Cthulhu Points Pool Question

[Rhewtani]

I got to play in a pickup game of old-style Cthulhu 2 weekends ago. It was a d100 based system, as far as I could tell. There was also a pool of points that players could pull from when they failed at a non-sanity based roll. If someone needed a 65 or less and they rolled a 75, they could spend 10 points to get back to a 65.

Is this normal for that system? How is the size of the pool of points determined?

 

[Exquisite Dead Guy]

I haven't played CoC in a few years, but I'd guess that is a house rule of some sort.

 

[freebfrost]

That's a house rule.

The basic rules are not nearly so nice to investigators...

 

[trancejeremy]

Yeah, that's definitely new to me. But there are like 6 versions of CoC. I'm only familiar with maybe half of them.

 

[The Red Priest]

House rule.

What is it with DMs/GMs/Keepers these days and their reluctance to allow anything bad to happen to characters? Sheesh. It's a pandemic.

 

[Terwox]

House rule, for sure.

And yeah... that's a very un-Cthulhu rule, in my opinion.