Darkness & Dread

[Kemrain]

Good reviews. Just bought the book on Amazon. Thanks for the tips.

- Kemrain the Consumer.

 

[spider_minion]

spider_minion - your post made my day. Heck, my week! Glad your players liked the insanity rules.

I've just started reading Wildscape, and I'm really impressed. Keep up the good work!

 

[Asmor]

I should point out this thread I started when the book was first released. Mearls also added to the discussion there somewhat.

Thanks, that was very helpful!

 

[EditorBFG]

Fear/horror/madness/insanity has been done many times (even within d20): Ravenloft, CoC (WotC version), Unearthed Arcana--or is that Arcana Unearthed?, Grim tales, etc etc. Darkness & Dread offers the same. I haven't bothered to do a ~compare & contrast~ on the different rule sets for fear/madness, but they can't be all that much different from book to book I wouldn't think. Darkness & Dread also includes it's own set of fear/madness rules.

Another good set of insanity rules is in Bruce Baugh's Modern: Madness .pdf from Ronin Arts. Really well integrated with D20 (and yes, it's for D20 Modern, but converting it to D&D would require about 30 seconds of throught) and also pretty cheap.

Still, I prefer CoC's, but that's love for CoC in general talking.