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Message: <blockquote data-quote="josha" data-source="post: 5308998" data-attributes="member: 93110">UNEARTHED ARCANA FEAR AND MADNESS _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ IN THE DARKEST CORNERS OF UNKNOWN SPACE, in the maddening reaches of the Far Realm, in the most remote depths of the Underdark, and in the infinite expanse of the Astral Sea lurk dark horrors beyond imagination. Aboleths preform decades-long rituals of unspeakable might in vast, subterranean seas. Wraiths and dark spirits stalk abandoned streets in the dead of night, searching for fresh life energy. Twisted fey set sadistic traps for unwary travelers, pressing their fingers to their lips and cackling quietly. And necromancers stalk bleak graveyards in the mist, thinning the line between life and death. I present here rules for fear and insanity, meant to be used with the DUNGEONS & DRAGONS 4th edition rules-set. SANITY POINTS SANITY POINTS ARE A SYSTEM which allows Lovecraftian-style madness in your 4E game. Each character starts out with a number of sanity points determined by their wisdom. As they come face-to-face with whatever creepy stuff you have in store for them they gradually lose them slipping into the depths of madness and growing constantly more twisted. DETERMINING SANITY POINTS EACH PLAYER CHARACTER STARTS OUTwith sanity points equal to their wisdom score x3, this makes wisdom much more important in character creation so remember to declare this before the characters are made. LOSING SANITY POINTS AS THE PLAYER CHARACTERS ENCOUNTER alien horrors and twisted abominations it begins to take a toll on the very foundations of their mind. When they see/make contact with such a creature or sight you ask them to make a sanity check. When they make a sanity check they roll a d100, if they roll higher than their total remaining sanity they succeed, if they roll lower they fail. On a failed check they loose several randomly rolled sanity points, on a successful check they loose little or none. Here is a table to demonstrate how much sanity is lost from certain experiences and to give you an idea of the numbers. Experience - Sanity Lost on Successful Check/Sanity Lost on Failed Check Seeing a Zombie. - 0/1d4 Seeing a Ghoul. - 1d4/2d4 Seeing a Fell Taint. - 1d8/2d8 Seeing a close friend or family member die. - 1d4/3d4 Looking at the severed stump of your hand. - 0/1d6 Seeing an Illithid or Beholder. - 1d12/2d12 Touching a mangled, rotting corpse of a sentient - 0/2d4 Discovering that you are eating the flesh of a sentient. - 2d4/2d10 Seeing a good deity. - 2d4/5d4 Seeing an unaligned deity. - 2d8/5d8 Seeing an evil deity. - 2d12/5d12 Living for a week without food - 1d4/3d4 REGAINING SANITY WHEN A PLAYER CHARACTER TAKES a short rest they regain sanity equal to their wisdom modifier, when they take an extended rest they regain sanity equal to their wisdom score. RUNNING OUT OF SANITY WHEN A CHARACTER RUNS OUT of sanity points their mind is broken beyond repair and the DM takes control of them. FEAR AND PARANOIA RULES COMING SOON! </blockquote>

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