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== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* The ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'' [[Splat]] book, ''The Book of Exalted Deeds'', has various vow Feats that carry advantages and disadvantages. The Vow of Poverty for instance disallows you from owning equipment, but gives you roughly 80% of your estimated wealth in bonuses
* In ''[[Exalted]]'', the Charm Righteous Lion Defense causes a magically enforced version of this: one of the character's Intimacies becomes utterly inviolate, and nothing, not even [[Mind Control]], can persuade him to act against it.
* In ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]'', the [[Knight Templar|Black Templars]] chapter of [[Space Marine|space marines]], an army of particularly pious [[Warrior Monk|warrior monks]], may choose a vows that affects how they fight a battle. One for example gives all models a weak saving throw against ranged attacks that would normally ignore their [[Power Armor]], but keeps them from taking cover, while another forces units to charge at the nearest enemy but grants them significant combat bonuses when doing so.
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