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Volsung · Post by **Volsung** » Mon Jun 14, 2010 10:28 am

When you take one, you have to take an opposite during character creation to keep the balance.
What if your caracter concept needs an advantage, and you can't find a suitable disadvantage to balance the cost.
(Or the contrary)

Can you buy out an ads with character points?

gryfn · Post by **gryfn** » Mon Jun 14, 2010 10:31 am

with gm approval you can , its an alternate , or was that optional , rule .

Lindharin · Post by **Lindharin** » Mon Jun 14, 2010 10:44 am

It's in the back of the book in the alternate mechanics section, page 124. Personally, I allow it.

Volsung · Post by **Volsung** » Mon Jun 14, 2010 11:28 am

I missed this!

MrJupiter · Post by **MrJupiter** » Mon Jun 14, 2010 3:30 pm

Volsung wrote:When you take one, you have to take an opposite during character creation to keep the balance.
What if your caracter concept needs an advantage, and you can't find a suitable disadvantage to balance the cost.
(Or the contrary)

Can you buy out an ads with character points?

I know what you mean. I have a hard time limiting the number of advantages that I want to give a character but find it very hard to find disadvantages that suit the concept. This makes it very hard to stay with the 1:1 balance (which I try to keep with my posted characters as I want to make sure they are true to the default rules).

I’ve posted a few ideas for disadvantages in The Laboratory to help add a few more options; others have added some more. I hope to eventually see more disadvantage ideas posted there in the future. None of these are cannon, of course, but feel free to view these for ideas. I’m hoping that, with enough submissions, the best of these could be put into a BAM article and gain the exalted pseudo-cannon status.

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