Preadventures - Bad Stuff

1 Point Adventures

• Afflicted: The character suffers a detriment equal to the level of the affliction on any PF-based skill attempt. This is a basic detriment. This applies a pip to the detriment.
• Bad Memory: The character has difficulty recalling details. This is a basic detriment. This applies a pip to the detriment.
• Bereaved: The character has been involved in a personal tragedy. Whenever the character attempts an IN-based skill, the result is reduced by the level of Bereaved. This is a basic detriment. This applies a pip to the detriment.
• Black Sheep: the character is generally out of favor with his/her family. Any attempt to gain assistance from the family will be reduced by the Black Sheep detriment. This is a basic detriment. This applies a pip to the detriment.
• Bounty: A d10 coins will be received if the character is captured and brought to the law or whatever other group is after the character. The GM will secretly determine if anyone will attempt to collect on a bounty during the game session. This is a basic detriment. This applies a pip to the detriment.
• Clumsy: The character gains the condition that reduces all attempts based on MA by the level of the detriment. This is a basic detriment. This applies a pip to the detriment.
• Compassionate: The character feels the need to help those in need. This is a basic condition. This applies a pip to the condition.
• Deep Sleeper: The character finds it difficult to wake up. This is a basic condition. This applies a pip to the condition.
• Disfigured: The character is considered to be ugly due to injuries. This is a basic detriment. This applies a pip to the detriment.
• Duty-Bound: The character feels obligated to perform their duty. This is a basic condition. This applies a pip to the condition.
• Easy-Sleeper: The character can sleep anywhere. This is a basic condition. This applies a pip to the condition.
• Fop: The character is devoted to their appearance. This is a basic detriment. This applies a pip to the detriment.
• Gambler: The character is compelled to gamble. This is a basic detriment. This applies a pip to the detriment.
• Hateful: The character is full of hate. This is a basic detriment. This applies a pip to the detriment.
• Honor-Bound: The character feels bound by the rules of honor. This is a basic condition. This applies a pip to the condition.
• Hunted: Some individual or group is interested in keeping track of the character for some reason or other. In most cases a hunted results in attacks upon the character. This is a basic detriment. This applies a pip to the detriment.
• Jealous: The character feels intolerance towards rivalry. This is a basic detriment. This applies a pip to the detriment.
• Loyal: The character is unswerving in allegiance. This is a basic condition. This applies a pip to the condition.
• Lustful: The character experiences intense sexual desire. This is a basic detriment. This applies a pip to the detriment.
• Moody: The character is subject to angry fits. This is a basic detriment. This applies a pip to the detriment.
• Night Blindness: The character suffers a detriment when trying to do things using sight in the dark. This is a basic detriment. This applies a pip to the detriment.
• Obese: The character is out of shape and fat, thus detrimenting any PF-based skills. This is a basic detriment. This applies a pip to the detriment.
• Overly Sensitive: The character takes offense easily. This is a basic detriment. This applies a pip to the detriment.
• Personal Signature: The character develops a certain quirk when they do things, it is a style specific to the character. This is a basic condition. This applies a pip to the condition.
• Phobia: The character has a fear of some specific kind of thing. This is a basic detriment. This applies a pip to the detriment.
• Rage: The character enters into fits of furious anger. This is a basic detriment. This applies a pip to the detriment.
• Rash: The character acts before thinking. This is a basic detriment. This applies a pip to the detriment.
• Rebellious: The character refuses to accept authority. This is a basic detriment. This applies a pip to the detriment.
• Scarred: The character has sustained a wound or injury which has left a visible scar that makes the character unattractive. This is a basic detriment. This applies a pip to the detriment.
• Sensory Detriment: The character has reduced capability in a specific sense. This is a basic detriment. This applies a pip to the detriment.
• Taciturn: The character does not like to talk. This is a basic detriment. This applies a pip to the detriment.
• Unattractive: The character is not pleasant to look upon. This is a basic detriment. This applies a pip to the detriment.
• Vindictive: The character seeks revenge for slights. This is a basic detriment. This applies a pip to the detriment.
• Weak-willed: The character has a lack of sense of self. This is a basic detriment. This applies a pip to the detriment.

