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<blockquote data-quote="Jim Hague" data-source="post: 3316969" data-attributes="member: 17550">Thing is, SAN loss is as much comprehension as perception - you realize, through inescapable, mind-blasting Truth that everything you know and hold dear as a human being is wrong.&nbsp; And while looking away/not seeing might work for lower-end Mythos weirdness, Cthulhu (who's middle management at best) is as much a horrific psychic presence as a horrible monster.&nbsp; Sure, you escape that SAN loss...for now.&nbsp; But then, the dreams come...the ones where what you really got a dose of starts leaking in...Interestingly, in At Your Door, a Cthulhu Now campaign, they show that SAN loss is lowered by not directly percieving the Mythos - characters have an opportunity to observe Shub-Niggurath herself appearing via a (silent) video link to the summoning site.&nbsp; SAN loss is dropped down to something like 1d10/1d20.&nbsp; Huzzah for the inadequaces of human technology, eh?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jim Hague, post: 3316969, member: 17550"] Thing is, SAN loss is as much comprehension as perception - you realize, through inescapable, mind-blasting Truth that everything you know and hold dear as a human being is [i]wrong[/i]. And while looking away/not seeing might work for lower-end Mythos weirdness, Cthulhu (who's middle management at best) is as much a horrific psychic presence as a horrible monster. Sure, you escape that SAN loss...for now. But then, the dreams come...the ones where what you [i]really[/i] got a dose of starts leaking in... Interestingly, in [i]At Your Door[/i], a Cthulhu Now campaign, they show that SAN loss is lowered by not [i]directly[/i] percieving the Mythos - characters have an opportunity to observe Shub-Niggurath herself appearing via a (silent) video link to the summoning site. SAN loss is dropped down to something like 1d10/1d20. Huzzah for the inadequaces of human technology, eh? [/QUOTE]

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