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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kae'Yoss" data-source="post: 1360313" data-attributes="member: 4134">Same here. But I'm a player, and the one with the problem is the DM.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> I play a sadistic aasimar blackguard (which shows that he's a bastard) who has a hobby: Torturing. The torture instruments from BoVD is a real treasure chest. And, hey, it's an evil party. But as soon as I want to describe what I do to the guy, the DM almost shouts that he doesn't want the details. He says he wants to keep some standards, but I don't believe him: I think he's too soft to be a DM in an evil campaign.To get back to the spot: I agree that it is a bad Idea to disfigure him and give him some purely mechanical disadvantages, like a penalty on all cha-based checks or decrease in movement speed. He might think he isn't treated fairly, and also it is unimaginative. Also, such things can often be healed (the spell heal frees you of any injuries, so if you tell him that his leg won't be whole after that spell, it feels forced)Better give him a phobia, and make him mentally unstable. That's something you can roleplay with. If you want some mechanical aftertaste, let him get nightmares (as the spell). You could even make them be prophecies - in every of these nightmares is some clue to the current adventure, maybe a vital clue. This would mean that he had to allow the nightmares to happen in order to get the information he needs, even though he'd like to suppress the nightmares (it's a will save, something druids are good in).</blockquote>

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