2 Point Adventures

• Afflicted: +2 pips.
• Allergy: The character has a detriment to all skill attempts in the presence of the allergen. This is a difficult detriment. This applies a pip to the detriment.
• Bad Memory: +2 pips.
• Bereaved: +2 pips.
• Black Sheep: +2 pips.
• Bounty: A 3d10 coins will be received if the character is captured and brought to the law or whatever other group is after the character. The GM will secretly determine if anyone will attempt to collect on a bounty during the game session. This is a basic detriment. This applies a pip to the detriment.
• Bounty: +2 pips (d10 coins).
• Branded: the character has been marked for some infraction or crime. Gain the detriment Distrusted.
• Clumsy: +2 pips.
• Compassionate: +2 pips.
• Deep Sleeper: +2 pips.
• Dependent: The character has someone they must take care of. This is a difficult detriment. This applies a pip to the detriment.
• Disfigured: +2 pips.
• Distrusted: The character has trouble getting anyone to trust them. This acts as a detriment in social interactions. This is a difficult detriment. This applies a pip to the detriment.
• Duty-Bound: +2 pips.
• Easy-Sleeper: +2 pips.
• Feared by Animals: Animals either flee or threaten the character when they can see or otherwise sense the character. This is a difficult detriment. This applies a pip to the detriment.
• Flashbacks: The character is plagued by paralyzing images of past traumas when confronted with a reminder of it. This is a difficult detriment. This applies a pip to the detriment.
• Fop: +2 pips.
• Gambler: +2 pips.
• Greedy: The character has a compulsion for material gain to the detriment of others. This is a difficult detriment. This applies a pip to the detriment.
• Hateful: +2 pips.
• Honor-Bound: +2 pips.
• Hunted: +2 pips.
• Insanity: The character develops a specific insanity. This is a difficult detriment. This applies a pip to the detriment.
• Jealous: +2 pips.
• Light Maiming: the character has sustained a wound resulting in minor permanent damage; a finger removed, a limp, etc. Gain the Unattractive detriment. Also gain the Afflicted detriment.
• Loyal: +2 pips.
• Lustful: +2 pips.
• Moody: +2 pips.
• Mute: The character has suffered an accident that makes it impossible for them to talk. This is a difficult detriment.
• Night Blindness: +2 pips.
• Obese: +2 pips.
• Obsessed: The character is compelled to do some thing. This is a difficult detriment. This applies a pip to the detriment.
• Overly Sensitive: +2 pips.
• Personal Signature: +2 pips.
• Phobia: +2 pips.
• Prison: The character has been imprisoned or indentured for a d10 years.
• Rage: +2 pips.
• Rash: +2 pips.
• Rebellious: +2 pips.
• Scarred: +2 pips.
• Sensory Detriment: +2 pips.
• Susceptible to a Specific Power: The character is susceptible to a specific type of power. This is a basic power detriment. This applies a pip to the detriment.
• Taciturn: +2 pips.
• Unattractive: +2 pips.
• Vilified: The character is seen as a villain. This is a difficult detriment. This applies a pip to the detriment.
• Vindictive: +2 pips.
• Weak-willed: +2 pips.
• Any two one point events.

