Mages tend to be kinda obsessive by nature. You, however, feel compelled to follow stringent personal rituals, maintain an obsessive sense of order, work yourself to the point of exhaustion (and beyond), organize every possible element of your life and space, employ compulsive behaviors without realizing that you’re doing so, and otherwise lose track of time, things, and people unless they fall into the sphere of your obsessive-compulsive personality disorder.

An especially common Flaw among technomancers, sci­ entists, ritual magi, religious devotees, autistic people, military personnel, artists, executives, and other folks whose philosophies and pursuits demand continual attention, OCPD could also result from various forms of psychic trauma, brain damage, spiritual epiphanies, cultural or professional perfectionism, and metaphysical dedication. As a rule, a person’s behaviors grow more compulsive when he’s under stress. After all, when it seems like your world’s spinning out of control, it becomes all the more important to establish control over whatever elements you can control.

When this Flaw is chosen, you’ll need to define which compulsions your character has, and figure out the triggers that make those compulsions more obvious. System-wise, you’ll often have to make Willpower rolls in order to shake off the need to organize and obsess over the object of your attentions. The difficulty, of course, depends upon the situation and the character’s level of stress at the time; the more challenging the circumstances, the more obsessive the compulsions.