SpicyBoi_Nezu
2019-07-19, 05:37 PM
I thought that it would be fun to play as a character that has depression (like me), but as far as I can see, there obviously aren't any stat blocks for mental disorders like this, and even if there were, there really wouldn't be any numerical effects on a character.
I thought that I could make depression into a contract able disease, structured in D&D 3.5e.
My initial thoughts were, making a daily will save, or suffering adverse effects for the day, like -2 to initiative, because you aren't really feeling active. Maybe getting some penalties to charisma based skill checks because you aren't feeling very social on this particular day. Or even penalties to your next will save against the disease. There would need to be a whole table. If you succeed a certain number of will saves by a certain amount or more in a row, you have a chance of becoming "cured". Whereas on the downside, if you fail too many of the sves in a row, you have to make harder and harder will saves to prevent yourself from harming yourself, eventually resulting in the inevitable last will save to determine whether or not you commit suicide.
Either way, I may be going overboard with the effects, it's just that I'd like to see my character triumph over depression because I can't.
I'm open for recommendations.
I thought that I could make depression into a contract able disease, structured in D&D 3.5e.
My initial thoughts were, making a daily will save, or suffering adverse effects for the day, like -2 to initiative, because you aren't really feeling active. Maybe getting some penalties to charisma based skill checks because you aren't feeling very social on this particular day. Or even penalties to your next will save against the disease. There would need to be a whole table. If you succeed a certain number of will saves by a certain amount or more in a row, you have a chance of becoming "cured". Whereas on the downside, if you fail too many of the sves in a row, you have to make harder and harder will saves to prevent yourself from harming yourself, eventually resulting in the inevitable last will save to determine whether or not you commit suicide.
Either way, I may be going overboard with the effects, it's just that I'd like to see my character triumph over depression because I can't.
I'm open for recommendations.