Power Degeneration: Difference between revisions

* [[Warhammer 40,000|Psykers]] get a double-shot of awfulness: not only does the act of using their powers leave the potential of letting a [[Our Demons Are Different|Warp daemon]] take over their body and open a Warp Rift with their mind, but many of the granted abilities take a severe toll on the body, leaving them exhausted, injured through strain and sometimes dead from the brain [[Your Head Asplode|literally tearing itself apart]]. How to avoid this and still be a functioning psyhic? Heavy [[Cybernetics Eat Your Soul|cybernetic augmentation]], or "soul binding" which tends to do things like [[Eye Scream|pop your eyeballs]] and kill all your emotions. All things considered though, this is a small price to pay to potentially be an incredibly powerful being in an [[Crapsack World|unbelievably brutal an unforgiving galaxy]].

* A relatively obscure alternate form of spellcasting in ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]] 3.5'' called chaos casting has this as a caveat : instead of using a spell slot system with a limited selection of spells, chaos casting allows the caster to create every spell on the fly and [[Cast From Hit Points|casting deals nonlethal damage that can only be healed by a full night rest to the caster.]] Except every spell requires a Spellcraft check to succeed (difficulty depending on the level of the spell created), and failing has a chance to apply a permanent negative effect to the caster who either [[Sanity Slippage|slowly goes insane]] or [[Body Horror|suffers awful physical transformations]]. Too many failures lead to [[Deader Than Dead|permanent, irreversible death.]]

 

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