“Morality” and Other Dirty Words

Chronicles of Darkness

Hey, all. So, they let me have posting access here.

MORE FOOL THEM.

Anyway, we’re in the last stages of developing and editing the God-Machine Chronicle. First of all, I’m sure you’ve all had the chance to read and absorb the awesome fiction in the God-Machine Chronicle Anthology, which is good, because it’s required reading for the Chronicle book.

OK, that’s not true. I lied. I should, like, check to see if I lose Morality, yeah?

You might have heard that we’re revising a bunch of the core rules in the GMC. One of the rules sets that we decided to revise was Morality. Really, I think it works pretty well as written, but the bits it gets wrong, I think it gets really wrong.

F’rex, I’m not a fan of derangements. Never really have been. At last count, I’ve run…well, shit, this many NWoD games, and I can count on one hand the number of times anyone’s ever gotten a derangement, let alone when it’s come up in play. Then there’s the ongoing discomfort with the fact that mental illnesses like schizophrenia aren’t the result of PTSD (which is basically what the Morality system tracks, not really Morality).

So, anyway, I’ve uploaded the Morality rules for your perusal. It’s a really quick section because it’s not rewriting them wholesale, just tweaking the existing system.

Two notes: This hasn’t been edited, so if you find typos, y’know, point them out and I’ll tell Michelle, and she’ll say “I KNOW” and glare at me over her editing gin.

Also, if you have complaints, suggestions, or comments, let’s hear ’em. I can still make changes for a couple of days, if I can distract Michelle long enough to get version control back (Borderlands 2 usually does it).