You’re addicted to some activity or substance that interferes to some degree with your daily life. Perhaps you crave sex, drink constantly, or can’t stop playing video games. Whatever the nature of the addiction, it drives you to irrational and possibly dangerous extremes. A harmless habit, after all, isn’t really a Flaw.

The value of this Flaw depends upon the hazards of the addiction. A craving for some trivial enjoyment (games, tobacco, social media) is worth one point, but a drive to secure something illegal, dangerous, or both (cocaine, fight clubs, child porn, etc.) is worth three points. Severe addictions usually have a sense of moral wrongness about them as well, and they can cause social difficulties beyond the financial, legal, and physical and/ or psychological costs of the habit. The Flaw might come from any source – Ecstatic practices, psychological neurosis, physical compulsion, and so forth – that inspires deep-seated attachment to something troublesome.