{"id":"shared/trait/flaw/absent-minded","type":"trait","system":"flaw","line":"shared","name":"Absent-Minded","sources":[{"source":"W20","page":480,"folio":478},{"source":"BoS","page":51}],"entries":["You forget things: important things like names, phone numbers, and which route to take to the caern. You often forget tasks you’ve been assigned, what day or time certain happenings are taking place, or even when you last ate. Although you don’t forget Skills, Talents, or Knowledges, in order to remember specific details about anything more significant than your own name, you need to make an {@attribute Intelligence|V20} roll (difficulty is set by the Storyteller)."],"cost":3,"category":"Mental","_qa":{"flags":[],"parser":"headed_entries","confidence":0.9,"extracted":"2026-10-12","job":"w20-core-merits"},"variants":[{"sources":[{"source":"BoS","page":51}],"entries":["Um… what was that thing you were trying to remember, again? Damn… This Flaw reflects a scatterbrained sense of memory and connection – nothing quite as dangerous as full Derangement (Mage 20, pp. 648-650), but a distressing and occasionally hazardous disconnection nonetheless.",{"type":"header","text":"System","level":4},"-wise, your Storyteller will often have you make Intelligence rolls to recall things like names, faces, mission details, and so forth. Story-wise, you’re forever drawing blanks, mistaking people for other folks, scrambling data, leaving projects half-finished (or totally abandoned), forgetting to feed your familiar, and making potentially hazardous errors in judgment. Although you won’t forget vital things like your name, the elements of your magickal focus, or vital character Traits (Talents, Abilities, and Knowledges), other stuff slips your mind with frustrating regularity. And when that mind commands the powers of True Magick, such slips can have fatal consequences."],"note":"text differs from W20 (48%)"}],"_links":{"self":"/api/v1/records/shared/trait/flaw/absent-minded","html":"/records/shared/trait/flaw/absent-minded","parent":null,"children":"/api/v1/records/shared/trait/flaw/absent-minded/children","sources":[{"abbr":"W20","page":480,"folio":480,"title":"Werewolf: The Apocalypse 20th Anniversary Edition"},{"abbr":"BoS","page":51,"folio":51,"title":"The Book of Secrets"}]},"_db":{"title":"Absent-Minded","props":[["Cost","3 pts"],["Type","Mental"]],"parent_id":null,"level":3,"category":"Mental","summary":"You forget things: important things like names, phone numbers, and which route to take to the caern. You often forget tasks you’ve been assigned, what day or time certain happenings are taking place, or even when you","tags":[],"children":[]}}