7. Faults

Table of Contents

• 7.1 Introduction
• 7.2 List of Faults

7.1: All Faults give the character 6 EP unless otherwise specified.

7.2: List of Faults:

• 7.2.1: Code of Honor

  Your code of conduct prevents you from sneaking up behind something and shooting it in the back.  You must at the very least make your opponent aware of your intention to attack her before you do so, even if she is a sleeping dragon.

• 7.2.2: Missing an Eye

  You have no depth perception and lack peripheral vision on one side of your head.  You must specify which eye is missing when you take this Fault.

• 7.2.3: Missing a Hand

  You cannot fight with two weapons, a weapon and a shield, or a two-handed weapon.

• 7.2.4: Low Pain Threshold

  The opposite of the High Pain Threshold Gift.  You are at -1 when Scratched, -2 when Hurt, and -3 when Very Hurt.  A character may not take both the Low Pain Threshold Fault and the High Pain Threshold Gift.

• 7.2.5: Initially Poor

  You start with less money than you would otherwise.  The precise amount you start with is detailed in Section 11: Money and Equipment.  The Initially Poor Fault may not be taken more than twice.  A character may not take both the Initially Poor Fault and the Initially Wealthy Gift.

• 7.2.6: Hard of Hearing

  You make all hearing Perception rolls at -3.

• 7.2.7: Night Blindness

  Dim light or a moonless night is treated like total darkness.  Torchlight or other artificial illumination only works half as well for you.  A character may not take both the Night Blindness fault and the Low Light Vision Gift.

• 7.2.8: Susceptibility to Willpower Magic

  Against any type of magic (not psionics or other powers) whose Difficulty Level for success is based on your Willpower, you are at -3.  A character may not take both the Susceptibility to Willpower Magic Fault and the Resistance to Willpower Magic Gift.

• 7.2.9: Easily Seduced

  The mere presence of anyone of the appropriate sex with an Attractiveness of Good or higher is treated as an advance on you.  If someone of the appropriate sex actually makes an advance on you, you are at -3 to resist it.

  You must write down which sex your character is Easily Seduced by when this Fault is taken.  Heterosexuality is not automatically assumed here.  You may even take this Fault twice, if your character is bisexual.

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