As mentioned before, Paradox is supposed to be a metaphor for social exclusion and discrimination in the Mage: The Budapest Urbancrawl setting.
Here's a listicle of some sample Paradox flaws for enterprising GMs and players to mix and match and get inspired.
- facial boils, scars, etc. that make parents pull their children away from you in the street
- diabetes
- stuttering
- accent (so that people think you're from the boondocks, that is a migrant, possibly even illegal worker from the countryside around Budapest)
- the feeling that someone is watching you constantly
- body odour that cannot be washed off
- colour blindness (this is debilitating because the various denominations of paper money are pretty similar, and incidentally only differ in color hues that color blind people have a difficulty distinguishing)
- short-sightedness
- epicanthic fold, so you start to look like you're one of the Chinese minority
Feel free to experiment with severity levels.
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