Creating A GameSystem/Merits and flaws

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[edit] Quirks

These should be things that make you you. Should not benefit nor hinder.

  • Opptomist - You always seem to be in a good mood, and the glass will always be half full.
  • Pessimist - You never seem to be in a good mood, and the glass is always half empty.
  • Impotence - Cannot consummate
  • Snores - Make a lot of sound when you sleep
  • Hypochondria - Imagination of sickness
  • Alcoholism - Perpetual craving for alcohol
  • Gambler - Loves to gamble
  • Spendthrift - Obsessional spending
  • Hoarder - Resentfully spends
  • Beautiful-Everyone wants to look like you
  • Ugly-Brown bag special
  • Depression - Deep melancholy


[edit] Merits

These should be little bits that have small benefits.

  • Divine Favor - The gods like you. They really, really like you.
  • Extreme Luck - A horseshoe, rabbit's foot, and four leaf clover have nothing compared to you.
  • Natural Armor - Thick skin, scales, or maybe you have your own gravitational force that helps soften the blows
  • Natural leader - Great at giving orders
  • Natural follower - Great at taking orders
  • Orator - Great speaker
  • Gift of sleep - Can sleep anywhere
  • Alcohol resistant - Never gets drunk
  • Keen eyesight - Great vision
  • Keen hearing - Great hearing
  • Keen smell - Great smelling
  • Extrovert - Center of attention
  • Keen taste - Great taste
  • Keen touch - Can feel more than normal
  • Sexual charm-Everyone wants a piece of you
  • Amiability - Never takes offense
  • Good health - Resists illness


[edit] Flaws

These should be little bits that have small hindrances.

  • Foul Odor - You know it is bad when you are sent in first and are referred to as "biological warfare."
  • Dark Secrets - Everyone has a skeleton in their closets. You just happen to have a skeleton of a Red Great Wyrm.
  • Inept Skills - It isn't possible to fail at something all the time, except for you.
  • Enemy - Someone (or a group of someones) doesn't like you... really, really don't like you.
  • Poor sight - Far sighted or Near sighted (correctable)
  • Blind - Can’t see
  • Hard of hearing - Can only hear loud noises (correctable)
  • Deaf - Can’t hear
  • Stammer - Can’t speak quickly
  • Mute - Can’t speak
  • Insomnia - Cannot sleep well
  • Limp - Bad leg or arm
  • Asthma - Troubled breathing
  • Poor health - Susceptible to sickness
  • Shyness - Do poorly in groups
  • Belligerent - Takes offense to criticism
  • Poor smell - Can only smell strong scents
  • Anosmia - Can’t smell
  • Poor taste - Missing taste
  • Ageusia - Can’t taste anything
  • Poor touch - Paresthesia, always tingly
  • Anesthesia - Cannot feel (No sense of touch, heat or cold)

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