This game will use the 7th Edition rules and the new 2018 edition of Masks of Nyarlathotep:
The adventure begins in Lima, Peru in March 1921 when a group of explorers, academics and treasure hunters have gathered to join Augustus Larkin - initially making contact after reading a newspaper article earlier in the year, or being notified of the expedition through academic or professional contacts:
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Mallet - playing a Professor in Linguistics based in Paris, France.
Mr. Handy - playing Amy Lawrence (undergraduate student of history)
HelplessBystander - playing a jack-of-all-trades Dilettante
kabukiman - playing a younger version of Michael Anderson (Archaeologist)
Silver Priest - playing a bodyguard / chaperone of HelplessBystander's investigator
I'll help handle conversion of existing characters at the same time as generation of new ones.
For converted characters: We'll convert characteristics (ie times by 5), roll for starting luck, and just re-do skill points from scratch using the 7th edition method - then any mismatch between the skills of old and new editions is sorted once and for all.
Due to the expedition based start, the new edition of Masks recommends the following list of professions for investigators: But any profession that you'd prefer could be worked in with a little work.
For the campaign, the following skills are recommended as being particularly useful, and so it would be beneficial if most of these skills were possessed by at least one investigator: Unlike previous editions of Masks, there is no need for any character to have met the author Jackson Elias prior to the game beginning. As the adventure begins four years earlier, it's easy to have exactly the same relationship developed by January 1925, but at the time of the prologue it is unlikely that you have already met.
I'll PM Dr Peterson and Andyw666 to see if they're interested, and we'll make sure we have six players before actually generating characters.