You have a habit for working yourself to the bone, doing everything you can to stay awake and avoid exhaustion to further your lofty goals.
Sleepwalking, fits of mania, and nervous outbursts are no stranger to you. Hallucinations of failed experiments haunt you like personal demons, but these symptoms cannot stop you from achieving greatness... or can they?
This lifestyle has caused you to have a slight disposition for paranoia, but you can't quite tell if it's warranted or if you're slowly losing it.
You gain an "anxiety dice," (D10) Rolling this dice is usually in high tension situations, typically if someone insinuates your intelligence is lower than you advertise, or during roleplaying, completely up to you how'd you like to flavour it, or even at the GM's call during high stakes situations. The sky is the limit! Or rather, the limit is how much stress your rising blood pressure and heart beat can take!
Outcomes:
Rolling a 1-3: Your chest tightens, as you begin to hyperventilate, the feeling of anxiety beginning to overtake you, and shadowy figures begin to plague the peripherals of your vision. All your sleepless nights working are catching up to you, and you feel yourself losing bodily functions. (For one turn, if combat, your movement is halved, you gain a level of exhaustion, and you lose your bonus action. If occurs during roleplay, GM's discretion on how this may effect the player's outcome.)
Rolling a 4-6: You can feel yourself shaking ever so slightly, as your spine tickles with anxiety. Slight whispers and quiet laughter echo in your ears... but are they real?! Your vision gets spotty, but you steel yourself, reminding yourself that only geniuses have mental breaks, and you aren't a genius just yet... (During combat, you lose your bonus action to recover from this sensation. You have advantage on Wisom and Intelligence rolls, but disadvantage on Constitution rolls until the next short rest. If occurs during roleplay, GM's discretion on how this may effect the player's outcome.)
Rolling a 7-10: You feel a surge of adrenaline wash over you, and your stomach tumbles with anxiety, but the delirium of late nights spent burning the candle at both ends and too many substances in your body to keep you functioning make it hard for you to feel afraid or nervous. Now would be a great time to let out a mad scientist laugh, or a super cool science-y punchline...! Hope you've got the charisma for that. (If in combat, you regain a Level One spell slot, or gain a Heroic Inspiration. If occurs during roleplay, GM's discretion on how this may effect the player's outcome.)
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