From apile10@alsvid.scu.edu.auWed Aug 16 18:01:21 1995 Date: Mon, 8 May 1995 15:42:42 +1000 (EST) From: Aaron John Pile Reply to: The wfrp mailing list To: wfrp@gojira.monsta.com Subject: WFRP: >Cool tests > >Anyone else have a problem with the uniformity of the cool test. Your just > >as likely to curl up into a ball at the sight of an ugly jaberwock as a > >greater deamon. > > But a jabberwock only causes fear, while a greater daemon causes terror > (and possibly insanity). Quite a different proposition. I didn't have the rule book on me. Change that to the difference between a greater an lesser deamon then (Assuming lesser deamons cause fear.). > > > >Perhaps each terror/fear causing creature should have a terror/fear rateing, > >which a characters cool is subtracted from, to give the chance of being > >terrified out of your wits! > > That would work, I guess. And rather than having some things cause fear and > other things cause terror, how about having multiple levels of fear and > terror, linked to the amount by which the Cool test was failed? Effects > could range from mildly unsettled (-10 to %-based tests until the situation > has passed), through the existing fear and terror effects to the full > Cthulhoid sanity-blasting. perhaps a combination of them both Chance of causing terror: Lesser deamon: 70%-cool Greater deamon: 90%-cool effects: Fail by 1%-5% Stunned by Shear disbelief - defend only Fail by 6%-10% Flees in fear- gains a few insanity points Fail by 11%-15% Curls up into ball and bables - counts prone- insanity gain > Another thing that might be good would be for some characters to have > modifiers to Cool tests caused by particular things. For instance, > Daemonologists and Witch Hunters might be less prone to be terrified by > Daemons than would, say, Templars with equally high Cool scores, who've not > spent so much time studying the beasties and seeking them out. All in the gms realm of roleplaying. As long as the charcters can sufficiently justify it. You'd have to take into consideration the amount of the cool advances that they get just for studying deamons and such though. -- .' '. Internet: apile10@scu.edu.au Southern Cross University Lismore NSW Australia