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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8279379" data-attributes="member: 18">It isn't functional. That's exactly what everyone has been explaining to you.The proposed function of the system is essentially as replacement for both the Sanity value and the Mythos skill. Except it doesn't function as that, because it's inverted the second half.As such, it doesn't have a role. You've tried to create one for it,. fuelled by your profound misunderstanding of the genre and inexperience with RPGs from that genre, but there's no genre where things work like that. In the Mythos/Cosmic Horror genre, as discussed at length, you need sanity and Mythos understanding to oppose each other.But in pure pulp fantasy, heroes don't lose sanity, and don't go mad. Only NPCs and villains do. The is the sort of "shoot Cthulhu in the face" genre. So the design is equally useless there.There's no genre it's for. And we know it's a screw-up, because the writing doesn't mention that, the writing doesn't acknowledge that this is running directly counter to all conventional Sanity-type systems. Especially those associated with Cosmic Horror.</blockquote>