Cthulhu by Gaslight d20: It's Alive!!

[Sherlock]

darn, just spotted this today and it seems you are already full. if someone drops, let me know. I'd love to play. I've been wanting to run or play in a CoC game, but my group too has too many things going right now to squeeze it in.

Yangnome,
Your the first alternate, so if anyone drops you got their spot!

 

[DrZombie]

Cmon people, get those characters goin', cthulhu is getting hungry. There's an entire world of madness and pain eagerly awaiting your first hartbeats......

 

[flyingricepaddy]

Character's almost done, but I've changed the occupation to Doctor. Now, I'd like to keep the background I had going, more or less: he was going to be a priest, but lost his faith, left the church, and became a doctor instead. Problem is, I get the impression that the Irish in London tend to be very very poor, which makes me wonder if a University of London-educated Irish doctor makes any sense for the setting.

Sherlock, whaddya think?

 

[yangnome]

Cool, sounds good. I have a concept in mind if you wind up with an opening. If you do have someone drop, please send an email to myusername@myusername.com (substituting my user name of course... That way I'll be sure to see that there is an opening. Thanks.

 

[DrZombie]

Character's almost done, but I've changed the occupation to Doctor. Now, I'd like to keep the background I had going, more or less: he was going to be a priest, but lost his faith, left the church, and became a doctor instead. Problem is, I get the impression that the Irish in London tend to be very very poor, which makes me wonder if a University of London-educated Irish doctor makes any sense for the setting.

Sherlock, whaddya think?

You could be a n,orthern irish protestant, they could have some money, off course, they aren't priests lol

 

[Sherlock]

Character's almost done, but I've changed the occupation to Doctor. Now, I'd like to keep the background I had going, more or less: he was going to be a priest, but lost his faith, left the church, and became a doctor instead. Problem is, I get the impression that the Irish in London tend to be very very poor, which makes me wonder if a University of London-educated Irish doctor makes any sense for the setting.

Sherlock, whaddya think?

I don't see any problem with a London Educated Irish Doctor.

 

[Douane]

Sherlock,

I've skimmed the CoC D20 book on the issue of weapon proficiencies, but didn't found what I was looking for. (Perhaps it's just my eyes. )

Do starting characters gain any weapon profs. automatically ? I don't think so as I found nothing on this, but I thought that it would be better to ask you.


BTW, would you accept feats from other d20 sources? As seen my PC has only spent one feat so far, because I didn't see anything that really caught my eye (and combat feats don't make much sense for him).


Thanks!

Folkert

 

[Sherlock]

Sherlock,

I've skimmed the CoC D20 book on the issue of weapon proficiencies, but didn't found what I was looking for. (Perhaps it's just my eyes. )

Do starting characters gain any weapon profs. automatically ? I don't think so as I found nothing on this, but I thought that it would be better to ask you.


BTW, would you accept feats from other d20 sources? As seen my PC has only spent one feat so far, because I didn't see anything that really caught my eye (and combat feats don't make much sense for him).


Thanks!

Folkert

As for weapon proficiencies, offensive option characters start with one weapon proficiency. Defensive option characters do not start with any. You have to purchase them with feats.

I will be willing to allow feats from other d20 sources such as d20 Modern. Just ask me if it is ok.

 

[Sherlock]

There seems to be a bit of confusion on languages.

You don't start with extra languages based on your INT bonus.

Speak Other Language skill is used instead. It is treated like any other skill. It is INT based. Each different language requires a seperate Speak Other Language skill. A character knows his native language and does not require any checks when using that language.

For Example:

Speak Latin 2 Ranks
Speak French 5 Ranks
Speak Arabic 1 Rank

As long as you have at least one rank in the language you can speak, write, and read that language. Though the higher you bonus the better you can understand and speak language.

I am going to add a House Rule concerning Languages as several characters know several different languages. You gain 1 rank of Speak Other Language for every point of INT bonus the character knows. These ranks can be split up as you wish.

 

[Douane]

You don't start with extra languages based on your INT bonus.

Not to contradict your ruling for this game, Sherlock, but according to Call of Chtulhu D20, p. 8, "You apply your character's intelligence modifier to the following: 1. The number of languages your character knows at the start of the game."


Folkert