Disadvantage List
+1 Free Advantage per Disadvantage Taken. Disadvantages are free.
Note: Disadvantages result in a penalty of -1 per level to all fields or applications which apply to disadvantage. Each level taken in a disadvantage can be applied to an advantage.
GMs can also assign penalties to disadvantages. Disadvantages that rely on chance get a chance roll of +1% per level unless otherwise specified.
A
Absent Minded: -1 intelligence during acts of intelligence or memory.
Academic Status Suffering: -10 XP, -1 HP, -1 d6 towards research, learning, and investigation skills
Accelerated Aging: add +10 years to age and -1 on all checks for every two years of in game time. (type-disease or genetic condition)
Acceleration Weakness: accelerated actions such as haste or exteme velocities in jets or by other means cause extreme vertigo with loss of balance and upset stomach for -1 dexterity, health and stamina, -1 each per ace; lasts 3 turns.
Addiction (type): character relies on something which compromises them and even more so when without whatever they need, -1 on all checks per level when in effect; -2 on all checks per level when without object of addiction.
Addiction (severe - type) character relies on something which affects their health and causes even more suffering when without, -10 health and -1 on all checks per level when in effect; -20 health, -2 on all checks per level when without object of addiction.
Age (old): take age penalties on check page.
Age (permanent child): take age penalties on check page.
Agoraphobia: character refuses to leave their house and has to be dragged out. Character also relies on others to bring things to them from the outside. (-2 on all mental checks, triples if character ventures outside of home by force or their own will)
Alcohol Intolerance: -3 on all rolls while inebriated.
Alcoholism: suffer addiction penalties as well as a -3 charisma penalty, doubles while drunk.
Alcohol-Related Quirks: (type and penalty)
Allergies: 10% chance of allergic attack, -10% perception, sneezing fits give position away and kill stealth.
Allergic Susceptibility: doubles penalties for allergies.
Anomalous Time Line: character is trapped between two time lines, living and experiencing both at the same time, and he/she will see things which those on each side of the time line cannot; and because the two time lines move paralell to one another, events can become extremely confusing to character and give them the appearance of madness. 20% chance of overlapping events resulting in confusion and a 2d6 disorientation roll; -1 mental checks per success, -5 per ace).
Altered State: once a day character is highly susceptible to metamorphose into a completely different form, one that is not at ALL appealing to the eye.
Altered Time Perception: time is not linear to character but multidimensional whereby the distinction between past present and future cannot be distinguished, no concept of normal time, therefore a character fairs poorly at occupations which require them to show up 'on time'.
Amnesia: character has no memory of who they are or of the their past whatsoever. Speech centers are however unaffected by this condition which does not compromise the same part of the brain.
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Anachronism: character lives in the past and has a difficult time adapting to change; -1 on all rolls dealing with recent inventions and new ways of life.
Annoying Personality: -2 charisma
Apathetic: +10% empathy failure.
Aphasian Tongue: cannot talk in any coherent manner, mixing up and using words in a way that makes any sense to very few.
Aphelian Ire: (sun loving characters) when the world is furthest from the sun/s those with this rare condition remain in a bad temper for an entire month, 50% charisma the duration.
Appearance, Flawed: (define) -1 charisma
Appearance, Unattractive: (define) -2 charisma
Appearance, Ugly: (define) -3 charisma
Appearance, Hideous: (define) -4 charisma
Appearance, Monstrous: (define) -6 charisma
Arachnophobia: terrified of spiders, -2 willpower and stealth when faced with spiders, +2 willpower to avoid spiders if fear is challenged.
Attention Deficit Disorder: difficulty focusing on any one thing for too long (-2 perception and will)
B
Bad Back:
Bad Grip: 10% chance of dropping anything held with loss of -2 AR recovery time, and -1 on all hand held rolls.
Bad Luck: +10% chance of something going wrong whenever anything of consequence can go wrong (or when GM calls for a luck check).
Bad Sight
Bad Smell
Bad Temper
Beardless
Berserk
Bestial
Bigot: -1 charisma, logic, and wisdom
Bleeder (double damage with wounds to blood
loss)
Blindness
Blood Bonded
Bloodlust
Blood Thirst: non-vampires
Body of Gas
Body of Water
Bonded: name who character is bonded to
Bowlegged
Broad-Minded
Bruise Easy
Buffoon: -1 mental
Bully
Butter Fingers: drops things often, +10%
chance per level of dropping things when GM calls for a drop check
C
Callous
Cannot Climb
Cannot Cross Running Water
Cannot Harm Innocents
Cannot Learn from Mistakes
Cannot Swim
Cannot- (specify)
Capricious
Careful
Catalepsy
Centauroid
Chaotic (true)
Charitable
Chauvinistic
Chronic Depression Variable
Claustrophobia
Cleft Lip
Clueless
Clumsy
Code of Honor
Cold-Blooded
Colour Blindness
Combat Paralysis
Compulsive Behavior
Compulsive Carousing
Compulsive Gambling
Compulsive Generosity
Compulsive Honesty
Compulsive Love for...
