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[Sphynx]

Ok, after careful consideration of past character growths, and karma expenditures, mixed with the recent poll that only a rare character gets past 50 karma... I've decided that Infirm is by far the most exploitable flaw.

Unless you max an attribute at char gen past the racial modified limit, you're probably never going to raise an attribute past the modified limit. This means, you can take the 3 point infirm and not suffer at all from it (notice, this flaw caps Maximum, not Modified Racial).

I noticed this today while perusing our group's Shaman who's an Albino Gnome with Exceptional Attribute: Willpower (lotsa those in Seattle, eh?). He has 5 levels of this flaw and a Body of 6. :P Ok, so he can only ever have a Quickness over 4, but he's never going to be interested in raising it above that score anyhows.

5 point flaw as a dwarf and still gets to have a 6 in Body and Strength as a starting character. Man... why didn't I think of that?

Ok, done Ranting about the flaw, I'll just note down to take it if I ever make a new character instead of flaws that actually hinder me. :P

PS... Yes, I realize that if a flaw doesn't hinder you shouldn't get points for it.

Sphynx

[Kagetenshi]

I leave Day Job as it is, but for anything more than the one-point flaw I enforce a strict schedule. 1-point Day Job can be odd hours at a bar or something, but that still does nasty things to long-term runs or runs out-of-city; with two and over, there are some times when you simply can not run unless you want to lose your job and face the wrath of the GM. Day Job is only broken if the GM is too lazy to enforce it (as I have been on occasion, I admit, but that doesn't mean it isn't easy to enforce).

~J