Comments on: A Broken Mind: Sanity and Mental Disorders… for Pathfinder Roleplaying Game (Part 2)

By: Scott Gable

Scott Gable — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 21:46:50 +0000

Edit: Fixed the handful of 4E terms that went unconverted.

By: A Man In Black

A Man In Black — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 11:30:11 +0000

The bonuses for the indefinite insanities aren’t anything even close to balanced, and they’re also somewhat insulting. Why does mental illness come with upsides? Physical illnesses don’t, in 3e or in 4e.

By: Charles

Charles — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 04:16:39 +0000

I can’t help but agree with mxyzplk. The other problem I see here is that someone forgot to convert this part of the article to Pathfinder. There is no such thing as minor actions or the Thievery skill in Pathfinder.

By: mxyzplk

mxyzplk — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 03:10:45 +0000

Hmmm, a word of advice. When converting to 3.5e, definitely remove what many perceive to be the nerfed nature of 4e (cf. rust monster). The indefinite insanities being “balanced” is a real problem for me – seems like a poor payoff for months of Sanity tracking. I’d immediately remove all the positives for a published 3.x/PFRPG article. A lot of these, even with the negatives, are frankly worth a trait or even a feat – +10 initiative is incredible, unachievable using other means, and worth running your SAN down to 0 tout suite for. If I was a rogue I’d totally go there and let the cleric worry about me in the rare event I get feared.

By: Scott

Scott — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:58:57 +0000

Actually, anonymous, since this is using the d20 mechanics of D&D instead of the d% of Call of Cthulhu, there is no “percent” sanity, only a convenient pool of sanity. This was built to take advantage of the d20 mechanic, making it fit more easily into D&D. Your example would simply be 105 points of sanity, instead of 105% sanity.

If you feel it’s too important, set a cap of 100 to the Sanity pool to address this. But in play, I don’t think you’ll find it necessary.

By: anonymous

anonymous — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:35:49 +0000

Correct me if I am wrong but if you can increase MIND like other attributes and you start with an 18 (base + racial could make that a 20 to start) and 20×5 = 100. And if I remember then that you can go over 20 but how can your mind be more than 100% sane (21×5 = 105)?