GURPS - Compendium 1..

Chauvinistic
-1 point
You are always aware of racial differences, even if you do
not actually react poorly to other races.
Chronic Depression
-15 points
+ -2 points/level
You've lost your will to live. You'd commit suicide, only it
seems like so much trouble.
A chronically-depressed character needs to make a Will roll to
do anything except acquire and consume the minimum necessities
for survival. A Will roll would be required, for instance, to take a
shower, go to a movie, attend a scheduled job interview or keep
a date. If forced to make a choice between two or more actions,
you must make a Will roll to make any choice other than the
path of least resistance.
Chronically-depressed characters tend to spend a lot of time in
cheap, un-air-conditioned efficiency apartments, eating government
cheese and drinking cheap beer while listening to fundamentalist
stations on AM radio and memorizing the stains on
the ceiling.
Each additional level of this disadvantage reduces the Will
roll necessary to take any sort of action by -1 (maximum -5). It is
quite possible to be so depressed that it is all but impossible for
you to do anything at all for yourself, unless you're physically
picked up and hauled out of your lair by some independent
party. (If somebody does show up and demand you go out and
do something with him, though, you have to make a Will roll to
refuse or resist.)
If a character breaks a Vow, violates a Code of Honor, Duty or
Sense of Duty, or loses a Dependent, the GM can replace that
disadvantage with this.
A chronically-depressed character may also replace his
depression with a new disadvantage of equivalent level that is
more conducive to self-esteem, if it seems appropriate. There is
no point penalty for replacing Chronic Depression with another
disadvantage of identical cost. However, the reason for the
switch must be (in the GM's estimation) convincingly roleplayed,
and the GM may require the character to roleplay both
disadvantages for a time (the new one constantly, and the
Chronic Depression whenever the GM decides to bring it into
play), as a transition period.
Chummy
-5 points
Chummy creatures work well together and seek out company.
They react at +2 to others of the same species - and possibly other
species, if they're not chauvinists. When alone, they are very
unhappy and distracted, and suffer a -1 penalty when using Mental
skills under such circumstances.
advantage differs from Gullibility in that the character is normally
aware that someone is trying to take advantage of him,
except in social situations. The PC is no more susceptible to
Fast-Talk than normal, unless someone is trying to convince
him that an attractive character of the appropriate gender is
interested in him.
Clueless people also have many minor habits that annoy others,
like leaving the turn signals on while driving from Chicago to
Albuquerque.
Compulsive Carousing
-5 or -10 points
You cannot resist the urge to party! You will try almost any
mind-altering substance without a second thought, and aren't
particularly picky about your romantic partners - you like your
music loud and your women (and/or men) hot! You are likely to
start the day with beer and cornflakes.
Tavern owners know you by name; taxi drivers have
helped you home so many times they can do it blindfolded.
No offer of a social drink can be refused. This is not
Alcoholism, though. You don't need to drink, really, as much as
you need to be convivial. You must go in search of a social
gathering at least once per day, and lounge around, feasting,
drinking, singing and joking, for at least an hour. The number
of drinks you have is determined by economics - the more
money you have, the more you'll spend. This disadvantage
does not go well with Miserliness, Demophobia or any introverted
tendencies.
If a bar you enter is empty or nearly so, you'll seek out
another. If the last tavern in town has only quiet folks present,
you'll attempt to liven things up. If there's a party going that
you should avoid for some reason, you must make an IQ roll
to keep from joining in. Roll against IQ+2 if you would have to
"crash" the party (a private party - you're not invited). Once
you're in, though, you'll stay at least an hour - you may make
an IQ roll every hour to be able to leave. If you keep failing
the roll, you stay until forcibly evicted or the party drags to an
end.
You get a +1 reaction (or more if you're very entertaining see
Carousing, p. B63) from like-minded extroverts, and a -1 or worse
from sober -minded citizens. Puritans and other extreme
Calvinists react at -4! This disadvantage is worth -10 points in
campaigns set entirely in areas where such religions are in
power. This includes England, 1650-1659, and the early
Massachusetts colony. Otherwise, it is -5 points.
This disadvantage combines aspects of Alcoholism,
Addiction and Lecherousness - without being as extreme as any of
the three. Certainly, it could lead to any or all of them, however!
Clueless
-10 points
Clueless characters totally miss the point of any wit
aimed at them, any attempts to seduce them (+4 to
Will rolls vs. Sex Appeal), or the meanings of colloquial
expressions. Sophisticated manners are also
beyond them - apply a -4 modifier to all Savoir-Faire
rolls. This disadvantage is most appropriate to ivorytower
geniuses, aliens from Mars and so on. Most people
react to Clueless individuals at -2.
Unlike the No Sense of Humor disadvantage, the
character may make jokes (often lame ones), and
enjoy slapstick and written humor, but he doesn't normally
"get" verbal humor, especially if he is the target
(IQ-4 roll to realize he's the butt of the joke). This dis-
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