- See Inferiority Complex. Rather than a -1 on failure, you suffer -2 to all rolls for the remainder of the scene, and may not spend Willpower on any rolls, period, until the anxiety has passed (i.e. the scene is over).
- Escalation of: Inferiority Complex
- Aphasia -••/-••• (The Blood p.108 + HR)
- This flaw, while designed for Vampires, is still applicable to the psychology of the living. Something has so shattered the character's thoughts that they never fully return to rationality, trapped in psychosis. They can neither speak nor interpret the spoken word, though sign language/writing/telepathy is still possible. Their attempts at speaking are meaningless babbling, smacks, clicks, and similar. Those affected may roll Wits + Empathy to get the basic emotional gist of a conversation, but only if the speaker is within eyesight.
- Roll Resolve + Composure to master your nerves and face situations your character would prefer to avoid (things associated with previous significant failures). On failure, your character may flee, or disguise himself as an innocent bystander to avoid notice. If you must confront the source/can't escape, all rolls suffer a -1 penalty due to anxiety.
- Escalates into: Fugue
- Blood Fascination -• (Vampire: the Requiem - Ghouls p.87)
- Roll Resolve + Composure any time your character encounters blood. On a failure, take a 'souvenir' (whether to keep or to taste). If Composure-number of days have gone by without encountering any blood, or images thereof, roll another Resolve + Composure to avoid going out to search for more.
- Bulimia -•• (Vampire: the Requiem p.188)
- Your character tries to drown stress with things he likes, especially food. Binge and purge cycle of gluttony and subsequent self-disgust-induced vomiting.
- Escalation of: Fixation
- Cataplexy -•• (Asylum p.49, Ghould p.87)
- The day after a sleep roll fails, roll Stamina + Composure after any circumstance resulting in an intense emotional reaction such as laughter, anger or fear. If the roll fails, the character slumps/falls, paralyzed and weak, but still fully conscious, for one turn (3 seconds).
- Escalation of: Insomnia
- Compulsive-Aggressive Disorder -•• (Nomads p.92 & HR)
- Your character is suspicious to the point that he views everything around him as a threat. His only Social skill is Intimidation; he uses nothing else. All rolls related to keeping his cool or staying calm to avoid attacking something/someone suffer a -2 penalty.
- Escalation of: Suspicion
- Dehumanization -• (Werewolf: the Forsaken - Blood of the Wolf p.28)
- Other people are frail, weak and ultimately disposable to your character. Any time you're inconvenienced or frustrated by perceived weakness/stupidity, roll Resolve + Composure. On failure, gain -2 penalty to all non-Intimidation Social rolls for remainder of scene, due to being brusque with all the imbeciles around you.
- Escalates into: Loss of Compassion
- Delusional Mania -•/-•• (Lords Over the Damned: Ventrue p.108)
- May be gained after surviving something you shouldn't have. Your character, for whatever reason, believes he is much tougher than he is.
- For -1 version: if you take any damage during a scene, roll Stamina + Composure minus -3 (bashing), -2 (lethal), or -1 (aggravated) depending on the type of damage you received. If you fail, you don't appreciate just how bad the injury really is, and may not Dodge without spending Willpower.
- For -2 version: same as above, but you feel like you're invulnerable, and additionally must spend Willpower to stop the action causing you harm in the first place (e.g. fighting, or clinging to the hood of a car).
- Escalates into: itself!
- Delusional Obsession -•• (Vampire: the Requiem p.189)
- You are very, very obsessed and so irrational that you must spend Willpower to resist acting in accordance to whatever it is you determine your particular obsession is about.
- Escalation of: Irrationality
- Delusional Witness -•• (Banishers p.44)
- Any obvious supernatural phenomena are overlaid with hallucinations to bring them within your character's personal belief system. A changeling calls light into her hand? She must be a nature spirit! Bring her offerings.
