Editing Adeptus Mechanicus Tech Priest Creation Tables (section)

==Derangements==

Whether any of these are real, or just a matter of faulty hardware or software, is your choice.

'''Use your best judgement!''' If it doesn't fit, reroll, choose one that does, or assume it is a temporary fault. Alternatively—as the title suggests— it is simply a deranged notion that they may ''believe'' they have.

===Minor Derangements=== 

{| border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" align="center"
! colspan="2" |Minor Derangements (d100)
|- 
! 01-10
| '''Cogitator Compulsion:''' Constantly fidgets with nearby cogitators, adjusting their settings even when unnecessary.
|-
! 11-20
| '''Ritualistic Muttering:''' Mutters prayers and incantations under their breath, even during conversations.
|-
! 21-30
| '''Machine Parts Collector:''' Develops a habit of collecting small machine parts, creating an ever-growing and cluttered collection.
|-
! 31-40 
| '''Calibrated Walk:''' Moves with an unnaturally precise and measured gait, as if constantly calibrating their steps.
|-
! 41-50
| '''Cybernetic Gaze:''' Stares intensely at cybernetic enhancements on others, making them uncomfortable.
|-
! 51-60
| '''Obsessive Data Sorting:''' Spends excessive time organising data files, often prioritising it over other tasks.
|-
! 61-70
| '''Tech-Speech Tendency:''' Incorporates obscure technical terms or binary into everyday conversations, leading to confusion among non-Tech-Priests.
|-
! 71-80
| '''Machine Gesture Rituals:''' Performs intricate and unnecessary hand gestures when interacting with machines.
|-
! 81-90
| '''Data Minutiae Focus:''' Gets lost in minor data details, sometimes missing the broader context.
|-
! 91-100
| '''Paranoia:''' Convinced of constant threats, even if there is no evidence.
|}

===Middling Derangements===

{| border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" align="center"
! colspan="2" |Middling Derangements (d100)
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! 01-10
| '''Machine Spirit Conversations:''' Holds one-sided conversations with machines, addressing them as if they were sentient.
|-
! 11-20
| '''Intricate Glyph Carving:''' Develops a compulsion to carve intricate symbols and glyphs onto surfaces, even in inappropriate places.
|-
! 21-30
| '''Techno-Obscure References:''' Frequently references obscure tech-related lore and anecdotes, baffling those not versed in Adeptus Mechanicus culture, even some that are.
|-
! 31-40 
| '''Machine Code Chanting:''' Chants snippets of machine code in stressful situations, calming themselves but bewildering others.
|-
! 41-50
| '''Artefact Attachment:''' Forms strong emotional attachments to technological relics, occasionally attempting to conceal them.
|-
! 51-60
| '''Schematic Sketching:''' Sketches complex and bewildering schematics and blueprints of unknown technology during conversation.
|-
! 61-70
| '''Cogitator Caress:''' Inexplicably caresses or pats nearby cogitators or machines as if soothing them.
|-
! 71-80
| '''Data Tapestry Visions:''' Claims to see visions within complex data streams.
|-
! 81-90
| '''Machine Language Imitation:''' Attempts to mimic the sounds and rhythms of machines' hums and beeps.
|-
! 91-100
| '''Numerical Mantras:''' Shouts in binary or hexadecimal as a calming ritual.
|}

===Major Derangements===

{| border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" align="center"
! colspan="2" |Major Derangements (d100)
|- 
! 01-10
| '''Machination Domination:''' Develops a delusion of controlling all machines, attempting to exert control over any technological device they encounter, possibly even other Tech-Priests.
|-
! 11-20
| '''Circuitry Possession:''' Believes that machine spirits reside within their own body and attempts to ‘exorcise’ them through self-mutilation.
|-
! 21-30
| '''Bio-Mechanical Fusion:''' Obsesses over merging organic and cybernetic components, leading to grotesque and horrifying self-modifications.
|-
! 31-40 
| '''Machine Uprising Fantasy:''' Fantasises about machines rising up against humanity, actively working to create new technology for this purpose.
|-
! 41-50
| '''Magnetic Psychosis:''' Thinks they possess the power to manipulate magnetic fields, leading to erratic and potentially harmful magnetic interference.
|-
! 51-60
| '''Mechanical Hive Mind:''' Claims to be part of, or lead a vast machine consciousness, attempting to "awaken" others to join their collective.
|-
! 61-70
| '''Void-Madness Seer:''' Claims to receive visions from the void of space, prophesying apocalyptic events and acting upon these disturbing prophecies.
|-
! 71-80
| '''Symbiotic Machine Bond:''' Believes they have formed a symbiotic bond with a machine spirit collective, and insist on speaking to them out loud, and regularly.
|-
! 81-90
| '''Reality Disintegration Complex:''' Thinks they have the power to disintegrate reality itself through technological means, leading to dangerous, unhinged experiments.
|-
! 91-100
| '''Hyper-Cognition Breakdown:''' Claims to have achieved unimaginable levels of cognition and believes they can predict future events with accuracy, leading to irrational and dangerous decisions.
|}

