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Cost: -5 to -20 points

Social Stigma is a social disadvantage where you are a member of a class, race, sex, or other group that your society holds in low regard.

Social Stigma results in a Reaction penalty of -1 per -5 points, restricts your social mobility, or both

Note that this is not the same as Reputation as your treatment is based on what you are not who you are.

Examples:

  • Criminal Record: -5; being wanted is another -5 points
  • Disowned: -5 or -10
  • Excommunicated: -5; -10 if there is also supernatural consequences
  • Ignorant (haven't learn an expected skill): -5/skill
  • Minor: -5
  • Minority Group: -10
  • Monster: -15
  • Second-Class Citizen: -5
  • Uneducated: -5
  • Valuable Property: -10
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