Fast Insight

Author: Linus Weber

This is Work-In-Progress and will have to be playtested in a full campaign. If this system works well, it might make it into the game as the default some day.

Why

• I want to speed up those tense moments by reducing the amount of rolls needed when panicing (currently 5, down to 3: Insight Save, Insight Amount, Panic Save, Panic Rounds, Recover WIL Save) and generally when gaining Insight (currently 2, down to 1: Insight Save, Insight Amount).
• I want there to be a bit more panicing in general.
• I want there to be more chances of panicing when seeing moderately bad things. Previously, characters gained 1/1d4 in those cases, but now they gain 2 Insight Dice which could be 5 or 6 Insight, albeit not very likely.
• I want characters to change more through gaining Broken and Hardened notches which means that charcters must panic more often.
• I want to simplify the INS stat.

Insight

• Characters start with 0 Hardened notches.
• No more Insight Saves.
• No more rolls to determine amount of rounds panicing.
• New Insight Dice: d6 and discard 4+ results on each die.
• Still: Panic save when you gain 5+ Insight at once or cannot cross out enough pips.
• Roll 1 Insight Die for something Unsettling such as traces of the horror. Roll 2 Insight Dice for something Awful such as a mangled corpse. Roll 3 Insight Dice for something Dreadful such as seeing a monster.
• New: After your WIL save after recovering from a panic, you may convert 4 Insight points into 1 Broken notch.
• Note: Plan with ~8-12 Insight Dice per scenario.

Panic

• WIL save after 1 round of panicing: success -> calm down and gain Hardened notch; fail -> gain Broken notch and panic for one more round.

Getting better

• On a failed self help attempt, lose the bond and keep the Broken notch, but gain a Hardened notch. (Lose a bond every third Hardened notch you gain!)

Open Questions

• Does this lead to too much panicing?
• Is panicing too punishing, just right or not punishing enough?