You and your friends were so excited when Pyzo announced the latest adventure path for the Adventurefinder Roleplaying Game™! The Corpse Coronet, as it's called, is set in the land of Sprucetalav and promises to blend traditional fantasy with classic horror elements! Coincidentally horror/investigation happens to be the favorite genre of all of yours, but it's never been popular with roleplaying companies since a certain game known as The Holler of Huluthulhu was mysteriously cancelled during development. Only your GM was unenthused (he's a bit cynical when it comes to anything supernatural or horror related), but after much pleading you finally convinced him to run Corpse Coronet.
Your first session is this weekend and ABSOLUTELY NOTHING COULD GO HORRIBLY WRONG!
Hiya folks! Last night I had a brilliant idea for a game that I figured might be a tad to complex to run in real time, but would work great as a play by post. The basic idea is Pathfinder wrapped inside Call of Cthulhu - you create a character in 'real life', and then play as your character's character in Pathfinder, and then Horrible Things would happen in real life and we'd switch over to Call of Cthulhu! Think wanna-be ghost hunters who live out their fantasies through roleplaying games but then get caught up in the supernatural in real life. For the Pathfinder section we'd play Carrion Crown of course, and for the Call of Cthulhu sections I'd dig out some modules from the modern setting books I own - probably Our Ladies of Sorrow and Unseen Masters, if you've heard of them.
Any thoughts?
PS - Call of Cthulhu is a very easy system to learn - no knowledge or rule books necessary.
Sounds convoluted and "Pretty Meta." Color me interested.
Lol, an interesting concept no doubt.
Are you using the new 7th Edition (not that it really matters with CoC)?
I don't have the 7th edition - only the 5th or 6th - but like you said, they're all similar enough that you can switch between them pretty easily.
Very interested. I am a huge fan of Call of Cthulhu.
Now we're building some momentum! Albeit very slowly, but that's how many a tale of eldritch horror begins isn't it!
Or maybe I should just make a recruitment post for Carrion Crown and then put the CoC part in very fine print to see how many pathfinder players we can trick into joining a Call of Cthulhu game...
My Vamp game has 13 players and my Ravenloft game has 5. If we get two more is 6 enough for you to start actual recruitment? If so I cannot link to this thread in my discussion threads.
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Ok I'm game, I know sandy Peterson the guy who came up with CoC, he's even GMed for me, nice guy, so this would be fun. Also I have not played a nestled game in a long time, thou I have payed a game very similar to this idea before but with Stromebringer, and CoC. Same start, real world kids playing storm bringer PCs but lord Jagard comes out of the game with chaos in toe. Very funny. The pcs wake up two years later after a mass cataclysm, and a very much changed world.
Official spooOOooky recruitment thread in progress!
So do you want us to start statting out both Cthulhu and 1st Level Pathfinder characters?
Feel free to start brainstorming, but know that I may make a few changes to the character creation rules for both games. For example, instead of two traits, the Pathfinder characters will receive 1 Campaign trait and one "Meta" trait. Meta traits represent the effect the Call of Cthulhu players play styles have on their Pathfinder characters. Here's a sneak peak at the Meta traits:
Rules Lawyer
Eloquent Writer
Bringer of Snacks
Overbearing Leader
Frenzied Accountant
Chaotic Lawful
Homebrew Junkie
Not-So-Smooth Operator
Touched by the Dice Gods
For my Corpse Coronet I would want to run a Dhampir Paladin Undead Scourge Archtype.
For my CoC character, I would want to run either a Doctor or a Psychologist make that Psychiatrist since it combines both :-)
As a hobby I will be a Ghost Hunter on the weekends.
Let me know if I should start statting these concepts up.
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Leaning towards the Bringer of Snacks Meta Trait. CoC concept is that she is the wife/girlfriend/SO of one of the players and has never really played before. She's finally been convinced to join, but only has a rudimentary understanding of how the game works. To make up for it, she brings all sorts of goodies to the game.