types of various emotions and feelings (fatigue, anger)

[hengest]

I make this thread here because I may try to formulate some of this into tables or for use in some other form--i.e.--my preliminary house rules, etc. .  For now, it could go in a general discussion forum, but since it's unlikely to be of general interest, I'll put it here in the hopes that eventually, I'll make it coherent and usable. 

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Types of fatigue:

• Your mind is temporarily damaged by fatigue.  Your mind hit the wall before your body did.  Your personality is intact, you can do what you need to do to take care of yourself, speak, and so on, but complex mental tasks are very difficult.  You feel as if you are drowning when you try to execute them.   Spellcasting, tense negotiations, mapmaking, such things leave you "scrambling" and "gasping for breath" inside your mind.  You have trouble connecting pieces of the task.  (Hit to INT?  Or: INT capped? Or both.  INT over 12 capped at 12, 12 and under, at -3 until rest.)
• Your mind is intact but your body is exhausted.  You have pushed yourself beyond your limits, but not to the point of injury.  When you lie down, your mind is clear, if not particularly active, but your body feels like it is barely sustaining itself.  You are aware of little but your heart and lungs as they try to "catch up" to the physical tasks you have already completed.  You "borrowed ahead too much" and now it would take great effort to do anything but lie and breathe while your heart beats.  As long as you are still, however, you can think clearly.  (Hit to CON, as above?)
• Emotional exhaustion.  After a long period of stress and fear with no respite and no sense that you have any control over events or your part in them, you may reach this state.  Perhaps this is not a state for PCs.  Prisoners, victims of abuse, as well as adventurers who have touched something truly terrible for a long time without opportunity to recover, may enter this state.  A person in such a state may be physically and intellectually more or less well, but may respond strangely to situations, refusing to act in accordance with (previously held) moral principles.  As above, it takes great effort of will to "push through" this kind of exhaustion, perhaps even more, as this exhaustion affects the will more or less directly. (WIS affected, as above.)

If mechanical effects used, this straddles the line between crunch and fluff.  Maybe what this means is: in my design, I should think about creating an environment where players take seriously the effects that the ref tells them about, rather than double-dipping (here's a mechnical hit I'm imposing, AND the players are expected to take it seriously.)

[hengest]

Types of anger:

• Righteous "self"-defense.  Felt when one feels that one's primary belief is being threatened.  Not seen so much in apparent fanatics, as in people who feel (perhaps without knowing it) that principle X must not be violated, and if it is violated or threatened (physically, morally, conceptually), there may be an explosion or a hidden explosion (physical expression of rage, permanent deformation of emotion regarding the violator).  
• Misplaced anger.  More or less self-explanatory.  Unlikely to come up in the prototypical OS megadungeon.  But perhaps there is another flavor to this setting and ruleset...
• Fear-biting.  Backed into a corner, last man standing, comrades are down, and you are next.  (Hit to INT and WIS, bonus to STR?  Or bonus to whatever is likely to aid survival?  STR for a brawl, INT for a cornered wizard...)

[The Perilous Dreamer]

Reading this again, the fear-biting(although different) made me think of the berserker vikings chewing on their shields before battle.

[hengest]

After several long marches and taking two watches the past few nights, you feel so drained and tired that your hands seem to be crackling as you move them. The weariness is concentrated above your eyes and has tendrils that reach down into your torso and limbs, a spindly network of resentment and pain. -1 INT, -1 CHA, -1 DEX

[The Perilous Dreamer]

Another great thread hengest!

[hengest]

Your natural defensive feeling seems off. Instead of focusing on the opponent charging you, you feel a welling up of anger at the space beside him, almost as if he is your friend trying to slam or stab you away from that terrible space. A part of you knows your anger is misdirected, but you attack anyway, feeling a bloodlust for nothing.

[hengest]

You feel so tired, beyond tired, that although you can stand and perform basic tasks, it seems there is no strength inside you to resist anything. Your bones feel empty and brittle inside your limbs and your heart feels very far away inside your chest (-3 to STR in combat and doing any task that requires straining, -3 to INT).