Character Creation for
For a Few Credits More. . . .

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Each character must start with two Faults from the following list, or other GM-approved Fault. In addition, each Fault chosen beyond the mandatory two allows the player to choose an additional Gift for his character, or raise an attribute one level, subject to GM approval.

As with Gifts, this list is all that I have thought of so far. If you come up with something that is not hear, feel free to run it past me.

• Absent-Minded: Your attention tends to wander if bored.
• Addiction Similar to Special Diet, but the substance is one that has a negative impact on the character (such as alcohol reduces both Reasoning and Agility or stimulants reduce Health) or is illegal or both. If the substance is available, a Willpower roll at -3 is needed to avoid using it. In some cases, if you have not used the substance for some time, a Willpower roll (at increasing minuses) is necessary to avoid seeking it out.
• Annoying Voice: You sound terrible. This produces negative reactions in NPCs.
• Bad Appearance: Your appearance is off-putting in some way, whether ugly or unkempt.
• Bad Back: You are limited in what you can lift. This does not effect Strength, only lifting ability.
• Bad Eyesight: You don't see very well - pick one: poor distance or up-close vision. This has to be uncorrectable for some reason. Alternatively, this can be taken to reflect an difficulty seeing in the spectrum normal to humans. This can be paired with Night Vision to reflect your ability to see when humans cannot.
• Blunt and Tactless: You have no social skills in dealing with sensitive people. This is a form of Odious Personal Habit.
• Clueless: You are totally out of it when it comes to wit and things not said directly, you don't get any jokes that involve word-play or double meanings, you are impossible to seduce (without the other party making a very blatant physical advance) and manners (especially sophisticated ones) are beyond you (you cannot learn the skill Savior-Faire). Also, you tend to leave your turn signals on all the way from Arden to Lyra.
• Code of Honor: Your actions are constrained by your personal behavior code.
• Color Blindness: You confuse lots of colors.
• Combat Paralysis: You need a Good or better Willpower roll in order to act in a dangerous situation.
• Compulsive Carousing: You are at -3 Willpower to resist a good time.
• Compulsive Gambling: You are at -3 Willpower to resist a gambling game.
• Compulsive Generosity: You are at -3 Willpower to resist giving things away to those perceived to be needier than you.
• Compulsive Lying: You are at -3 Willpower to avoid lying just for fun.
• Coward: You take very good care of yourself.
• Curious: You are at -3 Willpower to resist exploring something new or unusual.
• Delusions: The world doesn't work the way you think it does, in some important way.
• Dependent: You're responsible for someone unable to care for themselves adequately.
• Doesn't Heal: For one reason or another, you (or a significant part of you), are not capable of just "getting better". This can be used to simulate bionic or cybernetic components that need to be fixed if they are damaged.
• Duty: There is someone or something that can give you orders at any time. Failure to carry them out carries some significant penalty. Appropriate for any character who is a member of the Fleet or Patrol reserve.
• Easily Distractible: Did you say something?.
• Easy to Read: You give away your thoughts and feelings to any who care to observe you. Note: This has nothing to do with Psionics, only with body language and facial expression.
• Enemies: Someone has it out for you. Taking this multiple times either increases the number of people after, their power or the severity of them catching you.
• Evil Twin: There is someone out there who looks just like you and it causes you problems. People are always reacting to you as if you were her and vice-versa (always in a bad way for you, usually in a good way for them). You get her enemies coming after you, and your allies giving your secrets to her. Normally, you never meet your Evil Twin, but usually you will just miss her, often walking in the same door she just walked out. Please note, your Evil Twin won't be everywhere (if your ship is the only ship of humans on the planet, she won't be there, at least, not right now), but her influence will be felt frequently.
• Fanatic: You believe in something passionately. So passionately that you cannot bear to hear it disparaged and must always work it into every conversation.
• Flashbacks: Under stress, you tend to re-experiance moments of great trauma from your past. The more times you take this Fault, the longer and more "real" the flashbacks become.
