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Message: <blockquote data-quote="amerigoV" data-source="post: 6087738">That statement is rather extreme. These types of mechanics help guild players to keep their PC personalities on track. I saw this play out last night in my Savage Worlds 50 Fathoms game. In SW, PCs can select Hindrances as part of the character build. One of the PCs has Greedy (minor - so will swabble over treasure - they are nearly pirates after all) and Vengeful (major - is willing to go outside the law to "get even"). A new Beneficator sent the group out to a shipwreck with a another group. This other group eventually tried to kill the PCs and take the booty (Spanish gold). The player/PC was pissed at the Benefactor for "setting them up". The only problem is the Beneficator was the only one that would touch this type of haul.It was fantastic to watch this player work out how to respond to this. Its a new campaign so the PC personalities are not fully developed/fleshed out. She had a back story with these hindrance incorporated but this was a true challenge on how to respond to a situation that touched on both at the same time. She went back and forth trying to reason between Greed and demand for Vengence. In the end, the Benefactor had used this as a test to see if the PCs were worthy of more opportunities (another player reasoned it out nicely). It set up a nice scene at the end of the session where the goods were exchanged and more opportunity was offered, but the PC got the point across  (heck, just watch any Firefly episode and you get the type of exchange that occurred).The exchange was deep and meaningful and advanced the depth of several PCs' personality. In my experience that was more significant than I have gotten out of systems that did not have some form of Hindrances/Drawback. And I believe the reason is this is in systems like Savage Worlds you are rewarded for making the tough choices that your character would make wheres as that decision tends to be tempered by metagaming in other systems. In essense, I have permission from the system and the other players to fully explore those key personality traits whereas in (say) D&D players tend to make those decisions that are best for the group or the situation.That does not mean there are not D&D roleplayers that play their PCs to the hilt or Savage Worlds players that do not metagame decisions, but I personally have noticed "the line shifts" to the better when those mechanics are available to the average player.  Like anything in life, incentive tends to bear results.</blockquote>

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