Paradigm Concepts

[Freemage]

... can be a good thing.

A Thread for alternate Vices, including system benefits, for home campaigns. Oh, alright--post your alternate Virtues, too, even if they don't get system benefits.

Impulsive
Pretty much the opposite of Prudence; alongside other fools, you rush in where Angels fear to tread. Act first, think second is your apparent creed.
Benefit: Before rolling for Initiative, you may add your Personality to your Dice pool.

Curiousity
A form of Greed, but highly focused, this is the sin of scholars, gossips and small children. Some part of you simply doesn't believe that there are 'things Man was not meant to know'.
Benefit: You can gain an automatic +1 success on any Research or Gossip roll; thus, you cannot Botch the roll.

(And here's a Virtue, just to prove I don't spend all my time focused on the darkness within...)

Dutiful
You live up to your obligations, no matter the inconvenience this might entail. While most Witch Hunters are mindful of their duties to their respective Orders, you are a paragon of service, and often undertake additional loyalties (to crown, country or clergy) as well.

[PCIHenry]

Hello Soren,

Very nice, very nice....

I hope that those running home campaigns use these and share what they came up with as well.

Thanks for sharing!

Best,
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Henry Lopez
President
Paradigm Concepts, Inc.

[Freemage]

Henry: Thanks--and I just came up with a few more Vices:

Procrastinator
Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow. Where the slothful man might put off a task in order to see if anyone else will do it, you are more likely to simply get distracted from the business at hand by some pleasant diversion. You'll get back to it--eventually.
Benefit: You may add your Personality in dice to any roll outside of combat by taking twice as long as normal to perform the task.

Cynical
You sneer and mock the world around you, holding all with equal disdain. You invariably assume the worst about a situation or a person; as an upside, you can usually only be pleasantly surprised. You are distrustful as a matter of course.
Benefit: You may add your Personality to any Empathy roll.

Hypocritical
You hold others to a standard you, yourself, don't even try to live up to. You can be shamelessly two-faced, extolling the benefits of chastity while on your way to a bordello.
Benefit: Whenever an ally taps their Vice, you may prevent it from providing the usual benefit (they still suffer the usual Damnation point gain). You may then use that Vice's benefit as if it were your own for the rest of the day (sleeping loses the benefit), gaining a Damnation point whenever you do. You may only have one 'borrowed' Vice at a time; changing to a different ally's Vice is another use of Hypocrisy.

Note--Hypocritcal is powerful, but also has the downside of actually gaining Damnation points faster than most other Vices, as well as irritating the heck out of your allies, both of which seem kind of fitting. It also becomes fairly worthless if you're travelling with a bunch of goody-two-shoes who never tap into their inner darkness.

[HighmoonMedia]

This looks like perfect material to add to the Unofficial WH Wiki (once it gets approval from PCI).
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Daniel M. Perez
Highmoon Media Productions
The Gamer Traveler Podcast
The Digital Front Podcast

[HighmoonMedia]

FYI, these have been added to the WH Wiki:

http://witchhunter.wikidot.com/new-virtues-vices

With proper credit, of course.
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Daniel M. Perez
Highmoon Media Productions
The Gamer Traveler Podcast
The Digital Front Podcast

[Freemage]

Daniel: I went to the wiki page from the list email before checking this forum, so it was a kick to see some of my stuff was the first added content.

[HighmoonMedia]

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Daniel M. Perez
Highmoon Media Productions
The Gamer Traveler Podcast
The Digital Front Podcast