A use for mind points

Posted by Nuadha on Jul 30, 2011; 5:13pm
URL: http://the-lost-and-the-damned.71.s1.nabble.com/A-use-for-mind-points-tp6636546.html

When I used to run my own scenarios years ago, I occasionally would describe something like "you hear goblins chattering about something behind the door."    Inevitably, the players would ask, "Do I know how to speak Goblin?"     My answer was to have them roll their current number of mind points on d6s.    If any 6s came up on the dice the answer was yes and I would tell them what the Goblins were saying.   I would also have them mark on their sheet whether they knew the language and the answer was permanent.

Why use current mind points and not starting points?    I used to say that since mental attacks lowered your mind by screwing with your brain, it is possible that you once knew it, but the lowering of your mind by the attack removed the memory from your brain....forever!