by Shinobi
kingdomdeath wrote:
@Scott,
You take neurological damage and then develop disorders. So it's not really will power or focus. Mind damage ( to me ) doesn't make me quite picture it the same way. Also the mechanic is that insanity is the shield for your brain. In the game world the more crazy you are, the less of a chance that certain direct trauma will effect you. The risk of running a high insanity character is when certain events, or very specific attacks only target survivors with an insanity rating of X or higher.
With a high insanity you might really believe those illusions are real, but a lion growling at you? Who cares!
That at lease, is the thought behind the naming conventions.
You take neurological damage and then develop disorders. So it's not really will power or focus. Mind damage ( to me ) doesn't make me quite picture it the same way. Also the mechanic is that insanity is the shield for your brain. In the game world the more crazy you are, the less of a chance that certain direct trauma will effect you. The risk of running a high insanity character is when certain events, or very specific attacks only target survivors with an insanity rating of X or higher.
With a high insanity you might really believe those illusions are real, but a lion growling at you? Who cares!
That at lease, is the thought behind the naming conventions.
I like that levels of sanity will affect your characters ability to react, act and be subject to effects.
However the definition of 'Brain' is for a physical organ within the body and thus doesn't really reflect the effects denoted by insanity and craziness......