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Double Activation for Personality Traits
If an Actor is ever desperate to have her persona
perform an action, but finds herself limited, either be­
cause the character does not have an appropriate Per­
sonality Trait, or does not have one at the appropriate
level, then that Actor may expend two Plot Points and
perform the action anyway. However, anytime you take
advantage of this rule, you're asking the Director to
seriously consider altering your role's Personality Traits
by one step, to reflect your effort to take the aforemen­
tioned action. So if you pay double to perform a Brave
action, for example, then the Director should consider
either decreasing your character's Cowardly level by one
step, or adding Brave, or increasing your present Brave
level by one step, whichever is most appropriate to your
character. This rule only allows you to perform actions,
and does not allow you to gain automatic Successes by
Activating Personality Traits your role doesn't posses.
DESCRIPTORS
Descriptors are Unquantified Traits that portray a
persona's background, history, and social position, as
well as some physical oddities and paranormal features.
There are no strict guidelines to portraying the effects of
a Descriptor within a story. Like Abilities, there is no
complete list of all possible Descriptors. What is accept­
able is only limited by the Actors' imaginations, and the
discretion of the Director. As an example, lets use a
Descriptor we'll call 'Berserker Rage'. The description for
this Trait is as follows ...
c:> The character is capable of entering a
'Berserker Rage' during combat. If this
happens, then the character will continue
fighting until all opponents have stopped
moving. He'll resist attempts, even from
friends, to stop his fury, or to pull him from the
fight. All but the deadliest wounds will be
ignored. It's not that the character doesn't get
harmed, it's justthat he'll keep moving despite
the wounds, until the end of the Scene. This
allows the character to fight on, unaware that
he's already dying.
The Director and Actor involved could have decided
to handle this Descriptor in many other ways as well.
There is no single 'right' way to form Descriptors. The best
guideline you have for the creation of Descriptors is your
own Chronicle. Descriptors should be formed to enhance
the Chronicle and the roleplay within it. The following two
pages are full of examples of Descriptors from a variety
of Settings. This is just a small sampling of what can be
done with these Traits ...
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