Liabilities

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• Addiction (+1 to +3): +1, caffeine, chocolate; +2, nicotine; +3, something incredibly addictive, including perhaps BTL gaming.

• Age (special): Past or Before their prime. +1 is 40+ or between 13-18; +2 is 50+ or 8-12; +3 is 60+ or under 7. Check with the AI for special rules.

• Bad Sense (+1 to +3): unable to taste, +1; one eye or mostly deaf, +2, totally blind, +3. Choose a sense Hearing, Smell, or Touch is +2; +3 is Sight, and +1 is Taste.

• Cowardice (+2):

• Delusion (+1 to +3): A mistaken impression over personal talents or abilities; +1, as good as Hendrix on the guitar; +2, considers self to be the epitome of the Space Corps officer; or +3, believes themselves to be indestructible or godlike.

• Fanaticism (+1 to +3): rabid feelings and opinions about a subject; +1, a belief in Silicon Heaven; +2, support of a sports team; or +3, obsessive love of skating rink organ music.

• Gimboid (+2): Not quite the same waste of DNA as a Smeghead, but the character is still prone to make inappropriate comments, blather on about nothing, and be a general nuisance. Unlike a Smeghead, the Gimboid has at least one redeeming personal quality.

• Gullibility (+2): Must make a successful Empathy check to determine if the character is being a sucker, an is -2 Empathy vs. con when trying to avoid being fooled.

• Intolerance (+1 to +3): The character will not put up with something. +1, vegetables, +2, country music, +3, a specific kind of life form or intelligent machinery.

• Missing Limb (+1 to +4): +1, a finger, +2, hand or foot, +3, an arm or leg, +4, double amputee or worse.

• Moral Restriction (+1): +1, ‘not drinking’, +2, ‘not causing harm to others’ to +3, ‘will not wear red with apricot’.

• Obesity (+1 to +3): +1, slightly pudgy; +2, way overweight, +3, morbidly obese (Captain Hollister).

• Obsession/Compulsion (+1 to +3): +1 could be brushing after every meal, without fail. +2, an overriding obsession with the soap opera Androids, and +3 could be doing a surgical scrub whenever someone passes gas in the local vicinity.

• Phobia (+1 to +3): Everyone has fears, pick one and take points based on how severe and invasive it is.

• Skinny (+1 to +3): The point benefit is based on severity of the condition; the point benefit is also the TN of any Save checks.

• Smeghead (+3): The character is just plain irritating, obnoxious, moronic and insipid. BTW, the point benefit is now also the TN for any Social, Empathy, or Seduction check.

• Speech Impediment (+1 or +2): +1 is a small but noticeable slur, lisp, or inflection; +2 is almost unintelligible because of injury, genetic defect, or home schooling.