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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Endzeitgeist" data-source="post: 5484305" data-attributes="member: 82318">Two Dozen Dangers: Insanity by LPJ DesignThis b/w-pdf is 7 pages long, 1 page SRD and features some nice b/w-artwork.Insanities in this book are treated as a kind of mental disease that works exactly like the mental equivalent of the physical ailments. The insanities portrayed herein all fit in one of three categories: Horror, Trauma or Spell-Sickness.The insanities presented in this book are mostly interesting and fairly non-standard and all have a rather “magical”, distinctive fantasy-ish flair, i.e. you won’t find CoC-related or IRL-insanities in this little book, which I consider to be a plus.The fluff-descriptions of the insanities range from fair to good.The insanities are: Aberrant Sensorium, Black Futility, Death Friend, Draconic Obsession, Dust Nihilism, Dying Nostalgia, Elder Bane, Ergot Sickness, Fey Worry, Gigantaphobia, Labyrinthical Hysteria, Miser’s Curse, Mute Witness, Night Haunt, Pyroclastica, Refusal of Mortality, Regret of the Righteous, Shatter-Ear, Shapechanger’s Confusion, Sickening greed, Symbolic Compulsion, Temporal Isolation, The Trembling, Wretched Wilting.Conclusion:While I liked most of the insanities, some of them felt not like insanities, but rather magical afflictions (Shatter-ear does sonic damage to the afflicted if someone is talked loudly to) and e.g. Elder Bane is a kind of senility, which I didn’t particularly care for. It is a nice plot-device, but old and venerable PCs are not that common and for NPCs you wouldn’t need this insanity, which renders it (mostly) obsolete.Formatting is ok, but the file could have used another pass at editing: The ToC reads “Poisons” instead of “Insanity” and among others, one of the names of an insanity is misspell: “Labrynitical Hysteria”[sic!] should probably read “Labyrintical Hysteria”. As mentioned above, some insanities look more like magical afflictions to me. Due to the editing glitches, the feeling that the insanities felt rather like afflictions and the fact that none of the insanities really made me yell “brilliant”, I’m going to rate this 2.5 stars, rounded down to 2.</blockquote>

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