[CharGen] To discuss the creation of the party

Hiya Dr_B, welcome aboard.

Seems fine by me, but then I'm generally willing to play a character that picks up some slack in skill areas that other PCs might not have.

An alienist is always a good choice - those psychoanalytic skills are always going to come in handy in a Lovecraftian game, after all.

OK, if we're all ready, let's start with Stage 1: Choosing your profession. Look over the professions in the rules pdf and pick one that suits the character concept that you have. Note what attribute and skill bonuses you have, your special talent, and your Credit Rating. We have some cool character sheets, but for now, just post here - we'll fill in the character sheets when we're finished.

You can also discuss, if you wish to, your choices, what you see as your character's role, where you see them specialising (if anywhere), etc.

Some questions please:

-in what city is the game set, and in what year?

-do you prefer our characters to know each other already, at the start of the game ?

Good questions!

It starts in 1937, and for initial location, let's go with the old Lovecraftian classic, Arkham.

You'll be travelling around pretty much from the off though, and to be fair, your characters can be from elsewhere (though probably predominantly from the US).

If you wish to know other characters from the start, you can do, but you will have been asked individually to attend a meeting, so by no means do you need to know any of the others. I've found when running this campaign before, that strangers work well - getting to know your fellow investigators is a good source of roleplaying potential.

Arkham 1937, perfect. Stranger investigators sounds great.

I am thinking my Alienist would be associated with a Sanatorium somewhere around Arkham - he doesn't run or manage it, but works there as a clinician and researcher, making the most of the range of mental patients to further his understanding of the human mind.

Sounds good Dr_B. :)

Looks good MaJunior. Don't forget to make choices where it allows you some (eg +1 to one of Brute Strength, Outdoorsman, or Vehicles, and whether to reduce Sanity or Health by 1. In the latter case, you can choose later when you have all of your attributes completed and know what your Health and Sanity will be).

Yeah, I'm not 100% sure which I'm picking between Brute Strength or Outdoorsman.

Probably taking a permanent -1 to Sanity, but I'm going to see how the character looks before I commit.

I've PMed timplausible and RollingforStew, as neither have been on for over a week now, so hopefully we'll hear back from those two soon. Neil, you're up for stage 1 too whenever you're ready.

If I don't hear back from RfS and tp, we can continue to stage 2, and I'll happily run the campaign for the three of you (I really like smaller groups), and put feelers out for other players if they would fit in nicely with the rest of you.

Sounds good!

I love smaller groups too , in PbP!

OK, with that, I'll work around the two of you.

Step 1

Aesthete - Artist
○ +2 to your Perception attribute
○ +1 to both your Academic and Social attributes.
○ +3 to your Core Skill, Artistic Vision
○ +2 to both your Persuade and an Academic skill, (aka Western Civilisation) skills.
○ +1 to each of Bedside Manner, Psychology and Spot Clues.

Credit Rating = 5. No, let us be good at this.

○ Once per major area you can choose to take an automatic success without rolling in Artistic Vision, or Persuade or Bedside Manner by appealing to a fan of your work. You must choose before (or rather, in place of) making a roll.

Vocalist, pianist and pretty good with jazz guitar, this African American lady is a here to help arrange matters.

Need a name, erm... Lillian Blakey.

Step 2

○ +1 to Coordination attribute (3), +1 to Perception (5) and +1 to Social (4) attributes.
○ Health 7, Sanity 6.

Somewhat thinking ahead but not set in stone :

Step 3:

○ +1 to each of Reflexes, The Mean Streets, Foresight, Archival Research, Mental Resolve.

We can all move onto stage 2 now - add 3 points to your attributes (Physical, Coordination, Academic, etc), with no more than 2 points going to any one attribute, and with a maximum of 5 points in total to any one attribute. All your attributes start at 2, remember, so points added from stage 1 and stage 2 are in addition to the base 2 for each one.

You may want to make sure that between the three of you, you have a decent enough attribute rating for each attribute, so that you have all bases covered, unless you want to be particularly deficient in a particular area collectively for the sake of roleplaying.

After this, calculate your Health (Highest and lowest scores of your Physical, Coordination, and Perception attributes added together), and your Sanity (highest and lowest scores of your Academic, Scientific, and Social scores added together).

I submitted a WIP character sheet (using the template), to track all these as we progress

I'm so sorry for ghosting for a while! life, amiright? I'm back and not going anywhere for a while if you'll have me! Please let me know if you think my character is too similar to Dr. Gabriel Walker and I can try to sort something else out. tho given my backup idea was a Librarian using Professor stats I might have to brainstorm a bit.