- As with Repression, but the character has outright replaced the initial memories with others, denying that the first ever existed. Roll Resolve + Composure if someone tries to correct the memory. On success, become irate and refuse to discuss it at all.
- Escalation of: Repression
- Depersonalization -• (Mage: the Awakening - Summoners p.184)
- When under stress/emotional trauma, your character steps back into her own mind, functioning on autopilot. Others might not even notice the difference, but the character has no real sense of connection to herself, and feels like she's observing a life not quite her own. You may spend no Willpower for the remainder of the scene and suffer a -2 penalty to all Resolve + Composure rolls.
- Escalates into: Dissociation
- Depravity -•• (Intruders p.203)
- No sense of social mores at all. If someone tells you to behave, you must pass a Resolve + Composure - 2 check to resist the immediate impulse to do the complete opposite just to spite their request.
- Roll reflexive Resolve + Composure after failing to achieve some IC goal or rolling any Dramatic Failures. If you fail your Res+Comp, you sink into depression for the remainder of the scene, lose a point of Willpower and may not spend any further Willpower points until the scene is over.
- Escalates into: Manic-Depression, Melancholia
- Diogenes Syndrome -•• (Vampire: the Requiem - The Blood p.107)
- You aren't worthy of consideration or personhood, and ignore your own personal hygiene and cleanliness, gaining a -3 to any Social rolls as a result of your eccentricity and filth. Cleaning yourself requires spending Willpower to get the backbone to do it.
- Escalation of: Inferiority Complex
- Dissociation -•• (Mage: the Awakening - Summoners p.184)
- In addition to the effects of Depersonalization, the character cannot recuperate Willpower through Vice/Virtue at all, as the effects have no true emotional or spiritual significance. The important parts of the mind are locked away, world feeling unreal and devoid of emotional depth.
- Escalation of: Depersonalization
- Divination Obsession -•• (Shadows in the Dark: Mekhet p.118)
- See Obsessive Compulsion, but this is specifically a compulsion to perform some form of divination.
- Escalation of: Magical Ideation
- Fetishism -• (Asylum p.49/Ghouls p.86)
- Your character fetishizes a particular object, situation or appearance. When reminded of the fetish, roll Resolve + Composure to avoid having to recreate or try to come into contact with the fetish in question.
- Escalates into: Masochism, Sadism
- Filthy Brutes -• (Changing Breeds p.104)
- Your character hates animals, and goes out of his way to tease and torment them. Roll Resolve + Composure to resist indulging in such abuse if you happen to run into a helpless one.
- Roll Resolve + Composure after failing OR succeeding at an important action (leaping between buildings, making a quick escape, etc.). If you fail, you obsess over the offending/inspiring task. Roll a single die. That is the number of scenes you are fixated on what you believe helped/hurt you win/lose the event.
- Escalates into: Bulimia, Obsessive Compulsion
- Fugue -••/-••• (WoD p.100)
- Your character has a specific trigger. When subjected to that particular stress (manslaughter, seeing a black dog on a full moon, etc.), you must succeed at a Resolve + Composure roll or he slips into a fugue for the remainder of the scene. Essentially, he blanks out and works on autopilot, and has no memory of what he has done when he "wakes up" at the end of the scene. If people try to stop this autopilot destressing, your character may attack them in order to carry on.
- Escalation of: Avoidance
- Glossolalia -• (Promethean: the Created p.185)
- Roll Wits + Composure any time you spend a Willpower point. If you fail, you 'speak in tongues' for the remainder of the scene, unintelligible, convinced of divine communication.
- Goetic Fracture -••/-••• (Banishers p.44 & HR)
- Somehow, your broken brain decides that your Vice is actually a demon telling you what to do. Since this isn't Mage, we're not casting magic with it, but it's a cool derangement. Changelings, you're welcome to use the original with Contract/Wyrd instead of magic/Wisdom (either satisfy your Vice before you use the power or psychically overpower the 'demon' by succeeding on an extended Wyrd roll with your own Resolve as the target number). For non-magical folks, see the book. Plenty of ways to have fun being broken!
