Thursday, May 5, 2011

Two new disadvantages...

...for GURPS. They are house official - once again, creating some NPCs led to the creation of these hideous beauties. Enjoy.

Blind Spot (-5/ -10/ -15 points)
Denial is a river in Egypt. Certain problems do not appear as problems to you. You share a common conception of reality with the rest of us, but some things which most people would see as quite high on the personal to-do list are just not that important to you – if you notice them at all. Your husband’s drinking, the big lump growing from your neck, that smell coming from the basement – you just act as if that unpleasantness does not exist…or you are very good at rationalizing it away. One could see this as a special kind of delusion, but while a delusion will probably lead to (regrettable) actions, a blind spot never will. Blind spots are mostly linked to other disadvantages or undesirable developments concerning you character. A blind spot for -5 points might concern a lesser problem in your social circle, like an ally with an addiction (“Jack can handle this stuff.”), -10 points deal with something of comparable severity, but now the problem is yours (“I can handle this stuff.”) or a grave threat or harmful development in your life (“Although he is a vampire, he would never attack me – he loves me!”). -15 points blind spots are killers: “I can’t believe the CIA is hunting me – in fact, I won’t.”

Impatient* (-5 points)
You think that everybody is a lame sack of shit. Instead of gawking and dawdling and lollygagging, they should be going on with whatever they are supposed to be doing. You are constantly pushing people to work faster, and your schedules are ambitious, to say the least. Sometimes, your constant niggling “to just get on with it” might lead to some cut corners and thus to tragic results…
You come across as pushy, and thus most people react at -1.

Edit: The list in the Scorched Earth Materials post has been updated.

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