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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Obryn" data-source="post: 4553314" data-attributes="member: 11821">I ran a long-lasting CoC d20 campaign.  I think Monte did a great job with the system.  It was familiar enough to my players that it just disappeared and we played the game, and familiar enough to me that I could more or less ignore it when I was creating opposition.It's a little weird to have a level-based CoC, but even characters with high HPs are very fragile, by RAW.  Monte set the Massive Damage Threshhold at 10, so characters need to make a DC 15 Fort save after taking most any hit.I know this will sound strange, but since I was running a campaign rather than a one-shot, I didn't want the PCs to be enormously fragile.  If characters are dying every single session, it's tough to establish continuity and get the players to care about their PCs.  So, I added the VP/WP system to it for hit points, applied WP damage pretty liberally whenever I felt like it.  As a consequence, I removed the massive damage save.  (Mythos creatures just used HPs and never had to worry about either wound points or massive damage.  Not fair, I know. <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=":)" />)  This had a few great results...  First, it decreased character fragility, while still keeping combat very scary.  Second, WP damage can stun a character, making hits kind of harsh.  Third, it takes a long time to heal WP damage...  I thought this was very dramatically appropriate.So yeah, I have nothing but good things to say about CoC d20.  It's a very useful sourcebook for most every time period.-O</blockquote>

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