Character Sheets
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| Welcome to the Dragonsfoot Character Sheets section. We have loads of sheets available for players and judges including our very popular first edition AD&D character sheet, character booklet, Lejendary Adventures FRPG avatar sheets, some fantastic equipment sheets, Hackmaster sheet and a Call of Cthulhu investigator sheet! If you have any character sheets or playing forms that you would like to contribute, please send them to the section editor.
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| | Milo's Adventures Dark & Deep Character Sheet | | RuneQuest I Mongoose Glorantha character sheet | | Mythras Character Sheet | | OpenQuest Character Sheet | | AD&D 1st Edition Character Sheet (PHB Version) |
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| Details A great program that contains tools for character creation, plus a few useful goodies for DMs as well. Game System : First Edition AD&D
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| | | 1E AD&D DM Sheets :: 8 items |
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| Details A DMs screen to keep all the information you need at your fingertips. Game System : First Edition AD&D
Downloads : 5496
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| Details An excel spreadsheet that combines a useful summary sheet of the reaction rules plus a page to store all your NPC reaction information. Game System : First Edition AD&D
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| Details An alternative Fighters' to-hit table, following the suggestion in the DMG to let fighters advance by 5% per level rather than 10% every other level. Updated Feb 2016 to include alternative THAC0 charts for all classes and monsters and also smoothed Saving Throw tables. Game System : First Edition AD&D
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| Details A useful sheet (in MS Word format) for keeping an eye on time in your game. Game System : First Edition AD&D
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| Details Make your very own First Edition DM's screen with this handy pack. Updated April 2016 to version 1.2 Game System : First Edition
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| Details A useful excel spreadsheet to make those XP awards a piece of cake. Game System : First Edition AD&D
Downloads : 17291
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| Details An adventure log and character log sheet for DMs to help keep some of the relevant information to hand. Game System : First Edition AD&D
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| Details This form allows the Dungeon Master to record the characters key stats for up to 10 characters on each sheet. Perfect for quick reminders or henchmen records. Downloads : 48717
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| 1E AD&D Player Sheets :: 24 items |
| Details A simple, but effective, character sheet designed to hold all the information about your character from the PHB. Game System : First Edition AD&D
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| Details A simple, but effective, character sheet designed to hold all the information about your character you will ever need. [Revised 3rd Oct. 2017] Game System : First Edition AD&D
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| Details An extremely useful character spreedsheet with automated attribute lookup. Also includes a spell worksheet. Game System : First Edition AD&D
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| Details A character sheet designed to be easy for beginning players and veterans alike. Usable with any class and with players of any skill level. Game System : First Edition AD&D
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| Details A handy sheet to store a summary of all the information about the characters in your game. Game System : First Edition AD&D
Downloads : 5420
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| Details An excel spreadsheet that combines a useful summary sheet of the reaction rules plus a page to store all your NPC reaction information. Game System : First Edition AD&D
Downloads : 5154
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| Details An alternative Fighters' to-hit table, following the suggestion in the DMG to let fighters advance by 5% per level rather than 10% every other level. Updated Feb 2016 to include alternative THAC0 charts for all classes and monsters and also smoothed Saving Throw tables. Game System : First Edition AD&D
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| Details A great, yet simple, character sheet to hold all the information you need. Game System : 1E/2E AD&D
Downloads : 12017
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| Details A great character sheet with plenty of space for all your character details Game System : First edition AD&D
Downloads : 31959
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| Details A straightforward, but very useful, 3 page character to hold all your important information, including personality traits. Game System : First edition AD&D
Downloads : 9695
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| Details This is a version of our very popular Basic Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Character Sheet that can be filled in. Game System : First edition AD&D
Downloads : 25037
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| Details A great program that contains tools for character creation, plus a few useful goodies for DMs as well. Game System : First Edition AD&D
Downloads : 11441
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| Details An extremely useful Excel spreadsheet, including character and spell information. Updated to v1.85, Feb 2016. Game System : First Edition AD&D
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| Details Try these unusual character sheets to bring some 'old school' feeling back into your games. UPDATED: The zip file now contains 23 different character sheets. Game System : First Edition AD&D
