The Character Sheet - LunarNeil/Call-of-Cthulhu-Campaign GitHub Wiki

Investigators can track all of their Skills, Traits and Obsessions on their Character Sheet, along with their information and a listing of all their major possessions. This book includes several character sheets, one for each Archetype and a blank one. You can also make your own, so long as it contains all the important information.

Character sheets can be divided into six sections that all easily fit onto one side of a piece of paper:

The Information Section

Otherwise known as your "Investigator ID" on the sample sheets available from this book. The Information Section is a place where you write down the bare essentials of who your character is.

This includes the basic information of name, age, what you do, what your social status is, and what your character motivation is at the moment. This is standard stuff, and while it isn't likely you would forget your character's name and need to look, it can help you build the character and is the only section you should focus on filling out the first time you sit down with an Investigator.

Health Status

This is where the Damage Gauge and the Madness Meter live on your character sheet. Both the Damage Gauge and the Madness Meter have a set of twenty boxes next to them, equal the 0 to 20 scale that both the Madness Meter and Damage Gauge use. One point of Damage or Madness equates to one filled-in box.

You can fill these boxes in as you take damage or gain madness, or you can just use them as reference. Make sure you keep track of whatever your current damage or madness is though!

Possessions

The Possessions Section includes a large area to list Possessions and a small area to note a small amount of important gear, your favorite weapon, and the damage it does.

Even though those latter items are not technically Possessions it can be helpful to provide new players a location on their character sheet to write this information down until they learn to manage their Inventory out of their Journal.

Storyline

Here you can identify the Storylines your Investigator is on. The sample sheet has room to list ten Storylines, five Short and five Long.

Skills

The Skills Section is where the very important Skill information is tracked, including the Skill's name, modifier, and progression towards the next level. This is the most detailed portion of the character sheet.

The sample sheet provides eight Skill slots. Each has a small progress bar that can be filled in to track Skill improvement, a space to write the name of the Skill, and a box to write the Skill modifier. On the bottom of the Skills section is a small Degree of Success cheat sheet.

Using the progress bar is simple. For each half-step you gain, shade in half the box. For each whole step you gain, fill in an entire box. Every time you fill in a box marked with a shaded X you have passed the Skill Progression threshold to improve the Skill's modifier.

Skill Progression is dealt with next chapter in Character Advancement, but if you use this simple progress bar you will make it substantially easier to track.