Having the Keeper present also helps when events don’t entirely line up with each other, or conflict with the game the Keeper planned. Also, there are numerous times when further extrapolation can lead to connections between events, or even between investigators, that players and the Keeper can help each other with. The handouts are also much more fun to print out and physically pass around (more on handouts later). It’s exciting, and often hilarious, to take turns watching your tablemates roll on the tables and seeing their investigators, your partners, take shape. I believe ‘playing’ through character creation as a group is the ideal way to use the Guide. They’ll likely have an array of acquaintances, each also coloured in with personal features and connections to the investigator, from rivals to lovers.Ī few standout acquaintances of my players’ investigators lover that was both the investigator’s mentor, and their institutionalised patient A sadistic, wrinkled-faced younger sibling that the investigator none-the-less feels a fraternal need to protect A down to earth, humble, very short-statured academic that also absolutely hates the investigator and will cause them bodily harm if the opportunity arises A wizard that saved an investigator’s life. Over the course of an hour, your investigator will have a detailed family, ancestry, distinguishing features, traits, and beliefs, events from their childhood, adolescence, education, adulthood, and occupation. Through 156 pages of 140 Tables – and you better like tables because this is ALL tables, short tables, long tables, linked tables, sub tables, sub-sub tables, tables for days, tables for life – the Guide leads a character from birth to adulthood, and through all manner of twists and turns on the way, spitting out a fully formed investigator ready to take on the Mythos, or go insane trying. But as a Keeper, of all the Call of Cthulhu books I have, second only to the Keeper’s Rulebook itself, Heinrich’s Guide is the one I use the most. If that’s all the convincing you need, you can find Heinrich’s Call of Cthulhu Guide to Character Creation on DriveThruRPG.įor players, Heinrich’s Call of Cthulhu Guide to Character Creation (henceforth Heinrich’s Guide or the Guide) use is obvious. Recommended as strongly as possible, seriously, this book is lovely and should be sandwiched between the Keeper Rulebook and the Investigator Handbook in every CoC player and Keeper’s bookcase. In short: If you as a player make investigators that last longer than a one-shot, or if you as a Keeper make scenarios that emphasise unique NPCs, this is an indispensable resource. Ideally you’d be doing this with friends and a good Keeper, and not alone trying to hold a phone with one hand and flipping pages/rolling/writing with the other. This is me trying to show how an investigator is made using Heinrich’s Call of Cthulhu Guide to Character Creation. Heinrich’s Call of Cthulhu Guide to Character Creation – Walkthrough
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