tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-392427526916288536.post4117155269408333811..comments2024-03-25T00:18:14.319-07:00Comments on Against The Wicked City: Denizens of the Wicked City 7: The Blighted and the Adepts of the Diamond Mind (Ultralight rules for psychic PCs!)Joseph Manolahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05387275537008858939noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-392427526916288536.post-74177187558479493962017-06-28T10:28:25.677-07:002017-06-28T10:28:25.677-07:00The Blighted aren't really intended as PCs, be...The Blighted aren't really intended as PCs, because they have disadvantages without advantages to offset them, and Diamond Mind PCs have Psychic Instability 1 (because they've learned to contain it). If a PC somehow became Blighted in play, I guess you'd roll for it then...Joseph Manolahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05387275537008858939noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-392427526916288536.post-59893263103049061092017-06-27T23:21:02.823-07:002017-06-27T23:21:02.823-07:00When is psychic instability rolled? Is at characte...When is psychic instability rolled? Is at character creation?TPmanWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08415910295872695542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-392427526916288536.post-16790802795299515312016-02-19T08:35:47.206-08:002016-02-19T08:35:47.206-08:00Well, they get a saving throw... but, yes, they ab...Well, they get a saving throw... but, yes, they absolutely would be driven out of their communities, because it's just too dangerous to keep them around. I imagine them gathering together more out of loneliness than anything else.<br /><br />As for the encampments, I'd guess that the Blighted try *very, very hard* not to upset one another, and that they all go around being weirdly polite and cautious all the time. Also that they probably build their miserable little shacks more than 100' apart, so as to be out of range of one another's psychic outbursts. Under these conditions - and given that the emotional trigger needs to be something fairly severe, not just any fleeting or trivial sense of anger or fear - they should be able to survive without losing *too* many of their own to exploding head syndrome in any given year...Joseph Manolahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05387275537008858939noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-392427526916288536.post-57929209655922177972015-08-01T16:21:03.546-07:002015-08-01T16:21:03.546-07:00Running some numbers, upsetting a blighted has abo...Running some numbers, upsetting a blighted has about a 1 in 500 chance of causing a psychic holocaust, and some of the less-unlikely things are nearly as bad. I'm not sure a "blighted encampment" would have been a thing, at least not for very long...<br /><br />I kind of suspect that blighted who failed to learn diwould be driven out of their communities and end up living alone as crazed wild-menJacobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11292062128781092862noreply@blogger.com