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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 268682" data-attributes="member: 2205">A few points:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">No, the Wheel of Time RPG does not have Sanity points per se.  However, if you've read the books, you know that all male channellers are doomed to eventually go insane.  There is a "Secret stat" that only the GMs know called your madness rating, which is initially simply a 1d6 score.  Overchannelling adds 1 point to that, and every time the character gains a level, he gains an addition 1d6.  There is a little chart that gives ratings in 15 point increments with trigger conditions that cause a symptom of the madness to manifest itself for a certain amount of time.  They're really pretty nasty symptoms, too.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool    :cool:"  data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" />  There is a feat that can be taken multiple times that reduces your score by 20.  It's a workable enough system for what you want, but is designed for a much more gradual progression into madness than Cthulhoid magic.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">KK, you should start a story hour with you Harn d20 conversion.  I'd be interested in seeing how it runs.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">I've also posted some rules based very loosely on the Cthulhoid system, although it's a bit more forgiving than the Cthulhu system, it still makes magic much more rare and dangerous than standard D&D does.  Check them out (with commentary <a href="http://enworld.cyberstreet.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=18263" target="_blank">right here.</a></li> </ul></blockquote>

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