JeenLeen
2010-04-12, 10:27 AM
I am trying to run a Call of Cthulhu (based off v5.6 rulebook) game that is to be extended with a long-term plot. Of course, this may end if the players all die or go insane early in the plot, but the group knows this is possible.
My question is: how should I have an enemy sorcerer (Sanity 0) interact with the PCs?
My idea for a recurring villian is a sorcerer, currently a cultist of a Great Old One but planning on just using that for his own power. He is attempting to find some magicks that will grant him immortality and the powers of a Great Old One. He'll fail and the PCs have to pick up the pieces (or die/go insane.)
For at least one mission, I plan on having him accompany the PCs posing as a servant of Bast (Elder God, not innately hostile to humanity) in hopes of getting a scroll with a spell he wants. Can someone insane hold up a deception like htat?
I know the DM can have a person act however they wish, but I like (and the players expect) internal consistency in the system. Could his insanity manifest as simply non-human conception of reality (his perception being so twisted by the Mythos), or should he have to have something obviously wrong with him mentally?
EDIT: Adding another question: what are some good modules which I could draw from for my campaign/group?
My question is: how should I have an enemy sorcerer (Sanity 0) interact with the PCs?
My idea for a recurring villian is a sorcerer, currently a cultist of a Great Old One but planning on just using that for his own power. He is attempting to find some magicks that will grant him immortality and the powers of a Great Old One. He'll fail and the PCs have to pick up the pieces (or die/go insane.)
For at least one mission, I plan on having him accompany the PCs posing as a servant of Bast (Elder God, not innately hostile to humanity) in hopes of getting a scroll with a spell he wants. Can someone insane hold up a deception like htat?
I know the DM can have a person act however they wish, but I like (and the players expect) internal consistency in the system. Could his insanity manifest as simply non-human conception of reality (his perception being so twisted by the Mythos), or should he have to have something obviously wrong with him mentally?
EDIT: Adding another question: what are some good modules which I could draw from for my campaign/group?