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Here's the obligatory OOC Topic. Post Absence Announcements, random stuff that doesn't belong in the game, and other such nonsense. There's no such thing s a stupid question; ask me or Leestriter if you have enquiries.

I'll be checking over and handling character sheets.

Great.

Character creation rolls:
STR, CON, POW, DEX, APP:
[dice]0[/dice]
[dice]1[/dice]
[dice]2[/dice]
[dice]3[/dice]
[dice]4[/dice]
SIZ, INT:
[dice]5[/dice]
[dice]6[/dice]
EDU:
[dice]7[/dice]
Personal Wealth:
[dice]8[/dice]
I won't have time tonight to finish creating my character, but I should tomorrow. Am I allowed to rearrange my rolls between different stats rolled on the same dice, or do they need to be taken in order? I like most of them where they are anyway, so I probably won't swap more than a couple.

Feel free to swap them around! I trust that you won't fudge the stats. Take as much time as you want! We aren't running a tight schedule here since there's not a lot of players yet. Take your time and try and create the best character possible.

Great to have the first sheet submitted, and it looks good.

My character sheet is partway done, but I haven't had time (or sleep) lately. I have something that I absolutely have to get done first this weekend, but if I have time left after that I'll finish it then.

Mr. Handy wrote:My character sheet is partway done, but I haven't had time (or sleep) lately. I have something that I absolutely have to get done first this weekend, but if I have time left after that I'll finish it then.

No worries!

HelplessBystander wrote:Feel free to swap them around! I trust that you won't fudge the stats. Take as much time as you want! We aren't running a tight schedule here since there's not a lot of players yet. Take your time and try and create the best character possible.

Hey this is a Call of Cthulhu game! Do you really think stats are going to be much use to us against the unimaginable horrors out there?

crawlingchaosfan wrote:

HelplessBystander wrote:Feel free to swap them around! I trust that you won't fudge the stats. Take as much time as you want! We aren't running a tight schedule here since there's not a lot of players yet. Take your time and try and create the best character possible.

Hey this is a Call of Cthulhu game! Do you really think stats are going to be much use to us against the unimaginable horrors out there?

Again, it's not. But stats encourage role-playing, such as an APP of 4 would make your Character the human equivalent of a Deep One and an APP of 3 might make NPCs lose SAN...

Exactly. I've only swapped two stats, STR and DEX, which is just a shift of one point for each, but it fits my character a little better. Everything else is fine where it is.

A Deep One would have an APP of 0. A Deep One Hybrid that's fairly far gone might have an APP of 3 or 4.

Depends on te context for APP. Is it scaled with a human's aesthetic tastes or an impartial ranking of unpleasant attributes to the vast majority. Because the way I see it, ranking it like this would imply Dagon have an APP Attribute of -2. Which doesn't make sense. An app of 0 is just a gelatinous blob of execretory slime. APP of 1 should be either Nyarlathotep's unappealing howler or bloody tongue avatar whilst Cthulhu would be a 3. I imagine Azathoth have no APP attribute.

The rulebook does scale it to a human perspective, I think. Very few monsters even have an APP stat. Nyarlathotep's human avatars are an exception to this, and their APP is extremely high. 3-18 is the normal human range, though humans who get disfigured can end up with an APP below 3. Deep One Hybrids do have an APP stat, which is rolled on 2D6-1. The most attractive among them will have an 11, whereas they can go as low as 1 for the mostly fishy ones. for which I increase the Sanity penalties. A "normal" Deep One Hybrid has a Sanity loss of 0/1D4, but this can be higher. I've had one with an APP of 1 cause 1/1D6 Sanity loss, which is a little worse than a full Deep One's Sanity loss of 0/1D6. I chalk this up to the "uncanny valley" effect from realizing that the monster is partly human.

Mr. Handy wrote:The rulebook does scale it to a human perspective, I think. Very few monsters even have an APP stat. Nyarlathotep's human avatars are an exception to this, and their APP is extremely high. 3-18 is the normal human range, though humans who get disfigured can end up with an APP below 3. Deep One Hybrids do have an APP stat, which is rolled on 2D6-1. The most attractive among them will have an 11, whereas they can go as low as 1 for the mostly fishy ones. for which I increase the Sanity penalties. A "normal" Deep One Hybrid has a Sanity loss of 0/1D4, but this can be higher. I've had one with an APP of 1 cause 1/1D6 Sanity loss, which is a little worse than a full Deep One's Sanity loss of 0/1D6. I chalk this up to the "uncanny valley" effect from realizing that the monster is partly human.

I see...interesting proposition.

Beauty is a subjective thing.

I happen to know there are a few people in Innsmouth who find deep ones quite sexy

Oh yes, oh yesyesyesyesyes. *Pants and breathes heavily*

For anyone who doesn't know, I will be giving a helping hand on this game, sort of co-gm.

Yep. Rounds of applause for lee.

Yes, thank you.

I'm sorry I haven't had time yet to finish creating my character. I'm hoping I can get it done this coming weekend.

No worries. Spend a second much time as you want. We still want to get as many people onboard as possible.