Compulsive Lying
Compulsive Spending
Compulsive Vowing
Confused
Congenial
Constraint (something relative they cannot do
under any circumstance)
Cowardice
Curious
Curse,The
Cursed
Cyber-Rejection
D
Dark Fate
Deafness
Deep Sleeper
Delicate Metabolism
Delusions
Demented
Dependency
Dependent
Destiny (inescapable)
Destiny (ill omened)
Deviant
Devout Buddhist
Disciplines of Faith Variable
Disembodied Brain
Disowned
Distractible
Disturbing Voice
Divine Curse Variable
Draining,The
Dread Variable
Dreamer
Dull
Dulled Nose
Duties Variable
Duty (Involuntary)
Dwarfism
Dying Race
Dyslexia
E
Easy to Read
Edgy
Eerie Presence
Effeminate Male
Enemies
Enemy (Unknown)
Enslaved
Epilepsy
Eunuch
Evil Twin Variable
Excommunicated
Extra Sleep
Extravagance
Extreme Fanaticism
Extremely Hazardous Duty
F
Fanaticism
Fat
Fearfull
Flashbacks
Fragile
Freedom Seeker
Frightens Animals
Fugative
G
Gate Intolerance
Geek
Gigantism
Glory Hound
Gluttony
Greed
Gregarious
Growth Variable
Guilt Complex
Gullibility
H
Hairless
Hangover; Mild: -1 to all checks
Hangover; Bad: -3 to all checks
Hangover; Major: -5 to all checks
Hard of Hearing
Hated
Hatred
Haunted
Hemophilia
Hidebound
High Strung
Hives (trigger type)
Homophobic
Homosexual
Honesty
Horizontal
Horrible Hangovers
Human Face
Humble
Hunchback
Hunted
I
Ignorance
Illiteracy
Imaginative
Impaired - Speech, Sight, Hearing.
Impetuous
Impulsiveness
Incompetence
Inconvenient Size
Increased Life Support
Incurious
Indecisive
Infectious Attack
Inhuman Feature
Innumerate
Insane
Insomniac
Intolerance (Racial)
Intolerance Variable
Invertebrate
Involuntary Dampen
Irritating Personality
J
Jaded
Jealousy
Jobless
Joker
Jinxed
K
Karmic Ties Variable
Killjoy
Kindred Disadvantages Variable
Kleptomania
Klutz
L
Lack of Claws
Lame - Leg, arm, back, hand ect.
Lazy
Lecherousness
Life Bane
Light Sleeper
Limp
Lives on Campus
Loner
Lover's Distraction
Low Empathy
Low Pain Threshold
Low Self Image
Luck Child (75% chance of good luck)
Lunacy
M
Magic Susceptibility (path and double damage)
Manic-Depressive
Megalomania
Masculine Female
Masochistic
Mentally Ill (type)
Migraine
Miserliness
Missing Digit
Misjudged
Mistaken Identity
Motion Sickness
Mundane Background
Murder Addiction
Musk
Mute
N
Narcolepsy (sleep disorder)
Narcissism
Nervous Stomach
Night Blindness
Nightmares
No Body Heat
No Depth Perception
No Insurance
No Natural Healing
No Physical Body
No Reflection
No Sense of Humor
No Sense of Smell/Taste
No Shadow
Nocturnal
Nosy
Notoriety
O
Obdurate: stubbornness of +5 Willpower vs. intelligence and charisma in use of logic or persuasion when mind is made up.
Oblivious: 0 perception when in an oblivious, 10% chance of such a state.
Obnoxious: -50% charisma when being obnoxious.
Obnoxious Drunk: 0 charisma when drunk.
Obsession: (define type) character is very obsessive about +1 thing; -1 intelligence when confronted with object of obsession vs. intelligence in use of reason, +1 d6 on any action towards the object of obsession, obsessive behavior evident with success roll.
