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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Barastrondo" data-source="post: 5295964" data-attributes="member: 3820">Well, it could be done, but I daresay that either Call of Cthulhu or the "romantic comedy" aspect would come in sufficient conflict that one of them would have to win. That said, I would run a not-nearly-serious-enough-to-be-canon game of Call of Cthulhu based on the Drones Club in an instant.This is true, but — somewhat to my interested surprise — the peripheral activities can make an impression on the player's perception of their character's growth quite out of proportion of the amount of energy and resources the party invests. Long-winded example time! One party of adventurers had sailed across the sea to visit an Arabian fantasy region, in pursuit of a hated foe. When one PC was told by a prudish hotel-keeper that said hostess would not permit men and women to share the same rooms ("I am not running a house of assignation!"), the party invested no energy or resources into the problem. It affected the actual hunt for their enemy, and the dealings with a new local ally, not at all. But it put the PC in a terrible mood, distanced her slightly from her NPC lover, made her think the worst of another female NPC who wound up striking a friendly conversation with him, and finally — when he fell in heroic combat with said foe — the fact that she'd been spending the last week or so in sulky, resentful distance from him made her loss hurt all the more keenly.It being a D&D game, of course, they had the opportunity to resurrect him — it took fighting off valkyries in Limbo and pulling a heist in the City of Brass for components, because I'm of the "just because you can doesn't mean it should be easy or, god forbid, boring" school — but just that little bit of invested attention made for a damned impressive twist to the story. (And fear not, no rails were roaded in the course of this story. Said NPC's death was entirely dice-related, right down to the natural 1 on the Heal check a PC made to save him at the last possible minute.)DO EEEEET.Granted, but I consider that a strength of the game — and of roleplaying in general — that it's not only possible, but not really contradicted. WotC ran an April Fool's joke recently that talked about how "You might want to wear a funny hat. But there's never been rules before for that before now. Because you've never needed them." And I confess, it's true. I believe many of us have been wearing funny hats without rule support for quite some time.(Except the hat of stupidity. That had rules. And was a mean, mean trick to play on a poor vain tiefling.)</blockquote>

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