Crazy Go Nuts

[The Grumpy Celt]

Where can I find some useful games rules for insanity?

 

[Chainsaw Mage]

Where can I find some useful games rules for insanity?

Let me be the first to say it: Unearthed Arcana has a fantastic section on sanity, which is basically taken verbatim from the d20 Call of Cthulhu game (which is acknowledge in the Unearthed Arcana section).

Mongoose's OGL Horror also has some nifty sanity variants...if you don't mind the horrid production values and the reams of typos and spelling errors.

 

[The Grumpy Celt]

...Unearthed Arcana...Mongoose's OGL Horror

Are either of these part of the open source material?

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

I'm pretty sure the UA stuff is OGC, but you still would need the book since it isn't in the SRD

 

[Krieg]

Are either of these part of the open source material?

The horror/maddness rules in Grim Tales, OGL Horror and Unearthed Arcana are ALL open content.

I've gone ahead and copied the contents of the duplicate thread below:

Originally posted by Dr. Awkward:
Unearthed Arcana's got some. Essentially the d20 Call of Cthulhu rules reprinted.


Originally posted by Krieg:
The following all have rules for insanity:
CoC D20/Unearthed Arcana
Grim Tales
OGL Horror


Originally posted by Aitch Eye:
I haven't read it, but there's the Book of Broken Dreams PDF.
http://www.rpgnow.com/product_info.php?products_id=157&


Originally posted by Cthulhu's Librarian:
As the others have said, CoC d20 or Grim Tales. Those are the ones I'd recommend.

Mostly the usual suspects, although Aitch Eye does has a new addition.

 

[Fieari]

The "Complete Guide to Sanity" contains the most comprehensive sanity rules I've ever seen. It can be found all over the place online, but just as an example here: http://www.fortunecity.com/rivendell/dark/750/netbooks/sanity.zip

I'm pretty sure it was written in the days of AD&D2e, but it's generic enough to fit into almost any system, really.

 

[The Grumpy Celt]

...are ALL open content.

But are they part of the SRD? Or are they posted anywhere? I fee like I might go insane looking for them.

 

[Krieg]

But are they part of the SRD?

No. Grim Tales & OGL Horror are both third party publications and to the best of my knoweledge WoTC hasn't added anything from UA to the SRD as of yet.

I don't know if any of the rulesets are currently available elsewhere online.

 

[Xath]

Wheel of Time RPG has rules for madness. That's a WotC product.

But when I saw the title of this thread, I kept thinking Crazy Go Nuts University. Five points for anyone who knows where that comes from.

 

[The Grumpy Celt]

Five points for anyone who knows where that comes from.

That would be the alma matar of Strongbad.

When I first posted this, I thought about adding a Homestar refrence but I changed my mind.