@notasnark@Tim_Eagon@luxet That is literally one of the reasons that Delta Green became one of the most interesting evolutions of Call of Cthulhu. And one of the most appreciated.
It is generally more fun to have a character whom you recognize immediately as capable and effective - even if they are capable and effective in tasks which are not going to be critical to the thing that you know you're going to be experiencing. It's why watching Event Horizon is great fun because the protagonists are competent people in their field. And you know they are capable of dealing with extremely difficult situations. They are simply in a situation they aren't prepared for and isn't within the context they have trained for.
The sensible thing for most of the characters created for Call of Cthulhu to do is to find out that there is a weird problem and then run as fast as possible away from it. The problem is that the game itself does not create a reason mechanically on the sheet expressed for those characters to remain engaged, to want to deal with that problem, to put their sanity or lives on the line. That's an artifact of the fact that BRP is effectively an ancient system that predates the development of good tools for creating situational setups that Call of Cthulhu demands.
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