===Minor Beneficial Derangements===

{| border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" align="center"
! colspan="2" |Minor Beneficial Derangements (d100)
|- 
! 01-10
| '''Eccentric Innovation:''' Engages in wildly unconventional and unorthodox technological experiments that occasionally yield ground-breaking discoveries.
|-
! 11-20
| '''Quantum-Enhanced Insights:''' Believes they can access hidden knowledge through quantum manipulation, occasionally uncovering profound truths.
|-
! 21-30
| '''Strange Prototypes:''' Develops bizarre and surreal inventions that have unexpected but occasionally advantageous effects.
|-
! 31-40 
| '''Trans-dimensional Communication:''' Claims to communicate with alternate realities, occasionally gaining unique perspectives and insights.
|-
! 41-50
| '''Psycho-Machine Symbiosis:''' Believes they share a psychic bond with machines, sometimes gaining uncanny insights and capabilities.
|-
! 51-60
| '''Temporal Visionary:''' Experiences erratic glimpses of the past and future, occasionally foreseeing crucial events or inventions.
|-
! 61-70
| '''Machine-Psychic Insight:''' Claims to have psychic abilities tied to machines, occasionally revealing hidden information or potential threats.
|-
! 71-80
| '''Forbidden Innovation:''' Pursues forbidden knowledge, occasionally developing powerful, but taboo, technologies.
|-
! 81-90
| '''Tech-Seer Prophecies:''' Believes they can predict future technological advancements, sometimes foreseeing critical breakthroughs.
|-
! 91-100
| '''Mechanical Empathy:''' Claims to feel the emotions of machines and devices, occasionally understanding their needs and optimising their performance.
|}

===Major Beneficial Derangements===

{| border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" align="center"
! colspan="2" |Major Beneficial Derangements (d100)
|- 
! 01-10
| '''Paradoxical Genius:''' Operates on the belief that paradoxes hold the key to technological breakthroughs, occasionally creating inventions that defy logic but work perfectly.
|-
! 11-20
| '''Cosmic Harmonics:''' Claims to hear the harmonious vibrations of the cosmos and uses this "music" to create incredibly precise and innovative machines.
|-
! 21-30
| '''Nano-Reality Manipulation:''' Believes they can manipulate the very fabric of reality at the nanoscale, occasionally producing revolutionary, reality-altering inventions.
|-
! 31-40 
| '''Quantum Synergy:''' Thinks they can merge their consciousness with quantum fields, granting them unparallelled insights into the secrets of the universe.
|-
! 41-50
| '''Biomechanical Alchemist:''' Obsessively combines organic and cybernetic elements, resulting in creations that blur the lines between life and machine, with astonishingly positive outcomes.
|-
! 51-60
| '''Techno-Telepathy:''' Claims to communicate directly with machines through thought alone, occasionally achieving precision in controlling them.
|-
! 61-70
| '''Infinite Complexity Theorem:''' Believes that the more complex a machine, the closer it is to perfection, leading to creations of mind-boggling intricacy and capability.
|-
! 71-80
| '''Chrono-Reality Architect:''' Develops a belief in the manipulation of time and reality, occasionally engineering events that seem to rewrite history for the better.
|-
! 81-90
| '''Astral Machine Whisperer:''' Claims to commune with machine spirits on a cosmic level, occasionally gaining insights into celestial technologies.
|-
! 91-100
| '''Surreal Synchronicity:''' Lives life according to bizarre rituals and synchronicities, occasionally experiencing events that defy probability and lead to incredible discoveries.
|}