Team Edge presents another one of the ideas we've had in mind all along to do with the Edges infrastructure... Flaws!

Where Edges are good things that cost you 'Edge Points', Flaws are bad things that pay you 'Edge Points' for taking them. They're permanent handicaps or weaknesses for your character.

Some random points about Flaws, to head off the most obvious questions:

- Flaws, like Edges, are available via discuss. In the case of Flaws, this can only be done with a sort of 'hidden' guildmaster in the Academy, an Oracle which reads your fate and past and knows of your flaws. She's hidden and a little bit off the beaten path mainly to discourage real newbies from picking Flaws.

- Yes, this means that only newbie-Academy-level characters may choose Flaws.

- You can only pick so many / so much total badness in Flaws.

- Flaws, in our opinion, are game mechanically always a bad deal. I can concieve of no combination in which your character is made stronger by choosing a Flaw. You give up more than you get in return. We've all played a bunch of different pen and paper RPGs over the years with offsetting edge/flaw style systems, and almost without exception, there were drawbacks you could take that weren't really all that bad that you could in exchange get good stuff for. We've tried very hard to make sure that won't happen here. There shouldn't be any runs on quadripeligic super-mages.

- Flaws should be something you pick if it really fits your role or if you're looking for a challenge. I expect that once the initial novelty wears off they should be a rarity.

Finally, the initial batch of Flaws is:
Frail
Weak
Clumsy
Ignorant
Foolish
Sickly
Repulsive
Teleportation Sickness
Susceptible to Magic
Narcoleptic
Gimpy
No Undead
Unsteady Hand
Myopic
Dopey
Reckless
Macho
Coward
Disorganized
Hemophiliac
Squeamish

Helpfiles will be up for those sooner or later. Enjoy!