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| Details A useful sheet to store all the info you need about your erstwhile animal companions. Game System : First Edition AD&D
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| Details Original and customised character sheets for spell casters, fighters and thieves. Game System : First Edition AD&D
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| Details Very good basic AD&D character sheet. Game System : First edition AD&D
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| Details For those that just require quick sheets that can be imported into virtually any graphics program or word processor these sheets are for you! They consist of 2 WMF files (front and back) within one ZIP file. Small, yet highly practical! This zip file now also contains the files converted into both Word document and PDF format, for convenience. Downloads : 56902
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| Details A seven (yes 7!) page booklet that will allow you to record everything you possibly would want to about your character and it’s background, friends, belongings and more! Perfect for archiving your character after retiring from active adventuring or just to store all that information in one place! Downloads : 69330
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| Details This is a real corker of a sheet! Game testing for this form has gone very well; all players have taken to it very warmly. This sheet allows you to know exactly where your characters equipment is and what protection you have place on them. Also included is an area for detailing what are on your characters hands and what’s in their backpack. Combined with the Official DF Character sheet – it’s probably all you need! Downloads : 74175
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| Details Designed as an extension to the Official Dragonsfoot character sheet, this equipment sheet allows for much more storage with the addition of a revised THAC0 table for values up to -30. Downloads : 22171
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| Details This sheet allows you to record a list of magic items, notes on its usage, charges and the book and page number to find out more information. This sheet has performed well in game testing with players that are unfamiliar with the rule books and would rather roleplay than spend time looking for particular items in books! Downloads : 20383
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| Details Players or Judges having trouble keeping track of Experience Points awarded in the games? Then try this record sheet.Allows recording of date, award and notes. Downloads : 22075
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| Details This character sheet is a real gem. It will hold all the information you require for your 1st Edition Advanced Dungeons and Dragons game and more! This sheet has been very popular with all that have downloaded it and has attracted very high praise including “Highly Professional” to “Even better that the ones you can buy!”Download it now! Downloads : 132633
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| 2nd Edition AD&D :: 10 items |
| Details A simple, but effective, character sheet to hold all the information you will need. Game System : Second Edition AD&D
Downloads : 7391
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| Details An excellent excel spreadsheet designed to contain all the useful information you need about your character. Version 1.24, feb 2016. Game System : Second Edition AD&D
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| Details A great 2E character sheet to hold all the information you need for your PC. Game System : Second Edition AD&D
Downloads : 15263
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| Details A simple, but effective, character sheet for 2E AD&D. There are separate PDF files for front and back contains in the zip file download. Game System : Second Edition AD&D
Downloads : 32700
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| Details An attractive and very useful character sheet. Game System : Second Edition AD&D
Downloads : 49480
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| Details A simple, but useful, second edition character sheet Game System : 2E AD&D
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| Details A useful 2 page character sheet. Game System : 2E AD&D
Downloads : 38042
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| Details A number of useful sheets for 2E AD&D Game System : 2E AD&D
Downloads : 32297
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| Details This rather nifty character sheet will ensure that all the information you need is close to hand. Game System : Second Edition AD&D
Downloads : 46995
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| Details Scott Rowley's Second Edition AD&D character sheet is just what you need for your 2E game. Just like the ones that good ol' TSR made! Game System : 2nd Edition AD&D
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| Adventures Dark & Deep :: 1 item |
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| Details A character sheet for all your Adventures Dark & Deep needs. Game System : Adventures Dark & Deep
Downloads : 64
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| Basic D&D Sheets :: 7 items |
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| Details A character sheet for all your RC D&D needs. Game System : Rules Cyclopedia Basic D&D
Downloads : 129
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| Details A character sheet for Basic D&D (Rules Cyclopedia). Game System : Basic D&D (Rules Cyclopedia)
Downloads : 2024
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| Details This is a set of character sheets for basic D&D and include a generic sheet, plus ones for Cleric, Elf, MU and Thief. (NB: the files are PDF format) Game System : Basic D&D
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| Details A simple, but effective character sheet for basic D&D. Game System : Basic D&D
Downloads : 24090
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| Details A handy character sheet for your classic D&D game Game System : Classic D&D
