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  • IcalasariIcalasari
    No rainbow star

    Blorble HOW DID ALEX GET SUCH GOOD ROLLS!?

  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.

    Juan, the Lovecraftian setting is one in which magic is evil and science is evil and humanity can never win. It's like a survival horror where your death is inevitable. It's what you do with that time that's given to you. /gandalf



    Oh, I knew that. I just tried to guess based on the numbers what I could or could not do. --shrug--

  • IcalasariIcalasari
    No rainbow star

    Wait, does technology have a chance of causing insanity like magic does in Call of Cthulhu?

  • ClockworkUniverseClockworkUniverse
    edited 2012-02-21 16:41:36
    OOOooooOoOoOOoo, I'm a ghoOooOooOOOost!

    ^No, it's more that after a certain point, understanding more about the universe means understanding more about the weirdness of the universe and insignificance of humanity.



    Blorble HOW DID ALEX GET SUCH GOOD ROLLS!?



    They're not that much better than yours...



    In any case, my character's the lazy son of a well-to-do family whose major skill has always been scrounging up money from somewhere. He's bored, though, and is financially set up enough that there's no need to do anything in particular to safeguard his survival. Yet. His only displayable skill has been at fencing, the only activity he ever particularly took to with any sort of academic focus. 



    I can work with that ^_^

  • IcalasariIcalasari
    No rainbow star

    *Tempted to make my character an expy of me* Although strength is off in reference to me if I go that path


     


    And =/ I just realized that I have fairly low sanity. Any way to raise that throughout the game, or am I fucked?

  • ForzareForzare
    Till shade is gone, till water is gone, into the Shadow with teeth bared, screaming defiance with the last breath, to spit in Sightblinder’s eye on the last Day.
    As I understand it, everyone is fucked in CoC.



    Everyone.
  • IcalasariIcalasari
    No rainbow star

    Well, I mean fucked as in fucked more roughly



    I'm seeing the sanity as equivalent to lube. You're going to get fucked, but how badly you get fucked can change

  • ClockworkUniverseClockworkUniverse
    OOOooooOoOoOOoo, I'm a ghoOooOooOOOost!

    Sanity can be raised in a few ways. But not at character creation.

  • NovaNova
    If you must eat a phoenix, boil it, do not roast it. This only encourages their mischievous habits.

    Strength- 17
    Constitution- 13
    Power- 13
    Dexterity- 7 D:
    Appearance- 12


    Size- 12
    Intelligence- 14


    Education- 16 

  • IcalasariIcalasari
    edited 2012-02-21 17:00:13
    No rainbow star

    In what ways can it be raised?


    I'm guessing that staying the hell away from magic and Eldritch Abominations is a good start


     


    ^ And I think we have... A strong, clutzy, intelligent person by the looks of that


    I'm imagining that roll as my brother for some reason O.o;

  • ClockworkUniverseClockworkUniverse
    OOOooooOoOoOOoo, I'm a ghoOooOooOOOost!

    Taking a nice relaxing vacation is one.


    If one of your skills increases above 90% during the campaign, you get some sanity from the satisfaction of mastering whatever it is.

  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.

    Anyway, my idea of a character is basically a guy in his late teens (18-19) who just came out of school and is starting a degree in criminalistics and forensic science. His dad is a police officer and his mom is a lawyer, so he lived with a degree of privilege, yet some street smarts thanks to his dad teaching him stuff about police work, from paper work to patrolling. 


    does that work? 

  • IcalasariIcalasari
    No rainbow star

    Oh, I know! My character could be a tech geek who is into the occult, horror, etc. He obsesses over it a bit too much (I'm trying to explain the lower sanity he has with that), so he isn't all there, always thinking about the stuff



    Hopefully this would also make him useful at detecting when things are going to go south fast and will make an attempt to get out of there before he ends up eaten or something. I'd probably also make him try to avoid doing something like magic directly, but try to rig machines to do it for him (as an example - I doubt I'll be stupid enough to make him try anything involving magic until his sanity has been raised a bit)

  • ClockworkUniverseClockworkUniverse
    edited 2012-02-21 17:14:51
    OOOooooOoOoOOoo, I'm a ghoOooOooOOOost!

    ^^That sounds good.



    (I'm trying to explain the lower sanity he has with that)



    You don't need to. Power kinda represents starting sanity in terms of how inherently strong your character's will is, not in terms of how much sanity he's lost.


    Anyway, next up, derived stats. 



    • Sanity = Power*5.

