Madness

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DC Action: Composure (DC 50%) Administration: Traumatising Events
Increase Method: GM’s Choice

Madness is a frequent but nightmarish experience that occurs whilst adventuring. Various creatures – especially horrors, can evoke madness just by looking at them, or by doing a certain action, due to their incomprehensible forms, or their eldritch stance, which ruins various adventurers and creatures mental healths alike, causing various psychotic illnesses, however, in some cases, this turns into madness.

To improve your ranks of madness, one must experience one traumatising event from ranks 1-5, and beyond there, must experience two traumatising events.

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Rank 1 – Thick Skinned

Benefits
Desensitized – You receive a +20% bonus to resisting fear effects.

Downsides
Addiction Prone – You receive a -20% penalty to resisting addiction.

Rank 2 – Hardened

Benefits
Desensitized – You receive a +50% bonus to resisting fear effects.
Destructive Tendencies – You deal double damage against items.

Downsides Addiction Prone – You receive a -40% penalty to resisting addiction.
Irrationality – You receive a -20% penalty on all Intellect actions.

Rank 3 – Mild Madness

Benefits
Mild Hallucinations – You can view into the Ethereal plane, all creatures that reside there are visible to you.
Destructive Tendencies – You deal double damage against items.

Downsides
Fearful – You receive a -20% penalty to resisting fear effects
Addiction Prone – You receive a -40% penalty to resisting addiction.
Irrationality – You receive a -20% penalty on all Intellect actions.

Rank 4 – Unhinged

Benefits
Mild Hallucinations – You can view into the Ethereal plane, all creatures that reside there are visible to you.
Destructive Tendencies – You deal double damage against items.
Thousand Yard Stare – You receive a +50% to all Intimidation actions, this is unaffected by Babbling.

Downsides
Babbling – You’ll constantly blurt out strange things during the middle of a conversation, and receive a -10% to all Social actions.
Fearful – You receive a -20% penalty to resisting fear effects
Addiction Prone – You receive a -40% penalty to resisting addiction.
Irrationality – You receive a -20% penalty on all Intellect actions.

Rank 5 – Moderate Madness

Benefits
Moderate Hallucinations – You can view into the Ethereal plane, all creatures that reside there are visible to you. You randomly get hallucinations overtime and receive a -20% penalty to all illusion powers.
Destructive Tendencies – You deal double damage against items.
Thousand Yard Stare – You receive a +50% to all Intimidation actions, this is unaffected by Babbling.

Downsides Babbling – You’ll constantly blurt out strange things during the middle of a conversation, and receive a -10% to all Social actions.
Fearful – You receive a -20% penalty to resisting fear effects
Addiction Prone – You receive a -40% penalty to resisting addiction.
Irrationality – You receive a -20% penalty on all Intellect actions.

Rank 6 – Spiralling

Rank 7 – Severe Madness

Downsides
Babbling – You’ll constantly blurt out strange things during the middle of a conversation, and receive a -10% to all Social actions. Mistrustful – You receive a -50% to all actions to get others to believe you.
Fearful – You receive a -20% penalty to resisting fear effects
Addiction Prone – You receive a -40% penalty to resisting addiction.
Irrationality – You receive a -20% penalty on all Intellect actions.

Rank 8 – Ascended Mind

Downsides
Babbling – You’ll constantly blurt out strange things during the middle of a conversation, and receive a -10% to all Social actions.
Mistrustful – You receive a -50% to all actions to get others to believe you.
Fearful – You receive a -20% penalty to resisting fear effects
Irrationality – You receive a -20% penalty on all Intellect actions.

Rank 9 – Awakened Intellect

Benefits
Extreme Hallucinations – You can view into the Ethereal plane, all creatures that reside there are visible to you. You randomly get hallucinations overtime, can see all true forms of horrors, and are unaffected by any illusion powers.
Destructive Tendencies – You deal double damage against items.
Thousand Yard Stare – You receive a +50% to all Intimidation actions, this is unaffected by Babbling.
Spiralling – On a critical fail, you receive the effects of a random Concentration perk, this lasts for 1 round.
Awakened Intellect – You gain a +20% to Intellect, you cannot be flanked.
Mindbreaking – Your presence in a 10m radius causes fear amongst all non-sentient creatures.

Rank 10 – Beyond Sanity

Benefits
Extreme Hallucinations – You can view into the Ethereal plane, all creatures that reside there are visible to you. You randomly get hallucinations overtime, can see all true forms of horrors, and are unaffected by any illusion powers.
Destructive Tendencies – You deal double damage against items.
Thousand Yard Stare – You receive a +50% to all Intimidation actions, this is unaffected by Babbling.
Spiralling – On a critical fail, you receive the effects of a random Concentration perk, this lasts for 1 round.
Awakened Intellect – You gain a +20% to Intellect, you cannot be flanked.
Premonitions – At random times, you will receive Premonitions, usually in your dreams that shows a possible future event, the GM describes and tells you the event, but it does not have to be true.
Mindbreaking – Your presence in a 10m radius causes fear amongst all non-sentient creatures.