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In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
> Mathew R. Ignash wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 09:00:06 +1300, Corey Murtagh wrote:
> <snip>
> >>A disadvantage that doesn't impede the character isn't worth anything.
> >>If the character isn't struggling to communicate with everyone around
> >>him all the time then he's not disadvantaged all the time, so it's not
> >>worth the points. If, when he DOES try to communicate, he only needs a
> >>little effort to get the point across... then it's only slightly
> >>impeding him.
> <snip>
> >
> > Well, maybe he does want to communicate? Maybe all he really needs is a hug, but
> > then people scream, he gets excited and bites them?
> >
> > Okay, I'm grasping here, but still, he can't surrender, ask to be invited in a
> > house, or talk on the phone. Worth something when you look as nasty as he does.
>
> ...which is why I'd let him take the disad in the first place. If he
> never, EVER needed to talk, he'd get nothing for it.
>
> And of course 'Mute' is not a disad for someone who can communicate
> telepathically, for instance :)
Not much of one, anyway. He is still FUBARed on the phone.
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Phoenix
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