- Grandiose Delusions -• (Shadows of Mexico p.65)
- Your character believes himself to be the supreme authority regarding a specific territory, object or occupation. Any time someone not in your service attempts to exert influence on what you think is yours, roll Resolve + Composure. On failure, your first priority becomes excluding/tearing the interloper down and proving your dominance.
- Your character suffers from hallucinations related to a particular event, circumstance or traumatic incident. She genuinely believes these hallucinations to be the truth until they are pointed out as falsehoods. If they are pointed out, roll a reflexive Resolve + Composure. On failure, she strenuously argues why the hallucinations must be real.
- Hedge-Calling -•• (Changeling: the Lost p.215)
- As Wanderlust, but on a failed roll, the character enters the Hedge and walks there for at least an hour. While she stays on a path, if the path goes out of view of the mortal world, she follows the path, not sanity, unless she makes a successful Resolve + Composure roll with a penalty equal to her Wyrd.
- Escalation of: Wanderlust
- Hemophilic Compulsion -•• (Ghouls p.87)
- You are deeply, deeply fascinated by blood, the sight, the scent, the feel, to the point that every time Composure number of days have passed, you must roll Resolve + Composure to avoid drawing blood fresh from yourself or someone else.
- Escalation of: Blood Fascination
- Hunter King -•• (Changing Breeds p.104)
- You really, really hate animals. Violently loathe, despise, revile. You are the equivalent of a serial killer, going out of your way to hunt, torture and murder animals whenever possible for your own sick pleasure.
- Escalation of: Filthy Beasts
- Hypnagogic Hallucination -• (Shadows of Mexico p.65)
- When your character is on the verge of sleep, he experiences vivid hallucinations, visual/auditory/etc., any time the day has been too stressful for him. Unless he spends a Willpower, he suffers a -1 penalty to all Mental rolls the next day from exhaustion.
- As with Phobia, but a failed Res+Comp means your character can't even be in the same room with the object of her fear. She must run away immediately to get out of sensory range at full running Speed as soon as she can take an action. She cannot attack it under any circumstance. If it touches her, roll another Resolve + Composure. On success, leave the room at a run. On failure, your character runs as fast and far as she can, thinking of nothing else until she is past sensory range.
- If the object appears suddenly/you aren't aware of it your initial Resolve + Composure roll suffers a -3 penalty. If it touches you but you can't see it (i.e. a spider dropping from the ceiling onto the back of your neck) the penalty is -5.
- Escalation of: Phobia
- Inferiority Complex -• (WoD p.98)
- Roll Resolve + Composure to remain composed rather than freaking out at the possibility that you might fail at something when you are a single choice/dice roll away from winning/losing something stressful. If you fail the roll, all rolls (including the momentous act itself) suffer a -1 penalty for the remainder of the scene, and you may not spend Willpower on the 'momentous act' roll.
- Escalates into: Anxiety
- Insomnia -• (Asylum p.49/Ghouls p.87)
- Your character has trouble sleeping regularly. When under significant stress, roll Resolve + Composure to see if you can manage to sleep restfully, and if you fail, take -2 to all rolls the next day from groggy exhaustion. Every day after that is considered a "stressful" day until you successfully pass your Res+Comp before bed.
- Escalates into: Cataplexy
- Irrational Defiance -•• (Lords over the Damned: Ventrue p.108)
- You feel trapped by your superiors and may lash out if you feel persecuted/accused/smothered. Roll Resolve + Composure to keep your cool. On failure, take -5 on all actions which contribute to fulfilling your superior's orders as you undermine your own efforts. See book for examples.
- Escalation of: Irrationality
- Irrationality -• (WoD p.99)
- Roll Resolve + Composure to keep your cool when threatened/under extreme tension/persecuted/challenged/accused. Said tension must bear some realistic threat to some aspect of your character's well-being, be it monetary, emotional, social, societal, etc. Upon a failed roll, your reaction is completely over the top insane, exaggerated, and you are likely to take risks far worse than what precipitated the event. See book for details.
