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Driven Mad (and to Level 2) By The Revelation: Cthulhu-style Investigative XP Mechanics

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 For a while I've been brainstorming a Lovecraftian/cosmic horror investigative sandbox campaign for lotfp/bx. Basically, the idea of 'What if when all leads turn up with dead ends in a Call of Cthulhu campaign, instead of having stuff like IDEA rolls and the like, you had to just drop the investigation and come back to it when something clicks or when you find some new information that helps you progress?' Like real investigators do irl. Like how a lot of serial killer cases get dropped for potentially years and then sometimes reopened when they find something new, or somebody ends up on the force who has a new perspective that pulls it all together.  Of course, I don't want to use actual Call of Cthulhu for this, because CoC is way too complicated for my tastes, so I've been looking at adapting it to lotfp/BX, using some mechanics from the fantastic OSR Mythos rpg Silent Legions. lotfp/BX's base XP mechanics, of course, need to be modified for this sort of con...