determine how well you can handle situations and mechanics with stats that dynamically change in different scenerios
What are these mechanics for?
These 2 mechanics work together to allow a dynamic difficulty, or can be used to create suspense.
What is the anxiety stat?
The anxiety stat is a stat that raises when the character is in distress, such as being near an scp, a certain player or npc, or in the dark.
The player would need to roll a 4d6 and subtract their sanity attr’ to the roll to see how much anxiety is gained
How do we Lose anxiety?
Depending on the scenario it can be different
Examples
- Being in a lit room or around a campfire/lamp.
- Holding a weapon the player has knowledge in, IE the character is an ex gaurd and has a handgun, they will feel a bit less anxious as theyre holdign it, This does not consistantly drop anxiety levels a flat level depending on what they are holding.
- Being in groups. The more the party splits the harder losing anxiety is.
What is the Sanity stat?
The sanity stat starts at 100 and lowers when anxiety reaches max, Or when you experience traumatic scenerios, such as encountering gore left behind by an scp or encountering an scp itself.
How do i regain sanity.
Multiple ways but the main way is to lose anxiety points. You MUST lower anxiety before gaining sanity
Examples
- Being around a campfire, lamp,or holding some kind of weapon/light
- Sleeping.
- Resting in a predetermined or player made safepoint
What happens when you get low sanity?
Multiple things can happen since the range is of 100
Starting at 100, sanity is fine once reaching around 80 you start being more aware of your surroundings causing you to take more anxiety
once at 50 Scp’s, Players, And npcs, that are hostile are more aware of your presence. Making sneaking harder
30 and below you start hallucinating constantly losing sanity rapidly
20 and below, All hostile entities are constantly aware of your presence, making the only option, fight or flight.
0 Complete immobilization, you are catatonic and prone, you cannot move, Other players must try to get you out of the situation.