Editing Ogre:CharacterCodex:Character Creation:Background (section)

===Flaws===
====Crippled====
Description: You have some defect with your legs or any other appendage used to move.

Effect: You have a speed penalty for all your movement.

Origin: Depending on the severity of this flaw, you can use your legs but with difficulty or cannot move them at all. You can also choose at the worst severity that you do not have legs at all. The cause of your speed penalty might be from a disease or an accident you had.

XP Bonus:

{|border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" 
!Speed Penalty
!XP Bonus
|-
| x2 square
| 5 xp
|-
| x4 square
| 10 xp
|-
| Cannot move
| 15 xp
|-
|}

====Hearing defect, Deaf====
Description: You cannot hear anything at all.

Effect: You are under a constant deaf effect: you automatically fails Listen checks, and has a -4 penalty to all skill that ask for voice.

Origin: Deafness may come from birth or may be cause by a disease or an accident.

XP Bonus: 10 xp

====Hearing defect, poor hearing====
Description: You have poor hearing making it difficult to see listen to anything.

Effect: Range increment for Listen skill is decreased.

Origin: Poor hearing is generally cause by a defect at birth but some people lose hearing acuity after an accident.

XP Bonus:

{|border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" 
!Range Increment
!XP Bonus
|-
|15' or 3 sq.
|2 xp
|-
|10' or 2 sq.
|4 xp
|-
|5' or 1 sq.
|8 xp
|-
|}

====Mute====
Description: You cannot speak.

Effect: You cannot use any skill that needs voice: Performance – Voice, Language – Innuendo for spoken message. You also suffer a -4 penalty to skill where voice is important, but not essential: Influence, Investigation – Gather information and Interrogation, Merchant - Trading.

Origin: You can be mute since you are born, had an accident or a trauma so great that you refuse to speak thereafter.

XP Bonus: 5 xp

====Phobia====
Description: You have an irrational fear for something that is pretty common and generally harmless.

Effect: As soon has you are in presence of the thing that causes your phobia, you suffer from a fear effect.

Origin: Most phobias come from a trauma or really bad experience someone had during their childhood.

XP Bonus:

{|border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" 
!Fear Effect
!XP Bonus
|-
|Shaken
|2 xp
|-
|Scared
|4 xp
|-
|Frightened
|8 xp
|-
|}

====Poor====
Description: You start with less money than normal.

Effect: You received a penalty to your starting Wealth level.

Origin: You come from a poor family, are jobless or just suffer bad luck losing all your money in a fire or it has been stolen.

XP Bonus: 1 xp per Wealth level below your starting level.

====Sight defect, Blind====
Description: You cannot see at all.

Effect: You are under a constant blind effect: everything has a total concealment from you.

Origin: Blindness may come from birth or may be cause by a disease or an accident.

XP Bonus: 10 xp

====Sight defect, Hyperopia====
Description: You have poor eyesight making it difficult to see things near you.

Effect: Everything around you has the benefits of some degree of concealment.

Origin: Hyperopia is generally cause by a defect at birth but some people lose eyesight after an accident.

XP Bonus:

{|border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" 
!Concealment Effect
!XP Bonus
|-
|One-tenth
|1 xp
|-
|One-quarter
|2 xp
|-
|One-half
|4 xp
|-
|Three-quarters
|8 xp
|-
|}

====Sight defect, Myopia====
Description: You have poor eyesight making it difficult to see things far away.

Effect: Range increment for Spot skill is decreased.

Origin: Myopia is generally cause by a defect at birth but some people lose eyesight after an accident.

XP Bonus:

{|border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" 
!Range Increment
!XP Bonus
|-
|15' or 3 sq.
|2 xp
|-
|10' or 2 sq.
|4 xp
|-
|5' or 1 sq.
|8 xp
|-
|}