Rules

Temperamental Resonance flows from your emotional state, and echoes that state back to you. For better and worse, such energies display a deep connection to one’s passions, revealing them even at time when you might not want those feelings known. Folks who “wear their hearts on their sleeves” display such energies… usually by revealing their emotions through ac tivities, but occasionally by manifesting them in stranger ways…

In game terms, a Temperamental Resonance Trait may add to your Willpower-roll difficulties if and when you strive to control or conceal your feelings. At the Faint and Subtle levels, it’s possible to keep your true feelings under wraps, but someone with Overwhelming Temperamental Resonance is essentially naked, emotionally speaking. Even when the character denies his true sentiments, those emotions might manifest in the environment around him. Such energies can be extremely helpful for certain social rolls (when those rolls follow your emotional desires), and seriously undermine other ones (rolls that depend upon actions contrary to your current emotional state). In the latter case, the dots might subtract from your dice pool… after all, it’s hard to intimidate someone when your Resonance reveals how scared you are.

Passionate people may have several different kinds of Temperamental Resonance (Wrathful, Loving, Cowardly, and so forth), or possess a single Temperamental Trait that expresses whatever their dominant emotion is at that moment (Capricious, Passionate, Moody, etc.). You could, of course, have both… but then, your character would be pretty unstable, emotionally speaking.

• Descriptions: Joyous, Depressive, Melancholy, Furious, Cheerful, Erratic, Moody, Amorous, Cowardly, Wounded, Malicious, Impulsive, Restrained, Bitter, etc.

• Signatures: Radiating emotional “vibes,” symbolic manifestations of the feelings in question (roses, shadows, storm-clouds, etc.), inappropriate expressions of one’s true emotions, strong smells (musky, sweet, attractive, unpleasant, and so on), emotional currents that pass from you into other people and animals nearby, emotionally revealing environ mental cues (cracking mirrors, blowing leaves, waves of heat or cold), and other expressions of emotional power.