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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DMCF" data-source="post: 6717871" data-attributes="member: 6790388">Holy Political Correctness Batman. Lets get off our high horses for a moment and realize this is a game that emulates many aspects of real life. To imply we are playing madness and insanity without any connection to real life is madness itself. Without analyzing every single thing in the DMG here are a few of the examples of the game RAW:Long term affect 1-10 is Obsessive Compulsive DisorderIndefinite 1-15 is Alcoholism16-25 is Hoarding disorder (Yes it is a thing. <a href="http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/hoarding-disorder/basics/definition/con-20031337" target="_blank">http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/hoarding-disorder/basics/definition/con-20031337</a>)People play or roll low intelligence all the time and yes many do goofy things. Are they really making fun of people with down-syndrome? Was Tolkein when he wrote the scenes of ogres? I get the feeling that if WotC revealed how they established their criteria for madness it would invalidate these perspectives being cast from an ivory tower.That said. The game yesterday with amnesia didn't go over so well. The player tried very hard. With so many players and so many things going on everyone kind of glossed over him. We had another new player who looked lost (no PHB)  and I brought him in. This put our table at 9. There was a lot to explain and it slowed the pace we had established. I still handed out the inspiration point for the great effort. No one had to roll for insanity this time. We were 60 feet from the urn with the banshee when we had to end the session. Next time I suppose...</blockquote>

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