• Frail: You can take less damage than would be normal for your health.
• Frightens Animals: You have an aura that animals find terrifying. Note, you cannot take this and Empathy With Animals.
• G-Intolerance: You are more susceptible to the problems in changes in gravity than most people. Your coordination will be off for days when ever you experience a change of more than one 10^th of a G.
• Garrulous: You won't shut up. This is a form of Odious Personal Habit.
• Getting Old: And all that implies.
• Glutton: You're hungry.
• Goes Berserk if Wounded: You're a danger to your friends, even.
• Greedy: You want more.
• Grouchy: You're usually irritated and try to spread the mood. This is a form of Odious Personal Habit.
• Gullible: -3 to Reasoning to believe an unknown "fact."
• Hard of Hearing: What? Can also be used to represent hearing a different range of sounds than humans.
• Honesty: You hate to break a law. See Truthfulness for not liking to lie.
• Humanitarian: You help the needy for no pay.
• Idealist: You're not grounded in reality.
• Impulsive: You act before thinking.
• Inconvenient Size: You are too large or too small to live easily in "normal" places. This may be do to an over-all scale problem ( both a one-foot person and a twelve-foot tall person would have a hard time using normal chairs, tables, guns, doors, etc.) or due to an unusually sized body part, such as 20-foot wings.
• Increased Metabolism: You need more food and life support than a normal being your size. Each time you take this, your required food and life support increase by one-half of what is normal for your size.
• Intolerant: You hate a certain type of person.
• Jealous of Anyone Getting More Attention: You have to be the star.
• Jump Sickness: Most people feel queasy for a few minutes when a ship transitions into or out of hyperspace. You feel violently ill for hours. During these times, it takes a Willpower roll to do anything and Health roll to avoid throwing up if you make the Willpower roll.
• Killjoy: This is a form of Odious Person Habit. You get pleasure from ruining other people's fun and/or happiness. If someone is having a good time, you have to ruin it, if someone tells a joke, you have to explain how it isn't funny, if someone's in a good mood, you have to bring them down, etc.
• Klutz: You have a tendency to run into things or break things. You do not necessarily have a low Agility, it's just that you seem to.
• Lame: You limp, which can affect speed and agility. Can also be used to reflect a slower than usually movement speed for other reasons.
• Lazy: You work hard at avoiding work. This is a form of Odious Personal Habit.
• Lechery: You're overly fond of the appropriate sex. This is a form of Odious Personal Habit.
• Loyal to Companions: You won't abandon, cheat, hide treasure from, etc., the party members.
• Melancholy: Life is so sad.
• Miserliness: You hate to let it go.
• Mute: You can't speak.
• Night Blindness: You see poorly in dim light.
• No Sense of Direction: You get lost easily. If you have never been somewhere, you need Reasoning roll to follow simple directions. If you are trying to remember where you have gone before and do not have directions, the Reasoning roll is at -3. This applies to going anywhere you do not go on a frequent basis.
• No Sense of Humor: You never find anything funny. Jokes just make you irritated, reguardless of whether they are aimed at you or not. People who notice this tend to react negatively to you after a fairly short time. This could be considered a form of Odious Personal Habit.
• No Sense of Self-Preservation: You are not actively trying to kill yourself, you just don't care if you die. To this end, you tend to do "stupid" stuff that might get you killed, or omit safety precautions. Note, this does not mean you are callous with other people's lives, only your own.
• Nosy: Your neighbor's business is yours. This is a form of Odious Personal Habit.
• Obsession: You must do it, or have it, or whatever.
• Odious Personal Habits: Too many to list. Some of the other Faults listed actually fall under this category, such as Nosy, Grouchy, Garrulous, etc.
• Offensive Odor: You stink. This is serious on a small ship with limited life support.
• One Eye: You lack depth vision and can be blind sided, literally.
• One Hand: It works overtime. Can also be used to represent a race that has only one manipulatory appendage.
