The Old World - Grim and Perilous Beta v3

Chapter 5
The Stigma of
Corruption
This chapter introduces new game resource - corruption. Corruption represents the effects
that the dark influences of Chaos exert on every living being. It offers strength and energy to
change things to your advantage, but abusing it can have terrible consequences.
Corruption
Threshold
Your character's corruption threshold represents
how much chaotic influence their bodies
and minds can withstand before falling into
Chaos. Characters can suffer corruption by contact
with chaotic magic or creatures, but also
by embracing the raw power offered by Chaos.
Corruption can be used as a resource by players
to change the outcome of important skill
checks or to trigger powerful character abilities.
However, recovering from corruption is by no
means easy and usually requires special effort
and playing against your character's goals.
Your character's starting corruption threshold
is determined at character creation, and based
upon species and Presence rating. After you
determine this initial value, increases to Presence
rating after character creation does not
increase your character's corruption threshold;
corruption threshold improvements are
then acquired only by purchasing appropriate
talents, such as Pure.
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Suffering
Corruption
Characters can be corrupted in many ways.
Below we present the most common ones.
Dark Deal
Chaos Gods are insidious in spirit and often are
willing to help... but for a price. Once per encounter,
your character may suffer 1 corruption to add
t to the results of their next skill check.
Adversaries and
Suffering Corruption
Minions and Rivals do not suffer corruption. Anything
that normally inflicts corruption inflicts
five wounds per one corruption instead. Nemeses
can suffer corruption, but never voluntarily.
Fulfilling Chaos God's
Agenda
Whenever your character does something (on
purpose or not) that contributes to one of the
Chaos Gods' schemes e.g. killing innocents,