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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dave2008" data-source="post: 8276995" data-attributes="member: 83242">They had marginally more HP and skills yes, but that made no difference in the face of cosmic horror.  It helped them investigate a bit better and maybe survive some cultist, but not the real cosmic level threats.  Heck, they would have been pretty useless vs a shoggoth if I had used one. The important part is that it played very different from standard fantasy 5e D&D. The players new any mistake could easily be death. They had to be cautious.Also, I noted in my post about the changes we made for this genre that we used the lingering injuries table which has long term disabilities. These ended up only affecting one PC in the penultimate battle in the swamp.  The PCs had enough time before the search for R'yleh so they let his broken leg (#3 on the table) heal before they left. However, I ruled he still had a limp (#4 on the table) which was a factor in him not getting away from the big C.I will note that the the character in HPL's story escaped Cthulhu, so he did better than my group!</blockquote>