New game in the planning: advice welcome.

[pmulcahy11b]

Originally Posted by headquarters

we usually allow for PCs to have a specialty skill of 1D10 points in a skill that is thought to be irrelevant to the game as such .favourites include musical instruments ,oil painting ,us civil war history ,computer game expert,football trivia etc just to flesh it out a little.

In in a few instances the skill is a good opener with NPcs and the tuning of a banjo in the back of an IFV can lead to tension among the players who need the rest and those who dont have any fatigue.

My merc character was a US civil war buff , Willis char in our T2k campaign plays the banjo (poorly ) etc

I had a player who wanted to know how good at sex his character was. I told him to roll a d100 (it was v1 rules), and he rolled a 14 -- in other words, he sucked. (Or maybe he didn't...)

[Targan]

Originally Posted by pmulcahy11b

I had a player who wanted to know how good at sex his character was. I told him to roll a d100 (it was v1 rules), and he rolled a 14 -- in other words, he sucked. (Or maybe he didn't...)

Harnmaster (and therefore Gunmaster) has a skill called Lovecraft which everyone who isn't a virgin has open. The best Lovecraft skill level in my campaign belonged to Corporal Virgil Morris Price, a Canadian infantryman who was the star of several dozen X rated films before the Twilight War.

[simonmark6]

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?

[Targan]

Originally Posted by simonmark6

By the way, couldn't virgins have a variant skill of self-Lovecraft, or is that below the level of granularity even for Harnmaster?

That has been the subject of much discussion over the years. Some skills such as Lore/Craft skills in Harnmaster can have specialities once a certain skill level is reached so I guess you could have Lovecraft (Self). Kind of pointless though. I think it is safe to assume that most characters that are concious and not paralysed can effectively pleasure themselves if they feel the need. Haven't had it happen in an RPG session yet though (and hope I never will).

[simonmark6]

I most sincerely hope you are correct in that, the mind boggles at the thought.

[Raellus]

Originally Posted by pmulcahy11b

I had a player who wanted to know how good at sex his character was. I told him to roll a d100 (it was v1 rules), and he rolled a 14 -- in other words, he sucked. (Or maybe he didn't...)

Or maybe he did...

This discussion of "self-love" rules belongs in the T2K forum hall of fame (or is it hall of shame?) for weird discussion topics. Quite amusing.

Simonmark6, good luck with your FtF sessions.

[simonmark6]

Thanks, I just hope I'll be able to run something that comes a little bit close to the fun I have in your game.