Just an interest check at the moment, curious if this sounds too limiting for the players.
The idea is a Strange Aeons campaign with a 5 character party where everyone builds a character from the Mythos fiction as their PC. I would alter the AP to exist in early 1900's America, we'd probably act like guns don't exist to the point that they really did or skin Pathfinder items to act like them, and the adventure would span from the Eastern Seaboard to the Southwest. The focus would be to tie the surrounding lore from the Mythos cannon for each character into the AP as it goes, so their written experiences and arc would mesh into the game experiences.
Just as it sounds, this would require everyone to read the appropriate fiction that corresponds with their character and be interested in playing them, and leveling them, as depicted.
A growing list of characters from the fiction to model a PC after is here.
Character Build Rules would be something like...
-Human only (I'm sure some weird exceptions apply)
-Background skills
-Feat Taxes
-20pt Buy
-2 Traits, one of which campaign
-No one trick ponies, social and combat options
-Probably no companions
hahahaha! You are more insane than Abdul Alhazred. This idea is nuts, I'm a big Lovecraft fan so I'll join.
I'll take Gustaf Johansen, I'm Icelandic and I have ancestors that were sailors at that time, I'll channel their spirit for this. I'll grab my Call of Cthulhu and re-read the parts Gustaf was in for this.
This is a very cool idea!
I'd be interested in playing as Lavinia Whateley (likely as some kind of Witch or Warlock build).
This is... very interesting. I'll admit I'm not as well-read in the Mythos as I'd like to be, but I'm familiar with most of it on some level, and I can certainly try to brush up where I need to.
I will ask if the "timeline" of the characters you have listed matters at all--many of them aren't alive at the same time within the Mythos, but maybe that doesn't matter for this game?
Right on, I wish I could just go BAM and into recruitment but at the moment grabbing a new game wouldn't be wise. That said, some of my games seem to be on the frits and usually for me on here when it rains it pours. So I thought I'd get some feedback on the idea while I await my own fate.
I will ask if the "timeline" of the characters you have listed matters at all--many of them aren't alive at the same time within the Mythos, but maybe that doesn't matter for this game?
I've been thinking about this issue as well. My thought was to introduce a time displacement element to characters as necessary, in hope adding to the surreal and dreamlike nature of the AP.
Dotting for interest - intriguing and down right weird...
Echoing Warpfiend's approach I'm a Scot from the Pictish heartland of the NE of Scotland... so it has to be Howard's greatest doomladen hero - Bran Mak Morn... though how he'll fit into the 19th century with his people long dead/lost will be the challenge!
Still interested, although I also still nee to go over stories and such to brush up or refresh. Going over the list and my memory of things, I might go with Francis Morgan from The Dunwich Horror, probably as something with a dose of healing to reflect the doctor thing--maybe a chirurgeon/vivisectionist alchemist?
Enoch Bowen is an interesting character as well, and it could be neat to potentially portray him--maybe with a vague sense of needing to make up for past wrongs.