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I am new to CoC having just run a game, trouble is I will always be the keeper in our group and will never get to play. So here I am, all ready with my dice looking for someone to take on a first time player.
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Welcome, Vladd! I've validated you, so now you can post on the game boards. You'd be welcome to join my games, and I'm more than happy to take on new players. All of my games are well underway and only one is currently active. That one is The Shadow Over Dunwich, the third adventure in my Doctor Who/Call of Cthulhu campaign, which is a UNIT adventure set in 1985 Dunwich, England. No knowledge of the first two adventures is needed to play, but you can read them in the Hall of Fame if you like. You don't even need to do any catching up if you join, as I can introduce a new UNIT character at this point. No knowledge of Doctor Who is required, and there's a thread detailing everything you need to know about UNIT. If you don't mind doing back reading, there are a couple of abandoned characters, and you could take over one. We're approaching the endgame, which will hopefully be completed within a few months. After that, I plan to start the fourth adventure, a Cthulhu Invictus scenario set in the late Roman Republic that I call The Brotherhood of Death. However, I doubt that will start until next year.

I also run Zombie Apocalypse, a modern near-future non-Mythos game, though with a similar mythology. However, only one of the players has posted since mid-August. There was also Space Oddity, based on Life on Mars/Ashes to Ashes and set in 1969 Philadelphia, but that has been dead for several months, as all of the players have disappeared.

There are a number of other games here, some of which are looking for new players. You can look in "I'm Thinking of Running a Game..." and "Existing Games Looking for Players."
Doctor Who/CoC Campaign:
(viewforum.php?f=176)The Terror Out of Time
(viewforum.php?f=191)]The Ninth Planet
The Shadow Over Dunwich
The Brotherhood of Death
The Horror in the Blackout
The Masque of Nyarlathotep
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For The Shadow Over Dunwich
Player: Vladd
Name: Peter Rock
Age 52
Sex: Male
Occupation: Intelligence Officer
Current Residence: Soho London
Colleges: Sandhurst
Birthplace: Northampton England
Home Era: 1980s

Characteristics
STR: 18
CON: 11
SIZ: 10
DEX: 13
APP: 8
INT: 15 (Idea - 75)
POW: 11 (Luck - 70)
EDU: 20 (Know - 99)

SANITY: 70
Phobias/Mental Disorders: None
Max SAN 99
HP: 11
MP: 14
DB +1d4

Background
After serving in the Korean War Rock transferred to Military Intelligence where he had a varied career including a spell in BRIXMIS playing chase and hide and seek with the STASI in East Germany. Finally reaching the rank of Major he left the army and joined MI5 in 1972. Here he served on the Soviet desk working closely with Special Branch in tracking down Soviet agents in the UK. Seeking a new challenge in his career Rock accepted secondment to UNIT, where he now works as a civilian agent.

Skills
Accounting 50
Bargain 50
Credit rating 60
Law 50
Navigate 60
Persuade 60
Psychology 60
Hand Gun 50

Spot Hidden 50
Other Language
German 50
Russian 50

I hope this is ok as a character.
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Looks good! There are just a few things that need to be fixed:
If your POW is 11, your Luck and starting Sanity should be 55, not 70, and your Magic Points should be 11. If your POW is actually 14 and you typed 11 by mistake, then the other things are okay.

You've shortchanged yourself on skill points. By my count you've spent 355 occupational skill points, but you get 400 with 20 EDU. You've also only spent 123 out of 150 hobby skill points. I think you're not taking into account that you get skills at the base level for free, and any points you spend add to those base levels.
Doctor Who/CoC Campaign:
(viewforum.php?f=176)The Terror Out of Time
(viewforum.php?f=191)]The Ninth Planet
The Shadow Over Dunwich
The Brotherhood of Death
The Horror in the Blackout
The Masque of Nyarlathotep
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You're right I typed 11 instead of 14 for POW, with the skills add 5 to the first 7 skills and 10 to the last one, for the hobby skills add the rest to swim. You're right I made the rookie mistake of not including the base values.
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Great, all set! I should be able to post your character sheet and get you started in an In Character thread tonight, or failing that, tomorrow.
Doctor Who/CoC Campaign:
(viewforum.php?f=176)The Terror Out of Time
(viewforum.php?f=191)]The Ninth Planet
The Shadow Over Dunwich
The Brotherhood of Death
The Horror in the Blackout
The Masque of Nyarlathotep
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Great looking forward to it
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Your thread is up and running here. You may post whenever you're ready.
Doctor Who/CoC Campaign:
(viewforum.php?f=176)The Terror Out of Time
(viewforum.php?f=191)]The Ninth Planet
The Shadow Over Dunwich
The Brotherhood of Death
The Horror in the Blackout
The Masque of Nyarlathotep
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I notice you changed one of my other languages from Russian to French, was there a reason or just a slip?
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That was I mistake. I just fixed it.
Doctor Who/CoC Campaign:
(viewforum.php?f=176)The Terror Out of Time
(viewforum.php?f=191)]The Ninth Planet
The Shadow Over Dunwich
The Brotherhood of Death
The Horror in the Blackout
The Masque of Nyarlathotep
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