- Escalates into: Multiple Personality Disorder
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- Loss of Compassion -•• (Blood of the Wolf p.128)
- Your character simply doesn't feel compassion toward others, and their emotions have no meaningful value. When committing Integrity/Clarity sins against another person, roll one fewer die.
- Magical Ideation -• (Shadows in the Dark: Mekhet p.118)
- Your character believes that there is a greater plan, and that it is everywhere. Once a scene, roll Resolve + Composure. If you fail, your character finds 'evidence' that God/dess's hand is at work, or little green men, or any other greater intelligence suitable to her personal belief system.
- Escalates into: Divination Obsession
- Manic-Depression -•• (Vampire: the Requiem p.189)
- Your character has severe mood swings, often bewildering to others. One variant is psychologically based, and the other is a defect in your brain chemistry.
- Psychologically, this is a modified form of hysteria where any success can push the character into a manic ecstatic state, and any failure can sink them down into lethargy and despair.
- The second form tends to follow a regular cycle which ranges from hours to weeks, sliding up into an excess of energy, mania, ecstatic frenzy of activity and creativity, then sliding right back down into depression, often to the point of being suicidal.
- Mechanically, the ST may secretly roll your Resolve score at any time you fail a task. If the roll fails, or if you ever roll a dramatic failure, your character lapses into depression. Each scene afterward, the ST (or you, more likely, since this is a MU*) rolls 1 die. If you succeed, you become upbeat and energetic for the same number of scenes as you were depressed, regaining any Willpower lost due to Depression.
- Escalation of: Depression
- Masochism -•• (Asylum p.49/Ghouls p.87)
- See Fetishism. Your particular fetish is only satisfied if you suffer Bashing damage equal to your Stamina while you fulfill it.
- Escalation of: Fetishism
- Megalomania -•• (WoD p.97)
- See Narcissism. Same effects, except the penalties intensify by one. In addition, your character is also highly competitive and obsessive, and cannot allow himself to fail a contest. He just won't let it go, demands it be tried again, etc., no matter where the group is. If he ever loses to someone he considers a social inferior, he loses a point of Willpower due to shame/self loathing.
- Escalation of: Narcissism
- Melancholia -•• (WoD p.97)
- In addition to the effects of Depression on a failed Resolve + Composure roll, all dice pools suffer a -2 penalty for the remainder of the scene.
- Escalation of: Depression
- Memory Obsession -•/-•• (Lords over the Damned: Ventrue p.109)
- You suspect that someone/something is rewriting your memories, or that every impulse has been mind-controlled into your psyche. Whenever you fail a Mental roll to recall a detail/scan your own memory, you get increasingly paranoid.
- For -1 version: take -2 penalty on all Mental rolls for the remainder of the scene due to wasting time double-checking instincts/rational thought.
- For -2 version: take -2 penalty on ALL ACTIONS for remainder of scene.
- Escalation of: itself!
- Multiple Personality Disorder -•• (WoD p.99)
- See book. More or less, something so awful happens that your character's personality fractures into different personas, so he can deny the trauma or any actions it causes by blaming someone else.
- Mechanically, this means you may effectively have stats on your +sheet that only one of your personalities "knows" how to use. Staff encourages you to sit down and work out the details of which dots each "persona" would have. One may be a social seductress who could persuade blood from a stone, while the other is so inept she can hardly ask for change at the supermarket without offending the cashier. There is no change in how you spend your xp. This is strictly for how your broken head uses those spends.
- Escalation of: Irrationality
- Mystic Personality -••/-••• (Banishers p.44)
- Similar to other multiple personality disorders, this derangement is specifically a case of developing an alternate personality with a diametrically opposed perspective on the supernatural. The more extreme case may have multiple personalities.
