Faults list

• Addiction The character is addicted to some substance or situation.
• Combat Paralysis The character is particularly inept at the art of combat.
• Cowardice The character is subject to fits of fear and cowardice. The player should determine if such fits occur in certain situations (combat, heights), or if they always plague the PC.
• Curious The character is extremely curious, to the point of disregarding safety in order to search for a problem’s solution.
• Enemy This fault could be acquired or the PC might retain an enemy from before recruitment.
• Obsession The character has a particular idee fixe that often consumes his mind. The obsession should affect the character’s work, but not so much that he or she is dismissed by the group.
• Phobia The character has a particular fear of something. The phobia should affect the character’s work, but not so much that he or she is dismissed by the group.
• Physical Challenge The PC has a physical challenge—blindness, one hand, uses wheel chair—that must be considered. If the challenge is profound, the GM might award twice the normal value (it’s worth two gifts, and could be traded for 12 skill 4 attribute levels.
• Show–off The character needs to impress others with her or his skill.
• Stubborn Once the character has formed an opinion, he or she remains steadfast, despite apparent contradictions.
• Unattractive The character is remarkably unattractive. He or she might evoke negative reactions from NPC’s.
• Unlucky The PC is naturally unlucky. If something can go wrong for this character, it will. Such instances of misfortune cannot be immediately nullified with FUDGE points, although the effects can be so mitigated later.
• Vain The character has a high opinion of her– or himself. This fault might affect relations within an investigative party.

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