• Accident Prone: The character suffers an accident on a 9 or 10 result, not just a 10.
• Addiction: The character has an overpowering urge to do some self-destructive thing. This is an extreme detriment. This applies a pip to the detriment.
• Afflicted: +3 pips.
• Bad Memory: +3 pips.
• Bereaved: +3 pips.
• Black Sheep: +3 pips.
• Bounty: A 6d10 coins will be received if the character is captured and brought to the law or whatever other group is after the character. The GM will secretly determine if anyone will attempt to collect on a bounty during the game session. This is a basic detriment. This applies a pip to the detriment.
• Bounty: +3 pips (d10 coins).
• Clumsy: +3 pips.
• Compassionate: +3 pips.
• Coward: The character is susceptible to fear, and will often be overcome by it when confronted by a threatening situation. This is an extreme detriment. This applies a pip to the detriment.
• Deep Sleeper: +3 pips.
• Disfigured: +3 pips.
• Duty-Bound: +3 pips.
• Easy-Sleeper: +3 pips.
• Fop: +3 pips.
• Gambler: +3 pips.
• Hateful: +3 pips.
• Honor-Bound: +3 pips.
• Hunted: +3 pips.
• Jealous: +3 pips.
• Loyal: +3 pips.
• Lustful: +3 pips.
• Maimed: the character has lost an eye, an arm, etc. -1 to PF or MA permanently.
• Moody: +3 pips.
• Night Blindness: +3 pips.
• Obese: +3 pips.
• Outlawed: The character has been placed outside the law by authorities. You are a non-citizen and have no rights. This is an extreme detriment. This applies a pip to the detriment.
• Overly Sensitive: +3 pips.
• Personal Signature: +3 pips.
• Phobia: +3 pips.
• Prison: 2d10 years.
• Rage: +3 pips.
• Rash: +3 pips.
• Rebellious: +3 pips.
• Scarred: +3 pips.
• Sensory Detriment: +3 pips.
• Taciturn: +3 pips.
• Unattractive: +3 pips.
• Vindictive: +3 pips.
• Weak-willed: +3 pips.
• Any combination of lesser point items leading up to three.

4 Point Adventures

• Afflicted: +4 pips.
• Allergy: +2 pips.
• Bad Memory: +4 pips.
• Bereaved: +4 pips.
• Black Sheep: +4 pips.
• Bounty: A d100 coins will be received if the character is captured and brought to the law or whatever other group is after the character, or half that if the character is killed. The GM will secretly determine if anyone will attempt to collect on a bounty during the game session. This is a basic detriment. This applies a pip to the detriment.
• Bounty: +2 pips (3d10 coins)
• Bounty: +4 pips (d10 coins).
• Clumsy: +4 pips.
• Compassionate: +4 pips.
• Deep Sleeper: +4 pips.
• Dependent: +4 pips.
• Disfigured: +4 pips.
• Distrusted: +2 pips.
• Duty-Bound: +4 pips.
• Easy-Sleeper: +4 pips.
• Feared by Animals: +2 pips.
• Flashbacks: +2 pips.
• Fop: +4 pips.
• Gambler: +4 pips.
• Greedy: +2 pips.
• Hateful: +4 pips.
• Haunted: The character is plagued by a ghost. This is a difficult power detriment. This applies a pip to the detriment.
• Honor-Bound: +4 pips.
• Hunted: +4 pips.
• Insanity: +2 pips.
• Jealous: +4 pips.
• Loyal: +4 pips.
• Lustful: +4 pips.
• Minor Curse: The character has incurred a minor curse: bad luck, clumsiness, etc. This is a difficult power detriment. This applies a pip to the detriment.
• Moody: +4 pips.
• Night Blindness: +4 pips.
• Obese: +4 pips.
• Obsessed: +2 pips.
• Overly Sensitive: +4 pips.
• Personal Signature: +4 pips.
• Phobia: +4 pips.
• Prison: 4d10 years.
• Rage: +4 pips.
• Rash: +4 pips.
• Rebellious: +4 pips.
• Scarred: +4 pips.
• Sensory Detriment: +4 pips.
• Susceptible to a Specific Power: +2 pips.
• Taciturn: +4 pips.
• Tainted: The character bears the spiritual stain of contact with true evil. The character will tend to act in an evil manner. This is a difficult power detriment. This applies a pip to the detriment.
• Unattractive: +4 pips.
• Vilified: +2 pips.
• Vindictive: +4 pips.
• Weak-willed: +4 pips.
• Any combination of lesser point items leading up to four.

