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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8278490" data-attributes="member: 18">I don't think "completely sane and rational" is necessarily accurate, and perhaps the point is, he would going to be regarded as insane, by making these claims/telling this story. It is also fair to say that it doesn't correspond well with a lot of other Mythos material where people go nuts or freak out when exposed to far, far lesser things. That dude must have been rolling nothing but 1s on the SAN damage dice!I agree that you don't have to be outright nuts to use magic, but you do have to be alienated from the reality most people know.This is misleading.None of these people survive repeated encounters with the Mythos, let alone violent encounters.There is precedent for people passing through Mythos, not really interacting with it, just witnessing it, and getting away "basically sane", but with a story no-one will ever believe (and that rejection will mentally harm them, realistically).Having PCs who repeatedly contact the Mythos, for whom At the Mountains of Madness is basically "a Tuesday" is absolutely NOT SUPPORTED by Lovecraft's fiction. Only people who largely pass through, and only do so once or perhaps twice, get to stay roughly sane.</blockquote>