I'm going to start a new campaign and I have decided (my group agrees) that it could be funny (not that we are making fun of them) to have people with certain disadvantages. I have thought of Schitzophrinia (sp), toret syndrome (again sp), narcolepsy (ummmmm.........sp), and sociopathic players. Any more ideas? (for other disadvantages, how to play them, and some rule ideas)? Thanks
Player Disadvantages
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Black Omega
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Well, keep in mind schizophrenia is not the same as MPD (Multiple Personality Disorder). And alot of DnD character qualify as sociopaths.redwing said:
It sounds like you are going more for mental illnesses, so kleptomania, having an addictive personality, and Obsessive-compuosive disorders could all work.
Psychotic Jim
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If you are into mental illness disadvantages, a GURPS book would give you a wealth of material to base disadvantages on. Mental flaws good for adventurers might be phobias, alchoholism, compulisive gambling, nymphomania/lecherousness (-6 to will saves to avoid dealling with the Succubus), compulsive barbarian heroism (do a Will Save or beat up the fat greedy merchant and take all his stuff only to blow it on ale and whores later the same night), greed and miserliness (almost a prerequisite for all of the dwarf characters), gluttony, laziness, cowardliness ("And so Sir Brave Robin ran away!" etc. Physical flaws might include missing eyes, limbs (how much for a peg head?), and other body parts, blindness or deafness (try playing a spellcaster with both of those), and ugliness.
reapersaurus
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http://www.angelfire.com/super/masterlists/psych/psych1.html
Master list of Psychological Limitations.
Great fodder for character ideas....
Master list of Psychological Limitations.
Great fodder for character ideas....
Pigeon
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I'm a mental health nurse (psychiatric nurse) and the sections on mental health problems in roleplaying books often amuse/irritate me. I know this is going to sound hideously right on, and I'm not trying to prescribe what people should or should not do in their roleplaying campaigns, but I often feel that its a little innapropriate to be pretending to be someone with schizophenia or OCD. I can't quite put my finger on why, maybe because everytime I've seen it done it's been done for laughs.
I dunno, just try to be a bit sesitive about it. You would be suprised how many people are affected by something like schizophenia (1 in 10 according to the national schizophrenia fellowship - I think that number included families as well as people who have the diagnosis), and the more that can be done to reduce the stigma of "madness" for these people the better.
Anyhow, that's my two pennys worth.
I dunno, just try to be a bit sesitive about it. You would be suprised how many people are affected by something like schizophenia (1 in 10 according to the national schizophrenia fellowship - I think that number included families as well as people who have the diagnosis), and the more that can be done to reduce the stigma of "madness" for these people the better.
Anyhow, that's my two pennys worth.
