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<blockquote data-quote="Aaron L" data-source="post: 7761220" data-attributes="member: 926"><p>I am looking forward to the 5E version of this so much I can barely contain my enthusiasm.</p><p></p><p>My only hope is that the mechanics for reading <em>"Eldritch Tomes"</em> and the like are handled differently than they are in <em>Call of Cthulhu</em>. The idea simply that reading books like the <em>Necronomicon</em> causes instant damage to one's psyche is just dumb and doesn't at all mesh with Lovecraft's writing, and in my opinion is the single worst idea that has <em>CoC</em> introduced to the wider lore of the Cthulhu Mythos. In Lovecraft's actual stories virtually all of the learned antiquarian and academic protagonists were at least familiar with the "Cthulhu cycle" of myths and several of them had even read the <em>Necronomicon</em>, <em>De Vermis Mysteriis</em>, the <em>Book of Eibon</em>, and the like without it leaving them gibbering wrecks afterwards... because they were reading crazy old tomes of mythology written by ancient madmen. It wasn't until they encountered entities from those books in the real world that their sanity started to crack, because they were being presented not just with horrible monsters that shouldn't exist in reality, but with incontrovertible physical evidence that the crazy ancient mythology they had read about (or at least part of it) was <em>actually true</em>, and the horrible, Evil ancient cults were still active, and it shook the foundations of their entire understanding of the universe. <em>That</em> was what caused damage to their sanity, not just reading the books. So maybe reading more Mythos tomes <em>after</em> actually encountering a Mythos entity in real life would cause sanity damage because you're finding out more awful things that could be true, but not just from reading them at all.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Aaron L, post: 7761220, member: 926"] I am looking forward to the 5E version of this so much I can barely contain my enthusiasm. My only hope is that the mechanics for reading [I]"Eldritch Tomes"[/I] and the like are handled differently than they are in [I]Call of Cthulhu[/I]. The idea simply that reading books like the [I]Necronomicon[/I] causes instant damage to one's psyche is just dumb and doesn't at all mesh with Lovecraft's writing, and in my opinion is the single worst idea that has [I]CoC[/I] introduced to the wider lore of the Cthulhu Mythos. In Lovecraft's actual stories virtually all of the learned antiquarian and academic protagonists were at least familiar with the "Cthulhu cycle" of myths and several of them had even read the [I]Necronomicon[/I], [I]De Vermis Mysteriis[/I], the [I]Book of Eibon[/I], and the like without it leaving them gibbering wrecks afterwards... because they were reading crazy old tomes of mythology written by ancient madmen. It wasn't until they encountered entities from those books in the real world that their sanity started to crack, because they were being presented not just with horrible monsters that shouldn't exist in reality, but with incontrovertible physical evidence that the crazy ancient mythology they had read about (or at least part of it) was [I]actually true[/I], and the horrible, Evil ancient cults were still active, and it shook the foundations of their entire understanding of the universe. [I]That[/I] was what caused damage to their sanity, not just reading the books. So maybe reading more Mythos tomes [I]after[/I] actually encountering a Mythos entity in real life would cause sanity damage because you're finding out more awful things that could be true, but not just from reading them at all. [/QUOTE]
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