Due to the rather obvious fact that there appears to be no COC games set in 1920s China on this forum, and the relative success of running a mini-campaign with my friends set in this era. I've decided to do something similar on this site. It is almost completely homebrewed, so I may adjust the plot based on the number of people showing interest. It is completely okay to use old characters as long the Mythos knowledge is under 10. To maximise the experience, please make sure that if you are playing a Chinese character, then you'll have to have at least 60% in Other language: English as that makes the story more realistic and less of a headache as compared to a Chinese character travelling with foreign characters without any knowledge of what they're saying. Last thing to watch out is Credit Rating, please have a Credit Rating of at least 45 or higher if you plan to RP a foreigner that isn't an illegal stowaway on a boat.
Custom professions is a-okay as long as you contact me first. You can be an acupuncturist, herbalist, mystic, or anything else era-appropriate as long as you ask first.
Please comment below if you're interested.
Premise: On the lunar calendar, it is the twelfth of July, 1920; in three days' time, the good people of China will celebrate 中元節, the festival of the dead. On this day, it generally considered a good idea to burn paper money as offerings to the dead, make offerings to your ancestors, and the dead in general, to comfort them in the afterlife and keep them from troubling the living. It is also during this month that the 阴气, the aura of death (rough translation, don't burn me at the stake), is at the strongest and the dead can cross over to the living realm. You are here in Beijing (Peking at the time, I believe) to observe the festival of the dead. Something is brewing...
House Rules (homebrewed, not canon with the rulebook. Assume every other rule is made in 6th edition):
- Psychic/ESP abilities. During this time, the cultural revolution has yet to happen Taoism, Buddhism, Tibetan Buddhism, and Hinduism are all there in the melting-pot that is 1920s China, before the government decided to crack down on mystic beliefs. You can learn psychic abilities and use them (at the cost of your SAN points), acquire talismans, craft ceremonial artefacts using eastern knowledge, etc. ALL at the permanent cost of SAN and POW. Be very careful there.
- No Investigator are allowed to be in possession of more than six items at any given time.
- A sixth sense for Mythos activity will automatically develop when your Mythos Knowledge hits 10 or above.
Please, no guns. I still haven't gotten my head around it yet.It's okay to use guns, I got my head around gun rules (somewhat). Sub-machine guns, on the other hand...- If you're alone during nighttime, on a street, there's a 72% chance that you'll enter dreamland and very possibly die.
- Any and all in-game objective are secondary to survival. It will be difficult to complete this without at least one person dying.
- Infighting can and will occur. When you least expect it to happen.
- The police can and will appear and mess you up if you have a Credit Rating of lower than 40%, even to this day, police brutality towards others is still a thing in some parts of the world.
- Yes. If Beijing doesn't work out well, the location will be transport elsewhere in China.
- Don't be an ass. Seriously, just don't.
- If you see any contradictions or anything that could be fleshed out more. PM me.