Downloads : 21969
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| Details A set of 3 wonderfully hand drawn OD&D character sheets Game System : Original D&D
Downloads : 19163
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| Details A graphically appealing (single page) character sheet. The sheet is based on the information contained on the D&D Rule Cyclopedia's PC sheet. Game System : Classic D&D
Downloads : 23296
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| Call of Cthulhu :: 8 items |
| Details Official Dreamlands Character sheet from Chaosium Inc. Downloads : 21348
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| Details Official 5th edition monster sheet from Chaosium Inc. Downloads : 13263
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| Details 5th Edition Non player Character and Minions sheet Downloads : 12509
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| Details The back of the official Chaosium 1920's character sheet. Downloads : 21765
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| Details Offical 5th edition 1920's sheet from Chaosium Inc. Downloads : 24692
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| Details Official 5th Edition 1990's sheet from Chaosium Inc. Downloads : 16093
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| Details Official 5th Edition 1890's sheet from Chaosium Inc. Downloads : 12447
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| Details Require a Call of Cthulhu investigator form? These 2 WMF forms can be imported into almost any graphic application or word processor. Nice, neat and useful! Downloads : 16237
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| Crypts And Things :: 1 item |
| Details A very handy character sheet Game System : Crypts & Things
Downloads : 1406
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| Dragonlords RPG :: 1 item |
| Details Official Dragonlords character sheet from Chaosium Inc. Downloads : 13169
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| Details A complete set of Hackmaster character sheets with space for everything you might need. This file contains a version with space for 1E psionics and one for 2E psionics. Downloads : 544
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| Details A handy hackmaster character sheet Game System : Hackmaster
Downloads : 2881
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| Details This extensive Excel spreadsheet contains all you need to look after your character. It does all the tedious bits for you! Game System : Hackmaster
Downloads : 6603
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| Details Wonderful Hackmaster sheets, very nicely done. Created by the publishers. Excellent download for Hackmaster (or OAD&D if you like!). Downloads : 19952
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| Lejendary Adventures :: 4 items |
| Details 2 page Lejendary Adventure Avatar Record Sheet by Silven X roads. Excellent quality layout. Downloads : 9364
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| Details Have your Lejendary Adventures FRPG Avaatar sheets now in Microsoft Word!MS Word file in ZIP format. Downloads : 7971
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| Details Smart Lejendary Adventures FRPG Avatars Sheet that allows for the storage of all the necessary stats and notes. Nice neat layout. Downloads : 8494
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| Details A very nice Lejendary Adventures FRPG avatar sheet. Very flash layout, good storage for your characters needs! Downloads : 9469
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| Mapping Sheets :: 4 items |
| Details This large hex sheet joins our mapping range after the smaller hex sheet proved to be so useful. Download now and you'll never need to buy hex paper again!Also available in Small and Medium! Downloads : 36725
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| Details Our smaller Hex sheets have been very popular, so we created a medium sized hex for all your mapping needs. Why buy when you can get it for free?Also available in large! Downloads : 33826
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| Details Why buy your hex paper when you can download this PDF and print off as much as you need. The sheet includes an area to record the title of the map and also provides a large mapping area. Downloads : 37545
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| Details This form provides a large mapping area for internal floor plans and an area for an outside rendering of the structure, or just a place to doodle! ;) Downloads : 33143
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| Details This Mythras character sheet contains space for everything you will need for your game. Game System : Mythras
Downloads : 180
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| Details A simple, but effective, OpenQuest character sheet, with space for all the information you need. Game System : OpenQuest
Downloads : 289
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| Details A character sheet with space for everything you will need for your RuneQuest I (Mongoose) Glorantha games. Game System : RuneQuest I (Mongoose)
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| Details A Savage Worlds character sheet with everything you will need, including skills. Game System : Savage Worlds
Downloads : 236
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| Details A simple, but useful, character sheet with full skills list. Game System : Savage Worlds
Downloads : 7291
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| Details Savage Worlds is the perfect system for playing multi-genre games. Here is a netbook that helps DMs and players translate the classic game Torg, by West End Games, into the Savage Worlds system, including rules for reality storms, bennies as possibilities, and even a new 'on-the-fly' magic system. It includes information for using the classic Torg realities as well as a few new ones. Also included are stats for common enemies found in the Torg Universe and new edges and hindrances that may be useful to players of any genre.
