Multipe Madness Inflicted

[Harrowed Wizard]

I'm the GM and I have a Paladin of Sheyln that was afflicted with the Insanity Spell (CL 20), and the party does not have any of the requisite spells to get rid of the Insanity right away. Instead of just having the character be "confused" until the party can cure the Insanity, the player asked if we could use the Madness rules.

I randomly determined which ones he was afflicted with and they ended up being:

Amnesia
Mania/Phobia
Psychosis
and Multiple Personality Disorder.

My first big question is: Does the Will penalty from Amnesia and Multiple Personality Disorder stack? Off hand, I want to think so since the penalty is from two different sources and I have found nothing that states what penalty type they are.

Next question: If the party is able to get their hands on a Heal spell, would the alignment change from Psychosis revert back to original OR would the character still be Chaotic Evil?

[qaplawjw]

1) RAW, they should probably stack, if they are untyped penalties. If that seemed too harsh, I might go with just the larger one. I'm not too familiar with the madness rules, though.

2) If not constrained by a madness, changing their alignment back should be pretty easy, probably just an atonement spell for the class features. Not even that if they weren't a LG-only class.

Four madnesses, in general, looks a little excessive; did you randomly determine the number?

[Harrowed Wizard]

No, in the madness rules it states that if it is caused by the Insanity spell it is 1 madness per 5 Caster levels and this particular casting was with a CL 20.

[blahpers]

Alignment goes back, unless the paladin doesn't want it to, of course. Any misdeeds forced by the afflictions can be washed away with atonement, no costly materials required. Fun to roleplay, though!

[Harrowed Wizard]

I think I'm gonna go with the Atonement route (there is a Cleric in the party) once the Insanity is taken care of. I'm excited for this RP chance in the published material we are playing through (details in the spoiler)

Published Material:

We are playing through an AP. Read no further if you don't want to know the name

Reign of Winter. Read no further if you do not want Reign of Winter Spoilers.

The Paladin went into the Eon Pit to save the Ranger that rushed into the Eon Pit and had failed the Insanity and Aging effects. The Ranger died of old age, but the Paladin was able to survive the Aging effects, and slowly work his way down the Pit, get the dragon scale, and get it to the party (after the party knocked him out)