Surfmonkey's genre-busting d20 homebrew -- opinions/ideas needed

[SurfMonkey01]

So I just had this brainfart... I've got an idea for a massive homebrew that's everything but the kitchen sink... start the players off with a Call of Cthulhu-designed character (classless)... keep track of their sanity from behind the scenes so they don't think you're using Mythos stuff... soon the fit hits the shan, and they are brought into "the Agency." Here they can pick up classes from Spycraft and Shadowforce Archer. Play the game as kind of the X-files-meets-007-meets-John Woo for a while, then let the other shoe drop and begin to show the Cthulhu and Delta Green components in all their glory. Right now this is all a rough idea, but I see huge conspiracies, badass espionage action, in-depth investigation, intense roleplaying, and extreme terror. So, what do all of you think of this? Yay or nay?

 

[ATO_DM]

Could be cool if you can pull it off. Since you are keeping track of their sanity behind the screen you could have the PCs hallucinate or have in-game reprucussions of the insanity without the players' knowledge. The players will probably interpret the by-products of their insanity as monsters or villains using magic against them. All the while npcs can call them crazy, merely reinforcing the PCs belief that there is some greater power attempting to decieve them. But alas they are merely poor madmen.

 

[dglass]

Once the players 'know' that its a CoC game you can mess with their heads some more. You might want to drop hints that the agency is secretly being controlled by aliens who want to weaken earth before invading it. The PCs might even catch a fleeting glimpse of a willowy figure with very dark skin, stark white hair, and blood red eyes wearing a black military-style uniform. The players should never be sure if its for real or not. Until the drop ships land. After the major cities have been leveled the Drow ISPD agent thanks them for their unknowing assistance in pacifying the planet. It would have been much harder had the Outsider influence gone unchecked. You might want to play the Imperial March theme from star wars while you welcome them to the Dragon Empire.

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

These ideas are great.

 

[HalfElfSorcerer]

The players are recruited into a fairly massive agency. They are told they are on the top, and are in charge of eliminating certain other members to keep them from breaking the Agency's cover. Rather, they are really assigned to put some threats to the invasion out of the way.