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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mordacius" data-source="post: 3316001" data-attributes="member: 49416">Anybody here ever seen Unknown Armies?  It had a sanity system that handled this whole thing way better than CoC.You had multiple tracks for different sorts of stressful stimulation, like Isolation, Self, Violence, Unnatural and...one more I'm not remembering at this late hour.  You could gain levels of Hardened and Failure on each track, at the same time.Hardening represented, well, becoming hardened to a particular type of situation.  If something was not sanity rending enough to get past your Hardening, you didn't have to roll a check for it at all.Prior Failures on your sanity track meant that when you did fail a check, it'd get progressively worse.  Failures could be cured by therapy, but I think Hardening got in the way.  So, your typical man on the street would probably have Violence: Hardened 0 / Failed 0, and so he'd have a chance of breakdown being held at gunpoint, but it wouldn't be too serious.  Heat of the moment reaction easily recovered from later.On the other hand, a professional soldier might have Violence: Hardened 3 / Failed 2.  He's had a couple of unresolved bad encounters, but he's also gotten used to weapons fire.  He won't lose his cool in the face of mere gunshots, but when someone blows his buddy's brains out next to him, he's going to snap.  Badly.Both guys might have 0/0 vs. Unnatural, and be just as susceptible to freaking out if a ghost manifested in front of them, and equally likely to shrug it off as hysteria afterwards.  Ditto for being trapped in a cave in, (Isolation), or finding out you've committed cannibalism, (Self).I have always wanted to use this system in another game, but I haven't had the chance to fool with it.  (I would've just used Unknown Armies whole - their magic system is at least as innovative as their sanity system - but it used percentile based skills, and I'm just not down with that.)After Edit:I realize that's getting a little off-topic, but I'm wondering if a system like that wouldn't help people that aren't happy with SAN points in general.  Don't really have anything to say about the whole "close your eyes" thing, except that I'd encourage it, because closing your eyes and going "la-la-la" in the face of a monster indicates you've already snapped, SAN or no SAN. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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