Re: [DL] phobias revisited

[James Knevitt <jknevitt@yahoo.com>]

On the topic of phobias and other Scart Table
goodness, in my game last week, the PCs got hold of a
genuine 100% real medieval occult tome. One of the
characters was using to research a way to buy his soul
back (long story) and I decided that the contents
ofhte tome were so grisly and obscene that he needed
to make a Guts check. He failed, and the Scart Table
(bless it's little heart) suggested I slap the poor
guy with the Loco hindrance.

Well, I thought about it and decided that the book
scared the guy so much that he couldn'g go to the
grave peacefully without confessing all his sins. I
explained this to the layer, and he suggested that he
reluctantly picks up a point of Faith: Catholicism at
no cost (the character was previously an out-and-out
atheist). I thought this was a pretty good idea, so we
ran with it.

Yes, it's true. An occult tome terrified one of the
PCs so much that he was scared -into- Catholicism.

Just like the middle ages ... :)

The moral: not all phobias and dementias have to be a
rulebook-defined Hindrance.

James

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