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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Greenfield" data-source="post: 5992604" data-attributes="member: 6669384">Okay, sorry for the misunderstanding on Schizophrenia.As for run speeds, yes I was referring to Run as x4 movement, but I was commenting on the endurance factor, not the actual speed achieved.  As per the math I ran at you, a trained runner IRL and a person with the Run feat in game have comparable times in the 100 yard dash.  The only difference is that the game character can maintain that speed for a quarter mile +, and a real person can't.Your comment on Sociopathy only being a problem in society was funny.  It's true, though, just as any inability to deal with people is only a problem when there are people around to deal with.  Sociopaths make great hermits, I suppose.  I've known a few who were good salesmen as well.Bipolar disorder, also known as Manic-Depressive, isn't an invention/product of society.  It's another neuro-chemical imbalance that occurs in cycles.  At the high end, the person may think that they're perfect, invincible, and will attempt foolishly dangerous things.  And occasionally die in the attempt.  When the tides of life turn against such a person, as luck and circumstance dictate, and it happens to coincide with the low end of their cycle, put them on suicide watch.But the conclusion, that D&D rules say that any PD makes you nonfunctional?  No, they just make you unqualified to deal with high stress environments where your split second decisions are a matter of life and death for everyone around you.Consider the Sociopath:  Being a Sociopath doesn't mean you're Dexter.  (That calls for sociopathy, homicidal urges, and a good script writer.)  There are a lot  of sociopaths working on Wall Street and making a fortune.  (Seriously, I saw an article on the number of psychopaths in high finance.)  They're  perfectly functional as human beings.  But I wouldn't want to be in a burning building with one.  In a life and death emergency, they'll have no hesitation in sacrificing your life to prolong their own.</blockquote>

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