[UA] Madness

[Ryan Fitch-Davis]

Sorry if this is real late...

Sounds like a Paradigm Skill to me... Those are really cool.

On Sat, 2004-02-07 at 10:18, Jeff Wikstrom wrote:
> Towards a slightly more complex Madness check
> 
> When you have a high Mind, Madness checks become trivial.  When you have a low Mind, they’re terrifying.  I don’t like that, and (as I have in the past) I’m considering ways to make Madness checks nastier to smart people and less dangerous to foolish people.  Low-Mind characters in particular seem less viable.
> 
> What I’m thinking of first off is a “Resist Madness” Mind skill, calculated exactly like Initiative for Speed.  So Mr. Mind 40 has a Resist Madness skill of 20 to start with, but can put skill points in Resist Madness and bring it up to 40.  Dame Mind 70 has a Resist Madness skill of 35, and maybe she has better things to put those other 35 skill points in.
> 
> Thus smart characters aren’t *necessarily* better at Madness checks than the foolish, and the foolish can have a fighting chance relative to them, by buying up the skill.
> 
> I recall discussing this same thing on this same list awhile back, but I don’t think this specific variant was suggested.
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