Cost: Variable; can be resisted
Phobia is a mundane mental disadvantage where you are unreasonable, unreasoning, and morbidly afraid of a specific item, creature, or circumstance.
Examples[]
- Apocalypse (Millenniphobia): -5 points
- Being Alone (Autophobia): -15 points
- Being Buried Alive (Taphephobia): -10 points
- Blood (Hemophobia): -10 points.
- Cats (Ailurophobia): -5 points.
- Crowds (Demophobia): -15 points.
- Darkness (Scotophobia): -15 points.
- Death and the Dead (Necrophobia): -10 points.
- Dirt (Mysophobia): -10 points.
- Dogs (Cynophobia): -5 points.
- Enclosed Spaces (Claustrophobia): -15 points.
- Fire (Pyrophobia): -5 points
- Ghosts (Spectrophobia): -15 points if ghosts are common, -10 if they’re known but uncommon, -5 if they’re generally considered "imaginary".
- Government (Cratiphobia): -15 points in CR4+ societies, -10 in CR2-3 societies, -5 in CR0-1 societies
- Heights (Acrophobia): -10 points
- Hunger (Limouphobia): -10 points
- Infinity (Apeirophobia): -5 points
- Insects (Entomophobia): -10 points.
- Loud Noises (Brontophobia): -10 points.
- Machinery (Technophobia): -5 points at TL4 or below, -15 points at TL5 or above
- Madness (Dementophobia): -10 points
- Magic (Manaphobia): -15 points in a setting where magic is common, -10 if it is known but uncommon, -5 if “real” magic is essentially unknown.
- Monsters (Teratophobia): -15 points
- Mutilation (Traumatophobia): -10 points
- Number 13 (Triskaidekaphobia): -5 points.
- Oceans (Thalassophobia): -10 points.
- Open Spaces (Agoraphobia): -10 points
- Poisoning (Toxicophobia): -10 points
- Psionic Powers (Psionophobia) -15 points if psi powers are common, -10 if they are uncommon, -5 if they are essentially unknown
- Rats (Murophobia): -5 points
- Reptiles (Herpetophobia): -10 points.
- Sex (Coitophobia): -10 points
- Sharp Things (Aichmophobia): -15 points at TL5 or below, -10 at TL6 or above.
- Spiders (Arachnophobia): -5 points.
- Strange and Unknown Things (Xenophobia): -15 points.
- Sun (Heliophobia): -15 points.
- Weapons (Hoplophobia): -20 points
References[]
- GURPS Horror p. 25