[UA] Piromancy and terrorists (very OT)

[Allen Smith]

The original of this was supposed to go to the list as well as to
me...

On Apr 12,  5:26pm, Clairr O'Connor & Kevin Honan wrote:
> On Apr 12,  4:56pm, Allen Smith wrote:
>> To bring this back a bit more on-topic for UA... if a character did
>> a violent act against someone they sincerely believed deserved it,
>> should this be a lower level of a Violence Madness check? Or should
>> the person simply get a bonus on the Mind roll? I can see arguments
>> for both sides...

> It's called rationalisation & acceptance. If you follow Dave
> Grossman's pyschological model, it comes just after the post-kill
> high and the following low. Generally speaking the affects of
> violence check would come a little while after the act itself, once
> the killer has had a while to think about it.

Hmm... this is also helpful in terms of not slowing fast fight scenes
down with lots of Madness checks... note them down and wait until
later.

> The way it goes is...the more you can justify your act of
> murder, the less likely you are to be pyshologically damaged by it.

A failed Madness check is pretty clearly psychological damage... a
Hardened one is a bit less clear. (Of course, Grossman thinks that
we're all Hardened to Violence by playing video games,
etcetera... about which I rather have my doubts.)

> Of course, this is all covered in loving detail in my article "The
> Price of Murder" in Cthulhu Noir: Shades of Gray...pluggedy, plug,
> plug, plug...

And where can _Cthulhu Noir_ be found? And what else is in it?

	-Allen

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Allen Smith				easmith at beatrice.rutgers.edu
	

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