• Outlaw: You're wanted by the law.
• Overconfident: You know you can't fail.
• Owe Favors: You owe someone favors, and they'll ask you for them sometime. You should define who you owe them to and how significant a favor it is.
• Pain Intolerant: You're at -1 (to everything) if Scratched, -2 if Hurt, and -3 if Very Hurt.
• Paronomasia: This is an Odious Personal Habit of constantly punning. It will quickly get you hurt.
• Phobias: Lots of these - you're at -3 Willpower to avoid acting out of control in certain situations: snakes, darkness, heights, cats, falling, crowds, spiders, open or closed spaces, magic, loud noises, etc.
• Poor: You start with less equipment and cash, and if you don't buy off this Fault, will always lose any you gain.
• Poor Sleep Learner: It takes you twice as long as normal to sleep-learn things and loose sleep-learned knowledge faster than most.
• Practical Joker: You can't resist. Somebody's gonna hurt you someday. This is a form of Odious Personal Habit.
• Primitive: You're from a pre-technical society. You can't take any skills that involve technology (in the GM's opinion) at the start and you can only learn them at half normal rate until this Fault is bought off.
• Proud: Many things are beneath your dignity.
• Quick to Take Offense: You're thin-skinned.
• Quick-Tempered: You blow up when crossed.
• Quixotic: A card-carrying member of the Order of La Mancha, you vigorously champion lost causes.
• Reckless Bravery: You take no thought for your safety in dangerous situations.
• Reputation: You're well known as some sort of louse. Whether or not it's true is something else. You need to define what the reputation is for.
• Secret: There is something you don't want other people to find out about you (maybe that warrant out for your arrest, or your second spouse?). If it becomes known, this Fault is exchanged for whatever the secret was.
• Self-defense Pacifist: You'll fight, but you'll never start a fight - no preemptive strikes.
• Shyness: You never want to talk to strangers.
• Social Stigma: You're obviously from some low-caste group.
• Space Sickness: You cannot tolerate the events of space travel, changes in gravity strength and direction, Zero-G, etc. It makes you ill. You need to make Health rolls to do anything other than lie in your bunk thinking about how nice it would be die and stop being sick. . . .
• Special Diet: You need special food or regular medication or bad things happen. Maybe you just get sick, maybe it's something else.... You need to define what you need, how often you need it and what the consequences of not getting it are.
• Stubborn: You don't easily admit you're wrong. Has nothing to do with Willpower.
• Susceptibility to Poison: You're at -3 to Health in Opposed rolls for poison. This can also be used for other types of substances.
• Trickster: You regularly have to take a risk to thwart some villain, even if just a petty one.
• Truthfulness: You can't tell a believable lie.
• Unlucky: If something bad happens to someone in the party, it's you. Taking this gift multiple times makes things worse. You can take this and Lucky at the same time.
• Vain: You're the best-looking and/or finest person in the world. Aren't your companions lucky? This is a form of Odious Personal Habit.
• Vow: you're committed to some action.
• Wanderlust: You can't stand staying in one place very long. Once you have been in the same place (GM's discretion what is "the same place") for more than a week, you need to make a Willpower roll to stay there longer. The roll has to be made weekly at -1 per week. Note, this only applies to fixed locations, and would not apply to a ship in transit, since in that case, you are "going someplace else".
• Weirdness Magnet: Strange stuff happens around you. Forgotten Forerunner artifacts will fall unnoticed into your bag in the bazaar, the last surviving member of the progenitor race picks you at the person to whom to leave the key to all space and time, or maybe he just stops by for tea, that sort of thing. Little of it is directly threatening, but most of it is annoying (in its consequences at least).
• Worry Wart: you wring your hands a lot. This is a form of Odious Personal Habit.
• Xenophobia: you dislike and fear people different from the folks you grew up with.
• Youth: You're so young no one takes you seriously. Also, lose one level each from three skills - you just haven't had time to develop everything that well yet.