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Message: <blockquote data-quote="doctorbadwolf" data-source="post: 8276095" data-attributes="member: 6704184">That isn’t why they’re on my ignore list. They’re there because they were cos intently being needlessly aggro, disrespectful, and dismissive, while making bad faith accusations about my intentions.I am with you on both parts of this. The whole sanity thing doesn’t resonate. Reading the book makes you lose sanity? Really? Information?Exactly. Folks can say “5e can’t do that” all day, meanwhile some of us are just out here doing it.Or, you could realize that you’re not actually smarter than other people, and don’t know what they want better than they do, and stop talking down to anyone who disagrees with you.Pretty much. And because combat is more fun that way, for a lot of people.As someone who doesn’t even experience the Uncanny Valley, it’s pretty easy for me to imagine characters who witness non-Euclidean geometry and just get annoyed that they can’t map it like they’re used to, and otherwise roll with it.Which is part of why I like a lot of other cosmic horror more than I like HPL. Well that and he comes across as an easily terrified dingus who fears mixed-race people as much as he fear unnatural monsters.Exactly.Nothing about that is scary. The only scary thing about the mythos is the idea of malevolent beings that can’t be defeated, that I can’t protect my loved ones from. Well, and the idea of magic books that break your brain with magic, because that’s the only way I can take seriously the notion that I should be afraid of information. But all that aside, what this whole cosmic horror discussion illustrates is exactly what I’ve been saying. Skimming a request for advice and just dropping useless “don’t try it” advice is both unhelpful, and rude, because you don’t know their group, what they enjoy or get out of the thing they’re asking about, etc.</blockquote>

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