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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Old Fezziwig" data-source="post: 268511" data-attributes="member: 59">Sanity PointsBasically, if you see something horrific or overwhelming (in a cosmic sense), you make a sanity check (roll on d100, under your sanity, you pass; over, you fail).  In a normal CoC game, this could be anything from seeing your best friend shot to casting spells to seeing Cthulhu or Hastur.  You will always lose sanity points for failing a sanity check.  Sometimes you will lose sanity points even if you pass.  It all depends on what induces the check.  Losing sanity points equal to one-half your wisdom could induce temporary insanity, lasting for anywhere from 5 rounds to 4 days.  Losing 20% of your sanity points in 1 hour leads to indefinite insanity and mental disorders.Sanity points can be recovered, but it usually involves some sort of treatment or convalescence.  Also, you can become accustomed to bad things based on intervals of time passed between the sanity loss inducing event and recurrences of it.  Some things never will become second nature.  Oh, two more things — (1) at -10 Sanity, you become permanently insane.  Also, (2) at each level you gain 1d6 sanity.  You can never have more than 99 - Cthulhu mythos score in sanity points.That should cover it, I think.Best,tKL</blockquote>