5 Point Adventures

• Afflicted: +5 pips.
• Bad Memory: +5 pips.
• Bereaved: +5 pips.
• Black Sheep: +5 pips.
• Bounty: 2d100 coins will be received if the character is captured and brought to the law or whatever other group is after the character, or half that if the character is killed. The GM will secretly determine if anyone will attempt to collect on a bounty during the game session. This is a basic detriment. This applies a pip to the detriment.
• Bounty: +5 pips (d10 coins).
• Clumsy: +5 pips.
• Compassionate: +5 pips.
• Deep Sleeper: +5 pips.
• Disfigured: +5 pips.
• Duty-Bound: +5 pips.
• Easy-Sleeper: +5 pips.
• Fop: +5 pips.
• Gambler: +5 pips.
• Hateful: +5 pips.
• Honor-Bound: +5 pips.
• Hunted: +5 pips.
• Jealous: +5 pips.
• Loyal: +5 pips.
• Lustful: +5 pips.
• Moody: +5 pips.
• Night Blindness: +5 pips.
• Obese: +5 pips.
• Overly Sensitive: +5 pips.
• Personal Signature: +5 pips.
• Phobia: +5 pips.
• Political Enemy: the character has gained an enemy with political power. The GM will secretly determine if anyone will attempt to interfere with the character during the game session.
• Rage: +5 pips.
• Rash: +5 pips.
• Rebellious: +5 pips.
• Scarred: +5 pips.
• Sensory Detriment: +5 pips.
• Taciturn: +5 pips.
• Unattractive: +5 pips.
• Vindictive: +5 pips.
• Weak-willed: +5 pips.
• Any combination of lesser point items leading up to five.

6 Point Adventures

• Addiction: +2 pips.
• Afflicted: +6 pips.
• Allergy: +3 pips.
• Bad Memory: +6 pips.
• Bereaved: +6 pips.
• Black Sheep: +6 pips.
• Bounty: 4d100 coins will be received if the character is captured and brought to the law or whatever other group is after the character, or half that if the character is killed. The GM will secretly determine if anyone will attempt to collect on a bounty during the game session. This is a basic detriment. This applies a pip to the detriment.
• Bounty: +2 pips (6d10 coins).
• Bounty: +3 pips (3d10 coins).
• Bounty: +6 pips (d10 coins).
• Clumsy: +6 pips.
• Compassionate: +6 pips.
• Coward: +2 pips.
• Deep Sleeper: +6 pips.
• Dependent: +6 pips.
• Disfigured: +6 pips.
• Distrusted: +3 pips.
• Duty-Bound: +6 pips.
• Easy-Sleeper: +6 pips.
• Feared by Animals: +3 pips.
• Flashbacks: +3 pips.
• Fop: +6 pips.
• Gambler: +6 pips.
• Greedy: +3 pips.
• Hateful: +6 pips.
• Honor-Bound: +6 pips.
• Hunted: +6 pips.
• Insanity: +3 pips.
• Jealous: +6 pips.
• Loyal: +6 pips.
• Lustful: +6 pips.
• Magical Enemy: The character has gained an enemy with magical power. This is an extreme detriment.
• Moody: +6 pips.
• Night Blindness: +6 pips.
• Obese: +6 pips.
• Obsessed: +3 pips.
• Outlawed: +2 pips.
• Overly Sensitive: +6 pips.
• Personal Curse: The character has acquired a major curse. This is an extreme power detriment. This applies a pip to the detriment.
• Personal Signature: +6 pips.
• Phobia: +6 pips.
• Rage: +6 pips.
• Rash: +6 pips.
• Rebellious: +6 pips.
• Scarred: +6 pips.
• Sensory Detriment: +6 pips.
• Susceptible to a Specific Power: +3 pips.
• Taciturn: +6 pips.
• Unattractive: +6 pips.
• Vilified: +3 pips.
• Vindictive: +6 pips.
• Weak-willed: +6 pips.
• Any combination of lesser point items leading up to six.

