Doom

Magic is dangerous! If used recklessly, it will lead directly to your doom. That is why everybody has a Doom Score which starts at 0. When you gain one or more Doom Points (for example, by getting a pair when rolling spell dice), add it to your Doom Score and roll a D20. If you roll equal or under your Doom Score, you trigger a Catastrophe. Getting a triple when casting a spell gives 3 Doom Points, and a quadruple, 6.

Catastrophes

Catastrophes happen most often when a spellcaster rolls too many pairs and triples on their Spell Dice, but they are also designed to be used as curses by the referee when appropriate. When a player triggers a catastrophe, choose which type seems to be the most appropriate (I’m doing a list for each of the Wonder & Wickedness and Marvels & Malison spell schools) and give the player the Last Warning. For each further catastrophy triggered by this character, ask the player to roll a D12 and face the consequences. The smaller the roll the kinder the consequence. Reroll if it already happened.

D12 Animorphic Catastrophes

1. Last Warning

You are losing your humanity. For the rest of this session and the next one, you cannot use any tools or say sentences longer than 1 word.

2. Scientific Curiosity

You have become a mutant. Roll on the mutation table. You cannot rest in a town without attracting the attention of vivimancers intent on collecting your organs.

3. Curse of Bats

Every time you cast a spell, 1D6 screaming bats fly out of your mouth. You are stunned for as many turns as you belch them out.

4. Chimera

You grow an extra random animal head. It reacts to things as the wild animal would, with fear, hunger or curiosity, independently of you. You have to eat one extra ration per day.

5. Permanent Transformation

You permanently transform into a random animal. You can still cast spells. If you were already transformed into an animal, this becomes permanent.

6. Uncivilization

You are now uncomfortable around humans. You must save vs fear when you encounter one you do not know.

7. Zoophobia

Every animal could be an animorph in disguise! You cannot cast spells in the presence of an animal. You must save vs fear when you witness a creature shapeshifting.

8. Lycanthropy

The next time the sun sets, you will transform into a random animal and try to bite as many people as possible before sunrise. Each bitten person will be affected by the same curse and transform into the same animal the next sunset. This has a 1/6 chance to happen every subsequent sunset. When you spend a night like this, you become fatigued and do not recuperate your spell dice. Hunters are on their way to kill you.

9. Unwelcomed Adaptation

Your nostrils are replaced by gills. You can breathe underwater but not outside of it.

10. Wrong Layout

How is a body made again? Roll a D6: 1, left leg; 2, right leg; 3, left arm; 4, right arm; 5, chest; 6, head. Then roll again. The first limb is replaced by a new second limb. Reroll if they are the same.

11. Oozification

You simply do not hold shape anymore. You have become an ooze. You have 3 inventory slots and can’t talk.

12. Abduction

The next time you go outside, a sickly light will pierce the sky and shine on you. You, and only you, will see the silhouettes of strange humanoids reaching out for you. The rest of the world will see you disappear. You will be found naked in a completely different location 1D4 years later with no memories.

D12 Apotropaic Catastrophes

1. Last Warning

The next time you and your allies sleep in town, you are summoned by the Church for an endless inquiry on your careless use of magic.

2. Confinement

All exits of the room you are in are sealed shut and locked. If you are not in a building, a single cell prison is build around you.

3. Seal Magic

You’ve warded yourself from magic. Your Spell Dice are always expended when you use them.

4. Safety Burden

For each spell in your Psyche, you must use another Psyche slot for the spell’s “proper instructions”. You cannot cast spells without them.

5. Alarming Protection

Each movement in your vicinity, including yours, is signaled by an annoying alarm.

6. Unhinged Power

You’ve destroyed the restraints dampening your magic. Blue flames constantly spew out of your hands.

7. Divine Manacles

Your hands are stuck together.

8. Antimagic Beacon

The area around you is completely sealed from magic. No spells can affect you and you can’t cast spells. Feys avoid you, divine agents hate you.

9. Soultrapped

Choose an item in your inventory. You are trapped in it like a genie in a bottle. You can hear a bit, although all sounds are muffled, and, if you scream, people outside can hear you, but not much louder than a whisper. You do not need to eat while trapped this way.

10. Undetection

You are barely perceptible: nobody cares to interact with you, and you cannot interact with anything of significance. You can speak, but it will not be remembered.

11. Seal Crowd

Every player in your group must flip a coin. If it’s head, their character is soultrapped (see number 9). The same happens with all npcs and monsters in the area.

12. Doom the World

You break the wards protecting the integrity of the world. An eldritch god starts phasing in!

D12 Diabolic Catastrophes

1. Last Warning

Your forehead is branded with heretical writing, recognizable by the learned as an invocation to be judged. Any agent of the Church or the Law will be compelled to prosecute you if they see it. Additionaly, if this writing is intoned by any spellcaster or cleric, a greater divine agent will be summoned.

2. Devilish Pride

You and all allies nearby grow long, curving, goatlike horns. These are permanent, and mark those so affected as traffickers in diabolic magic. You cannot find respectable housing in towns. A mob will form if you are seen more than a day in the same settled location.

3. Abyssal Poachers

You have been marked as a disturber of souls. Every time an intelligent life dies because of you, 1D4 of the dretch demons tracking you are summoned to feast on it. This does not please the Authority.

4. Intermediary Contractor

Anyone that makes a deal with you is unknowingly also making a deal with the devil who inherited you soul. If they do not discharge the debt, their souls are also inherited by it. Because of that, the devil will do everything short of direct intervention to prevent them from fulfilling their debt to you.

5. Possession

The attention of a demon is attracted. It can now see whatever you see, and speak using your mouth, though the voice becomes different and ominous. Your eyes now glow a faint orange in darkness. It will try to cause the most violent chaos.

6. Nightmare Manifested

One randomly determined person near the casting of the spell in your group is permanently marked with a demonic sigil. This sigil conjures a lesser horror each time the afflicted person sleeps. Determine its reaction as normal.

7. The Teint

You are permanently imbued with the nature of demons, and becomes subject to many demonic weaknesses. For example, holy water becomes damaging, circles of protection keep you out, and so forth. Furthermore, you lose the ability to cross running water without collapsing into unconsciousness. Crossing a line of salt, such as used with some magic circles, causes you 1D6 damage.

8. An Eye for an Eye

An imp familiar is summoned. This familiar has your eyes, which cease to reside in your head. You continue to be able to see from the eyes, though do not control the imp directly. The imp may not travel more than 100 feet away from you. If it is slain, the eyes are banished to another place where swirling colors and running, pulsing veins are all that is visible.

9. Revelation

The skies of far off places open above you. The vista seen contains geometries beyond the abilities of mortals to understand. All NPCs in the hex permanently become corrupted, most to the point of becoming murderers. You gain a new Dabolist spell and are now cosmically know as the antigod.

10. Gluttony

You are bound to a demon of gluttony. In the future, prior to casting any spell, you must consume two full days of rations. You will never again feel satiated.

11. Eldritch Gateway

Every time you cast a spell in the future, there is a 1 in 6 chance of accidentally also summoning a greater horror, reaction determined as normal

12. Damnation

The next time you reach 0 HP, you are immediately dragged to hell to be judged.

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