<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=276862.msg13613494#msg13613494">Quote from: ShadowFox89 on 19-10-2017, 17:51:32</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote"> I think it's supposed to encourage you to make a well balanced character, instead of one focused on a specific Ring? Like Andy's Manipulation 5/Charisma 1 example, the game would rather you have Charisma 3 Manipulation 3.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Holding to my example, the game starts you out with Charisma 1 Manipulation 5.  You might want to buy up Charisma after the fact, and you're able to do so, but you can't lower your Manipulation to put the points elsewhere.<br/><br/>If I start with Air 3 Earth 1, I can buy up Earth with XP, but that won't drop my Air.<br/><br/><hr/><br/>Here's something I'm noticing in Anxieties.  Emphasis mine:<br/><br/>Painful Honesty (Air)<br/>Type: Interpersonal<br/>Description: You are tormented by internal conflict when you lie or al<br/>low a lie to pass. You cannot lie directly, and though you can tell or abet<br/>indirect lies or lies of omission, you don’t enjoy it.<br/>Effects: The following apply to a character with the Painful Honesty anxiety:<br/><strong>• When you have the chance to show off your cleverness or slyly insult<br/>someone, you take it, even if you gain nothing from it.</strong><br/>• After you make a check to mislead someone else (such as a Courtesy<br/>[Air] check to falsely besmirch someone’s reputation or a Command<br/>[Air] check to manipulate an underling), you suffer 3 strife. If you suffer<br/>an outburst this way, you gain 1 Void point after resolving the outburst.<br/><br/>I'm a bit confused how being painfully honest correlates to showing off your cleverness or needing to insult people.