Use the 5 Senses

Sight, Smell, Sound, Touch, & Taste

????

Talk about how things feel give

them emotions

1. Try drip feeding: that is, revealing the horror piece by piece to build dramatic tension.
2. Say things that don’t make sense. Leave things half-explained or unexplained.
3. Describe things that happen only in the Investigators’ minds. Try suggesting that the Investigators inexplicably know, feel, or sense
something.
4. Take your time. Imagine a slow-motion camera, which reveals the horror gradually, in loving detail.
5. Alternatively, go fast. Imagine a hand-held camera held by an Investigator, which shows disjointed glimpses of the horror
 Violence
Seeing a fresh corpse or a killing
You suffer a permanent injury
First time killing someone
You see a particularly grisly death
Witness a huge battle, with 100+ deaths
You get tortured for an hour or longer.
Witness a brutal mass execution.
Self
You injure someone innocent
Acting contrary to your ideology
You kill a loved one
Betraying all of humanity
Helplessness
Suffer a serious personal or social lose
Being horribly injured in a fight
Failing to save a group of people
Watch someone you love die.
Fail to save someone you love
Mythos Events
A strong anomalous effect
A non-threatening supernatural effect
Witness something that can’t logically exist
A threatening supernatural effect
Witness the dead rise
An unnatural or impossible killing
Mythos Creatures
Seeing clear evidence of the creature
A Humanoid Creature
An Inhuman Creature
A large creature / swarm of creatures
Seeing an Ancient One or Deity
Mythos Revelations
Learning a legend or dream is true
Insanity
0/1D3
Stage 1 – Bout of Madness
0/1D4
● If Mythos related gain +1 CM (+5 for first)
1/1D6
● Roll on the Bout of Madness table (lasts 1D10 rounds)
1/1D6
● No Further Sanity Lost during Bout
1/1D8
● Optional: Change one backstory element
1/1D8
● Optional: Gain Insane Insight
1/1D10
Stage 2 – Underlying Insanity
● Temporary: Lasts 1D10 hours.
● Indefinite: Lasts until end of scenario / chapter
0/1D4 ● Further SAN loss (even a point) during this time results in another
0/1D4 Bout of Madness related to the first.
1D4/1D20 ● Pushed Rolls: caused insanity based failures
1D4/1D20 ● Heighted Long Term Insanities: Phobias, Manias, Delusions, Sleep
Disorders,
Bouts of Madness
0/1D3
1. Flee: they run away, likely seeking a place of safety.
0/1D4
2. Faint: they collapse into an unconscious heap.
1/1D8
3. Freeze: They are frozen with fear unable to move their rigid limbs
1D3/1D12
4. Hysteria: they have an emotional outburst of laughing, crying,
1D4/1D20 screaming, babbling, or panic attacks.
5. Struggle: they try to regain control by violence, either attacking
the source of trauma, or trying to dominate something nearby.
6. PTSD: they have flashbacks to previous trauma.
0/1D3
7. Paranoia: everyone is out to get them; they are being spied on;
0/1D4 someone has betrayed them; what they are seeing is a trick.
1/1D6 8. Phobia: they develop and indulge in a deep seated fear
1/1D6 9. Mania: they develop an obsession or strange desire
1/1D8 10. Compulsion: they develop a compulsion such as OCD or a
totemic “safety blanket” to regain a sense of control.
1/1D8
11. Fervor: they express their ideology, using it ward off the trauma
or seeing their trauma as part of their belief system
12. Addiction: they turn to a substance to numb the horror
0/1D3
13. Amnesia: they forget everything between the last safe place and
1/1D6 now or they forget the trauma except for the horrible emotions
1/1D8 14. Alternate Personality: they develop a second personality that can
deal with the trauma, this personality has some serious issues
1D4/1D20
15. Disassociation: they feeling disconnected from their own body,
1D10/1D100 thoughts, and emotions. It’s like seeing it happen to someone else
16. Personal Delusions: they believe something about themselves that
explains or relieves the trauma. Cotard’s, Thought Insertion,
17. Reality Delusions:
0/1D4
 18. Somatic Delusions:

19. Projection / Displacement: They blame something else for their

Learn human science / history is wrong 0/1D4
feelings or assuming others feel the same way
Something that violates your beliefs 1/1D6
20. ???
Learning the threat, the Mythos poses 1/1D8

You’re corrupted or aren't human 1D4/1D20

1. Try drip feeding: reveal the horror piece by piece to build

dramatic tension.
2. Say things that don’t make sense. Leave things half-
explained or unexplained.
3. Describe things that happen only in the Investigators’
minds. Try suggesting that the Investigators inexplicably
know, feel, or sense something.
4. Take your time. Imagine a slow-motion camera, which
reveals the horror gradually, in loving detail.
5. Alternatively, go fast. Imagine a hand-held camera held by
an Investigator, which shows disjointed glimpses of the
horror