{"id":1781,"date":"2013-07-05T08:14:14","date_gmt":"2013-07-05T15:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arcdream.com\/home\/?p=1781"},"modified":"2013-07-17T13:19:25","modified_gmt":"2013-07-17T20:19:25","slug":"the-sense-of-the-sleight-of-hand-man-actual-play-in-inverness-the-dreamers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcdream.com\/home\/2013\/07\/the-sense-of-the-sleight-of-hand-man-actual-play-in-inverness-the-dreamers\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Sense of the Sleight-of-Hand Man\u2019 – Actual Play in Inverness: The Dreamers"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Sense-of-the-Sleight-of-Hand-Man-cover-620px\"<\/a>In June 2013 I began running The Sense of the Sleight-of-Hand Man<\/i><\/a>, our new Call of Cthulhu<\/i> campaign set in H.P. Lovecraft\u2019s Dreamlands, for my local gaming group in Inverness, Alabama. I’m keeping an Actual Play journal of the campaign<\/a>. Here are the game stats (updated as we go) and histories of the player characters.<\/p>\n

Owen Banks<\/b><\/h2>\n

Adventure novelist in an adventure hero\u2019s body, age 24<\/i><\/p>\n

STR 15, CON 13, SIZ 15, INT 15, POW 15
\nDEX 15, APP 10, EDU 13, SAN 52, HP 14
\nDamage Bonus:<\/b> +1D4
\nSkills:<\/b> Climb 44%, Cthulhu Mythos 6%, First Aid 40%, Library Use 40%, Listen 44%, Navigate 55%, Occult 40%, Persuade 55%, Psychology 45%, Spot Hidden 60%, Throw 60%.
\nLanguages:<\/b> English (Own) 65%, Chinese 36%, French 36%
\nAttacks:<\/b> Dagger 25%, damage 1D4+2+db
\nMakeshift wooden spear 45%, damage 1D6+db
\nOther Weapon Skills:<\/b> Handgun 35%, Rifle 60%
\nInsanities:<\/b> Drug addiction.<\/p>\n

Owen Banks\u2019 Earthly body age 26
\nSTR 8, CON 12, SIZ 13, INT 15, POW 15
\nDEX 13, APP 13, EDU 13, HP 13
\nDamage Bonus: none<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Owen Banks came from Ohio but lived over the few years of his adulthood in France, Hong Kong and most recently New York City. His mother and father still live in Ohio, as does an old flame.<\/p>\n

Banks joined the French army during the Great War and was injured by mustard gas, which left him weakened for life. He came home long enough to earn a degree in psychology as he slowly recuperated. He moved back to Paris to study under Dr. Arnold, famous for his work in psychotherapy and pharmacology. In France, Banks returned to the opium that had given him some relief during the war and soon was an addict. He moved to Prague, then Hong Kong, where he began earning a living as an adventure novelist but using drugs ever more deeply. He got into a bit of trouble in Hong Kong and fled to New York. He got in even worse trouble there.<\/p>\n

In the Dreamlands, Owen is a large, scruffy brute who looks like he\u2019s of Scythian or northern Greek descent.<\/p>\n

Richard Parker<\/b><\/h2>\n

Author of travel and occult books, presently age 35<\/i><\/p>\n

STR 14, CON 14, SIZ 18, INT 15, POW 18
\nDEX 11, APP 11, EDU 16, SAN 72, HP 16
\nDamage Bonus:<\/b> +1D4
\nSkills:<\/b> Cthulhu Mythos 10%, Disguise 61%, First Aid 35%, Library Use 75%, Listen 45%, Occult 65%, Speak English (Native) 80%, Speak German 41%, Speak Latin 41%, Persuade 35%, Pharmacy 41%, Psychology 65%, Sneak 60%, Spot Hidden 65%.
\nAttacks:<\/b> Rapier 26% (+10%), damage 1D6+1+db
\nInsanities:<\/b> Drug addiction.<\/p>\n

