Anya\u2019s fear of bunnies. Such minor disadvantages are not really debilitating to be considered a Weakness, probably should have some game effect. As Weird Times at Charles Fort High<\/a> readers already know, this dilemma can be solved in the QAGS system by adding a new word called Flaws.<\/p>\n

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The easiest way to understand Flaws is to think of them as negative skills. Rather than giving the character a positive modifier to appropriate rolls, they give affected rolls a negative modifier. The negative modifier for a particular Flaw is predictably known as a Flaw Penalty, can range from -1 to -5. So if a character has the Flaw \u201cBad Driver\u201d with a Flaw Penalty of -2, he subtracts two from his Number whenever he makes any driving roll. Flaw Penalties, like Skill Bonuses, are cumulative and in some cases both Skills sand Flaws may apply to a particular roll.<\/p>\n

Flaws can also be used to reflect aspects of a character\u2019s Body, Brain, or Nerve that are slightly outside the range suggested by his or her number. For example, a character with a Body of 14 and the Job \u201cFantasy Mage\u201d may choose the Flaw \u201cPhysically Weak\u201d at -4 to reflect that fantasy mages are traditionally weaklings. Such a character would need to roll less than 14 on Body Rolls related to constitution, agility, or coordination, but would need to roll 10 or less for any Body Roll that depends primarily on brute force.<\/p>\n

During character creation, a character who takes Flaws gets a Yum Yum for each Flaw Penalty he takes. For example, a character who takes \u201cFugly\u201d at -2 and a -1 Flaw Penalty in \u201cBad at Math\u201d gets 3 Yum Yums.\u00a0 It is up to the GM to determine how many flaws a character may take, but we recommend no more than 5 points of Flaw Penalties for typical games.<\/p>\n

Sample Flaws<\/strong>: Afraid of Bunnies, Allergies, Aversion to Sunlight, Bad Driver, Bad Liar, Can\u2019t Swim, Clumsy, Color Blind, Computer Illiterate, Didn\u2019t Get The Memo, Excitable Boy, Foot In Mouth Disease, Frog Fear, Gullible, Hard of Hearing, Heavy Sleeper, Inhuman Appearance, Low on Cash, Motion Sickness, Near-Sighted, Night Blindness, Perpetual Munchies, Shy, Squeamish, Swimmer\u2019s Ear, Tone Deaf, Ugly, Weakling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Characters in fiction often have disadvantageous quirks and foibles that, while annoying, aren\u2019t really Weaknesses in QAGS terms. Willow Rosenberg\u2019s \u201cfrog fear\u201d is a good example of this kind of thing, as is her pal Anya\u2019s fear of bunnies. Such minor disadvantages are not really debilitating to be considered a Weakness, probably should have some…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3830,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2005],"tags":[43,65,128,130,132,133,2382],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-qags-corner","tag-qags","tag-weird-times-at-charles-fort-high","tag-disadvantages","tag-character-creation","tag-weaknesses","tag-quirks","tag-willow-rosenberg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deathcookie.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deathcookie.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deathcookie.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deathcookie.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deathcookie.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deathcookie.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1192,"href":"https:\/\/deathcookie.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions\/1192"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deathcookie.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deathcookie.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deathcookie.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deathcookie.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}