Café de Nuit

Well, I read Boris Drakov thread about how many characters have you killed, and I find it interesting also to know how many players (well their characters) and how they have gone mad.
I must assume that I have never either played nor dm-ed any RL story module or campaign, the closest to it was watching Night of the Walking Dead played by a friends of mine and DMing a story which was suposed to be the introductory one to a RL campaign, therefore I have nothing to say, which ebarrases me quite a lot

For sanity I follow a similar rule to that followed in the NWoD: for every Powers Check that a character gains, or for every circumstance that dictates too much pressure for the character to bear, the character rolls for d100: there's a 50% chance that the character gains a derangement (not necessarily something that makes him insane, but makes him deranged).

Thanks to my friends in Psychology class, here's a short list of the insanities/mental derangements I've recreated for my RL games (probably to be presented in Dion Fernandez's Ravenloft):

Drug-induced Narcolepsy
Inferiority Complex
Nymphomania (and other sexual deviances)
Melancholy
Mass Hysteria
Megalomania
Obsessive-Compulsive Behavior

Is there a difference between Melancholy and Depression or do you know?

I had a bard once who failed a madness check after seeing his girlfriend's sister turning into a zombie. He got an automatic fear check everytime he faced the undead, which was pretty often.


But as my players have matured forced checks haven't been necessary as they develop phobias and paranoias all on their own.

I have had a couple I can remember...

I had a Halfling bard in one of my games that thought he was a child because a close friend of his died and he became delusional thinking he was a young boy. He also treated the Paladin of the group as if he was his big brother.

I had a Monk who was severly tortured by Mister Fox and gained the Rage effect. He began snapping and soon lashing out at anyone who was threatening the group.

I also had a Paladin who after being TRezed realized he was the only survivor of his previous party and began halucinating that the other party members were still alive but so was one of the Vampires that had been responsible for the deaths.

When the Paladin above led a second attempt against the Vampires with the new party, the father of one of the old characters had to battle his now vampire son and snapped mid fight trying to defend the undead son as he tried to escape.

Thats all I can remember at the moment!

Manofevil wrote:Is there a difference between Melancholy and Depression or do you know?

Hi,

I have no studies in Psychology, but during my research for an article I wrote about an Asylum, I think I remember reading that Melancholy was an old word for what is now regarded as Depression.

I still would consider that when 'Melancholy' was used, that illness / state was not as well known as today, and so you should consider 'Depression' as kind of 'Melancholy v2.0' or such

(Bah, I'm a software engineer, sometimes I like programming jokes)

Alex