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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 8278587" data-attributes="member: 82106">As I've said, you literally lose SAN 1:1 as you gain Mythos skill, which starts at 0%. So, an amazing 100 SAN PC on day one could become quite a Mythos expert, eventually (it is hard to find information to increase Mythos, and it cannot increase in the standard experience mechanism of BRP). However, to reach a 50% Mythos, this incredibly sane guy would reduce his MAX SAN to 50%, and incur a 50 point loss in actual 'working' SAN (though probably over enough time that it wouldn't be a huge issue). Given other sources of SAN loss, you will probably end up with a quite low SAN at that point! Maybe you can defeat some stuff and take a lot of therapy and get back into the middle tier of SAN, but that's about the best you are ever going to do.That's best case. The AVERAGE PC gaining 20% Mythos (IE 20% chance to know some fact or pass a check) will be perilously close to going stark raving mad.Anyway, I think about 20% is probably the max I've ever seen anyone get and still be alive. Given you have to acquire VERY dangerous and rare books and such, at extreme peril, is a pretty hard limiter. I guess if you are lucky enough to find 3-4 of the 'tier one' books (Necronomicon, Pnakotic Manuscripts, etc.) you might manage to do pretty well, but those books are the very rarest of all.</blockquote>