The Maddening Conclusion

[the_gneech]

Thanks, everyone, for the interesting ideas and discussion yesterday — it was very helpful!

What I've finally decided to go with, is a combination of the "Sanity as Skill Check" and "Classic OGL (CoC-style) Sanity" models. Sanity will still be tracked as a 1-100 value, but the actual sanity check will follow the d20 "roll over" model. The character sheet will have a "sanity table" to make these values easy to track, something like this:



I'm still looking at ways to integrate sanity with the SWSE condition track; I'm thinking that perhaps blowing a SAN check by more than your Sanity Threshold will move you down -1 step on the condition track. Losing more SAN than your Sanity Threshold, besides putting you in danger of temporary insanity, will also move you down -1 step on the condition track.

Thanks again for the help! Even suggestions that I ended up not using, were a big help in sorting out my thoughts.

-The Gneech

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When you gain a rank in Knowledge (Mythos), your maximum SAN goes down by 5 points. Thus, if you have 6 ranks in Knowledge (Mythos), your maximum SAN becomes 70. Learning the dread secrets of reality does irrevocable damage to your mind!

-The Gneech