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<p>New details added.</p>
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Ywhateley: Details, typo corrections, and clarifications.
2016-11-02T22:59:59Z
<p>Details, typo corrections, and clarifications.</p>
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Ywhateley: Page created.
2016-11-02T22:59:32Z
<p>Page created.</p>
<p><b>New page</b></p><div>[[File:Whammy poltergeist.jpg|thumb|200px|right|A classic "whammy" from ''Poltergeist (1982 franchise)'': an investigator hallucinates eating crawling, maggoty meat, and then peeling his face off in the bathroom mirror; of course, there's bound to be a sanity roll in there somewher...]]<br />
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== Summary ==<br />
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A "whammy" is the term used by ''[[Call of Cthulhu (d20)]]'' to describe a cinematic technique portraying a psychic impression, vision, hallucination, nightmare, etc. experienced by an investigator under the influence of the unnatural.<br />
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== Notes ==<br />
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* TO DO: Quote the basic idea from the D20 rulebook.<br />
* TO DO: Provide some ideas and cinematic examples of how this works.<br />
* TO DO: Categorize this page.</div>
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