- Roll reflexive Resolve + Composure any time your character succeeds at a goal to see if it goes to his head. If the roll fails, for the remainder of the scene, you are so busy congratulating yourself on your awesomeness that you only help others half-heartedly. Why aren't they focused on you, who did this awesome thing? Sure, maybe they helped... Teamwork efforts get -3, and all Social rolls suffer a -1 penalty.
- Escalates into: Megalomania
- Obsessive Compulsion -•• (WoD p.98)
- Determine a set of specific actions/behaviors your character follows to the exclusion of all else. See book for helpful examples. Resisting these actions requires a successful Resolve + Composure - 2 roll. If something/someone prevents your character from acting on his compulsive obsession, he may well lose control and strike out at those around him, ally or not.
- Escalation of: Fixation
- Occult Fugue -• (Banishers p.44)
- Your character occasionally slips into a fugue state where he conducts a long, typically benign magical working while mentally absent. The equivalent of sleepwalking. Sleep-magicking? The character does not remember doing any of it when he wakes from the fugue.
- More or less: you believe the world is out to get you, and you have excellent, daily-honed theories as to why, whether or not they are actually rational things to believe. Do tin hats really protect from alien mind rays? Automatic -2 penalty on all Social rolls. The slightest hint of suspicious behavior provokes a Resolve + Composure - 2 roll to retain control. Failing means your character either flees or attacks (verbally or physically) the offender.
- Escalation of: Suspicion
- Roll reflexive Resolve + Composure when encountering what your character fears. If you fail, you are terrified beyond reason and can't be any closer to the source of your fear than your Speed in yards. Attacks against it suffer -5 penalty. If you can't escape right away, you freeze in place until you can. Defense/dodging to take cover do still apply while frozen.
- Please look up the name of your phobia online and use it when requesting the new flaw. Phobia (Ailurophobia) vs. Phobia (Fear of Cats).
- Escalates into: Hysteria
- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder -•• (Ancient Mysteries p.69)
- Somewhere in your character's history, there is a deep, traumatic event which has left him with lingering internal scars. Any time he is reminded of the event (fireworks or loud bangs may remind a former soldier of gunshots), roll Resolve + Composure to avoid a powerful panic attack on every movement except hiding. For the remainder of the scene, take -2 penalty on all rolls, and Willpower may not be spent to boost rolls.
- Repression -• (Asylum p.49)
- Sometimes, memories are too painful to keep. Your character has blocked out the memory of what caused this derangement, and refuses to acknowledge that it exists, acting as though it never happened. Roll Resolve + Composure any time you encounter a similar situation to avoid 'forgetting' the new memory too.
- Escalates into: Denial
- Rote-Action Repetition -• (Prometheans: the Created p.184)
- Everyone has their own method of reacting to stress. Yours just happens to be obsessively absorbing yourself in a meaningless, trivial task instead of facing what's causing the issue. Roll Resolve + Composure when your character is under significant stress. On failure, take -2 penalty to all dice pools while the stress persists, except pools related to the particular rote action you are hiding from the truth with.
- Escalates into: Submission
- As Masochism, but rather than causing harm to yourself, you must cause at least as much Bashing damage as your Stamina score to the object of your fetish.
- Escalation of: Fetishism
- Schizophrenia -•• (WoD p.99)
- See book for detailed explanation. More or less, conflicting feelings/impulses cause a withdrawal from reality, which can manifest in violent changes of behavior and hallucinations. Classic insanity. You talk to walls, believe you're a King, or that your cat told you to murder your neighbor for not letting it pee in the petunias. Automatic -2 to all Social rolls, and if someone provokes you/accuses you/tells you something disturbing/argues with you, roll Resolve + Composure to avoid attacking them (verbally or physically) or fleeing from them.
