Be still , my beating heart . <| sep |> It really is a different feel , like the difference between day and night . There really is no hope in CoC , but the tireless ingenuity and sacrifice of Investigators willing to fight the horror is damn inspiring . Much more so than your typical DD campaign I feel . Not that DD is not stellar in its own right , it just never interested me . I ' ve very much always loved the idea of characters growing and changing and struggling , drama , high tensions , and fear . You don ' t grow a character by simply ascending to godhood . Some players do not like that style , and some players just want to git gud no matter what . They are not the best people for CoC . I have had more than one ACKS or Pathfinder or DD player leave my groups because they just weren ' t interested . Which to me reads as , i don ' t like watching my characters struggle and die , I want to minmax and be a powerhouse everywhere forever and never have to make hard choices . That ' s nice , and I know not all DD games are like that , but . really ? It boggles me that you would RP for anything OTHER than to tell a story and explore the characters . If I want to level grind , I ' ll play a video game . If I want to tell a story , be an archetype , live an adventure or scare the absolute piss out of myself , I ' ll play CoC .