CURSES

In PARIAH, powerful curses are represented by curse templates. Inspired by Emmy Allen’s sideways advancement trackers (particularly wendigo sickness and the wounded daughter) templates provide the opportunity to inflict a doom on a pariah over an extended period rather than removing them from the game immediately—providing the opportunity to remove the curse, or at least having some fun in the attempt. 

Each template enumerates a series of afflictions (which can be beneficial, baleful or both) in a table: conditions particular to each curse trigger a roll on this table. These afflictions may make it harder to resist triggers in the future, thus causing a kind of curse-death spiral: once all entries on the table are acquired, the pariah becomes an NPC/monster. 

This zini is optimised for the  revised PARIAH RPG.