Call of Cthulhu - Day of the Beast

[ONL]

@Dusty As long as you're open for learning, I'm more than happy to let you in ^^

I guess I'll be posting the OOC tomorrow sometime, and we get slowly get working on your characters. Please ask me questions and ask me for help if and when you'll need it, this is a learning experience for all of us.

[Cu Chulainn]

@ONL One question actually! Are you accepting certain experience bonuses based on professions? I remember in past editions, if you were, say, a military veteran or a police officer, you wouldn't lose sanity at the site of a dead body. Is it the same in this edition, or does it work differently now?

[ONL]

@Cu Chulainn To answer your question, yes, I'm allowing experienced investigators in that manner. I mean you'll lose some Sanity for having experienced it before, but at the start you'll be mostly immune to it. Just make sure to add it to the character sheet during character creation. I'll go over and scrutinize the CS later ;)

[Cu Chulainn]

Here's my dice page, posting it here for posterity. At the time of posting, it's empty, and labeled without a name since my character's name depends wholly on how I roll and beyond ;)

[Dusty]

When the rolls, for example the strength roll is a 3d6 X 5, does that mean a 3d6 multiplied by five, or 3d6 rolled five times and take the best one?

[Yankee]

When the rolls, for example the strength roll is a 3d6 X 5, does that mean a 3d6 multiplied by five, or 3d6 rolled five times and take the best one?

@Dusty

The result of 3d6 then multiplied by 5! In CoC rolling is based on percentile (d100), so the higher your skill is, the better, because you'll want to roll under it. For the attributes, I think for most 50 is "average" so for example if you roll 3d6 and get 18, times 5 you'd be at 90 - almost super human, or well above the average.

[Dusty]

Ah, many thanks Yankee.

On another note I'm thinking about making a combat oriented character, most likely a former Marine from the war and current prohibition officer who suspects the "haunted" house is just a guise for a speakeasy.

[ONL]

Here's my dice page, posting it here for posterity. At the time of posting, it's empty, and labeled without a name since my character's name depends wholly on how I roll and beyond ;)

@Cu Chulainn

Excellent, looks like a well-rounded character so far (except the luck, sorry about that).

Ah, many thanks Yankee.

On another note I'm thinking about making a combat oriented character, most likely a former Marine from the war and current prohibition officer who suspects the "haunted" house is just a guise for a speakeasy.

@Dusty

That sounds a good and fun character right there, might steal that concept for myself sometime later haha! Then your character would probably have gotten used to seeing dead bodies and the like, though lost some sanity from his experiences. We can get to that once we're really into building your character, but essentially he gets an "Experienced Investigator" package since he was in the war.

@Yankee Good to have someone who can be of assistence when I'm sleeping, dreaming about Cthulhu. Thanks ^^

I'll go post the OOC within the week and really get down and dirty with character creation soon! Probably will put up a Discord for us if that's okay by you all?

[Cu Chulainn]

Alrighty, so I rolled painfully average... and by that, I mean I rolled completely average except for both my physical and metaphysical survivability, which I rolled very low for. Not sure what to be just yet since I'm more or less average, aside from someone who definitely won't be in the thick of danger.

[ONL]

I'm sure we'll find something befitting those stats, something you'll still enjoy playing. Would you like me to think of somethng for you?

And push comes to shove, we can always offer him up to the Elder Gods and roll up a new and improved character. Pluss like you said, can give him some more skills by giving him the experience package if he's been through some shit before.

[Cu Chulainn]

Oh, I'm fine with my current stats! I'm just not sure what to go, honestly. Kind of on the fence between making a Cult Leader in the Charles Manson sense and a Catholic priest that, for all intents and purposes, acts as a Hollywood exorcist just to see him powerless against the powers from the cosmos.

[ONL]

Hmm, could I possibly entice you to favour the catholic Hollywood priest then? Might fit snuggly in with the plot of the first chapter. Also I already banned Charles Manson from ever talking to me again, so kind of defeats that :P

[ONL]

@Cu Chulainn@Dusty@Yankee@rivaan

OOC is posted! Click on the link and let's move the conversation over there: https://www.roleplayerguild.com/topics/181498-call-of-cthulhu-day-of-the-beast-chapter-one-suffer-little-children/ooc

Also going to invite you all to the Discord server I've set up. It's still rudimentary, but might be easier to communicate quickly there. Also thinking of how to make the CS a little easier to handle with the real CSs from Chaosium or something. Will figure something out eventually.