At this moment, I have thought thay "Lies are burden" so I note when the PC's make an important lie. Perhaps lies implies that the shadow is more powerful or some other difficulty."
That is an interesting idea. I really like that. You are probaby not using this system, but Greg had a good idea for dualistic personality traits in his Pendragon game. The traits are presented in opposed pairs. The total value of the opposed pairs (such as Honest 12/Deceitful 8)always equals 20. Pendragon is a 'roll under' system, so the higher the trait the easier it is to make a successful trait roll. Acting consistently with the trait does not incur compulsory trait checks. Acting inconsitently with a trait does. If you lose your trait roll, you lose a point in that trait.
In theory, you could use the number of the trait as "spirit combat' ability for the characters during the battle. I think it may be even easier to use the HeroQuest rules for this, but I'm not very familiar with them.
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