Mental Flaws

Mental flaws refer to special skills, abilities, or aptitudes in mental or philosophical pursuits or contests that characters may possess. These may range from very simple merits, such as those that indicate a character can see well in the dark or understands languages easily, to very complex and supernatural ones, often possessed by only a few beings in the world at any given time. Flaws always represent either an innate quality of a character, a situation they have encountered that has permanently affected them, or an outside force that causes them grief.

Mental flaws are broken down into flaws belonging in the realm of Intelligence (flaws involving knowledge or lore), Perception (flaws involving using a character's senses), and Wits (flaws involving reflexes and reactions).