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From: ncg@ukc.UUCP (N.C.Gale)
Newsgroups: net.games.frp
Subject: How to be sane
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Date: Fri, 21-Jun-85 12:31:09 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun 21 12:31:09 1985
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Reply-To: ncg@ukc.UUCP (Nige Gale)
Organization: Computing Laboratory, U of Kent at Canterbury, UK
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Some of you must have played Call of Cthulhu.

Well, I like it so far.
I've read no Lovecroft, so I have absolutely no idea what's going on,
which is great. The idea of 'sanity points' is very good, 

but

whenever the party meets a monster, the first action is that
everyone averts their eyes, so as to avoid going mad!
Aargh, not good - the opposite of what people would do in real
life. It shouldn't protect them from madness, anyway -
they know it's there, so just not looking at it strikes me
as a 'Peril-sensitive Sunglasses' approach.

So, I role-played, and looked the Beast in the eye, and emptied
a revolver-full of blessed bullets at it, and came within a
hair's-breadth of indefinate insanity for my pains.
And all these namby-pamby professors whose first action when it
appeared was to stick their head in the sand, they all got away
scott free, sanity intact.
It just isn't fair. TANJ


-Nige Gale

Now look what you made me do.
I've swallowed my contact lens.