A World Dark and Dreary
This is going to be a game using call of Cthulhu set in the alternate history universe of Kaiserreich. This will be a subtle horror game: by this, I mean that I'm not going to be metaphorically be bludgeoning you with themes of cosmic insignificance, lots of blood and gore, frequent jump scares (as if those could work in PBP...) or things like this. Nor will there be a shoggoth lurking around every corner. Many of the scenarios you will face won't have to deal with pure lovecraftian cosmic horror. Some aspects of gothic horror will be present, as will the more ordinary horrors of trying to get by the next week without starving to death, the horrors of war, and witnessing the many forms of perfectly mundane injustice men inflict upon other men. Cosmic horror will be a part of the grand tapestry I plan on weaving (see what I did there?) with you all, but only a part. You may even find that other human beings are truly worse foes than anything supernatural you come across.
The game will start in December of the year 1935, set in upstate New York. As this is a call of Cthulhu game (how ever much creative licence I take with it), it is only natural for it to be set near New England.
Here you can read about what to expect from the campaign and what to keep in mind when building your character, then look at the character creation requirements before making a character. That thread also has the house rules the game will be using, so be sure to read it carefully.
