Moonbeast Posted March 5, 2010 Share Posted March 5, 2010 In my experience running CoC, sanity loss honestly isn't that big a deal to players - certainly not as scary as HP loss. If a PC has a good starting SAN, they'll rarely fail their checks, so they'll lose only a few points each time, and maybe none. Plus published scenarios tend to have rather generous sanity rewards. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foen Posted March 5, 2010 Share Posted March 5, 2010 In the absence of healing magic, CoC is certainly deadly: Mythos creatures are often very resistant to physical damage, and investigators are not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trifletraxor Posted March 10, 2010 Share Posted March 10, 2010 I love CoC! At least in portioned amounts. The setting is solid and the support is great. I'm currently playing a character in the "Mask of Nyarlathotep" campaign. Formerly a stable cop, now a rather unstable sword and thompson wielding investigator wearing a 1st WW breastplate. Sanity is part of setting, but is rarely if ever the thing that kills a character. How deadly the game setting is depends on the GM, but yes, the mortality is somewhat higher than in a fantasy game. However, I've just gotten hold of the spell "Create Zombie", which I guess is almost like Resurrect? We'll see if a group member happens to die... SGL. Quote Ef plest master, this mighty fine grub! 116/420. High Priest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bygoneyrs Posted March 10, 2010 Author Share Posted March 10, 2010 LMAO...."Create Zombie"...I like the sound of that Spell....hmmm Penn Quote Old time RPGer of +34 yrs, player/DM/GM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragonewt Posted March 11, 2010 Share Posted March 11, 2010 (edited) I love CoC! How about the spell Formula to Raise from Essential Salts, the failure of which which creates Ye Liveliest Awfulness (an inhuman monstrosity, a deformed, immortal beast bent on consuming flesh and blood). "A person or animal can be resurrected from their essential salts. The target’s entire body has to be incinerated by alchemical processes into their essential salts. ... If any part of the corpse is missing the raising will not succeed and a hideous abomination may result." See O.R.E. Nemesis for more details... And that's all I have to say about that... Edited March 11, 2010 by dragonewt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bygoneyrs Posted March 11, 2010 Author Share Posted March 11, 2010 Wow now that is a awesome spell to give to players as part of a plot to have fun with. Well maybe the person to have fun would be only me but DM/GMs need to have some fun TOO<g>!!! Penn How about the spell Formula to Raise from Essential Salts, the failure of which which creates Ye Liveliest Awfulness (an inhuman monstrosity, a deformed, immortal beast bent on consuming flesh and blood). "A person or animal can be resurrected from their essential salts. The target’s entire body has to be incinerated by alchemical processes into their essential salts. ... If any part of the corpse is missing the raising will not succeed and a hideous abomination may result." See O.R.E. Nemesis for more details... And that's all I have to say about that... Quote Old time RPGer of +34 yrs, player/DM/GM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragonewt Posted March 11, 2010 Share Posted March 11, 2010 (edited) Well maybe the person to have fun would be only me but DM/GMs need to have some fun TOO!!! Well, there it is. We have determined (with the input of GianniVacca and others) that the ultimate fantasy game will consist of: BRP + Classic Fantasy + Lords of Terror + The Book of Drastic Resolutions Volume Chaos + Malleus Monstrorum. There will be plenty of Thanatari head hunting spells. And the only healing spell will be Formula to Raise from Essential Salts. So... who wants to play in my game? Edit: I almost forgot; there will be Charnjibbers... with lasers attached to their heads. Edited March 11, 2010 by dragonewt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
threedeesix Posted March 11, 2010 Share Posted March 11, 2010 Edit: I almost forgot; there will be Charnjibbers... with lasers attached to their heads. Lasers, thats silly... oh wait are they fricken lasers? That would make much more sense. Quote Join my Mythras/RuneQuest 6: Classic Fantasy Yahoo Group at https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/RQCF/info "D100 - Exactly 5 times better than D20" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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