So going through the manual, as you acquire stress in excess of your trauma threshold, after the normal wound penalties and the WILx3 test to avoid being stunned, you get a derangement (starting at minor, and working its way up to major) and at 4 derangements you get a disorder free.
So the question is, how do you decide which derangements to share with your players? Do you just pick which one seems funniest at the time? (By which I mean echopraxia, unless you're playing with an under-12 crowd.) Do you guys keep the book open when you're expecting high-stress missions?
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Dishing Out the Crazy
Sat, 2012-08-11 10:01
#1
nezumi.hebereke
Dishing Out the Crazy
Sat, 2012-08-11 11:06
#2
Decimator
The logical thing is to pick
The logical thing is to pick one that fits the situation. Unprecedented violence? PTSD. Exsurgent outbreak? Hypochondria. Friends got killed? It's your fault.
Sat, 2012-08-11 16:06
#3
Arenamontanus
My players had their
My players had their equipment and implants hacked by exhuman forks. After the battle, which led to them more or less burning down their whole camp and losing two members, they were frantically trying to clean their systems. So I decided on OCD or OCD-like obsessive symptoms: they were trying to keep clean, constantly return implant settings to factory defaults and running code reviews.
I am all for trying to find mental symptoms that fit the trauma. Remember that there are many more in DSM IV and the psychology literature than in the core book!
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Sat, 2012-08-11 18:18
#4
Herbo
Another +1 to choosing
I had a PC Ego in my most recent EP foray that decided she prefered synthmorphs over any biomorph. So naturally, over the course of a number of sessions she ended up sleeved into an uplift, a pod, run as software in an infomorph instance, and then downloaded into a Infindustry Unlimited ComTac IX fury morph(a hyper-corp and model I made up). While in the fury, some decidedly space-horror things occured. It just so happened that part of that lovely experience involved being covered in a thin layer of titan-manufactured biogel that just.simply.would.not.wash.off. SO, in addition to her other troubles, that character developed an OCD toward constantly washing and cleaning herself any time she is sleeved in a biomorph or pod, and a phobia that she has to deal with when going from her preferred synth lifestyle to a horrible dirty sack of meat and guts.
If we had just randomized it, I doubt it would have been as much fun. Kerre (my player) has been an absolute delight when it comes to her wheeling and dealing and begging and pleading to get out of biomorph or pod sleeving...and then dilligently scrubbing and disinfecting when someone/thing finally convinces her to shoe-horn her damaged little Ego into a sack of warm bone-filled goo :-)