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Occupation Rollcall in your CoC Games


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Ok, in the CoC game that I will be running for my game group soon as the KEEPER in a modern setting game, the players have settled on the following occupations for their characters;

  • Private Detective: He will look into your cheating spouse or your possible HAUNTED house as long as your money is good.
  • Big-Game Hunter: Will hunt ANYTHING for money or sport even if he has to go poaching to do it.
  • Hitman (retired): Worked mostly overseas jobs, his last gig went south and he swears he saw a MONSTER while he was bleeding and half conscious, so he left the life while he could.
  • Mortician: He has seen a lot of dead bodies and a LOT of STRANGE ways to end up dead, and not all of them make sense to put on an official report!
  • Movie Star (B-C List): He's famous for a few rolls in a few of B&C movies that did well and then he saw something OTHERWORDLY on a movie set and suddenly the only place he can get booked is convention.

What does the occupation list of your game group look like?

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For Blackwater Creek,

Students: a debutante, and her boyfriend jock fraternity brother.  A foreign exchange student.  A son of a crime family somewhat related to the ones running whiskey.   Weapons skills with these were interesting, but they wove them into their backgrounds. 
A bartender/retired wwi vet.  Added skills for botany for growing up in the area at a farm.
Writer: seen too much already and looking for information on  the next a book.  Sketchy background which lead him to be good with a gun.

I asked them all to provide family back stories and at least one phobia related to the outdoors.

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Erm...

  • Wealthy English minor nobleman
  • Wealthy nobleman's Scottish valet-cum-ghillie
  • Wealthy American occultist
  • Wealthy occultist's English valet-cum-factotum (deceased, quite violently)
  • French/Algerian occult-bookstore owner (institutionalised after committing a bloody murder and eating part of the body)
  • French mechanical-engineering professor (left the group to try to get decent treatment for the bookstore-owner)
  • Russian noble-born gentleman detective (institutionalised after dropping precipitously to 1 SAN)
  • Bulgarian "antiquarian"/burglar

Plus the even-wealthier wife of the wealthy nobleman, who's back in London as the person who'll hire the next bunch of investigators whenif the remainder of this bunch all die or go mad at once, aka the TPK Campaign Rescue Option™.

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2 hours ago, trystero said:

Erm...

  • Wealthy English minor nobleman
  • Wealthy nobleman's Scottish valet-cum-ghillie
  • Wealthy American occultist
  • Wealthy occultist's English valet-cum-factotum (deceased, quite violently)
  • French/Algerian occult-bookstore owner (institutionalised after committing a bloody murder and eating part of the body)
  • French mechanical-engineering professor (left the group to try to get decent treatment for the bookstore-owner)
  • Russian noble-born gentleman detective (institutionalised after dropping precipitously to 1 SAN)
  • Bulgarian "antiquarian"/burglar

Plus the even-wealthier wife of the wealthy nobleman, who's back in London as the person who'll hire the next bunch of investigators whenif the remainder of this bunch all die or go mad at once, aka the TPK Campaign Rescue Option™.

who'll hire the next bunch of investigators whenif the remainder of this bunch all die or go mad at once, aka the TPK Campaign Rescue Option™.

Ha, I love that part of the post!

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Depending on how your Keeper handles lore & magic, a bag to carry flask or two of Holy Water, a Bible, a flask of Holy Oil, your stole & rosary plus a few commune wafers might be a very good idea. I know it worked wonders for the player that played a priest in one of our CoC Delta Green games several years ago!

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In my current Delta Green setting, we have:

- The CDC virologist, who struggles coming to terms with her new 'secret' life as a Delta Green agent

- The NSA computer expert, who has gone into the DarkWeb rabbit hole that is modern occult research

- The NRO data analyst, who always seems to fumble her firearms rolls when the situation is critical (or doesn't she? Dun dun dunnn!)

- The suave and streetwise Personal Trainer, who happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.

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