Now updated to V3 (March 2011). Game System : Savage Worlds
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| Details Northlanders Savage Worlds characater sheet, nice clear and clean layout. Updated. Game System : Savage Worlds
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| Details A special savage worlds character sheet for playing Deadlands with a Savage Engine! Downloads : 10545
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| Details An excellent alternative character sheet for your Savage Worlds games. Downloads : 10940
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| Details The official Savage Worlds character sheet in PDF format. Game System : Savage Worlds
Downloads : 11248
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| Details Official 5th Edition Stormbringer character sheet with both front and back pages. Downloads : 13124
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| Details 5th Edition Stormbringer sheet for recording NPC and Demon / Elemental details from Chaosium Inc. Downloads : 8129
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That’s right friends, Sandy “Call of Cthulhu” Petersen is bringing his Cthulhu Mythos fantasy supplement over to 5th Edition. A smash hit for Pathfinder (the whole run of it is nearly sold out), Cthulhu Mythos brings Horror to High Fantasy. Review of Call of Cthulhu, 7th Edition Quick-Start Rules. Goto [ Index] Review Summary. Call of Cthulhu is a horror role-playing game based on the Cthulhu Mythos, as initially developed by H. Lovecraft through numerous stories and novels. We are all clear on the fact that you can download the pdf free of charge, without needing to. RPG SHEETS ARCHIVES: OFFICIAL - Custom. Edition: The official sheet from Chaosium. PDF: Call of Cthulhu 1920s: 5th Edition. PDF: Call of Cthulhu: D20 Edition. What you get: Your EUR 47,19 or USD 54,95 or GBP 42,16 will buy you both the 448-page, full-colour hardcover of the Call Of Cthulhu Keeper Rulebook (7th Edition), the rulebook that refreshes the Call of Cthulhu game line, as well as its electronic edition (pdf, mobi, prc or epub). The book comes with a bound fabric bookmark. Call of Cthulhu - Horror RPG - 5th Edition; Post on 30-Nov-2015. Category: Documents. Rpg call of cthulhu pdf - call of cthulhu pdf Call of Cthulhu is a horror roleplaying game using the Basic Roleplaying system and based upon the. Call of cthulhu rpg pdf d20. Download Call Of Cthulhu (d20. Jan 28, 2009 Re: 5th Edition Call of Cthulhu for free?? Terrene wrote: I'd be all over this due to uncontrollable nostalgia for the 5th edition rulebook, but the description says the item is in fact 4th ed from 1989. And it doesn't help that the picture is of (apparently) 5.5 ed. Call of cthulhu rpg pdf free download Page count includes 320 numbered pages plus front and back covers. Call of cthulhu rpg pdf free Review of Call of Cthulhu 7th Edition. Its hard to overstate the impact and influence that Call of Cthulhu has had on the.Call of Cthulhu 1890s: 5th Edition, The official sheet from Chaosium.
'Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn'
'In his house at
R'lyeh, dead Cthulhu waits dreaming.'
One of my more enduring campaigns of late has been a
Call of Cthulhu game. In a nutshell,
Download Call Of Cthulhu Rpg 5th Edition Pdf Free Online
Call of Cthulhu is a roleplaying game based on the works of the American horror author H.P. Lovecraft. Along with Edgar Allan Poe, Lovecraft can be considered the founders of American horror literature. It is difficult to imagine a Stephen King without an H.P. Lovecraft.
Lovecraft described the premise behind his works rather well in a letter that accompanied his submission of his short story 'Call of Cthulhu':
Now all my tales are based on the fundamental premise that common human laws and interests and emotions have no validity or significance in the vast cosmos-at-large. To me there is nothing but puerility in a tale in which the human form-and the local human passions and conditions and standards-are depicted as native to other worlds or other universes. To achieve the essence of real externality, whether of time or space or dimension, one must forget that such things as organic life, good and evil, love and hate, and all such local attributes of a negligible and temporary race called mankind, have any existence at all. Only the human scenes and characters must have human qualities. These must be handled with unspairing realism, (not catch-penny romanticism) but when we cross the line to the boundless and hideous unknown-the shadow-haunted Outside-we must remember to leave our humanity and terrestrialism at the threshold.
Call Of Cthulhu Rpg
As one can tell, Lovecraft told tales of humanity facing an uncaring cosmos. There are vast forces in the universe of H.P. Lovecraft. It would not do to call them evil, suffice to say that they are to humanity as we are to gnats.
