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Have they ever taken your most well-crafted and terrifying scenario and spat it back at you? Well, you can take it easy from now on. It’s payback time.  \nCall of Cthulhu is a game which is all about atmosphere. Like the literature on which it’s based, crawling chaos and unimaginable horrors close in on the characters as they carry on their titanic struggle for goodness and sanity.  \nAt least, that’s the noble ideal. But what happens when your players get so jaded they don’t care? Does this sound familiar?  \ne KEEPER:“Okay, the thing lunges at you again, dripping ichor. It claws you across the chest and throws you backwards into the wall.”  \nRolls dice.“Lose four more hit points.”  \ne PC: “No problem, I still have three left. I blast it  \nwith my sawn-off.”e KEEPER:“Gahhh!”  \nIrritating, huh? It’s long been my contention that players know far too much about their characters’well-being. For example, can you say how many SAN points you think you have left? Oh yeah? Well how do you know something out there isn’t just waiting to push you over the edge?  \nEvery roleplaying game needs rules, sure, or we’reno further on than when we were kids playing make believe. But I think a few Paranoia™ style gamemaster tips are in order. Fear and Ignorance are the essential ingredients of a Keeper’s Revenge.  \nYou might ask, why bother? The simple answer is, anything which makes your players think like their characters is a good thing. Fear is the key.  \n\n| “The Keeper’s Revenge Kit” originally appeared in the Chaosium Digest, Volume 20, number 6 (July, 1997), written by Jonathan Turner. |  |\n| --- | --- |\n| It is a copyrighted work, but is being freely distributed under a Creative Commons License. | |\n\nSTEP ONE: Don’t tell them how many hit points they have.  \nLet’s get back to our friend with the sawn-off. Now instead of telling him how many hit points he’s lost, let’s just tell him what his symptoms are. Check this out:  \ne KEEPER: “The thing lunges at you and hits you in the chest. You stumble backwards and”(rolls dice)“slump to the ground.The pain in your chest is incredible, like a vice was wrapped around your torso. When you look down through your torn shirt, you can see one part of your chest moving in when it should be going out and vice versa. You’re almost panting in pain.”  \ne PC:“Good God! Somebody get me to a hospital!”  \nSee the difference? The PC in the first example doesn’t really care because he knows he can hang on long enough to put the monster down. The second guy, he doesn’t know what the hell’s going on, so he panics. For your information, he has a terribly painful condition called flail chest.  \nThis is a jump away from the rules, of course, which state that PCs can keep going until they’re down to their last few hit points. It may not be to everyone’s taste, but hey: it’s just a suggestion.  \nOf course, if you’re going to go down this path, a little knowledge about medicine is a good thing. Or just get your hands on a good first aid manual. The ideas there are pretty frightening. For your players, anyway. Heh, heh, heh.  \nSTEP TWO: And the same goes for SAN and Magic Points.  \nThe bestway to introduce a phobia to a player is not to say: “Okay, Jim, you’ve got a phobia of snakes.” That noise you just heard was the atmosphere closing the door as it left the room.  \nInstead, introduce madness the way it creeps into real life: phantom voices, sudden anxiety attacks, strange feelings of dread and doom. Do it right, and your  \nplayer won’t know whether he’s actually going mad, or whether he’s having a genuine supernatural experience.  \nNever ask for SAN rolls. (See step three for how to get around it). Never tell a player he’s just failed one. 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