Richard Parker\u2019s Earthly body, age 31
\nSTR 7, CON 12, SIZ 13, INT 15, POW 18
\nDEX 10, APP 14, EDU 16, HP 13
\nDamage Bonus: none<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A New York native, Parker was a journalist during the Great War and became a occult and travel writer afterward. After he began writing occult books he read too deeply into the dreaded Necronomicon<\/i> at Miskatonic University, and he took to using opium and morphine more and more heavily to steady his rattled nerves. His wife left him when his drug abuse became severe.<\/p>\n

In the Dreamlands Parker is enormously hulking and powerful with a long, straight ponytail. Despite his size and strength he still has the reticence and ingrained terror that he learned as a frail New York intellectual.<\/p>\n

Sam Ford<\/b><\/h2>\n

Private eye turned adventurer, age 30<\/i><\/p>\n

STR 17, CON 14, SIZ 13, INT 13, POW 18
\nDEX 20, APP 11, EDU 17, SAN 68, HP 14
\nDamage Bonus:<\/b> +1D4
\nSkills:<\/b> Bargan 45%, Climb 50%, Cthulhu Mythos 1%, Dodge 85%, Fast Talk 55%, Law 30%, Library Use 60%, Listen 53%, Locksmith 41%, Martial Arts 61%, Psychology 45%, Sneak 44%, Spot Hidden 72%.
\nLanguages:<\/b> English (Own) 85%.
\nAttacks:<\/b> Fist 72%, damage 1D3+db
\nGrapple 45%
\nOther Weapon Skills:<\/b> Handgun 40%
\nInsanities:<\/b> Drug addiction.<\/p>\n

Sam Ford\u2019s Earthly body, age 27
\nSTR 12, CON 14, SIZ 12, INT 13, POW 18
\nDEX 15, APP 13, EDU 17, HP 13
\nDamage Bonus: none<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Sam Ford is a New York native. He served in Army intelligence during the Great War, earned a law degree afterward, and began earning a living as a freelance private investigator. He is a loner, distant even from family and with no real friends; he\u2019d seen the dirty underside of the city and it left its mark. He began using morphine after a bad accident nearly left him crippled. A dedicated boxer and runner, he recovered from the injury but kept the addiction.<\/p>\n

In the Dreamlands Sam appears to be of central Asian descent, perhaps Uzbek. He is pale and fair, nearly albino, powerfully muscular and supernally quick and athletic.<\/p>\n

Elissa Von Dale<\/b><\/h2>\n

Off-off-off-off<\/strong> Broadway singer, age 26<\/i><\/p>\n

STR 15, CON 14, SIZ 14, INT 10, POW 17
\nDEX 14, APP 18, EDU 11, SAN 61, HP 14
\nDamage Bonus: <\/b>+1D4
\nSkills: <\/b>Art (Singing) 75%, Conceal 25%, Cthulhu Mythos 6%, Dodge 78%, Fast Talk 75%, First Aid 35%, Listen 85%, Navigate 15%, Sneak 40%, Spot Hidden 30%, Swim 35%, Throw 38%.
\nLanguages:<\/b> English (Own) 55%, Chinese (Cantonese) 21%, German 21%.
\nAttacks:<\/b> Fist 51%, damage 1D3+db
\nSaber 34%, damage 1D8+1+db
\nInsanities:<\/b> Drug addiction.<\/p>\n

Elissa Von Dale\u2019s Earthly body, age 26
\nSTR 11 CON 12 SIZ 11 INT 10 POW 17
\nDEX 14 APP 17 EDU 11 SAN 70 HP 12
\nDamage Bonus: none<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Elissa left her parents and two sisters behind in Oklahoma to pursue her dreams as a singer, and all of them continue to disapprove of her scandalous lifestyle. They would disapprove more if they knew how thoroughly she became hooked on heroin on the stages of New York City. On Earth she was dark-haired and pretty in a distracted way, with fancy clothes that were nearly worn out and small burn scars on her hands.<\/p>\n

In the Dreamlands she is a powerful, statuesque beauty with Mediterranean coloring and dark blond hair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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