In my old Cuthulu games, a skill in Lovecraft would have meant something very different!
Cue old gaming story: When I used to teach in Cumbria I ran a CoC game for a bunch of 6th Formers. It became quite popular and one night a couple of new comers were sitting in when the party encountered a set piece with the Great Beast himself, Aleistair Crowley, one of the girls perked up and said, "He's my Great Uncle".
That pretty much freaked all the old school gamers out, apparently Crowley's brother moved to Canada to escape all the hype and years later his son came back to the UK and started a family. It was a funny moment, like when we watched the US Marshalls film and realised that Gotham and Golgotha were actually places quite close to each other in the US.
As for hobby skills, I like that idea and we'll look into it in the final preparation session.
The group of soviets in a ruined castle's a nice idea, I might make that the way post instead of the abandoned refinery I have at the moment. i have loads of floorplans for castles (an advantage of living in Wales where we have more castles per square mile than anywhere else in the world apparently).
I appreciate all of this stuff, it's helping get the creative juices going, but none linked to Lovecraft.
By the way, couldn't virgins have a variant skill of self-Lovecraft, or is that below the level of granularity even for Harnmaster?
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