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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9507204" data-attributes="member: 18">d20 Call of Cthulhu uses basically the normal CoC Sanity system, not this odd Sanity stat system. Like it's 99 minus Cthulhu Mythos as normal, and the Sanity loss values are I think largely inline with trad CoC of that era.5E 2014 The Madness rules seem somewhat inspired by the insanity rules in d20 CoC but considerably cut down/cleaned-up and with an extra category.I think they came back because 5E initially attempted to have &quot;throwback&quot; appeal and so actually went for stuff that had more of a kind of 1E/2E vibe, and wouldn't really have been okay in 4E (or even later 3.5E), in much the same way Orcs in Volo's in 5E were portrayed in a way that was so close to real-world racist stereotypes that it was uncomfortable, but also it was very clearly an attempt to evoke the tone of earlier version of D&amp;D. I mean, there's a reason WotC didn't just stop printing that, but went back and pulled a bunch of text even from the digital versions.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 9507204, member: 18"] d20 Call of Cthulhu uses basically the normal CoC Sanity system, not this odd Sanity stat system. Like it's 99 minus Cthulhu Mythos as normal, and the Sanity loss values are I think largely inline with trad CoC of that era. 5E 2014 The Madness rules seem somewhat inspired by the insanity rules in d20 CoC but considerably cut down/cleaned-up and with an extra category. I think they came back because 5E initially attempted to have "throwback" appeal and so actually went for stuff that had more of a kind of 1E/2E vibe, and wouldn't really have been okay in 4E (or even later 3.5E), in much the same way Orcs in Volo's in 5E were portrayed in a way that was so close to real-world racist stereotypes that it was uncomfortable, but also it was very clearly an attempt to evoke the tone of earlier version of D&D. I mean, there's a reason WotC didn't just stop printing that, but went back and pulled a bunch of text even from the digital versions. [/QUOTE]

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