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Suggestion: remove statement that flaws are abilities in section 2.1.1 Flaws #118

Closed axzr closed 3 years ago

axzr commented 3 years ago

In section 2.1.1, it begins by stating that flaws are abilities. This is confusing as by definition abilities are used to 'face challenges' and flaws 'should not be used to accomplish something'.

Also, in paragraph 3 of section 2.1.1, the second sentence implies that flaws are not abilities.

My suggestion would be to change the first paragraph to something like the following -

Your character may have one or more flaws. A flaw is a characteristic that the GM uses to hinder you from accomplishing something, or invokes to force you to act a certain way.

Robin-Mitra commented 3 years ago

In my opinion flaws should not be described as characteristics. This term only appears as distinguishing characteristic, what is completely different. On the other hand a flaw works exactly like an ability, except you don't want to succeed. I think that is easily explained.

iancooper commented 3 years ago

Rephrased to treat flaws as their own thing