Hindrances

Life can be hard, and sometimes it leaves marks on a pony. Or, sometimes a pony is born just a little bit off. No matter what the story, these marks can make it a challenge to get through life without a whole load of trouble. That’s where hindrances come in. These represent some of your character’s flaws, in a semi-quantifiable way. Don’t fret though, it’s not all bad. Each hindrance comes with a skill point value. Those, in turn with a shared starting pool of 15 points normally used for skills, can later be used to purchase traits, if you so choose, which are representations of all the good things about your character, and their special abilities. Now, you might think in this day and age of space-fare and cybernetics that such problems are a thing of the past. Well, you’re half right. While nopony is born perfect, technology does allow us to make ourselves whole again, in any way. There will be ways to remove every hindrance your character has, but remember, nothing is ever free. Following is a list of hindrances. Any hindrance that has a linked page contains further details, those that do not are complete as listed.

Physical Hindrances
These hindrances directly effect your body, making you weaker, slower, or sickly, even.

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Mental Hindrances
Maybe some wires are crossed, maybe they're just plain missing, but inside your head isn't a normal place.

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Existential Hindrances
It seems like the whole galaxy is out to get you, and maybe it really is!