Game (1) - weakness
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radiantfractureThinking about a thing and looking for some quasi-randomized ideas, if you need a distraction.
What's an interesting weakness for a character in an RPG to have -- interesting for you to play?
Say a mostly-mundane-world RPG like Ten Candles, where the threat may be numinous or chthonic but the people are solidly midgardian.*
Weakness we can define in the 10C way as "a quality that harms your life more than it helps it," which doesn't mean it couldn't prove useful in a sudden surge of dramatic irony.
{rf}**
*That said, I can also see how supernatural and/or divine powers and flaws could be fun in such a setting, especially if concealed at first, so, you know, fill your boots.
**You can tell I'm posting from work because I have easy access to curly brackets.
What's an interesting weakness for a character in an RPG to have -- interesting for you to play?
Say a mostly-mundane-world RPG like Ten Candles, where the threat may be numinous or chthonic but the people are solidly midgardian.*
Weakness we can define in the 10C way as "a quality that harms your life more than it helps it," which doesn't mean it couldn't prove useful in a sudden surge of dramatic irony.
{rf}**
*That said, I can also see how supernatural and/or divine powers and flaws could be fun in such a setting, especially if concealed at first, so, you know, fill your boots.
**You can tell I'm posting from work because I have easy access to curly brackets.
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Date: 2024-08-17 09:50 am (UTC)One character I found interesting to play was a widow ('the widder')who owned a ranch in a Wild West Occult setting. She had considerable powers of telepathic command and knew that the local preacher was on to her. On one particularly hairy encounter they were discussing things by the fireside and she watched him pick up a poker, thrust it into the flames and rest it there while prattling on about not suffering a witch to live. His intent was obvious, but it never occurred to her that she might die, that he actually had the power to hurt her right there and then, and that even if his nerve failed him, he could rally the townsfolk to finish her off. She was supremely dismissive of his powers of agency and his god.
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Date: 2024-08-20 08:49 pm (UTC)no subject
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