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Johann Heinrich Füssli 035

Players of Mad Scientist characters can sometimes be challenged to decide upon a suitable Incurable Madness for their character. That’s where this table comes in. Select, or randomly determine a flavorful type of insanity – I mean, manifestation of genius! Muahahahaha!

More inspirational tables like this will be part of the planned Second Edition of Ghastly Affair.

Your madness is…

d20
You are convinced that your body is in fact made of glass, and liable to shatter if struck with any amount of force.

1
You have 1d6 other personalities that can emerge randomly in times of stress.

2
You cannot abide the thought of sex, and the sight of even artistic nudity makes you physically ill.

3
You are a compulsive gambler.

4
You are obsessed with a certain number (or certain numbers).

5
You will only eat and drink things that are a certain color. (d8. 1=white, 2=brown, 3=yellow, 4=red, 5=green, 6=black.)

6
You believe a dead family member (or spouse) is your constant companion. Nobody else can sense them, however – even with Preternatural aid.

7
You desire to see and be near the dead – perhaps living close to churchyard, frequenting charnel houses, keeping embalmed bodies, or making your furniture from human bones.

8
Your have a morbidly gloomy disposition, and talk constantly of death and dying.

9
You are a hypochondriac, and constantly believe yourself to either be sick, or about to become sick.

10
You believe yourself to actually be a beast of some kind in a temporary human shape.

11
You believe yourself to be several hundred years older than you actually are.

12
You believe that you were born on some other planet, or on the sun.

13
You enjoy vivisection, and will find any excuse to cut open living bodies.

14
You believe yourself to be a plant of some kind, and refer to the solid food you eat as “fertilizer”.

15
You are obsessed with “perfecting” the human body – and when you can’t find other subjects, you experiment on yourself.

16
You are obsessed with creating new life forms, and modifying existing ones.

17
You are convinced that a gang of criminals is using a mechanical device to control your thoughts.

18
You believe that all of your family members and old friends have already been replaced by impostors, and that every day more and more people are likewise replaced.

19
You believe yourself to be already dead, and don’t understand why others don’t see it.

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