Well my GM contacted us and has said we all need to pick out a phobia for our charter to have but nothing obscure and unlikely. So I need yalls help because I'm not sure what to pick.
I'm an Aasimar CLeric and my deity is Pharasma
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That's not something supported in the rules or anything. I don't really have advice for this other than flesh out your character and think of something that would realistically be afraid of. However, this mostly sounds like your GM is trying to find something to screw you over with...so I wouldn't be happy with it.
Maybe your fear could be being turned into undead or not being given death rites at death (which could leave to becoming undead). Pharasma being your deity, she hates undead. So I would think such a thing is reasonable.
Well, if your GM wants you to have a phobia, then it doesn't matter what you pick because he'll make sure you have to deal with it at least a few times.
Aquaphobic? You'll be forced to cross a river. Arachnophobic? Giant spiders everywhere! Claustrophobic? Definitely going to do some cave diving. Agoraphobic? Yeah, you will be stuck crossing an open desert with nothing but the sky and endless horizons. And so on.
So just pick whatever you want and enjoy it.
I had a character who was unnerved by and didn't trust small sized humanoids, such as gnomes and halflings. Despite his lawful good alignment and being a warrior himself, he was similarly unnerved around paladins.
Another character I played was afraid to verbally express his actual feelings about anyone or anything, unless it was something like his love of his mother, chocolate milk, power, or exotic dancers. He had to make everything seem to be much better or much worse than he actually felt about it.This made interacting with his party members tenuous, and they were constantly frustrated with him, though the good intent of his actions made him bearable.
I hope that your GM's intent with this is to further the groups' roleplaying, instead of it being a way to mess with you.
Your characters could all be terrified of your own success, or, more precisely, the fear of your failure if you don't succeed. I believe it is called Atychiphobia.
The fear of failure is so crippling that sufferers don't do anything that they know they cannot succeed at for sure.
I've actually been thinking about this myself. I think one of my characters will have motte phobia, or the fear of moths. It's more unique than having arachnophobia, but still common enough I think.
spiders. just take it in the Conan route and instead of quaking in fear, they drive you into a bloodrage until they are ground into a fine paste.
it happens without exception, from he biggest dire giant spider to the smallest, teensiest cob-spider. you will interrupt the king's speech to go screeching to the bannister with sword in hand to smite the crawly little things.
this makes for very awkward dinner parties, to say the least.
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I make my players notate their greatest fear when they create their character and update it if it changes. This has nothing to do with making them run in terror from some mundane or weak encounter, but rather so I know what to describe to them as seeing when a fear spell, phantasmal killer, etc is cast upon them. I applaud the players if they take this fear into consideration with their actions in adventures, but don't typically penalize for it. They are adventurers after all, and even Indiana Jones waded thru snakes, he just hated doing it.
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Fear of Success. Play him as being terrified of doing things well and succeeding in life. Then after every encounter that they win he curls into a ball that night dreading what comes next, afraid even more that he will just fail on an even larger scale. As the campaign expands this fear grows until he snaps at an opportune moment.
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Go esoteric... here is a nearly Complete List of Phobias
If your GM plans on using these against you all...consider:
Clinophobia-Fear of going to bed
That way you can freak out every night when its time for the party to camp. :)
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There actually ARE rules in Pathfinder for what a phobia does to you. They're in the Game Mastery Guide, under "sanity and madness" rules, along with Mania, Psychosis, Amnesia, and so forth.
Checking it out might give you a hint of what to pick, and how it might or might not be used against you.
Since you're a Cleric of Pharasma, fear of undead would be an interesting choice, but you'd struggle in any fight against them. At least Will is your good save!
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