Assignment Description: Create a RPG style character sheet about yourself and your leadership including relevant skills, traits, personality, etc. On the standard RPG scale (1-18, for example) you must have the core stats of a RPG system of your choice For example: Dungeons and Dragons (DnD) has Strength, Dexterity, Constitution, Intelligence, Wisdom and Charisma. Remember you do not have an unlimited number of traits… use the numbers to best describe you!

For this assignment, I decided to make a character sheet for the Call of Cthulhu RPG. This game puts the players in the role of investigators solving supernatural mysteries. These investigators face eldritch horrors (typically using the Cthulhu Mythos from H. P. Lovecraft) and deal with the effects they have on their sanity. I have not played any games with this system, but chose it because I wanted to learn more about it and thought it was a universe I could create an accurate representation of myself easily. I learned how to create a character through the Call of Cthulhu Wiki and created the pdf through The Dhole’s House, a fan site that has a variety of tools, including a character creator.

There are 8 main stats within Call of Cthulhu:

• Strength (STR)
  • A measure of an investigator’s raw physical power
• Constitution (CON)
  • A measure of an investigator’s health and hardiness
• Power (POW)
  • A measure of the combination of an investigator’s force of will, spirit, and mental stability
• Dexterity (DEX)
  • A measure of an investigator’s physical agility and speed
• Appearance (APP)
  • A measure of an investigator’s physical appeal
• Size (SIZ)
  • A measure of an investigator’s height and weight
• Intelligence (INT)
  • A measure of an investigator’s cunning and ability to make leaps of logic and intuition
• Education (EDU)
  • A measure of an investigator’s knowledge accumulated through formal education

With a standard array of 40, 50, 50, 50, 60, 60, 70, and 80, I gave each stat a starting value that I felt most accurately described to myself. A value of 50 is considered average. I allocated my highest two stats as intelligence at 80 and education at 70 because I have grown up focusing on school, and most of my hobbies are mental activities over physical ones. Due to my age being above 20, I got to make a roll of a percentile die to see if I increased my education level. The roll was above a 70, so my final Education stat is 80.

Another skill that Call of Cthulhu investigators have is luck. Luck’s starting value is based on rolling 3 six-sided dice and multiplying their sum by five. My result was 40, which is a bit below average. In my actual life, I feel like I am much luckier than that one roll suggests. I have been lucky to have a very supportive family who have helped me get to this point in my life without too much struggle.

Call of Cthulhu games are typically set within the 1920’s, but there is a modern variant I chose to use. The main reason I did this was to include the occupation I most imagine myself having in the future, Computer Programmer.

The most interesting and time-consuming part of character creation was adjusting my specific skill values. Call of Cthulhu has a large range of skills to allocate points to. In addition, there is some space for players to add custom skills or specify skills that fit within a category (Art/Craft, Science, Survival, etc). Here are some of the skills that I added points to that I find most important about me:

• Computer Use
  • The skills I have learned through using computers for school and entertainment throughout my life, as well as what I have learned in my degree
• Library Use and Spot Hidden
  • I have found that computer science requires a lot of research and skills to find key information in documentation. I think these skills translate to my experience here.
• Baking and Cooking
  • The two skills I added to the Art/Craft section, I have had a lot of fun learning these skills through fundraising for my student trips and hosting my friends for weekly game nights.
• Spanish
  • I learned Spanish throughout middle and high school but have not practiced it as much since. I have been trying to pick it up again recently to communicate more with the families of some of my friends and my girlfriend.

All of the information I’ve stated above can be found on the first page of the pdf below. On the second page, I go into more details about myself, trying to focus on aspects of leadership that I find important.