Phobias

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
Category:Mental disadvantages
Category:Mundane disadvantages