seventeenth issue - RPG Review

Lillian St. John
A Paranormal Investigator from the Roaring Twenties
by Erica Hoehn
Lillian St. John has several characteristics which make her an extreme example of her age and a threat to the
establishment; she's independently wealthy, well­educated, intelligent, and runs her own detective agency. Surprisingly
nonplussed by encounters with paranormal and other­worldly monstrosities that she encounters with surprising
regularity, she has the good sense of when to investigate, and when to turn and run ­ and activity which she is quite
competent at!
By all standards, Lillian St. John is the epitome of a heroine of her time. She does however have some weaknesses;
with a propensity towards hedonism, Lillian displays slightly too much interest in powdering her nose, and has
outraged conservative sections of her home city's (Melbourne) establishment that she has been in contact with. The
combination of these factors will undoubtably be her undoing; if she isn't eaten by some creature beyond space and
time first!
Nota bene: Variations of Lillian St. John have appeared in GURPS 3 rd edition, Cthulhu d20, and Call of Cthulhu. This
particular incarnation is a variation of the GURPS3e character, redeveloped for 4 th edition and the same character for
Call of Cthulhu (1920s). Lillian St. John has previously made an appearance in RPG Review (see issue #7, Leopold's
Crypt), although that setting was in the mid­1960s! Is this prescient that Lillian is captured by the Great Race of Yith,
and transported forward in time, with her memories altered?
Lillian St. John (GURPS, 4 th edition, 150 character points)
ST 10 (0 points) IQ 13 (60 points) DX 12 (40 points) HT 10 (0 points) = 100 points
Dam: 1d­2/1d Basic Lift: 20 lbs Hit Points 10 Will 14 (5 points) Perception 14 (5 points) Fatigue 10 Speed 5.5 Move 5
Height 5'8" Weight 100 lbs Age 28 Fashion Sense (5 points)
English (Native), French (Accented) (4 points)
Independently Income (10 points)
Reputation (Among Conservatives ­2, large class) (­5 points)
Attractive (+1) (4 points) Charisma (+1) (5 points)
Clairsentience (Sight only ­10%, Reduced Range * 10 ­30%, Unconscious ­20%, Uncontrollable ­10%) (15 points)
Compulsive Carousing (­5 points), Addiction (Cocaine, Expensive, ­10 points), Curious (­5 points), Sense of Duty
(fellow investigators) (­5)
=18 points
Acting 13 (2 points), AK: Melbourne 15 (4 points), First Aid 14 (2 points), Guns 13 (2 points), Lockpicking 13 (2
40 RPG REVIEW ISSUE SEVENTEEN September 2012