Odious Personal Habits
One Arm
One Eye
One Hand
Osteoporosis
Overbite
Overconfidence
Overfriendly
Oversensitive
Overweight
P
Pacifism
Pallor
Panic Attacks
Paranoia
Parasite (to others)
Personal Curse
Personality Flaws (types)
Phobias (types)
Phobia-
Crowds
Darkness
En-closed Spaces
Heights
Magic
Specific Creature
Snakes, spiders, scorpions, etc
General Group of Creatures
Water
Other
Photosensitive
Planetbound
Poor Balance
Post-Tramatic Stress Disorder
Poverty
Powerful Foe
Prefrontal Lobotomy
Pride
Primitive
Problematic
Proud
Psychotic
Psychosis (type)
Pyromaniac
Q
Quadriplegic Quarrelsome Quirks Quiet
R
Reclusive
Ridiculous
Reduced Hit Points (25%)
Reduced Humanity
Reduced Manual Dexterity
Reduced Movement
Religious Fanatic
Reputation (bad)
Restricted Reproduction Variable
S
Sadism
Scalped
Schizophrenic
Sea-sickness
Secret (dark)
Secret Identity
Self-Centered
Self-Destruct
Selfish
Selfless
Semi-Literate
Semi-Upright
Sense of Duty
Shadow Form (permanent)
Shamanic Initiation
Shell Shocked
Shinto Priest
Short Stature
Short Arms
Short Attention Span
Short Lifespan
Shyness
Sick Sense of Humor
Skinny
Slave Mentality
Sleepwalker
Sleepy Drinker
Sleepy Variable
Slow Eater
Slow Healing
Slow Metabolism
Social Disease
Social Stigma
Solipsist
Space Sickness
Spirit Form
Split Personality
Staid
Status
Sterile
Stress Atavism Variable
Stubbornness
Stupid
Stuttering
Subjugation
Sundeath
Supersensitive
Susceptibility to Poison
T
Taint of Corruption
Taboo (type)
Talisman (cannot function well without it)
Telepathic Addiction
Tense
Terminally Ill Variable
Timesickness
Tongue Tied
Tourette's Syndrome
Trademark Variable
Trickster
Truthfulness
U
Uncongenial
Uncontrolled Form Shifts
Uncontrollable
Uncontrollable Fate
Underweight
Undiscriminating
Uneducated
Unfit
Unhealing
Unique
Undead
Undependable
Underbite
Underweight
Unlucky
Unnatural Feature
Unpredictable Shape Change (type)
Untrained Shape Change (type)
Unusual Biochemistry
Unstoppable Growth: character continues to grow until the day they die by +1 inch per year. Gain +1 to strength, stamina, and movement per foot of growth over six feet. Adjust Health to gains. Lose -1 stealth per foot of growth over six feet. This is a Deterimental Flaw despite the advantages.
V
Vagrant
Vampiric Dependency
Very Unfit
Violence
Voices (hears)
Volatile
Vow (type)
Vulnerability (type)
W
Wanderlust
Wanted
Weak Immune System
Weak Will
Weakness (for something-type)
Weirdo Magnet
Workaholic
Wierdo
X
Xenophilia
Xenophobia
Y
Yin-Yang Imbalance Youth
Z
Zoo-Protagonist
Zoological Freak (has multi-animal form)
Class Disadvantages
Magic User Disadvantages
Armor Restriction: studded leather or lighter
or no armor.
Awkward Casting Method:
Unable to cast subtly.
Taboo: As mage.
Ceremony: Must perform ceremonies at certain
times.
Difficult Spell
Memorization: As mage.
Fanaticism: Priest or
mage is a religious fanatic and sees no room for other priesthoods or beliefs
and may even kill those who don't convert.
Hazardous Spells: As mage.
Limited Magic Item Use: As mage.
Limited Spell Selection: Priest must keep a
spell book and can only learn limited paths.
Reduced Life Points: -10 per free point taken
Reduced Spell Progression: Ten spells and two
paths only.
Slower Casting Times: -3
init for spells.
Talismans: -1 on all
mental and spell casting rolls per talisman when lost or misplaced.
Weapon Restriction: No bladed weapons or bows,
only staffs, maces, clubs, spears, etc.
Awkward Casting Method: Casting has strange
effects, mage can not cast subtley.
Behavior/Taboo: Mage is not allowed to do
certain things (eat a certain thing, sit facing a certain direction, whatever)
Difficult Memorization: Mage must perform
elaborate acts to memorize spells.
Environmental Condition: Mage is restricted as
to where/when/for what causes he can cast.
Hazardous Spells: Mage must save or take 1
damage per spell level each time he casts within a certain Sphere, or have a
cumulative 1% chance per spell level of going insane. When he does it resets to
0%.
Learning Penalty: -10% Learn Spells for each
point.
Limited Magic Items:
Unable to use one set of magic items at 10% per CD.
Reduced HP: -1 HP per Spell Level for Casting.
Reduced Spell Knowledge: One path only can be
learned.
Reduced Spell Progression: Can memorize one less spell per spell level.
Slower Casting Time (1/3): -1 per CD init when
casting.
Constraint: Like Taboos,
only it is IMPOSSIBLE for the mage to do things they are constrained from.
Talismans: "Where is my rabbit's foot?? I can
not fight without my rabbit's foot!!!" as the elf slings an axe at the goblin.
Limited Weapons
Limited Armor - Armor is NOT advantageous to
Thieves and Assassins.
Limited Magic Items -
Only three allowed.