Madness Chart - Feedback Requested!

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Hello, Cormyr and the Dalelands!

I sifted through google to find some charts involving insanity, madness, and the terrible prices of delving into certain cosmic and outer-cosmic forces and tried to assemble a d100% chart for random effects a character might be afflicted with as a result. Things like researching the Far Realms, interacting with alien entities, being driven partially insane, etc.

I'm posting the chart I generated here for feedback, so gimme all you got. I'd like to know if its of interest and if it would fit the setting of the CD Server without being too disruptive to RP and PC Interactions. I'd love to hear suggestions of what to add/subtract/replace things with. I like to imagine it might be a tool for DMs to use for certain requests or their events, ofc just my opinion.

So here it is...



1 Stave off the effects of madness... this time. Your character gains no permanent effect.

2 Your character develops extreme social anxiety, and finds it difficult to speak in front of others.

3 Your character develops a fear of being alone and must have at least one person/creature with them at all times.

4 Your character hears the regular sounds of rolling dice.

5 Your character feels like their teeth are loose and threatening to fall out.

6 Your character believes they are being watched and under constant surveillance.

7 Your character regularly sees bugs crawling all over other people.

8 Your character sees all walking surfaces/roads as flooded with 6 inch deep ooze.

9 Your character develops a crippling fear of the first animal/insect/monster it sees.

10 Your character views everything as if it were highly saturated and surreal.

11 Your character becomes obsessed with the first object they see, and feel the need to carry it, touch it, use it, and speak to it, etc.

12 Your character becomes incredibly sensitive and concious of their looks.

13 Your character believes it is raining/snowing around them at random times.

14 Your character believes that the first person they see each day is polymorphed into a sheep before their eyes.

15 Every question or comment directed at your character prompts them to respond in third person.

16 Your character hears the first question someone asks them as utter gibberish.

17 Your character believes they are afflicted with an infectious disease (but aren't).

18 Your character becomes incredibly light-sensitive and believes their skin burns in sunlight.

19 Your character becomes incredibly sensitive to a particular emotion; sadness, anger, joy, etc. (pick one)

20 Your character becomes afraid of the dark and must always be in well-lit places at all times.

21 Your character believes they are an alcoholic and feels compelled to remain in a state of mild to severe drunkenness.

22 Your character develops a paralyzing fear of water.

23 Your character believes their bones are made of glass and incredibly fragile.

24 Your character believes their limbs have been replaced with tentacles.

25 Your character is convinced that they are dreaming.

26 Your character feels constantly peckish and no amount of food or drink quells it.

27 Your character can smell burning flesh nearby and nothing alleviates or eliminates it.

28 Your character feels compelled to repeat a specific activity over and over; such as washing hands, touching things, praying, counting something, etc.

29 Your character experiences vivid hallucinations.

30 Your character suffers from paranoia; everyone is out to get you.

31 Your character regards the next thing it sees with intense revulsion and will do whatever they can to avoid it.

32 Your character experiences a powerful delusion. Choose a potion. The character imagines they are under its effect at all times.

33 Your character becomes attached to a "lucky charm".

34 Your character is blinded or deafened.

35 Your character experiences uncontrollable tremors or tics.

36 Your character suffers from partial amnesia, they remember who they are, but forgets things and people from before the cause of the effect.

37 Your character loses the ability to speak.

38 Your character believes they are constantly being watched by a god, gods, or something and intermittently hears laughter from the sky.

39 Your character is constantly distracted by the simplest things.

40 Your character becomes extremely claustrophobic.

41 Your character regularly sees shadows moving out the corner of their eyes.

42 Your character struggles to keep track of what is real and what is not real.

43 Your character develops an apathy for some person, place, or thing.

44 Your character suffers from night terrors.

45 Your character suffers from insomnia.

46 Your character becomes unusually clumsy and often trips or bumps into things.

47 Your character becomes unusually pessimistic.

48 Your character regularly feels sick to their stomach, even though they are healthy.

49 Your character loses their confidence and expects their inevitable end, no matter what they do.

50 Your character develops a stutter.

51 Your character develops a nervous twitch.

52 Your character's hands shake all the time.

53 Your character becomes near or far sighted.

54 Your character manically whispers to themselves, or at least people will think it is to yourself.

55 Your character believes the last/next thing eaten, they have a strong allergy to.

56 Your character believes that gods aren't real.

57 Your character believes they are indestructible.

58 Alcohol no longer affects your character at all.

59 Your character flies into a frenzy, similar to a barbarian rage, whenever they critically succeed at something.

60 Your character becomes paranoid about everyone around you and won't eat or drink anything they haven't seen prepared themselves.

61 Your character develops teleport sickness and becomes nauseous every time they travel magically.

62 Your character becomes vulnerable to magic potions and becomes nauseous or sick after drinking them.

63 Your character becomes extremely uncomfortable, like their skin is crawling, whenever someone uses magic that isn't your own on you.

64 Your character believes all house pets are spies of alien forces.

65 Your character believes that some kind of vermin are their allies and all unconditionally love you.

66 Your character tosses and turns in their sleep due to being jittery and having difficulty sleeping still.

67 Your character constantly embellishes stories.

68 Your characters sense of smell becomes very sensitive and even small, harmless smells often bother them and cause them to sneeze.

69 Your character develops a stutter.

70 Your character loses a small part of themself (finger, eye, ear, etc.)
71 Your character believes they are cursed, or fated, to die in a specific way.

72 Your characters sense of hearing becomes sensitive, even quiet sounds seem loud and deafening.

73 Your characters sense of touch becomes sensitive, even subtle sensations feel intense.

74 Your characters sense of touch becomes weak, so they feel numb most times.

75 Your characters sense of taste becomes sensitive, so food and drink taste abnormally strong.

76 Your characters sense of taste becomes dull, so food and drink all taste bland.

77 Your character becomes greedy and always wants more gold than they have.

78 Your character becomes deathly afraid of heights and believes they'll die from falling.

79 Your character becomes extremely prejudiced to a specific (PC Playable) race.

80 Your character becomes extremely favorable of a specific (PC Playable) race.

81 Your character believes their health (HP) is half what it actually is.

82 Your character becomes obsessed and fascinated by tentacles.

83 Your character becomes obsessed and fascinated by eyes and eyeballs.

84 Your character becomes obsessed and fascinated by swarms of insects and vermin.

85 Your character sees their deceased loved ones in any humanoid undead they encounter.

86 Your character becomes traumatized by the untold horrors they've seen and become frightened by events that remind them of it.

87 Your character believes that a trinket in their possession is a powerful magical item that grants them a wish once per day. (It doesn't).

88 Your character believes they are the host to alien entities inhabiting their body, and are waiting for them to emerge.

89 Your character grows an unnatural appendage (eye, tentacle, etc.) somewhere on their body.

90 Your character's alignment shifts towards good.

91 Your character's alignment shifts towards evil.

92 Your character's alignment shifts towards lawful.

93 Your character's alignment shifts towards chaotic.

94 Your character's alignment shifts towards neutral.

95 Your character ages 2d20 years.

96 Your character develops a manic laugh that comes easily to things that are even remotely amusing.

97 Your character perceives one language to always be gibberish, even with magic.

98 Your character constantly hears music playing all around them.

99 Your character believes they are the agent of a great and terrible eldritch creature of the Far Realm and their purpose is to summon it to Faerun.

100 Your character's mind is overwhelmed by the madness. Roll d% twice and apply both effects from this table.