7 Point Adventures

• Afflicted: +7 pips.
• Bad Memory: +7 pips.
• Bereaved: +7 pips.
• Black Sheep: +7 pips.
• Bounty: 6d100 coins will be received if the character is captured and brought to the law or whatever other group is after the character, or half that if the character is killed. The GM will secretly determine if anyone will attempt to collect on a bounty during the game session. This is a basic detriment. This applies a pip to the detriment.
• Bounty: +7 pips (d10 coins).
• Clumsy: +7 pips.
• Compassionate: +7 pips.
• Deep Sleeper: +7 pips.
• Disfigured: +7 pips.
• Duty-Bound: +7 pips.
• Easy-Sleeper: +7 pips.
• Family Curse: the actions of the character have caused a curse of major proportions to be leveled against the character's entire family. Gain the Personal Curse detriment and Black Sheep.
• Fop: +7 pips.
• Gambler: +7 pips.
• Hateful: +7 pips.
• Honor-Bound: +7 pips.
• Hunted: +7 pips.
• Jealous: +7 pips.
• Loyal: +7 pips.
• Lustful: +7 pips.
• Moody: +7 pips.
• Night Blindness: +7 pips.
• Obese: +7 pips.
• Overly Sensitive: +7 pips.
• Personal Signature: +7 pips.
• Phobia: +7 pips.
• Rage: +7 pips.
• Rash: +7 pips.
• Rebellious: +7 pips.
• Scarred: +7 pips.
• Sensory Detriment: +7 pips.
• Supernatural Enemy: the character has gained a supernatural being as an enemy.
• Taciturn: +7 pips.
• Unattractive: +7 pips.
• Vindictive: +7 pips.
• Weak-willed: +7 pips.
• Any combination of lesser point items leading up to seven.

8 Point Adventures

• Afflicted: +8 pips.
• Allergy: +4 pips.
• Bad Memory: +8 pips.
• Bereaved: +8 pips.
• Black Sheep: +8 pips.
• Bounty: 10d100 coins will be received if the character is captured and brought to the law or whatever other group is after the character, or half that if the character is killed. The GM will secretly determine if anyone will attempt to collect on a bounty during the game session. This is a basic detriment. This applies a pip to the detriment.
• Bounty: +4 pips (3d10 coins)
• Bounty: +8 pips (d10 coins).
• Clumsy: +8 pips.
• Compassionate: +8 pips.
• Deep Sleeper: +8 pips.
• Dependent: +8 pips.
• Disfigured: +8 pips.
• Distrusted: +4 pips.
• Duty-Bound: +8 pips.
• Easy-Sleeper: +8 pips.
• Feared by Animals: +4 pips.
• Flashbacks: +4 pips.
• Fop: +8 pips.
• Gambler: +8 pips.
• Greedy: +4 pips.
• Habitation Curse: a major curse is placed upon the dwelling place (homestead, village, town, etc.) of the character. This is an extreme power detriment. This applies a pip to the detriment.
• Hateful: +8 pips.
• Haunted: +2 pips.
• Honor-Bound: +8 pips.
• Hunted: +8 pips.
• Insanity: +4 pips.
• Jealous: +8 pips.
• Loyal: +8 pips.
• Lustful: +8 pips.
• Minor Curse: +2.
• Moody: +8 pips.
• Night Blindness: +8 pips.
• Obese: +8 pips.
• Obsessed: +4 pips.
• Overly Sensitive: +8 pips.
• Personal Signature: +8 pips.
• Phobia: +8 pips.
• Rage: +8 pips.
• Rash: +8 pips.
• Rebellious: +8 pips.
• Scarred: +8 pips.
• Sensory Detriment: +8 pips.
• Susceptible to a Specific Power: +8 pips.
• Taciturn: +8 pips.
• Tainted: +2 pips.
• Unattractive: +8 pips.
• Undead Enemy: The character has gained an enemy who has returned from the dead in some way (see the section on creatures for guidelines on the creation of undead). The GM will secretly determine if the enemy will attempt to interfere with the character during the game session.
• Vilified: +4 pips.
• Vindictive: +8 pips.
• Weak-willed: +8 pips.
• Any combination of lesser point items leading up to eight.