In the Call of Cthulhu RPG our heroes take on the role of investigators dealing with these unknowable horrors. The game itself is something of a living fossil, for though it is in its 6th edition it has not changed very much since its inception - the latest version of the game is certainly thicker than the original 1st edition boxed set, but this is a result of new material being added. You could take a 1st edition Call of Cthulhu adventure and run it with 6th edition characters and rules without any need for conversion.
The Call of Cthulhu game tends to assume that the investigators will be set in one of three eras - the 'classic' era (the 1920s and early 30s, during which Lovecraft was active), modern times, and the 'gaslight' era of the 1890s. Major expansions have been released to support the middle ages (Cthulhu Dark Ages) and Imperial Rome (Cthulhu Invictus).
As is my tendency, I will give an opinion-laden overview of what one gets with the game followed by some closing thoughts.
Overview
The 6th edition version I have is a thick paperback book. It is pretty durable, having survived being tossed into numerous bags an being passed around the table.
The PDF version is less impressive. While certainly serviceable, it is very bare-bones. There is no outline or table of contents, making for a difficult task of navigation.
'The Call of Cthulhu' Short Story
The book opens with a reproduction of Lovecraft's 'Call of Cthulhu' short story, dealing with the operations of the Cthulhu cult and those who have faced it. This has been in all versions of the game since the 5.5. version of 1998. I think its inclusion is a good idea, it answers very well the common RPG question 'what do I do'.
Game System
The next section of the book deals with the main rules of Call of Cthulhu including items such as character generation, skills, combat.
In a nutshell, Call of Cthulhu uses a version of what is called the Basic Roleplaying System, frequently abbreviated as BRP. BRP first appeared as part of the first version of RuneQuest, originally published by Chaosium. It has since been published by Avalon Hill and Mongoose Publishing and a new version is forthcoming by The Design Mechanism. Variants of BRP found their way into games like Elfquest, Ringworld, Stormbringer, Pendragon, and lots of other games.
Most versions of BRP use a set of attributes which typically range from 3-18. In Call of Cthulhu they are Strength, Constitution, Size, Intelligence, Power, Dexterity, Appearance, and Education. Size and Intelligence are generated with 2d6+6, Education with 3d6+3, and all others with 3d6. There are several derived stats including:
- Sanity - starts as Power x 5 but can go down as a character faces various horrors. It is something of a joke in the Call of Cthulhu community that even if you survive long-term your character will probably go insane.
- Hit Points - an average of Size and Constitution. They never increase as you 'level up'. Most characters are a well-placed gunshot away from death at all times. This does intend to encourage caution.
Your character starts with a default value in a variety of skills. Skills are ranked from 0 to 99 and represents your chance to succeed at a task using those skills. There isn't much given in the way of contested actions and various difficulty levels, though the newest incarnation of the BRP rules (not required to play Call of Cthulhu) has some guidelines and most Cthulhu GMs (or 'Keepers' as they are called) develop their own rules. The default values vary somewhat depending on the era of play being used.
After generating attributes one then selects an occupation. You get 10 x Intelligence to improve any skill and 20 x Education to improve a subset of skills dependent on your occupation. Clearly based on this not all characters are created equally. That said, min-maxing is a fairly pointless exercise in my experience of running Cthulhu games. More important than a well-skilled character is an intelligent player, or even better, group of players. The foes in Cthulhu are such that a character with 99% in handgun is still one bite doing 10d10 damage away from death. Unlike D&D there is no concept of 'levels'. Most of the game is built around your skills. You improve your skills primarily by using them. During an adventure you check off skills that you successfully used - with the Keeper's approval - they have to be important uses of the skill not. After the adventure ends you make a skill test for each skill but instead of wanting to succeed you want to fail. If you fail your skill goes up. In other words, as you improve in a skill it becomes harder to improve it.
There are rules for combat and skill use - they are pretty general. Cthulhu assumes a game that has a Keeper who is comfortable making rulings during play. I don't want to give the impression that its totally free-form, but it is far less detailed than games like D&D 3.x and 4e games. One weakness in the game, in my opinion, is some vagueness in rules such as dodging, parrying, etc.
There is a lengthy section of rules for using Sanity. Exposure to various horrors, eldritch and mundane, can wear away an investigator's Sanity. For the most part exposure to such sanity-blasting horrors causes the character to make a Sanity-check. Failure causes the Sanity to go down by an amount, success means no loss, or, in the event, of worse horrors, a smaller amount. Making use of magic in Cthulhu usually incurs a cost in Sanity that cannot be avoided. The more you increase your Cthulhu Mythos skill the lower your maximum Sanity becomes.
