Agent Creation

Please post any questions and/or character ideas here.

I'm thinking of a soldier that's either on leave or just leaving military service. Does he need to be connected with someone and/or something, or will it be the "right place at the right time" at the beginning?

I've started an Egyptian Antiquarian who is a native of Cairo with a degree in Egyptian studies at Cairo University who is currently an instructor of Egyptology at Brown University in Providence.

Can we use this thread to do our Luck rolls?

Sure thing, go ahead and make any rolls here.

Luck roll will have to manually multiply by 5

I'll go ahead and roll for luck now. I'll add the roll for my character after I determine his occupation.

What would you be rolling for your character? Everything else is a standard array or based off those numbers. Unless I've misread the GMs instructions.

Two ideas I'm mulling over are a dilletante who is an amateur detective, and a fake occultist/conman.

What year and place do we start out in?

Investigation begins in 1925 NYC.

Sure, a soldier works great. If you're American, keep in mind that the US had a very limited standing army during the interwar period, so the modern-day conception of a soldier at home on leave wouldn't apply. You can do whatever you want, but probably the better route would be to go with a retired solider (WWI vet) that now works as a bodyguard or hired muscle. This would actually work quite well as you'll be embarking on a dangerous expedition and will almost certainly need someone of your talents.

Regarding being connected with someone, it's not necessary at this point; at least one person will need to be connected with a key NPC at the outset, but we can work that out once characters are completed.

Nice, that'll work. In the player's guide it says to roll for each attribute, do you want me to post them here in one of the threads.

After looking through the occupations in the book, I figure either soldier or big game hunter will work.

Sure, post all rolls here.

Here we go...for character's attributes. Per the Investigator's handbook.

I'm setting his age between 20-39, so here is his chance for an education improvement.

I think I'd like to play a Doctor of Medicine that is looking into the ill-fated expedition. Maybe because a colleague of his was on the expedition and he wants to know what happened? Or maybe that colleague sent him a letter with some strange ramblings or something and he is looking into it because of that? He can be tied to the game story a different way, those are just what popped into my head while looking at the game description.

Can we use one of the alternative character creation methods mentioned in the book?

I have a private eye investigator that I can submit.

I don't have the PHB in front of me; what's the nature of the alternative creation method?

Perfect; go for it.

Is there a link to the creation rules. I have a couple of thoughts for my agent, a Russian ex-pat who fled the revolution after the Tzar and his family were murdered who runs an Occult service (Tarot card reading, seances that kind of thing.) Also the long suffering, often ignored, brilliant in her own right assistant of the egyptologist.