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The base save vs Insanity is found in the list of saving throws. Ussuly found in with the HTH terminology.
Basically when you the GM decide that the chars have seen something/experienced something that could bring forth/cause a insanity in the char you have them roll vs 12 on a d20. If they fail they ether get a Evil GM insanity, a random insanity, or a GM decided insanity. The ME insanity bonues table can be found in PFRPG 2nd ed and HU 2nd ed.
May you be blessed with the ability to change course when you are off the mark.
Each question should be give the canon answer 1st, then you can proclaim your house rules.
Reading and writing (literacy) is how people on BBS interact.
On the subject of locking up the insane. Thats only really necessary in certain sitatuions.
Some of them are _VERY_ dangerous. Either to others, themselves or both.
Let me give you one example, the mother of a friend of mine used to work in one of these special care homes. There was one old guy, more or less harmless, and blind to boot.
A touch crazy too. The thing was, either he had no real family, or they just couldnt/didnt take care of him what ever. So he needed people to look after him. However he'd also just blindly wander wherever and seemed to lack any real sense of what he was doing.
On time he some how managed to get out through a locked window, on to the slated roof of the building by himself.
Now this building was a good 4 stories at least. So imagine then, if he'd walked off the roof before some one noticed him up there? He didnt even remember getting out there to begin with, and apparently didnt even know where he was by the time they got him down.
Such a situation he's mostly a danger simply to himself, but he could arguably have also fallen off the roof and onto some one else eh?
There's other cases where mentally imbalanced people have gone out and either killed, or gotten others killed, not just themselves.
So your faced with a problem. You have to do -something- about them, or they WILL bring harm to others in some cases. They'll even have an undeniable history of such events. And/Or they'll have proven at least that they'll bring harm to themselves at the very least if some one isnt taking care of them.
So what do you do? Do you just let them bring harm to themselves and/or others? I doubt it.
And since the generally considered ethical response isnt to just kill them (or let them kill themselves in some manner) then one MUST effectively lock them up to one extent or another.
But then can you have good without evil? Joy without sadness? Pleasure without suffering? Without the other as a contrast, the other is arguably meaingless.
insanity, a random insanity, or a GM decided insanity. The ME insanity bonues table can be found in PFRPG 2nd ed and HU 2nd ed.
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