Old cartoons, bad puns, and why your CoC characters die

[flerly]

For the record, I never actually went outside to get any details of what was going on, so the whole story from my perspective is one of randomness  and frustration. That is, the story of whatever malfunction the Bradmobile was having this morning when he arrived at our house to pick up Mr. T for their Daytona weekend. All I know is that his car

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[gryndyl]

As CoC is my favorite RPG, I thought I'd leap to its defense a bit. As far as initial character motivation, that one's up to the GM to provide. Why WOULD a normal person personally investigate a train delay rather than listening to the conductor's reassurances? This would be a question the GM should have already answered so that they can provide that motivation in game. It certainly helps if the characters have some innate motivations that can be used as a hook

[flerly]

I think you got to heart of my frustration... a GM that didn't do the best job of "motivating" us since we're mostly CoC vets and were willing to eventually bully our characters out of character to do what the GM needed us to do. I just think that initial motivation is something that's easy for a GM to overlook, and just say, "you didn't make a char who'd want to check this out? Well, then guess you'll be making another char."

It's a love/hate thing with Cthulhu for sure. So many dead characters just leave a bad taste eventually.