Improvised Trail of Cthulhu?

[jabonko]

I would be interested in running an improvised game of Trail of Cthulhu for a group experienced players with a familiarity with Trail of Cthulhu. For information on how I plan to try an improvised ToC game, please refer to Improvising with Gumshoe from Pelgrane Press. Also refer to Trail of Cthulhu on the Fly on the Yog-Sothoth.com forums.

[Gaffer]

All rright, jabonko, you rrrogue, I'll play yourr game.

Seriously, I got ToC at Origins and have created four characters and am working through the examples of play, etc. So if this happens, I'd like in.

[jabonko]

Excellent.

I'd like to keep the group small. So one-three players would be ideal. We'll see what happens.

[jabonko]

Currently at two players:
Gaffer
AirborneXO

I think I'll wait until closer to the end of the week to see if anyone else is interested, then I'll start the game over the weekend. Sound good?

[Big Dutch]

Should be okay for me.

I will be moving house over the next month, but it's always something, innit?

[jabonko]

Currently at three players:
Gaffer
AirborneXO
Big Dutch

I'd like to start the game as soon as we have our forum section. If you think you need to drop out, please let us know. Since this is an improv game, it should be relatively easy to have players drop in/out when needed.

[Big Dutch]

OOOPS!

I am both Gaffer and Big Dutch.

I forget to log on and off, so it's just you plus two, jabonko.

[jabonko]

LOL. That's fine. :-p I was confused

[coffee demon]

This sounds cool - it'll force me to really read the ToC rules carefully.

Jabonko, how often are you expecting people to post?

Is there room for one more?

[Big Dutch]

What sort of characters are we looking for? Will they start out knowing one another?

ToC suggests a balancing of skills, will we attempt that?

[jabonko]

Coffee Demon: plenty of room, welcome aboard!
Frequency of posts: to keep the game alive I think a minimum of one every day or two. But it would be awesome if we could get more.
Character creation: I want to wait to handle that until we've discussed theme and such. We'll be doing it semi collaboratively.
Balance of Skills: It's a good idea. But if you look at the "ToC on the fly" article and forum thread, you'll see that we're gonna cater the adventure to the skillsets we have. So if no one has Art History, we won't be looking at a lot of paintings. If everyone has Library Use, we'll probably be in a library a lot.

[A42]

I'm interested. If you decide to go for 4 players (or if you lose someone) please let me know. I've been itching to try my hand at ToC for a while...


--john

[jabonko]

Let's call it at four players. I'm excited to get started, and we can start once we have a forum section.

The player list as it stands:
Gaffer (AKA Big Dutch)
AirBorneXO
CoffeeDemon
A42

[A42]

Woo-hoo! Thanks for the heads-up, Gaffer.


--j

[coffee demon]

Yikes, I have some reading to do! Trail of Cthulhu, here we come!

I'll be away for the weekend, but will be back for posting early next week.

-Jay

[Big Dutch]

Hang on, jabonko, aren't you playing a character too?

[jabonko]

Hang on, jabonko, aren't you playing a character too?

I will be, yes. Five. We're at five.

Our sixth weapon is an unwavering faith in...

[jabonko]

We have a forum! Unscripted Terror. We can come up with a better/different title later if we want.

[Big Dutch]

We have a forum! Unscripted Terror. We can come up with a better/different title later if we want.

I like it.