Gentlemen or Players
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ElliottWJames
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Ah, Snobbery with villance 
Love the "Green & Pleasant Land Supplement" for CoC. For those who don't know this was a source book for England in the 1920's published in 1987.
I'm currently running a CoC game here in Twin Cities using that very supplement.
The expression come from cricket when the "Gentlemen" where amatuer and "Players" were professionals.
For those who don't know the supplement "Gentlemen" are the classic aristractic detective - Lord Peter Wimsey - or the 'delettente' tenplate from CoC.
Gentlemen come from a slightly lower social strata - typically the junior officer who went to a good school but are not noble. They tend to be men of action, not necessarily high on the IQ - been seen as too clever was a stigma in polite society. Bulldog Drummond is the quoted example.
My campaigns are almost always for "Players" - the main reason is finding players who know how to behave with the easy grace of the aristocracy. My experiences with players being noble is that it's the ones with the lowest social IQ that want to play them. Indeed I have a campaign blow up in my face for that very reason.
Hope this helps
Love the "Green & Pleasant Land Supplement" for CoC. For those who don't know this was a source book for England in the 1920's published in 1987.
I'm currently running a CoC game here in Twin Cities using that very supplement.
The expression come from cricket when the "Gentlemen" where amatuer and "Players" were professionals.
For those who don't know the supplement "Gentlemen" are the classic aristractic detective - Lord Peter Wimsey - or the 'delettente' tenplate from CoC.
Gentlemen come from a slightly lower social strata - typically the junior officer who went to a good school but are not noble. They tend to be men of action, not necessarily high on the IQ - been seen as too clever was a stigma in polite society. Bulldog Drummond is the quoted example.
My campaigns are almost always for "Players" - the main reason is finding players who know how to behave with the easy grace of the aristocracy. My experiences with players being noble is that it's the ones with the lowest social IQ that want to play them. Indeed I have a campaign blow up in my face for that very reason.
Hope this helps
