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PDFCrimson King said:
I’m playing a Mage game, and it has this system where if you fuck up a spell or if non-mages see you casting it there’s a strange paradoxical backlash and reality warps around you in awkward and unsettling ways, like there’s a brief and terrifying rain of bees or you develop temporary coprolalia.
(yes I’m playing World of Darkness oh god don’t judge me)
so Twenty Consequences to Doing Spells Wrong, perhaps, ranging from mildly inconvenient to permanently disfiguring.
I promise: I won’t judge you.
| Roll 1d20 | Side Effect |
| 1 | Hair turned to feathers |
| 2 | One week of bad social luck (lower CHA or penalties to reaction rolls) |
| 3 | Character passes out for one day. |
| 4 | Two random limbs paralyzed for 1d4 days. |
| 5 | Disabling itch effects everyone within 100 feet for one hour. |
| 6 | Involunatary charm others effect strikes at next inopportune moment. |
| 7 | Character is muted for 1 day. |
| 8 | Character’s touch destroys currency, cheques, credit cards, etc. |
| 9 | Character attracts attention of any law enforcement nearby for 1 month. |
| 10 | Whoever is pursuing party gets 50 percent closer. If no one is pursuing, someone is now. |
| 11 | Nose resembles Star-nose Mole’s nose |
| 12 | Character’s failure will become legendary. Songs written, jokes told. |
| 13 | Character convinced there is rot in fingers. Will not stop until they are all cut/bitten off. |
| 14 | One limb is severed, escapes, then grows into a monster/demon. |
| 15 | Full-body rash. Concentration impossible for 1 day. Disappears after 1 week. |
| 16 | PC becomes enamored of next person who attacks PC. |
| 17 | Character of out and in both backwards sentences all speak must player. |
| 18 | Character is cursed. Must sell off all assets and possessions within 24 hours or die. Cannot sell to anyone they know. |
| 19 | The universe reveals location of amazing treasure (red herring). |
| 20 | TV-style amnesia. Conk on the head will NOT fix. |
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I love it! Especially the Brewster’s Millions one. Maybe I will make it so that whenever the characters fuck up they become entrapped in the plot of a randomly selected eighties movie.
A GM of mine tried to have a slew of minor ones, for if it wasn’t a big breach of reality. The one that I recall happening to me was a random nosebleed.
The blood was white with pink polka-dots. No matter how you tried to wipe it or smear it, it was white with pink polka-dots.