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| − | [[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 | + | [[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 somewhere...]] |
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Revision as of 22:59, 2 November 2016
Summary
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.
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- TO DO: Quote the basic idea from the D20 rulebook.
- TO DO: Provide some ideas and cinematic examples of how this works.
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