I love the sanity rules...but they do feel a little bit mushy. I have some ideas on ways to expand them. Here they are! (I was inspired by Unknown Armies) Stress points represent shocks, both intense and small. When you get a heap of them at once, you get a Trauma. Traumas last for 1d10/2 hours, as it is in the base rules. The wrinkle goes in here. Stress points come from five kinds of 'horror', or source stresses. Existential: This is horror of the self. It comes from uploading, downloading, forking, or various other manipulations of the self. Species: This is the horror of the future. It comes from realization of just how fragile transhumanity's grasp on their future is, or from mass deaths temporary deaths, or any permanent deaths. Alien: This is the horror of the unknown. It comes from seeing exhumans, exurgance, aliens, and psi slights. Anything that is unnatural or horrifying due to it's inhumanity. Violence: This is the visceral thrill of fear that comes from being shot at, hit, or put in danger. For most transhumans, it is something they are all too familiar with. Brink: This is the horror of being alone. It can come from long isolation at the edge of the solar system, being stranded on a distant planet, or even being friendless and isolated in a society. Each Source of Stress has a Hardness Rating. Your Hardness is equal to 0, but it can be raised by your Trauma Threshold every time you Harden your mind to a Source of Stress. Inuring yourself against a Source requires you to have a trauma inflicted on you, and for you to succeed a WILLx3 roll once the trauma has passed. For every 10 MOS, you gain +1 to your Hardness. MOF is not used. A critical success means that you have internalized your issues. Your newfound self understanding heals your lucidity by 1d10/2 stress points. A critical failure means that you have become phobic to this source of stress. The next time you gain stress points from it, you take +1 stress points. Hardness has an advantage: It subtracts Stress Points that come from that Source. Example: Tia has spent years in a brinker station. She's used to being alone for long periods of time with only her muse and her music. She has 8 hardness in Brink. Her character is later interrogated by being immersed in a sensory deprivation simulspace for a few hours of accelerated time. The GM determines that she takes 2d10 stress points from the agonizing isolation. He rolls 12, but her hardness reduces that by 8, bringing her stress points down to 4. She is rattled, but still thinking clear. Hardness has a disadvantage. For every degree of hardness (how many times you can divide your Hardness by your Trauma Threshold), you become...different. Flinty hearted. Disconnected with your humanity. At higher levels, the GM could give a -10 penalty to interactions with other humans. You may also gain a Degree of Hardness by spending 10 CP during character creation, or taking a mental disorder. If you have as many Degrees of Hardness as your Trauma Threshold, then you gain - on top of your already existing mental disorders caused by your exposure to horrors - the mental disorder of Sociopath. You can remove a Degree of Hardness through psycho-surgery or psychotherapy. Treat the hardness as stress points for the purposes of removal. What do you guys think? Too complex? Not complex enough?