Looking for some feedback, and hoping that the literary nerds here could lend a hand.

Looking for some feedback, and hoping that the literary nerds here could lend a hand.

Looking for some feedback, and hoping that the literary nerds here could lend a hand. I’m going to run a game based on authors living in 1910 hunting supernatural creatures. Each author will have a class assigned to them for the players to choose from. What do you think of my pairings? Are their any authors I would kick myself for missing? And if this were a TV show what would you call it?

Mark Twain – The Wronged (An old man seeking revenge for the loss of his team)

H. P. Lovecraft – The Expert (Like Giles in Buffy, someone who knows about spooky stuff)

Victor Appleton – The Mundane (An ordinary guy who knows how to deal with the ordinary world

Langston Hughes – The Divine (A man in conflict with his religion, but who gains power from it none the less)

Daschiel Hammett – The Crooked (A kid with criminal skills)

H. G. Wells – The Chosen (Like Buffy in Buffy, a man given power to battle by destiny)

Agatha Christie – The Professional (Someone with an array of combat skills)

Katherine Ann Porter – The Flake (A conspiracy theorist who sees the secret world)

Zitkala-Sa – The Initiate (A woman well connected with the resources of a shadowy organization)

Beatrix Potter – The Spooky (A woman with strange psychic powers from a dark origin)

Dorothy Parker – The Spell Slinger (Much like Harry Dresden, a wizard of some skill)

Virginia Woolf – The Monsterous (A werewolf who works for our side)

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  1. Mark Tygart Burroughs was on my original list, but I wanted to keep it 50/50 men and women so he didn’t make my initial cut. Dunany I hadn’t considered initially, do you think he’d be better than what I have for one of the playbooks?

  2. Mark Tygart Yeah, would probably just put him in the same role as Lovecraft though. One of my plans for this game is to have a second chapter set in the modern age, in which Zombie Mark Twain is the Monstrous.

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