Dangerous Situations - LunarNeil/Call-of-Cthulhu-Campaign GitHub Wiki

Dangerous situations often end with injury, either to the body or to the mind. Physical injuries are handled both as Damage and as Wounds. Damage tallies up the total trauma your body can withstand before you collapse, and Wounds are a list of all the terrible things that have happened to you.

Damage done to an Investigator's mental health is tracked as Madness, most often the result of traumatic or horrifying events. Being forced into a violent confrontation is a traumatic event, and Investigators in combat situations will nearly always be asked to perform a Stability Check to assess the mental strain this puts upon them.