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<blockquote data-quote="pming" data-source="post: 8248332" data-attributes="member: 45197">Hiya!Yes. Me and my best friend stuck with the &quot;Smith&quot; family. Met them in the local toy store (only place they sold RPG stuff in the city). They saw us looking at AD&amp;D stuff and they scoffed and said &quot;We play Rolemaster. It makes D&amp;D look obsolete...you should play with us and see&quot;...So we did...And it scarred us for life. Seriously. Actual psychological damage that persists to this day. It's why I can't go into any specifics. Just thinking about the sayings, incidents, little &quot;in jokes&quot; they had, right now I'm starting to feel agitated and my heart rate just increased. Suffice it to say, if there was EVER a situation or group of &quot;cultists&quot; that could be the physical embodiment of Call of Cthulhu's &quot;SAN&quot; system... the Smith Family was it!..It took us both a YEAR before we managed to snap out of it and stop going every Sunday. We both distinctly remember the last session...well, &quot;after the session&quot;. We left the house and started to walk home. We were both in some kind of daze (obviously both failed our SAN roles at the end of the session and were &quot;lost&quot;, mentally speaking). We walked a good 2 or three blocks (call it 800' or so) when we suddenly realized we hadn't said a word since leaving the &quot;Lair of the Beasts&quot;. We stopped and looked at each other. &quot;That was...weird, huh?&quot; We both agreed. And we both, right there, succeeded in our SAN check and managed to snap out of it. We never went back to The Smith House again...Just thinking about any of the horrors that went on there causes me anxiety! So...I avoid talking about it. Pretty sure we both have actual PTSD over it...because if things crop up that happened in that house...we loose it. We can actually start &quot;gibbering&quot;, just blurting out stuff that happened to us or that we experienced. It makes no sense to anyone around us, but to my BF and I...when I 'sing' &quot;I wanna be... an air-born ranger..!&quot; he and I know exactly what I'm thinking about. Just writing it is making me twitchy. I'm out. Sorry guys!..^_^Paul L. Ming</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pming, post: 8248332, member: 45197"] Hiya! Yes. Me and my best friend stuck with the "Smith" family. Met them in the local toy store (only place they sold RPG stuff in the city). They saw us looking at AD&D stuff and they scoffed and said "We play Rolemaster. It makes D&D look obsolete...you should play with us and see". .. So we did. .. And it scarred us for life. Seriously. Actual psychological damage that persists to this day. It's why I can't go into any specifics. Just thinking about the sayings, incidents, little "in jokes" they had, right now I'm starting to feel agitated and my heart rate just increased. Suffice it to say, if there was EVER a situation or group of "cultists" that could be the physical embodiment of Call of Cthulhu's "SAN" system... the Smith Family was it! .. It took us both a YEAR before we managed to snap out of it and stop going every Sunday. We both distinctly remember the last session...well, "after the session". We left the house and started to walk home. We were both in some kind of daze (obviously both failed our SAN roles at the end of the session and were "lost", mentally speaking). We walked a good 2 or three blocks (call it 800' or so) when we suddenly realized we hadn't said a word since leaving the "Lair of the Beasts". We stopped and looked at each other. "That was...weird, huh?" We both agreed. And we both, right there, succeeded in our SAN check and managed to snap out of it. We never went back to The Smith House again. .. Just thinking about any of the horrors that went on there causes me anxiety! So...I avoid talking about it. Pretty sure we both have actual PTSD over it...because if things crop up that happened in that house...we loose it. We can actually start "gibbering", just blurting out stuff that happened to us or that we experienced. It makes no sense to anyone around us, but to my BF and I...when I 'sing' "I wanna be... an air-born ranger..!" he and I know [I]exactly[/I] what I'm thinking about. Just writing it is making me twitchy. I'm out. Sorry guys! .. ^_^ Paul L. Ming [/QUOTE]

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