Horror 4e - Tell Me About It

[SCAR]

Another little thing which struck me was one of the new Powers, along with Disease, Dream/Nightmare, Fear, etc was The State; the Power set for MiB's and the like.
It's a simple concept, but not an obvious choice for a 'Power' like Fire, Fear or Illusion. Makes me wonder what other similar concepts might warrant a power.

[vicky_molokh]

Originally Posted by Gudiomen

And yay! Psychotherapy rules!

A question that got lost in the On Killing thread soon after being asked:
Is this good crunch for gaming out things such as acquisition and treatment of PSTD?
Or for a less realistic tangent, something along the lines of Jacob's Ladder?

[Phil Masters]

Originally Posted by Refplace

It also has a version of the Ritual Path magic system with examples and an explanation on creating new rituals/spells.

Not to make trouble, but - I really don't see this in the book. Page reference?

[pyratejohn]

Originally Posted by Rev. Pee Kitty

Clearly you need both. :)

Clearly. I need MH1 if I extend my GURPS Infinite Worlds campaign into the summer. I need Horror... because I'm ashamed to admit I missed out on the last edition. In my defense, I will say that I was just about to buy it when 4e was announced. So I have been waiting a long time to see Hite's take on pirate horror.

Originally Posted by Rev. Pee Kitty

(Actually, speaking as the author of MH1, even I'd probably grab Horror first. It's one of the books I read for inspiration as I wrote the whole MH series.)

I bought both. I needed to test out that new debit card anyway, so I figured "what the hell?"

[SCAR]

Originally Posted by pyratejohn

So I have been waiting a long time to see Hite's take on pirate horror.

Pirates get a surprising number of references in Horror, and a Cinematic Pirate Template on p152!

[pyratejohn]

Originally Posted by SCAR

Pirates get a surprising number of references in Horror, and a Cinematic Pirate Template on p152!

Yes, that was the first section I flipped to when I opened up the pdf. I'm going to have to put my nitpicking glasses on and see what, if anything, turns up.

[Akicita]

Originally Posted by Black Rose

Anything with Ken Hite's name on it will get my attention - even a grocery shopping list.

I remember his Surpressed Transmission take on Iron Chef. I would be afraid to read Ken Hite's grocery shopping list.

[Kromm]

Originally Posted by Phil Masters

Not to make trouble, but - I really don't see this in the book. Page reference?

There's nothing about such magic in Horror beyond references to Ritual Magic (p. B242) and to the Path/Book magic of Thaumatology, in the Seas of Dread campaign frame. For a rundown on what is in the new edition, my summary wasn't exactly lacking in detail.

[Gudiomen]

Originally Posted by vicky_molokh

A question that got lost in the On Killing thread soon after being asked:
Is this good crunch for gaming out things such as acquisition and treatment of PSTD?
Or for a less realistic tangent, something along the lines of Jacob's Ladder?

In my professional opinion it's a very simplified and generic gameable abstraction. It doesn't get into specifics, and that's what you need for game. It makes choices that are clearly geared towards the game and that you'd be hard-pressed to relate to the reality of psychotherapy or psychiatric care, like "loose your recovery points if you fail a fright check".

It's very generic though, it doesn't say what the psychiatry and psychology rolls are representing, so you can fit all sorts of specific treatments into those rolls and those intervals of treatment.

Edit: it's really clever in the sense that's it's really abstract, which means it doesn't automatically blow your supsension of disbelief. Rolls also lat a lot of variance in treatment times, which is important, the same meantal health professional treating two people with the same problem will take different times each time, even though you can sometimes estimate the average time it takes to treat some conditions. Rolls cover this fine, you can get a speedy recovery with no failures and a few criticals, but you can also take forever if the patient fails his rolls or has sporadic exposure to stressful situations.

It's been 6 years since I've worked clinically though, and I've never worked with post-traumatic stress specifically (well, just once, in college, but that was like 10 years ago).

[Refplace]

Originally Posted by Phil Masters

Not to make trouble, but - I really don't see this in the book. Page reference?

Sorry, I got Horror mixed with MH. Too many books coming out :)