9 Point Adventures

• Addiction: +3 pips.
• Afflicted: +9 pips.
• Bad Memory: +9 pips.
• Bereaved: +9 pips.
• Black Sheep: +9 pips.
• Bounty: 10d100 x 2 coins will be received if the character is captured and brought to the law or whatever other group is after the character, half if the character is killed. The GM will secretly determine if anyone will attempt to collect on a bounty during the game session. This is a basic detriment. This applies a pip to the detriment.
• Bounty: +9 pips (d10 coins).
• Clumsy: +9 pips.
• Compassionate: +9 pips.
• Coward: +3 pips.
• Deep Sleeper: +9 pips.
• Disfigured: +9 pips.
• Duty-Bound: +9 pips.
• Easy-Sleeper: +9 pips.
• Fop: +9 pips.
• Gambler: +9 pips.
• Hateful: +9 pips.
• Honor-Bound: +9 pips.
• Hunted: +9 pips.
• Jealous: +9 pips.
• Loyal: +9 pips.
• Lustful: +9 pips.
• Moody: +9 pips.
• Night Blindness: +9 pips.
• Obese: +9 pips.
• Outlawed: +3 pips.
• Overly Sensitive: +9 pips.
• Personal Signature: +9 pips.
• Phobia: +9 pips.
• Rage: +9 pips.
• Rash: +9 pips.
• Rebellious: +9 pips.
• Regional Curse: the character's land (but not the entire nation) has received a curse due to the character's actions. This must be very subtle since it effects everyone from the region. This is an extreme power detriment. This applies one pip to the detriment.
• Scarred: +9 pips.
• Sensory Detriment: +9 pips.
• Spirit Enemy: The character has gained an enemy who is a spiritual being (see the section on the creatures for the development of spiritual beings). The GM will secretly determine if the enemy will attempt to interfere with the character during the game session.
• Taciturn: +9 pips.
• Unattractive: +9 pips.
• Vindictive: +9 pips.
• Weak-willed: +9 pips.
• Any combination of lesser point items leading up to nine.

10 Point Adventures

• Afflicted: +10 pips.
• Bad Memory: +10 pips.
• Bereaved: +10 pips.
• Black Sheep: +10 pips.
• Bounty: A magic item will be received if the character is captured or killed. The GM will secretly determine if anyone will attempt to collect on a bounty during the game session. This is a basic detriment. This applies a pip to the detriment.
• Bounty: +2 pips (2d100 coins)
• Bounty: +10 pips (d10 coins).
• Clumsy: +10 pips.
• Compassionate: +10 pips.
• Deep Sleeper: +10 pips.
• Disfigured: +10 pips.
• Duty-Bound: +10 pips.
• Easy-Sleeper: +10 pips.
• Fop: +10 pips.
• Gambler: +10 pips.
• Hateful: +10 pips.
• Honor-Bound: +10 pips.
• Hunted: +10 pips.
• Jealous: +10 pips.
• Loyal: +10 pips.
• Lustful: +10 pips.
• Moody: +10 pips.
• National Curse: The character's entire nation is effected by a curse. This must be very subtle since it effects everyone from the nation; it may influence their performance in a war, for example. This is an extreme power detriment. This applies one pip to the detriment.
• Night Blindness: +10 pips.
• Obese: +10 pips.
• Overly Sensitive: +10 pips.
• Personal Signature: +10 pips.
• Phobia: +10 pips.
• Rage: +10 pips.
• Rash: +10 pips.
• Rebellious: +10 pips.
• Scarred: +10 pips.
• Sensory Detriment: +10 pips.
• Taciturn: +10 pips.
• Unattractive: +10 pips.
• Vindictive: +10 pips.
• Weak-willed: +10 pips.
• Any combination of lesser point items leading up to ten.

If there are conditions that you can think of that are no on the list, feel free to develop them according to Skill Building or Power Building and ask the GM about them.

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