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== Advantages and Adversities ==

Advantages and Adversities are a special kind of Circumstance Modifier. They are innate to a character and tied to certain very specific actions.

Advantages and Adversities are rated from ± 1 to ± 3 only.

Advantages do not stack with other Advantages – you always take the more advantageous only.

Adversities do not stack with other Adversities – again, you always use the most adverse.

However both Advantages and Adversities do stack with normal Circumstance Modifiers.

The values of an Advantage or Adversity follow the same guidelines as the appropriate Circumstances.

An Advantage or Adversity is defined with a name which should be evocative of its nature, then a description of the modifier it provides as well as the very specific circumstances in which the modifier applies. The greater the modifier, the more specific the circumstances need to be.

Following are examples of Advantages and Adversities which would affect a character in conflict.
  
Characters generally won’t have a lot of either Advantages or Adversities. These are used primarily to enhance the presentation of the character’s concept. Players should use that same concept to help in naming and setting up their character’s Advantages and Adversities.

The GM should, as part of their game set up, provide assistance in definition and selection of Advantages and Adversities. In the Default Configuration presented later, I will do the same.