- Escalation of: Vocalization
- Submission -•• (Promethean: the Created p.184)
- Your character lacks confidence in his own decisions, or perhaps suffers from terrible self-doubt after an epic failure which ruined his life. Or, he just likes doing what other people say. In any stressful situation, roll Resolve + Composure and on failure, follow the orders of the character with the highest Presence who issues direct commands. You cannot spend any Willpower in these pursuits, and may only shirk the tasks with a successful Wits + Resolve - 2 roll.
- In the absence of any commands, roll Wits + Composure - 2 to avoid sinking into a useless inactive heap.
- Escalation of: Inferiority Complex OR Rote-Action Repetition
- Supernatural Fascination -• (Asylum p.50)
- Your character is absolutely convinced that the supernatural is out there. You don't need to wonder if vampires exist. Of course they do. So do gods, or whatever other force fits your personal belief system. At the beginning of every scene, roll Resolve + Composure. On failure, perform some appropriate action to appease the supernatural force most appropriate to your character and the current situation.
- Escalates into: Zealotry
- When your character suffers intentional misfortune (someone cuts you off in traffic, preempts you in the water-bubbler line at the office to flirt with a girl, etc.), roll Resolve + Composure to resist becoming extremely suspicious of everyone's motives toward him, trust undermined no matter who they are, whether or not the person actually meant him harm. See book for details. Social rolls suffer -1 penalty.
- Escalates into: Paranoia
- Synesthesia -• (Promethean: the Created p.189)
- Your character's head has its wires crossed somewhere. Whether this is an effect of birth, or something brought on later in life through drugs or injury, two of your senses are somehow tied. You might taste colours, or feel sounds, or find that words smell different when spoken by different people. You can't turn it off, and in situations where you are surrounded by your particular kryptonite, overwhelmingly so, roll Wits + Composure. On failure, you're so distracted that you take a -2 penalty on all Presence and Manipulation rolls until the overwhelming input ceases.
- Unbridled Confidence -• (Astral Realms p.92)
- You are absolutely, 120% sure that your first impulse is always right. When it comes to making choices and decisions, and you are around, roll Resolve + Composure. On failure, do what comes first to mind, with no fore-planning. Take a -3 to any rolls related to using skills to plan things out beforehand until the next time a decision must be made.
- Vocalization -• (WoD p.98)
- Roll Resolve + Composure when under stress to see if your character starts compulsively talking to herself (internal monologue montage!) to reason it out. Your character doesn't realize she's speaking aloud unless it's pointed out, at which point she may stop for 1 turn (3 seconds) per dot of Wits she has, at which point she goes right back to doing it all over again, no matter who is there. For the rest of the scene.
- Escalates into: Aphasia, Schizophrenia
- Waking Nightmare -• (Ancient Mysteries p.69)
- Your character's nightmares follow him into the waking world, and at some pre-arranged trigger (determine for yourself and share with your ST, if any), you must roll Resolve + Composure and succeed, lest failure dooooom you to falling unconscious and reliving your nightmare vision for the remainder of the scene. A dramatic failure means you do not fall unconscious, but instead hallucinate that everyone around you is one of the beasts/enemies in your horrific dream.
- Wanderlust -• (Changeling: the Lost p.215)
- When physically exhausted or emotionally drained, your character has trouble staying in one place, the urge to walk, often in a large circle (around a block/through a neighbourhood), is overpowering. Mechanically this occurs after you are subject to Fatigue or spend your last Willpower point. Roll Resolve + Composure. If you succeed, you take a -1 dice penalty to all Mental rolls for the remainder of the scene, due to fidgety distraction. If you fail, you must walk for at least an hour, at half your Speed or faster. Pacing is not enough.
- Escalates into: Hedge-Calling
- Withdrawal -•• (The Blood p.108)
- The world is just too much. You can't handle it, and you effectively become a hermit. Roll Resolve + Composure to leave your home at all, and take -3 to Social rolls unless resisting/contesting others.
- Escalation of: Irrationality
- Zealotry -•• (Asylum p.50)
- Same effects as Supernatural Fascination, but they also proselytize the fact to everyone.
- Escalation of: Supernatural Fascination
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