Yeah, so what’s with all the tentacles?
OK yes I'm dumb so what
Submitted 7 months ago by SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com to [deleted]
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aviationeast@lemmy.world 7 months ago
SomeonePrime@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I played a one-shot of Call of Cthulhu where the DM had you roll an intelligence check if you saw a horror. If you rolled under your intelligence, you had no idea what you were looking at and were unaffected. If you rolled over your intelligence, you knew exactly what you were looking at and had to roll against your sanity to see if it drove you insane.
In other words, you could have no idea what you’re looking at, know what you’re looking at but handle it, or know what you’re looking at and not like it!
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I like your DM
qarbone@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I thought those were just the rules?
SomeonePrime@lemmy.world 7 months ago
It could be, I only ever played the system once and I’m not really familiar with the rules. At a glance, it looks like the intelligence roll usually happens after losing a certain amount of sanity?
FeatherConstrictor@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
I like the concept, I guess I’m just confused at why a higher intelligence roll would mean a “lower intelligence” as in you don’t know what you’re looking at, but I guess it’s so that a lower intelligence roll is more potentially punishing?
SomeonePrime@lemmy.world 7 months ago
The thought was that the higher your intelligence, the higher the chance you know what you’re seeing. So if you have a high intelligence of say 19, then you need to design the check such that it’s very likely you’ll “succeed” in recognizing it, so with a D20 that means rolling under 19 (a 90% chance). A lower intelligence would actually be a good thing in this case, someone with an intelligence of 2 only has a 5% chance of “succeeding” and rolling under a 2.
I think the fact that you don’t want to roll higher than your intelligence is a bit counter intuitive to basically every other roll you’ll ever want to make, but I think the mechanic fits the theme really well.
Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 7 months ago
They were thrillers beyond my comprehension at best
someguy3@lemmy.world 7 months ago
You know that’s interesting turn of phrase that doesn’t make much sense.
KazuyaDarklight@lemmy.world 7 months ago
That’s actually kind of a good point, if a horror is far enough literally beyond our comprehension. Is it really a horror?
Signtist@lemm.ee 7 months ago
I’ve seen this image floating around for a while, which breaks down the reasoning - or lack thereof in certain media - pretty well.
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SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
The point regarding seeing the world from anothers view reminds me of ‘Story of your life’ by Ted Chiang, a brilliant short story that also has a movie based on it (Arrival) which is also my favourite movie despite the, imo, botched ending.
Spoiler alert:
As the lead character learns the aliens language and can now interpret time and generally the world they do, you get to a different kind of consciousness.
As I type this out I relaize its actually kind of off topic after all lol.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
“This is madness”
Meaning, a unique viewpoint?
Knowing the causes of BSE and Alzheimers, real madness, it loses it’s scare as mere, although a bit weird, sickness.
kamenlady@lemmy.world 7 months ago
just have to let it sink in - it will eventually trigger the internal horror response
SurfinBird@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
6 years later: AAAAAAAAA!
OpenStars@discuss.online 7 months ago
In the USA, recently more people died of “excess deaths” than from all wars combined, and this on top of our regularly scheduled culling of kids in schools, our democracy is already converted into a totalitarian regime due in part to an infamous SCOTUS (court) ruling, but it’s probably climate change that will kill us all within it lifetimes, oh yeah and virtually nothing on the internet works quite correctly anymore.
Today is Thursday btw, and you know what that means - looking forward to the weekend, whoo-hoo! :-P