I recently hear a few RPG podcasts. The current trend is indie (independent) games. There are a lot of cool ideas out there. Games that have a rotating GM within the session, or no GM, or are organized around scenes with and end game so the session ends when certain goals are reached, or collective creation of character background/goals. These are all cool ideas. A lot of this is to promote better roleplaying, as opposed to the hack-n-slash off old school DnD. I think our group was good like thin in we all had creative ideas which achieved many of the goals that are now in indie games. The point of this is a recent RPG podcast I heard had the hosts laughing over a “fighting nun”, which reminded me of my old Call of Cthulhu character, Sister Ines.
As has been noted in previous posts, Cthulhu was a game in which everyone knew their character would be dead at the end of the session. There was only ever one man standing at the close of the session, and the fun was just surviving another session. Sure, the occasional character lasted 3-4 sessions, which was made to seem longer as we only played Cthulhu every few months.
Most had a single character that survived for a prolonged period at some point. Mine was my first ever, and one of my all time favorite characters. Cthuhlu offered a short list of PC “classes”. Dan did not want another dilettante, so I opted for the priest. Since I was taking a Spanish class at the time I selected Ines as the name, and made her a nun. The game was set in the 1920’s, where the penultimate weapon was the very-hard-to-come-by Tommy Gun. Sister Ines quickly got her hand on one, and later two. She was remarkably strong, allowing her to fire two Tommy Guns at once, not with much accuracy, but the fear and massive storm of flying lead made up for that. She also kept a Bowie knife as a side arm. Once laying eyes on her first Cthulhu minion she took to drinking heavily in her downtime, as a coping mechanism.
Sister Ines was great fun. In the end I think it was Joseph “Shotgun” Decker, or perhaps one of Matt’s characters, that did her in. They wanted her Tommy Guns. Screwed!