    • Idea=Intelligence*5

    • Luck=Power*5

    • Knowledge=Education*5

    • Maximum Sanity Points = 99- your Cthulhu Mythos skill (which is 0), and is thus 99.

    • Damage bonus depends on Strength plus Size. If it's twelve or less, it's -1d6, if it's 13-16, it's -1d4, if it's 17-24, it's 0, if it's 25-32, it's +1d4, and if it's above that, it's +1d6.

    • HP is the average of size and constitution, rounded up if that's a fraction.

    • Magic Points = Power

    • Sanity Points = Sanity

  • NovaNova
    edited 2012-02-21 17:16:15
    If you must eat a phoenix, boil it, do not roast it. This only encourages their mischievous habits.

    Sanity = 65 (woo)


    Idea = 70 (woo)


    Luck = 65 (woo)


    Knowledge = 80 (woo)


    Max Sanity Points- 99


    Damage- +1d4


    HP- 13


    Magic Points- 13


    Sanity Points- 65

  • ClockworkUniverseClockworkUniverse
    OOOooooOoOoOOoo, I'm a ghoOooOooOOOost!

    HP- what



    It's (Constitution+size)divided by 2. If that has a ".5" on the end, just round it up.

  • IcalasariIcalasari
    edited 2012-02-21 17:15:43
    No rainbow star

    I'd have expected Knowledge to use Education as well...


     


    Sanity 30/99 (...Ouch)
    Idea 50
    Luck 30
    Knowledge 55
    Damage Bonus -1d4
    HP 8/8
    MP 6/6
    SP 30/99


     


    That right?

  • NovaNova
    If you must eat a phoenix, boil it, do not roast it. This only encourages their mischievous habits.

    13 HP, then.

  • ClockworkUniverseClockworkUniverse
    OOOooooOoOoOOoo, I'm a ghoOooOooOOOost!

    Shit, typo. Knowledge is education*5 >.>

  • IcalasariIcalasari
    No rainbow star

    Fixed my knowledge score :D

  • ClockworkUniverseClockworkUniverse
    OOOooooOoOoOOoo, I'm a ghoOooOooOOOost!

    Anyway, Ica, your stats are wrong because for some reason you listed your characteristics without adding the +6 to size and intelligence and the +3 to education :V


    And I think Alex did that too, though I could be wrong and he just got really, really bad rolls for all of those.

  • NovaNova
    If you must eat a phoenix, boil it, do not roast it. This only encourages their mischievous habits.

    Which just bumps me from 70 to 80!

  • IcalasariIcalasari
    No rainbow star

    ...So I don't list base stats? And my stats go off of my base+bonus?

  • ClockworkUniverseClockworkUniverse
    OOOooooOoOoOOoo, I'm a ghoOooOooOOOost!

    What do you mean "base stats?" The additions are part of the die roll to determine your stats. You listed stats below your base stats for those characteristics.

  • NovaNova
    If you must eat a phoenix, boil it, do not roast it. This only encourages their mischievous habits.

    The +6 and +3 are part of your base stats.

  • IcalasariIcalasari
    No rainbow star

    I meant that base stats as in before adding the +6 and +3


     


    Sanity 60/99
    Idea 80
    Luck 60
    Knowledge 70
    Damage Bonus +1d4
    HP 14/14
    MP 12/12
    SP 60/99


     


    Better?

  • ForzareForzare
    Till shade is gone, till water is gone, into the Shadow with teeth bared, screaming defiance with the last breath, to spit in Sightblinder’s eye on the last Day.
    I guess I'm joining up, so hey guys.



    I'm EST, I have a wildly inconsistent sleep schedule and no job, and very few obligations that I know about ahead of time.



    Take that as you will. :V
  • ClockworkUniverseClockworkUniverse
    OOOooooOoOoOOoo, I'm a ghoOooOooOOOost!

    The reason those stats have numbers added is because it wouldn't make sense or would be really difficult for them to be low. For example, if Size was just a 3d6 roll, you could wind up with a one-foot-tall person, which wouldn't make much sense.


    Yeah, that looks right.

  • NovaNova
    If you must eat a phoenix, boil it, do not roast it. This only encourages their mischievous habits.

    Better?



    you have more health than me I hate you ;-;

  • MyrmidonMyrmidon
    edited 2012-02-21 17:25:35

    Strength = 8


    Constitution = 10


    Power = 11


    Dexterity = 7


    Appearance = 11


    Size = 12


    Intelligence =17


    Is it too late to get into the Victorian game?

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