Losing a certain amount of Sanity at once causes a character to go temporarily insane. Larger losses result in extended insanity. A Sanity of zero removes the character from play as he becomes a slave to the forces beings of the Cthulhu Mythos. Lower Sanity also makes later checks less likely to succeed as Sanity rolls are made based on your current score.
The Sanity rules, while not something out of a psychiatry textbook, avoid turning insanity into something laughable. I'm pleased that the rules for Sanity are treated maturely - as a person who has dealt with mental health issues in his family, it is not something I take as humorous.
Sanity can be regained, though it tends to be far easier to lose than regain.
The Game System section closes with a section on magic. It does not include sample spells (those come later) but rather it discusses how one learns magic. Magic is learned from studying tomes of the Cthulhu Mythos. These books are difficult to decipher, typically written by madmen, often in dead languages. It can take months to complete the reading of such a tome.
Casting magic requires the expenditure of Magic Points. Magic Points start equal to a characters Power and regenerate over the course of a day. They also usually require the expenditure of Sanity points. Some truly powerful spells require the permanent expenditure of Power. There are ways to gain Power but this is a difficult undertaking and one that is not guaranteed to succeed, usually by testing one's Power against other beings.
Reference
The next section in the book is its lengthy Reference section. It includes items such as:
- A discussion of the Cthulhu Mythos
- A discussion of the Necronomicon, one of the key books of the Mythos
- A biography of H.P. Lovecraft
- A list of mental disorders
- Guidance for Keepers
- Creatures of the Mythos - something of a 'monster manual' for Cthulhu
- Deities of the Mythos - stats of Mythos deities. The stats aren't really needed - most could read 'eats 1d4 investigators per round'. However the description of the deities is useful as it gives guidelines for the followers of the deities.
Scenarios
Finally there are several scenarios. This is extremely useful - I've gotten a lot of mileage out of the sample scenarios included in the game. They tend to assume a game set in the 1920s, though they can be moved to other eras with some adjustment.
Overall Impression
Though I've had Call of Cthulhu for years and played off and on I've gotten a lot of play over the past two years or so. While the game has a reputation for a horrific body count my games have tended to involve some very cautious investigators who have managed to survive, albeit scarred and somewhat mentally damaged. For the most part my games have involved dealing with human cults and minor servitors of the Mythos - no battles with Cthulhu.
As I mentioned in my Overview, the rules themselves are pretty light. The engineer in me who loves to tinker keeps on thinking I shouldn't enjoy the rules as written but every time I play a game of Cthulhu I find the rules serve their purpose perfectly - they fade away when not needed and work well when they are required. One key, and I think this is true of many games, is knowing when not to use the rules. If a character is searching for a secret note right where the note is, of course they find it.
Pelgrane Press has released their own Cthulhu game, Trail of Cthulhu, using their Gumshoe system, a rules engine very focused on investigative games. It is designed to solve the problem of making sure the game is not derailed by a single failed roll. It's something I'm curious to try out. I've had hints of that problem in my own Call of Cthulhu games but never to the extent that it blocked progress. However one should be aware that many older Call of Cthulhu scenarios, available via Chaosium or RPGNow, while mostly excellent, sometimes have points in the adventure that are totally dependent on a single clue or a single decision. With that caveat, it is a very nice feature of the game that there are a lot of premade scenarios available, both from Chaosium and several licencees.
My own experiences have primarily been in the classic era. I'd be very curious to try running a more fantasy-oriented Cthulhu game, set in a setting like Clark Ashton Smith's Averoigne cycle.
All in all I've found Call of Cthulhu to be an enjoyable game. It's core book is a nicely complete game though there are a ton of supplements out there. If you're not playing Cthulhu it still has some value - if you're playing another BRP game and want to add some cosmic horrors, the beasties here slide in rather nicely. It also makes a nice inspiration work if you are running games in other systems, though I'd argue in such a case you might be better off just reading the works of Lovecraft and others of his circle.
It is refreshing to see a game whose editions represent minor iterative changes. In my experience BRP is a system that does what it needs to do and fades into the background when you don't need it. It is well-suited to gaming in the universe H.P. Lovecraft and his heirs created.
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