Plain faced and Mark of Privilege

[Mickeroo]

A character in my game is being Born noble but kicked out of power at a very young age, so he goes to live on the streets as a pick pocket. Taking both of these lifepaths grants Plain faced and Mark of Privilege as the mandatory traits, but these are seemingly contradictory. Do I just ignore one as a requirement? Or can someone explain to me how to make this work? Thank you.

[RickoniX]

A character in my game is being Born noble but kicked out of power at a very young age, so he goes to live on the streets as a pick pocket. Taking both of these lifepaths grants Plain faced and Mark of Privilege as the mandatory traits, but these are seemingly contradictory. Do I just ignore one as a requirement? Or can someone explain to me how to make this work? Thank you.It's up to you, but I'd just not let them have plain faced, Mark of Priviledge is presented specifically as a possible problem when lying to nobility, so it could be an interesting little problem :P

[Viper]

While the descriptions do make the two appear to be incongruous, mechanically, there's no reason the two can't interact. Mark of privelege add+1Ob to all inconspicuous tests when the noble is trying to appear as someone of a lower class, while plain-faced is a call-on trait for inconspicuous, which the player can use only once per session.

So, MoP is going to make all of his inconspicuous tests harder no matter what, while plain-faced is going to let him circumvent that once in a while.

Now, in game, you can explain it like this; yes, he has the mark of privelege, noble features, but years of hard living on the street has roughened him to the point where he can often pass for a commoner if someone is not looking too closely.

[Thor Olavsrud]

A character in my game is being Born noble but kicked out of power at a very young age, so he goes to live on the streets as a pick pocket. Taking both of these lifepaths grants Plain faced and Mark of Privilege as the mandatory traits, but these are seemingly contradictory. Do I just ignore one as a requirement? Or can someone explain to me how to make this work? Thank you.

I think it works beautifully! The character is a pick pocket. He's not masquerading as such. Of course, there are probably a few people around him that suspect, probably people he encountered early on in his life on the streets.

So yeah, he has a +1 Ob when he tries to go inconspicuous as a member of the lower classes (criminal underworld), but he could easily work crowds of the more refined (no obstacle penalty), and is even especially good at it (Plain Faced). And since they tend to be the ones with overflowing purses...